The Working Group on New Media and Digital Cultures invites abstract submissions for the 23rd annual meeting of the Cultural Studies Association (CSA), May 29-31, 2025, at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California. We hosted six panels, two roundtable discussions, and two praxis sessions last year, and we hope for an equally vibrant and diverse range of presentations this year. The theme for the 2025 CSA Conference is “Imaginary Futures: Utopias, Dystopias & Protopias of Cultural Studies.” We encourage papers, pre-constituted panels, roundtables and praxis sessions that interpret this theme broadly through the lens of new media and digital cultures. Topics might include: - Futurist Technocracies and the Rise of the Broligarchy - The Internet in its Historical & Contemporary Utopic/Dystopic Figurations - Protopian Struggles of/with/over Media Democratization - Digital Interventions: Challenging Utopic Framings of “New Media” - X-odus: Twitter as Dystopia and Dreams of Alternative Platforms - Mediating Race and Racism: Past & Future Figurations of Precarity and Power - Protopic Risk: Speculative Forms of Media and Communication - Finding Friction in a “Frictionless” Utopia/Dystopia SUBMISSION PROCESS : All proposals should be submitted through Easy Chair using the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=csa2025 Final Deadline for Submissions: February 23, 2025. Please prepare all the materials required to propose your session according to the given directions before you begin electronic submission. All program information--names, presentation titles, and institutional affiliations--will be based on initial conference submissions. Please avoid lengthy presentation and session titles, use normal capitalization and standard fonts, and include your name and affiliations as you would like them to appear on the conference program schedule. REGISTRATION: In order to participate in the conference and be listed in the program, all those accepted to participate must register before Friday, May 9, 2025. Registration for the conference and membership in the CSA are now combined transactions. Questions should be direct to the co-chairs of the New Media and Digital Cultures working group: Mark Nunes (nunesm@appstate.edu) Reed Van Schenck (rvanschenck@faculty.ie.edu)