[ecrea] CFP - Digital/Media, Race, Affect, Labor

>*Digital/Media, Race, Affect and Labor*
>
>*Location: Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA*
>
>*Hosted by the American Culture Studies Program @ BGSU*
>**
>
>*Dates of the meetings: April 14,15 and 16, 2011*
>
>*Deadline for submission: December 10th 2010*
>
>*Primary Contact for Queries - Radhika Gajjala - (radhika /at/ cyberdiva.org)*
>**
>
>We are soliciting paper proposals for a three-day conference on
>Digital/Media, Race, Affect and Labor, to be hosted by the American Culture
>Studies Program at Bowling Green State University.
>
>Dr. Anna Everett, Professor of Film, Television and New Media Studies, and
>former Chair of the Department of Film and Media Studies at the University
>of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) will be our keynote speaker on this
>topic. We hope to elicit productive discussions and collaborations that
>bring together the layered and intersecting themes associated with media,
>digital worlds, labor, affect, globalization, and race.
>
>We invite abstracts that look at mediated environments (broadly defined) in
>a contemporary or historical context.  Prospective participants are
>encouraged to engage with specific conceptual relationships that connect
>with the theme of this conference and explore them in any available online
>or offline setting.
>
>Thus in the case of digital media and affect related research, one might ask
>such questions as:  How does desire for the Other play out in global/local
>and online/offline intersections? How does affect work in on-line/offline
>networks? What kind of emotions and actions emerge at transmediated and
>digitized intersections?
>
>In the case of race and media, one might examine representations of raced
>bodies, shifting conceptualizations of race across space, place and time,
>race in cyberspace, racialized labor, and so on. We welcome examinations of
>historical mappings of race, caste, class and gender as well as historical
>contextualization of media forms reveal complex and nuanced understandings
>of how digital economies are shaped in relation to globalization.
>
>In investigating affect and labor in relation to globalization,
>transnational global formations, and digitally mediated worlds, one might
>ask what sorts of socio-economic formations emerge online and offline. How
>do we make sense of so-called voluntary networks of non-profit activities
>and social entrepreneurship online? How do notions of neoliberal
>governmentality shape emerging labor forces?  What are the global and local
>implications of how we labor at work and play in digitally mediated
>environments?
>
>Please submit abstracts of approximately 400 words to *
>(raceandaffect /at/ gmail.com) *no later than December 10th, 2010*.  *Please be
>sure to include your name, paper title, institutional affiliation (if
>applicable), email address, A-V equipment requests, and special needs, if
>any.  Please email inquiries to
>*(Radhika /at/ cyberdiva.org)*<(Radhika /at/ cyberdiva.org)>and include ?conference?
>in your subject line.
>
>
>-- 
>Radhika Gajjala
>Director, American Culture Studies
>Professor of Communication Studies and Cultural Studies
>101 East Hall
>Bowling Green State University
>Bowling Green, OH  43403
>
>http://personal.bgsu.edu/~radhik
>

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