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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="206235007-16092011"><font face="Verdana"><font size="2"><span class="708012807-19092011"><font face="Arial">*Apologies for cross-posting*</font></span></font></font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="206235007-16092011"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="708012807-19092011">CALL FOR PAPERS: Digital Crossroads: Media, Migration and Diaspora in a Transnational Perspective<span class="305033407-19092011"><font color="#0000ff"> </font></span></span></font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="206235007-16092011"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="708012807-19092011"><span class="305033407-19092011"> </span>28-30 June, 2012<br>
Utrecht University, the Netherlands </span></font></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Verdana"><font size="2">Conference website:
<font face="Verdana"><a title="http://www.digitalcrossroads.nl/" href="http://www.digitalcrossroads.nl/">http://www.digitalcrossroads.nl</a></font><span class="615442407-16092011"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff"><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">.</font> </font></span></font></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Verdana" size="2">Deadline for abstract submission and panel proposals: January 10, 2012
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Verdana" size="2">Conference chair: Sandra Ponzanesi
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Verdana" size="2">Conference coordinator: Fadi Hirzalla
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Verdana" size="2">Because of the disjunctive and unstable interplay of commerce, media, national policies, and consumer fantasies, ethnicity, once a genie contained in the bottle of some sort of locality
(however large), has now become a global force, forever slipping in and through the cracks between states and borders – Appadurai 1996, p. 41, Modernity at Large
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Verdana" size="2">Keynote speakers:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><font size="2"><font face="Verdana">Shakuntala Banaji
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font size="2"><font face="Verdana"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">London</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType> of Economics and <st1:place w:st="on">
<st1:City w:st="on">Political Science</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><font size="2"><font face="Verdana">Kirsten Drotner
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font size="2"><font face="Verdana"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of Southern Denmark</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Denmark</st1:country-region></st1:place> </font></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><font size="2"><font face="Verdana">Radhika Gajjala
<o:p></o:p></font></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font size="2"><font face="Verdana"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Bowling Green State University</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place> </font></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><font size="2"><font face="Verdana">Eva Lam
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Verdana" size="2">University of Northwestern,
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><font size="2"><font face="Verdana">Lisa Nakamura
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font size="2"><font face="Verdana"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Illinois</st1:PlaceName>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Urbana-Champaign</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place> </font></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><font size="2"><font face="Verdana">Liesbet van Zoonen
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font size="2"><font face="Verdana"><st1:City w:st="on">Loughborough University</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region> and <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">
Erasmus</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> <st1:City w:st="on">
Rotterdam</st1:City>, the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Netherlands</st1:country-region></st1:place>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Verdana"><font size="2">The rapid development of digital technologies has radically transformed ways of keeping in touch with home cultures and diasporic networks. Moreover, the notion of migration
has undergone significant shifts, coming to signify imaginaries on the move which are not necessarily linked to geographical displacement. The aim of this conference is to address the relationship between migration and digital technologies across national
contexts and ethnic belonging. Migrancy embeds many of the local and global paradoxes that also pertain to digital media with their compression of space and time. However, the link between the two fields is still under-theorized and in need of more situated
and comparative analysis. Drawing from approaches from the humanities and social sciences (media theory, communication studies, learning sciences, gender studies, cultural studies, postcolonial theory, migration and transnational studies, among others), the
primary aim of this conference is to explore how the study of digitalization and migration challenges existing notions of diaspora, identity, nation, family, learning, literacy, social networks, youth, body, gender and ethnicity, asking for new approaches
and a rethinking of traditional social and cultural categories. </font></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Verdana" size="2">The conference will consider the following questions, among others: How has the development of new digital technologies changed the experience of migration? Conversely, how has the
reality of migration impacted on the use, development and distribution of new media technologies? How does the use of media differ among different migrant generations? How does media literacy impact on issues of integration and socialization in a hosting country?
