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        Date: 2024-06-21 16:49:12+00:00
        From: Francesca.Benatti [she/her] <francesca.benatti@open.ac.uk>
        Subject: [CfP] Web/Comics workshop, HT'24 - deadline extended

Dear  Humanist list members,

Please find below a Call for Papers for the second Web/Comics workshop, co-
located with the Hypertext 2024 conference.

Submission deadline 13 July 2024

Web/Comics 2024: Creativity in Small Spaces is the second in a new workshop
series for the ACM Hypertext conference https://ht.acm.org/ht2024/. Web/Comics
2024 wants to investigate whether webcomics exemplify the expansion of hypertext
beyond the linearity of information processing systems into a type of
interactivity that is nonlinear (multicursal) and ludic. It uses webcomics to
explore the boundaries of hypertext, for example by assessing its utility to the
reader or user and its effects on “readers’ ongoing process of establishing
meaning and coherence. At the same time, it asks how profoundly new tools such
as text-to-image models and other forms of generative AI are altering comics
production and consumption.

The workshop will be held on 9 September in conjunction with the Hypertext 2024
conference, 10-13 September, at the University of Poznań, Poland. The workshop
will take place in a hybrid modality. While in-person attendance is preferred,
we will allow remote presentations to maximize inclusivity.

Participants are asked to submit a short lightning paper (2-4 pages)
representing current work or original thinking in this area with the intention
of encouraging interactive group discussion. The work presented should directly
engage with the hypertextual specificity of webcomics.


Links

Workshop homepage: https://ht.acm.org/ht2024/workshops/web-comics-2024-workshop-
creativity-in-small-spaces/
Submissions page: https://ht.acm.org/ht2024/workshops/web-comics-2024-workshop-
creativity-in-small-spaces/web-comics-2024-workshop-submissions/
Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ht24. Please choose
Track > Workshop - Web/Comics when submitting.

Important dates

-           Papers submission: July 13, 2024 *
-           Paper review July 14 – July 24, 2024 *
-           Notification of acceptance: July 25, 2024
-           Camera-ready paper due: August 10, 2024
-           Workshop: September 9, 2024 (afternoon session)

Topics

Submissions of original, previously unpublished papers are invited in the
following, not exhaustive, topic areas:

-           Webcomics as creative hypertext media
-           Webcomics and generative AI
-           Hypertext systems for webcomics publishing
-           Webcomics and healthcare
-           Cognitive processing, hypertext and webcomics
-           Constraint development in creative processes
-           Webcomics formats
-           Page, screen, scroll
-           Webcomics and transmedia
-           User interface in webcomics
-           Reading webcomics as hypertexts
-           Authoring webcomics
-           Crowdsourcing and crowdfunding in webcomics
-           Issues in interdisciplinary webcomics research


All the best,

Francesca Benatti, The Open University, UK
francesca.benatti@open.ac.uk

Linda Berube, City, University of London, UK
linda.berube@city.ac.uk

Ernesto Priego, City, University of London, UK
ernesto.priego.1@city.ac.uk

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Francesca Benatti (she/her/hers),
Research Fellow in Digital Humanities
Department of English and Creative Writing
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
The Open University


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