CFP: Viral Ports, Virtual Currents: Interconnections of Media, the Arts and the Everyday in ...

VIRAL PORTS, VIRTUAL CURRENTS: INTERCONNECTIONS OF MEDIA, THE ARTS AND THE EVERYDAY IN SOUTHEAST ASIA AND ITS DIASPORAS UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE2 - 4 OCTOBER 2009CALL FOR PAPERS Sponsored by SEATRiP (Southeast Asian Studies) group Keynote speaker: Rolando Tolentino http://www.seatrip.ucr.edu Media use has escalated greatly throughout the world, leading to more extensive and varied visibility of the arts. Using metaphors of the ocean in cooperation with the viral and the virtual ties popular imaginaries of Southeast Asia with the ability of media to spread and replicate "virally". As Jean Burgess uses Henry Jenkins' argument about the "spreadability" of values within the dynamic relationship between media and cultural production/consumption, "Through reuse, reworking and redistribution, spreadable... (Read complete news)