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[ecrea] CfP Open Panel “Newness and Emergence in Digital Media"

Sat Nov 24 09:01:56 GMT 2012




** CALL FOR PAPERS **
Open Panel “Newness and Emergence in Digital Media : Theoretical, Epistemological, and Methodological Considerations”, Annual Conference of the Canadian Communication Assocation, Technology and Emerging Media Track, June 5-7, 2013, Victoria, BC, Canada

During the last two decades, the volume of scholarship on “new technologies” and “new media” has exploded. This is reflected at the institutional level by the introduction of specific courses and programs, dedicated journals, research chairs and so on. Also well established, if perhaps less common, are the notions of emerging technology and emerging media, which seem to be interchangeable with the former and which designate what corresponds, most of the time, to networked digital technologies. The terms are intended to distinguish these communication technologies from older ones, namely “analog” electronic media, while avoiding the radical tone of discourses on their “revolutionary” nature. Now that the “digital turn” seems mostly complete – its concrete forms showing signs of stabilization – one can ponder the relevance of maintaining in scholarly literature such phrases as “digital media”, “new media” and “emerging media”. Are they still productive in the sense of guiding and focusing a collective reflection that sheds light on contemporary communication phenomena?

Conversely, the question of newness and related issues have always been at the heart of communication and media studies (Gitelman, 2006; Park, Jankowski & Jones, 2011). The same remark could be made about the notion of emerging media. Beyond specific objects, it seems to refer to an epistemological stance that favours the study of media technologies at a particular moment of their existence, that is, “at nascent stage”. This is particularly clear in the field of Internet Studies, where every two or three years a new “trendy” device captures the attention of researchers. One wonders if that perpetual motion of renewal is not related, to a certain extent, to the very essence of digital media, or what Zittrain (2008) calls their generativity. The objective of this panel is to develop this reflection, by bringing together theoretical and epistemological insights on the category of “emerging media” and its links with the digital. It also seeks to foster a discussion on methodological consequences (at the analytical level as well as at the level of methods of inquiry) resulting from the choice to focus on the new and the emerging in the field of mediated communication.

The panel will be part of the Technology and Emerging Media (TEM) track of the Canadian Communication Association (CCA) conference to be held on June 5-7, 2013 in Victoria, BC, and will accomodate up to 8 papers.

If you are interested in presenting a paper in this panel, please
1) submit your abstract through the conference submission system by December 1st, 2012 (http://ocs.sfu.ca/fedcan/index.php/cca2013/cca2013 <http://ocs.sfu.ca/fedcan/index.php/cca2013/cca2013> ; note that you have to click on "LOG IN" to access the submission form or create an account in the system)

2) THEN send us a note saying that you would like your paper to be included in the panel on ‘Newness and Emergence in Digital Media’. Please send this note with you abstract to both following addresses : (guillaume.latzko-toth /at/ com.ulaval.ca) <mailto:(guillaume.latzko-toth /at/ com.ulaval.ca)> , (millerand.florence /at/ uqam.ca) <mailto:(millerand.florence /at/ uqam.ca)> .

Please note that the papers will be peer-reviewed just like any other submission to the TEM track.

Feel free to contact us at the e-mail addresses provided above if you have any question or would like further details.

Guillaume Latzko-Toth and Florence Millerand
Theme co-chairs, “Technology and Emerging Media”, Canadian Communication Association
Members, Interuniversity Research Centre on Science and Technology (CIRST)
Researchers, Laboratory on Computer-Mediated Communication (LabCMO)



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