[Commlist] CFP Communities and Networks Conference

Communities and Networks - STUDIUM CONFERENCE

*/4-5 December 2020/*

*Virtual conference*

Since the mid-nineties researchers have developed a monumental theory of 
information and communication technologies, within the conceptual 
framework of the network society – an ideal type transcending economic, 
cultural and political changes that took place in the 20th Century. 
Communication networks enabled by the internet are rapidly expanding 
along various codes and values.

In the global context of networked society the problematic of community 
and locality are again on the researchers’ agenda, due both to the 
loosened traditional ties, and to the emergence of new communities, 
furthermore, the question rises, whether the issue of locality is worth 
discussing in the context of global networks. Our relationships regain 
their value in a networked world, either as real or virtual 
togetherness. Issues worth exploring are the impact of global knowledge 
on local practices, mediated by online networks, just as the formation 
of specific local social processes influenced by the globalization and 
the phenomenon of online networks.

We started the discussion of these questions in our 2019 conference. 
This year, restricted into the online space in the context of pandemic, 
we would like to dedicate our conference to the further discussion of 
the above issues.

This year’s conference is aimed at exploring the changes of our 
communities and localities in the era of the networked world: innovative 
practices, new lifestyles, local social responses to global challenges. 
How does the internet affect the real and virtual community formation, 
and which are the factors contributing to the emergence of new types of 
groups of consumers and users?

Topics proposed for discussion:

Local consumer and producer practices: glocalized worlds

New consumer cultures and subcultures

Local discourses in the online space

Inequalities in the age of global networks: localities lagging behind 
vs. catching up localities

Our digital worlds: social challenges for technology

The effects of pandemic on local societies

We expect papers from the fields of social sciences and cultural 
studies, in Hungarian or English language.

Papers may be presented in one of the following ways:

15 minutes online oral presentation inHungarianorEnglishlanguage, or

An English language poster uploaded to the Conference website.

The conference organizers will offer prizes for the most original three 
posters uploaded to the English language poster section (coherence and 
creativity of the dissemination, visual representation of data). Prizes 
will be Amazon Kindle books of speciality literature

The conference is open for MA and PhD students as well.

No registration fee.

Short abstracts in Hungarian or English including the type of the 
prospected presentation (paper or poster) should be sent to Laura Nistor 
at (nistorlaura /at/ uni.sapientia.ro) 
<mailto:(nistorlaura /at/ uni.sapientia.ro)> by 25 November 2020.

Organizer: Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Faculty of 
Economics, SocioHuman Sciences and Engineering – Department of Social 
Sciences / Applied Social Sciences Research Centre 
http://csik.sapientia.ro/en <http://csik.sapientia.ro/en>


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