[Air-L] NeMLA 2017 CFP: Click and Read: Computation and Text Analysis in the Post-print Era

[Klobucar, Philip Andrew]

New Session Seeks Papers for NeMLA's 2017 Annual Convention in Baltimore,
Maryland (Marriott Waterfront, March 23-26, 2016)



*CFP: Click and Read: Computation and Text Analysis in the Post-print
Era***Call for Papers****

A significant pedagogical challenge following the recent shift from print
to digital-media formats is the need to develop and maintain critical
reading strategies for online literary analysis. Because traditional
approaches to literature and professional writing were developed to engage
different genres of print-based texts, today’s university educators find
them pointedly lacking when applied to digital reading environments. This
discrepancy appears simultaneously at both a practical and cognitive level.
Students reading electronic texts, studies show, are more likely to avoid
active note-taking, highlighting key passages or comparing multiple works.
As a result, higher levels of comprehension, including remembering crucial
premises and text-specific-terminologies, are adversely affected.

This panel seeks papers currently and critically engaged with contemporary
theories of reading and reading analysis in our current post-print era.
Presentations are encouraged to look into how literary theory along with
any corresponding methodologies for interpretation and assessment are
responding to electronic modes of distribution. Special consideration will
be given to papers able to examine the advanced development and use of
computer assisted text analysis (CATA) software in the practice and
teaching of literary criticism.

*Suggested Topics/Areas of Study Include:*

   - *Digital or screen-based reading practices and their assessment in the
   Humanities  *
   - *The use of new media technologies, mobile computing, AR and VR and
   tablet/e-reader devices to develop innovative narratologies and literary
   theories*
   - *Current developments in the use of Computer Assisted Text Analysis
   Tools in the classroom and to cultivate new humanities curricula*
   - *New reading practices in the digital humanities and the influence of
   computational reason and coding practices on literary studies*
   - *Live Coding: Computation and Performance in the classroom*


Session Chair Andrew Klobucar (New Jersey Institute of Technology)

Abstract/Proposal Submission Guidelines:

Please follow NeMLA’s online submission system: Register for your own
account on the NeMLA site (http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/about/members.html)
and then submit your paper proposal/abstract at this link:
https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/16482.

The Deadline for Abstract/Proposal Submission is 30 September 2016

Please email klobucar at njit.edu directly for more information


Andrew Klobucar, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Associate Chair
Department of Humanities
New Jersey Institute of Technology
332 Cullimore Hall
973.596.5724
klobucar at njit.edu