{"290381":{"#nid":"290381","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Call for Research Papers in Digital Storytelling in Spain and Latin America","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECall for Papers: Special Issue of Letras Hispanas\u003Cbr \/\u003EPaperless Text: Digital Storytelling in Latin America and Spain (1983-2013)\u003Cbr \/\u003ESpecial Issue Editors:\u003Cbr \/\u003EOsvaldo Cleger, Georgia Tech\u003Cbr \/\u003EPhillip Penix-Tadsen, University of Delaware\u003Cbr \/\u003EDeadline for Submissions: September 30, 2014\u003Cbr \/\u003ETentative publication date: Fall 2015\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDigital storytelling takes on many forms in Spain and Latin America. Starting from the very\u003Cbr \/\u003Eadvent of electronic media, the regions\u2019 hackers, programmers, authors and artists have created a\u0026nbsp;spectrum of multimedia literary and poetic projects that represent a diverse array of approaches\u0026nbsp;and concerns. Currently, as countries on both sides of the Atlantic report triple-digit annual\u0026nbsp;growth in e-book sales, the populations of Latin America and Spain are spending increasing\u0026nbsp;amounts of time consuming and creating content for tablets and other digital devices, from\u0026nbsp;personal computers to smartphones to video game consoles. As digital storytelling gains\u0026nbsp;prominence, it brings with it fundamental new challenges for concepts regarding the nature of\u0026nbsp;narrative discourse, from our notions of what constitutes a text, to the contextual meaning of\u0026nbsp;semiotic or literary devices, to models of narrative structure and authorship.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile the hastening spread of new media technology throughout Latin America and Spain is a\u003Cbr \/\u003Erelatively recent phenomenon, e-reading and digital storytelling are as old as the first personal\u003Cbr \/\u003Ecomputers that entered the market in the mid-1970s. Scholars commonly refer to the late 1980s\u0026nbsp;and early 1990s as the dawn of digital storytelling, with the publication of some of the earliest\u0026nbsp;works of hypertext fiction, such as Michael Joyce\u2019s afternoon, a story (1987) or Colombian-born\u0026nbsp;author Juan B. Guti\u00e9rrez\u2019s earliest versions of Extreme Conditions (1996). However taking into\u0026nbsp;account that interactive fiction had preceded hypertext fiction by at least a decade, with the\u0026nbsp;earliest example, William Crowther\u2019s Colossal Cave Adventure, appearing in 1976, and Don\u0026nbsp;Quijote, La Aventura being released in Spain by Dinamic Software in 1987, it is possible to\u0026nbsp;conclude that digital storytelling has been present for even longer.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESince 2000, the proliferation of social networks, online literary and cultural publications, blogs,\u003Cbr \/\u003Eand e-books--along with the mobile devices that make all of these things legible--have made\u003Cbr \/\u003Edigital storytelling even more ubiquitous. Likewise, these new media bring with them new\u003Cbr \/\u003Eexpressive devices that open up a wide range of possibilities for experimenting with stories that\u003Cbr \/\u003Enot only combine text with sound and moving images, but that also incorporate such\u003Cbr \/\u003Etechnologies as Google Maps, touch screens used for navigation or for triggering animation and\u0026nbsp;effects, or the tablet\u2019s GPS, camera and audio capabilities to display an augmented reality layer\u0026nbsp;embedded in the story. These and other contemporary transformations to the practices of reading\u0026nbsp;and writing are expanding what authors can do--and readers can experience--when it comes to\u0026nbsp;digital storytelling.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor this special issue of Letras Hispanas we will consider papers addressing Digital Storytelling\u0026nbsp;in the Ibero-American context from a variety of perspectives and methodologies. We are particularly interested in articles that focus either on specific e-genres (such as hypertext fiction,\u0026nbsp;blog-fiction, location-based narrative, etc.), on the effects of specific media technologies on\u0026nbsp;storytelling, or on specific questions related to the creation, distribution and consumption of\u0026nbsp;digital media in the Latin American and Spanish context.