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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Sorry if you receive this more than once –<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Media in Transition 8: <i>public media, private media</i></span></b><b><i><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br></span></i></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>International Conference<b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Conference dates</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>: May 3-5, 2013 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Conference website: <a href="http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit8">web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit8</a> (watch for updates).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>CALL FOR PAPERS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Submissions accepted on a rolling basis until Friday, March 1, 2013 (evaluations begin in November). <br>Please see the end of this call for papers for submission instructions. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The distinction between public and private – where the line is drawn and how it is sometimes inverted, <br>the ways that it is embraced or contested – says much about a culture. Media have been used to enable, <br>define and police the shifting line between the two, so it is not surprising that the history of media change <br>to some extent maps the history of these domains. Media in Transition 8 takes up the question of the <br>shifting nature of the public and private at a moment of unparalleled connectivity, enabling new notions <br>of the socially mediated public and unequalled levels of data extraction thanks to the quiet demands of <br>our Kindles, iPhones, televisions and computers. While this forces us to think in new ways about these <br>long established categories, in fact the underlying concerns are rooted in deep historical practice. MiT8 <br>considers the ways in which specific media challenge or reinforce certain notions of the public or the <br>private and especially the ways in which specific “texts” dramatize or imagine the public, the private and <br>the boundary between them. It takes as its foci three broad domains: personal identity, the civic (the <br>public sphere) and intellectual property. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Reality television and confessional journalism have done much to invert the relations between private <br>and public. But the borders have long been malleable. Historically, we know that camera-armed Kodakers <br>and telephone party lines threatened the status quo of the private; that the media were complicit in <br>keeping from the public FDR’s disability and the foibles of the ruling elite; and that paparazzi and <br>celebrities are strategically intertwined in the game of publicity. How have the various media played <br>these roles (and represented them), and how is the issue changing at a moment when most of our <br>mediated transactions leave data traces that not only redefine the borders of the private, but that <br>serve as commodities in their own right? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The public, too, is a contested space. Edmund Burke’s late 18<sup>th</sup> century invocation of the fourth <br>estate linked information flow and political order, anticipating aspects of Habermas’s public sphere. <br>From this perspective, trends such as a siege on public service broadcasting, a press in decline, <br>and media fragmentation on the rise, all ring alarm bells. Yet WikiLeaks and innovative civic uses <br>of media suggest a sharp countertrend. What are the fault lines in this struggle? How have they <br>been represented in media texts, enacted through participants and given form in media policy? <br>And what are we to make of the fate of a public culture in a world whose media representations <br>are increasingly on-demand, personalized and algorithmically-designed to please?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Finally, MiT8 is also concerned with the private-public rift that appears most frequently in struggles <br>over intellectual property (IP). Ever-longer terms of IP protection combined with a shift from media <br>artifacts (like paper books) to services (like e-journals) threaten long-standing practices such as book <br>lending (libraries) and raise thorny questions about cultural access. Social media sites, powered by users, <br>often remain the private property of corporations, akin to the public square’s replacement by the mall, <br>and once-public media texts, like certain photographic and film collections, have been re-privatized by <br>an array of institutions. These undulations in the private and public have implications for our texts (remix <br>culture), our access to them, and our activities as audiences; but they also have a rich history of contestation, <br>evidenced in the copybook and scrapbook, compilation film, popular song and the open source and <br>creative commons movement. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>MiT8 encourages a broad approach to these issues, with specific attention to textual practice, users, <br>policy and cultural implications. As usual, we encourage work from across media forms and across <br>historical periods and cultural regions. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Possible topics include: <o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Media traces: cookies, GPS data, TiVo and Kindle tracking<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The paradoxes of celebrity and the public persona<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Representing the anxieties of the private in film, television, literature<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>MMORPGs / identities / virtual publics <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The spatial turn in media: private consumption in public places<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Historical media panics regarding the private-public divide<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>When cookies shape content, what happens to the public?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Creative commons and the new public sphere<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Big data and privacy<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Party lines and two-way radio: amplifying the private<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The fate of public libraries in the era of digital services<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Methodologies of internet and privacy studies<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Creative commons, free software, and the new public sphere<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Public and civic WiFi access to the internet<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Surveillance, monitoring and their (dis)contents<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Submit an Abstract and Short Bio<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Short abstracts for papers should be about 250 words in a PDF or Word format and should <br>be sent as email attachments to <a href="mailto:mit8@mit.edu">mit8@mit.edu</a> no later than Friday, March 1, 2013. Please <br>include a short (75 words or fewer) biographical statement. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>We will be evaluating submissions on a rolling basis beginning in November and will respond <br>to every proposal. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>Include a Short Bibliography<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>For this year’s conference, we recommend that you include a brief bibliography of no more <br>than one page in length with your abstract and bio. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>Proposals for Full Panels<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Proposals for full panels of three or four speakers should include a panel title and separate <br>abstracts and bios for each speaker. Anyone proposing a full panel should recruit a moderator. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>Submit a Full Paper<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In order to be considered for inclusion in a conference anthology, you must submit a full version <br>of your paper prior to the beginning of the conference. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>If you have any questions about the eighth Media in Transition conference, please contact Brad Seawell at <a href="mailto:seawell@mit.edu">seawell@mit.edu</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>-----------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Brad Seawell, Program Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>MIT Communications Forum<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>617.253.3521<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>