CALL FOR PAPERS

INTERNATIONAL NEW MEDİA CONFERENCE 2012
Istanbul, Turkey  17-19 Oct, 2012

Istanbul University

Call for Papers

The deadline for abstract submissions until September 14, 2012.

Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Prof. Dr. Paul Levinson, Fordham University.

The principal objectives of International New Media Conference are:

• to develop critical frameworks and methodologies that enable the reception, consumption and impact of new technologies, specifically the conference focuses on human-computer interaction, computer-mediated communication, social interaction and networking, organizational contexts and cultural contexts.


• to contextualize the environments, discourses, ideologies, and uses of new media technologies, and to address the specific implications of the increasing convergence of media forms


• to analyze the conditions of emergence of new media technologies, and the development of new cultural forms and media productions


• to promote discussion and analysis of the creative and educational potentials of those technologies, and to contextualise those cultural practices within wider cultural and political debates.


• to attempt to reveal inter- and intra-disciplinary research of new media texts and technologies.

The themes of the conference will cover but not be limited to:

1.     The mobilization of local, national, and transnational social movements through the use of social network sites, tweets, texting, and other forms of networked and instantaneous communication forms.
2.     The rhetoric of digital equality and unequal access to digital culture: class, race, region, and gender, and access to social media and digital communication technologies.
3.       The impact of digital culture on collective memory, conceptions of the historical, historical research methods, and the writing of history.
4.       The role of history in digital humanities: archival practices, collecting history online, historical text mining, and digital storytelling.
Details for attending, for paying registration, and for submitting abstracts and papers are now available on the website:

http://www.inm-c.info/

To submit your papers to this conference, you must first log into the INMC2012 site or create a login account  

For more information, please contact inmconference2012@gmail.com

Seçkin Özmen, Ph.D.

Istanbul University

School of Communication

Vezneciler-34452

Istanbul-Turkey

Phone:+902124400000(12642)