<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Perhaps of interest to SIGCIS folks?</div><div><br></div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br></div>The following call for papers (viewble at <a href="http://bit.ly/H79K6q">http://bit.ly/H79K6q</a>) may be of<br>interest to readers with inclinations to literary studies.<br><br>"Little Data and the Big Picture: What Everyday Literature Can Do for<br>Comparison"<br>a seminar to be held at the<br>Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association<br>New York University<br>20-23 March 2014<br><br>Abstract deadline: 15 November 2013<br><br>The broad claims of Big Data hide the continued importance of the specific,<br>individual, and random. This seminar examines the contributions that<br>Comparative Literature has made and can make for understanding the stories<br>that are written and read against the background of “digital humanities,”<br>“new media,” and the “information society.” Prospective participants are<br>invited to problematize these key terms and explore how textual cultures<br>have evolved alongside, been shaped by, and resisted successive fantasies<br>of a data-driven society. There has always been an everyday literature of<br>letters, memos, telegrams, and notes.<br><br>How are the forms of today’s everyday literature analogous repetitions of<br>past forms and how do they represent something qualitatively different? How<br>do we judge? In some fashion, the papers in this seminar will explore ways<br>that the specific, the particular, the analog, and the banal persist in the<br>face of the general, the aggregate, the digital, and the grand arc.<br>Possible topics include (but are not limited to): Histories and<br>counter-histories of the information society; everyday digital textuality;<br>computer and human languages; networked social media; Tweet poetics;<br>posting addiction; life writing; comparative media and textual cultures;<br>reception; censorship; quantitative historiography; textual geographies;<br>platforms (computer and otherwise); analog/digital tensions; political<br>action; lacunae; interface; objects (virtual and/or tangible);<br>participation and/or non-participation; material and immaterial conditions<br>of reading and writing.<br><br>Submit a paper proposal at <a href="http://www.acla.org/submit">http://www.acla.org/submit</a> (be sure to select<br>"Little Data..." in the Seminar drop-down menu). Learn more about the<br>meeting and its "distinctive structure" at <a href="http://www.acla.org/acla2014">http://www.acla.org/acla2014</a>.<br><br>Any questions about the seminar, inquiries about topic suitability, or<br>nominations of possible participants may be directed to<br><a href="mailto:scott.kushner@gmail.com">scott.kushner@gmail.com</a>.<br>___________________________<div><br></div></body></html>