[ecrea] CFP/4th ComSymbol "Believe in Technology: Mediatization of the Future and the Future of Mediatization"

*Call for Papers:* 4^th  International Conference ComSymbol "Believe in 
Technology: Mediatization of the Future and the Future of Mediatization"

*Organizers:* IARSIC-CORHIS EA 7400, Paul Valéry University of 
Montpellier and Research Center Serge Moscovici, Aurel Vlaicu University 
from Arad (Romania) on the occasion of the Great Union Centenary

*Scientific Partners:*

Grupo de Pesquisa Midiatização e Processos Sociais (GPMPS) of 
University do Vale do Rio dos Sinos – UNISINOS, Brazil

Centre d’études et de recherches multimédia (CERM), Mons University, Belgium

Cox Center for International Mass Communication Training and research, 
Georgia University, USA

Conference venue

Aurel Vlaicu University, Arad, Romania

_http://www.uav.ro/en/index_

*November 8-9, 2018, *Arad, Romania

*Deadline for submission: **April 6, 2018*

Call for papers available here: https://ww2.iarsic.com/en/comsymbol-2018/

You can also find attached the Call for Papers in French and English.

*Important dates*

*April 6, 2018**:* Submission of an abstract of approximately 350-400 
words, including spaces, and five keywords. The abstract could be 
written in French or English. The proposal must include the name and 
affiliations as well as the email address of all authors.

*April 15, 2018**:* Notification of abstract acceptance via email

*June 15, 2018**:* Submission of the full papers (6000-8000 words with 
references)

*July 7, 2018:* full paper acceptance

*September 20, 2018 *: final full paper submission

All proposals and questions should be addressed to:

(essachess /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(comsymbol2014 /at/ gmail.com)>

All proposals will be double blind peer reviewed. Authors of the 
accepted papers will be notified by e-mail.

Conference language: French and English

*Short description:*

The 4^th  International Conference ComSymbol aims at identifying, 
emphasizing and questioning the characteristics and issues of the 
mediatization of mankind and society’s future in the specific context of 
believes and dogmas of faith in technology.  Understood as part of the 
process of communicative construction of the nowadays socio-cultural 
reality in a world where science, conquered by artificial intelligence, 
is being caught up by religion, the mediatization of the future, on the 
one hand, clumps together the fears of an apocalypse where the future of 
humanity is a life taken over by technology and, on the other hand, 
arouses an almost evangelical hope for a beneficial percolation of 
technology into the human bodies and their environment. Considering this 
contradictory dichotomy of media openings on the phenomenon, diverging 
and complementary at once, the aim of this conference edition is to 
provide some answers to these two main questions:

1. How the mediatized representations of the future account for the 
mythical and religious thinking, to which the scientific and Para 
scientific predictions on technology make a contribution? The point is 
to explore the social construction of scenarios about the future, 
expectations in the near future, roadmaps for tomorrow, futuristic 
promises of any kind, etc. in order examine the mythical and religious 
imaginary which plays a role in the offer of media contents about the 
materiality of the technological being.

2. How the mediatization of scientific, political, philosophical, 
economic, sociological etc. discourses on the technology of the future 
contributes to the mystification and/or the demystification of the faith 
in technology? The point is to question how the media participate in the 
creation and the development of ideologies linked to the technological 
future of society and humanity, as well as to the economic, ethical, 
psychological, political etc. impact of this development, which induces 
changes among social interactions and practices.




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