[ecrea] Digital Methods, Cultural Politics and Feminist Approaches:

>DEADLINE 8th JUNE
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>Digital Methods, Cultural Politics and Feminist Approaches:
>A One - Day Graduate Conference
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>Monday 5 July 2010
>University of Sussex,
>Media Film and Music & Doctoral School
>Centre for Digital Material Culture
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>Research in the humanities and social sciences has increasingly
>incorporated visual media and digital methodologies. At the same time,
>relatively little attention has been accorded to the way in which feminist
>approaches to science and technology have informed the research process by
>contributing to discussions of private and public, materiality, network
>cultures and identity.
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>This one-day conference aims to examine the emerging field in the
>intersection of digital methods, cultural politics and feminist theory. The
>conference hopes to bring together Doctoral students as well as early
>career researchers working in media and cultural studies, gender studies,
>digital media, feminist science and technology studies, and queer studies.
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>Themes of discussion might include:
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>-Digital methods and visual media in the research of political engagement.
>-Feminist approaches to researching science, culture and technology.
>-Internet research ethics, feminist ethics and research.
>-The concepts of public and private.
>-Epistemological and ontological issues in STS and material feminisms.
>-Actor Network Theory, media studies and Feminism.
>-Notions of difference and identity in digital networks.
>-Information flows and the problem of representation.
>-Gender, biological and information technologies.
>-Science, technology and social change.
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>Please send your abstracts of approximately 300 words by 8th June 2010 to
>(a.fotopoulou /at/ sussex.ac.uk).
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>Visit : http://www.sussex.ac.uk/rcmdc/1-2-4.html
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>--
>Aristea Fotopoulou
>Doctorate Candidate Media and Cultural Studies
>Associate Tutor
>Centre for Digital Material Culture
>School of Media, Film and Music
>SB 120   internal: 6610
>University of Sussex
>
>http://www.sussex.ac.uk/mediastudies/profile206365.html

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Free University of Brussels
Centre for Studies on Media and Culture (CeMeSO)
Pleinlaan 2 - B-1050 Brussels - Belgium
T: ++ 32 (0)2-629.18.56
F: ++ 32 (0)2-629.36.84
Office: 5B.401a
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