[Nora Rodriguez-Loro]

At PopMeC Research Blog (https://popmec.hypotheses.org ISSN: 2660-8839) they have just launched a new Call for Papers for a special issue entitled “New Fictional Formats & Age-Old Narratives: Understanding Creative Modes of Popular Culture in the Digital Age”.

New Fictional Formats & Age-Old Narratives: Understanding Creative Modes of Popular Culture in the Digital Age

This Call for Papers thus searches for fresh new research that explores contemporary fictional narratives and creations native to the digital environment. Contributors are welcome to examine genres, structures, mediums, and strategies of new forms of fiction, and to provide philosophical research on issues concerning popular culture in the context of new media. The analyses can focus on (a) specific case studies of digitally born narrative formats; (b) comparative analyses between contemporary and old fictional narratives, discourse and rhetoric; and (c) theoretical explorations of new emerging formats considering the political and social implications of technology. We welcome approaches that explore the complexities and contradictions of our technocultural age, while at the same time acknowledging instances of how aesthetic sensibilities and fictional creations have changed, developed, and influenced popular culture. Suggested fields of analysis include but are not limited to:

• Social media platforms as mediums for fiction
• Fictional narratives and posthumanism
• Non-literary forms of fiction
• Collaborative online creations
• Theory-fiction, ficto-criticism and lyric-essays
• AI creations and algorithms as artistic methodology
• Interactive fiction on streaming and digital formats
• Gamification, virtual reality and digital storytelling
• Intermedial narratives: multimediality, remediation and transmediality
• New media influence on aesthetics

PopMeC accepts submissions of full papers (3000 words max. references excluded) about any aspect related to the call. The papers will be peer-reviewed on a rolling basis by our editorial team and external collaborators, who will get back to you as soon as possible. Accepted languages will be English and Spanish, although we recommend the election of the latter only if coherent with the content of the article. The deadline for submission of full papers is February 14, 2021.

Send your proposal to popmec.call@gmail.com attaching your text, inclusive of a short bio (100-120 words), name, affiliation, and email contact in a single file (.doc, .docx, .odt). The editor in charge of this call is Laura Álvarez Trigo, so feel welcome to contact her directly with any inquiry regarding the call, at alvarez.trigo.laura@gmail.com or laura.alvarezt@edu.uah.es. Authors are welcome to consult their idea with the editor (possibly a max. 350 words abstract) and receive some feedback in order to develop the longer text.

 

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