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INCUBATION2
The 2nd trAce International Conference on Writing and the Internet
15-17th July 2002
at The Nottingham Trent University
Incubation2 is the leading international conference on Writing and the
Internet. Incubation
2000 offered the chance to meet in a physical space to talk about
the nature of writing and reading on the internet today, and for our second
conference we continue our focus on the role of the internet and telecommunications.
The call for proposals particularly invited contributions that address
the way new media create new potentials and re-define the acts of writing
and reading. We invited proposals on all aspects of new media and writing,
especially by those whose work is based in new media, on or off the Internet.
The Call
for Proposals is now closed. Please contact trace@ntu.ac.uk
with any queries.
The draft
programme will be announced in early February.
Registration
Details will appear here by the end of January 2002
Possible
topics include:
Process:
- How do
we write on the web?
- How are
computer-aided and computational tools changing writing and reading?
- What are
our favourite tools and how can we use them better?
- What part
does collaboration play?
- How has
the web changed what we create?
- How have
writing and writing practices changed with the advent of new communications
technologies?
- What is
the difference between electronic writing and print-based writing?
- What is
currently state of the art? What is happening in poetics and aesthetics?
- Where
is the most interesting critical writing?
- Is new
media writing literature?
Learning:
- How do
we learn and teach writing on the web?
- How is
the online workshop different from the physical workshop?
- How has
the web changed what we learn and how we learn it?
- How do
the economics of time alter online?
- What might
comprise an 'equivalent' education in the new learning spaces?
- What elements
of teaching are changed online?
- How do
the economics of online teaching work?
- Does new
media writing have a place in the English Curriculum?
Culture:
- How do
the online environment and other new media tools modify the relationship
between writing, language, culture and ethnicity?
- How is
the web enabling writers to address diversity and difference including
groups within a nation e.g. the city and the country; and within the
world e.g. refugees, asylum-seekers and other ethnic groups living in
foreign countries?
- Is there
a cultural divide between writers who use the web, and those who don't?
- How is
the interdisciplinary culture of the web affecting traditional funding
models for writing?
Conference
Committee
Paul Brown : Catherine Byron : Jane Dorner : Marjorie Luesebrink : Alan
Sondheim : Sue Thomas : Lawrence Upton : Jenny Weight : Helen Whitehead
View the
sound, text and image archive of Incubation
2000.
"Incubation
was great for putting names to faces, and to mingle with 'greats' whose
work you admire."
"A
very interesting crowd, productive and fun atmosphere. I'm leaving with
many new ideas and contacts."
"Lots
of interesting ideas to absorb and exchange in friendly-sized groups."
"...probably
the best conference food I've ever had!"
Incubation
site http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/incubation/
Last
amended January 2002
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