Mediacity - Situations, Practices and Encounters

[i]Call for Papers – MEDIACITY Conference 2008 [/i] Bauhaus-Universität Weimar 18-19th January 2008 The conference “MEDIACITY - Situations, Practices and Encounters” will investigate how the social settings and spaces of the city are created, experienced and practiced through the use and presence of new media. We will take the position that new media enables different settings, practices and behaviours to occur in urban space. These media create opportunities for diverse forms of connections between people and spaces and enable and create flows; of information, of communication and of knowledge. The conference will consist of three parallel sessions and a workshop, which will explore these themes in a focussed way. We invite papers for the conference and less formal presentations on practices for the workshop session from academics, practitioners, activists close to disciplines such as media studies, architecture, urban studies, cultural and urban geography and sociology – using in innovative ways and reflecting critically on processes, methods and impacts of public participation and technologies in urban realm, within their theoretical and practical research, teaching, or activism roles. Deadline Abstracts: 1st October 2007 Submission Please submit a paper of between 2 and 4 pages as an extended abstract. The conference language will be English. Papers will be submitted to external review. Outcomes Selected papers from the conference will be published in a post-conference volume. For more information: www.mediacityproject.com