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Subject: CFP: Emerging Genres,
Forms, and Narratives in New Media Environments
From: "Miller Carolyn R." <[log in to unmask]>
Call for Papers
Emerging Genres, Forms,
Narratives—in New Media Environments
Research Symposium
http://crdm.chass.ncsu.edu/sites/symposium/
19–20 April 2013
Program in Communication,
Rhetoric, and Digital Media (CRDM)
North Carolina State
University
Submission deadline: 1
February 2013
Digital media have enabled
what impresses most observers as a dizzying
proliferation of new forms of communicative interaction
and cultural production, provoking all manner of
multimodal experimentation, artistic and entrepreneurial
innovation, adaptive construction and reconstruction,
and a good deal of just plain play. Hyperlinking,
interactivity, and crowdsourcing change our narrative
strategies and structures. Some of these new forms go
viral, some persist, some adjust incrementally, others
languish or are rapidly replaced by something else.
Scholars in multiple fields have begun to explore these
processes of emergence, innovation, and stabilization,
many of them working with the concept of genre, which
has become newly important in rhetoric, literature, game
studies, library and information science, film and media
studies, applied linguistics, and elsewhere. As social
recognitions that embed histories, ideologies,
contradictions—as sites of inventive potential—as
recurrent social actions—genres are constitutive of
culture, in Giddens’s sense. Genre systems can tell us a
great deal about social values and cultural
configurations; narratives tell us who we are and who we
want to be; rhetorical and poetic form offers
recurrence, recognition, satisfaction.
The 2013 CRDM Research
Symposium will explore through both theoretical inquiry
and case studies these processes of emergence,
innovation, and stabilization as rhetorical energy meets
the affordances and constraints of new technologies.
Issues of interest include the relationship(s) between
medium (or technological affordances) and the evolution
and stabilization of genre conventions; historical
examples of genre emergence when old media were new
(print, film, phonography, radio, television, etc.); the
re-mediation or adaptation of familiar forms and
narratives in new media; the potentialities of new
combinations of modalities, of sound and text, image and
word; the processes of global distribution, uptake, and
modification of historically and culturally situated
forms and narratives; the emergence and assimilation of
new forms and genres in education, science, religion,
and politics.
Sponsored by NC State’s
doctoral program in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital
Media, the annual CRDM Research Symposium brings
together faculty, graduate students, invited speakers,
and other participants to engage in collective inquiry
and dialogue on a topic of interdisciplinary interest.
Keynote speakers for 2013
include Janet Giltrow (University of British Columbia),
Lisa Gitelman (New York University), David Herman (Ohio
State University), and Neil Randall (University of
Waterloo Games Institute). For a full list of our
keynote and featured speakers, please see the Speakers
page.
We invite participation from
CRDM faculty and graduate students; from other
departments and programs across NC State University;
from other universities and colleges, and from
corporate, governmental, and academic institutions
throughout the Research Triangle and at the national and
international levels. We welcome two main types of
submissions: (1) traditional paper presentations, and
(2) digital projects or installations. To present a
paper, please submit a 250 word proposal by 1 February
2013 through the submission portal on the conference
website (Please note: you must have an account with the
site to submit a proposal). To present a digital
project, demonstration, or installation, please submit a
250 word proposal/description of the installation.
Additionally, please include as much detail as possible
about your space and technology requirements.
Notifications will be sent on 15 February 2013.
Joint Event with Carolina
Rhetoric Conference
The 2013 CRDM Research
Symposium will be held jointly with the annual Carolina
Rhetoric Conference (CRC), a graduate student conference
organized cooperatively by students in rhetoric at
Clemson University, the University of South Carolina,
and NC State University, and hosted this year by CRDM
students and the NC State chapter of the Rhetoric
Society of America. The CRC is open to any graduate
students interested in rhetorical studies. Several
events will be held jointly by the CRC and the CRDM
Symposium on Friday, and participants in each event will
be able to attend sessions at the other.
Publications and Media
Archives
We plan to publish selected
papers from the Symposium as an edited volume and/or
special journal issue related to the theme and to make
videos of Symposium presentations available on the CRDM
website. The CRC plans to create a podcast series. More
details will be available later.
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Carolyn R. Miller
SAS Institute Distinguished
Professor
Department of English, Campus
Box 8105
North Carolina State
University
Raleigh, NC 27695-8105
919.515.4126 voice |
919.515.1836 fax
http://english.chass.ncsu.edu/faculty_staff/crmiller
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