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[ecrea] CfP #AoIR2018 Montreal
Tue Oct 31 13:58:12 GMT 2017
The overarching theme of AoIR2018 will be Transnational Materialities.
The theme is broadly rooted in the burgeoning
implications of current massive global migrations of people and data,
within the context of a growing materialist movement in cultural and
media studies, media archaeology, software studies, science and
technology studies, feminist materialism, object oriented ontologies of
post-humanist philosophy, critical political economy, actor-network
theory, and the like. These heterogeneous and polyvalent perspectives
have opened up spaces for interrogating the socio-technical assemblages
which comprise « the internet ».
The « material turn » within internet research
seeks to firmly ground critical analyses in the manifold physicalities
and corporealities embodied and engendered within such networked
technologies. This turn has been embraced with enthusiasm in Canadian
communication and media studies, whose intellectual tradition has been
shaped by a productive confluence of medium theory (e.g., Marshall
McLuhan), spatial materialism of communication systems (e.g., Harold
Innis), feminist media and social justice theory (e.g., Gertrude J.
Robinson, Dorothy Smith), and political economy of media institutions
and practices (e.g., Vincent Mosco).
As a settler nation with complex contested
histories, vast geographies, and ongoing struggles to achieve global
economic impact, Canada is situated firmly in the middle of the pack
globally when it comes to internet presence. Like so many other nations,
Canada?s transnational aspirations are deeply tied to its efforts to
integrate and grow a diverse population. Such interconnected
orientations are increasingly mediated by internet technologies. These
interconnections are materialist in nature, but deeply transnational in
both institutional and cultural construction. This leads us to the theme
of the conference: transnational materialities. While providing a
direction, this theme is not meant to be limiting, as the spaces within
it allow for reflexivity, critique, construction, interpretation, and a
myriad of other positionalities. We seek research and analysis that
finds its provenance in a multiplicity of methodologies, from
qualitative work such as textual analysis, to quantitative projects,
such as big data, to mixed methods projects that employ both kinds of
research.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
* global infrastructures, their networks,
and materialities
* the politics and policies of the internet?s
transnational and material contexts, including the materiality of
communication regulations and policies including issues around ICT4D,
community informatics, piracy and copyright, and network neutrality
* intersections of
technology/race/ethnicity/embodiment, including First Nations and
Indigenous networks and communication practices, and Francophone and
minority language cultures, politics, and challenges in the context of
transnational materialities
* the internet as a set of spatial paradigms in
material terms: information highway, data centres, cyberspace, virtual
space, net, web, network, tubes
* the materiality of new digital intermediaries such as
the Internet of Things, AI, robots/robotics, automations, algorithms,
VR, teledildonics
* contemporary intersections of gender, race, class
(etc.) and technology, including feminist interventions and backlash
movements such as GamerGate
* the role of internet technology in building affinity
movements and transcending borders, e.g., the materiality of the hashtag
across platforms, political solidarities across transnational borders,
global fan cultures and media, and the role of internet technologies in
the circulation of and resistance to ?alt-right? discourses and hate speech
* the shifting political and creative economies of
streaming media, such as YouTube celebrities; porn channels becoming
producers of mainstream television shows (xHamster) and educational
content (PornHub); assemblages of ?Internet Cats?; or weird/strange
transnationalities/materialities of the internet
* the politics of platforms as extensions and/or
erasures of the self
* social media, email, platforms, podcasts, etc. as
actors/actants in networks
* materialities of big/small/wide/deep data, its
research methods and related possibilities
15 January 2018
Submission site opens for #AoIR2018 Montreal
1 March 2018
Submissions due for PAPERS, PANELS, ROUNDTABLES and
FISHBOWLS, EXPERIMENTAL SESSIONS, and PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
15 April 2018
Nominations for Nancy Baym Book
Award<https://aoir.org/awards/nancy-baym-annual-book-award/> and Best
Dissertation Award<https://aoir.org/awards/dissertation-award/> due
5 May 2018
Notification of acceptances for presenters
20 May 2018
Applications due for conference travel SCHOLARSHIPS and for
DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM
1 August 2018
Early Bird Registration Deadline for all presenters
15 August 2018
The full #AoIR2018 Conference Program goes live.
15 August 2018
Deadline for Visa Letter requests (for presenters only ?
Visa Letters not provided for attendees)
30 September 2018
Deadline for uploading accepted, non-blind, final version
of paper and panel submissions
10 October 2018
Pre-conference Workshops
11-13 October 2018
Main Conference
Source : https://aoir.org/aoir2018/aoir2018cfp/
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