[Commlist] CfP: Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis 5

Call for papers and panels for ADDA 5
Tilburg, The Netherlands, 21-23 May 2025

submission link: https://easychair.org/cfp/adda5 
<https://easychair.org/cfp/adda5>

conference email address: (adda5 /at/ tilburguniversity.edu)

social media: https://x.com/adda5_2025 <https://x.com/adda5_2025> & 
https://www.instagram.com/adda5_2025/ 
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Panel and paper proposals are invited for ADDA 5, to be held in Tilburg, 
The Netherlands, 21-23 May 2025. Following successful editions in 
Valencia (2015), Turku (2017), Florida (2021) and Klagenfurt (2023), 
ADDA 5 will be organized by Tilburg University’s Department of Culture 
Studies in MindLabs, a digital knowledge hub in the city center. 

The ADDA 5 conference theme is discourse and digital infrastructures. If 
the rise of ChatGPT and other AI tech underscores anything, it's the 
imperative to analyze discourse through its material dimensions of 
platformed interfaces, cultures, ideologies, and - of course - 
algorithms. ADDA 5 aims to unite scholars interested in the social 
production of meaning across digital platforms and attention economies. 
How do ongoing processes of platformization and appification enable, 
shape, reimagine and constrain digital discourse infrastructurally? How 
do digital infrastructures across the globe impact the production, 
dissemination, and consumption of discourse? How do such infrastructures 
render people and ideas (in)visible? ADDA 5 will offer a platform for 
scholars to present cutting-edge research on the infrastructure/agency 
nexus and critically engage with the materiality and sociopolitical 
dimensions of digital discourse. 

The convenors are proud to announce the following keynote speakers:

  * Alexandra Georgakopoulou, King’s College London, Great Britain
  * Taina Bucher, University of Oslo, Norway
  * Britta Schneider, Viadrina European University, Germany
  * Payal Arora, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

    Conference topics

Digital infrastructures and digital discourse, conflict dynamics, 
attention economies, ideology and digital discourse, directive power of 
digital infrastructures, algorithmic power, fake news, influencer 
culture, digital discourse & politics, platformed interaction, digital 
propaganda, digital commodification, nationalism, provincialism, 
parochialism, (uses of) digital heritage, AI resistance and uptake, 
genre stretching and bending, transcontextual analysis online, and any 
other relevant topics related to digital discourse analysis.


    Submission guidelines

ADDA 5 invites panel proposals, individual presentations (oral or 
poster) and work-in-progress talks. To submit a panel proposal, 
individual presentation or work-in-progress talk, please use the 
EasyChair submission url and be attentive to the different deadlines 
ADDA 5 employs.

*Panels*  (deadline: September 15, 2024)

Panels should address a common theme, concept or methodological 
dimension related to the conference theme or one of the conference 
topics. Panel slots are 90 minutes and include 3 individual 
presentations. We can accommodate panels up to three slots (so 9 
individual presentations). 

Panel proposals should include the following:

  * title of the panel
  * name(s) of panel organizer(s), including institutional affiliations
    and email addresses
  * 200 word summary, or overview, of the panel (rationale and objectives)
Once a panel is accepted, each panel participant should submit the 
abstract for their individual paper to the submission page no later than 
January 10, 2025. Please make sure to check and incude the panel name.

*Individual presentations (oral or poster) *(deadline: January 10, 2025)

Individual presentations (20 minutes + Q&A) are part of themed sessions 
(methodology, concepts, fields). Poster presentations are more informal 
formats where the researcher talks the audience through their research 
(as visualized on a poster). Proposals for individual papers (no more 
than 250 words) must indicate a preference for an oral or poster 
presentation by selecting the appropriate option in the EasyChair 
submission form. Poster presenters must be present to discuss their work 
during the dedicated session. Each participant can only be a presenting 
author once at the conference for either a paper or a poster. So you can 
be an author on multiple papers, but you will not be accepted to present 
more than once.

*Work-in-progress talks *(deadline: January 10, 2025)

Proposals for work-in-progress talks or sandbox sessions are invited, 
where participants can test and discuss emerging ideas, analytical 
techniques, or preliminary findings. These sessions offer an 
interactive, informal format with 15-minute presentations followed by 15 
minutes of discussion. When submitting your proposal (up to 250 words) 
via EasyChair, please select the appropriate box if your proposal falls 
into this category.

All proposals, — except panel proposals —, will undergo a double-blind 
peer-review process, based on the following criteria:

  * topical relevance and originality
  * clarity of argumentation
  * structural organization of the submission
  * theoretical and methodological precision
  * for panels: coherence of the proposal
Decisions about acceptance/rejection will be communicated by early 2025. 
Following formal acceptance, the responsible (presenting) authors must 
register participation.

ADDA 5 convenors
Inge Beekmans,
Mingyi Hou,
Ico Maly,
Sean Smith,
Inge van de Ven and
Tom Van Hout


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