PCA/ACA

Communication & Digital Culture

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The Communication and Digital Culture Area hosts presentations and panels that explore human communication in an increasingly digital landscape. This area hosts a wide spectrum of presentations that interrogate how rhetorics and communication practices obtain, evolve, and emerge in relationship to contemporary exigencies, such as developments in social media, digitized workplaces, electronic consumerism, entertainment, etc. The Communication and Digital Culture Area is an inclusive, transdisciplinary group that has regularly featured scholars from the arts, new media, technology, communication, and rhetorical studies.


“You Are Here: The State of Digital Culture”

In 1995, new media evangelist Kevin Kelly placed a bet with neo-Luddite author Kirkpatrick Sale on whether technology would destroy civilization by the year 2020.  This bet represents the tension between the promise and the pitfalls of living in a highly technologized culture.

While the appointed judge declared Kelly the winner of the bet, he added “it’s a squeaker and not much cause for celebration.” (See Jan 5, 2021 issue of WIRED for the story

 

Where do we stand in 2022? What is the State of Digital Culture?

The Communication and Digital Culture Area of Popular Culture Association is seeking submissions for presentations dealing with “The State of Digital Culture” for the 2022 National PCAACA Conference. Submissions should thoughtfully address contemporary issues in Digital Culture and related accomplishments, trends, failures, promises, dangers, histories, and (projected) futures.

 

Topics for presentations and panels might include:

  • Commercial (e.g., shopping, streaming, small business.)
  • Social (e.g., race, religion, education, online communities.)
  • Communication (e.g. news, governmental communication, disinformation.)
  • Political (e.g., campaigns, voting, misinformation.)
  • Personal (e.g., physical and mental health, enrichment, lifestyle.)

Submissions: Submit a 250-word proposal via the PCA interface.

For additional information, contact the Communication and Digital Culture Area Chair:

Randy D. Nichols, PhD
Limestone University
Gaffney, SC 29340
rnichols@limestone.edu

 

 

2022 Conference Dates and Deadlines

01Aug-21 2022 Conference Information Available on Website
01 Sept-21 Submissions Open 
21 Jan-22 Deadline for Paper Proposals
11 Feb-22 Early Bird Registration Ends
12 Feb-22 Regular Registration Begins
01 Mar-22 Regular Registration Ends for Presenters; Those Presenters Not Registered by the Date Will be Dropped From the Program; Late Registration Continues for Nonpresenters
01 Apr-22 Late Registration Ends for Nonpresenters
April 13-16, 2022

Virtual conference
 

All presenters must be current, paid members of the PCA and registered for the conference. Non-presenters who attend the full conference must also pay membership fees.

To attend the National Conference, members must pay the membership fee and the registration fee.   

The last day for all refunds is February 20, 2022. No refund requests will be honored after this date. Membership fees are non-refundable and non-transferable.

 

Area chairs

Randy D Nichols