MIT Comparative Media Studies
CALL FOR PAPERS
Media in Transition: globalization and convergence, an international conference
conference date: 10-12 May 2002
abstract deadline: 15 November 2001
Terms such as _globalization_ and _convergence_ increasingly dominate
discussions of our media environment, yet their meanings remain vague and
context specific. Many factors make it difficult to make broad statements
about these trends: The uneven flow of cultural products across national
borders, the still nascent nature of the new media environment,
unpredictable patterns of use and meaning among media consumers, diverse
national histories of cultural exchange or isolation, an unstable business
climate which alternately encourages and discourages innovation and
entrepreneurship. Many core issues remain to be explored: Will
globalization reduce or expand the world's cultural diversity? Will new
technologies empower international media makers to enter the American
marketplace or leave them more exposed than ever before to U.S. cultural
exports? How do we reconcile the competing forces of media convergence and
media fragmentation that are shaping the current communications
infrastructure? What patterns can we discern among convergent content and
audiences across media forms and international borders? What are the
implications of media convergence not only at the corporate level, but
also at the grassroots level where users are in control of content,
context, and flow?
Two years ago, MIT hosted the first Media in Transition conference,
bringing together an international array of scholars from many different
disciplines to examine the process and consequences of media change. This
year, we invite you back to MIT for the second Media in Transition
conference. As in the first conference, we encourage reflection across
disciplinary boundaries, and among theorists and practitioners -- a
citizenly discourse makes core ideas accessible to a broad public.
Focusing especially on North American, European and Asian experiences, the
conference will provide a platform for a historically and culturally
comparative analysis of our media past, present and future.As in the first
Media in Transition conference, presentations and multi-media
demonstrations will be framed by plenary _conversations_ in which
distinguished panelists will speak briefly and then participate in
extended dialogue with the audience.
We solicit papers on all aspects of media in transition, including:
changing peripheries and centers world music-- world media news and
information in the digital age the internet, policy and popular culture
transnational political activism cultural disorder: regional censorship
and trans-national media unofficial cultures, cultures of resistance
cultural authority/autonomy/markets historical precedents/precursors
global media flows, local media meanings intellectual property:
constructions, enforcements, implications cyber citizenry and the global
public sphere digital culture: language and infrastructure convergence and
fragmentation public service vs the marketplace: traditions, histories and
futures building a global base for local media production global fusion
and hybridity "The Third Culture" -- identity in an age of dislocation the
globalization of the media audience re-examining "the global village" the
transformation of television narrative forms and cultural change
Abstracts and short biographical statements should be sent no later than
15 November 2001 to: R. J. Bain Comparative Media Studies 14N-207
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 02139 USA email:
cms@mit.edu
The conference will be held at MIT from 10-12 May 2002.
Please visit the web site from the previous Media in Transition
conference: http://web.mit.edu/m-i-t/conferences/m-i-t/
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