MediaCity Conference 2008 – Weimar, 18-19 January 2008 18-01-2008, Source: Young
Academics Network Introduction The conference “MEDIACITY - Situations, Practices and Encounters” will
investigate how the social settings and spaces of the city are created,
experienced and practiced through the use and presence of new media. It will
take the position that new media enables different settings, practices and
behaviours to occur in urban space. These media create opportunities for diverse
forms of connections between people and spaces and enable and create flows; of
information, of communication and of knowledge.
Description
The conference will consist of three parallel sessions and a workshop, which
will explore these themes in a focussed way. We invite papers for the conference
and less formal presentations on practices for the workshop session from
academics, practitioners, activists close to disciplines such as media studies,
architecture, urban studies, cultural and urban geography and sociology – using
in innovative ways and reflecting critically on processes, methods and impacts
of public participation and technologies in urban realm, within their
theoretical and practical research, teaching, or activism roles.
The organisers invite interested parties to submit a paper on the conference
topic. Please submit a paper of between 2 and 4 pages as an extended abstract.
The conference language will be English. Papers will be submitted to external
review. The deadline for submitting abstracts is 1 October 2007. Selected papers
from the conference will be published in a post-conference volume.
Programme Location
Weimar, Germany
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