[ecrea] CFP: Geospatial Memory and the City

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MEDIA THEORY (mediatheoryjournal.org <http://mediatheoryjournal.org>)


CALL FOR PAPERS: SPECIAL ISSUE ON GEOSPATIAL MEMORY AND THE CITY


DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: JUNE 1, 2017

Geospatial media has saturated cityscapes and inspired new perspectives 
on the social world. Beyond its undisputed global reach through popular 
applications like Google Earth, the geospatial web carries a cluster of 
implications for local commerce, governance, civic participation and 
activism that are still largely unspoken for. From dramatically 
re-evaluating the navigability of city streets to that of determining 
the shape of hidden infrastructures, the geospatial web galvanizes 
practitioners and researchers in the fields of architecture, 
cartography, geographic information systems design, social media and 
urban computing as well as theory. In fact, urban design’s absorption of 
geospatial media only solidifies its importance as a factor in both the 
quality and articulation of city life.


Despite the rapid immersion of geospatial media into the everyday, there 
exist relatively few attempts within critical media studies to 
investigate and evaluate its unique affordances, or even to express the 
broader aesthetic, political, historical and epistemic questions that it 
raises. There are even fewer attempts to connect critical perspectives 
on geospatial media with memory studies practices. However, memory 
studies research may prove to be useful here because of its explicit 
commitment to revealing how collective identity is formed and contested 
within technologized environments (whether through writing, cinema or 
digital media), and to considerations about the transfer of information 
across individuals and generations, including the latter’s impact on the 
social. Moreover, because geospatial media infrastructures deliver 
specific challenges to our collective orientation of place, the 
interdisciplinary work of memory studies acquires further significance 
as a particularly rich avenue for reframing our place-bound expectations 
within new media environments.


This special issue is devoted to considering the potential for 
collective memory practices to gain insight into the dimensions of 
geospatial media from north to south. We invite contributors to 
interrogate the existing paradigms of spatial media analysis, as well as 
both the practical and theoretical implications of developing 
methodologies that are germane to the mediated experience of cities. 
Above all, this issue is devoted to furthering the concept of geospatial 
memory within critical media studies broadly defined. By working though 
existing frameworks to re-examine the role of spatial environments for 
the imagination, we aim to develop tools that are commensurate with 
critical perspectives on geolocation and meaning-making in the digital 
episteme.


SUGGESTED TOPICS


Cityness, architecture and digital sustainability


Geolocation, cultural meaning and urban planning


Online spatial environments, interfaces and the (post-)human condition


Navigability, spatial orientation and urban computing


Psychogeography, /flânerie/ and everyday life


Spatial archives, digital preservation and critical heritage practices


Symbolic urban and media infrastructures


Transmedia narrative


SUBMISSION DETAILS


Deadline for proposals is June 1st, 2017. Proposals (300 words) may be 
for full-length articles or shorter pieces. Include a short (50-70 word) 
bio with your proposal.


Final submissions for peer review will be due September 1st, 2017.


Full instructions for authors, including citation guidelines, will be 
available soon at (www.mediatheoryjournal.org 
<http://complit.ca/?email_id=155&user_id=74&urlpassed=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5tZWRpYXRoZW9yeWpvdXJuYWwub3JnLw%3D%3D&controller=stats&action=analyse&wysija-page=1&wysijap=subscriptions>)


Submission, correspondence and questions about this call for papers can 
be directed to: Joshua Synenko ((joshuasynenko /at/ trentu.ca) 
<mailto:(joshuasynenko /at/ trentu.ca)>)



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