第六届媒介物质性论坛
论坛主题
从巡天望远镜到引力波探测器，从火箭、人造卫星到宇宙飞船，人类不再仅仅仰望苍穹，感叹“天高地迥，觉宇宙之无穷”，而是借助媒介和技术突破了肉体的局限，参与甚至试图改写宇宙、地球与人类的关系。尽管在今天，地球依旧是人类生存境况的集中体现，人类的视野却已不仅仅受到脚下土地的局限。
近年来，媒介物质性研究为理解人与物的关系提供了诸多新视角。如何理解地球-人类/后人类的关系？在无孔不入的数字技术包裹中，怎样认识人工智能、人类智能和非人类智能？在人类世，人类如何对其行为负责，又该如何寻找后人文主义的伦理道德？栖居于大地又可以仰望星空，人类的想象和思辨中蕴含着怎么样的未来？人类、非人类生命体、技术、无机物等等多元行动者的关系如何编织与缠绕？围绕这些问题，媒介研究又何以可为？
论坛议题
第六届媒介物质性论坛将于2025年3月29-30日于清华大学新闻与传播学院举行。本届论坛的议题包括但不限于：
1. 行星感知：光与电的基础设施
2. 自然、天气与元素媒介
3. 动物研究与跨物种媒介
4. 湿件与生物媒介
5. 生命装置与生存媒介
6. 具身智能与具身媒介
7. 媒介的输入输出：（多）感官与传感器
8. 数字人文与批判人工智能研究
9. 媒介的界面、堆栈与网络
10. 地理媒介与定位媒介
11. 编织与编程
12. 媒介本体论
13. 媒介、时间与劳动
14. 游戏学与反游戏学
15. 物向粉丝研究
16. 媒介物质性再思考
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在这人类不断突破自我向外探索的时代，我们看到东方思想的潜能。在此，我们邀请来自不同学科领域与专业背景的各位，在模糊的边界共同探索行星和学科的未来，共同思考人类的多样性发展。让我们相聚2025年春意盎然的清华大学，在古老和现代交织的土地上，共话技术疆界、宇宙星辰与无限可能。
会议详情
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
正式召开会议
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
Call For Paper
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?
Panel
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.
Important Information
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, 2025
submit a 1,500-word abstract（English）/ 3,000-word abstract (Chinese)
By February 20, 2025
notification of selected papers
By March 20, 2025
submit full papers from selected participants.
March 29-30, 2025
The 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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