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

CFP: Storing and sharing: 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
Proposal Selection Notification: 10 December 2017
Initial Article Submission Deadline: 01 March 2018
Contact email: (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stored on a range of outdated or defunct devices, formats and platforms.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:(storingandsharing /at/ gmail.com) 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
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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.


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