MEDIA IN TRANSITION CONFERENCE
call for papers
The Work of Stories
May 6-8, 2005
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The fourth Media in Transition conference will explore storytelling as a
cultural practice, a social and political activity as well as an art form.
We want to talk about why some stories last, how they migrate across media
forms within their own societies as well as other cultures and historical
eras. We hope to encourage speculation about the ways in which stories are
deployed in periods of media in transition, and about the way some stories
easily inhabit different media simultaneously while other stories seem
less adaptable.
Topics include:
* The nature and function of storytelling practices in specific cultural
contexts
* How the skills of storytelling are transmitted within a folk culture
or a creative industry
* The migration of specific stories, characters, or themes across
different media systems
* Why certain stories persist against social, cultural, political,
economic, or technological changes
* Do new or distinctive forms of story-telling emerge at moments of
media in transition?
* Theories of story-telling and contemporary media
* Narrative uses for emerging technologies
Abstracts will be accepted on a rolling basis until January 1, 2005, and
early submissions are encouraged. Abstracts should be no longer than 250
words, should be submitted as Word attachments or in the body of an email,
and sent to Brad Seawell at seawell@mit.edu. Please put MIT4 in the
subject line, and please include a brief biographical statement of no more
than 100 words.
See http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit4.
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Brad Seawell, Coordinator
MIT Communications Forum
http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum
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MIT
Cambridge, MA 02139
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