[csaa-forum] FW: CFP: Symposium on Media City, May 15-17 2013, Helsinki

[Scott Mcquire]

Apologies for cross-posting, there is space for a few more papers.



On 12/01/13 1:11 AM, "javuolte at mappi.helsinki.fi"
<javuolte at mappi.helsinki.fi> wrote:
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>CALL FOR PAPERS
>The Spectacular/Ordinary/Contested Media City
>May 15?-17, 2013
>Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland
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>In contemporary cities, the effects of advanced telecommunications and
>  commodified media exist everywhere around us. In both eye-catching
>and oblique ways, mass and personalised media forms reshape our
>spatial practices and perceptions of specific milieus and the city as
>a whole.
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>We invite presentations that deal particularly with the following issues:
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>? role of media and surveillance technologies in the
>spectacularisation of urban public spaces and events
>? the ways in which media technologies and representations become part
>  of the taken-for-granted perceptions and routinised practices and
>rhythms of urban life
>? the actual and potential contributions of mass and personalised
>media forms to the contestation of economic, political and cultural
>hegemonies in cities
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>Throughout the interdisciplinary symposium, the spectacular, ordinary
>and contested aspects of the media city will be brainstormed through
>questions such as: What is the relationship of materiality of media
>and symbolic media representations in the construction of densely
>digitalised urban milieus? To what extent and how is media-saturation
>steering people?s urban activities towards automated and un-reflected
>modes? Or do the ?urban media affordances? open room for creative
>place-making practices, new amalgamations of technology and
>corporeality, and even chances for alternative decoding and political
>resistance? In which ways do different forms of art and popular
>culture (cinema, literature, theatre, digital games etc.) articulate
>and intervene in the media city? What ethical and political issues
>lurk behind the pecuniary motifs of the ongoing mediatisation of space?
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>Invited keynote speakers:
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>? Anne Cronin, Lancaster University, UK
>? Stephen Graham, Newcastle University, UK
>? Scott McQuire, Melbourne University, Australia
>? Shannon Mattern, The New School, USA
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>If you would like to present a paper at the
>Spectacular/Ordinary/Contested Media City symposium, please send an
>abstract (max. 300 words) to mediacity-2013 at helsinki.fi by 24 January
>2013. A narrative bio (max. 100 words) describing the author?s
>background and research interests should also accompany the proposal.
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>For more information, visit:
>http://www.helsinki.fi/collegium/events/mediacity2013
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>The organising committee:
>Jani Vuolteenaho & Outi Hakola, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
>Seija Ridell & Sami Kolamo, University of Tampere.
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>Contacts / conference secretary:
>Kirsi L. Reyes-Anastacio / Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
>Email: mediacity-2013 at helsinki.fi
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>-- 
>Outi J. Hakola, PhD.
>Programme coordinator
>Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
>PO BOX 4
>FIN 00014 University of Helsinki
>Finland
>tel. +358 (0)9 191 21734
>email: outi.j.hakola at helsinki.fi
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