CFP: CULTURES OF NOISE: Communicating Error in an Information Age (Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference)
Boston, MA
April 4-7, 2007
Deadline for Submissions: November 1, 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 “noise” structured in popular culture as a threat to social and cultural forms? How might “aberrant” communicative
practices suggest a poetics of noise?
Possible topics include:
--“Web Junk” & “Viral Videos”
--Spam
--Phishing
--Denial of Service Attacks
--Online Jihadists
--YTMND & Other Web Fads
--The PATRIOT Act
--Flash Mobbing
--Blog Hoaxes
--“Something Awful”
Submit a 250 word maximum proposal to:
Mark Nunes, Chair
Department of English, Technical Communication, and Media Arts
Southern Polytechnic State University
1100 South Marietta Parkway
Marietta, GA 30060-2896
mnunes@spsu.edu
