CFP – Digital & Analog Cultures at the Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

deadline for submissions: 
October 31, 2024
full name / name of organization: 
Southwest Popular & American Culture Conference
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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/