Call for Proposals
International Association for the Study of Popular Music -- U.S. Branch
28 February -- 3 March 2013
Butler School of Music, University of Texas
Austin, Texas
Proposal Deadline: 1 November 2012
Crossover stars, vampires and zombies, gender-bending divas and divos, international sensations who truck cultural ideas across borders: popular music and culture are full of performers and characters who move through and effectively occupy zones of "in-betweenness," carrying signifiers of more than one identity at a time while fully embodying none. In light of the many pop culture projects that inhabit these less-definite stations and/or spread across and blur boundaries, the 2013 IASPM-US Conference in Austin, TX, will explore the ideas of liminality & borderlands in popular music, focusing on those things (artists, genres, textures, developments, etc.) that are "neither" and "both" at the same time.
Deadline for proposals is Thursday, November 1. Please submit proposals to iaspmus2013@gmail.com. Individual presenters should submit a paper title, 250-word abstract, and author information including full name, institutional affiliation, email address and a one-page c.v. All conference participants must be registered IASMP-US members.
For more information, go to http://iaspm-us.net/conferences/ or send email inquiries to Anthony Kwame Harrison, program committee chair, at kwame@vt.edu.
Youth 2.0: Connecting, Sharing and Empowering?
Affordances, Uses and Risks of Social Media
20-23 March 2013, Antwerp, BELGIUM
Abstracts due 30 November 2012
UCSIA & MIOS, University of Antwerp, are pleased to announce the organisation of an international, multidisciplinary workshop on young people’s uses of social media in general and social network sites in particular.
Contributions from a wide range of theoretical and methodological perspectives and from diverse scientific fields are welcomed. Next to individual paper submissions, proposals for organized panel sessions will be taken into consideration.
This international event will address a number of relevant questions related to the use of social media by children, adolescents and young adults. Keynote presentations and parallel sessions center around four main topics:
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Identity construction (e.g. self-disclosure, impression management, privacy)
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Social relations (e.g. social capital, social engagement, cyberbullying)
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Interests at stake (e.g. social media marketing, advergames, viral marketing)
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Supporting and empowering (e.g. media/digital literacy, online counseling, parental mediation).
For a more detailed overview of questions and issues that will be covered, check our website: http://www.ua.ac.be/youth2.0
Confirmed keynote speakers are:
Nicole Ellison, PhD, assoc. professor with the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media at Michigan State University.
Ola Erstad, PhD, full professor at the Institute for Educational Research, University of Oslo.
Mariann Hardey, PhD, assoc. director of the Centre for Communication Science, Durham Business School.
Jochen Peter, PhD, full professor at ASCoR, Center for research on Children, Adolescents and the Media, University of Amsterdam.
Sabine Trepte, PhD, professor at the Hamburg Media School, University of Hamburg.
Submission
The submission deadline (abstract) is November 30th 2012.
Paper abstracts or panel sessions can be submitted at: http://www.ua.ac.be/youth2.0
Selected papers will be presented in panel sessions. A selection of papers will be considered for publication in a peer-reviewed book volume, published by an international renowned publisher.
Practical information
Venue: University of Antwerp, City Campus, Hof van Liere, Antwerp, Belgium
Date: 20 - 22 March 2013
Participation fee: 100 euro (documentation, meals and conference dinner included).
Contact:
Barbara Segaert (UCSIA, barbara.segaert@ua.ac.be)
Michel Walrave (MIOS, michel.walrave@ua.ac.be)
Website: http://www.ua.ac.be/youth2.0
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