[Commlist] CFP International Conference The Network Society

*CFP: International Conference-**The Network Society: Re-evaluations and 
Applications of a Concept*

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The Centre for Communication and Media Research (based at the Institute 
of Communication Studies in Lille) is pleased to announce its inaugural 
annual conference entitled “The Network Society: Re-evaluation and 
Applications of a Concept” set to take place on the 24^th , 25^th  and 
the 26^th  of June, 2021.

Please submit your abstracts, in English or French, of no longer than 
300 words as well as a short biographical note to Dr Mehdi Ghassemi 
((mehdi.ghassemi /at/ istc.fr) <mailto:(mehdi.ghassemi /at/ istc.fr)>) and Dr Camila 
Pérez Lagos_ ((_c.perez-lagos /at/ ucolaval.net) 
<mailto:(c.perez-lagos /at/ ucolaval.net)>).__

Deadline for abstract submission: *March 31^st , 2021*. Post-conference 
paper submissions will be considered for publication. Announcements 
regarding this will follow.

https://www.istc.fr/research/ <https://www.istc.fr/research/>


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*CFP: International Conference*


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*The Network Society: Re-evaluations and Applications of a 
Concept**^*^[1] * ***

*Confirmed Plenary Speaker: Professor Manuel Castells ***

Wallis Annenberg Chair Professor in Communication Technology and Society

University of Southern California

The Centre for Communication and Media Research (based at the Institute 
of Communication Studies in Lille) is pleased to announce its inaugural 
annual conference entitled “The Network Society: Re-evaluation and 
Applications of a Concept” set to take place on the 24^th , 25^th  and 
the 26^th  of June, 2021.

2021 marks the 25th anniversary of the publication of the first volume 
of Manuel Castells' trilogy /The Information Age/ that charts the 
social, economic and cultural transitions from industrial to network 
societies. The advent of the network as the dominant form of social 
structure, according to Castells, brings about a “new social morphology” 
that substantially modifies “the processes of production, experience, 
power, and culture” where a “global information economy” and a “culture 
of real virtuality” underlie every aspect of human life. (Castells, 
1996, 1998). Since then, Castells’ ground-breaking body of work has 
inspired many scholars to use The Network Society as both a powerful 
metaphor as well as a nuanced model for understanding the social, the 
cultural, and the political aspects of the digital age.

Our aim is to address not only the relevance and contemporary 
applications of the concept of the Network Society as it has been 
elaborated by Castells, but also to engage with its limits as an 
explanatory framework and to examine the ways in which other scholars 
have built upon Castells’ theory of The Network Society.

We are pleased to announce that the plenary talk will be given by 
Professor Manuel Castells himself. We hope that this will encourage 
colleagues from around the world to contribute to the discussions around 
The Network Society. We therefore invite scholars from diverse 
disciplinary backgrounds to present papers related to any aspect of the 
conference theme.

Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:

·Contemporary applications of the concept of The Network Society

·Communication power, politics and networked activism

·Networked spatiality and temporality (“space of flows and timeless time”)

·Cultures of real virtuality (especially in the context of the Covid 19 
pandemic)

·Network perspectives on the media

·Networked communication

·Cultural representations of the network society

Please submit your abstracts, in English or French, of no longer than 
300 words as well as a short biographical note to Dr Mehdi Ghassemi 
((mehdi.ghassemi /at/ istc.fr) <mailto:(mehdi.ghassemi /at/ istc.fr)>) and Dr Camila 
Pérez Lagos_ ((_c.perez-lagos /at/ ucolaval.net) 
<mailto:(c.perez-lagos /at/ ucolaval.net)>).__

Deadline for abstract submission: *March 31^st , 2021*

The conference will be held online using the platform Livestorm.

Post-conference paper submissions will be considered for publication. 
Announcements regarding this will follow.

https://www.istc.fr/research/ <https://www.istc.fr/research/>

Scientific committee:

·Baldwin Van Gorp, Institute for Media Studies - KU Leuven

·Camila Pérez Lagos, Université Catholique de l’Ouest (Laval) – CHUS - CIM.

·Christine Barats, Université Paris Descartes – CERLIS

·Clément Mabi, Université de Technologie de Compiègne – EPIN

·Daniel Barredo Ibañez, Universidad del Rosario, Colombie.

·Emmanuel Marty, Université Grenoble Alpes – GRESEC

·Fernando Oliveira Paulino, Universidade de Brasília - UNB/Brasil

·France Aubin, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières - CRICIS

·Julien Péquignot, Université de Franche-Comté – CIMEOS

·Mehdi Ghassemi, Institute of Communication Studies (ISTC) – CCMR

·Nikos Smyrnaios, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse – LERASS

·Tiphaine Zetlaoui, Université Catholique de Lille

·Tourya Guaaybess, Université de Lorraine – CREM

·Zineb Majdouli, Université Catholique de Lille

·Zineb Serghini, Université Catholique de Lille


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*^*^[1] * *The conference iscertifiedby the SFSIC.




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*Camila Pérez Lagos*

Maîtresse de conférences en Sciences de l'Information et de la Communication

Responsable de la Licence information-communication ;
Mineure « Journalisme multimédia et réseaux sociaux » .
Campus EC 53 | 25 rue du Mans | 53000 Laval | 02 43 64 36 64laval.uco.fr 
<http://laval.uco.fr/>

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