CFPs in media studies
This post relays several CFP announcements for these coming weeks, in the field of media studies, new technologies and globalization:
1. Travelling Languages: Culture, Communication and Translation in a Mobile World > CFP deadline: 1 June 2010.
2. Europe and the Media – new developments in social theory and research > CFP deadline: 31 May 2010
3. Citizenship: Critical Making and Social Media > CFP deadline: 20 May 2010
Travelling Languages
Culture, Communication and Translation in a Mobile World
10th Annual Conference of the International Association of Languages and Intercultural Communication (IALIC) in Association with the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, Leeds Metropolitan University.
3 – 5 December 2010, Leeds, United Kingdom
organised by Jane Wilkinson (University of Leeds) and Mike Robinson (Leeds Metropolitan University).
More information here: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/german/ialic_conference_2010.htm
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Europe and the Media – new developments in social theory and research
ESA RN 18 Communications and Media Research Interim meeting in Athens
29-30 October 2010
Media studies in Europe have mushroomed in the last decades. The globalization of communications and the enlargement of the European Union have forced media researchers to constantly broaden their horizons and reassess their approaches. Our next Network meeting is especially concerned with these changes.
Abstracts are invited for papers to be given at the next meeting of the Network on October 29/30 2010 in Athens. Papers are particularly invited where they address the theme of the meeting, and as a network of the European Sociological Association we remind colleagues that formulation of research in relation to sociological theory and concepts is especially welcome, as is empirical work which addresses comparative topics and the major concerns of European sociology. This will include work which deals with questions about identity (national, ethnic, European) and how that relates to media consumption, the development of new media in Europe, the political economy and social networking, European newspapers in the age of the internet, Google vs.
European publishers, European public sphere after the financial turmoil and the communication crisis, etc. We do not take ‘Europe’ as itself an unproblematic concept. New thinking on all these topics will be very welcome.
It is likely that a publication will arise of the best papers at the meeting.
The meeting will also afford time for general work reflecting the diversity of research activity among our members. The first criteria for selection will be excellence of research and general interest to network members. We are particularly interested in papers that take a comparative view on communication practices in Europe. We also encourage critical and interdisciplinary approaches aiming to create a dialogue between a broad diversity of methodological and theoretical approaches.
Presentations will be no more than 20 minutes, though fuller papers will be required for circulation. Work in progress is welcome, and authors should not feel inhibited from presenting work which is still being developed or is incomplete.
Abstracts, which should be no more than 200 words and include full contact details for the author(s), should be sent to Prof. Ludes and Prof. Panagiotopoulou by May 31:
Prof. Peter Ludes
Mass Communication/Integrated Social Sciences Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH P.O. Box 750 561, 28725 Bremen, Germany
Phone: +49-421-200 3476, Fax: +49-421-2003303
http://www.jacobs-university.de/directory/02762/
http://www.keyvisuals.org
email: p.ludes[at]jacobs-university[dot]de
Prof. Roy Panagiotopoulou
Department of Communication and Media Studies University of Athens
5 Stadiou Street
105 62 Athens, Greece
Tel. +30 210 3689415, +30 210 3601917
e-mail: rpanag[at]media[dot]uoa[dot]gr
Practical Information
1.Timetable:
a. Program decisions will be made by July 1st and authors notified accordingly in July.
b. Full completed papers should be submitted by Sept. 15, so that they may be circulated to meeting participants. Authors should follow the presentation and format conventions of the ESA journal European Societies (see http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=1461-6696&linktype=44)
2.Travel and Local Arrangements
a. Participants will be required to pay a nominal registration fee of €30.
This will include refreshments and the final dinner. The fee will be paid on site and official receipts will be issued.
b. Members will need to make their own travel arrangements.
c. Details of accommodation will be supplied at a later date. The need for convenient and low cost accommodation will be given proper consideration
All network members will be kept regularly updated on arrangements as they proceed. We look forward very much to meeting you in Athens.
