Media Transatlantic: Media Theory in North America and
\nGerman-Speaking Europe<\/p>\n
April 8-10, 2010; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
\nProposals due: Nov. 27, 2010<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.mediatrans.ca<\/a><\/p>\n Ubiquitous and indispensible, media technologies have taken on an epistemological or even ontological significance: we learn what we know, and we become what we are, through print, TV, digital, mobile and other communications. \u201cNo part of the world, no human activity,\u201d as Sonia Livingstone says, \u201cis untouched\u2026. Societies worldwide are being reshaped, for better or for worse, by changes in the global media and information environment.\u201d Seeing media as a lens or even as an a priori condition for understanding historical, social and cultural change has become increasingly prevalent and urgent on both sides of the Atlantic. However, with some notable exceptions, this work has been developing independently, producing a wide-ranging if fruitful heterogeneity. On the one side are the interdisciplinary and theoretically-engaged Medienwissenschaften (media studies), and on the other, work developing out of the Toronto school and a variety of theoretical and disciplinary traditions. The purpose of this conference is to deepen and expand transatlantic dialogue between North America and German-speaking Europe (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) in the area of media theory — and to provide an opportunity for developing connections to other contexts as well. Areas of research and scholarship relevant to this dialogue include communication, philosophy, media literacy, and literary and cultural studies.<\/p>\n Confirmed Keynotes: This conference invites papers, in English, focusing on such issues as:<\/p>\n – Recent developments in media theory in North America and central Abstracts should be submitted using the form provided on the conference Contact,<\/p>\n Norm Friesen Media Transatlantic: Media Theory in North America and German-Speaking Europe April 8-10, 2010; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Proposals due: Nov. 27, 2010 http:\/\/www.mediatrans.ca Ubiquitous and indispensible, media technologies have taken on an epistemological or even ontological significance: we … Continue reading
\n– Kim Sawchuk (Concordia)
\n– Katherine Hayles (Chicago)
\n– Sybille Kr\u00e4mer (Berlin)
\n– Dieter Mersch (Potsdam)
\n– Hartmut Winkler (Paderborn)
\n– Geoffrey Winthrop-Young (Vancouver)<\/p>\n
\nEurope, for example:
\n–\u00a0\u00a0 Media and materiality
\n–\u00a0\u00a0 The construction of \u201cmediality\u201d in theory and
\npractice
\n–\u00a0\u00a0 Media and the (post)human
\n–\u00a0\u00a0 The \u201cmediatic turn\u201d as milestone or misnomer
\n– The foundational contributions of McLuhan, Innis and the Toronto
\nSchool, of Flusser, Luhmann, and others
\n– Media as means of socialization and education
\n– Towards a philosophy of media
\n– (Inter)disciplinary implications of media-theoretical developments<\/p>\n
\nWebsite: http:\/\/www.mediatrans.ca\/submit.html<\/p>\n
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