召集人
章戈浩 澳门科技大学人文艺术学院副教授
张磊中国传媒大学国家传播创新研究中心研究员
吴璟薇 清华大学新闻与传播学院长聘副教授
联合召集人
耿弘明清华大学人文学院、写作与沟通教学中心讲师
会议语言
中文、英语
会议联络
投稿邮箱mediamateriality@163.com
联络请洽
宋思静 18800189213
高山13261759218
重要日期
2025年1月30日前，提交3000字左右的长摘要/或1500字的英文摘要；
2025年2月20日前，通知入选结果；
2025年3月20日前，与会者提交论文全文；
2025年3月29-30日，召开会议。
主办单位
清华大学新闻与传播学院
协办单位
清华大学科学博物馆
6th Media Materiality Forum
Digital Intelligence, Cosmotechnics, and Planetary Future
From telescopes, rockets, and satellites to spacecraft, human beings are no longer just looking up at the heave and sign the "vastness of the heaven and the infinity of the universe."1 Instead, we have broken through the limitations of the body, and through a variety of media and technologies, they have reshaped the relationship between the cosmos, the Earth, and the human being. Although today the Earth remains the focus on the human condition, the horizons of humankind are no longer limited by the land beneath our feet.
1. The Preface to the Pavilion of Prince Teng (滕王阁序) by Wang Bo (王勃), one of the most famous pieces of classical Chinese literature, originally written during the Tang dynasty. The text is known for its vivid description, historical reflection, and philosophical insights.
In recent years, researches on media materialities have provided numerous new perspectives for understanding the relationship between humans and objects. How to understand the Earth-human/post-human relationship? How to recognize artificial intelligence, human intelligence and non-human intelligence in the pervasive parcel of digital technologies? How can humans be held accountable for their actions in the Anthropocene, and what kind of post-humanist ethics should be developed? What kind of future lies in human imagination and discernment, when we are inhabiting the earth and looking up to the stars? How are the relationships between human beings, non-human organisms, technologies, inorganic matter and other multiple actors woven and entwined? What is the future of media studies around these questions?
In light of these philosophical inquiries, the 6th Media Materialities Forum will be held at the School of Journalism and Communication, Tsinghua University, on March 29-30th, 2025. Topics for this year's forum include and are not limited to:
1. Planetary Perception: The Infrastructure of Opticsand Electricity
2. Nature, Weather, and Elemental Media
3. Animal Studies and Cross-Species Media
4. Wetware and Bio-media
5. Apparatus of biopolitics and Existential media
6. Embodied Intelligence and Embodied Media
7. Media I/O: Sensory and Sensors
8. Digital Humanities and Critical Artificial Intelligence Studies
9. Interfaces, Stacks, and Networks of Media
10. Geographic Media and Locative Media
11. Weaving and Programming
12. Media Ontology
13. Media, Time, and Labor
14. Ludology and Deludology
15. Object-Oriented Fandom Studies
16. Rethinking Media Materialities
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In this era when human beings are constantly exploring beyond themselves, we see the potential of Eastern thought. Here, we invite you from various disciplinary fields and professional backgrounds to explore the future of planets and disciplines together at the blurred boundaries, and to think together about the development and diversity of human beings. Let's meet at Tsinghua University in the spring of 2025, and talk about technological boundaries, cosmic stars and infinite possibilities in the land where the ancient and the modern are intertwined.
Convener
ZHANG Gehao
Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Arts, Macao University of Science and Technology
ZHANG Lei
Professor, National Center for Communication Innovation Studies, Communication University of China
WU Jingwei
Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, Tsinghua University
Co-Convener
GENG Hongming
Lecturer, School of Humanities, Tsinghua University, and Writing and Communication Teaching Center
Language
Chinese, English
Submission Email
mediamateriality@163.com
For inquiries, please contact us
wujw@tsinghua.edu.cn
Important Dates
By January 30, 2025submit a 1,500-word abstract（English）/ 3,000-word abstract (Chinese)
By February 20, 2025notification of selected papers.
By March 20, 2025submit full papers from selected participants.
March 29-30, 2025The conference will be held on that day.
Organized by
School of Journalism and Communication, Tsinghua University
Co-organized by
Tsinghua University Science Museum
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