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[ecrea] CfA Media and Mobility

Fri Apr 18 18:59:05 GMT 2014





Call for Articles: Media and Mobility section of Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies





Transfers, now in its fourth year of publication, is emerging as a key peer-reviewed platform for new research into the practices, experiences and representations of disparate mobilities. In its mission to rethink mobility, the journal also provides a forum for innovative research at the intersection of mobility and media studies. The focus lies on contemporary and historic interactions and linkages between transport, traffic, communication, and media in its broadest sense. Transfers has outlined this field in a special section on ‘Traffic - On the Historical Alignment of Media and Mobility’ in 2013 (1).



To further elaborate on the ‘media and mobility’ link, we invite submissions that investigate the diverse relations between technology, mobility, and media. This includes submissions that analyze the role of infrastructures with respect to communication and transport, or the ‘mobilization’ of communication and media technologies and the ‘mediatization’ of transportation, and its long-term development. We also invite contributions that link media to mobility more theoretically, e.g. by conceptualizing media as an intermediary field that always includes and negotiates aspects of mobility. We encourage submissions that treat ‘media’ and ‘mobility’ as entangled entities, that discuss their spatio-temporal and historical dimensions in respect to what it means to be mobile or to migrate, and that explore the embodied, affective, and interpersonal dimensions of media and mobility.



In particular, we suggest three fields of research that entail multiple perspectives on media, mobility, and their relationships:



1) Media technologies in the context of transportation: Any transportation needs communication, and media technologies were and are used to improve, control or enhance travel and its safety or comfort. This field has multiple facets; it includes media-based traffic simulation systems, the interconnectedness of virtual and physical travel as well as navigation technologies or the question of how spaces were and are experienced by those who are moving and consuming media. Moreover, media and transportation technologies have a long shared history, with the telegraph-railway symbiosis of the 19th century, the media-saturated cars of the 20th century or the mobile locative media of the 21st century being prominent examples.



2) Mobility and transportation technologies in the context of media: Mobility technologies and motion techniques are used as artistic methods in the media and the arts (e.g., tracking shots or so-called ‘phantom rides’ in motion pictures; flight simulation, etc.). Yet, novel transportation technologies are not only used, portrayed, or discussed in different media as motif. Rather, due to their specific modes of perception, such technologies generate new means of (re-)presentation which lead to changes within the media sector (e.g., fragmentation techniques in art, montage in film, interactive and multimedia applications in computer games). This field investigates intermedial relations, such as structural similarities between processes of locomotion and processes of seeing or recording in motion. Moreover, a prime example for connecting 1) and 2) would be the case of mobile media.



3) Traffic and media as exchange, transportation and communication: A third field concerns research that takes up historical meanings of ‘traffic’ and ‘communication’ when these terms meant both the movement of people and objects, and of ideas, words, images, or bits respectively. This includes research inside media studies and media history that expands a narrow understanding of ‘media’ in favour of a broader concept of ‘mediation’. Articles might analyse the ‘unfixedness’ of media, or investigate how novel mobility or media technologies have been appropriated and how, subsequently, this modified or co-shaped mentalities and discourses, the perception of space, and contemporary mobility concepts.



Transfers aims to combine the empiricism of traditional mobility history with more recent theoretical approaches in media and mobility studies, media theory and media historiography in its ‘media and mobility’ section. In line with our wider mission, we especially welcome work on media and mobility in the Global South. We invite intellectually rigorous, wide ranging, and conceptually innovative contributions from diverse disciplinary backgrounds.



Please refer to the Info for Authors page for submission and style guidelines and to the Journal Contributors' page for general information and guidelines regarding topics such as article usage and permissions for Berghahn journal article authors.



See http://journals.berghahnbooks.com/trans/



Editor:

Gijs Mom, Eindhoven University of Technology



For the ‘media and mobility’ section, you might contact:

Regine Buschauer, (rebus /at/ bluewin.ch)

Dorit Müller, (dorit.mueller /at/ fu-berlin.de)

Gabriele Schabacher, (gabriele.schabacher /at/ uni-siegen.de)

Mimi Sheller, (mimi.sheller /at/ drexel.edu)

Sunny Stalter, (sls0009 /at/ auburn.edu)

Heike Weber, (hweber /at/ uni-wuppertal.de)











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