[ecrea] Summer School Media, Space and the City

Summer School "Media, Space and the City: Methodological Perspectives"
Pisa June 12-16, 2017

Media studies are a pivotal way of understanding society.

Media became pervasive in our individual and collective everyday life, 
and they are able to create collective representations and memory on a 
global level: all the information we have about society and the world 
come from the media.
Their pervasiveness makes them, and us, ubiquitous: through our 
smartphones we can live in several worlds at the same time. Media, and 
especially the new digital media, deeply modified our way of 
experiencing the space.
Often media and space are understood as dichotomous concepts, as if 
“real reality” and “virtual reality” could exist separately. Such an 
interpretation can acquire a shade of nostalgia if relations established 
in the “real” world are considered “pure”, “im-mediate” in the meaning 
of “not-mediated”, and possibly threatened by the diffusions of the new 
media and of more mediated relations.
Nevertheless, a deeper analysis reveals that urban space and new media 
are strongly linked and that their relation is not based on a simple 
contraposition. New media do not simply dematerialise social relations: 
they make the territory more complex and stratified. They do not replace 
the physical space: they re-mediate the borders and re-define 
traditional distinctions, such as public-private, external-internal.

The aim of the Summer school is to investigate the complex relations 
between space, city and media. Major attention will be given to the 
methodological questions that threaten the scholars in Human Sciences.

The courses will be held in English by renowned scholars from Europe and 
North America, experts from different disciplines, who will illustrate 
the complexity and potentialities of these perspectives.

Application deadline: April 15, 2017
Application fee: 350€, it includes course materials, coffee breaks and 
lunch meals.

Discover more on our website: www.media-sociology.com 
<http://www.media-sociology.com>
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For any information do not hesitate to contact the coordinator
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(Anita Paolicchi: (mediasociology.pisa /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(mediasociology.pisa /at/ gmail.com)>)


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