[ecrea] Digital Memories Workshop, Budapest, CFP

Digital Memories, Digital Methods: Transcultural Memory in Europe Beyond 
Web 2.0
3/29/2014 -

COST Action IS1203
Working Group 2 Mediation
Call for Papers
Workshop
Digital Memories, Digital Methods: Transcultural Memory in Europe
Beyond Web 2.0
Budapest, 29-30 September 2014

Digital technologies not only have a profound impact on the form, 
content and
distribution of individual and collective memories, but also on the ways 
in which we
perceive of memory. While the internet has exponentially increased the 
accessibility of
data, at the same time it has produced an overload of information, 
inviting us to rethink
traditional notions of archive, storage/retrieval, and materiality, as 
well as of location,
temporality and (trans)national belonging. And yet, due to social and 
economic inequality,
data are still far from evenly accessible. On the one hand, the ‘culture 
of connectivity’
driven by social media such as facebook and twitter has given rise to 
new trans- and
international networks which facilitate sharing data, experiences, and 
memories. On the
other hand, these media tend to obscure the role and importance of the 
technological and
commercial factors on which these interpersonal exchanges depend.


This workshop aims to discuss the possibilities, limitations and 
ambiguities of digital
media, in particular the internet, for the production of 
transcultural/transnational
memory in Europe.


The workshop will be organised around the discussion of short papers of 
ca. 20 minutes,
followed by a response of ca. 10 minutes, and a discussion of ca. 15 
minutes. All papers as
well as a selection of a few key texts by leading scholars in the field 
will be pre-circulated
in order to stimulate the discussion. There will be two keynote lectures 
by Andrew
Hoskins (University of Glasgow) and Ellen Rutten (University of Amsterdam).


We invite contributions dealing with any topic or (geographical) area in 
Europe and which
will take into account the following questions: What is the role and 
scope of the internet
and digital media in mediating memories across national and cultural 
borders in Europe?
How do digitization, multimediatization and “googlization” (Van Dijck) 
affect the dynamics
of (trans)cultural memory in Europe today? How to use digital media in 
memory research?
How to deal with problems arising from the possibilities generated by 
digital technologies,
such as information overload?


Proposals for papers should contain a title and a brief summary (ca. 
200-250 words) and a
bio-bibliography (max. 100 words). Deadline for submission is 1 May 
2014. Selection to be
made known by 1 June 2014.


Please, submit proposals to:
Paul Bijl (P.A.L.Bijl /at/ uva.nl)
Stijn Vervaet (Stijn.Vervaet /at/ ugent.be)


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