[ecrea] CFP: Born Digital Cultural Histories

Please find below a CFP for a special issue of the open access journal, 
/Arts/, that I am editing. More info at 
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/arts/special_issues/born_digital_cultural_histories 
Article processing charges are being waived.

Whilst many artefacts today are produced, distributed and consumed 
solely in digital form, this situation is not completely new. Artefacts 
from previous eras have also been ‘born’ digital. The advent of micro- 
or home computers in the mid-1970s and 1980s, for instance, saw a range 
of digital artefacts produced, amongst them digital games, demos, a 
range of experimental art, and other early software. These objects are 
complex and interesting as are the preservation challenges they pose. 
While issues of hardware and software deterioration are arguably 
becoming better understood, the earliness with which decisions about 
significance and preservation strategies must be arrived at marks these 
artefacts out as different from other forms of cultural heritage.

Paper might address topics including, but not limited to:

  * Continuities and discontinuities between contemporary and historical
    digital culture
  * Histories of the digital everyday
  * Artists as archivists
  * Institutional responses to digital cultural heritage
  * Changing notions of the collection
  * Jurisdictions, overlaps, gaps
  * Resourcing, funding, partnerships
  * Relation of born digital preservation to digitisation programs
  * Permanence and entropy
  * Inter-agency cooperation, federations and networks
  * Models of collaboration, outside experts, volunteers
  * Access and exhibition
  * Legal issues, intellectual property, orphaned works, legal deposit
  * Workforce, capacity building, training
  * New preservation and conservation techniques
  * Case studies, including: architecture, broadcasting, apps, mobile
    and multiplayer games, demoscenes, net and media art
  * Preserving algorithmic culture

Proposals might be theoretical, applied, policy, or otherwise oriented. 
Case studies of innovative practices, papers based on research with born 
digital artefacts, and new institutional approaches are equally welcome.

Articles must be original, not under consideration elsewhere, and should 
make new contributions to knowledge.

All articles in the issue will undergo double blind peer review.


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