[ecrea] Call for Papers || Mobile Digital Practices, 5th Issue of Digital Culture & Society

I am happy to announce a CfP on Mobile Digital Practices: Situating 
People, Things an Data. As the fifth issue of Digital Culture & Society, 
we are inviting contributions to the sections stated below.
Deadline for abstracts is Feb 19, 2017.

Please visit 
http://digicults.org/callforpapers/cfp-mobile-digital-practices/ 
<http://digicults.org/callforpapers/cfp-mobile-digital-practices/> for 
further information.
If you have questions regarding the call or the journal, please do not 
hesitate to contact us.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Best regards from the issue editors,

Anna Lisa Ramella with Asko Lehmuskallio, Tristan Thielmann and Pablo Abend

Mobile Digital Practices: Situating People, Things and Data

Abstract deadline: February 19, 2017
Edited by: Anna Lisa Ramella, Asko Lehmuskallio, Tristan Thielmann and 
Pablo Abend

The fifth issue of Digital Culture & Society will address particular, 
situated forms of movement of people, things and data through the lens 
of practices. Practice-based approaches have concomitantly become 
pivotal for describing how people, things and data are interrelated in 
what can be called digital practices. While discussions surrounding the 
“practice turn” (Schatzki et al. 2006) in social theory have found their 
way into other disciplines including media studies, it has yet to be 
clearly identified how practices can be deciphered in terms of scale and 
order (Swidler 2010) and how the specifics of digital practices can be 
best spelled out (Couldry 2012). A number of scholars in media and 
anthropology have worked towards describing the various settings of 
“what people do with media” (Couldry 2004) in terms of media practices 
(Bräuchler/Postill 2010). Almost simultaneously, a mobilities turn has 
been identified, framing subjects of the social sciences through the 
lens of movement and networks (Sheller/Urry 2006). We aim to apply these 
approaches to a mobile digital realm; hence, we invite to discuss how 
particularly digital practices can be described, framed and researched 
and how they produce and are produced by the mobility of people, data 
and devices (Morley 2011).

We invite theoretical and/or empirical contributions discussing digital 
practices and the relationship of humans, things and data from a 
situated perspective: whether as phenomena to be studied in and of 
themselves, or as part of innovative research designs. Disciplinary 
approaches may be rooted in (digital) media and cultural studies, media 
or digital anthropology, among other social sciences. Interdisciplinary 
contributions, such as those from science and technology studies or the 
digital humanities, are particularly encouraged.

Paper proposals may relate to, but are not limited to, the following 
questions concerning mobile digital practices. When submitting an 
abstract, authors should make explicit to which of the following 
categories they would like to submit their paper:

Field Research and Case Studies (full paper: max. 8.000 wordsWe invite 
articles that discuss empirical findings from studies that approach the 
relationships between humans and data. These may include practices of 
circulating or collecting data as well processes of production and 
evaluation. Studies may also trace the flow of data by paying attention 
to the practices involved, or follow the practices to gain insight into 
the movement of data.
Methodological Reflection (full paper: max. 8.000 words)
We invite contributions that reflect on the methodologies employed when 
researching mobile digital practices. These may include, for example, 
the specificities of ethnographic fieldwork in online/offline 
environments; challenges and opportunities faced when qualitatively 
researching quantifiable data and vice versa; approaches using mixed 
methods; discussions of mobile and circulative methods; and reflections 
of experimental forms of research.
Conceptual/Theoretical Reflection (full paper: max. 8.000 words)We 
encourage contributions that reflect on the conceptual and/or 
theoretical dimension of mobile digital practices, and discuss or 
question how the digital can be defined, what it can describe, and how 
it can be differentiated. We also invite articles that interrogate terms 
such as digital or practice and call for alternatives in the 
conceptualization of data and “what people do” with it.
Entering the Field (2.000-3.000 words; experimental formats welcome)
This experimental section presents initial and ongoing empirical work in 
digital media studies. The editors have created this section to provide 
a platform for researchers who would like to initiate a discussion 
concerning their emerging (yet perhaps incomplete) research material and 
plans as well as methodological insights.

Deadlines and contact information

Expressions of interest/Initial abstracts (max. 300 words) and short 
biographical note (max. 100 words) are due on: Feb 19, 2017.
Authors will be notified by Feb 26, 2017, whether they are invited to 
submit a full paper.
Full papers are due on: May 1, 2017.
Notifications to authors of referee decisions: July 1, 2017
Final versions due: August 1, 2017
Please send your abstract and short biographical note to Anna Lisa 
Ramella: ramella[at]locatingmedia.uni-siegen.de 
<http://locatingmedia.uni-siegen.de/>.


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