Prof. Peter Golding, Loughborough (Honorary Chair) Prof. Peter Ludes, Jacobs University Bremen (Co-Chair), Prof. Roy Panagiotopoulou, Athens (Co-Chair), Jan Müller, Jacobs University Bremen (Board Member), Raluca Petre, Ovidius State University of Constanta, (Board Member), Prof. Peeter Vihalemm, University of Tartu (Board Member)
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CITIZENSHIP
CRITICAL MAKING AND SOCIAL MEDIA
University of Toronto
November 12-13 2010
Center for the Study of the United States At the University of Toronto
http://diycitizenship.com/
A renewed emphasis on participatory forms of digitally-mediated production is transforming our social landscape. Making has become the dominant metaphor for a variety of digital and digitally-mediated practices. The web is exploding with independently produced digital content such as video diaries, conversations, stories, software, music, video games‹all of which are further transformed and morphed by “modders”, “hackers”, artists and activists who redeploy and repurpose corporately-produced content. Equally, communities of self-organized crafters, hackers, and enthusiasts are increasingly to be found online exchanging sewing and knitting patterns, technical guides, circuit layouts, detailed electronics tutorials and other forms of instruction and support. Many of these individuals and collaborators understand their work to be socially interventionist. Through practices of design, development, and exchange they challenge traditional divides between production and consumption and to redress the power differentials built into technologically-mediated societies.
“DIY Citizenship” invokes the participatory nature of these diverse “do-it-yourself” modes of engagement, community, networks, and tools‹all of which arguably replace traditional with remediated notions of citizenship.
The term “critical making” refers to the increasing role-making plays in critical forms of social reflection and engagement.
This interactive conference seeks to extend conversations about new modes of engaged DIY citizenship and politics evidenced by the exponential increase of DIY media, “user-generators”, “prosumers”, “hacktivists”, tactical media interventionists, and other maker identities. We invite scholars, activists, artists, designers, programmers and others interested in the social and participatory dimensions of digitally-mediated practices, to engage in dialogue across disciplinary and professional divides. All methodological and theoretical approaches are welcomed. Submissions may include paper proposals, works of art and/or design, short video or audio segments, performances, video games, digital media, or other genres and forms. Potential topics include: the relation between social media and the Œmaking¹ of new forms of citizenship engagement‹thus, for example, making movements; making community; making news; making play; making bodies; making health; making public; making education; making networks.
Plenary speakers include:
Anne Balsamo, Professor of Interactive Media in the School of Cinematic Arts, and of Communications in the Annenberg School of Communications, University of Southern California, co-founder of Onomy Labs, Inc. a Silicon Valley technology design and fabrication company that builds cultural technologies.
Suzanne de Castell, Professor (media, educational technologies) Faculty of Education Simon Fraser University, Vancouver: educational media theory, research, design and development, Founded Canadian Game Studies Association <http://contagion.edu.yorku.ca/cgsa/> , co-editor of LoadingŠ
Ron Deibert, Professor (Political Science), University of Toronto, Director of the Citizen Lab <http://www.citizenlab.org/> ; a co-founder and a principal investigator of the OpenNet Initiative <http://opennet.net/> and Information Warfare Monitor <http://www.infowar-monitor.net/> projects; co-founder and VP of global policy and outreach for Psiphon Inc <http://www.psiphon.ca/> .
Paul Dourish, Professor of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine, co-conspirator in the Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing and Interaction, and author of Where the Action Is: The Foundations of Embodied Interaction, MIT Press.
Henry Jenkins, Provost’s Professor of Communications, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California. Blogger, henryjenkins.org <http://henryjenkins.org> . Author of Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. Currently doing research for MacArthur Foundation on youth, new media, and the public sphere.
Jennifer Jenson, Professor of Pedagogy and Technology, York University,
Toronto: video game designer, co-editor of Loading The Journal of the Canadian Game Studies Association <http://journals.sfu.ca/loading/>
Natalie Jeremijenko, artist whose background includes studies in biochemistry, physics, neuroscience and precision engineering. Jeremijenko¹s projects which explore socio-technical change have been exhibited by several museums and galleries, including the MASSMoCA, the Whitney, Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt. Jeremijenko is the director of the environmental health clinic at NYU, assistant professor in Art, and affiliated with the Computer Science Dept.
Steve Mann, professor of Applied Engineering, and Arts and Sciences, University of Toronto, proliferate inventor including wearable computing, hydraulophone, and concept of ‘sousveillance’: “the effects a surveillance device has on others”
Trebor Scholz, Professor of Culture and Media Study, The New School, NewYork: media activist and artist, founder of the Institute for Distributed Creativity <http://www.distributedcreativity.org/>
Conference organizers: Prof. Megan Boler, University of Toronto; Prof. Matt Ratto, University of Toronto.
Please submit a 250-word proposal or description of work/presentation and a one-page artist or scholarly CV to submissions[at]diycitizenship[dot]com by May 20, 2010. Please include up to five images of work to be shown/discussed or a web URL if appropriate. Notifications will take place by June 15, 2010. For more information, contact info[at]diycitizenship[dot]com or visit our website at www.diycitizenship.com.
Presenters will be invited to submit completed papers for an edited collection with a university press and/or a special issue of a peer-reviewed journal.
