Is our emerging digital culture partly a return to practices and ways of thinking that were central to human societies before the advent of the printing press?
Henry Jenkins returns to talk about his scholarship on digital culture, founding Comparative Media Studies, and experiences as a teacher and housemaster.
Sponsored in part by CMS, ROFLCon is "Two days and two nights of the most epic internet culture conference ever assembled."
Rajini Srikanth and Vijay Prashad discuss two South Asian popular cultural responses to 9-11 and 'the war on terror': M.I.A.'s 'Born Free' music video, and the Bollywood film 'My Name is Khan'.
In the Age of Always Connect, are we witnessing a plague of oversharing? Are social networks its vectors of transmission? Is this the "Death of Shame"?
Mimi Ito, cultural anthropologist, discusses how this once marginalized popular culture came to play a major role in Japan’s identity at home and abroad.
By exploring the rich variety of otaku culture from multiple perspectives, Mimi Ito will provide fascinating insights into the present and future of cultural production and distribution in the digital age.
John Hartley on recent developments in the field of cultural and media studies, including an account of changes in the economy, culture and technology, and consequent initiatives in educational provision for the creative industries.
Drawing on her experiences working as part of collaborative research-design teams that combine art/science/design/engineering, Anne Balsamo will describe her new research on public interactives and the infrastructures of public intimacy.
As our culture becomes more diverse and changeable, cultural prediction becomes more urgent and difficult.
Emerging digital technologies are opening powerful new ways to create and even to reconceptualize the documentary film.
"Informed commentators suggest that this may be the most important gathering of humanity since the fall of the tower of Babel."
Hector Postigo's presentation develops a framework for understanding how social media’s technical feature-sets create a system of capture and conversion.
Let's talk about what it means to start reading code differently, as cultural objects and statements. Let's raise the questions that need to be raised.
Submissions accepted on a rolling basis until Friday, March 1, 2013.
