MPCA/ACA 2008

MPCA/ACA 2008
Midwest Popular and American Culture Association
Dates	Oct 3, 2008 (iCal) - Oct 5, 2008
Homepage:	www.mpcaaca.org/conference
Location
Location:	Cincinnati, Ohio
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Important dates
Abstracts:	Apr 30, 2008
Submissions:	Apr 30, 2008
Notification:	May 15, 2008
Table of Contents

GENERAL CALL FOR PAPERS ON WEB 2.0 

The Midwest Popular Culture Association / Midwest American Culture Association seeks papers on any aspect of collaborative online technologies such as blogs, wikis, social networking software, tagging and folksonomies. 

Possible topics include: 
*What is Web 2.0? 
*Issues of authority in Web 2.0 
*Bottom-up technologies in top-down institutions 
*Social networking on Facebook and MySpace 
*YouTube, Flickr, Google Images, and the new visual vocabulary 
*Lowerarchies: tagging and folksonomies 
*Wikiquette 
*WikiFolk or Fauna 
*Prosumption: collapse of production/consumption in Web 2.0 

Please send a brief abstract (250 words) and a note about your field and institutional affiliation by April 30, 2008. 

Email submissions and inquiries to Molly Moran (area chair for Web 2.0) at this address: (mem96_at_georgetown.edu) 
	

This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP