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Call for Proposals – Digital Action: Temporality & Community<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n- DEADLINE: January 31, 2027, 11:59 PM<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Symposium dates: April 16 – 17, 2027<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\nSubmit proposal via Digital Cultures website <\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
Symposium Theme<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
This year, the Center for 21st<\/sup> Century Studies<\/a> aims to activate \u201cSlow Action\u201d \u2013 a contextually sensitive paradigm that resists efficiency in favor of collective engagement and durable communities. In line with this theme, the Digital Cultures Collaboratory is pleased to announce the 5th<\/sup> event in its annual online symposium series, organized around the theme of \u201cDigital Action: Temporality & Community.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\nIn light of the maturation and normalization of digital technologies, digital spaces have emerged as legitimate and consequential sites for community formation, participation and collective action. Moreover, these platforms simplify and facilitate forms of interaction that are otherwise difficult to establish or sustain through traditional modalities. Unique facets of these interactions include anonymous participation, connections among geographical disparate individuals, and engagement among people whose identities, interests or experiences place them at the margins of dominant social structures.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, in some cases the relationships between these communities and the platforms that facilitate their engagement are not always mutually beneficial. In many cases, the hierarchical power structure which emerges from the owner-user model present in a platform society is intrinsically adversarial by design. Thus, the digital conditions under which communities form and organize are directly shaped by privately governed infrastructures, terms of service, and content moderation practices that may be in direct conflict with the interests of the communities that they sustain. Navigating these conditions in a digital ecosystem requires more than technical proficiency \u2013 demanding critical engagement with policies, power structures, and information environments that ultimately mediate the participation in digital spaces.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our interactions within and across digital spaces also leave space for the in-between. Community can manifest within micro-interactions; social actions, platform structures, and asynchronous modes of being can have unintended consequences that can result in alternative, and ambiguous, constructions of virtual relationships. The meaning and reality of agency becomes fluid and transmutable when we dive into these sites of unarticulated possibility. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The Digital Cultures Collaboratory (DCC)<\/a> is an interdisciplinary research collaborative at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee that brings together graduate students with common interests across emerging fields of digital studies. <\/p>\n\n\n\nThe DCC\u2019s annual online symposium is a semi-formal environment for graduate students, as well as early career researchers, to present and develop concepts close to their areas of interest. We invite scholars in digital media and other interrelated disciplines to participate in 15-minute presentations hosted online via Zoom, simulcast to Twitch, and archived on YouTube. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The symposium will be held over two days (April 16th<\/sup> and 17th<\/sup>, 2027<\/strong>). Abstracts of around 500 words, as well as a short biography of the presenter(s), should be submitted via: Digital Action: Temporality & Community \u2013 CFP Form<\/a> before January 31st<\/sup>, 2027<\/strong> by 11:59PM CST. Submitters will be notified of the status of their proposals by February 28th<\/sup>, 2027<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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- DEADLINE: January 31, 2027, 11:59 PM<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Symposium dates: April 16 – 17, 2027<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\n\nSubmit proposal via Digital Cultures website <\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nSymposium Theme<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
This year, the Center for 21st<\/sup> Century Studies<\/a> aims to activate \u201cSlow Action\u201d \u2013 a contextually sensitive paradigm that resists efficiency in favor of collective engagement and durable communities. In line with this theme, the Digital Cultures Collaboratory is pleased to announce the 5th<\/sup> event in its annual online symposium series, organized around the theme of \u201cDigital Action: Temporality & Community.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In light of the maturation and normalization of digital technologies, digital spaces have emerged as legitimate and consequential sites for community formation, participation and collective action. Moreover, these platforms simplify and facilitate forms of interaction that are otherwise difficult to establish or sustain through traditional modalities. Unique facets of these interactions include anonymous participation, connections among geographical disparate individuals, and engagement among people whose identities, interests or experiences place them at the margins of dominant social structures.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, in some cases the relationships between these communities and the platforms that facilitate their engagement are not always mutually beneficial. In many cases, the hierarchical power structure which emerges from the owner-user model present in a platform society is intrinsically adversarial by design. Thus, the digital conditions under which communities form and organize are directly shaped by privately governed infrastructures, terms of service, and content moderation practices that may be in direct conflict with the interests of the communities that they sustain. Navigating these conditions in a digital ecosystem requires more than technical proficiency \u2013 demanding critical engagement with policies, power structures, and information environments that ultimately mediate the participation in digital spaces.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our interactions within and across digital spaces also leave space for the in-between. Community can manifest within micro-interactions; social actions, platform structures, and asynchronous modes of being can have unintended consequences that can result in alternative, and ambiguous, constructions of virtual relationships. The meaning and reality of agency becomes fluid and transmutable when we dive into these sites of unarticulated possibility. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\nSymposium Details<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
The Digital Cultures Collaboratory (DCC)<\/a> is an interdisciplinary research collaborative at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee that brings together graduate students with common interests across emerging fields of digital studies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The DCC\u2019s annual online symposium is a semi-formal environment for graduate students, as well as early career researchers, to present and develop concepts close to their areas of interest. We invite scholars in digital media and other interrelated disciplines to participate in 15-minute presentations hosted online via Zoom, simulcast to Twitch, and archived on YouTube. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The symposium will be held over two days (April 16th<\/sup> and 17th<\/sup>, 2027<\/strong>). Abstracts of around 500 words, as well as a short biography of the presenter(s), should be submitted via: Digital Action: Temporality & Community \u2013 CFP Form<\/a> before January 31st<\/sup>, 2027<\/strong> by 11:59PM CST. Submitters will be notified of the status of their proposals by February 28th<\/sup>, 2027<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
- Symposium dates: April 16 – 17, 2027<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n