Bordering 5G Futures: Geographies of Infrastructure, Data, and Media
*2nd Call for Papers for Royal Geographical Society with IBG Annual Conference, 31st August-3rd September 2021 (Online sessions)*
Sponsored by: RGS Digital Geographies Research Group (DGRG)
Session Convenors:
Dr Harrison Smith, University of Sheffield
Daisy Curtis, University of Exeter
5G offers multiple entry points for theorizing borders, borderlands, and bordering. The promise of accelerating wireless telecommunications infrastructure through high capacity, low latency 5G networking is being met with both a sense of opportunity and progress, but also risk and anxiety over the implications of 5G to reshape existing socio-technical borders and borderlands. This may include new digital divides, geopolitical borders between the East and West, access and exclusion to wireless spectrum or intellectual property, and the blurring of existing socio-technical borders through the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and ubiquitous media. Governments, industries, and the popular media are overall convinced that 5G will radically transform everyday life by accelerating and interconnecting digital infrastructure, data, and media across heterogeneous communities, industries and institutions. However, so far there has been little theoretical or empirical research to substantiate or critique these assumptions. This session aims to explore the digital geographies of 5G wireless telecommunications infrastructure, data, and media.
We invite both conceptual and empirical papers from any stage that consider the social, cultural, economic, political, and geographical implications of 5G, including, but not limited to:
• The implications of 5G on borders, bordering, and borderlands
• 5G data and media borders
• 5G bordering/borderlands with other technologies
• 5G infrastructural borders and the political economy of telecommunications infrastructure
• The visible and invisible borders of 5G
• Current and future borders and borderlands of 5G technology
Please email prospective abstracts (250 words) or any questions to Harrison Smith ([log in to unmask]) and Daisy Curtis ([log in to unmask]) by Friday 12th of February 2021.
We look forward to receiving your abstracts, and please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions!
Best,
Harrison and Daisy
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