Communication and the City: Voices, Spaces, Media<\/p>\n
14-15 June 2013<\/p>\n
Urban Communication Foundation & Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds<\/p>\n
In association with\u00a0ECREA Media and the City Temporary Working Group<\/p>\n
Conference website:\u00a0http:\/\/www.pvac.leeds.ac.uk\/communicationandthecity\/<\/a><\/p>\n The Communication and the City Conference is an international two-day event hosted by the Institute of Communications Studies at the University of Leeds. The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners from a variety of national contexts to discuss questions of urban communication across academic disciplines and professional fields. By middle of this century 7 out of 10 people in the world will live in\u00a0cities, and it is in cities that we find major centres of political,\u00a0economic, creative and ideological power. For these reasons, in recent\u00a0decades an increasing number of scholars have come to see cities as\u00a0powerful texts and contexts for communication research. Drawing from\u00a0across the humanities, the social sciences and the arts, urban\u00a0communication has become established as an interdisciplinary field in\u00a0its own right. Within communication studies, scholars have adopted a\u00a0variety of approaches to the study of the urban environment. These\u00a0include social interaction and organizational outlooks, rhetorical and\u00a0discursive frameworks, and technology and media studies. While it\u00a0remains vital to keep pursuing distinct lines of inquiry about the\u00a0city within and beyond communication studies, we believe that it is\u00a0also crucial to foster a sustained dialogue among the various\u00a0perspectives that inform scholarly, practice-based, institutional, and\u00a0professional endeavours in the field of urban communication.<\/p>\n CONFERENCE THEMES<\/strong><\/p>\n We invite submissions that address one or any combination of these\u00a0three broad questions:<\/p>\n We are interested in submissions that address these questions through\u00a0various lenses, including technology, policy, aesthetics, and\u00a0social\/cultural\/artistic\/professional\/political practices. In this\u00a0regard, we welcome a range of theoretical, critical, empirical, and\u00a0practice-based papers on any of the following topics:<\/p>\n ABSTRACT SUBMISSION<\/strong><\/p>\n Please submit abstracts for 15-minute papers by email to\u00a0communicationandthecity@leeds.ac.uk no later than NOVEMBER 30, 2012.\u00a0Abstracts should be in English and include a title, your contact PROGRAMME AND REGISTRATION<\/strong><\/p>\n In order to help your early planning for the conference, we have\u00a0organized the basic programme structure for the conference (see\u00a0conference website). This outline shows the start and finish times of PUBLICATION PLANS<\/strong><\/p>\n Conference co-organizers are planning to develop an edited volume and\u00a0a special issue of an academic journal based on the themes of this\u00a0international conference. The goal would be to publish the special\u00a0issue in 2014 and the edited volume by 2015. To this end, the\u00a0conference committee invites conference participants to submit\u00a0previously unpublished papers related to the conference themes which\u00a0may or may not be based on submitted conference abstracts.\u00a0Contributions should be of no more than 7,000 words in length. More\u00a0information about this volume will be made available just prior to the\u00a0conference. The expected deadline for submission of chapters for\u00a0review will be SEPTEMBER 30, 2013.<\/p>\n Daniel Makagon Communication and the City: Voices, Spaces, Media 14-15 June 2013 Urban Communication Foundation & Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds In association with\u00a0ECREA Media and the City Temporary Working Group Conference website:\u00a0http:\/\/www.pvac.leeds.ac.uk\/communicationandthecity\/ The Communication and the City Conference is an international two-day event hosted by the Institute of Communications Studies at the University of … <\/p>\n
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\ndetails (name, mailing address, email) and a description of your paper\u00a0(400-500 words). The conference committee will begin reviewing\u00a0abstract submissions immediately after the deadline. Notification of\u00a0acceptance will be FEBRUARY 1, 2013. Send your abstract as a Word\u00a0document or in the body of your email.<\/p>\n
\nthe conference, the main social events (lunch and reception), as well\u00a0as tea\/coffee breaks. A business meeting for the Urban Communication\u00a0Foundation and the ECREA Media and the City Temporary Working Group\u00a0(all conference participants welcome) is also scheduled for the\u00a0afternoon of June 15.\u00a0Official conference registration will begin on February 1, 2013. In\u00a0order to be included in the final programme the deadline for presenter\u00a0registration is April 1, 2013. The full conference registration fee is\u00a0\u00a360. There are some places available at a discounted rate (\u00a330) for\u00a0students and unwaged individuals. There are also a few free places\u00a0available for presenters who reside in lower income countries\u00a0(http:\/\/data.worldbank.org\/income-level\/LIC<\/a>) or lower middle income\u00a0countries (http:\/\/data.worldbank.org\/income-level\/LMC<\/a>). Make sure to\u00a0indicate whether and how you qualify for a discounted or free\u00a0registration fee at the time of your abstract submission. As both\u00a0discounted and free places are limited, we cannot guarantee that we\u00a0will be able to accommodate all requests.<\/p>\n
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