[Commlist] CfP: Developing Research on Media, Cities and (Digital) Space

*October 14, 2022*

*Online on Zoom and on-site in Rome*

*Deadline: July 31 2022*

The ever-increasing mediation of social life and the evolving 
relationship of virtual and physical spaces unfold a multi-faceted field 
of interdisciplinary research. Especially the last few years with their 
unexpected challenges, most notably the Covid-19 pandemic, have 
propelled digitalisation processes forward, profoundly impacting the 
relationship between people’s lives and the physical and virtual spaces 
surrounding them.

This hybrid pre-conference workshop is a collaboration between the ECREA 
Media, Cities and Space Section, the YECREA young scholars network and 
the Department of Communication and Social Research of Sapienza 
University of Rome with the PhD Course in Communication, Social Research 
and Marketing. We invite researchers, particularly early-career, 
doctoral or postdoctoral scholars, to present and discuss their work 
related to the interaction between media and communications with cities 
and other spatial contexts.

The pre-conference is planned in a workshop format, promoting 
conversation and collaboration. Participants will get the chance to 
discuss their projects with their peers and get feedback regarding 
epistemological, methodological, theoretical, or conceptual issues. The 
focus lies on how to develop and further research linked to the 
inherently interdisciplinary field(s) of media, cities and 
(digital/physical) space. We welcome work-in-progress contributions as 
well as finished works, with an empirical, theoretical, or 
methodological focus, from a broad spectrum of disciplines such as 
communication and media studies, sociology, human geography, urban 
studies, or science and technology studies.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  * Digital platforms as disruptive actors, transforming urban
    communication, economies, and cultures
  * The ramifications of the Covid-19 pandemic regarding the spatial
    dimensions of private and professional lives
  * Algorithms as pervasive agents structuring new forms of inhabiting
    material space
  * Media history and mediated public art in (and about) the city
  * Urban spaces as fields of mediated activism, protest, and other
    forms of social practice

To enable early-career scholars to participate, this will be a hybrid 
offline/online event on Zoom and in Rome at Sapienza University. 
Participants are asked to indicate how they want to participate. Please 
submit a short abstract of ca. 300 words as a PDF to 
lou.brandner[at]uni-tuebingen.de and stefania.parisi[at]uniroma1.it 
until July 31 2022. Decisions will be communicated to the authors by 
September 1. Abstracts by early-career scholars, particularly PhD 
students, are encouraged.

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