ECREA Media, Cities and Space Section

📢 Registration for the 11th European Communication Conference (#ECC2026) is now open! Abstract notifications will follow soon.
Join communication scholars from across Europe and beyond for four days of research exchange, discussion, and networking in Brno.

The year of the fire horse is starting!

This university campus is heated by an AI data center. Your home could be next AI’s energy problem may also be its solution, as cities are increasingly exploring opportunities to repurpose excess heat from data centers.

Nice piece on @cnbc.com about @tudublinsustain.bsky.social Tallaght campus which has reduced carbon emissions by using excess heat from an Amazon Data centre. @seai-ie.bsky.social @codemadublin.bsky.social #SpeirGorm

Call for ECC 2028 host (deadline extended to 16 February 2026)! ECREA opened a call for proposals for the hosting and organisation of the 12th edition of the European Communication Conferences.

📢 Abstract submissions for #ECC2026 are now closed! ⭐ Thank you to all authors for an outstanding response - we received over 2,600 submissions across papers, posters, panels, and roundtables. 💡Most submissions were to the Journalism Studies section. We look forward to what’s ahead in Brno!

Don't forget! Today is the last day to submit your abstract to ECC2026!

⏰ A friendly reminder to our ECREA Media, Cities and Space section members and non-members that there is only one day left to submit your abstracts for the upcoming ECC2026 conference in Brno, Czech Republic!

🇨🇿 Don't miss it!!

ECREA MCS Section Newsletter – December 2025 Dear ECREA Media, Cities and Space (MCS) Section members and followers, As we wrap up 2025, we would like to update you on our past and future events and to ask for your feedback so that we can imp…

🎁 Dear ECREA MCS Section members and followers,

📝 As we wrap up 2025, we would like to update you on our past and future events and to ask for your feedback so that we can improve collaboration, networking and engagement.

🎄Have a lovely festive season!

mediacitytwg.wordpress.com/2025/12/18/e...

Call for ECREA European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School 2026 is out!

Deadline: February 13, 2026

It is done! We published our VGC '23 book, consisting of 10 papers from our conference in Klagenfurt, Austria, in 2023🎉 Many thanks to our editors and everyone who contributed! More Details here: www.sidestone.com/books/explor...

We’ve extended the deadline by a week! More time to send in your abstract for potential inclusion in a special @mediapolis.bsky.social dossier on ‘The Synthetic City’!

EXTENDED DUE DATE for Abstracts: 7 December 2025
Call for Papers: 'The Synthetic City'. We have extended the due date by an extra week, so you still have time to submit your proposals!

EXTENDED DUE DATE for Abstracts: 7 December 2025
Call for Papers: The Synthetic City. We have extended the due date by an extra week, so you still have time to submit your proposals!

⏳ Only a few days left to submit your proposal for a #ECC2026 pre-conference! Design your own event in Brno (5–7 Sept 2026) and bring scholars together around your theme. Submit your 500–800-word proposal by 30 Nov → ecrea2026brno.eu/call-for-pre...

Happy Birthday, ECREAns!

Particle Physicists Detect ‘Magic’ at the Large Hadron Collider | Quanta Magazine The supercollider is now being used to explore quantum phenomena, including a “magic” form of quantum entanglement.

The Large Hadron Collider has a new job. It’s being used to study how information flows through quantum systems — ideas that lie at the core of quantum computing. @shalmawegs.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/particle-phy...

Birkbeck, University of London is seeking an Associate Lecturer in Digital Video and Editing. Part-time, contractual – perfect for creatives who want to share their skills while continuing their practice.

👉 Details & apply: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/asso...

CFP: ‘The Synthetic City’ Dossier for Mediapolis Journal The Synthetic City A Dossier for Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture Guest Editors: Scott Rodgers, Helena Atteneder, Lou Therese Brandner, Marcos Dias, Diogo Pereira Henriques and Sara Tren…

REMINDER! CfP: The Synthetic City

We’re putting together a special issue dossier for
@mediapolis.bsky.social
on 'urban AI' and seek short essays, provocations, creative-critical reflections on synthetic urbanism.

📅 Abstracts due: Nov 30
🔗 Details: mediacitytwg.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/c...

Technoecologies - Daniel Cardoso Llach - The Mississippi Colossus Boxtown is a neighborhood in South Memphis established in 1863 by emancipated former slaves. Since 2024, it is also the home to one of the world’s largest supercomputers, property of Elon Musk’s artif...

