[ecrea] Sharing and Storing: Everyday relationships with digital material Special Issue of New Media & Society

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Sharing and Storing: Everyday relationships with digital material
Special Issue of New Media & Society

Edited by
Heather A. Horst
The University of Sydney, Australia

Jolynna Sinanan
RMIT University, Australia

Larissa Hjorth
RMIT University, Australia

Abstract Submission Deadline: 15 November 2017
Deadline extended to 25 November 2017
Proposal Selection Notification: 10 December 2017
Initial Article Submission Deadline: 01 March 2018

Contact email: 
(sharingandstoring /at/ gmail.com)<mailto:(storingandsharing /at/ gmail.com)>

Technologies and technological infrastructures are often associated with 
social and economic change. Airplanes and the shipping containers 
(Levinson 2008) became mechanisms for the spread of globalisation, 
reshaping the production processes and the trade and consumption of 
goods from around the globe. Undersea cables and mobile phone towers are 
often associated with providing the infrastructure of the digital age, 
enabling the flow of information, communication, media, technology, 
commerce and other goods to move at a greater speed than experienced in 
previous eras.  These possibilities continue to expand with the 
introduction of solid state drives, Bluetooth capabilities, smartphones, 
‘the cloud’ and social media platforms that have fundamentally altered 
the practices of storing, sharing and circulating digital materials.

Yet, the increasing capabilities for sharing and storing also have 
consequences for the ways in which we engage with and/or manage our 
digital data on a day-to-day basis.  Research on digital materials in 
the home highlight how families and households now grapple with an 
increasing number of digital photographs, videos and other digital 
materials that are often stored on a range of outdated or defunct 
devices, formats and platforms. Memory size in domestic technologies has 
increased, but so have the number and size of files that host many of 
the mundane digital materials. These constraints prompt decisions about 
what digital material should remain, what can be deleted and where 
certain digital materials should be stored. Such decisions become even 
more difficult with the increasing infiltration of work into the 
domestic sphere, syncing and other forms of automation and the 
increasing number of channels through which digital materials can 
circulate. For many people the separation of digital materials that move 
between different domains has become more challenging - and messier - 
than ever.

This special issue examines our everyday relationships with digital 
materials and the various platforms, devices, spaces and formats through 
which they are stored and shared. We ask contributors to this special 
issue to consider: How do people manage the proliferation of digital 
material in their everyday lives? What strategies and rituals do they 
develop to organize, curate or delete digital materials? How are 
existing cultural practices of sharing and storing in other domains 
shaping these strategies? What are the broader infrastructures, 
platforms, programs and devices that are enabling, hindering or changing 
people’s ability to navigate the ways they store and share digital 
materials?

Papers in this special issue will explore the everyday ways we manage 
living in a world of digital data and may include the following topics:

•              Data transfer practices (e.g. moving digital materials 
from old to new devices)
•              Manual vs automatic syncing of digital materials
•              Temporalities of digital materials (e.g. long-term 
storage vs. transient data storage, changes of storing and sharing 
practices in relation to life stage)
•              Routines and practices (e.g. organising, cleaning or 
curating digital materials)
•              Non-sharing
•              Emergent categories of and distinctions between digital 
materials
•              Historical comparisons of sharing and storing of 
non-digital and digital materials
•              Specific studies of sharing or storing on or across 
specific platforms (e.g. WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, 
Dropbox, iCloud, c-Share, Google Drive, etc.)

Please note that the guest editors’ welcome submissions on a wide 
variety of theoretical and/or empirical contributions to the study of 
digital material beyond the suggestions identified.

Submissions:
Proposals should include the author's name and affiliation, title, an 
abstract of 250-300 words, and 3 to 5 keywords, and should be sent to 
the e-mail address no later than 15 November 
2017:(sharingandstoring /at/ gmail.com)<mailto:(sharingandstoring /at/ gmail.com)> 
(Note: Deadline extended to 25 November 2017). Invited paper submissions 
will be due 1 March 2018 and will be submitted directly to the 
submission site for /New Media and Society/: 
https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nms where they will undergo peer review 
following the usual procedures of New Media & Society. Approximately 
10-12 papers will be sent out for full review. All other papers will be 
returned to their authors for submission elsewhere.  Therefore, the 
invitation to submit a full article does not guarantee acceptance into 
the special issue. The special issue will be published in 2019. See 
also: 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iS-X-7xA411NShBzGmsruuHNcLbF3ieBqfYzzCC7s-I/edit?usp=sharing



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