InDigital V – Call for Abstracts

Call for Abstracts

Abstract Submissions Closed

Submissions Due December 2, 2024

InDigital is currently accepting abstracts for conference presentations. Submissions are due Monday, December 2. Fill out the abstract submission form to apply.

Organizers are interested in a variety of topics and approaches covering media production, distribution, consumption, access, and archiving. Focus may be on a particular technology or platform, or how they interact to form complex media ecologies. We are especially receptive to submissions about:

Accessibility and critical disability studies
Data sovereignty
Challenges of media work in a changing climate
Indigenous media and AI, algorithms, surveillance, and censorship
Media making in precarious funding/support landscapes

Other topics may include, but are not limited to, how different groups may engage media as they:

Watch, comprehend, create, and otherwise fashion texts, images, and memes on a variety of devices and platforms
Build websites to archive cultural materials
Construct social networks in cyberspace among themselves and other groups
Utilize cell phones
Revitalize languages
Encourage intergenerational dialogue and cultural transmission
Document events for political leverage
Produce media collaboratively with non-Indigenous partners
Explore new marketing or consumption opportunities
Innovate in conceptualizing cultural identity through media

For past conferences, visit InDigital IV website from 2023. Contact Amalia Córdova, supervisory curator of world cultures, at CordovaA@si.edu for more information.