[Air-L] CFP: MIT's Media in Transition - Conference

[Rod Carveth]

I emailed Dr. Seawell to see if he would extend the deadline to Monday.  I will forward his response to the list.

Rod Carveth
Quinnipiac University





> From: mclauglm at muohio.edu
> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 14:42:19 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] CFP: MIT's Media in Transition - Conference
> 
> Unfortunately, today is the deadline. Do you know if MIT is extending it?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Lisa
> 
> 
> On 1/9/09 2:00 PM, "Michael Zimmer" <zimmerm at uwm.edu> wrote:
> 
> [Of interest to many, I'm sure... -mz]
> 
> 
> 
> Media in Transition 6: stone and papyrus, storage and transmission
> 
> International Conference
> April 24-26, 2009
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
> 
> CALL FOR PAPERS
> 
> In his seminal essay "The Bias of Communication" Harold Innis
> distinguishes between time-based and space-based media.  Time-based
> media such as stone or clay, Innis agues, can be seen as durable, while
> space-based media such as paper or papyrus can be understood as
> portable, more fragile than stone but more powerful because capable of
> transmission, diffusion, connections across space.  Speculating on this
> distinction, Innis develops an account of civilization grounded in the
> ways in which media forms shape trade, religion, government, economic
> and social structures, and the arts.
> 
> Our current era of prolonged and profound transition is surely as
> media-driven as the historical cultures Innis describes.  His division
> between the durable and the portable is perhaps problematic in the age
> of the computer, but similar tensions define our contemporary situation.
> Digital communications have increased exponentially the speed with which
> information circulates. Moore's Law continues to hold, and with it a
> doubling of memory capacity every two years; we are poised to reach
> transmission speeds of 100 terabits per second, or something akin to
> transmitting the entire printed contents of the Library of Congress in
> under five seconds.
> 
> Such developments are simultaneously exhilarating and terrifying. They
> profoundly challenge efforts to maintain access to the vast printed and
> audio-visual inheritance of analog culture as well as efforts to
> understand and preserve the immense, enlarging universe of text, image
> and sound available in cyberspace.
> 
> What are the implications of these trends for historians who seek to
> understand the place of media in our own culture?
> 
> What challenges confront librarians and archivists who must supervise
> the migration of print culture to digital formats and who must also find
> ways to preserve and catalogue the vast and increasing range of words
> and images generated by new technologies?
> 
> How are shifts in distribution and circulation affecting the stories we
> tell, the art we produce, the social structures and policies we
> construct?
> 
> What are the implications of this tension between storage and
> transmission for education, for individual and national identities, for
> notions of what is public and what is private?
> 
> We invite papers from scholars, journalists, media creators, teachers,
> writers and visual artists on these broad themes.  Potential topics
> might include:
> 
> The digital archive
> The future of libraries and museums
> The past and future of the book
> Mobile media
> Historical systems of communication
> Media in the developing world
> Social networks
> Mapping media flows
> Approaches to media history
> Education and the changing media environment
> New forms of storytelling and expression
> Location-based entertainment
> Hyperlocal media and civic engagement
> New modes of circulation and distribution
> The transformation of television -- from broadcast to download
> Cosmopolitanism backlashes against media change
> Virtual worlds and digital tourism
> The continuity principle: what endures or resists digital
> transformation?
> The fate of reading
> 
> 
> Submissions
> 
> Abstracts of no more than 500 words or full papers should be sent to
> Brad Seawell at seawell at mit.edu no later than Friday, Jan. 9, 2009.  We
> will evaluate abstracts and full papers on a rolling basis and early
> submission is highly encouraged.  All submissions should be sent as
> attachments in a Word format. Submitted material will be subject to
> editing by conference organizers.
> 
> Email is preferred, but submissions can be mailed to:
> 
> Brad Seawell
> MIT 14N-430
> 77 Massachusetts Avenue
> Cambridge, MA 02139
> 
> Please include a biographical statement of no more than 100 words. If
> your paper is accepted, this statement will be used on the conference
> Web site.
> 
> Please monitor the conference Web site at
> http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit6 for registration information, travel
> information and conference updates.
> 
> Abstracts will be accepted on a rolling basis until Jan. 9, 2009.
> 
> The full text of your paper must be submitted no later than Friday,
> April 17. Conference papers will be posted to the conference Web site
> and made available to all conferees.
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Michael Zimmer, PhD
> Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies
> Associate, Center for Information Policy Research
> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
> e: zimmerm at uwm.edu
> w: www.michaelzimmer.org
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