[Isait] CFP: Critical Cyberculture Studies: Mapping an Evolving Discipline

[jeremy hunsinger]

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>Critical Cyberculture Studies: Mapping an Evolving Discipline
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>April 26  27, 2002
>University of Maryland
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>With its annual conference, the Cyberculture Working Group (CWG) seeks
>scholars from across the disciplines to examine and discuss the future of
>Cyberculture studies.  The conference will feature an opening address from
>JOAN KORENMAN, Director of the Center for Women and Information Technology
>at University of Maryland Baltimore County, and keynote speaker, DONNA
>HARAWAY, professor in the program of History of Consciousness at the
>University of California at Santa Cruz.
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>At last years conference, "Constructing Cyberculture(s): Performance,
>Pedagogy, and Politics in Online Spaces," David Silvers opening address
>reviewed the development of Cyberculture Studies, discussing the role
>Cultural Studies scholars need to play in imagining, brainstorming, and
>working toward a "Critical Cyberculture Studies."  With this years
>conference, CWG is interested in both the conceptualization and formation
>of "Critical Cyberculture Studies" and its position within the possible
>emergence of Cyberculture as an object of inquiry, field of study, or even
>as a new discipline.  Is it desirable for scholars working within
>Cyberculture for this field to emerge as a discipline, and if so, how
>should the discipline be conceptualized?   
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>Within this discussion, many points of inquiry surface: How are discourses
>of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and difference recontextualized in
>cyberspace?  What are the relationships between online communities,
>virtual identities, online political advocacy, and "real subjects" in a
>globally mediated society?  Additional questions of interest might
>include:  How do we understand the visual nature of the Internet,
>especially in relationship to art and artists using new media
>technologies?  What are the spatial effects and relations of
>cyberspace?  And, how is knowledge "grounded" in cultures that heavily
>rely on the use of electronic communication? 
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>Proposals for individual papers (15-20 minutes) and full panels (2-3
>papers plus a commentator and chair) should include a one-page abstract
>and a concise, one-page C.V. for each presenter.  The deadline for
>submissions is December 3, 2001.    
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>Please send three copies of the proposal to:
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>Donald Snyder
>2107b Holzapfel Hall
>Department of American Studies
>University of Maryland
>College Park, MD  20742
>USA
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>Or email proposal to dsnyder at otal.umd.edu
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>Co-sponsored by the Consortium on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity
>www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Colleges/ARHU/Depts/CRGE/
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>http://www.otal.umd.edu/amst/cwg
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