[Air-L] CFP Panel on Language, Play and Performance at AoIR 10.0 - In Memory of Professor Brenda Danet

[Oren Golan]

CFP Panel on Language, Play and Performance at AoIR 10.0 - In Memory of 
Professor Brenda Danet





This is a call for participation in a panel organized in honor of the Late 
Professor Brenda Danet. Professor Danet was a leading scholar and pioneer in 
the field of CMC and a key member of AoIR. In her honor we propose to 
organize a panel focusing on LANGUAGE, PLAY AND PERFORMANCE.

Through this panel, we would like to deepen our understanding of Play and 
Performance over the Internet by exploring various expressions. Nowadays, 
people play with typography and orthography, with their identities 
(nicknames, role-playing), with language, and with cultural content, from 
real-world experience to fantasy, folklore, the comics, and films. Aspects 
of "performance" traditionally associated with genres of face-to-face 
communication such as storytelling, joke-telling, verbal dueling, etc., are 
flourishing on the Net in its vast social spaces such as on social network 
services (e.g. Facebook, Myspace), video postings (e.g. You Tube), forums, 
chat rooms, communications between multi-user gamers and others.



If you are interested in participating in such a panel at the upcoming AoIR 
in October 2009, please contact Dr. Oren Golan. Email: 
msogolan at mscc.huji.ac.il