CFP: Computer Culture (Albuquerque, New Mexico, US, due Nov 16)

We are accepting papers and forming panels for the area of Computer Culture, as one of the many areas within the 34th annual conference of the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association (SW/TX PCA/ACA).

Proposals due Nov 16, 2012.

Where and when: Albuquerque, US, Feb 13-16, 2012. http://www.swtxpca.org

ABOUT - Computer is broadly defined as any computational device, whether smartphone or abacus, and any form of information technology, including the origins of concepts of interactive text which may predate computational devices as traditionally conceived. Culture is rooted in the concept of cultural meaning. We ask not just operational questions such as, “How do people communicate using computers?” but questions of meaning such as, “What does it mean when people communicate using computers instead of using pre-computer approaches to communication?”

Read more: http://www.swtxpca.org