CFP for AAG 2013: Digital Divides, Digital Domination and Digital Divisions of Labour
Please circulate this CFP among relevant lists and to those who would be interested. More details are available at: http://www.zerogeography.net/2012/08/aag-2013-cfp-digital-divides-digital.ht.... Please let us know if you have any questions, thanks, -Monica, Mark, and Alan ------- Call for papers: Digital Divides, Digital Domination, and Digital Divisions of Labour Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting 9-13 April 2013 Los Angeles, CA Organizers: Monica Stephens, Department of Geography, Humboldt State University Mark Graham, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford Alan McConchie, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia The Web is massively uneven in terms of participation and representation. A small number of people are both powerful gatekeepers and produce the bulk of content, while the voices of the majority are largely left out. These phenomena are not unique to the geoweb; geographies of information and knowledge have always been uneven and have always been produced by (and have been producers of) power and privilege. Although many speculated that the Internet would offer the potential for reconfigurations of these patterns, we increasingly see that digital divides often just reproduce, replicate, and reinforce earlier offline geographies. This unevenness increasingly matters as online information augments and is woven into everyday life. However, the particular asymmetries in the representation and production of spatial information on the geoweb remain opaque and often hidden. This session will focus on the geographies, networks, and power relations of the digital inequalities of the geoweb. We hope to attract research at a range of scales (from the household to the national level) and contexts. Possible topics could include: - Gatekeepers of digital information - Demographic or geospatial inequalities - Invisible exploitation of virtual labor - Quantitative studies of geoweb representation - Qualitative studies and virtual ethnographies - Studies of normative assumptions built into geoweb tools and platforms - Studies of racialized, gendered, or otherwise exclusionary geoweb spaces - Differences in internet accessibility (i.e. mappings of broadband or wireless penetration) Please email abstracts of 250 words to Monica (Monica.Stephens@humboldt.edu), Mark (mark.graham@oii.ox.ac.uk), and Alan (alan.mcconchie@geog.ubc.ca) before October 10th, 2012. This session will be part of #GEO/CODE 2013: Geoweb, Big Data and Society organized by the New Mappings Collaboratory.
Please circulate: Call for papers Media, War & Conflict Fifth Anniversary Conference 11-12 April 2013 Royal Holloway, University of London 250 word abstracts to Lisa.Dacunha@rhul.ac.uk by 10 October 2012 Media, War & Conflict's fifth anniversary conference will be held on 11-12 April 2013 at Royal Holloway, University of London. The conference is open to scholars, journalists, military practitioners and activists from around the world. Keynote speakers confirmed so far: - Jamie Shea, NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges - Barbie Zelizer, Raymond Williams Professor of Communication, University of Pennsylvania - Cees Hamelink, Emeritus Professor of International Communication at the University of Amsterdam and Emeritus Professor for Media, Religion and Culture at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. The journal was first published in April 2008, bringing together international scholars and journalists from the fields of political science, history, and communication, and military, NGO and journalist practitioners. The aim was to map the shifting arena of war, conflict and terrorism in an increasingly mediated age, and to explore cultural, political and technological transformations in media-military relations, journalistic practices and digital media, and their impact on policy, publics, and outcomes of warfare. The fifth anniversary conference offers the chance to showcase the best research in this field while also taking stock of how the field has developed and identifying the emerging challenges we face. We invite papers on a range of topics, including: - Contemporary and historical war reporting - Changing forms of credibility, legitimacy and authority - Media ethics in the coverage of conflict - The role of citizen-users and social media in conflict - Terrorism, media and publics - Intelligence operations and media - Digital or cyber warfare - Media and conflict prevention, peacekeeping and post-conflict scenarios - Photo and video journalism in wartime - War and conflict in popular culture - The power of the visual and other modalities - Commemoration and memorialisation of war and conflict The deadline for abstracts is 10 October 2012. Please submit 250-word abstracts and author-affiliation details to Lisa.Dacunha@rhul.ac.uk For further information on Media, War & Conflict visit the journal's website: http://mwc.sagepub.com/
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OLoughlin, Ben