[Air-L] Call For Submissions: Imaginary Futures--Digital Dystopias, Utopias & Protopias

[Mark Nunes]

The Working Group on New Media and Digital Cultures invites abstract
submissions for the 23rd annual meeting of the Cultural Studies Association
(CSA), May 29-31, 2025, at the California Institute of the Arts in
Valencia, California.


We hosted six panels, two roundtable discussions, and two praxis sessions
last year, and we hope for an equally vibrant and diverse range of
presentations this year. The theme for the 2025 CSA Conference is “Imaginary
Futures: Utopias, Dystopias & Protopias of Cultural Studies.” We encourage
papers, pre-constituted panels, roundtables and praxis sessions that
interpret this theme broadly through the lens of new media and digital
cultures. Topics might include:

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   Futurist Technocracies and the Rise of the Broligarchy
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   The Internet in its Historical & Contemporary Utopic/Dystopic Figurations
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   Protopian Struggles of/with/over Media Democratization
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   Digital Interventions: Challenging Utopic Framings of “New Media”
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   X-odus: Twitter as Dystopia and Dreams of Alternative Platforms
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   Mediating Race and Racism: Past & Future Figurations of Precarity and
   Power
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   Protopic Risk: Speculative Forms of Media and Communication
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   Finding Friction in a “Frictionless” Utopia/Dystopia


SUBMISSION PROCESS : All proposals should be submitted through Easy Chair
using the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=csa2025 Final
Deadline for Submissions: February 23, 2025. Please prepare all the
materials required to propose your session according to the given
directions before you begin electronic submission. All program
information--names, presentation titles, and institutional
affiliations--will be based on initial conference submissions. Please avoid
lengthy presentation and session titles, use normal capitalization and
standard fonts, and include your name and affiliations as you would like
them to appear on the conference program schedule.


REGISTRATION: In order to participate in the conference and be listed in
the program, all those accepted to participate must register before Friday,
May 9, 2025. Registration for the conference and membership in the CSA are
now combined transactions. Questions should be direct to the co-chairs of
the New Media and Digital Cultures working group:


Mark Nunes (nunesm at appstate.edu)

Reed Van Schenck (rvanschenck at faculty.ie.edu)