Call for Papers for special sesion at the American Comparative Literature Association to be held at Cal State San Marcos in North San Diego County April 4-6, 2003. POSTING (please cross-post) NMEDIAC (New Media and Culture), a journal out of U North Carolina Chapel-Hill, is sponsoring a special session on new media/culture at the April meetings of the American Comparative Literature Association meetings in San Marcos. The session will include three panels, a total of 9-12 scholars, writers and artists, that will meet over a two day period on the topic of new media. The sessions are intended to result in a journal issue dedicated to the topic. The session panels on new media will explore questions of digital poetics, genre, and the role of narrative models and metaphors from non-digital media, such as those of literature, film and performance on electronic writing and art. We hope to speculate on what happens to once vital metaphors and genres as media change (how the role of sci-fi and cyber-punk in cultural discourse in the 1980s has evolved in this era, for example). A special invitation is extended to digital artists and writers to join in a round table discussion about the peotics of hypertext and digital art. We also invite papers that consider how digital media compares to other era's marked by the invention of a new medium - the press, photography, or film, for example. Send paper and presentation proposals by Sept 24. Please send them via email to Roderick Coover at rcoover@artic.edu. Conference website: www.csusm.edu/acla2003 NMEDIAC (nmediac.net) has adopted the mission of publishing peer-reviewed papers and audiovisual pieces which contextualize encoding/decoding environments and the discourses, ideologies, and human experiences/uses of new media apparatuses. In relation to previous work, NMEDIAC will provide an intellectual canvas where the cultural spaces and experiences of new media are theorized and rigorously explored within both global and local contingencies of the present and past. ----- Jonathan James McCreadie Lillie ----- jlillie@email.unc.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/jlillie ----- Managing Editor NMEDIAC, The Journal of New Media & Culture http://www.nmediac.net ----- Park Doctoral Fellow The School of Journalism & Mass Communication The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill