We are pleased to announce that planning for Theorizing the Web 2012 is under way.
Find the Call for Papers here.
Follow @TtW_conf for all the latest updates.
More information at the conference website.
On April 9th, 2011, over 200 people attended the first “Theorizing the Web” conference held on the University of Maryland campus. The program consisted of 14 panels, two workshops, two symposia (one on social media’s role in the Arab revolutions, the other, a conversation with Martin Irvine, Director of the Irvine Contemporary Gallery, on social media and street art), two plenaries (by Saskia Sassen on “Digital Formations of the Powerful and the Powerless” and George Ritzer on “Why the Web Needs Post-Modern Theory”), and a keynote by Danah Boyd, Microsoft Research, on “Privacy, Publicity Intertwined.” Presenters travelled from around the world (including Hong Kong and New Zealand).
Looking forward to Theorizing the Web 2012, we will soliciting abstracts this upcoming Winter. Potential topics include:
- Augmented reality and digital dualism
- Identity, self-documentation and presentation: concerns of privacy and publicity on the Web
- Cyborgism and the technologically-mediated body (e.g., body modification)
- Political mobilization, uprisings, revolutions and riots on social media
- Social media, electoral politics and the 2012 Presidential elections
- Surveillance, wire-tapping, anonymity, pseudonymity and the Web
- Journalism, publishing, memes and content going viral.
- Literary theory, fiction/sci-fi/cyberpunk
- Epistemology of the Web: Wikipedia, Global Voices, “filter bubbles” and the prosumption of information
- Theorizing whose Web? How power and inequality (e.g., the Digital Divide) manifest on the Web
- Globalization and the Internet(s)
- Sex and sexuality in the Digital Age
- Intersections of gender, race, class, age, sexual orientation, and disability with respect to any of the above topics
