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International Association for Media and Communication Research 2011 Istanbul
July 13, 2011 to July 17, 2011
At the locus of 2011 IAMCR Conference at Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey, are Cities, Connectivity and Creativity.The city today as the noted urban sociologist Robert Park once wrote, is:man's most consistent and on the whole, his most successful attempt to remake the world he lives in more after his heart's desire. But, if the city is the world which man created, it is the world in which he is henceforth condemned to live. Thus, indirectly, and without any clear sense of the nature of his task, in making the city man has remade himself.The globalized networks of culture and creative industries, mobilization of art worlds and international collaborations are now considered the engines of cosmopolitan urban experience and transformation. Cities as far and distinct from each other like New York, London, Berlin, Beijing, Johannesburg, Kuala Lumpur and Istanbul invest their futures in economies of creativity and communication. How feasible is this strategy in the face growing social, environmental and structural setbacks and handicaps related to available resources, expanding scale and increasing inequality? How sustainable is city as a place of expansive consumption and extensive spectacle? How do cityzens connect and communicate over distances of segregation, difference and inequity?
As the IAMCR conference moves from Mexico to Braga and to Istanbul, these and other questions await our scholarly responses and intellectual interventions. A wide-ranging set of issues, themes and topics confronts us for exploration and interrogation:
* Creative and culture industries in a globalized economy
* Global city, connectivity and communication
* Art, culture and transnationalism
* Cosmopolitanism as an ideal and practice
* Economies of art and creativity
* Democratization of creativity
* Hybridities, identities, creativity
* Migration as a space of connectivity and creativity
* Commercializing creativity
* Production of local in a global city
* Production of inequality in a global city
* The world of social networks, connectivity and creativity
* Digital artworlds and virtual connectivity
* Social responsibility, personhood and global city
* Rights and duties of cityzens and global order
* Membership, communities and marginalized groups
* Global economies and politics of gender
Venue: Kadir Has University
Location: Istanbul Turkey
Website: http://iamcr2011istanbul.com/
Categories: Communications Industry & Technology
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