‘Participation’ Training Day
A MeCCSA Postgraduate Network Event
Saturday 13th April, 2013
Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
We are looking for Postgraduate Students who would like to hold a 10-15 minute presentation on the topic of ‘Participation’. Send us your brief proposals for presentations until 1st March 2013. There is no registration fee for this event.
“Participation” is a word of some ambiguity in contemporary times. Once a key term for radical political circles, the term has since been co-opted by more mainstream politics, which has gathered with it ambivalence similar to words and ideas like “diversity” and “inclusivity”. In each of these concepts, the egalitarian inference or possibility of the term is somewhat watered down in its delivery. So what is participation and what resonance does, or can, it have today? How do realms distinct from commonly assumed political arenas use participation to imagine changes within the social? Participation seeks to explore ideas which attempt to transgress formal limitations of designated fields by stressing the activity of all those implicated, be this in a text or a social arena.
Themes addressed during the day will include: Participation in communities and participation as/in spectatorship; social change; participatory media; participation and the common in digital culture; possibilities of agency for the producer, consumer, user, spectator and participant; participatory action research. Of course other ideas are most welcome, too.
We are planning to run this event on Saturday 13th of April from 9.30am to 5.30pm. We are happy to have two renowned key note speakers from the fields of Network Politics and Film Studies with us and we are looking forward to hearing from you! The day will consist of presentations and discussion groups. We are aiming at creating a more intimate environment than the usual conference Q&As allow for, while at the same time trying to accommodate as many speakers as possible. More details to follow during the first week of March.
Deadline: March 1, 2013 e-mail proposals to
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We are looking forward to hearing from you!
Best wishes,
James and Agnes
This Training day is organised by
Anglia Research Centre in Media and Culture
in the Department of English, Communication, Film and Media
in partnership with Cultures of the Digital Economy Research Institute and The MeCCSA Postgraduate Network http://www.meccsa.org.uk/networks/postgraduate-network/
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