[ecrea] CFP - What is Media?

CALL FOR PAPERS
What is Media?

*WHAT IS MEDIA?*
*Experience • Exploration • Emergence*

UNIVERSITY OF OREGON • PORTLAND, OREGON • APRIL 14-16, 2016

What is media today? How is media studies defined? How have media
technologies transformed media theory and practice? What are the futures
of media and how are they evolving?

With media including a wider and wider range of concepts, products,
services, and institutions, the definition of media continues to be in a
state of flux. Important questions abound and we will address a sweeping
range of issues at the What is Media? event next April in Portland.

The conference will feature a unique coalescing of media scholars,
government and community officials, industry professionals, alumni, and
students, as well as artists, filmmakers, grassroots community
organizations, and the public. The event will feature keynote speakers,
roundtables, paper presentations, and special events, in an attempt to
answer questions about the ever-evolving nature of media.

Presentations/papers/installations may include the following topics (as
well as others):

• What is a medium? What distinguishes a medium from the media? How
are they changing? What are the new emerging media? What are immersive
media?
• What is media studies? What is the relationship between media,
communication, and film studies?
• How does media studies relate to other areas of inquiry and other
disciplines?
• What are current approaches to the study of media effects, media
audiences, and media psychology?
• What can media professionals learn from media studies and vice versa?
• What is media industry studies? and its relationship to political
economy and media economics?
• What is citizen/civic media? and the roles/responsibilities of the
media in contemporary democracy?
• What are media ecologies? In what ways do they address the
environmental crisis?
• How is media similar/different in various cultures? and the
significance of media in a global context?
• What new economic, cultural, political, and social factors are
affecting media?
• How does media studies highlight gender, race, and/or indigenous
concerns?
• What is the philosophy of media? media ethics? media aesthetics?
• How does science and technology studies deal with media?
• What is mediation and/or mediatization?
• What are the relationships between media technologies and media content?
• What are the positive/negative consequences of media technologies
for the public interest?
• What are the current trends in media education and media literacy?
• How have media technologies been embraced by spiritual/contemplative
organizations?
• Where do media, the arts and sciences converge (e.g. intermedia,
biomedia, etc.)?
• What laws, regulations, and/or policies are appropriate for the
media today?
• What are the emerging discourses of media, surveillance and
cybersecurity?
• What is media archaeology? What can media history teach us about the
future of media?

Conference Organizers:
Janet Wasko (University of Oregon) and Jeremy Swartz (University of Oregon)

Send 100-150 word abstracts of papers or presentations by November 2,
2015 to:
Janet Wasko • (jwasko /at/ uoregon.edu) <mailto:(jwasko /at/ uoregon.edu)>
School of Journalism and Communication


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