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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear CSAA list, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The deadline for the first cfp generated a strong and internationally dispersed level of interest. We are extending the deadline by 2 weeks to encourage further submissions.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We are particularly keen to see submissions from researchers working in the cognate fields of cultural studies, geography, STS, sociology, anthropology and digital humanities.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ned<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">--<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We have extended the cfp until the 15 April for any who are interested in submitting abstracts or panel proposals to this event.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Summary program details included below:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="DE">Digital Cultures: Knowledge / Culture / Technology<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">International Conference<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">Leuphana University of Lüneburg<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">19-22 September 2018, Lüneburg, Germany<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE"><a href="http://digitalculturesconference.org/">http://digitalculturesconference.org/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="DE"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="DE">Organized by the Centre for Digital Cultures, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, and the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span lang="DE"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="DE">In collaboration with:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="DE">Department of Media Studies, University of Siegen<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="DE">Berlin Institute for Empirical Research in Integration and Migration (BIM), Humboldt University of Berlin<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="DE">ephemera: theory & politics in organization
<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="DE">Meson Press <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="DE">Wednesday 19th September<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">5.00pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">Welcome by Armin Beverungen & Ned Rossiter<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">Welcome by CDC Speaker Andreas Bernard<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">Welcome by the President of Leuphana<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">5.30pm Spotlight Panel 1: What are Digital Cultures?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">Speakers: Orit Halpern (USA/CA), Felix Stalder (AU), Ravi Sundaram (IN)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">Chair: Claus Pias (DE)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">7pm Reception and Book Launches<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="DE">Thursday 20<sup>th</sup> September<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">10.00am-11.30am Concurrent Sessions 1 <o:p>
</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">11.30am-12.00am Coffee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">12.00noon-1.00pm Keynote 1: Jennifer Gabrys (UK)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">1.00pm-2.30pm Lunch<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">2.30pm-4.00pm Concurrent Sessions 2
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">4.00pm-4.30pm Coffee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">4.30pm-6.00pm Spotlight Panel 2: Race, Migration and Technologies of Prediction<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">Speakers: Nanna Heidenreich (DE), Kara Keeling (USA), Stephan Scheel (UK/DE)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">Chair: Manuela Bojadzijev (DE)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="DE">Friday 21th September<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">10.00am-11.30am Concurrent Sessions 3 <o:p>
</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">11.30am-12.00am Coffee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">12.00-1.00pm Keynote 2: Wendy Chun (USA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">1.00pm-1.30pm Lunch<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">2.30pm-4.00pm Concurrent Sessions 4
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">4.00pm-4.30pm Coffee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">4.30pm-6.00pm Concurrent Sessions 5
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">6.15pm-7.15pm Artist talk: Simon Denny (DE/NZ)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">7.30pm Conference Dinner<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="DE">Saturday 22st September<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">10.00am-11.30am Concurrent Sessions 6 <o:p>
</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">11.30am-12.00noon Coffee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">12.00noon-1.30pm Spotlight Panel 3: Algorithmic Anxieties<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span lang="DE">Speakers: Lorena Jaume-Palasí (DE), Martina Tazzioli (UK/IT), Konrad Becker (AU)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">1.30pm-2.30pm Lunch<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">2.30pm-4.00pm Concurrent Sessions 7
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">4.00pm-5.00pm Closing Panel / Discussion
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Speakers: Melissa Gregg (USA/AUS), Nathanial Tkacz (UK/AUS)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Chair: Brett Neilson (AUS)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="DE">Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">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 holds dominant sway 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 class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">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 class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">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, and transnational currents of communications, media and 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="DE"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">The conference will address and invites contributions to the following key themes which characterize the technological future-present:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="DE">Historiographies of Digital Cultures<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="DE">Environmental Media, Media Ecologies and the Technosphere<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="DE">Platforms, Commons and Organization<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="DE">Biohacking, Quantification and Data Subjectivities<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="DE">Digital Publics, Movements and Populisms<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="DE">Contemporary Futures and Anticipatory Modelling<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">Submissions of individual contributions or plenaries (3-4 speakers/discussants) are invited addressing each or a cross-section of the themes, which will be complemented by a series of keynote speakers and three spotlight
panels with invited speakers addressing key debates within and between these themes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">Deadline for submissions is 15 April 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">See the conference site for submission details.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">-- </span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Ned Rossiter<br>
Professor of Communication<br>
Institute for Culture and Society<br>
Western Sydney University<br>
Parramatta Campus<br>
Locked Bag 1797<br>
Penrith NSW 2751<br>
Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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