Abstract submission deadline: February 26, 2009 International Conference Language in the New Media: Technologies and Ideologies Thursday 03 to Sunday 06 September 2009 University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA Keynote speakers Naomi Baron, American University, USA Jannis Androutsopoulos, Kings College London, England Theo van Leeuwen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Conference theme We invite you to submit abstracts for papers which explore the representation, construction and/or production of language through the technologies and ideologies of new media - the digital discourse of blogs, wikis, texting, instant messaging, internet art, video games, virtual worlds, websites, emails, podcasting, hypertext fiction, graphical user interfaces, and so on. Of equal interest are the ways that new media language is metalinguistically represented, constructed and/or produced in print and broadcast media such as newspapers and television. Abstract submission Please submit abstracts for papers (20 minutes plus 10 for discussion) by email to lim2009@u.washington.edu no later than Thursday 26 February 2009. Abstracts should include a title, your contact details (name, mailing address, email) and a description of your paper (250 -350 words). The conference committee will begin reviewing abstract submissions immediately after the deadline; notification of acceptance will be Thursday 19 March. (Please send your abstract as a Word document or in the body of your email.) FOR MORE INFORMATION WEB: http://www.com.washington.edu/lim/ EMAIL: lim2009@u.washington.edu SENT BY: Crispin Thurlow University of Washington