Call for Papers: Images and Communities

[Lauren Squires]

This sounds awesome; is there a website for the conference? I don't see one 
and a quick Googling got me nothing.

thx
LS

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 22:27:50 -0600
  joshua raclaw <Joshua.Raclaw at COLORADO.EDU> wrote:
> communities in the media age.  papers allowed in absentia.
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> Joshua Raclaw - MA student
> Department of Linguistics
> University of Colorado at Boulder
> http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~raclaw/
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> ----- Forwarded message from Adam Hodges <adam.hodges at colorado.edu> -----
>    Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 19:27:21 -0600
>    From: Adam Hodges <adam.hodges at colorado.edu>
> Reply-To: adam.hodges at colorado.edu
> Subject: Call for Papers:  Images and Communities
>      To: clasp at lists.colorado.edu
> 
> I'm forwarding this CFP on behalf of a colleague in Helsinki, Matteo
> Stocchetti.  This looks like a great conference, and a potential forum for
> some of the work being done by CLASP affiliates.  Note that they are also
> accepting papers "in absence" if you can't make the trip to Finland.
> 
> -adam
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> 
> Images and Communities -
> Methodological Issues and Empirical Analysis of Mediated Societies
> 
> Panel proposal for the Conference on Media and Money – Helsinki, 3-4
>February 2006.
> 
> In this panel we want to provide a forum for a discussion of the
> methodological issues involved in empirical analysis of the linkage 
>between
> images and community.  We are not particularly interested in the image as 
>an
> artefact, but rather in the image as a social relationship. The focus is 
>on
> the role of mediated images and their alleged capacity to constitute
> communities of viewers in times when the conditions of late modernity
> undermine more conventional forms of bonding.
> 
> The panel invites systematic reflection on methodological and conceptual
> issues. Proposals from non mainstream and non established perspectives are
> especially encouraged
> 
> Topics include, but are not limited to:
> •	Concept development and the nature of evidence
> •	Narrative epistemology
> •	Communities in media age
> •	Mapping who is doing what, where and how in research
> •	Empirical research and post modern epistemologies: mission
> impossible?
> •	The society of spectacle, global capitalism and information
> communication technology
> •	From the stone to the screen: notes for a short history in the uses
> of public communication
> 
> Submissions are considered for three types of presentations.
> 
> Regular presentations – paper of 7000-8000 words, 20 minutes presentation
> Round table presentations – position paper of 1000 words, 5-10 minutes
> Presentation “in absence” – regular paper not exceeding 7000-8000 words 
>sent
> for circulation among participants. Authors will receive feedback after 
>the
> conference.
> 
> All the accepted papers will be considered for publication.
> 
> Abstracts should be sent to: Matteo Stocchetti at
> matteo.stocchetti at arcada.fi or Johanna Sumiala-Seppänen at
> johanna.sumiala-seppanen at helsinki.fi
> 
> 
> ----- End forwarded message -----

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University of Virginia
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