FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: GEOMEDIA 2015:

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: 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).

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Mustafa Dikec – Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

Mimi Sheller – Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA

John Tomlinson – Nottingham Trent University, UK

 

PLENARY PANEL

Paul C. Adams (chair) – University of Texas at Austin, USA

Julie Cupples – University of Edinburgh, UK

Dana Diminescu – Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme + Télécom ParisTech, Paris, France

Hille Koskela – University of Turku, Finland

 

FILMS & DIRECTORS

“The Forgotten Space” – Noël Burch (director)

“Cosmopolitanism” – Erik Gandini (director)

 

DEADLINE FOR PAPER PROPOSALS: 1st of December 2014

 

GeoMedia 2015 welcomes proposals in English of 200-250 words.

Submissions are made via the conference website:  www.geomedia.se

 

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

 

FURTHER INFORMATION

Website:  www.geomedia.se

Email: info@geomedia.se

 

ORGANIZERS AND VENUE

GeoMedia 2015 is hosted by the Department of Geography, Media and Communication at Karlstad University, Sweden.

 

Mekonnen Tesfahuney, Conference General

Linda Ryan Bengtsson, GeoMedia Co-ordinator

André Jansson, Director of the GeoMedia reserach group