Objective
The principal objectivesof International New Media Conference are:

• to develop critical frameworks and methodologies that enable the reception, consumption and impact of new technologies, specifically the conference addresses human-computer interaction, computer-mediated communication, social interaction and networking, group dynamics, organizational contexts and cultural contexts.
• to contextualize the environments, discourses, ideologies, and uses of new media technologies, and to address the specific implications of the increasing convergence of media forms
• to monitor the conditions of emergence of new media technologies, their subsequent mass production and the development of new cultural forms
• to promote discussion and analysis of the creative and educational potentials of those technologies, and to contextualise those cultural practices within wider cultural and political debates.

The conference attempts to reveal inter- and intra-disciplinary research of new media texts and technologies.
Scope
1.     The mobilization of local, national, and transnational social movements through the use of social network sites, tweets, texting, and other forms of networked and instantaneous communication forms.
2.     The rhetoric of digital equality and unequal access to digital culture: class, race, region, and gender, and access to social media and digital communication technologies.
3.       The impact of digital culture on collective memory, conceptions of the historical, historical research methods, and the writing of history.
4.       The role of history in digital humanities: archival practices, collecting history online, historical text mining, and digital storytelling.