[ecrea] CFP: Geomedia and the City

the Call for Papers on the special issue: "Geomedia and the City" 
(DeGruyter open)

        Open Cultural Studies
    Peer-Reviewed Journal by De Gruyter Open
    CFP: Geomedia and the City
        Editors: Mekonnen Tesfahuney (Karlstads Universitet), Tim 
Simpson (University of Macau),

            Geomedia is an emerging concept that has been deployed to 
capture a particular technological
    condition, associated with recent rapid developments in digital 
technology. As such, it signals
    to the dialectics of locative media and the mediations of 
localities (Thielmann, 2010, Lapenta
    2011, 2012; McQuire, 2016). However, the concept of geomedia 
carries deeper/wider
    ontological and epistemological registers that transcend the simple 
twining of geography and
    media. In this wider sense, geomedia gestures to the expanding 
interdisciplinary terrain at the
    crossroads of media studies and geography, where various ontologies 
and epistemologies of
    space/time, flows/mobilities and mediation/ mediatization come 
together. The urban is a key
    terrain where these ontologies and epistemologies are articulated. 
At the same time ontologies
    and epistemologies of the urban are being reworked in and through 
geomedia processes,
    ranging from questions of urbanism/urbanity as a way of life, 
inclusion, exclusion and precarious
    urbanities, to questions of (new) spatio-temporalities of the 
urban, various flows and mobile
    appropriations of the city. In short, geomedia and the right to the 
city.
    We seek submissions of articles on any topic related to the broad 
theme of “geomedia and the
    city.” However, we are particularly interested in papers which 
engage with one of the following
    sub-themes:
    1. Geomedia and the right to the city. How do we interpret 
Lefebvre’s interrogation of
    “the right to the city” in an age of locative media and smart 
cities? How do forms of
    geomedia function to entice, enable, regulate, constrain, or 
prohibit access to public
    spaces in the city, or to urban mobilities? How do geomedia 
reinforce or problematize
    gendered, racial, and class-based mobilities?
    2. Geomedia exclusion, precarity, and/or exception. How do geomedia 
technologies
    function in enclaves, zones, slums, camps, gated communities, and 
other spaces of
    exception? How do geomedia create, regulate, circumscribe, or 
transcend borders,
    boundaries, perimeters, or peripheries?
    3. Geomedia and surveillance. What is the role of geomedia in 
contemporary regimes of
    surveillance? How do geomedia function to regulate a disciplinary 
society (Foucault),
    modulate a “society of control” (Deleuze, 1992), or actuate forms 
of military urbanism
    (Graham, 2011)?
        Please submit abstracts (500 words maximum) to 
(izabella.penier /at/ degruyteropen.com) by May
    1, 2018. Manuscripts of 5000 to 8000 words will be due by October 
1, 2018.
            Deleuze, G. (1992) ‘Postscript on the Societies of 
Control’, October, 59: 3-7.
    Graham, S, (2011) Cities Under Seige: The New Military Urbanism. Verso.
    Lapenta, F. (2012) ‘Geomedia-based methods and visual research: 
Exploring the theoretical
    tenets of the localization and visualization of mediated social 
relations with direct visualization
    techniques‘, in S. Pink, ed., Advances in Visual Methodology. Sage.
    Lapenta, F. (2011) ‘Geomedia: On location-based media, the changing 
status of collective image
    production and the emergence of social navigation systems,’ Visual 
Studies 26(1): 14-24.
    McQuire, S. (2016) Geomedia: Networked Cities and the Future of 
Public Space. Polity.
    Thielman, T. (2010) ‘Locative media and mediated localities: An 
introduction to media
    geography,‘ Aether, 5(a): 1-17.

---------------
The COMMLIST
---------------
This mailing list is a free service offered by Nico Carpentier. Please
use it responsibly and wisely.
--
To subscribe or unsubscribe, please visit http://commlist.org/
--
Before sending a posting request, please always read the guidelines at
http://commlist.org/
--
To contact the mailing list manager:
Email: (nico.carpentier /at/ vub.ac.be)
URL: http://nicocarpentier.net
---------------