[Isait] grad conference: Transparencies: Technology, Culture, Communication

[jeremy hunsinger]

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> CALL FOR PAPERS:
> Transparencies:  Technology, Culture, Communication
> A graduate student conference
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> Friday, November 1 and Saturday November 2, 2002
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> Transparencies, a graduate student conference at the University of
> Texas at Austin, is an invitation to explore the implications of both
> historically significant and recently emergent technologies from a
> critical and cultural perspective.  In the beginning of the 21st
> century, our constant interactions with technology have become nearly
> transparent and problematic in new ways.  New forms of transnational
> and transcultural identity are supported by global flows of culture.
> Provincialism and isolationism emerge in different guises.  Cultural
> critique and journalism take on new paths and responsibilities.
> Vital data flows and banal spam fill "superhighways" running
> alongside persistent social and digital divides.  How do these
> elements interact, and how are they contingent on each other?  How do
> technologies participate in these "transparencies" that help us
> negotiate the micro- and macro-conflicts and contradictions of
> everyday life?
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> The conference is an opportunity for scholars in all disciplines
> engaged with issues of technology and culture to come together and
> share their ideas on these and other topics.  In addition to panels,
> the conference will include a keynote address, a reception and other
> unstructured time to facilitate the exchange of ideas.  As a regional
> conference we invite our colleagues from across Texas and the
> surrounding south-central US states, as well as from northern Mexico,
> to participate.
>
> Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
> _ Communication technology and the formation of identity (gender,
> ethnicity, nation)
> _ Technologies on the border
> _ Historiographic accounts of media technologies
> _ Transcultural identity and uses of technology
> _ Media, technology, citizenship
> _ Communication technology and discourse
> _ DIY Communication: Media sabotage and culture jamming
> _ Television and Radio's future and their past
> _ Failed technologies of culture and communication
> _ "Non-traditional" technologies of communication
> _ Popular music and technology
> _ Personal computer culture
> _ Cinema as cultural technology
> _ Video games, computer games
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> Deadline for Abstracts: Friday, June 14.  Abstracts should be 300
> words or less.  Abstracts may be emailed, or mailed if postmarked no
> later than June 14.  Electronic submissions encouraged. Participants
> will be notified of acceptance or rejection by July 19.  Panel
> submissions cannot be considered.  A draft of the conference program
> will be made available online.
>
> Complete papers must be submitted by the September 15, 2002.  Papers
> submitted by the September 15 deadline will be eligible to compete
> for a "top paper" award of $500, sponsored by the Technology and
> Information Policy Institute.
>
> For more information or for paper submission, please contact
> Coordinating Committee
> Transparencies
> Department of Radio-Television-Film
> CMA 6.118
> The University of Texas at Austin
> Austin, TX  78712
> Email:  transpar at uts.cc.utexas.edu
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> Sponsored by the Department of Radio-TV-Film, Technology and
> Information Policy Institute, and Graduate Students in Radio-TV-Film.
>
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