[Themaintainers] Call for Proposals - Special issue of ROMchip on Maintenance & Repair

[Andrew Russell]

Friends - 

Please see below, forwarded by request from Logan Brown…

Andy

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CFP
We are writing to extend you an invitation to submit a proposal for consideration for an issue of ROMchip, the video game history journal edited by Drs. Raiford Guins, Laine Nooney, and Henry Lowood, devoted to the themes of maintenance and repair. 

We are not limiting submissions to any one understanding of the term ‘maintenance’; an examination of social norms in community moderation, for example, is just as welcome as an interview with a repair technician who specializes in Midway cabinets. Our only restriction is that we do ask that your article be an empirical historical piece in keeping with the purview of the journal.

Some examples of maintenance and repair might be (but are most certainly not limited to):

Overlooked forms of technical maintenance and repair labor, e.g. console repair, warehouse work, software updating, etc.
Historical practices of social maintenance and repair, e.g. call center workers, fan club organizers, salespeople, etc. 
The norms or effects of linguistic, technical, or cultural repair or maintenance involved in localization or remastering across game history 
The historical development of different global regimes of repair and maintenance 

Maintenance and repair in/as fan practices, piracy, and/or technology-in-use 

We are currently looking for three kinds of contributions based on ROMchip’s format: 1. Articles – these are full-length, peer-reviewed scholarly articles of about 7,000-10,000 words. 2. Interviews – these are oral history interviews of roughly 4,000-9,000 words with figures important to the history of the game industry or game culture. 3. Materials – A short essay of a maximum of 4,000 words looking at a game-historical artifact; this section is open to more experiment styles. We are also interested in translations of primary sources or scholarly work (with permission). For more information on all of these see ROMchip’s submissions guidelines here: https://romchip.org/index.php/romchip-journal/about/submissions <https://romchip.org/index.php/romchip-journal/about/submissions>. 

If you are interested in submitting your work, please send an abstract of between 300 and 500 words to Marina Fontolan (fontolan_marina at yahoo.com.br <mailto:fontolan_marina at yahoo.com.br>), Logan Brown (brownlo at iu.edu <mailto:brownlo at iu.edu>) or Alex Mirowski (ajmirows at indiana.edu <mailto:ajmirows at indiana.edu>) by April 1st, 2021 for consideration. If you have any questions about the special issue, submission guidelines, or anything else please feel free to reach out to us. We also encourage you to share this call with any scholars you know who might be interested.



Logan Brown
PhD Student and Associate Instructor 
MSGA Institutional Voice Chair
Media School/Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering 

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