[Commlist] CFP - 4S 2025 Open Panel on "Reverberation and/as Mediation"

CFP - Open Panel on "Reverberation and/as Mediation"

as part of 4S 2025

Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) 2025

3-7 September 2025 - Seattle, WA


Submission Due Date: 31 January 2025


Please use the 4S Submission page and select Open Panel: "Reverberation 
and/as Mediation":
https://www.4sonline.org/call_for_submissions_seattle.php 
<https://www.4sonline.org/call_for_submissions_seattle.php>

Information on all accepted open panels:
https://www.4sonline.org/accepted_open_panels_seattle.php 
<https://www.4sonline.org/accepted_open_panels_seattle.php>

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Open Panel: "Reverberation and/as Mediation"

The 2025 call for 4S opens with a definition of its theme, 
reverberation, through particular actions: “to echo, to repeat, to 
transmit further, to convey.” This set of verbs recalls core 
problematics fundamental to both STS and media studies–as the study of 
the material, environmental, economic, affective, and ideological 
processes of mediation. In this sense, mediation and reverberation are 
intersecting as well as complementary frames to interrogate practices of 
knowledge formation and worldbuilding across technosocial life. 
Reverberation as an analytic for mediation also attunes us to the 
vibrations and resonances between seemingly dissimilar and/or distant 
entities, events, and phenomena.

Connections between mediation and reverberation pervade existing work at 
the intersection of STS and media studies. For instance, the 
transformation of military bunkers into data centers demonstrates the 
legacies and reverberations of historic infrastructures and institutions 
in emerging media technologies. Explorations of ecological anxiety and 
grief investigate the affective reverberations of anthropogenic climate 
change and its attendant environmental disasters and crises globally. 
Digital media scholarship has traced the amplification, acceleration, 
and reverberation of disinformation and misinformation on digital 
networks and social media across scales. And critical attention to 
e-wastes, pollutants, and carbon footprints of cryptocurrencies, big 
data, and artificial intelligence foregrounds the material hauntings, 
residues, and reverberations of information capitalism.

This open panel prompts contributors to consider how reverberation 
invites a rethinking of the cultural work of scientific and 
technological mediation. We ask, how does reverberation help us 
investigate the multiscalar and multitemporal processes and impacts of 
mediation? How does mediation help us examine the relational and 
durational ontologies of reverb?

Open Panel Chairs - contact for questions:
Lisa Han, Pitzer College, (lisa_han /at/ pitzer.edu)
Josef Nguyen, UT Dallas, (josef.nguyen /at/ utdallas.edu)
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