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

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Deadline for Submissions: November 1, 2006

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