[ecrea] CFP ECREA Digital culture and communication

    Call for Papers: Standards, Disruptions and Values in Digital
    Culture and Communication

    *** Deadline extended until May 25, 2015 ***


    Workshop organised by the Digital Culture and Communication Section
    of ECREA (DCC), and the Department of Communication Studies (ICT&S
    Center), University of Salzburg, 26-28 November 2015

Keynote speakers:

Prof Charles Ess (University of Oslo)

Prof Helen Kennedy (University of Sheffield)

In digital culture and communication, with the pervasiveness that
characterises online media, standards and values are contested, whereas
well-established paths in the production and circulation of information
have been newly arranged or abandoned altogether. Technical and social
standards are consistent, formal and informal norms, values or
conventions of doing, operating, producing, and/or performing. As the
basis of technical transmission, standards in media allow
transferability and interoperability, reduce complexity, and facilitate
communication across formats, platforms and boundaries. As a consequence
of transformations and re-orientations that continuously happen in
almost all fields of the media, new technological standards, ethical
codes, narrative and visual tropes are being produced.

It is therefore crucial to critically evaluate the relationship between
standards and values in their social, political, technological and
creative dimensions. Who has the power to define, develop and implement
standards? Which values are attached to standardisation processes in
creative industries and how are they related to copyright and patents in
technological development? Are peer-production, open-access publishing
and free-culture movements different kinds of markets or disruptions to
existing models of markets? What is the relationship between
technological standardisation and cultural diversity?

This workshop aims to address such questions. We welcome papers on the
following issues and topics:

  *

    Technical and social standards in digital media: How do technical
    standards evolve in the media industry and how are they implemented?
    What kind of values shape this process? What modes of interventions
    exist (e.g. between players like platform operators and users?)

  *

    Visual and narrative standards and disruptions in digital culture:
    How are visual standards and codes built and how do they influence
    the comprehension of data? How do visual media and narratives
    introduce new canons in forms such such as remix, memes or selfies?

  *

    Professional and ethical standards in digital contexts: Who is
    responsible of implementing professional ethical standards? Are
    there emerging frameworks? How do ethical codes inform digital
    culture research? How do big data contribute or condition these
    developments?



Please send abstracts (max 400 words) by May 25, 2015 to
(ecreadigitalculture /at/ gmail.com)
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Conference website:http://dcc.icts.sbg.ac.at/  See also:
http://wp.me/p2XXkX-6v




Gemma San Cornelio
Estudis de Ciències de la Informació i la Comunicació
*Universitat Oberta de Catalunya*
93 326 (3431) | (gsan_cornelio /at/ uoc.edu)
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