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3rd Global Conference Digital Memories

Monday 14th March ? Wednesday 16th March 2011
Prague, Czech Republic

Call for Papers
This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference aims
to examine, explore and critically engage with the
issues and implications created by the
massive exploitation of digital technologies for
inter-human communication and examine how on-line
users form, archive and de-/code their memories in
cybermedia environments, and how the systems used
for production influence the way the users
perceive and work with the memory. In particular
the conference will encourage equally theoretical
and practical debates which surround the cultural
contexts of memory co-/production, re-/mediation,
en-/decoding, dissemination, personal/mass
interpretation and preservation.

Papers, presentations, workshops and reports are
invited on any of the following themes:

1. Digital Personal and Community Memory
Theories and Concepts of Memory. The Digitisation
of Individual and Community Memory. Identifying
Key Features and Issues.

2. Externalization and Mediation of Memories
Memory Metaphors in the Digital Age. Web 2.0
Services as a Medium for Production/Dissemination
of Memory. Representational Principles for
Memory Recording.

3. Memory in Cybercultures and Arts
Social Networking and Fan Cultures. New Media Arts
and Memory. The Spatialization of memories in New
Media and Virtual Worlds. Digital
Media Archeology and Cyber-Arts history. Music,
History and Cultural memory.

4. Memory and Technology
The Memory of Digital Media and Systems. The
Recording Device and the User Response. Mobile
Systems. Prototyping Tools. Archeology of
Interfaces. Cloud Intelligence. Information
Architecture.

5. Archiving and Dissemination of memory Data
Digital Data Recording. Memory Restoring and
Preservation Strategies. Digital Libraries and
Archives. Database Design, Data Retrieval and
Usage. User Response and Modelling. Political,
Judicial and Social Problems with Data Ownership.

6. Uses of new media for Production of Historical
Knowledge National Identity and memory in the
Digital Age. Political uses of cybermedia for
Historical revisionism.

7. Specific Research on Community Memory
Social Issues Research. Online Ethnographic
Research. Privacy and Legal Issues in Community
Informatics. Folksonomies as Anthropological
Archives. Digital Life and Digital Death.

The Steering Group particularly welcomes the
submission of pre-formed panel proposals. 300 word
abstracts should be submitted by Friday 1st
October 2010. All submissions are minimally double
blind peer reviewed where appropriate. If an
abstract is accepted for the conference, a full
draft paper should be submitted by Friday 4th
February 2011. Abstracts should be submitted
simultaneously to the Organising Chairs; abstracts
may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats with
the following information and in this order:

a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d)
title of abstract, e) body of abstract

Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain
from using footnotes and any special formatting,
characters or emphasis (such as bold,
italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and
answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do
not receive a reply from us in a week you
should assume we did not receive your proposal; it
might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to
look for an alternative electronic route or resend.

Organising Chairs

Daniel Riha
Cyber Hub Leader, Inter-Disciplinary.Net and
Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
E-mail: [email protected]

Rob Fisher
Network Founder and Network Leader
Inter-Disciplinary.Net,
Freeland, Oxfordshire, UK
E-mail: [email protected]

The conference is part of the 'At the Interface'
programme of research projects. It aims to bring
together people from different areas and
interests to share ideas and explore various
discussions which are innovative and exciting.

All papers accepted for and presented at this
conference will be eligible for publication in an
ISBN eBook. Selected papers maybe invited
for development for publication in a themed hard
copy volume(s) or for inclusion in a new Cyber
journal (launching 2011).

For further details about the project please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/cyber/digital-memories/

For further details about the conference please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/cyber/digital-memories/call-for-papers/
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