[ecrea] Time and Technology in Popular Culture, Media and Communication

REMINDER – Deadline for Abstracts: 01st October 2013



CALL FOR PAPERS: Time and Technology in Popular Culture, Media and 
Communication



A special-themed issue of Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA-PGN



Guest Editor: Adam Gallimore (University of Warwick)

Journal Editor: Sam Ward (University of Nottingham)



This special issue of Networking Knowledge seeks to address issues of 
time and technology in popular culture, media and communication by 
exploring and examining a range of debates about the temporal and the 
technological across several disciplines, approaches, and research areas.



Issues of technological advancement and application need constant 
revision and reassessment given the ongoing nature of its processes.  
Modernity has progressively been perceived through the demands and 
implications of time, and technology has had a massive impact on a wide 
range of time-based media and forms of communication.   This issue aims 
to contribute to larger debates concerning time—such as its 
representation, experience, or perception—by linking it directly to 
questions of technology.  This will be valuable in terms of opening out 
the field to examine an array of subjects that have yet to receive 
sufficient critical or scholarly attention.  These include issues of 
time and technology relating to cinematic technologies (3D, digital 
filmmaking, exhibition forms), New Media, memory, genre, and 
representation (gender, race, sexuality).  Meanwhile, the growth of 
social media forums and blogging applications has made it easier for 
individuals to create their own personal timelines that incorporate and 
document changing technologies, making it another subject of major 
contemporary significance.



There are many prominent links between time and technology that relate 
to issues of change and representation, with technological inventions 
and innovations providing the potential for new aesthetic, thematic and 
representational forms of cultural expression.  For instance, digital 
technologies can be seen to have altered the representation of time in 
film through particular production, editing and exhibition strategies.  
The way in which time is structured and communicated is dependent on 
both the technologies used to shape it and the form in which it is 
expressed.  These representational transitions have the potential to 
transform or alter our perception of time, and therefore how we relate 
to cultural forms and also to the past itself.  Televisual technologies, 
for example, can be employed to highlight the ‘liveness’ or ‘realism’ of 
events, thus signifying the contemporaneous nature of the text in which 
they are contained.



This issue encourages contributions that engage with contemporary 
discourses around time and technology, with the central purpose of 
examining the impact of particular technologies on the representation 
and perception of time in cinema, television, and other media.  Possible 
topics and themes might include, but are not limited to:



§  Issues of time and memory

§  Perceptions and representations of time and technology

§  Digital/analogue evolution in relation to temporality (HD, 3D, sound)

§  Cinematic/televisual time in relation to technology

§  Time/technology and genre

§  Time/technology and narrative

§  Time/technology and gender/race/sexuality

§  Time/technology and New Media

§  Time/technology and social media

§  Time/technology and the archive

§  Technology and ‘liveness’

§  Technological determinism and temporality

§  Franchises and revivals (retrospectives, remakes, reboots, re-enactments)

§  Technology and ephemerality/duration



Time and Technology in Popular Culture, Media and Communication invites 
articles of 5,000 to 6,000 words from postgraduate students and early 
career researchers across the humanities and social sciences.


Please send abstracts of up to 300 words along with a 50-word biography 
by 01st October 2013 to Adam Gallimore ((a.h.gallimore /at/ warwick.ac.uk)) and 
Sam Ward ((aaxsjw /at/ nottingham.ac.uk)).  Articles will be due on 01st 
February 2014.  Please contact the editors for further information.

Adam Gallimore

PhD Candidate and Graduate Teaching Assistant

Department of Film and Television Studies

The University of Warwick

Graduate profile



Editor - Alternate Takes

Editor - G|A|M|E: A Journal of Game Studies

Guest Editor and Contributor - Networking Knowledge


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