[ecrea] CFP: New Media/New Performances, Digital Culture/Digital Politics

_New Media and Digital Cultures Working Group CFP___

*“New Media/New Performances, Digital Culture/Digital Politics”*

2019 Cultural Studies Association Annual Conference on “Performance, 
Politics, Power”

Tulane University | New Orleans, LA | May 30th to June 1st, 2019

The Working Group on New Media and Digital Cultures invites submissions 
for the 17^th annual meeting of the Cultural Studies Association (U.S.), 
to be held May 30^th to June 1^st on the campus of Tulane University, 
New Orleans, Louisiana. We hope to organize at least two panels this 
year. The themes of the panels will be determined after reviewing 
submitted abstracts.

As an opening question, how does performance manifest in digital 
culture? Are there avenues through which the concept of action, or 
acting, reveals new political realities, new power relations when these 
practices are enacted through new media formats and/or mechanisms? The 
common enthusiasm for new modes of communication and new potentials for 
organizing and producing new political events is intrinsically tied to 
the possibilities of performance possible via new digital formats and 
modes of interaction. We seek submissions that address, broadly defined, 
the application of new media to modes of engagement and resistance in 
the current political sphere. Some possible subjects might include:

·Marches and other traditional modes of protest and how they are 
augmented or hindered via new media.

·New media as a means of measuring or recording the performance of 
political actors or organizations.

·The contemporary necessity of engaging with new media in the practice 
of political organization or participation.

·New possibilities for political actors connected to the use of or 
engagement with new media.

·Power as enacted through new media and digital culture systems – how 
the performance of the self in digital environments enacts a politics 
that may or may not manifest in the life world.

·New media approaches to artistic expression and how the traditional 
politics of art might enable, problematize or restrict those approaches.

300 word abstracts should be submitted by 3^rd December 2018 to the 
Cultural Studies Association website. Please follow the Easy Chair 
submission guidelines and instructions found on the CSA
Conference Registration page. All proposals should be submitted through 
Easy Chair using the following link: 
https://EasyChair.org/conferences/?conf=csa2019. Note: you do not have 
to be a current member to submit. If you proposal is accepted, you must 
become a current member of the CSA and register for the conference. 
These are two separate transactions.

Questions should be direct to the co-chairs of the New Media and Digital 
Cultures working group:

Jeff Heydon (jheydon[at]wlu.ca <http://wlu.ca>) and Mark Nunes 
(nunesm[at]appstate.edu <http://appstate.edu>).

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