Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association February 8-11, 2012 Albuquerque, New Mexico http://www.swtxpca.org Proposal submission deadline: December 1, 2011 Conference hotel: Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference Center 330 Tijeras Ave NW Albuquerque, NM 87102 Phone: +1 505 842 1234 Computer Culture: Call for Papers We are beginning to form panels for the area of computer culture, with possible topics in blogging; Twitter; social networks; computers and pedagogy; Web site analysis and design; viral video; news and politics; terrorism; online literary journals; online security issues; spam, scams, and hoaxes; live feeds; theories of computer culture; and others. Scholars, teachers, professionals, artists and others interested in computer culture are encouraged to participate. Graduate students are also particularly welcome with award opportunities for best graduate papers. If you wish to form your own panel, I would be glad to facilitate your needs. Please pass along this call to friends and colleagues. For early consideration, submit 100-200 word abstracts and proposals for panels by 11 November 2011 to the conference electronic submission system which can be found at: http://conference2012.swtxpca.org/ For any questions regarding the Computer Culture Area, feel free to contact Dr. Andrew Chen ( andrewsw@gmail.com ) and Dr. Joseph Chaney ( jchaney@iusb.edu ) Co-Chairs, Computer Culture Area http://www.swtxpca.org