[Commlist] CFP: “Connection timed out“. Digital Temporalities and the Question of Participation

  “Connection timed out“. Digital Temporalities and the Question of
  Participation

/Summer school | University of Konstanz | 24-26 July 2019 //organized by 
the DFG-research Group “Media and Participation. Between Demand and 
Entitlement” //(Universities of Konstanz, Hamburg, Luneburg, Zurich, 
further information: mediaandparticipation.com 
<http://mediaandparticipation.com>)./

The research group “Media and Participation” invites participants, 
especially early career researchers (Ph.D., Post Doc, MA), to join us 
for the summer school /“Connection timed out“. Digital Temporalities and 
the Question of Participation/ in Konstanz, Germany. Please find a 
description of the event, the guidelines for contributions and 
accommodation funding below.

By drawing on the concept of “Teilhabe” (participation), the research 
group problematizes the binary logic of inclusion and exclusion in order 
to grasp the complex logic and multi-faceted character of participation, 
especially its specific temporalities, networked structures, and 
community-building efforts. Building on participation in digital 
cultures the members of the research group analyze these processes in 
their concrete historical, political, infrastructural, or transcultural 
dimensions and situate them in relation to knowledge-power assemblages. 
Instead of following the concept of so-called real-time or the idea of a 
simple participation in the data flow, we are interested in analyzing 
heterogeneous temporalities, temporal ruptures, and synchronization that 
produce ‘real-time’ effects. We also investigate a-synchronic practices 
of community building, process emergence/visibility in and on interfaces 
such as smartphones, volatile contents and messages, and follow the idea 
of a temporarily and spatially ‘deferred community’.

We want to encourage a discussion about the benefits, affordances, and 
heterogenic temporalities of streaming services, smartphone communities, 
gameplay, or other settings of digital communications. Waiting, 
buffering, delay, and other instances of passing time in different 
historical and technological settings as well as keywords like 
real-time, liveness, and synchronicity are central to this debate.

The members of the research group aim for an engaged debate with all 
participants and guest speakers. On the basis of selected theoretical 
texts, we will follow the traces of theories of temporalities, 
participation, and technology into our present context and consider 
their applicability and relevance in contemporary media environments.

During the summer school, we will have two guest speakers giving 
impulses through their keynotes. Afterward, short rounds of project 
presentation will be followed by in-depth text discussions in a workshop 
setting.

Participants are encouraged to hand in a one page paper on how questions 
of temporality and participation are central to your own work and 
research. Please send your paper and a short biographical note 
to*(mediale.teilhabe.kn /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(mediale.teilhabe.kn /at/ gmail.com)> 
*by*May 17, 2019*. Also, please feel free to direct your questions to us.

The Research Group will be able to fund accommodation for some 
participants. Selection will be based on the submitted “Impulse Paper”. 
There will be no travel reimbursement for participants. Participants who 
do not need this funding are kindly asked to indicate that accordingly.

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