From: Mark Nunes: [log in to unmask]
Call for Papers
CULTURES OF NOISE:
Communicating Error in an Information Age
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
National Conference
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
Deadline for Submissions: November 1, 2006
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