DISCo19: Interdisciplinary Digital Culture and Society Conference De Vere Jubilee Conference Centre, University of Nottingham, Jubilee Campus Nottingham, UK, July 9-12, 2019 |
Conference website | https://den-disco.com/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=disco19 |
Submission deadline | May 20, 2019 |
The DISCo conference gives a platform to early stage and career researchers to showcase interdisciplinary research pertaining to the digital. Interdisciplinary research takes a question common to two or more disciplines, and contributes to new insights which advance knowledge in the disciplines. DISCo focuses on the digital landscape of culture and society, how digital technologies and processes affect these areas, and how technology is in turn shaped by cultures and societies.
DISCo gives early career researchers an opportunity to cultivate their research skills through a peer reviewed system of paper submissions and presentations, workshops, poster presentations, and a range of networking opportunities. Participants may choose the type of interdisciplinary research they would like to present at the conference, and whether to do this in the format of a poster, short or long presentation, thus offering a means of participation for those at any stage of their PhD.
Submission Guidelines
The following submission categories are welcome:
- Workshops
- Posters
- Short paper: Extended abstract, 2 pages / 1k words
- Long paper: Max paper length 4000 words (excl. references)
List of Topics
Digital Culture
Traditional media’s continuous analog streams have taken a digital turn and become electronic bits of pattern, noise, signals, feedback loops, networks, clusters, interactions, reactions, and predictions. The digital may therefore be seen as a complex supplement: as something that is additive to previous forms, yet also as something that replaces them. Similarly, this same ambiguity tangles together questions of digital culture’s connections and disconnections, both in the literal and the metaphoric sense. This invites discussions about how digital technologies have the potential to disrupt, augment, or even resurrect creative work and media. Because the digital permeates virtually all forms of communication and expression, it is thus crucial to theorize, critique, explore, or (re)imagine topics where the digital intersects creative practice and form. DISCo thus invites submissions which engage with an interdisciplinary approach to understanding digital culture through topics which include, but are not limited to: creative industry, new media, electronic and media art, music and sound, narrative and storytelling forms, game design, and computational creativity.
Digital Society
Societies around the globe are adopting more and more digital devices in all areas of their life. The types of devices, functions, and services which are adopted differ widely, not only between the global North and South, East and West, but also within any one society. This changes how societies work, communicate, and interact, amongst themselves, and across geographic, linguistic, and cultural borders. Thus, societies are shaped and reshaped through the use of technology.
The Digital Society track is interested in the ways in which digital technology and society interact. Broadly, but not exclusively, aligned with the social sciences, we want to explore, in the broadest possible sense, the different ways in which societies are shaped by digital technology.
Digital Futures
Technology is pervasive, data is ubiquitous, and questions are being raised as to how our modern world will be affected by technological forces such as big data, machine learning, and robotics in our near and far futures. Our current, increasingly digital society is seeing the emerging benefits of technology as it works to solve such global contemporary issues as aging populations and sustainability, whilst also reaping the economic benefits of increased productivity and business innovation. Our digital futures necessarily span multidisciplinary fields of research as we work to tackle the problems of the future.
The Digital Futures track encourages researchers to consider and address the problems and possibilities which our current digital society provokes for our futures, so as to cultivate a digital future with opportunity for all. This track invites broad but meaningful interdisciplinary submissions which address our digital futures with an aim to recognise the challenges that lie ahead, and to disseminate the possibilities available to us via technology.
Committees
Program & Organizing Committee
- Gefion Thuermer, University of Southampton
- Ellena Parsons, University of Southampton
- Lesia Tkacz, University of Southampton
- Allison Noble, University of Southampton
Venue
The conference will be held at the De Vere Jubilee Conference Centre, University of Nottingham, Jubilee Campus, Nottingham, NG7 2TU
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to contact@den-disco.com
Sponsors
tbc