Call: Chapters for The De Gruyter Handbook of Digital Cultures

Call for Chapters

The De Gruyter Handbook of Digital Cultures
http://commlist.org/archive/all/2024-all/msg01481.html

Edited by:
Grant Bollmer (University of Maryland, College Park)
Katherine Guinness (University of Maryland, College Park)
Yigit Soncul (London College of Communication, University of the Arts London)

Deadline for submissions: November 30, 2024

The De Gruyter Handbook of Digital Cultures seeks to provide a comprehensive reference for the varied methodologies, historical frames, and theoretical perspectives essential for the study of Digital Culture today. As Digital Culture moves from a general term for the changes wrought by digital media to an interdisciplinary intellectual subfield guiding many curricula at countless universities around the globe, drawing from intellectual history, sociology, anthropology, art history, visual studies, communication, information science, and many other fields, there is today a distinct need for a guide to specify and outline the boundaries of this emerging area of study. The handbook is divided into seven sections providing a range of perspectives on a specific theme. The first section is Foundations, offering a spectrum of concepts with which to approach Digital Culture as a field. This section is followed by Methods, which charts modes of study, and Histories, which explores key debates, historical moments, and theoretical currents that shaped this interdisciplinary field. The volume then turns to Identities associated with Digital Culture and traces the Aesthetics endemic to it by tapping into prevalent forms central to both the sensory experiences and artistic practices associated with Digital Culture. Platforms provide a bridge between the sensorial and material registers relevant to the volume by examining a series of issues and technologies related to platforms as well as case studies of particular examples. The final section, Materialities and Infrastructures, attends to the physical composition and the environmental conditions that make Digital Culture possible.

We are currently inviting submissions to round out confirmed contributions to this volume. Contributions should follow American spelling and punctuation and Chicago Author-Date citation style. Contributions should ideally be between 3,000 and 4,000 words including references and should be written for a broad university audience. We invite submissions that would address one of the general categories outlined above: methods, histories, identities, aesthetics, or materialities/infrastructures of digital culture.

Topics that we are particularly interested in would include, but are not limited to, the following:

Cognition and Digital Media
Automation
Political Economy of Digital Media
Software Studies
Cybernetics and Information Theory
Digital Intimacies
Form and “Content”
Social Media Moderation

Submissions should be sent to the editors by November 30th at (bollmer /at/ umd.edu), (gakather /at/ gmail.com) and (y.soncul /at/ lcc.arts.ac.uk). If you have questions or would like to know if a particular topic is suitable for the handbook, please reach out to the editors.

If you have questions or would like to know if a particular topic is suitable for the handbook, please reach out to the editors.


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