31.2357, Calls: Pragmatics/Switzerland

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Subject: 31.2357, Calls: Pragmatics/Switzerland

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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 12:42:14
From: Francisco Yus [francisco.yus at ua.es]
Subject: The online-offline interface: The importance of place in digital communication

 
Full Title: The online-offline interface: The importance of place in digital communication 

Date: 27-Jun-2021 - 02-Jul-2021
Location: Winterthur, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Alejandro Parini Francisco Yus
Meeting Email: alejandro.parini at ub.edu.ar
Web Site: https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP 

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 25-Oct-2020 

Meeting Description:

At the end of last century, a transformation could be witnessed in people’s
interactions, socialisation and community bonding, in which they started to
shy away from physical places and embrace, instead, the benefits of digital
communication in its myriad forms and shapes (messaging, websites, email,
social networking sites) (Baker 2008). In parallel, the development of mobile
phones (and later smartphones with non-stop internet connection) freed people
from physical places and emphasised people’s reluctance to be tied to a
specific location when engaging in their everyday digital exchanges (Yus
submitted; Frith 2014; Batty 2014).

However, nowadays the notion of “physical place”, understood in a narrower or
broader sense, has not lost its importance even in areas where internet and
smartphones are pervasive. Indeed, users still make reference to “physical
place” or incorporate it into their interactions as one more contextual
parameter to take into account or to exploit for communicative purposes. This
is clear in the use of apps under the umbrella term of “locative media”. These
apps or interfaces enable and focus on the physical location of the user while
communicating with peers or acquaintances in a digital environment. They
provide users with a mutual awareness of where they and others are located or
their mutual proximity, also allowing for tagging content and adding
information related to the users’ location (de Souza 2013; de Souza and Frith
2010)

Furthermore, “physical place” is also brought into interactions and
socialisation when internet communication intertwines with physical
interactions taking place simultaneously, when media taken from physical
environments (images, video) are used for everyday internet conversations and,
in a much broader sense (Thurlow, Dürscheid and Diémoz 2020), when “physical
place” is the main topic of conversations regarding migration or diaspora
(Savolainen 2015; Georgalou 2019).


Call for Papers: 

In this panel we welcome 20-minute papers (plus 10 minutes for discussion)
that address the importance of “physical place” in today’s digital
communication. The panel topic covers both narrow and broad notions of “place”
and therefore can be approached from many different angles and perspectives
such as (but not exclusively) these:

-Role of information tied to physical location in today’s social networking
sites.
-Photos of physical environments (food pics, selfies...) and their role in
internet interactions.
-Mixed online-offline conversations and how these sources of information are
managed.
-Mutuality of information regarding the interplay of online-offline settings
during digital interactions.
-Production and interpretation of videos recorded and enacted in smartphone
interactions.
-Convergence of physical and virtual contexts in social networking sites
entries and dialogues.
-Emphasis on place (e.g. place of origin) as accounted for by migrants in
their digital interactions.
-The management and relevance of physical place in live streaming sessions.
-Digital communication triggered by events taking place in physical scenarios
(e.g. live sport commentaries) and how “physical information” is incorporated
into these digital conversations.

Please see https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP for submission
instructions.




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