Since the Material World Blog began, the digital media landscape changed dramatically. In social media terms, we have moved from Friendster, MySpace and Orkut to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and WhatsApp, with a range of other digital, mobile and social media becoming embedded within many people’s everyday lives around the world. TheseContinue Reading
The most recent issue of the open-source journal Museum Anthropology Review is focussed on digital media and the return of cultural knowledge and patrimony from museums to source communities, with an emphasis on current collaborative projects (including some by your friendly neighborhood Material World editors and contributors). Check it out! MuseumContinue Reading
Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia, 21-23 November 2012 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Jussi Parikka – Reader, Winchester School of Art Christian McCrea – Program Director for Games, RMIT University Anna Munster – Associate Professor at the College of Fine Arts, UNSW DESCRIPTION Code can be defined in two distinct but related ways: asContinue Reading
The 2013 Neil Postman Graduate Conference New York University | February 22, 2013 Website: http://postmanconference.org/ Download Call for Papers 2013 *CFP Deadline: November 18, 2012 *Continue Reading
Proposals Due 1 October 2012 Conference Date: October 18-20, 2013 Conference Location: University of Western Ontario (Faculty of Information and Media Studies and Centre for Theory and Criticism), London, Ontario Canada Website: http://appsandaffect.blogspot.ca/Continue Reading
China New Media Communication Association Annual Conference, Macao International Conference Macao SAR, China, Dec 6 – 8, 2012 Conference Website: http://www.umac.mo/fsh/comm/newmediaconference/en/en.htm2012 Abstracts & final papers should be submitted via e-mail to the following address: 2012newmediacon@gmail.com; the abstract submission deadline is July 15, 2012 The 2012 China New Media Communication Association AnnualContinue Reading
Special themed issue of Culture Theory and Critique Editors Ilana Gershon, Indiana University (igershon@indiana.edu) and Joshua A. Bell, NMNH, Smithsonian Institution (bellja@si.edu) Outside of the West, communities have traditionally innovated and engaged different forms of media, whether using textiles, dog’s teeth, valuables or abacus. These myriad forms remain integral toContinue Reading