[Commlist] Call for candidates - ACS summer institute - "The Long Revolution and the Future of Publics"

The registration for the forthcoming ACS Summer Institute is now open!

The ACS Institute takes place at Lake Constance in southern Germany on 
22-27 July 2019. Organized by Zeppelin University, the forthcoming 
Summer Institute's theme is The Long Revolution and the Future of 
Publics, and it will discuss the opportunities and challenges to the 
idea of “publics” brought forth by new communication and media technologies.


The Institute will provide an intensive, extensive and rewarding 
pedagogical experience for postgraduate students and postdoctoral 
researchers who will have the opportunity to spend the week discussing 
and learning from keynote presentations, lectures, workshops and 
seminars delivered by 5 keynote speakers and an international staff of 
leading cultural studies scholars from around the world. The overall 
participatory and informal character of the Summer Institute will give 
voice to the participants by offering a forum to address issues related 
to their own work specifically as well as issues of general interest. In 
addition, social activities from receptions and meals to informal 
gatherings will provide opportunities for participants, lecturers and 
organizers to intermingle and stimulate further conversation.


The Institute will be held in the tradition of the Crossroads 
conferences, bringing together people from a wide range of disciplines 
to explore what it means to conduct cultural studies. We therefore 
encourage participation from researchers who work in disciplines such as 
cultural studies, cultural anthropology, film studies, media studies, 
literary theory and criticism, discourse analysis, new literacy studies, 
educational studies, rhetorical criticism, etc.


This year's theme builds on Raymond Williams’ idea of a “long 
revolution” of culture in the course of economic and political changes 
and expands it to the digitalization of “public spheres”, in which these 
interactions become visible. Using online resources, such as social 
network sites, citizens can participate in public discourse and make 
their voices heard on political issues, thus making the public sphere 
more diverse. Easily accessible media technologies, such as weblogs and 
podcasts, enable and empower their users to produce media content, which 
might subvert hegemonic ideas and challenge asymmetrical power relations.


Nevertheless, changes in communication technologies also bear challenges 
to public spheres: For example, in the course of the fragmentation of 
the public sphere and the segmentation of its audiences, the practices 
and norms of public communication become particularistic as well.


Online, especially through social network sites, non-democratic 
ideologies equally get the opportunity to reach a wider audience through 
malevolent hackers or automated bots. Questions of public control and 
media regulation arise, as hate speech and fake news become part of the 
digital vernacular language.


Confirmed keynote speakers include:

Margaret Borschke (Macquarie University Sydney)
Adam Haupt (University of Cape Town)

Rolien Hoyng (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Tanja Thomas (University of Tübingen)


It builds on Raymond Williams’ idea of a “long revolution” of culture in 
the course of economic and political changes and expands it to the 
digitalization of “public spheres”, in which these interactions become 
visible. Using online resources, such as social network sites, citizens 
can participate in public discourse and make their voices heard on 
political issues, thus making the public sphere more diverse. Easily 
accessible media technologies, such as weblogs and podcasts, enable and 
empower their users to produce media content, which might subvert 
hegemonic ideas and challenge asymmetrical power relations.


Nevertheless, changes in communication technologies also bear challenges 
to public spheres: For example, in the course of the fragmentation of 
the public sphere and the segmentation of its audiences, the practices 
and norms of public communication become particularistic as well.

Online, especially through social network sites, non-democratic 
ideologies equally get the opportunity to reach a wider audience through 
malevolent hackers or automated bots. Questions of public control and 
media regulation arise, as hate speech and fake news become part of the 
digital vernacular language.

Please register at https://www.lyyti.in/Institute_2019.


More information about the event can be found at Zeppelin University's 
website: https://www.zu.de/lehrstuehle/amk/acssi2019/index.php and at 
the ACS website:

http://www.cultstud.org/wordpress/?page_id=17. 
<http://www.cultstud.org/wordpress/?page_id=17>


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