[Commlist] CFP eco_media IV: rip, rip, microchip

The CFP for the fourth eco_media symposium has been extended and will 
now close Wednesday 26 October.

We are also delighted to announce that this year’s eco_media keynote 
presentation will be delivered by Prof Salma Monani (Gettysburg College, 
USA).

For those in Melbourne, a pre-symposium writing day has been set up for 
2 November, where we will work to align some presentations to the theme. 
Please email (eco.media2.rmit /at/ gmail.com) to register your interest by 25 
October.

Further details below and at www.ecomediaresearch.com

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*eco_media IV: rip, rip, microchip*
Monday 21 November 2022, RMIT University, Melbourne

The eco_media project will run its fourth annual symposium in 2022. The 
symposium’s steering panel invites proposals for papers that sit at the 
nexus of theory, philosophy, empirical research, and creative practice. 
The aim of the eco_media project is to understand how environmental 
issues, questions, and concerns are communicated through media forms, 
and to play at the borders of disciplines including media and 
environmental studies, philosophy, social science, and communication theory.

The second and third symposiums focused on how the two hyperobjects of 
climate catastrophe and COVID pandemic enmeshed and collided, and how we 
might approach these existential threats and changes to everyday life 
through theory and creative practice. The resulting edited collection, 
The Climate Catastrophe: A Creative and Critical Survival Guide, is 
currently under editorial review and will be published in early 2024.

In 2022, eco_media focuses on media technologies and extraction. In 
particular, how are media technologies and industries extracting and 
exploiting natural resources and the environment? There are bold and 
interesting new developments in the areas of machine learning, remote 
collaboration, and blockchain technology, for example. How are these 
evolving technologies intersecting with creativity and media industries, 
and beyond this, how are these industries working sustainably and 
eco-consciously with these new innovations?

Topics could include — but are not limited to:

  * analyses/discussion of media representations of environmental
    issues/events
  * documentary/creative interventions into climate discourse
  * social media analysis/discussion of responses to climate issues/events
  * machine learning, blockchain and the environment
  * media technologies and creativity
  * remote work/play/creativity/collaboration and the environment
  * new media and environmental justice
  * the intersection of discussion of Indigenous sovereignty alongside
    environmental issues
  * climate, media and the 2020-? pandemic
  * media education and the environment
  * the meeting places between the natural and the mediated
  * the impacts of media practice/research on the environment
  * media materialism (which can incorporate elements of many of the above)


The symposium will run on-campus at RMIT University, Melbourne. 
Regional, interstate, and international presenters are — of course — 
welcome to attend in-person, but there will be a remote recorded 
presentation option available.

Presentations can be completed papers, works-in-progress, screenings of 
creative practice research (draft or completed), performances, 
poster/discussion-style sessions, or something else entirely — up to a 
maximum of 20 minutes per presentation. A mixture of presentation styles 
and content is part of what has made eco_media successful in the past — 
so feel free to pitch us something new! Full panel proposals (x 3 
presenters) are also welcome.

Presentations particularly aligned with this year’s theme may be invited 
to develop their work further for publication or distribution.

Please send a presentation title, abstracts of up to 350 words, a 
100-word bio, plus any notes on type of presentation, to 
(eco.media2.rmit /at/ gmail.com) by Wednesday 26 October 2022.

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