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETopics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u2022 Software, platforms and devices that have transformed the art of storytelling\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u2022 Interactive fiction (or Aventuras Conversacionales) during the Golden Age of Spanish\u003Cbr \/\u003ESoftware (1983-1992)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u2022 Hypertext and multimedia narrative and poetry from Latin America and Spain\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u2022 Blog-fictions and Blog-novels from Latin America and Spain\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u2022 Hybrid textualities: from blog to book (blook) and back again\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u2022 Extreme short fiction (or minificci\u00f3n) on Twitter and other social networks\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u2022 Serialized online narratives\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u2022 Location-based narratives or geolocative narratives\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u2022 Augmented reality and storytelling\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u2022 Animated and interactive stories for the iPad and other tablet readers\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u2022 Children\u2019s literature for e-tablets\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u2022 The e-book industry in Latin America and Spain\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u2022 Cultural representation in new media\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u2022 Video games and storytelling\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u2022 Procedurality and storytelling\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u2022 Interactivity and storytelling\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u2022 Challenges and prospects for the future of digital storytelling in Ibero-America\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESubmission process:\u003Cbr \/\u003EAuthors must submit a detailed abstract (300-500 words, English or Spanish) and preliminary\u003Cbr \/\u003Ebibliography by September 30, 2014 to the special issue editors, \u003Cstrong\u003EOsvaldo Cleger\u0026nbsp;(\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:ocleger3@mail.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eocleger3@mail.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E)\u003C\/strong\u003E and Phillip Penix-Tadsen (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:ptpt@udel.edu\u0022\u003Eptpt@udel.edu\u003C\/a\u003E). Please copy both in your\u0026nbsp;email with the subject line \u201cSpecial Issue of Letras Hispanas.\u201d Authors will be selected for\u0026nbsp;inclusion in the special issue based on the strength of these abstracts, but publication is\u0026nbsp;contingent upon review of the completed manuscript.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAll completed manuscripts must be submitted by January 15, 2015. Manuscripts will be accepted\u0026nbsp;in English and Spanish. All submissions should be between 5000 and 8000 words in length and\u0026nbsp;must adhere to the MLA Style Manual. All submissions will go through the regular double-blind\u0026nbsp;review process of Letras Hispanas and follow the standard norms and processes for peer\u0026nbsp;reviewed publications.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor more information about this call for papers, please contact the Special Issue Editors or the\u003Cbr \/\u003EDirectors of Letras Hispanas, Sergio Mart\u00ednez (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:sm55@txstate.edu\u0022\u003Esm55@txstate.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) and Agust\u00edn Cuadrado\u003Cbr \/\u003E(\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:cuadrado@txstate.edu\u0022\u003Ecuadrado@txstate.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Osvaldo Cleger, Assistant Professor of Spanish at Georgia Tech will serve as co-editor for \u0026nbsp;the Academic Journal Letras Hispanas.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Authors must submit a detailed abstract (300-500 words, English or Spanish) and preliminary bibliography by September 30, 2014."}],"uid":"27835","created_gmt":"2014-04-14 11:27:47","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:15","author":"Shamiso Barnett","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-06-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-06-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"290371":{"id":"290371","type":"image","title":"Research paper","body":null,"created":"1449244274","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:51:14","changed":"1475894986","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:46","alt":"Research paper","file":{"fid":"199218","name":"research_paper.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/research_paper_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/research_paper_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":9571,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/research_paper_0.jpg?itok=9DGiXe-O"}}},"media_ids":["290371"],"groups":[{"id":"1284","name":"School of Modern Languages"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"80701","name":"Modlangs"},{"id":"365","name":"Research"},{"id":"167057","name":"spanish"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Osvaldo Cleger\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["osvaldo.cleger@modlangs.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}