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[Commlist] cfp: Communication, Isolation, and Reconnection in the (Post-)Pandemic city

Thu Dec 09 11:21:01 GMT 2021


Communicative Cities Research Network Symposium 2022
Communication, Isolation, and Reconnection in the (Post-)Pandemic city
24-25 March 2022


Hosted by:

Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Co-Organized by:

Center for Information and Communication Studies, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
ECREA - European Communication Research and Education Association
Urban Communication Center, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
Urban Communication Foundation



The CCRN 202# Symposium focuses on the communicative configurations and transformations of the (post-)pandemic city. Cities across the world have experienced the pandemic differentially but acutely, with abrupt interruptions of their economic and cultural life and with physical isolation resetting conditions for urban communication. As cities across the world come out of and change because of the Covid-19 pandemic, physical isolation, collective trauma, and fears of consequent crises cast their shadows over urban life. While cities look ahead into diverse and wide-ranging challenges for their futures, urban communication is at the heart of many of those challenges.

The conditions of possibility and impossibility to connect raise a number of critical questions for the (post-)pandemic city, which we address at the Symposium: · How has urban communication changed in the context and conditions of crisis and what can we learn from the crisis period about the long-term patterns of connected and disconnected cities and their people? · Have social media replaced other forms of urban communication and connection and what are the benefits and limits of intensified digital connectivity for the social and cultural life of the city? · How has the pandemic shaped meanings of solidarity and belonging in cities – bringing people closer together or pushing them further apart? · Has the urban landscape changed irreversibly, with downtowns and high streets further declining and younger generations abandoning the city for the suburbs?

These are some of the key questions we tackle at the Symposium. We invite presentations on the topics below, but presentations do not need to be limited to them:

-	Urban publicness and urban commons
-	Technologies of crisis and control
-	Smart cities of and for crisis times
-	Urban solidarity in (post-)pandemic time
-	Health and inequalities in the city
-	Equity, inclusion, diversity and the communicative city
-	Life and death and life of downtown and the high street
-	Media representations of the pandemic and the city
-	Urban arts and culture and the pandemic
-	Free speech and urban communication
-	Education and online learning in the (post-)pandemic city
-	Digital media and networked public space in cities

We invite submissions of 350-word abstracts for a paper or a presentation of work in progress to be given at the next Communicative Cities Research Network Symposium, to be at the London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK, March 24 & 25, 2022. There will be the opportunity for virtual or pre-recored participation. This an invitational symposium with a limited number of presentations and ample time for conversation and discourse. Past CCRN symposia have resulted in the publication of selected works.
Deadline for submission is Jan 28, 2022


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