[ecrea] CfP: Digital⇌Culture 2018: A one-day conference, University of Nottingham, 20th April 2018 (Doctoral grants available)

_CALL FOR PAPERS:_

*DIGITAL**⇌**CULTURE **2018*

A one-day conference hosted by the Digital Culture Research Network, and 
supported by the Midlands3Cities DTP (M3C) Cohort Development Fund

*Date:*Friday 20th April 2018
*Venue:* University of Nottingham

*Abstract Submission Deadline: Friday 9th February 2018*

'Digital⇌Culture 2018' explores the varied links between digital and 
cultural processes. Digital tools such as social media, mobile devices, 
video games, data analysis infrastructures, and networked technologies 
increasingly permeate our everyday lives. As a result, the production 
and expression of ‘meanings’ or ‘values’ – like the experience and 
performance of identity, gender, embodied lived experience, political 
activism, linguistic engagement, knowledge and power relations – are 
increasingly co-constituted by digital platforms.

This one-day conference, which includes a keynote speech from Prof. Tim 
Jordan (Uni. of Sussex), aims to bring together researchers from a wide 
array of disciplines with an interest in digital culture.

    *Submission*

We invite proposals from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to present 
theoretical and empirical research in response, but not limited, to the 
following topics:

- How can we meaningfully study the relationship between digital 
platforms and the activities they enable?
- What is the relationship between features of digital platforms and the 
communicative acts they mediate?
- How can we understand the value landscape of digital entertainment?
- How do features of digital platforms become re-appropriated as 
resources for the construction and performance of identity, and to what 
extent does this in turn shape perceptions of the platform?
- How do digital platforms participate in knowledge-creation and the 
establishment of dominant discourses?
- How do digital platforms affect the aesthetic and artistic practices 
of mediation?

To encourage proposals from doctoral students, we are awarding six 
joint-travel/accommodation grants to successful proposals. Further 
details below.

Submissions should follow the below format and be submitted to 
*(digitalculture2018 /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(digitalculture2018 /at/ gmail.com)> *by 
23:00 GMT on *Friday 9th February 2018*.

Paper Title

Speaker Name
Speaker Contact Email
Abstract (Up to 250 words outlining the paper's main arguments, methods, 
and relevance to the conference theme)
Speaker Biography (Up to 100 words)
Keywords (3 terms relevant to the paper)

    *Funding*

We are pleased to offer six joint-travel/accommodation grants, each of 
which includes one night’s accommodation at the University of Nottingham 
(arranged by the organising committee) and up to £50 travel expenses.

The grant is open to all doctoral applicants, but at least three of the 
grants are reserved for non-M3C-funded applicants based at the DTP’s six 
institutions (Uni. Of Nottingham; Nottingham Trent; Birmingham City; 
Uni. of Birmingham; De Montfort; Uni. of Leicester). Those currently 
funded by M3C are _not eligible_ to apply for this grant. This grant 
will only be offered to doctoral students whose papers have been 
accepted for the conference.

If you wish to apply for the grant, please complete a Grant Application 
Form which can be found here 
<https://digitalculture2018.wordpress.com/2017/12/13/cfp/> and submit it 
along with your abstract. Grants will be awarded on the basis of the 
conference organising committee’s collective consideration of submitted 
applications.


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