[Commlist] cfp: Digital⇌Culture 2020 Conference

Digital⇌Culture 2020 Conference - CALL FOR PAPERS

https://digitalcultureconference.wordpress.com/

A one-day conference hosted by the Digital Culture Research Network, and 
supported by the Midlands4Cities DTP (M4C) Cohort Development Fund

Date: Friday 1st May 2020

Venue: University of Nottingham

Abstract Submission Deadline: Friday 14th February 2020

The Digital Culture Research Network is pleased to open the call for 
papers for our third annual conference: ‘Digital⇌Culture 2020’.

This year’s theme of ‘Boundaries’ encompasses the varied means by which 
digital technologies challenge, perpetuate or instantiate margins and 
limits. Despite the potential to transform notions of accessibility, the 
embodied realities of digital culture are subject to geopolitical, 
cultural, or ethical limitations. Digital platforms create new avenues 
for self-representation, and the boundary between our digital selves and 
our embodied selves ‘IRL’ are becoming increasingly porous (if they were 
ever really separate at all). The public/private binary is blurred: 
these identities can be censored by the platform or the state, and have 
their data privacy violated. In the era of the “long tail,” concepts of 
cultural fringes or margins are becoming problematized and objects of 
academic study shun any designation as “high” or “low” culture. The 
field of digital cultures also presents new challenges to researchers’ 
ethical boundaries.

Submission

For this one-day conference, we invite researchers from a diverse range 
of disciplines, particularly those early in their careers, to present 
theoretical and empirical research related, but not limited, to the 
following topics:

-Geopolitical contexts of digital technologies
-Methodological and ethical challenges posed by digital culture research
-Data privacy and digital surveillance
-Creative practice and/in digital technologies
-Moderation, censorship and regulation of the Internet
-Identity and its digital mediations
-Embodiment and the Digital
-Digital trash, junk and rubbish
-Changing digital research practice

In order to encourage proposals from doctoral researchers, up to ten 
joint-travel/accommodation grants are available to be awarded to 
successful proposals. Further details below.

Submissions should follow the format below and be submitted to 
(digitalcultureconference /at/ gmail.com) by 23:00 GMT on Friday 14th February 
2020.

-Paper Title
-Speaker Name
-Speaker Contact Email
-Abstract (up to 250 words outlining the paper's main arguments, 
methods, and relevance to the conference theme)
-Speaker Biography (up to 100 words)
-Keywords (3 terms relevant to the paper)

Funding
This year, we are pleased to offer the following grant opportunities:

A. 10 grants of one night’s accommodation and £50 towards travel

This grant is open to all doctoral applicants, but at least five of the 
grants are reserved for non-M4C-funded applicants based at one of the 
DTP’s eight institutions:

-University of Nottingham
-Nottingham Trent University
-Birmingham City University
-University of Birmingham
-De Montfort University
-University of Leicester
-University of Warwick
-Coventry University

Those currently funded by M4C are not eligible to apply for this grant.

B. 2 grants of one night’s accommodation and £100 towards travel
These two grants are specifically reserved for international researchers 
in order to facilitate them with the higher cost of coming from abroad 
to present a paper at the conference.

Both grants will only be offered to doctoral students whose papers have 
been accepted for the conference.

If you wish to apply for a grant, please complete a Grant Application 
Form (available at http://bit.ly/digitalculturegrant) and submit it with 
your abstract. Grants will be awarded on the basis of the conference 
organising committee’s collective consideration of submitted applications.


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