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From: Mark Nunes [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 21 October 2008 13:53 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Second Call: Communication and Digital Culture Call for Papers: Communication and Digital Culture Area of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Free...as in Labor Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference New Orleans, LA April 8-11, 2009 The Communication and Digital Culture Area of the Popular Culture Association is soliciting proposals for panels and individual papers that explore online participatory culture and the problematic concept of "free labor" in a network society. Corporations are increasingly counting upon the activity of a "participatory consumer" to provide the content for sites that directly or indirectly generate revenue. Twenty five years ago, GNU operating system activist Richard Stallman famously distinguished the "free" in free software as "free as in free speech, not as in free beer." What kind of "free" is the labor of a participatory culture? How does the appropriation of this work by major corporations complicate our understanding of "free labor"? Possible topics include: Wikipedia and the Academy Gift Economies Online Free/Libre Open Source Software Intellectual Property Warez Subcultures (Im)material Labor Convergence & Consumer/Producers DIY Media Marx & the Digital Economy Fan Culture Appropriation Submit a 250 word maximum proposal (hard copy or electronic) 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 30, 2008 Note: Communication and Digital Culture is a themed area. Submissions off-theme should be submitted to: Internet Culture Area Chair, Montana Miller, [log in to unmask] Game Studies Area Co-Chairs, [log in to unmask] ************************************************************************************ Distributed through Cyber-Society-Live [CSL]: CSL is a moderated discussion list made up of people who are interested in the interdisciplinary academic study of Cyber Society in all its manifestations.To join the list please visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/cyber-society-live.html ************************************************************************************* ************************************************************************************ Distributed through Cyber-Society-Live [CSL]: CSL is a moderated discussion list made up of people who are interested in the interdisciplinary academic study of Cyber Society in all its manifestations.To join the list please visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/cyber-society-live.html *************************************************************************************