29.1191, Calls: General Linguistics, Ling & Literature, Text/Corpus/Romania

Thu Mar 15 21:00:15 UTC 2018

LINGUIST List: Vol-29-1191. Thu Mar 15 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.1191, Calls: General Linguistics, Ling & Literature, Text/Corpus/Romania

Moderators: linguist at linguistlist.org (Damir Cavar, Malgorzata E. Cavar)
Reviews: reviews at linguistlist.org (Helen Aristar-Dry, Robert Coté,
                                   Michael Czerniakowski)
Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:
           http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

Editor for this issue: Kenneth Steimel <ken at linguistlist.org>
================================================================

Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 17:00:00
From: Anca-Diana Bibiri [anca.bibiri at uaic.ro]
Subject: Mapping Digital Futures

Full Title: Mapping Digital Futures 
Short Title: PHSS_2018 

Date: 23-May-2018 - 24-May-2018
Location: Iasi, Romania 
Contact Person: Anca-Diana Bibiri
Meeting Email: anca.bibiri at uaic.ro
Web Site: https://conferencephss.wordpress.com/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Ling & Literature; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Apr-2018 

Meeting Description:

Nowadays, technology does not constitute a separate sphere anymore; it is
profoundly involved and embedded in the majority of domains, from daily life
to modern devices of life research and enhancement. In their turn, digital
technologies cover a vast area of methods (big data visualization,
3D-modelling, data mining) and practices (hashtag movements, gaming in
alternative realities, computer-mediated and phone-mediated communication)
that have systemic effects on society, economy, and politics. We are living in
a brave new world, that is, the digital world: we interact online, we are able
to make digital multitasking, we communicate through various means, we
practice new forms of commerce and banking, and, perhaps most of all, we share
information. And things have been pushed even further: the robot Sophia
received Saudi citizenship, while AlphaZero, after a few hours of “learning”,
triumphed over the best chess soft that has ever been invented.

The digital turn alters the patterns that have been used before for
interpreting the world, the models of interaction, and those of individual and
collective expression, at the same time challenging both sciences and arts to
yield new approaches and move for new hypotheses in current situations. In
this context, one can notice a higher enthusiasm 

for exploring the inter-disciplinary relationships, a growth of
interdisciplinary studies as well as a serious questioning of traditional
paradigms on account of the people’s increased computer-reliance. 

Have the humanities a digital future? To what extent do the digital methods
alter the traditional way of research in humanities and social sciences? How
can the culture of democracy, the respect for diversity and mutual
understanding be promoted though social media? How will technology change the
approaches to problems concerning private life, security and conflict
mitigation?

Call for Papers:

Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences: Hinting at Interdisciplinarity

5th Edition: Mapping Digital Futures
Iași, Romania, 23-24 May 2018

Coordinator:

Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași, Romania
Department of Interdisciplinary Research in Social Sciences and Humanities
PHSS Center for Interdisciplinary Integration and Knowledge Transfer in
Humanities

Topics of the conferenece:

The digital turn and its impact on sciences
- Digital technologies and life sciences: bioinformatics, biolinguistics,
neurosciences, sociobiology
- Digital geography: digital mapping; digital human geography; methods and
techniques of data spatial visualization; the geography of virtual worlds;
community mapping and emotional maps
- E-linguistics: collecting, processing, and modelling of linguistic data;
databases and lexicographic corpora (Perseus, TLFI – Trésor de la Langue
Française Informatisé, AMPER – Atlas Multimédia Prosodique de l'Espace Roman,
etc.); technologies of natural language processing and speech synthesis
- Artificial intelligence nowadays: technological challenges and ethical
concerns
- Philosophical approaches and interpretations to the effects of new
technologies
- Methods of quantitative analysis vs methods of qualitative analysis in
social sciences and humanities: sociology, linguistics, anthropology,
translation studies, literary studies, etc.

New media, new experiences and new forms of sociality
- Forms and practices of communication in the digital era: computer-mediated
communication; mobile communication; social networks; online gaming; blogs and
vlogs; the role of media technologies in lifelong learning
- Digital social infrastructures (e-tax platforms, online voting, etc.);
technologies of personal data storage and of mass surveillance
- Digital economy: e-business and e-commerce; e-business infrastructures;
fiscal challenges in the digital economy; innovation, growth, and prosperity
in the digital age; policies of the digital revolution; the work market in the
global economy
- Digital tools used in branding and advertising, event management and PR
- The economy of reputation in online media: reviews, visibility, crises, and
solutions
- Digital tourism: new forms of tourism and corresponding technologies
(e-tourism, m-tourism, smart-tourism, and so forth)
- New media and political life: online protests, Facebook and Twitter in
elections
- Participatory culture, collective intelligence and new forms of sociality:
participatory journalism, user-generated content, types of online communities

Cultural and artistic practices in the digital era
- Digital architecture and design: smart urban planning; digital creative
industries; eco-design; digital design between users and aesthetic standards
- Digital archives: digitalization of manuscripts and historical sources;
virtual museums and sites of collective memory in online media; cultural
patrimony in the digital era
- Types of writings and reading in online media: digital fiction, digital
collaborative writing, digital storytelling
- Intermediality and intertextuality in literature, film, visual arts and
performance arts
- Practice and reception of literature in the global age: “the network” of
world literature; the planetary canon of literature; digital humanities
- Networks and media of communitarian, national and global memory:
inter-connectivity vs memory divide; empathy and participatory memory;
artistic media of postmemory

Conference languages: Romanian, English, and French.

The Abstracts will be written in English and sent at
phssconference2018 at gmail.com.
For more information go to https://conferencephss.wordpress.com/ .

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

*****************    LINGUIST List Support    *****************
Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:
            http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-29-1191	
----------------------------------------------------------
Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated
from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:
          http://multitree.org/