RGS-IBG Postgraduate Forum Midterm Conference, 19th – 23rd April 2021
Date and time: Thursday 22nd April 2021, 1500 –
1700 BST, via Zoom
Sponsored by the Digital Geographies Research Group (DGRG)
As digital technologies have become increasingly and unevenly entangled
in everyday life on a global scale, so has their influence on the everyday
phenomena we might participate in and choose to study as geographers. The
Covid-19 pandemic has thrown into sharp relief the ways digital technology can
shape what we research, how we do research and how we share
research, perhaps more than we might have intended. Inequalities in everyday access
to digital tools can create ‘digital divides’ at both local and global scales, while
the diverse application of digital technologies has influenced a wide
range of cultural practices across the world. These may be mundane, creative,
ethically problematic, violent, innovative – sometimes many of these words at
once, and others besides.
This centrality of the digital to today’s geographical praxis has
been illustrated evocatively by Ash, Kitchin and Leszczynski (2016), who have
charted the current ‘digital turn’ as one provoked by engagement with
geographies through the digital, geographies produced by the
digital, and geographies of the digital. With this same broad scope, we
invite proposals for digital shorts (videos summarising research in 2-5
minutes) that engage with a range of everyday geographies through, produced by,
and of the digital.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
· Research methods involving digital technology
· Creative practices using digital technology
· Digital infrastructures
· Regional digital geographies – particularly perspectives from the
Global South
· Forms of digital labour
· Digital technologies, health and wellbeing
· Digital arts and entertainment
· Digital access and digital divides
· Social media and sharing (dis)information online
· Forms of digital mapping
The digital shorts will be pre-recorded by participants and then watched live on Zoom during the session, followed by questions and discussion. The format of the discussion will be decided once we have received submissions.
Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words to Jack Lowe (jack.lowe.2017@rhul.ac.uk) and Daisy Curtis (d.curtis@exeter.ac.uk) by 5th March 2021.
