Call for abstracts: themed issue on body weight and digital media for Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society

This themed issue, to be edited by Professor Deborah Lupton, focuses on the ways in which digital media and technologies are used to represent and manage body weight and size.

If you are interested in contributing to this themed issue, please send Professor Lupton (deborah.lupton@canberra.edu.au) an article title and an abstract of 200-250 words outlining what you would propose to cover by 29 February 2016. Final submissions should be no longer than 7,000 words, including the abstract, all notes and references.

In keeping with the journal’s emphasis on ‘body weight and society’, the themed issue will include contributions that address the following and related topics from a critical sociocultural perspective:

· representations of body weight and size in the digital news media (and also how readers may comment on news reports online)
· apps and wearable devices for weight control, physical fitness and energy expenditure
· selfies and body size
· the discussion and portrayal of such issues as weight loss, body size, fat activism, thinspo, fitspo, pro-ana, pro-mia and fat pornography and erotica in blogs, social media platforms and other websites
· big data and body weight

If your abstract is accepted, the following deadlines apply:

· Full papers by 31 May 2016
· Revised final versions by 30 August 2016