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Publication
| Location: | Nigeria |
| Publication Date: | 2010-03-30 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2010-01-20 |
| Announcement ID: |
173432 |
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Introduction
The Internet is the modern means of connecting billions of people spread all over the world, providing opportunities for exchange of information and interpersonal communication. Since their introduction to the continent, Internet and mobile telecommunications have radically changed the communication culture in the continent. Though unlike the rest of the world, the penetration of internet in Africa is very limited, the continent has experienced tremendous growth in the mobile services market, Africa being the worlds fastest growing mobile market with an annual rate of 65%, which is twice the global average. Internet World Stats as at March 2009 gave the total number of internet users in Africa as 54,171,500. This represents 5.6% of worlds 1,596,270,108 Internet users. Africa being the most linguistically diversified continent in the world faces some challenges in the use of the various modes of computer-mediated communication (CMC). Most studies on CMC up-to-date focus mainly on Europe, America, Australia and Asia. This publication has a primary objective of bringing together perspectives of scholars based on in-depth basic, foundational, macro as well as micro-linguistic research on the use of CMC in Africa.
Papers to be submitted may be based on qualitative, quantitative, descriptive, and historical research on the specific linguistic and sociolinguistic features of CMC and the socio-cultural adaptation of the technologies of CMC for communication in the African setting. The prospective subject areas to be covered include but are not limited to the following:
Electronic mailing
Instant messaging
Social networking
Text messaging
Blogging
Discussion forum
Virtual community
Beeping, Flashing
Online behavior (spamming, scamming, flaming, cyber-bullying, etc)
CMC in language teaching and learning contexts
CMC and literacy
Language mixing in CMC
Indigenous languages in CMC
Stylistic devices in CMC
Chat rooms, Internet Relay Chats (IRCs)
Paralinguistic features of CMC (emoticons, pragmatic rules)
Video conferencing
Bulletin Boards
Discourse features (turn-taking, coherence, conversational structure, etc)
Multimodality in CMC
Online communities
Multi-user Dungeons (MUDs)
Media Sharing Sites (MSSs)
Face and Politeness in CMC
Multilingual Internet
Gender in CMC
Submission Procedure: Researchers, scholars and professionals who are working on CMC in Africa are invited to submit on or before March 30, 2010, a chapter proposal of not more than 2 pages, clearly stating the purpose of the chapter and its contents, as well as how the proposed chapter relates to the overall objectives of the handbook.
A proposal should contain the following information:
(a) Title of chapter
(b) Name of author(s),
(c) E-mail address and affiliation
(d) Specific details on area to be covered
Submissions should be in Microsoft Word or Rich Text Format. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by April 30, 2010. Upon acceptance of their proposals, authors will have until July 30, 2010 to prepare their chapters of 5,000-7,000 words. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Guidelines for preparing chapters will be sent upon acceptance of proposals. Authors will be notified about acceptance /rejection of chapters on August 30, 2010. This book is tentatively scheduled to be published in 2011 by one of Germanys top language series publishers.
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Dr Rotimi Taiwo
Department of English
Obafemi Awolowo University
Ile-Ife Nigeria
+234 803 406 9746
Email: ferotai@yahoo.com
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