[ecrea] Connect/ Reconnect/ Disconnect: Political and Popular Culture, New Media and the Future of Civic Engagement

> DEADLINE : 5 March 2010
>
>
> Connect/ Reconnect/ Disconnect
> Political and popular culture, new media and the future of civic engagement
>
> 4th Annual PhD Conference, Institute of 
> Communications Studies, University of Leeds, UK, 
> June 29th, 2010 ? 9.00 am to 5.00 pm
>
> We frequently divide civil culture and popular 
> culture, but new media thrives on the creation 
> of relationships. The civil and the popular are 
> no exception. The conference looks to explore 
> how new media spaces 
> connect/reconnect/disconnect across all 
> boundaries, especially civic and popular boundaries.
>
> The conference invites papers that tackle the 
> role of new media in all spaces that involve the 
> civic and the popular. We invite any and all 
> disciplines to connect/reconnect/disconnect with 
> the term new media in deciding how we are 
> actually engaging with civil and popular culture 
> spaces online and in our new/old and augmented/unchanged reality.
>
> Indicative conference themes:
> - Online journalism and the blogosphere
> - Mobile connectivity at local, regional, national and/or supranational levels
> - Online social and political networking
> - Popular culture and transnational communities in new media spaces
> - Civil disobedience and regulation in new media
> - How new media has 
> changed/reinforced/influenced popular culture and its traditions
> - The future of social and/or civil spaces 
> created by technology and/or global populations
>
> Submission process:
> This conference invites abstracts from any 
> discipline willing to use our current body of 
> knowledge to address these questions.
>
> Abstracts should be limited to 250 words in 
> length and include the title of the proposed 
> paper as well as an overview of the topic 
> covered. Please also specify the author?s name, 
> institution and email address and send the 
> abstract to <mailto:(ics-pg-conference /at/ leeds.ac.uk)>(ics-pg-conference /at/ leeds.ac.uk)
>
> The deadline for submission is March 5th, 2010.
> Abstracts will be assessed and you will be 
> informed by March 29th, 2010 if it has been accepted or not.
>
> Registration:
> Online registration will be available from Feb 8th, 2010
>
> Key Dates:
> Abstracts deadline: March 5th, 2010
> Acceptance: March 29th, 2010
> Conference: June 29th, 2010
>
> Twitter: <http://twitter.com/ICSCon>http://twitter.com/ICSCon
> Institute of Communications Studies, Houldsworth 
> Building, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, Tel: +44 (0)113 343 88 59
>
>
>
> On behalf of the Organizing Committee
> ICS Postgraduate Conference 2010
> 29 June 2010
> <http://twitter.com/ICSCon>http://twitter.com/ICSCon
> Institute of Communications Studies
> University of Leeds, UK
>
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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)
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