From: Mark Nunes [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 19 June 2006 19:45
To: 'Interdisciplinary academic study of Cyber Society'
Subject: CFP: Electronic Culture and Communication
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Call for Papers
CULTURES OF NOISE:
Communicating Error in an Information Age
Popular Culture Association/
American Culture Association National Conference Boston, MA April 4-7, 2007
The Electronic Communication and Culture Area of the Popular Culture
Association is soliciting proposals for panels and individual papers on the
theme of error/noise in a cybernetic society.
In a culture of information, "noise" marks a rupture of signification that
lays bare the dispersive and dissipative features of digital networks. In
what ways are "error" and "noise" structured in popular culture as a threat
to social and cultural forms? How might "aberrant" communicative practices
suggest a poetics of noise?
Possible topics include:
"Web Junk" & "Viral Videos"
Spam
Phishing
Denial of Service Attacks
Online Jihadists
YTMND & Other Web Fads
The PATRIOT Act
Flash Mobbing
Blog Hoaxes
"Something Awful"
Submit a 250 word maximum proposal to:
Mark Nunes, Chair
Department of English, Technical Communication, and Media Arts Southern
Polytechnic State University 1100 South Marietta Parkway Marietta, GA
30060-2896 [log in to unmask]
Deadline for Submissions: November 1, 2006
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