[ecrea] CFP: Spectator (Small Media and Everyday Life: Digital Media Beyond Big Data)

*Call for Papers*

*/Small Media and Everyday Life: Digital Media Beyond Big Data/*

*/Volume 38.2 and Fall 2019 /*


Contemporary discussions on digital media and its effects often tend to 
focus on “big data” as the primary locus of conversation. Such 
discussions tend to range from the uncritical embracement of the 
possibilities of big data in areas such as the advertising and 
entertainment industries, to doomsday scenarios of surveillance and 
privacy risks under the increasing interconnections between corporate 
and state structures. This focus on big data structures often tends to 
overlook the numerous smaller changes that have taken place in social 
and communication practices with the advent of digital media. Such 
changes involve the emergence of “smaller” media forms that integrate 
themselves into practices of everyday life through routinized usage and 
habit. One caveat here: “smaller” media is not a judgment on the scale 
of the media, or their structural complexity, but rather serves as a 
pointer to the forms of their adoption and adaptations that elude the 
“big” sweep of corporate and state structures. While such media may 
indeed be produced by corporations and conglomerations, they may be used 
in unintended and even subversive ways by their target audiences.

This issue of /Spectator/ dedicates itself to such forms of adaptations, 
repurposing and habit that run counter to the utilitarian motivations 
behind the production and distribution of media forms. How have digital 
media affected our contemporary conversation styles, both online and 
offline? In what ways has the integration of network communication 
devices in everyday life changed our experience of urban spaces? How 
have online shopping portals and apps changed our practices as 
consumers? What is the impact of new media on contemporary forms of 
religiosity and faith-practices? What changes in film and televisual 
media consumption have taken place with the emergence of both legal 
streaming options, and underground access through torrent-sites and 
illegal streaming? This issue is also interested in works that look 
media practices beyond the West, especially those that diverge from 
seemingly “normative” uses of media through re-assemblage and tactical 
usage. Works that interrogate digital media forms through an integration 
of theory and practice are also encouraged.

*Deadline for Submission: November 27, 2018*

*Spectator* is a biannual publication and submissions that address the 
above topics in the following areas are now invited for submission. 
*Possible topics* include, but need not be limited to:

  * *Social media, cellphones and conversation style*

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  * *Navigation Apps and everyday life in the city *

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  * *“Binge watching” and the new spectator/cinephile.*

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  * *Dating Apps and digital intimacy*

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  * *Sexting, Camsites and digital-smut*

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  * *Digital Media and the organization of protests*

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  * *Social media and virtual communities*

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  * *Habit, routine and the new-media ecology*

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  * *Digital Media, Space and Temporality*

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  * *Surveillance and self-tracking practices*

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  * *Digital technology and health*

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  * *Smart technology, domesticity and the “connected home”*

Include your contact information

  * Name
  * Address
  * Phone
  * E-mail

Manuscripts to be considered for publication should be sent to:

Anirban K. Baishya, Issue Editor

The Bryan Singer Division of Cinema & Media Studies

School of Cinematic Arts, Room 320

University of Southern California

Los Angeles, CA 90089-2211

Email: (baishya /at/ usc.edu) <mailto:(baishya /at/ usc.edu)>

Submissions should be e-mailed directly to the issue editor. Manuscripts 
should include the title of the contribution and the name(s) of authors. 
As well as the postal address, e-mail address, and phone numbers for 
author who will work with the editor on any revisions. All pages should 
be numbered consecutively. Contributions should not be more than 5,000 
words. Please include a brief abstract for publicity. Authors should 
also include a brief biographic entry.

Articles submitted to the Spectator should not be under consideration by 
any other journal.

Book Reviews may vary in length from 300 to 1,000 words. Please include 
title of book, retail price and ISBN at the beginning of the review.

Forum or Additional Section contributions can include works on new 
archival or research facilities or methods as well as other relevant 
works related to the field.

*Electronic Submissions and Formatting.* Authors should send copies of 
their work via e-mail as electronic attachments. Please keep backup 
files. Files should be Microsoft Word in PC or Mac format, depending on 
the editor's preference. Endnotes should conform to the Chicago Manual 
of Style.

Upon acceptance, a format guideline will be forwarded to all 
contributors as to image and text requirements.

*Current Board for Spectator*

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Founding Editor Marsha Kinder

Managing EditorWilliam Whittington

Issue EditorAnirban K. Baishya

ContributorsTBD

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