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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">DIGITAL CULTURES: KNOWLEDGE / CULTURES / TECHNOLOGY
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">International Conference <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Co-organized by the Centre for Digital Cultures (CDC), Leuphana University and the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS), Western Sydney University, as part of the
<a href="https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/knowledge_culture_series">Knowledge/Culture Series</a><br>
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Germany <br>
19-22 September, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://digitalculturesconference.org/">https://digitalculturesconference.org/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><br>
Initiated by Armin Beverungen (CDC) & Ned Rossiter (ICS)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Organizing Steering Committee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">CDC: Armin Beverungen, Timon Beyes, Lisa Conrad, Mathias Denecke, Randi Heinrichs, Laura Hille, Claus Pias, Daniela Wentz<br>
ICS: Ilia Antenucci, Helen Barcham, Philippa Collin, Gay Hawkins, Tsvetelina Hristova, Liam Magee, Brett Neilson, Ned Rossiter, Teresa Swist<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Submissions are now open and will close on 30 March, 2018. <br>
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Please find the call below and visit our website for information on detailed topics, invited speakers and submission guidelines.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The advent and ubiquity of digital media technologies precipitate a profound transformation of the spheres of knowledge and circuits of culture. Simultaneously, the background operation of digital systems in routines of daily
life increasingly obscures the materiality and meaning of technologically induced change. Computational architectures of algorithmic governance prevail across a vast and differentiated range of institutional settings and organizational practices. Car assembly
plants, warehousing, shipping ports, sensor cities, agriculture, government agencies, university campuses. These are just some of the infrastructural sites overseen by software operations designed to extract value, coordinate practices and manage populations
in real-time. While Silicon Valley ideology prevails over the design and production of the artefacts, practices and institutions that mark digital cultures, the architectures and infrastructures of its operations are continually rebuilt, hacked, broken and
maintained within a proliferation of sites across the globe.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">To analytically grasp the emerging transformations requires media and cultural studies to inquire into the epochal changes taking place with the proliferation of digital media technologies. While in many ways the digital turn
has long been in process, its cultural features and effects are far from even or comprehensively known. Research needs to attend to the infrastructural and environmental registrations of the digital. Critical historiographies attend to the world-making capacities
of digital cultures, situating the massive diversity of practices within specific technical systems, geocultural dynamics and geopolitical forces. At the same time the contemporaneity of digital cultures invites new methods that draw on digital media technologies
as tools, and, more importantly, that engage the intersection between media technologies, cultural practices and institutional settings. New organizational forms in digital economies, new forms of association and sociality, and new subjectivizations generated
from changing human-machine configurations are among the primary manifestations of the digital that challenge disciplinary capacities in terms of method. The empirics of the digital, in other words, signals a transversality at the level of disciplinarity,
methods and knowledge production.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">This conference brings together research concerned with studying digital cultures and the ways that digital media technologies transform contemporary culture, society and economy. The hosts specifically encourage approaches
to digital cultures emerging from media and cultural theory, along with transnational currents of communications, science and technology studies. We also explicitly invite researchers from digital humanities, digital anthropology, digital sociology, gender
studies, postcolonial studies, urban studies, architecture, organization studies, environmental studies, geography and computer science to engage in this endeavor to develop a critical humanities and cultural studies alert to the operations, materialities
and politics of digital cultures.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Invited speakers include:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Simon Denny, Artist, Berlin/Auckland<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Jennifer Gabrys, Goldsmiths, University of London<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Orit Halpern, Concordia University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Nanna Heidenreich, </span><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Internationale Filmschule Köln
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Kara Keeling, University of Southern California<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Felix Stalder, Zurich University of the Arts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Ravi Sundaram, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">With more coming soon, including details on spotlight sessions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Conference themes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">[Histories] Historiographies of Digital Cultures<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">[Ecologies] Environmental Media, Media Ecologies and the Technosphere<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">[Economies] Platforms, Economies and Organization<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">[Subjectivities] Biohacking, Quantification and Data Subjectivities<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">[Collectivities] Digital Publics, Movements and Populisms<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">[Futures] Contemporary Futures and Anticipatory Modelling<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Organized with the following partners:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Department of Media Studies, University of Siegen<br>
Berlin Institute for Empirical Research in Integration and Migration (BIM), Humboldt University of Berlin<br>
ephemera: theory & politics in organization<br>
Meson Press<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Ned Rossiter<br>
Professor of Communication<br>
Institute for Culture and Society / School of Humanities and Communication Arts<br>
Western Sydney University<br>
Parramatta Campus<br>
Locked Bag 1797<br>
Penrith NSW 2751<br>
Australia</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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