New Media Histories conference responds to the growing need for historical reflection on new media in the global context. The aim is to provide a platform of communication for researchers and practitioners from all over the world and to confront their methods and achievements. The conference is addressed to media researchers, communication scientists, historians, archivists, sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, and researchers representing related areas.
Keynote speakers:
* Miroslaw Filiciak (University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland),
* Graeme Kirkpatrick (University of Manchester, UK),
* Melanie Swalwell (Flinders Univeristy, Australia).
We invite abstracts on any of the suggested topics (the list is not inclusive):
* histories of new media practices and technologies
* histories of new media studies
* relation of new media histories to the history of new media art
* new media as a tool in the humanities and social sciences
* new media preservation
* histories of new media local creative industries
* new media and civil society in the 20th century
* economics of new media in the 20th century
* relation of new media to underground and shadow economies
* diffusion of innovation in new media
The languages of the conference will be English and Polish. Please submit your proposal (500 words and a short biography) before – extended until 22 June 2014 – to nmhistories@uni.lodz.pl. Notifications of acceptance will be sent before 20 June 2014. We expect 20 minute presentations with additional time for discussion. Selected papers will be published in a post-conference publication.