Call for Papers

This conference will examine the multiple ways in which cities are embedded in processes of televisual representation, production and consumption.

Papers might address one or more of the following topics:

the visual and aural grammars of televisual cities
how particular genres represent the city
how social identities are mediated by televisual representation
the role of television in the promotion of particular cities
the affect of the urban ‘real’ (in reality tv, news, documentary)
the construction of imagined urban communities
the role of television in the informational city as a component of economic development
the relationship of television to urban dialectics of decline and regeneration
televisual representation of issues of urban (in)security and governance
tv as a technology of urban surveillance (CCTV)
how cities are represented in national and international news reporting

Please submit a 300 word abstract and short biographical abstract by June 15, 2009 to both Professor Liam Kennedy (liam.kennedy@ucd.ie) and Professor Diane Negra (diane.negra@ucd.ie)