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Date: 2024-10-08 07:33:08+00:00
From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk>
Subject: Call for Chapters: The De Gruyter Handbook of Digital Cultures
Call for Chapters: The De Gruyter Handbook of Digital Cultures
Edited by: Grant Bollmer (University of Maryland, College Park),
Katherine Guinness (University of Maryland, College Park), and Yigit
Soncul (London College of Communication, University of the Arts London)
The De Gruyter Handbook of Digital Cultures seeks to provide a
comprehensive reference for the varied methodologies, historical frames,
and theoretical perspectives essential for the study of Digital Culture
today. As Digital Culture moves from a general term for the changes
wrought by digital media to an interdisciplinary intellectual subfield
guiding many curricula at countless universities around the globe,
drawing from intellectual history, sociology, anthropology, art history,
visual studies, communication, information science, and many other
fields, there is today a distinct need for a guide to specify and
outline the boundaries of this emerging area of study.
The handbook is divided into seven sections providing a range of
perspectives on a specific theme. The first section is Foundations,
offering a spectrum of concepts with which to approach Digital Culture
as a field. This section is followed by Methods, which charts modes of
study, and Histories, which explores key debates, historical moments,
and theoretical currents that shaped this interdisciplinary field. The
volume then turns to Identities associated with Digital Culture and
traces the Aesthetics endemic to it by tapping into prevalent forms
central to both the sensory experiences and artistic practices
associated with Digital Culture. Platforms provide a bridge between the
sensorial and material registers relevant to the volume by examining a
series of issues and technologies related to platforms as well as case
studies of particular examples. The final section, Materialities and
Infrastructures, attends to the physical composition and the
environmental conditions that make Digital Culture possible.
We are currently inviting submissions to round out confirmed contributions
to this volume. Contributions should follow American spelling and
punctuation and Chicago Author-Date citation style. Contributions should
ideally be between 3,000 and 4,000 words including references and should
be written for a broad university audience.
We invite submissions that would address one of the general categories
outlined above: methods, histories, identities, aesthetics, or
materialities/infrastructures of digital culture.
Topics that we are particularly interested in would include, but are not
limited to, the following:
Cognition and Digital Media
Automation
Political Economy of Digital Media
Software Studies
Cybernetics and Information Theory
Digital Intimacies
Form and “Content”
Social Media Moderation
Submissions should be sent to the editors by November 30th at
bollmer@umd.edu, gakather@gmail.com and y.soncul@lcc.arts.ac.uk
If you have questions or would like to know if a particular topic is
suitable for the handbook, please reach out to the editors.
--
Grant Bollmer (he/him/his)
Associate Research Professor
Department of Communication
University of Maryland
2130 Skinner Building
College Park, MD 20742-7635
bollmer@umd.edu
grantbollmer.com
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