KEYNOTE: Shellie McMurdo (University of Hertfordshire)
PLENARY ROUNDTABLE: TBA (moderated by Katlin Marisol Sweeney-Romero, UC Davis)
The virtual conference will focus on US American imaginaries related to digital and screened narratives that highlight the medial aspect of the screen as intermediary and/or work to construct identities. In an era when screens dominate and mediate virtually every aspect of our lives, the construction and performance of digital identities have become key to understand contemporary popular culture. This phenomenon has been reflected for example in the proliferation of found footage and desktop horror films that blur the lines between reality and fiction, using intermedial aesthetics that combine various media forms and referents that audiences promptly recognize. We wish to collect presentations that deal with the ways in which screens and digital interfaces influence, construct and disseminate identities, and that examine how these representations shape and reflect societal perceptions of the self, the other, and even Artificial Intelligence. We accept proposals that look at texts across popular culture media, including film, graphic narratives, TV series, genre literature, music, games, social media, podcasts, and mocku/documentary.
FINAL PROGRAM
For any inquiry about the conference, please send an email to popmec.virtual@gmail.com.
Registration fees
REDUCED student / unwaged: 15€ | FULL: 25€ | FREE for PopMeC members with active membership
