[ecrea] CfP: Geomedia 2017 conference

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS AND PANELS
Submission system is now open
GEOMEDIA 2017: “Spaces of the In-Between”
Karlstad, Sweden, 9-12 May 2017
Welcome to the 2^nd international Geomedia conference! The term 
/geomedia/ captures the fundamental role of media in organizing and 
giving meaning to processes and activities in space. It also refers to 
the geographical qualities of media, for example flows of digital 
signals between particular places and the infrastructure carrying those 
flows. The rapid expansion of mobile media, location-based services, 
geographical information systems and increasingly complex patterns of 
surveillance/interveillance has amplified the need for critical studies 
and theorizations of geomedia. The 2^nd Geomedia Conference welcomes 
contributions (full sessions/panels as well as individual papers) that 
analyze and problematize the relations between the any and all 
communication media and various forms of spatial creativity, performance 
and production across material, cultural, social and political 
dimensions. Geomedia 2017 provides a genuinely interdisciplinary arena 
for research carried out at the crossroads of geography, media and film 
studies. It also builds bridges to such fields as urban studies, rural 
studies, regional planning, cultural studies and tourism studies.
Keynote speakers:
Christian Licoppe – Télécom ParisTech, France
Scott McQuire – University of Melbourne, Australia
Gillian Rose – The Open University, UK
Plenary panel – “Geographies of News”:
Julie Firmstone – University of Leeds, UK
Nikki Usher – George Washington University, USA
Philip Napoli – Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA
Lars Nyre – University of Bergen, Norway
Henrik Örnebring (chair) – Karlstad University, Sweden
Film screenings and directors:
/Reflections/ – Sara Broos, Sweden (2016)
/I Am Dublin/ – David Aronowitsch, Ahmed Abdullahi, Anna Persson and 
Sharmarke Binyusuf, Sweden (2015)
Art installation:
/Fragmentarium/ – Jacek Smolicki, Sweden
Abstract submissions:
Geomedia 2017 welcomes proposals for individual papers as well as 
thematic panels in English through the conference website: 
/www.geomedia.se/ <http://www.geomedia.se>
/Individual paper proposals:/ The author submits an abstract of 200-250 
words. Accepted papers are grouped by the organizers into sessions of 5 
papers according to thematic area.
/Thematic panel proposals:/ The chair of the panel submits a proposal 
consisting of 4-5 individual paper abstracts (200-250 words) along with 
a general panel presentation of 200-250 words.
Suggested themes include, but are not limited to:
- Art and event spaces
- Cinematic geographies
- Cosmopolitanism
- Everyday communication geographies
- Epistemologies and methodologies of geomedia
- Geographies of media and culture industries
- Geographies of news
- Historical perspectives of geomedia
- Lifestyle and tourism mobilities
- Locative and spatial media
- Material geographies of media
- Media ecologies
- Mediatization and space
- Migration and media
- Mobility and governance
- Policy mobilities and power
- Power geometries and mobility capital
- Surveillance and spatial control
- Urban and rural media spaces
Conference timeline:
September 26^th 2016: Submission system opens
December 9^th  2016: Deadline for thematic panel and individual paper 
proposals
January 23^rd 2017: Notes of acceptance and registration opens
February 28^th 2017: Early Bird pricing ends
March 20^th 2017: Last day of registration
Conference website:
Information about registration, conference program, venue, social events 
and practical arrangements will be posted continuously at the conference 
website: www.geomedia.se <http://www.geomedia.se>
Contact:
You can reach us at (info /at/ geomedia.se) <mailto:(info /at/ geomedia.se)>
Organizers and venue:
Geomedia 2017 is hosted by the Geomedia Research Group at the Department 
of Geography, Media and Communication, Karlstad University, Sweden.
Conference Director: Linda Ryan Bengtsson
Conference Coordinator: Lena Grip
Director of the Geomedia Research Group: André Jansson
Conference theme:
The special theme of Geomedia 2017 is “Spaces of the In-Between”. The 
theme will be addressed through invited keynote talks, a plenary panel, 
film screenings and artistic installations. Participants are also 
encouraged to submit proposals for paper sessions addressing the 
conference theme. “Spaces of the In-Between” sheds light on how media 
are, and have been, part of producing spaces and places that fall 
in-between or resist dominant categorizations. Such spaces include, 
firstly, more or less fluid media spaces that bridge or problematize the 
divisions of, for example, work and leisure, home and away, production 
and consumption. Secondly, spaces of the in-between are produced through 
various forms of mobility, related to for instance commuting or 
migration, that are shaped by and giving shape to particular media 
forms. Finally, the conference theme highlights mediations of concrete 
places that can be understood as “neither/nor”. Such places can be found 
on the margins of society or fall in-between dichotomized geo-social 
constructs like urban vs. rural, front-stage vs. back-stage, etc. 
Ultimately, the conference theme opens up for critical discussions of 
what forms of power and domination are expressed through the 
mediated/mediatized production of various in-between spaces.

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