Of great interest to surveillance studies scholars…
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> From: Mark Nunes [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 03 October 2013 15:20
> To: Interdisciplinary academic study of Cyber Society
> Subject: CFP: MASSIVE (Communication & Digital Culture/PCA)
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> Call for Papers
> Deadline for Submissions: November 1, 2013
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> MASSIVE
> Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference Chicago, IL April 16-19, 2014
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> The Communication & Digital Culture Area of the Popular Culture Association is soliciting proposals for panels and individual papers that explore the theme of “massive” in a network society.
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> To borrow from Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy a bit: “Data is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is.”
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> What are the implications for American and global popular culture now that massive data has become an increasingly important part of everyday life? How does ready access to massively networked resources continue to transform cultural practices? How have these data structures altered the ways in which we work, play, learn, and interact? How do our cultural hopes and fears reflect our increasingly complex relationship to these increasingly complex data structures and data networks?
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> Possible topics include:
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> Open Data Movement
> Big Data
> WikiLeaks
> MMOs
> MOOCs
> PRISM /The Utah Data Center
> Data Visualization
> New Economies of Data
> Spreadable Media
> Contagion
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> Submit a 250-word proposal to the PCA Database, http://ncp.pcaaca.org/.
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> Please send all inquires to:
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> Mark Nunes
> Communication and Digital Culture Area Chair http://pcaaca.org/communication-digital-culture/
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