Digital Memories
Tuesday 17th March - Thursday 19th March 2009
Salzburg, Austria
Call for Papers
This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference aims
to examine, explore and critically engage with the issues and
implications created by massive exploitation of digital technologies for
inter-human communication and examine how on-line users form,
archive and de-/code their memories in cybermedia environment. In
particular the conference will encourage equally theoretical and practical
debates which surround the cultural contexts of memory co-/production,
re-/mediation, dissemination, personal/mass interpretation and
preservation.
Papers, presentations, workshops and reports are
invited on any of the following themes:
1. Digital Personal and Community Memory
Theories and Concepts in Digitalization of
Individual and Community Memory. Identifying Key Features and Issues.
2. Externalization and Mediation of Memories
Web 2.0 Services as a Medium for
Production/Dissemination of Memory.
Representational Principles for Memory Record.
Digital Recording Strategies.
Community Mapping.
Displacement in Space and Time Online.
The Narrativisation of New Media Presentations.
3. Memory and Inter-Culturalism
The Community History and the Preservation
Principles in Distant Online
Communities. Expatriate, Dissent and Emigrant
Cultures and Communities Online.
4. Emergent Technologies and Systems for Capturing
the Private Memories
Rapid Prototyping Tools for Digital Autobiographic
and Biographic Productions. Interactive Hyper-Video. Virtual
Worlds of the Past.
Advances in Interactive Storytelling.
The Spatialization of Memories and Videogames.
5. Archiving and Dissemination of Community Memory
Data
Building the Digital Libraries and Archives as a
Community Memory. The Preservation and Storage Strategies and
Interactive Access to Community
Memories. Database Structuring. User Modelling.
6. Uses of New Media for Production of Historical
Knowledge
New Media and Representations of the Past.
National Identity and Memory
in the Digital Age. Political Uses of Cybermedia
for Historical Revisionism.
7. Old Media Archives - New Exploitations
The Remediation and Reconstruction of the Memories
from Historical Amateur Photo- and Video-Footage.
Virtual Nostalgia.
8. Specific Research on Community Memory
Social Issues Research. Online Ethnographic
Research. Legal Issues in Community Informatics.
Papers on any other topic related to the theme
will also be considered. 500 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday
19th September 2008. The abstract will be double blind peer reviewed
(where appropriate). If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full
draft paper should be submitted by Friday 6th February 2009.
500 word abstracts should be submitted to both
Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF
formats, following this order:
a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body
of abstract
We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper
proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you
should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in
cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route
or resend.
Joint Organising Chairs
Daniel Riha
Charles University
Prague,
Czech Republic
E-mail: (daniel.riha /at/ ff.cuni.cz)
Rob Fisher
Network Leader
Inter-Disciplinary.Net,
Freeland, Oxfordshire,
United Kingdom
E-mail: (digmem /at/ inter-disciplinary.net)
The conference is part of the "Critical Issues"
programme of research projects. It aims to bring together people from
different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various
discussions which are innovative and exciting.
All papers accepted for and presented at this
conference will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook.
Selected papers will be developed for publication in a themed hard copy
volume.
For further details about the project please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ci/Cyber/digmem/digmem.html
For further details about the conference please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ci/Cyber/digmem/dm1/cfp.html
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