*Hi all! *
****Extension for abstracts until March 27, 2019*** for the Data-stories
conference in Greece. *
*
The conferenceData-stories: New Media Aesthetics and Rhetorics for
Critical Digital Ethnography
<https://web.facebook.com/datastoriesconference/?modal=admin_todo_tour>is
an initiative of the Laboratory of Social Anthropology (EKA) and the
Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology (IAKA) in
Volos, Greece. In 2002, in The Language of New Media, Lev Manovich
provocatively argued that the internet’s logic of database would
supplant novelistic and cinematic narrative as the dominant mode of
cultural expression. In the two decades that followed his prediction, we
have witnessed, if not the end of narrative, dramatic transformations in
the modes, practices, circuits and subjects of its production. The aim
of this conference to be held in Volos, Greece from Friday May 31, 2019
to June 2, 2019 at the Rooftile and Brickworks Museum N.& S. Tsalapatas
in Volos, Greece is to reflect on these shifts, with a focus on their
ramifications for both analyzing contemporary culture and producing
resonant cultural reportage and critique.
To put it differently, we are interested in exploring the cultural
imprint of new media narrative - from instagram stories, fan fiction and
machinima to algorithmic journalism and digital storytelling in NGOs--
 both as anthropologists (interested in tracing transformations in
subjectivity, collectivities, modes of witnessing, cultural expression,
economic dimensions, etc.), and for anthropology (experimenting with new
modes of ethnographic storytelling, new pedagogies, new research
methodologies in contemporary network culture and knowledge economies).
Data-stories will be more of a 'confestival' than a standard conference,
featuring, along with theoretical talks and invigorating round tables, a
live digital music concert, an ARG game, a locative media walk workshop
and multimedia screenings.
The CfP can be foundhere
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeAtO01WsCWoy9lHaOGnN4l2rV8JyIVBCms5e-PgvFH0Of_cw/viewform?fbclid=IwAR3kbnuE-xIzMqqhU7XwC7dPctkH2fNd0ZhnI7lN0QJd6hSfu_1LJx-5TTk>.
The deadline for abstracts is now *March 27.*
**
There is no fee for participating or attending the conference.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at
[log in to unmask]
//
Possible topics for papers include:
*
*
*rhetorics, authorship, platforms
- database and narrative, database narrative - transmedia
storytelling, participatory culture - social media storytelling
(networked narrative, Instagram stories, Twitter fiction) -
narratives and algorithms (Facebook albums, automated journalism) -
gaming as narrative, procedural rhetoric, narrative games, machinima
- collaborative writing on social media platforms, collective
reading sites, social annotation, social bookmarking - fan fiction
*aesthetics, performance
- image/video-narratives (GIF, meme, selfie, vlogs, Facebook live,
Snapchat/Instagram stories, profiles, trailers) - spatiality
(interface, navigation, locative media, geotagging) - temporality
(television seriality, hashtag as event, loops, timeline, image/chat
archive, connective memory, digital memory/forgetting) -
participatory viewing, cosplay, ARG
*politics, economy, social movements
- feminist, queer, anti-racist witnessing/activist digital
narratives, politics of exposure, privacy and publicity - digital
economy (free digital labor, affective labor, fan labor,
prosumption) - digital storytelling movement in historical and
critical perspective (NGOs, 'refugee crisis', digital literacy as
curricular reform, narrative therapy)
*ethnographic methods, pedagogy, experimental humanities
- multimedia ethnography (podcasts, sound/video walks, interactive
documentary, locative mapping) - multimodal ethnography and new
media studies - open/social media fieldnotes, visual/audio
fieldnotes - educational storytelling (explainers, vlogs, gaming) -
digital storytelling in the college classroom
*************************************************************
* Anthropology-Matters Mailing List
* http://www.anthropologymatters.com *
* A postgraduate project comprising online journal, *
* online discussions, teaching and research resources *
* and international contacts directory. *
* To join this list or to look at the archived previous *
* messages visit: *
* https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/Anthropology-Matters *
* If you have ALREADY subscribed: to send a message to all *
* those currently subscribed to the list,just send mail to: *
* [log in to unmask] *
* *
* Enjoyed the mailing list? Why not join the new *
* CONTACTS SECTION @ www.anthropologymatters.com *
* an international directory of anthropology researchers *
To unsubscribe please click here:
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=ANTHROPOLOGY-MATTERS&A=1
***************************************************************
|