[Air-L] CfP EASA2022: abstracts on streaming platforms, algorithmic culture welcome

[Marie Hermanova]

*apologies for crossposting*

Dear colleagues,

We are organizing a panel at the conference of European Association of
Social Anthropologists in Belfast, Ireland, July 26 - 29 2022  - it's a
hybrid event, so online presentation is possible. If you are interested
in the impact of streaming platforms on consumption,  in the explorations
of algorithmic culture or in the role of influencers and creators as
curators of taste, this panel could be of interest to you.

Description of the panel and link to submission are below. The deadline for
submissions is 21 March 2022. We are looking forward to reading your
abstracts!

Kind regards,

Marie


P045: What it means to be cool? Ethnographic explorations of hierarchies of
taste and legitimization mechanisms in contemporary cultural consumption

Submit your paper here:
https://easaonline.org/conferences/easa2022/programme#11547

Many accounts of the transformation of current societies pay attention to
the falling currency of highbrow culture, together with its diminishing
association with the upper classes ( DiMaggio and Mukhtar 2004). The mass
media and upper-class' acceptance of popular culture is assumed to dissolve
the structures of legitimation and leave the effect of cultural capital as
an 'echo' of the past. Peterson's (1992) observation about the changing
patterns of upper-class taste, from narrow, highbrow culture to a wide
range of diverse cultural interests (omnivorous taste) has sparked much
discussion (see e.g. Lena 2016; Warde, Wright, and Gayo-Cal 2007). While
the issue of omnivorousness remains to be settled, there are several
theoretical re-conceptualisations of its implications (Smith Maguire 2016;
Flemmen, Jarness, and Rosenlund 2018). In recent years the focus has also
been on the role of algorithms and AI in emergent patterns of cultural
consumption (Striphas 2015, Dourisch 2016) as well as on the discourse of
innovations (Zukin 2020).

The panel invites theoretical and empirical explorations of contemporary
cultural consumption that deal with, among other things:

- everyday practices in spaces of cultural consumption

- re-examination of the role of class, race and gender in (re)production of
hierarchies of taste and consumption

- algorithmic culture and the impact of streaming platforms on hierarchies
of taste and consumption

- explorations of links between cultural canon and everyday consumption
practices in institutional settings (education, media etc)

- the definition, roles and practices of creators and curators of taste in
the attention economy.



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*Dr Marie Hermanova*

Postdoctoral researcher - Gender & Sociology Department, Institute of
Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Editor-in-Chief, Gender and Research Journal  <https://www.genderonline.cz/>

Lecturer - Undergraduate Program in Central European Studies, CERGE-EI
(Charles University)

@MarieHermanova

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