Today in E-flux, a piece I wrote on the spatial and environmental politics of AI in the United States. In great company as part of the Technoecologies series curated by Nathalie Bredella and Grayson Bailey. www.e-flux.com/architecture...

Join us Nov 25 for Engaging Publics in Media, Cities & Space -free online conference on research impact in media and urban studies. Talks on monographs, journals, podcasts, walking tours + networking, incl. a special session for ECRs.
👉 Full programme & register: docs.google.com/document/d/e...

CFP: ‘The Synthetic City’ Dossier for Mediapolis Journal The Synthetic City A Dossier for Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture Guest Editors: Scott Rodgers, Helena Atteneder, Lou Therese Brandner, Marcos Dias, Diogo Pereira Henriques and Sara Tren…

1/ CFP Dossier for @mediapolis.bsky.social:
The synthetic city as an alternative, multivalent provocation to examine, interpret and forecast the emerging implications of AI and related digital technologies for urban living.
🗓️ Deadline: 30 Nov 2025
🔗 Link: mediacitytwg.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/c...

2/ We welcome short essays, provocations, and creative-critical reflections that examine how synthetic urbanism is produced, experienced, and theorized across media, design, and everyday life.

#UrbanMedia #SyntheticCity #SyntheticData #Synthesis #Cities #Space #Media #ML #GenAI #AI #Mediapolis

CFP: ‘The Synthetic City’ Dossier for Mediapolis Journal The Synthetic City A Dossier for Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture Guest Editors: Scott Rodgers, Helena Atteneder, Lou Therese Brandner, Marcos Dias, Diogo Pereira Henriques and Sara Tren…

1/ CFP Dossier for @mediapolis.bsky.social:
The synthetic city as an alternative, multivalent provocation to examine, interpret and forecast the emerging implications of AI and related digital technologies for urban living.
🗓️ Deadline: 30 Nov 2025
🔗 Link: mediacitytwg.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/c...

#UrbanMedia #SyntheticCity #SyntheticData #Synthesis #Cities #Space #Media #ML #GenAI #AI #CallForPapers #Mediapolis #ECREA

A spiral galaxy occupies most of the image. It is a slightly tilted disc of stars, yellow-white in the centre and blue in the outskirts, showing light from different stars in the galaxy. Its spiral arms curl outwards from the centre, speckled with blue star clusters. Dark reddish threads of dust swirl around the galaxy’s centre. The backdrop is four medium-sized and many small, distant galaxies on a black background.

📷 This NASA/ESA #Hubble Space Telescope image features spiral galaxy NGC 3370, home to two kinds of objects prized by astronomers for their usefulness in determining distances to faraway galaxies: Cepheid variable stars and Type Ia supernovae 🧪🔭
esahubble.org/images/potw2... @stsci.edu

CFP: ‘The Synthetic City’ Dossier for Mediapolis Journal The Synthetic City A Dossier for Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture Guest Editors: Scott Rodgers, Helena Atteneder, Lou Therese Brandner, Marcos Dias, Diogo Pereira Henriques and Sara Tren…

Great to see this CfP "The Synthetic City" #urbanAI for @mediapolis.bsky.social w/ guest editors @scott-rodgers.bsky.social @marcospdias.bsky.social & colleagues.

mediacitytwg.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/c...

Abstract deadline 30 November 2025.

CFP: ‘The Synthetic City’ Dossier for Mediapolis Journal The Synthetic City A Dossier for Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture Guest Editors: Scott Rodgers, Helena Atteneder, Lou Therese Brandner, Marcos Dias, Diogo Pereira Henriques and Sara Tren…

Call for Papers: The Synthetic City

We’re putting together a special issue dossier for @mediapolis.bsky.social on 'urban AI' and seek short essays, provocations, creative-critical reflections on synthetic urbanism.

📅 Abstracts due: Nov 30
🔗 Details: mediacitytwg.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/c...

✨ 🌱 Update: call for submissions deadline extended to 12th October!

We're at the Royal Society celebrating this, with a stellar line-up, including Wendy Hall, Alan Kay, Gary Marcus, Abeba Birhane and more royalsociety.org/science-even...

How could EA's go-private deal impact the video game industry? If the transaction is approved, Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund will join Silver Lake Partners and Affinity Partners, run by US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, as EA’s new owne...

Wow, recent news from the (proposed) record-breaking $55 billion deal with the video game maker Electronic Arts Inc.!!
#videogames #gaming #EA
www.euronews.com/business/202...