Contemporary society consists of various cultural groups. Research of
these groups in real and virtual spaces allows understanding how and
why these groups form, exist and dissolve; what is their influence on
contemporary society?
Youth subcultures allow young people to express themselves in unique
ways and can be seen as creative laboratories that are designed for
creation of culture. Research of subcultures allow a deeper look at the
processes of how new cultural and artistic ideas emerge and spread among
contemporary youth and into society.
Furthermore members of subcultures express themselves and communicate
with each other not only in the “real” spaces such as streets, bars,
concerts and festivals, but also in “virtual” space: social networks
(like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and others), blogs, websites and
etc. With this expansion of technologies, researchers should be
concerned not only with traditional fieldwork, but also with new
technologies and the tools they offer to further their scholarly
pursuit. Therefore, this conference aims to bring together scholars
from diverse disciplines to share their achievements in applying not
only traditional research methods, but also computer tools in their
work.
The conference welcomes both empirical and theoretical contributions
from various disciplines, as well as interdisciplinary approaches
towards the study on youth subcultures. Of particular interest are those
that combine perspectives and methods drawn from all social sciences
and humanities on present and newly emerging approaches towards
conceptions, expressions and representations, as well as research
methods, issues and problems, and some directions in studies of this
phenomenon. Researchers, using digital tools for collecting, analysing
or displaying data are invited to share their expertise. We invite
scholars from diverse disciplines to contribute to studies of the role
and expressions of the phenomenon of subcultures, in this way enriching
its academic understandings. Early career researchers and students are
encouraged to participate. We expect individual paper proposals as well
as panel proposals with three to four presentations.
We invite papers and panels including but not limited to the following topics:
1. Theoretical and methodological approaches to youth subcultures:
• Fieldwork within youth subcultures;
• Methodological implications, challenges and issues.
2. Youth subcultures and digital humanities:
• New methodology and research tools related to computer science and
humanities or social sciences (virtual ethnography, data mining, data
scraping, data modelling, etc.);
• Computer applications to cultural and social sciences;
• Culture research through signs using computer;
• Digital arts and new media;
• Digital games and device applications applied to humanities research.
3. Diversity within subcultures:
• Diversity of youth subcultures;
• Development of youth subcultures;
• Aspects of local and global in subcultures.
4. Worldviews and activities of subcultures in real and/or virtual space:
• Identity of members of subcultures;
• Images and symbols of subcultures;
• Traditionalism, nationalism and politics in subcultures;
• Gender in subcultures;
• Spirituality, religion and subcultures;
• Culturally relevant spaces and places within the context of subcultures;
• Cultural heritage in subcultures;
• Festivals, rituals and performance in subcultures;
• Ageing in subculture.
5. Subcultures and society:
• Influence of consumerism, globalization and the mass media on subcultures;
• Influence of subcultures on the society;
• Subcultures in popular culture and media.
The time allotted per paper will be 15 minutes for a paper + 5 minutes for the discussion.
Please fill the form at https://goo.gl/forms/
Abstract submission deadline: March 17, 2017.
Notification of acceptance: April 3, 2017.