[Commlist] cfp: Communication, Isolation, and Reconnection in the (Post-)Pandemic city

Communicative Cities Research Network Symposium 2022
Communication, Isolation, and Reconnection in the (Post-)Pandemic city
24-25 March 2022


Hosted by:

Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and 
Political Science (LSE)

Co-Organized by:

Center for Information and Communication Studies, Fudan University, 
Shanghai, China
ECREA - European Communication Research and Education Association
Urban Communication Center, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
Urban Communication Foundation



The CCRN 202# Symposium focuses on the communicative configurations and 
transformations of the (post-)pandemic city. Cities across the world 
have experienced the pandemic differentially but acutely, with abrupt 
interruptions of their economic and cultural life and with physical 
isolation resetting conditions for urban communication. As cities across 
the world come out of and change because of the Covid-19 pandemic, 
physical isolation, collective trauma, and fears of consequent crises 
cast their shadows over urban life. While cities look ahead into diverse 
and wide-ranging challenges for their futures, urban communication is at 
the heart of many of those challenges.

The conditions of possibility and impossibility to connect raise a 
number of critical questions for the (post-)pandemic city, which we 
address at the Symposium:
·	How has urban communication changed in the context and conditions of 
crisis and what can we learn from the crisis period about the long-term 
patterns of connected and disconnected cities and their people?
·	Have social media replaced other forms of urban communication and 
connection and what are the benefits and limits of intensified digital 
connectivity for the social and cultural life of the city?
·	How has the pandemic shaped meanings of solidarity and belonging in 
cities – bringing people closer together or pushing them further apart?
·	Has the urban landscape changed irreversibly, with downtowns and high 
streets further declining and younger generations abandoning the city 
for the suburbs?

These are some of the key questions we tackle at the Symposium. We 
invite presentations on the topics below, but presentations do not need 
to be limited to them:

-	Urban publicness and urban commons
-	Technologies of crisis and control
-	Smart cities of and for crisis times
-	Urban solidarity in (post-)pandemic time
-	Health and inequalities in the city
-	Equity, inclusion, diversity and the communicative city
-	Life and death and life of downtown and the high street
-	Media representations of the pandemic and the city
-	Urban arts and culture and the pandemic
-	Free speech and urban communication
-	Education and online learning in the (post-)pandemic city
-	Digital media and networked public space in cities

We invite submissions of 350-word abstracts for a paper or a 
presentation of work in progress to be given at the next Communicative 
Cities Research Network Symposium, to be at the London School of 
Economics and Political Science, London, UK, March 24 & 25, 2022. There 
will be the opportunity for virtual or pre-recored participation. This 
an invitational symposium with a limited number of presentations and 
ample time for conversation and discourse. Past CCRN symposia have 
resulted in the publication of selected works.
Deadline for submission is Jan 28, 2022


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