[ecrea] Final Call for Papers GeoMedia 2015

_FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS_
GEOMEDIA 2015:
"Spaces and Mobilities in Mediatized Worlds"
An Interdisciplinary International Conference
Karlstad, Sweden
5-8 May 2015
GeoMedia 2015 provides a genuinely interdisciplinary arena for research 
carried out at the crossroads of Geography, Media and Film Studies. The 
aim of the conference is to map out the current terrain of communication 
geographical research, pinpointing its main areas of debate and 
assessing the prospects of communication geography as a more formalized 
academic field.   GeoMedia 2015 welcomes scholars of all disciplines who 
address questions pertaining to the space-mobility-media-communication 
nexus and want to take part in current epistemological discussions 
regarding communication geography and its future(s).
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Mustafa Dikec – Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Mimi Sheller – Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA
John Tomlinson – Nottingham Trent University, UK
PLENARY PANEL
Paul C. Adams (chair) – University of Texas at Austin, USA
Julie Cupples – University of Edinburgh, UK
Dana Diminescu – Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme + Télécom 
ParisTech, Paris, France
Hille Koskela – University of Turku, Finland
FILMS & DIRECTORS
“The Forgotten Space” – Noël Burch (director)
“Cosmopolitanism” – Erik Gandini (director)
_DEADLINE FOR PAPER PROPOSALS: 1st of December 2014_
GeoMedia 2015 welcomes proposals in English of 200-250 words.
Submissions are made via the conference website: / www.geomedia.se/ 
<http://www.geomedia.se>
Suggested themes include, but are not limited to:
- Communication geographies
- Mobilities and locative media
- Power geometries of/in motion
- “Newsworthy” spaces
- Mobilities, flows and new media
- Material geographies of media
- Policy mobilities and power
- Media ecologies
- Lifestyle and tourism mobilities
- Pervasive media
- Cinematic geographies
- Mobility and governance
- New media and the productions of place/space
- Urban and rural media spaces
- Geographies of media and culture industries
- Art and event spaces
FURTHER INFORMATION
Website: / www.geomedia.se/ <http://www.geomedia.se>
Email: (info /at/ geomedia.se)
ORGANIZERS AND VENUE
GeoMedia 2015 is hosted by the Department of Geography, Media and 
Communication at Karlstad University, Sweden.
Mekonnen Tesfahuney, Conference General
Linda Ryan Bengtsson, GeoMedia Co-ordinator
André Jansson, Director of the GeoMedia reserach group