Web/Comics: 1st International Workshop on Webcomics and/as Hypertext, 4 September, Biblioteca Hertziana, Rome – Program

~ Ernesto Priego

Web/Comics 2023 is the first in a new workshop series for the ACM Hypertext conference.

The workshop will be held in person in conjunction with the Hypertext 2023 conference, 4th September, at the Biblioteca Hertziana, Rome. I am very happy to be able to share the program below.

Program

14:15-14:30 Arrival and welcome

14:30-16:00 Panel 1 (full papers)

  • Martin Foret and Petra Foretová: Hypercomics as upgrade – and as downgrade of comics. The gains and losses of digital comics on the journey from webcomics to postcomics.
  • Giorgio Busi Rizzi: Webcomics as a provocation to comics meaning-making: the case of L’immeuble by Vidu.
  • Svitlana Pidoprygora: Webcomics and Documenting War in Ukraine.

16:00-16:30 Break

16:30-17:00 Panel 2 (position papers)

  • Francesca Benatti: Researching webcomics. A cautionary tale.
  • Linda Berube: Hovering Hypertext!  Comics Readers Interacting and Having Fun
  • Ernesto Priego: “Into the Bowels of the Information Organism”: Setting Webcomics in a Historical Context

17:00-18:00 Roundtable discussion and next steps.

Many thanks to my colleagues in the organizing committee, Francesca Benatti (Open University) and Linda Berube (City, University of London) and to the members of the programme committee:

Jen Aggleton (Open University)

Ian Cooke (British Library)

Simon Grennan (University of Chester)

Nicolas Labarre (Université Bordeaux Montaigne)

Leah Misemer (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Anastasia Salter (University of Central Florida)

I can’t wait for the workshop!

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My passion is creating opportunities for discovery, creativity and innovation. I am an advocate for enhanced access to information as a public good. I enjoy fostering engagement and openness, facilitating collaboration and mentoring. My main focus is multi-disciplinary and involves practically and theoretically connecting the dots between varied, closely-related fields and topics: comics studies; human-computer interaction design, library and information science, digital humanities, scholarly communications, publishing studies, digital innovation and material culture, intellectual rights and open science, access, data and educational resources. I love writing and spreading the word about the things I believe in. I love higher education and the Internet and I define myself as a digital scholarship advocate. I love working collaboratively and on my own. You can still follow me and/or contact me via Twitter @ernestopriego.