Dear colleagues, With apologies for cross-posting, we’d like to invite proposal submissions to “(Re)Valuing the Creator Economy: Platforming Conversations in/across Communication Studies,” to be held on Wednesday, November 20, 2024, in New Orleans. This 1-day preconference, part of the National Communication Association’s annual convention, will dedicate scholarly space to creative economies, influencer culture and labor, and content creation practices. You do not need to be an NCA member to join us! To read our full CFP, use this link: https://shorturl.at/Cg5pQ. The preconference will feature several ‘flashpoint talk’ panels. In these sessions, scholars will share a brief presentation about a work-in-progress. Potential submissions may focus on, but are not limited to: - Creative labor in the Global South and digital colonialism - Platform work and precarity - Platform affordances: Play, shitposting, and algospeak - Creator-scholars and scholars collaborating directly with creators - Identity, inequities, and marginalization - Organizing and social movements (#BlackCreatorStrike, #Blockout2024) - Creative economies and the convergence of legacy media industries - Platform logics and ideologies - Pedagogical practices around the creator economy - The place of creator studies and the creator economy in Communication Studies - What’s next: New directions for creative labor Submission Instructions To submit a flashpoint talk proposal, please submit the following via our Google form <https://forms.gle/uFvXCS3xfoy6Tsww8> through Friday, August 23: - Your first and last name - Your rank and affiliation for Fall 2024 - A title and 200 word abstract for your flashpoint talk - A brief biography (no more than 100 words) - Any accessibility requests Link to submit: https://forms.gle/uFvXCS3xfoy6Tsww8 If you have any questions regarding your submission, please contact Jess Rauchberg (jessica.rauchberg@shu.edu) prior to the Friday, August 23 submission deadline. We hope you’ll join us in New Orleans this November! Sincerely, Jess Rauchberg (Seton Hall University) Kai Prins (University of Wisconsin) Megan Zahay (SUNY Purchase) Jessica Maddox (The University of Alabama) -- Jess Rauchberg, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Communication Technologies Seton Hall University jessica.rauchberg@shu.edu www.jessrauchberg.com