[ecrea] CFP: Digital Comics

CALL FOR PAPERS

Digital Comics

A special-themed issue of Networking Knowledge, the journal of the 
MeCCSA-PGN

Deadline for abstracts 11th July 2014

The medium of comics has always evolved alongside the technology via 
which it is produced, distributed and consumed. In this age of easily 
accessible digital technologies, the comic form is undergoing a series 
of transformative changes. This remediation of the form has seen the 
medium change to accommodate the wider range of story-telling tropes and 
functionalities offered by the digital environment. Through portable 
touchscreen displays we are able to consume comics, film, animation, 
prose, games and other forms of interactive visual media. The multimodal 
capacity of these devices allows for the emergence of hybrid forms of 
comics which incorporate tropes from these other screen-based media.

Against this background, papers focused towards the following areas 
would sit well within this themed edition of Networking Knowledge:

    * New and emergent digital comic forms and technologies
    * Changes to the underlying structures of the form as a result of 
digital mediation
    * Crossovers, adaptation and hybridisation between comics and other 
digital media
    * Acts of reading and the impact of digital mediation
    * Aesthetic and literary analysis of digital comic narratives
    * Digital distribution, changes in the industry and the threat of 
piracy
    * Webcomics, widening readerships, minority voices and fan cultures
    * Multimodality and comics relationship with larger transmedia 
narratives.

Other areas relevant to the study of digital comics will also be considered.

Abstracts of no more than 300 words for papers of 5,000 to 6,000 words 
should be submitted via e-mail to Guest Editors Jayms Nichols and Daniel 
Merlin Goodbrey at (netknow /at/ e-merl.com) by Friday 11th July 2014. 
Abstracts should specify the research question and make a clear 
connection to one or more aspects of the digital comics theme. Proposed 
papers must be original and must not have been published or accepted for 
publication elsewhere.

If you have any questions about the issue, please e-mail the Guest 
Editors. If you have questions about Networking Knowledge in general, 
please contact the Journal Editor, Sam Ward.


Sam Ward

Journal Editor
Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network

PhD Candidate
Department of Culture, Film and Media
School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies
University of Nottingham

www.mediaacrossborders.com
www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk





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