GEOMEDIA 2015:
“Spaces and Mobilities in Mediatized Worlds”
An Interdisciplinary International Conference
Karlstad, Sweden
5-8 May 2015
GeoMedia 2015 provides a genuinely interdisciplinary arena for research carried out at the crossroads of Geography, Media and Film Studies. The aim of the conference is to map out the current terrain of communication geographical research, pinpointing its main areas of debate and assessing the prospects of communication geography as a more formalized academic field. GeoMedia 2015 welcomes scholars of all disciplines who address questions pertaining to the space-mobility-media-communication nexus and want to take part in current epistemological discussions regarding communication geography and its future(s).
DEADLINE FOR PANEL PROPOSALS (including 4-5 papers):
10th of October
DEADLINE FOR INDIVIDUAL PAPER PROPOSALS:
1st of December
The submission system can be reached via the conference website:
Suggested themes include, but are not limited to:
– Communication geographies
– Mobilities and locative media
– Power geometries of/in motion
– “Newsworthy” spaces
– Mobilities, flows and new media
– Material geographies of media
– Policy mobilities and power
– Media ecologies
– Lifestyle and tourism mobilities
– Pervasive media
– Cinematic geographies
– Mobility and governance
– New media and the productions of place/space
– Urban and rural media spaces
– Geographies of media and culture industries
– Art and event spaces
ALL INFORMATION ABOUT THE CONFERENCE CAN BE FOUND AT THE WEBSITE: www.geomedia.se
CONTACT: info@geomedia.se
GeoMedia 2015 is hosted by the Department of Geography, Media and Communication, Karlstad University, Sweden.
Mekonnen Tesfahuney, Conference General
Linda Ryan Bengtsson, GeoMedia Co-ordinator
André Jansson, Director of the GeoMedia research group