[ecrea] INTERNATIONAL NEW MEDİA CONFERENCE 2012

CALL FOR PAPER

INTERNATIONAL NEW MEDİA CONFERENCE 2012
Istanbul, Turkey 16 and 18 May 2012

Istanbul University



Call for Paper

The deadline for abstract submissions until 10 May 2012.

The principal objectives* of International New Media Conference *are:

   * to develop critical frameworks and methodologies that enable the
     reception, consumption and impact of new technologies,
     specifically the conference focuses on human-computer interaction,
     computer-mediated communication, social interaction and
     networking, organizational contexts and cultural contexts.
   * to contextualize the environments, discourses, ideologies, and
     uses of new media technologies, and to address the specific
     implications of the increasing convergence of media forms
   * to analyze the conditions of emergence of new media technologies,
     and the development of new cultural forms and media productions
   * to promote discussion and analysis of the creative and educational
     potentials of those technologies, and to contextualise those
     cultural practices within wider cultural and political debates.
   * to attempt to reveal inter- and intra-disciplinary research of new
     media texts and technologies.

The themes of the conference will cover but not be limited to:**

1.     The mobilization of local, national, and transnational social 
movements through the use of social network sites, tweets, texting, and 
other forms of networked and instantaneous communication forms.
2.     The rhetoric of digital equality and unequal access to digital 
culture: class, race, region, and gender, and access to social media and 
digital communication technologies.
3.       The impact of digital culture on collective memory, conceptions 
of the historical, historical research methods, and the writing of history.
4.       The role of history in digital humanities: archival practices, 
collecting history online, historical text mining, and digital storytelling.


Details for attending, for paying registration, and for submitting 
abstracts and papers are now available on the website:

http://www.inm-c.net/



To submit your papers to this conference, you must first log into the 
*INMC2012* site or create a login account 
<http://www.inm-c.net/index.php?page=register>



For more information, please contact (inmconference2012 /at/ gmail.com)