[ecrea] Call for proposal Changing Platforms of Memory Practices. Technologies, User Generations and Amateur Media Dispositifs

Conference: Changing Platforms of Memory Practices. Technologies, User 
Generations and Amateur Media Dispositifs


10-12 September 2015, University of Groningen, the Netherlands





Keynote speakers:



·        John Ellis, Professor of Media Arts, Royal Holloway, University 
of London

·    Roger Odin, Professeur Émérite - Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3

·    José van Dijck, Professor of Comparative Media Studies, University 
of Amsterdam





Call for proposals:



We currently witness a process of rapid transition of mediated memory 
practices. Digital media platforms like YouTube enable the distribution 
of private audiovisual memories that differ radically from past amateur 
practices and media uses. The conference aims to grasp the technical, 
social and cultural dimensions and changes in the use of technologies of 
memory, such as home movies, home videos, sound recording and digital 
technologies. We propose to explore the complex relationship between 
media technologies, user generations, and mediated memory practices from 
both a contemporary and long term historical perspective. Papers might 
focus on the operationalization of concepts of, e.g. dispositif, user 
generations, media archaeology, socio-technical ensembles or media 
ecologies.



Proposals may include the following topics:

·        The relationship between media technologies and memory practices
·        The relationship between the materiality of media technologies, 
their mediated content, and use within different socio-historical contexts
·        Moments of transitions from film to video, or video to digital 
media practices
·        Histories of appropriation, domestication and democratization 
of amateur media technologies
·        The co-construction of users and amateur media technology
·        Role of age, gender and place in the construction of user 
identities and generational memory practices
·        “Analogue” versus “digital” generations
·        Rethinking the digital and analogue in “do it yourself” 
cultural productions
·        Amateur media and concepts of intermediality, media ecology and 
media ensembles
·        Experimental media archaeology approaches towards technologies 
of memories
·        Private memories in a re-mix digital culture
·        Different roles of users in the development of amateur media 
landscapes
·        Historical and contemporary conceptualizations of  ‘amateurs’, 
‘experts’, ‘hobbyists’, ‘users’, ‘produsers’, ‘prosumers’
·        Network memory cultures
·        Social media and the relationship between the ‘private’ and the 
‘public’


 During the conference scholarly debate will be combined with 
media-archeological experiments and special screenings on and with home 
movies, home videos and digital media.



Submissions:



We invite you to submit a 400-500 word abstract for a 20 minutes 
presentation, including a short biography and contact details at: 
(changingplatformsconference /at/ gmail.com).

Deadline for submission: March 30th, 2015. Confirmation will follow 
shortly thereafter (May, 2015). A selection of papers will be submitted 
for a peer-reviewed edited volume.



Conference fee: regular 100 euro, PhD & MA/BA students: 50 euro.



About the conference organizers:



Conference committee:



Prof. dr. Andreas Fickers (University of Luxembourg), dr. Jo Wachelder 
(Maastricht University), dr. Susan Aasman (University of Groningen), Tom 
Slootweg MA (University of Groningen), Tim van der Heijden MA 
(Maastricht University).



The conference is supported by NWO, ICOG (RUG) and the University of 
Luxembourg and is related to “Changing Platforms of Ritualized Memory 
Practices. The Cultural Dynamics of Home Movies”, a collaborative 
research-project of the University of Groningen, Maastricht University 
and the University of Luxembourg.



See for more information: https://homemoviesproject.wordpress.com/


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Susan Aasman


Universitair docent Eigentijdse Geschiedenis/assistant professor 
Contemporary History


Rijksuniversiteit Groningen/University of Groningen


Faculteit der Letteren/Faculty of Arts

Geschiedenis/History department

Oude Kijk in't Jatstraat 26

9712 EK Groningen

Nederland/The Netherlands

+31(0)50-3636030

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