Call for contributions

Hello all,
I'm co-editing a themed issue of the journal Reconstruction, which will be devoted to blogging. I'm hoping someone out there will be willing to contribute papers/projects/manifestos on the subject-- it doesn't have to be "academic"; the point here is to theorize blogging in general. Topics could go in a number of different directions, including, but not excluding, the following:

Theorization of the Blogosphere
Blogging Manifesto
Politics and/of Blogging
Aesthetics of Blogs
Activist Blogging
Auto/Biographical Blogs
New Media/Communication Theories and Blogging
New Journalism Blogging
Civil Rights of Bloggers
Global Culture and Blogging
Local Culture and Blogging
Education and Blogging
Gender and Blogging
Race and Blogging
Collective Blogs
Community of Bloggers
Unrealized Potential of Blogging
Critiques of Blogging
Representations of Space/Place on Blogs
Purpose of a Unique Individual/Collective Blog
Audio and Visual Blogs

We are especially interested in the experiences, theories and perspectives of those who actually blog. We are looking for longer theoretical essays and shorter statements/manifestos about blogging--including pieces that have already been posted on your blogs. We are also soliciting reviews of books about blogging and your favorite weblogs. Deadline for submissions is October 6, 2006. The issue is scheduled to be published as 6.1 (Winter 2006).

Feel free to propose other topics to the editors: Michael Benton (University of Kentucky; editor for Reconstruction; founder of the blog Dialogic) and Lauren Elkin (Université de Paris VII, CUNY Graduate Center, editor for Reconstruction, founder of the blog Maitresse). Send all queries, proposals and manuscripts to mdbento at gmail dot com or laurenelkin at gmail dot com.