[Commlist] CFP: Digital Nostalgia in/as Contemporary Creative Practice - IJCMR

_CALL FOR PROPOSALS:_

*Digital Nostalgia in/as Contemporary Creative Practice:
Special Issue of the International Journal of Creative Media Research*

_Guest edited by Bethany Lamont (Bath Spa University) and Beth Wakefield 
(Bath Spa University)_

We invite proposals from a range of researchers, makers, designers and 
producers to publish their research and creative practice, critically 
and creatively exploring the changing and emerging role of nostalgia as 
a 21st century phenomenon in/as creative practice.

Permeating within and across contemporary culture, nostalgia is 
essentially everywhere, playing an ever-pervasive role, one that 
projects and invents new and idealised images of our past. It continues 
to permeate everything from Hollywood franchises that seem reliant on 
cultural nostalgia to capture mass audience attention, to political 
campaigns that promote a skewed vision of nostalgia to persuade the 
masses. In this dreamy landscape, questions are evoked about the 
implications of divorcing individual childhoods, as well as national 
histories, away from their material realities, and towards a commercial 
product, or consumable message. More to the point, is the role of 
nostalgia in today’s culture more amplified than ever before - and if 
so, what is the relationship between this complex cultural phenomenon 
and contemporary digital media and creative practices? In other words, 
how can technology project and invent unique visions of media nostalgia?

This Special Issue of the International Journal of Creative Media 
Research aims to engage with these questions by exploring the ways in 
which different disciplines are approaching the question of nostalgia in 
the digital age, and how 21st century nostalgia is now informing a range 
of creative practices across film, art, literature, education, music, 
performance and beyond. Above all else, it aims to characterise ‘digital 
nostalgia’ as an interdisciplinary phenomenon, one that brings together 
all of this concept’s past meanings, values and associations across 
medicine, history and politics with the specific cultural and 
technological moment of today.

Proposal topics may address, but are not limited to:

  * Platform-specific research into digital nostalgia (e.g., nostalgia
    in social media, television, film, video games, music, animation)
  * Emerging practices of/for nostalgia (e.g. nostalgic marketing and
    fashion)
  * New understandings of or approaches to nostalgic culture since
    Covid-19 (e.g., new forms of negative or positive cultural
    relationships to the past)
  * Digital nostalgia and politics (e.g., applications of nostalgic
    language and imagery in contemporary propaganda and attempts to
    rewrite histories of oppression)
  * Digital nostalgia and trauma (e.g., continuing cultural
    relationships between distortions of the past and traumatic social
    events)
  * Creative approaches to expressing meanings of nostalgia in the
    digital age (e.g., practice-based explorations of theories of
    nostalgia or fandom practices)


Please send proposals of no more than 300 words (accompanied by a short 
100 word biography) to both Bethany Lamont ((b.lamont /at/ bathspa.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(b.lamont /at/ bathspa.ac.uk)>) and Beth Wakefield 
((b.wakefield /at/ bathspa.ac.uk) <mailto:(b.wakefield /at/ bathspa.ac.uk)>) by no 
later than *_July 29, 2022_*.

The International Journal of Creative Media Research is an 
interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed and open access journal devoted to 
pushing forward the approaches to and possibilities for publishing 
creative media research. www.creativemediaresearch.org 
<http://www.creativemediaresearch.org>

We will accept work will in one of three submission categories:

  * 'Single-Piece Explorations' (i.e. a single video or audio piece
    accompanied by a 1,500 word research statement)
  * 'Multi-Piece Portfolios' (i.e. a number of mixed media artefacts
    like video, image and audio, accompanied by up to a 1,500 word
    commentary)
  * 'Practice Discoveries' (i.e. a 6,000 word article about an area of
    creative practice)

Please consult our Author Guidelines 
<https://www.creativemediaresearch.org/author-guidelines> page for more 
information about these submission categories.


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