[Air-L] OMGC Call for or Papers: Digital cities and re-mediation of global civilization

[Dr. Val Bell]

On Sat, Sep 10, 2022 at 10:11 PM Louisa Shu Ying Ha via Air-L <
air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:

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> Online Media and Global Communication
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> Themed Issue
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> Call For Papers
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> https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/omgc/html
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> Cities are forms of civilization. Human beings now inhabit a planet of
> cities. In 2014, the UN claimed that over half of the world’s population
> resided in cities.  For them, faster global distribution of exotic
> commodities, more frequent encounter of strangers, and the constant
> re-configuration of symbolics have become the everyday experience they now
> live. Following the remarks of Lefebvre in his “Urban Revolution”, cities
> have become a distinctively modern mode of human experience and global
> civilization. Media technologies, broadly conceived as the communicative
> power to connect, transform and converge the old and the new, the actual
> and the virtual, the immediate and the mediated, the afar and the near,
> drive the re-making of global civilization.
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> Digital cities epitomize the coincidence between urbanization and the boom
> of digital media. In contrast to mass media in industrial society, digital
> technologies link human actors with a much larger diversity of intelligent
> non-human agents; automatize critical processes that set one’s chances of
> survival; support novel forms of mobilities; and re-shuffle the
> temporal-spatial parameters of social, political and business interactions
> that constitute cities. Digital cities remediate economic, social, cultural
> and political civilizations on a global scale.  Economically, the best
> practices of global business communication, the automatized networks of
> inter-city logistics and the re-distribution of global capital among global
> cities have changed.  Socially, participation in glocal communities,
> encounters with cultural/ethnic/political others in cities, coping with
> disasters, or the yawning divides of resources between groups have also
> transformed. Culturally, imageries of global cities, narratives about urban
> memories/place identity and even the daily lexicon of city dwellers have
> been re-wired.  Politically, the role of state and the fluctuation of
> international relations have been re-formulated. Whether we can adequately
> understand, explain and criticize this emerging form of global civilization
> shapes the collective future of human beings.
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> Against this backdrop, this themed issue explores how digital media
> re-mediate/create a novel form of civilization in global cities. In
> particular, we focus on the intersection between digital cities and the
> remediation of global economic, political, cultural and social
> civilizations. Discussion may start from the mediation perspective.
> Investigations about the impact of emerging technologies, such as
> algorithm, platform, digital infrastructure, sensor networks and big data
> on city lives are welcomed. Cross-disciplinary dialogues on digital city
> and global civilizations as well as comparative analyses are encouraged.
> We welcome submissions about the following topics:
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> 1 - Digital cities, media and transformation of civilizations
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> a) Relations between media, global cities and civilization as a whole
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> b) How digital technologies transform the development of civilizations
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> c) World civilizations re-mediated via global cities
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> d) Reconfiguration of the world system in the era of digitization and
> urbanization
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> 2 - Digital city and re-mediation of global economic order
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> a) Global city branding on new media
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> b) City images on digital platforms
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> c) Digitization of marketing procedures and its impact on cities
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> d) Case studies and best international business practices in global cities
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> 3 - Digital city and the networking of global culture
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> a) Digitized urban memories and cultural legacies in different cities
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> b) Digital popular culture in cities
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> c) Digitized fans communities and practices in cities
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> 4 - Digital city and the remediation of sociality
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> a) The rise of digital communities in cities
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> b) Digital media art and the encounters of strangers in global cities
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> c) Civic engagement, public participation and trust in digital cities.
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> d) Digital divide between/in cities all over the world and its consequences
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> 5 - Comparative analysis of digital cities and re-mediated civilization
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> a) Comparison of digital cultural practices in different cities
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> b)  Comparison of performance of different cities in coping with natural
> disasters and pandemic
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> c) Cross-national comparisons of everyday life in digital cities
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> d) Comparison of city marketing practices in new media era
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> e) Comparison of urban culture and lifestyles
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> 6 - Reflecting on the relations between technologies and global cities
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> a) Smart cities and its critiques
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> b) Readable cities, media technologies and architecture
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> c) The digital transformation of traditional media in different cities
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> d) Development of digital infrastructure and its consequences
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> e) Re-mediated mobilities and logistic media in cities
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> Submissions about other topics related to digital city and global
> civilization are also sought.
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> For inquiries, please contact:
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> Dr. Pan Ji
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> Email: panji at fudan.edu.cn<mailto:panji at fudan.edu.cn>
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> Deadlines:
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> Abstract submission: By Jan 1, 2023
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> Please submit extended abstracts (at least 250 words) to Dr. Pan Ji at
> panji at fudan.edu.cn<mailto:panji at fudan.edu.cn>
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> Full text submission: By March 1, 2023
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> Please submit full paper at OMGC’s submission portal at:
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> https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/omgc
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-- 
*Valarie J. Bell, M.A.*
Statistics Instructor & Doctoral candidate,
Dept. of Sociology & Social Work, Texas Woman's University
vbell4 at twu.edu

*Aut viam inveniam aut faciam**. *
*I will either find a way or make one. *

*--Hannibal, a Carthaginian general famous for repeatedly defeating the
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