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Posted February 26, 2002 11:45 AM to WPA-L in response to a message that didn't exactly have to do with writing programs The WOOT WOOT Initiative (Writing Of Online Technologies: We Own Our Texts) seeks research and philosophical ponderings that get at the naked truth of online communications in the twenty-first century. Who owns our texts? Can anyone? When mailings come to you unsolicited, are you, the recipient, now the owner of the item? How does the definition depend upon the situating of the recipient (e.g., who owns copyright, and who will your boss fire if s/he finds it on your hard drive?) If the list must be freed, does the one holding it in bondage own the mailings? If the mailings come postage due, how does this fee mailing change things? Once texts are stripped of their socio-psycho-economic features, once they are undressed of their semiotic load, who and what are they -- and do you still recognize them in the morning? Our next anthology, Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Texts But Were Afraid To Ask, explores questions of safe textuality, textual relationships, transrendered texts, and textual ramifications of twenty-first century cyber-interactions as they relate to ownership, (s)intellectual property rights, and fair use. The WOOT WOOT Initiative particularly seeks papers that move beyond the bare facts of the matter and delve into the deep (t)issues involved. All submissions should be boldly documented, sourcelist mandatory (BDSM). Please tape your paper to a G4 Macintosh with Airport Card (fully loaded) or a pink '67 Mustang Convertible in excellent running condition and ship to The WOOT WOOT Initiative, c/o Traci Gardner, P. O. Box 6783, Champaign, IL. All submissions become the property of the WOOT WOOT Initiative and will not be returned even if you beg, unless you send Joseph Fiennes to do the begging and he's willing to REALLY beg for it. Postage due items will not be accepted. The WOOT WOOT Initiative is housed in the Ma Barker Institute for Advanced Studies of Things That Most People Really Don't Care About thanks to the generous support and contributions of The Society for Stuff, The Group of Computer Developers Who Compare Themselves to the Cast of Bonanza, and people like you. |
