Girls and Digital Culture
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| Name: | Girls and Digital Culture: Transnational Perspectives on Girlhood |
| Dates: | September 13-14, 2012 |
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| Location: | King's College London, Strand Campus (U.K.) |
| Type: | academic |
| Focus: | girlhood, digital culture |
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| URL: | gdc.cch.kcl.ac.uk |
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Girls and Digital Culture: Transnational Perspectives on Girlhood is an academic conference that was held at King's College London, Strand Campus on September 13-14, 2012. Through its focus on girlhood and digital culture across disciplines and through a transnational frame, the conference's proceedings touch on a number of topics both related and of interest to fandom.
According to the Call for Papers, themes explored at the conference are intended to include:
- Girls experiences of digital culture
- Gender and social media
- Sexuality
- Activism and politics
- Identity and subjectivity
- Development
- Gender and blogging
- Gender, play and digital culture
- Power and digital divisions
- Convergence
- Intersectional and transnational approaches
Conference Proceedings
The conference is set to feature five invited speakers and twenty-three papers. The following accepted papers have direct connections to fandom and fannish activities:
- Convergence Culture, Tween Girls and Nickelodeon – Helena Louise Dare-Edwards (University of East Anglia, UK)
- ‘Bedroom Culture’ Goes Online: The Internet as a transformative girl space? – Izzy Gutteridge (University of Warwick, UK)
- “Boobs on/off” – Cosplay/crossplay, gender and beauty preferences on Cosplay.fi – Sanna Lehtonen (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)