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> Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 10:40:37 +0100
> From: Philipp Budka <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: CfP: The rewards of media (workshop), EASA conference, 24-27
> August 2010, Maynooth, Ireland
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> Call for Papers: Media Anthropology Network workshop: The rewards of medi=
> a
>
> 11th EASA (European Association of Social Anthropologists) Biennial=20
> Conference: Crisis and Imagination
> Maynooth (Ireland), 24-27 August 2010
>
> Convenors:
> John Postill (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)
> Philipp Budka (University of Vienna, Austria)
>
> Discussant:
> To be announced
>
> Short abstract:
> The workshop explores the rewards (social, economic, symbolic, sensory,=20
> etc.) derived from engaging in specific media practices in different=20
> sociocultural settings.
>
> Long abstract:
> This workshop is a sequel to the Media Anthropology Network workshop on=20
> media practices held at the EASA conference in Bristol in 2006 that led=20
> to the edited volume "Theorising Media and Practice" (Braeuchler and=20
> Postill, in press). Whilst on that occasion the aim was to explore and=20
> theorise media practices in general, this workshop will focus on a=20
> single but crucial aspect of mediated practice, namely its rewards (cf.=20
> Warde 2005). As contemporary social worlds become ever more=20
> media-saturated - particularly after the huge surge in mobile phone=20
> uptake in both rich and poor countries - questions arise about the=20
> considerable amounts of time and money that many individuals and groups=20
> appear to spend using, learning, sharing and making all kinds of media=20
> technologies (mobiles, blogs, wikis, radio, social networking sites,=20
> YouTube, etc.). Presenters may wish to address (but are not limited to)=20
> questions such as:
>
> * What are the rewards (cultural, social, economic, symbolic, sensory,=20
> etc.) that people derive from engaging in specific media practices?
> * Why do people around the globe devote scarce temporal and financial=20
> resources to certain media practices and not others?
> * In keeping with the conference theme of 'Crisis and Imagination', how=20
> do people caught up in the global turmoil use old and new media=20
> technologies to seek or create new job opportunities, imagine future=20
> economic scenarios or perhaps 'forget' their financial woes?
>
> References:
> Br=E4uchler, B. and J. Postill (eds) (in press). Theorising Media and=20
> Practice. Oxford and New York: Berghahn.
> Warde, A. 2005. Consumption and theories of practice, Journal of=20
> Consumer Culture 5: 131-53.
>
> Papers should be proposed via NomadIT's online system. Please note that=20
> this year EASA is requesting a single abstract of 150 words which will=20
> be displayed both online and in the conference book.
>
> Submission of abstracts:
> http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2010/panels.php5?PanelID=3D648
>
> Deadline: 1 March 2010
>
> General information on the conference:
> http://www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2010/index.htm
>
> If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact either of=20
> the panel convenors.
>
> --=20
> Philipp Budka
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