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Thursday, August 07, 2003
 
Call For Papers on Digital Environments and Liberal Arts

We should both write something for this for fun, Ian. Deadline isn't until December 1st. Tempted?

The Fifth Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association
RIT Campus, Rochester, New York
June 10–13, 2004
Media Environments and the Liberal Arts

Sponsored by The Department of Communication and The William A. Kern Professor in Communications College of Liberal Arts Rochester Institute of Technology

How do changing media environments influence the ways in which people express themselves, communicate with each other, and pass on knowledge to future generations? From cities to cyberspace, and ancient writing systems to digital communication technologies, media help shape human interaction, understanding, and organization. This conference explores the various ways in which past, present, and emerging media environments influence human life in general, and its self-examination via the liberal arts disciplines. These include the subjects of inquiry and the way research is conducted, changes in human and mass communication, policy-making, and evaluation, individual expression and representation, formation and change in cultural attitudes, media representations of natural environments, emerging digital expression (hyperfiction, digital poetry, electronic music), and the social impact of media.

What is Media Ecology?
“It is the study of media environments, the idea that technology and techniques, modes of information and codes of communication play a leading role in human affairs.”—Lance Strate

You are invited to submit papers, panels, workshop proposals, and short film and video works related to the conference theme. Complete papers may be entered for the Top Paper Award or the Linda Elson Scholarship Award (Top Student Paper). Please indicate entry on submissions.

Submission deadline December 1, 2003.

Send submission to:

Dr. Sue Barnes
Department of Communication
College of Liberal Arts
Rochester Institute of Technology
92 Lomb Memorial Drive
Rochester, NY 14623-5604
(585) 475-4695 or (585) 475-6649
Email: sbbgpt@rit.edu









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