CFP – Digital & Analog Cultures at the Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
Digital & Analog Cultures
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Proposals for individual presentations, panels and roundtable discussions are now being accepted for the area of Digital and Analog Cultures at the Southwest Popular / American Culture Association Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Digital and Analog Cultures explore the values, beliefs, behaviors, creative application, methodologies and/or technologies that shape the way people interact with digital pasts, presents and futures as well as the ongoing relevance (and often resurgence) of analog media in a digital age.
Topics might include, but are not limited to:
- AI and society
- Analog pasts, presents and futures
- Big data
- Critiques of teleology and technological progress
- Data visualization
- Digital and/or analog art
- Digital and/or analog methodologies
- Digital and/or analog geographies
- Ethnographies of online communities & analog cultures
- Interfaces between analog and digital worlds
- Internet cultures
- Memes
- Piracy
- Resurgence of analog media in a digital age
- Security, privacy and surveillance
- Sensory, tactile, embodied and experiential aspects of analog technologies
- Social networks
- Virtual identities
Scholars, teachers, professionals, artists, and others interested in digital cultures are encouraged to participate. Graduate students are also particularly welcome.
Abstracts are due 10/31.
Please submit to https://swpaca.org/subject-areas/