[ecrea] CfP Early Digital Culture in Turkey (1999-2004)

As Dr. Erkan Saka and Dr. Ivo Furman of Istanbul Bilgi University
Communications Faculty, we would like to announce a call for papers to
celebrate the 20th year of digital culture in Turkey. Despite being around
for more than five decades, our understanding of the Internet history and
digital cultures within non-western contexts is very much in its infancy.
This is partly caused by the dominance of North American (and
English-speaking) studies of early digital culture. Reading these accounts
can be misleading in that one might be led to assume that the origins of
digital culture was a primarily North American (and English-speaking)
phenomenon.


Instead, we argue that rather than passively appropriating the Internet as
a communication technology, local socio-cultural milieus of relatively
peripheral countries such as Turkey have played an active role in shaping
the potential of Internet and creating their own unique digital cultures.
Accordingly, this call looks to answer the pertinent need to account for
digital culture within peripheral or non-Western contexts and contribute to
the diversification of research in Internet Studies.


We intend the collection to be interdisciplinary in scope, with
contributions drawing upon a range of disciplinary perspectives including
communication studies, information studies, history, sociology and
linguistics. Possible topics can include


Media representations of the Internet

Internet/Digital Art

E-government projects

Cyberactivism

Piracy, Hacking, Modding/Phreaking

Internet Spaces

Case Studies

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   Early Internet celebrities
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   Blogs
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   Iconic sites
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   Internet memes
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   E-Zines
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   Moral Panics
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   Chatroom cultures
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   Gaming subcultures
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   Pioneers and Pioneering cultures

Business histories of the Web

   -

   Entrepreneurs
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   "Digital Bosphorus”

Software and Hardware cultures

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   Infrastructure of the Internet in Turkey
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   Web governance
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   Computer Mediated Communication

Possible types of contributions may include reports, case-studies, visual
archives, interviews. Deadline for contribution abstracts (250 words or so
with a title and a short bio) is1 March 2017.

Please send your
contributions to (erkan.saka /at/ bilgi.edu.tr), (ivo.furman /at/ bilgi.edu.tr).



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