CFP for Console-ing Passions Panel: Black Mirror, Bleak Future: Representations of Technology, Feminism, and the Future
deadline for submissions:
January 10, 2017
full name / name of organization:
Console-ing Passions
contact email:
brookeb@usc.edu
CFP for Console-ing Passions Panel: Black Mirror, Bleak Future: Representations of Technology, Feminism, and the Future
Brooke Bennett (University of Southern California) and Emma Bedor Hiland (University of Minnesota) are looking to construct a panel for the Console-ing Passions Conference taking place at East Carolina University (Greenville, NC) during July 27-29, 2017. The conference submission deadline is Monday, January 16, 2017.
We are creating a panel proposal on the Channel 4 (2011-2014)/Netflix (2014-present) program Black Mirror, and are soliciting other potential participants whose work on the show relates to one (or more than one) of the following:
Technology and identity;
Feminist media studies;
Governmentality;
Social media;
Digital and/or affective labor.
Proposals on aspects of Black Mirror that are not listed above are also welcome. If interested in joining the panel, please submit an abstract of 250 words to Brooke Bennett at brookeb@usc.edu by Tuesday, January 10, 2017.