What are the differences in media access, diffusion and use among different migrant communities across the world? How are race, gender, age, class, ethnicity and other markers of identity recodified online? How are transnational relationships and resources
arrayed in networks? How do ideas and practices move across these networks? How is the notion of home or community, which is no longer locatable with a “here” and “there” reconceptualised through digital diasporas? How do these developments impact on the spaces
for learning and education, which are no longer limited to place-based classrooms and curricula? How can learning processes and networks be conceptualised when these networks expand larger geographical distances, and multiple communities are crossed? What
resources of identity do migrants draw on and how are these resources hybridized in practice, and related to their learning and socialization processes? In short, how are digital crossroads created, distributed and experienced in the context of migration,
diaspora and transnationalism? </font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Verdana" size="2">The conference will explore three inter-related strands of the relationships between media and migration:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Verdana" size="2">Identity and diaspora (<st1:place w:st="on">Strand</st1:place> 1)
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Verdana" size="2">- identity and performativity
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Verdana" size="2">- gender, race, ethnicity, religion and online communities
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Verdana" size="2">- digital borders, digital diasporas
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Verdana" size="2">- imagined communities, transnationalism and mobility
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Verdana" size="2">- digital divides (generational, access, skills, user-generated content)
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Verdana" size="2">- cultural industry, participatory culture and social media
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Verdana" size="2">Migrant networks (<st1:place w:st="on">Strand</st1:place> 2)
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Verdana" size="2">- mediated spatialities
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Verdana" size="2">- relations between online and offline worlds
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Verdana" size="2">- affinity networks and intimacy
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Verdana" size="2">- media literacy and migration
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Verdana" size="2">- comparative perspectives on digital media practices
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Verdana" size="2">Learning in a globalized world (<st1:place w:st="on">Strand</st1:place> 3)
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Verdana" size="2">- informal learning in the digital space
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Verdana" size="2">- network approaches to learning
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Verdana" size="2">- immigrant learning
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Verdana" size="2">- globalization and learning
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Verdana" size="2">- learning & identity
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Verdana" size="2">- socialization in transnational families
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Verdana" size="2">Please send 300-word abstracts for papers or 500-word panel proposals for 3 to 4 presentations by 10 January 2012. Submission should be made online via
</font><font face="Verdana" size="2"><a title="http://www.digitalcrossroads.nl/" href="http://www.digitalcrossroads.nl/">http://www.digitalcrossroads.nl</a></font><font face="Verdana" size="2">. See further submission instructions on the website.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Verdana" size="2">Notification of acceptance will be given by 20 February, 2012.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Verdana" size="2">For more information or questions please send an e-mail to
</font><font face="Verdana" size="2"><a title="mailto:info@digitalcrossroads.nl" href="mailto:info@digitalcrossroads.nl">info@digitalcrossroads.nl</a></font><font face="Verdana" size="2">.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Verdana" size="2">The conference comes at the end of a five-year High Potential project, entitled “Wired Up: Digital media as innovative socialization practices for migrant youth”, carried out by
the Faculty of Humanities (project leader Dr. Sandra Ponzanesi) and the Faculty of Social Sciences (project leader Prof. Dr. Mariette de Haan) at Utrecht University in collaboration with Vanderbilt University, USA (Dr. Kevin Leander, Peabody College for Education).
The project was funded by the Executive Board of Utrecht University to stimulate interdisciplinary research. See
</font><font face="Verdana" color="#810081" size="2"><a title="http://www.uu.nl/wiredup" href="http://www.uu.nl/wiredup">http://www.uu.nl/wiredup</a></font><font face="Verdana" size="2">.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Verdana" size="2">Organization Dr. Sandra Ponzanesi: conference chair</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Verdana" size="2">Dr. Fadi Hirzalla: conference coordinator</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Verdana" size="2">Prof. Dr. Mariette de Haan: scientific committee
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Verdana" size="2">Dr. Kevin Leander: scientific committee
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Verdana" size="2">Dr. Fleur Prinsen: conference committee</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Verdana" size="2">Dr. Lisa Schwartz: conference committe
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font size="2"><font face="Verdana"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Koen Leurs</st1:City>,
<st1:State w:st="on">MA</st1:State></st1:place>: conference committee </font></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Verdana" size="2">Asli Ünlosoy, MSC: conference committee
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