[Air-L] CfP Digital Transformers Symposium, Manchester, May 2013

[Joanne Bates]

Dear all,

Please see the following call for papers for the forthcoming Digital
Transformers Symposium.

Best wishes,
Jo

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*Digital Transformers Symposium, Manchester, 23rd May 2013*

The AHRC funded *Digital Transformers Symposium* (
http://www.digitaltransformersnetwork.com) is a one day event aimed at
postgraduate students and early career researchers in the Humanities on the
methodological and conceptual approaches and techniques required for the
study of digital data and digitally mediated environments. The event will
combine presentations and workshops, giving participants hands on
experience of new techniques for working with digital data and space for
discussion about the methodological, conceptual and disciplinary challenges
these emerging techniques and practices are generating.

Ways of understanding and analysing digital data and digitally mediated
environments are varied and complex. The skills required are increasingly
specialised and do not necessarily conform to any particular theoretical or
epistemological perspective. At the same time, an expanding set of broadly
applicable concepts, techniques and methods are emerging that can be used
across, and tailored to, the needs of multiple disciplines in the
Humanities. Examples include data visualisation techniques, text and data
mining, and network analysis, and theories and concepts around the
socio-cultural, socio-political and cognitive processes that affect the use
and interpretation of digital data and digitally mediated environments.

Key symposium themes to be explored therefore include:

   - Key concepts and theories that inform the study of digital data and
   digitally mediated environments.
   - The wider socio-political, philosophical and cultural concepts/issues
   surrounding these.
   -  Methodological approaches to the study of digital data and digitally
   mediated environments.
   - Particular techniques and tools that can be used to study, analyse,
   and represent digital data and digitally mediated environments.

The symposium organisers invite papers from research students and early
career researchers in the Humanities that explore these, and related,
themes.

*Submission information*

Abstracts (maximum 300 words) for *15 minute* research and position papers
related to the symposium themes are requested by the deadline of *28
February 2013* to *digitaltransformersnetwork at gmail.com*

Proposals for panels of 3-4 speakers are also welcome. A proposal should
have three to four papers and should consist of a panel title and short
framing text, and abstracts for all the papers with paper titles and
authors. Proposals are requested by the deadline of *28 February 2013* to *
digitaltransformersnetwork at gmail.com*

*Notification of acceptance: 31 March 2013*

A small amount of funding is available on a competitive basis to cover
travel and subsistence costs for participants unable to source funding from
elsewhere. Applications for funding will open in March 2013.

*Organisers and funders*

The Digital Transformers Symposium is funded by a Collaborative Skills
Development training grant awarded by the AHRC. It is being co-organised by
postgraduate students and early career researchers from Manchester
Metropolitan University's Department of Information and Communications and
the University of Sheffield's Information School.

*For further information please see **
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or contact us at
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Jo Bates
Lecturer

Room 236, Information School, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S1 4DP,
United Kingdom
Email: jo.bates at sheffield.ac.uk
Phone: 0114 2222648