MPCA/ACA 2008

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