[Air-L] CfP Media Futures EASA MAN network

[Elisenda Ardèvol]

Hi,


We would like to invite you to send papers proposal to our panel on: Media
futures: media anthropology of, for and through the notion of 'future' at
the EASA2014: Collaboration, Intimacy & Revolution to be held in Tallinn
University, Estonia, 31st July - 3rd August, 2014



  This panel examines the implications of a 'futures turn' and how might an
anthropology of media (including design, content, materialities, spaces and
practices) enable us to understand how futures are imagined, made, hoped
for, contested and lived cross-culturally and in the present and recent
past.



 A new wave of critical future-focused scholarship has recently emerged
across the social sciences and humanities. This field of research, which
encompasses anthropology (Collins 2007), has developed in design
anthropology (Gunn and Donovan 2012), in the sociology of expectations
(Brown and Michael 2003) and through anticipatory practices in geography
(Anderson 2010). Media anthropology has intensively explored social change
and cultural transformations (Postill, Ardevol and Tenhunen forthcoming),
but little attention has been paid to how media are implicated in the ways
futures are imagined, projected, predicted or contested.



Media, especially in its relationship with digital technologies, are
nowadays at the core of most meaningful social transformations, creative
and innovation processes. Digital media encompasses new models of social
intervention, citizenship, public engagement and knowledge production based
on collaboration and sharing, as well as new models of social control and
surveillance (Coleman 2010). Which media futures are in dispute? Which
futures are embedded in digital media content, design and practices? How
are images of the future interwoven with media regarding space,
materiality, the sensory, sociality and intimacy? How do media futures
change over time and cross-culturally?


This Media Anthropology Network panel works in collaboration with the
Anthropology at the edge of the future EASA Lab, proposed by Sarah Pink,
Juan Salazar, Andrew Irving and Johannes Sjoberg.




Convenors

Elisenda Ardèvol (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)

Débora Lanzeni (IN3/ UOC)
Philipp Budka (University of Vienna)

Discussant: Juan Salazar (UWS)



The call for papers is now open, closing on 27th Feburary

Send papers proposal via:

http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2014/panels.php5?PanelID=3070




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Elisenda Ardevol
Estudis d'Arts i Humanitats
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
http://mediacciones.es