[Air-L] CFP: Spectator (Small Media and Everyday Life: Digital Media Beyond Big Data)

[Anirban Kapil Baishya]

Hello All,
I am currently editing an issue of *Spectator*, University of Southern
California, Cinema and Media Studies Division's journal (
http://cinema.usc.edu/mediastudies/spectator/index.cfm). The issue is
titled "Small Media and Everyday Life: Digital Media Beyond Big Data".

Please find the CFP pasted below:

*Call for Papers*



*Small Media and Everyday Life: Digital Media Beyond Big Data*

*Volume 38.2 and Fall 2019*


Contemporary discussions on digital media and its effects often tend to
focus on “big data” as the primary locus of conversation. Such discussions
tend to range from the uncritical embracement of the possibilities of big
data in areas such as the advertising and entertainment industries, to
doomsday scenarios of surveillance and privacy risks under the increasing
interconnections between corporate and state structures. This focus on big
data structures often tends to overlook the numerous smaller changes that
have taken place in social and communication practices with the advent of
digital media. Such changes involve the emergence of “smaller” media forms
that integrate themselves into practices of everyday life through
routinized usage and habit. One caveat here: “smaller” media is not a
judgment on the scale of the media, or their structural complexity, but
rather serves as a pointer to the forms of their adoption and adaptations
that elude the “big” sweep of corporate and state structures. While such
media may indeed be produced by corporations and conglomerations, they may
be used in unintended and even subversive ways by their target audiences.



This issue of *Spectator* dedicates itself to such forms of adaptations,
repurposing and habit that run counter to the utilitarian motivations
behind the production and distribution of media forms. How have digital
media affected our contemporary conversation styles, both online and
offline? In what ways has the integration of network communication devices
in everyday life changed our experience of urban spaces? How have online
shopping portals and apps changed our practices as consumers? What is the
impact of new media on contemporary forms of religiosity and
faith-practices? What changes in film and televisual media consumption have
taken place with the emergence of both legal streaming options, and
underground access through torrent-sites and illegal streaming? This issue
is also interested in works that look media practices beyond the West,
especially those that diverge from seemingly “normative” uses of media
through re-assemblage and tactical usage. Works that interrogate digital
media forms through an integration of theory and practice are also
encouraged.



*Deadline for Submission: November 27, 2018*



*Spectator* is a biannual publication and submissions that address the
above topics in the following areas are now invited for submission. *Possible
topics* include, but need not be limited to:



   - *Social media, cellphones and conversation style*



   - *Navigation Apps and everyday life in the city*



   - *“Binge watching” and the new spectator/cinephile.*



   - *Dating Apps and digital intimacy*



   - *Sexting, Camsites and digital-smut*



   - *Digital Media and the organization of protests*



   - *Social media and virtual communities*



   - *Habit, routine and the new-media ecology*



   - *Digital Media, Space and Temporality*



   - *Surveillance and self-tracking practices*



   - *Digital technology and health*



   - *Smart technology, domesticity and the “connected home”*





Include your contact information

   - Name
   - Address
   - Phone
   - E-mail



Manuscripts to be considered for publication should be sent to:



Anirban K. Baishya, Issue Editor

The Bryan Singer Division of Cinema & Media Studies

School of Cinematic Arts, Room 320

University of Southern California

Los Angeles, CA 90089-2211



Email: baishya at usc.edu



Submissions should be e-mailed directly to the issue editor. Manuscripts
should include the title of the contribution and the name(s) of authors. As
well as the postal address, e-mail address, and phone numbers for author
who will work with the editor on any revisions. All pages should be
numbered consecutively. Contributions should not be more than 5,000 words.
Please include a brief abstract for publicity. Authors should also include
a brief biographic entry.



Articles submitted to the Spectator should not be under consideration by
any other journal.



Book Reviews may vary in length from 300 to 1,000 words. Please include
title of book, retail price and ISBN at the beginning of the review.



Forum or Additional Section contributions can include works on new archival
or research facilities or methods as well as other relevant works related
to the field.



*Electronic Submissions and Formatting.* Authors should send copies of
their work via e-mail as electronic attachments. Please keep backup files.
Files should be Microsoft Word in PC or Mac format, depending on the
editor's preference. Endnotes should conform to the Chicago Manual of Style.



Upon acceptance, a format guideline will be forwarded to all contributors
as to image and text requirements.



*Current Board for Spectator*



Founding Editor                                              Marsha Kinder

Managing Editor                                             William
Whittington

Issue Editor                                                     Anirban K.
Baishya

Contributors                                                    TBD



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Best,
Anirban Baishya
Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow
Division of Cinema and Media Studies
School of Cinematic Arts
University of Southern California