From: Mark Nunes [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 18 October 2007 14:38
To: 'Interdisciplinary academic study of Cyber Society'
Subject: Call For Papers: Communication and Digital Culture
Call for Papers
Digital Mainstreams/Digital Undercurrents Popular Culture
Association/American Culture Association National Conference San
Francisco, CA March 19-22, 2008
The Communication and Digital Culture Area of the Popular Culture
Association is soliciting proposals for panels and individual papers
that explore the concepts of "mainstream" and "underground" as they
relate to popular culture in a network society.
For many individuals, the Internet has become a familiar feature of
mainstream popular culture. At the same time, a great number of
activities take place online that are decidedly outside of the
mainstream, defining a range of mediated subcultural or countercultural
practices. What defines the dominant, the minor, and the subversive in
an age of a global, digital popular culture and an increasingly
networked everyday life?
Possible topics include:
Blogging on the Fringe Deviant Websites
Conspiracy Networks Official vs. Unofficial Fandom
Second Life Subcultures The Digital Banal
"Convergence Culture" Predatory Social Networking
Culture Jamming "Virtual Communities" Revisited
Submit a 250 word maximum proposal to:
Mark Nunes, Chair
Department of English, Technical Communication, and Media Arts Southern
Polytechnic State University Marietta, GA 30060-2896 [log in to unmask]
Deadline for Submissions: November 9, 2007
Note: Communication and Digital Culture is a themed area. Submissions
off-theme should be submitted to the Internet Culture Area Chair,
Montana Miller, [log in to unmask]
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