Dear EADH list members, Please find below a Call for Papers for the second Web/Comics workshop, co-located with the Hypertext 2024 conference. ***Submission deadline 15 June 2024 **** Web/Comics 2024: Creativity in Small Spaces is the second in a new workshop series for the ACM Hypertext conference https://ht.acm.org/ht2024/. Web/Comics 2024 wants to investigate whether webcomics exemplify the expansion of hypertext beyond the linearity of information processing systems into a type of interactivity that is nonlinear (multicursal) and ludic. It uses webcomics to explore the boundaries of hypertext, for example by assessing its utility to the reader or user and its effects on “readers’ ongoing process of establishing meaning and coherence. At the same time, it asks how profoundly new tools such as text-to-image models and other forms of generative AI are altering comics production and consumption. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the Hypertext 2024 conference, 10-13 September, at the University of Poznań, Poland. The workshop will take place in a hybrid modality. While in-person attendance is preferred, we will allow remote presentations to maximize inclusivity. Participants are asked to submit a short lightning paper (2-4 pages) representing current work or original thinking in this area with the intention of encouraging interactive group discussion. The work presented should directly engage with the hypertextual specificity of webcomics. Links Workshop homepage: https://ht.acm.org/ht2024/workshops/web-comics-2024-workshop-creativity-in-s... Submissions page: https://ht.acm.org/ht2024/workshops/web-comics-2024-workshop-creativity-in-s... Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ht24. Please choose Track > Workshop - Web/Comics when submitting. Important dates - Papers submission: June 15, 2024 * - Paper review June 17 – July 7, 2024 * - Discussion July 8-14, 2024 * - Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2024 - Camera-ready paper due: August 10, 2024 - Workshop: September 10-11, 2024 (half day, exact date tbc) Topics Submissions of original, previously unpublished papers are invited in the following, not exhaustive, topic areas: - Webcomics as creative hypertext media - Webcomics and generative AI - Hypertext systems for webcomics publishing - Webcomics and healthcare - Cognitive processing, hypertext and webcomics - Constraint development in creative processes - Webcomics formats - Page, screen, scroll - Webcomics and transmedia - User interface in webcomics - Reading webcomics as hypertexts - Authoring webcomics - Crowdsourcing and crowdfunding in webcomics - Issues in interdisciplinary webcomics research All the best, Francesca Benatti, The Open University, UK francesca.benatti@open.ac.ukmailto:francesca.benatti@open.ac.uk Linda Berube, City, University of London, UK linda.berube@city.ac.ukmailto:linda.berube@city.ac.uk Ernesto Priego, City, University of London, UK ernesto.priego.1@city.ac.ukmailto:ernesto.priego.1@city.ac.uk [The Open University logo] Francesca Benatti (she/her/hers), Research Fellow in Digital Humanities Department of English and Creative Writing Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences +44 (0)1908 659 743tel://+4401908659743/ francesca.benatti@open.ac.ukmailto:francesca.benatti@open.ac.uk https://fass.open.ac.uk/people/fb2982 The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, MK7 6AA [signature_4070248874]https://www.facebook.com/theopenuniversity/[signature_2724842539]https://www.instagram.com/theopenuniversity/ [signature_4266857573] https://www.linkedin.com/school/theopenuniversity/ [signature_4040718051] https://twitter.com/OpenUniversity [signature_610744084] https://www.tiktok.com/@theopenuniversity [The Open University logo] Francesca Benatti (she/her/hers), Research Fellow in Digital Humanities Department of English and Creative Writing Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences +44 (0)1908 659 743tel://+4401908659743/ francesca.benatti@open.ac.ukmailto:francesca.benatti@open.ac.uk https://fass.open.ac.uk/people/fb2982 The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, MK7 6AA [signature_309333115]https://www.facebook.com/theopenuniversity/[signature_3472529079]https://www.instagram.com/theopenuniversity/ [signature_1064445704] https://www.linkedin.com/school/theopenuniversity/ [signature_3698162591] https://twitter.com/OpenUniversity [signature_2896942867] https://www.tiktok.com/@theopenuniversity
