[ecrea] EASA MAN Media Futures CfP

EASA2014: Collaboration, Intimacy & Revolution

Tallinn University, Estonia

31st July - 3rd August, 2014



Media futures: media anthropology of, for and through the notion of 'future'

(EASA MAN -Media Anthropology Network-)



Convenors



Elisenda Ardèvol (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)

Débora Lanzeni (IN3/ UOC)

Philipp Budka (University of Vienna)



Short Abstract



This panel examines the implications of a 'futures turn' and how might 
an anthropology of media (including design, content, materialities, 
spaces and practices) enable us to understand how futures are imagined, 
made, hoped for, contested and lived cross-culturally and in the present 
and recent past.



Long Abstract



A new wave of critical future-focused scholarship has recently emerged 
across the social sciences and humanities. This field of research, which 
encompasses anthropology (Collins 2007), has developed in design 
anthropology (Gunn and Donovan 2012), in the sociology of expectations 
(Brown and Michael 2003) and through anticipatory practices in geography 
(Anderson 2010). Media anthropology has intensively explored social 
change and cultural transformations (Postill, Ardevol and Tenhunen 
forthcoming), but little attention has been paid to how media are 
implicated in the ways futures are imagined, projected, predicted or 
contested.



Media, especially in its relationship with digital technologies, are 
nowadays at the core of most meaningful social transformations, creative 
and innovation processes. Digital media encompasses new models of social 
intervention, citizenship, public engagement and knowledge production 
based on collaboration and sharing, as well as new models of social 
control and surveillance (Coleman 2010). Which media futures are in 
dispute? Which futures are embedded in digital media content, design and 
practices? How are images of the future interwoven with media regarding 
space, materiality, the sensory, sociality and intimacy? How do media 
futures change over time and cross-culturally?



This panel proposes to examine the implications of a 'futures turn' in 
media anthropology. How might anthropology of media help us understand 
how futures are imagined, made, hoped for, and lived in present and 
recent past.



This Media Anthropology Network panel works in collaboration with the 
Anthropology at the edge of the future EASA Lab, proposed by Sarah Pink, 
Juan Salazar, Andrew Irving and Johannes Sjoberg.



Discussant: Juan Salazar (UWS)



The call for papers is now open, closing on 27th Feburary

Send papers proposal via:

http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2014/panels.php5?PanelID=3070




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Elisenda Ardevol
Estudis d'Arts i Humanitats
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
http://mediacciones.es


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