[ecrea] CfP Media and Time

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*Call for Papers *

*CRCC symposium on /Media and Time/*

*Loughborough, UK, 15-16 June 2017*

We are inviting applications for a symposium on Media and Time, 
organised by Loughborough University’s Centre for Research in Culture 
and Communication, due to take place in Loughborough on 15-16 June 2017.

Confirmed key-note speaker: Professor Paddy Scannell, University of Michigan

Media and communication technologies are inextricably bound up with the 
passage of time. Different forms and genres of mediated communication 
shape our sense of time in different ways, structure our daily routines, 
invite us to join in festive occasions, and help us manage the 
unexpected. They offer narratives and images of the past, contribute to 
the formation of collective memories, and help us imagine the future. 
Media are also themselves subjected to the passage of time: established 
forms of communication are unsettled by new technologies, as well as by 
the economic, political and cultural changes occurring in the society at 
large. Finally, media old and new play an important role in both 
furthering social change and reproducing the status quo, a fact that 
only becomes fully apparent once we study the media over a longer 
stretch of time.

Despite the ubiquitous presence of time in mediated communication, the 
relationship between the two has so far received only sporadic 
attention, and is often discussed across different disciplinary field 
and subfields. This two-day symposium seeks to bring together scholars 
from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to discuss selected aspects of the 
relationship between media and time. The event will be organised around 
three key themes, each addressing a set of related questions:

·*Theme 1: /The challenges of temporal comparison/:* While comparative 
media research typically engages with spatially defined units, it is 
also possible to apply comparison diachronically, across different 
points in time. What challenges are brought by shifting from a 
synchronic to a diachronic plane of comparison, and what are the 
possible solutions to them?

·*Theme 2: /Times of memory, times of media/:* Remembering and mediation 
are of necessity time-bound practices, yet so far we know rather little 
about how the temporalities of memory and media interact. Does, for 
instance, the temporal organisation of mnemonic practices change 
depending on the temporality of the media form used? How do new 
technologies, both historically and today, impact on the perceptions of 
time passing and subsequently also on the way we remember past events?

·*Theme 3: /The temporalities of media history/: *Engaging in historical 
research inevitably involves dealing with temporally bound phenomena, 
but the temporal character of historical developments in media is rarely 
explicitly reflected upon. What can be gained by paying more explicit 
attention to issues of temporality, such as periodization, the differing 
pace of historical change, or the relationships between simultaneous vs. 
successive developments?

Convenors: Melodee Beals, Ele Belfiore, Emily Keighley, Thoralf Klein, 
Sabina Mihelj, Simone Natale, Alena Pfoser, James Stanyer and Peter Yeandle.

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Please submit a c. 250 words abstract with a brief bio to Emily 
Keightley ((E.Keightley /at/ lboro.ac.uk)) and Peter Yeandle 
((P.Yeandle /at/ lboro.ac.uk)) by Monday 12 December 2016.

Participants will be asked to contribute a small fee to cover meals and 
related expenses (up to £50, with a discount for PhD students and 
participants from low-income countries).


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