UPDATE: Electronic Communication & Culture (11/3/06; PCA/ACA, 4/4/07-4/7/07)
CULTURES OF NOISE:
Communicating Error in an Information Age
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
National Conference
Boston, MA
April 4-7, 2007
UPDATED Deadline for Submissions: November 3, 2006
The Electronic Communication and Culture Area
of the Popular Culture Association is soliciting proposals
for panels and individual papers on the theme of error/noise
in a cybernetic society.
In a culture of information, "noise" marks a rupture
of signification that lays bare the dispersive and dissipative
features of digital networks. In what ways are "error" and