[ecrea] CFP: Girls and digital culture: transnational reflections, September 2012

*Girls and digital culture: transnational reflections*


An international interdisciplinary conference hosted by the Centre for 
Culture, Media and Creative Industries and the Department of Digital 
Humanities, King's College, London.

September 13 & 14 , 2012, King's College London, Strand Campus


This conference seeks to bring together current research exploring the 
relationship between contemporary girlhood and digital culture, in a 
transnational frame. Drawing on approaches from the arts, humanities and 
social sciences  the conference will look at how contemporary 
transformations and transnational interconnections may be challenging 
existing social and cultural categories, power structures and global 
hegemonies. The conference will consider the following questions:


*What are the key debates in current research on girls, young women and 
digital culture?

* How might a transnational lens raise new questions, and what new ideas 
does it make thinkable?
*Is digital culture global culture?
*How does the development of new digital technologies affects notions 
and experiences of girlhood?
* How are girls using new digital technologies?
*How do ideas and practices move across national borders?
*What effects do transnational interconnections have on girlhood and 
digital culture?

Speakers include:

Lisa Nakamura

ShaniOrgad

Kalpana Wilson

Jessica Ringrose

RupaHuq

Simidele Dosekun

Papers will be welcomed from across the social sciences, arts and 
humanities, including sociology, geography, media and communication 
studies, digital humanities, web science, gender studies, queer studies, 
cultural studies and postcolonial theory, as well as from artists, 
activists, grassroots and community initiatives and policy makers/think 
tanks.

Themes of the conference include:


Girls experiences of digital culture
Gender and social media

Sexuality
Activism and politics
Identity and subjectivity
Development

Gender and blogging

Gender, play and digital culture
Power and digital divisions
Convergence
Intersectional and transnational approaches

Abstracts of up to 200 words should be sent to 
*(girlsanddigitalculture /at/ gmail.com)* 
<mailto:(girlsanddigitalculture /at/ gmail.com)>*, *by 31st March 2012

For further details and updates see

http://girlsanddigitalculture.cch.kcl.ac.uk/