CDCS Symposium: Reframing Leisure, Humor, and Play in Global Digital Culture
Date: 25.04.2025
Conference / symposium
Format: onsite
Location: Philadelphia, United States of America
Event Fee: Free
Organizer(s):
Center on Digital Culture and Society Annenberg School for Communication
This symposium brings together scholars of digital culture to consider global perspectives on the changing nature of leisure, humor, and play in the digital age. Speakers will examine the blurring boundaries between leisure and work through notions like “fan labor,” the broadening of “digital play” outside of its typical framing in early childhood development to varieties of online play among all age groups, and the ramifications of viral memes and online humor for political and social landscapes worldwide. Finally, this symposium explores how marginalized communities engage in digital leisure spaces in ways that impact existing power structures, as well as digital leisure practices outside of Global North contexts.
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