CFP: Folklore Society’s Annual Conference on Digital Folklore
The Folklore Society invites proposal for their Annual Conference, a hybrid conference in collaboration with the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London. The conference will be held from Friday 28 to Sunday 30 June 2024.
Digital and networked technologies offer a wealth of new modes of folklore genre, performance and transmission. Digital folklore has accelerated in recent decades with the increased popularity of the internet and social media platforms yet emerged much earlier in the 1970s with the introduction of new technologies such as the photocopier and, latterly, email, to the workplace. Alongside these new folklore forms, the digital has given rise to the emergence of new communities and the development of new ways of ‘doing folklore’. Digital folklore has thus greatly added to, challenged and disrupted folklore studies. This conference explores various aspects of digital folklore, ranging from forms, transmission and communities to the methods and approaches of undertaking folklore studies of digital vernacular culture.
Contact information: thefolkloresociety@gmail.com
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