Call for Papers
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>Digital Culture meets data: Critical approaches
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>ECREA Digital Culture and Communication Section Conference.
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>6th 7th November 2017, University of Brighton, UK
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>Abstract deadline: 20 May 2017
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>Keynote speakers:
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>€ Rob Kitchin, Maynooth University, Republic of Ireland
>€ Helen Thornham, University of Leeds, UK
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>Conference theme:
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>Algorithms and big data are today shaping our sociocultural and technical
>relations and our everyday experiences. Digital culture and communication
>are inevitably changing as media infrastructures, media practices and
>social environments become increasingly Œdatafied¹. We may think of
>surveillance, algorithmic profiling and self-tracking for example.
>Wearable technologies such as fitness trackers allow people to understand
>the body as a data-producing object. Our use of commonplace media
>technologies is mediated by data in ways that we do not ask for, nor even
>necessarily know about or consent to. Data interpellate us. Yet data are
>obscure and enigmatic.
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>But what does this turn to data mean for our research, scholarship and
>pedagogic practice? Has the data paradigm arrived as an unquestionable
>unifying concept for studies of digital culture and digital media,
>communication, technology? It may be that a shift of focus on algorithms
>and data is fundamentally disruptive to the ways in which we see our
>research and disciplines. It may even appear to limit the theoretical and
>methodological tools through which we increasingly try to understand
>mediation, the formation of identity, social life, politics and the
>creative industries. To others, the Œdatalogical turn¹ may be plainly
>repeating the processes of earlier instances of technological innovation.
>And for some, it may provide an opportunity to frame new theoretical
>concepts and methodological tools for a whole new set of social, cultural
>and political phenomena.
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>The ECREA DCC Conference ³Digital Culture meets data: Critical
>approaches² asks the question: what theoretical and empirical
>perspectives on data and the digital can be used to augment and diversify
>our research and educational approaches? And how might we challenge data
>paradigms or aim to show alternative or complementary ways to address
>digital culture and communication? We invite empirical and theoretical
>research papers and panels that address themes such as:
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>- Media studies and datafication
>- Researching media and culture using data methods
>- Data visualisation, art and design
>- Data and the role of the imaginary, fantasy and myth
>- Data cultures and neoliberalism
>- Data activism and citizen engagement
>- Data and critical literacy
>- Data and gender, race, class inequalities
>- Datafication and the creative industries
>- Feminist approaches to data
>- Machine learning and AI
>- Mobile and locative media
>- Quantified self and data cultures
>- Smart cities, data and sustainability
>- Social bots and the management of sociality
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>The Conference will also host a YECREA Workshop entitled: ŒThe ambitious
>early-career scholar in an age of precarity: questions, challenges,
>opportunities¹ (Organised by Ysabel Gerrard, University of Leeds). This
>workshop will facilitate open discussion between academics at various
>stages in their careers about some of the issues confronting ambitious
>early-career scholars in an increasingly competitive international job
>market.
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>Submission details, individual papers:
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>Please submit abstracts of 250-350 words, written in English. Abstracts
>should contain a clear outline of the argument, the theoretical
>framework, methodology and results (if applicable), and how this links to
>the theme and topics of this conference, or to the general concerns of
>digital culture and communication. Please include 3-5 keywords that
>describe your work, and a Bio note (max 100 words, stating affiliation).
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>Submission details, panels:
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>We welcome panel submissions, numbering 4 speakers. Please submit
>abstracts of 250-350 words per paper, plus a 250-350 word rationale for
>the panel. Individual abstracts should contain a clear outline of the
>argument, the theoretical framework, methodology and results (if
>applicable), and how this links to the theme and topics of this
>conference, or to the general concerns of digital culture and
>communication. Please include 3-5 keywords that describe each individual
>abstracts, plus 3-5 keywords that describe the panel, and Bio note for
>each individual abstract (max 100 words, stating affiliation).
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>All abstracts and rationale should be sent together as a single document
>by the panel proposer.
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>Details for abstract submission:
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>Please provide abstracts as .PDF, .DOC or .DOCX file types. Abstracts
>should be emailed to [log in to unmask] Deadline for paper and panel
>submissions is May 20, 2017. Notification of acceptance: June 20th, 2017.
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>You do not need to be an ECREA or DCC section member to apply.
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>For updates, please visit https://dccecrea.wordpress.com
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>For CFP http://dccecrea.wordpress.com/call-for-papers-2017-conference/
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>Registration fees:
>Academic Employed full time.ŠŠ.... £65
>Academic Employed Part Time Š..... £40
>Students / Unwaged ŠŠŠŠ.ŠŠŠ £20
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>Organising committee: Ryan Burns, Aristea Fotopoulou, Leighton Evans,
>Ysabel Gerrard, Ana Jorge, Theodore Koulouris, Sander De Ridder, Maria
>Sourbati.
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>Best wishes
>Aristea
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>Dr Aristea Fotopoulou
>Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication
>Course Leader MA Creative Media
>
>New book: "Feminist Activism and Digital Networks: Between empowerment
>and vulnerability". Palgrave Macmillan.
>Order: http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781137504708
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>School of Media
>University of Brighton
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