Message posted on 22/05/2020

CfP IUAES 2020: Revisiting the City: Anthropological Legacies, Urbanity, and the Digital

                Dear colleagues,
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<br>Apologies for cross-posting!
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<br>The organizers of IUAES2020 have extended the abstract submission deadline
<br>until Aug 15th, 2020. If you are planning to attend this year`s IUAES
<br>Congress in Šibenik or online, please consider submitting an abstract for
<br>our panel: Revisiting the City: Anthropological Legacies, Urbanity, and the
<br>Digital. The conference is scheduled for Oct 7th to Oct 11th, 2020.
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<br>Submission information:
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<br>Abstracts should not be longer than 250 words and can be submitted until
<br>August 15th via the conference website:
<br>*https://iuaes2020.conventuscredo.hr/abstract-submission/
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<br>Please do not hesitate to get in touch, should you have any questions.
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<br>With kind regards,
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<br>Christian and Regev
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<br>*Panel title*
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<br>Revisiting the City: Anthropological Legacies, Urbanity, and the Digital
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<br>*Convenors*
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<br>Christian Ritter, Tallinn University
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<br>Regev Nathansohn, Sapir Academic College
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<br>*Panel abstract*
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<br>This panel explores the interplay between digital technologies, urban
<br>neighborhoods, and communities. The mobile phone and other digital
<br>technologies have deeply transformed the ways in which cities are
<br>experienced (Pink and Leder Mackley 2013). At the same time, urban actors
<br>take part in developing digital technologies and redefining their use.
<br>Drawing on perspectives from media and urban anthropology, the main aim of
<br>this panel is to trace the social relationships behind digital and urban
<br>processes. Sociotechnical innovations, such as the mobile phone and "smart"
<br>infrastructures, make new phenomenologies of public life in urban contexts
<br>necessary. In addition to providing information on the go, mobile phones
<br>can "know" their users' geographical position and other features (Hjorth et
<br>al. 2017), while constantly being reconfigured according to different,
<br>sometimes conflicting, interests. Creating a forum for anthropological
<br>scholars from the Global South and Global North, this panel invites
<br>ethnographic accounts of the digitization of or in urbanity, methodological
<br>papers on digital ethnographies of the city, and theoretical contributions
<br>to urban change in the digital age. Drawing on the anthropological
<br>tradition of studying the role of cultural swirls in innovation processes
<br>(Hannerz 1992, Wilf 2019), ethnography can provide new understandings of
<br>digital technologies in cityscapes. The proliferation of the digital in
<br>everyday life raises numerous questions about urban spatiality, privacy,
<br>and surveillance. How are new forms of sociality created in "smart" cities?
<br>What technological imaginaries shape urban planning? How are digital
<br>technologies reappropriated in urban areas? How is the datafication of
<br>urban life locally negotiated?
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<br>Dr. Christian Ritter
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<br>Research Fellow and Lecturer
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<br>Centre of Excellence in Media Innovation and Digital Culture (MEDIT)
<br>Tallinna Ülikooli—Balti filmi, meedia, kunstide ja kommunikatsiooni
<br>instituut
<br>Baltic Film, Media, Arts and Communication School
<br>Tallinn University
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