When:
March 13-15, 2013
Where:
Lisbon
Deadline
for submissions: October 12, 2012
This inter- and multi-disciplinaryconference aims to examine, explore and critically engage with the issues and
implications created by the massive exploitation of digital technologies for
inter-human communication and examine how online users form, archive and
de-/code their memories in cybermediaenvironments, and how the systems used for
production influence the way the users perceive and work with the memory. In
particular the conference will encourage equally theoretical and practical
debates which surround the cultural contexts of memory co-/production,
re-/mediation, en-/decoding, dissemination, personal/mass interpretation and
preservation.
Presentations, papers, workshops and
reports are invited on any of the following themes:
1. Digital
Personal and Community Memory
Theories and Concepts of Memory. The Digitisation of Individual and
Community Memory. Identifying Key Features and Issues. Inventing and
Re-inventing Historical Knowledge. The Future of Memory?
2.
Externalization and Mediation of Memories
Memory Metaphors in the Digital Age. Digital Media in the
Process of Creating the Social Memory. Representational Principles for Memory
Recording.
3. Memory
and Cultural Software
New
Interfaces. Cultural Visualizations and Mapping . The Memory of Digital Media
and Systems. The Recording Device and the User Response. Strategies for
Performing Digital Memory. Mobile Systems.
4. Memory
in Cybercultures and Arts
Fan
Cultures and Social Networking. New Media Arts and Memory. The Spatialization
of Memories in Interactive Media and Virtual Worlds.
5.
Archiving and Dissemination of Memory Data
Digital Data Recording. Memory Restoring and Preservation
Strategies. The Future of Digital Libraries and Archives. Database Design, Data
Retrieval, Usage and Preservation. Political, Judicial and Social Problems with
Data Ownership.
6. Uses of
New Media for Production of Historical Knowledge
History of Society Memory. National Identity and
Memory in the Digital Age. Political Uses of Cybermedia for Historical
Revisionism. Digital Memory and Communities of Place.
7.
Specific Research on Community Memory
Social Issues Research. Online Ethnographic Research.
Privacy and Legal Issues in Community Informatics. Folksonomies as
Anthropological Archives. Archeology of Interfaces.
300 word abstracts
should be submitted by Friday 12th October 2012. All submissions are minimally
double blind peer reviewed where appropriate. If an abstract is accepted for
the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 18th January
2013.
Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to the Organising Chairs;
abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats with the following
information and in this order:
a) author(s), b) affiliation, c)
email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract f) up to 10 key words
E-mails
should be entitled: Digital Memories 5 Abstract Submission.
Please use plain text (Times Roman
12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or
emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). 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.
Organising
Chairs
Daniel
Riha: rihad@inter-disciplinary.net
and
Rob Fisher: dm5@inter-disciplinary.net
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