[ecrea] CALL FOR PAPERS "MEDIA CULTURE IN CHANGE"

CALL FOR PAPERS "MEDIA CULTURE IN CHANGE"

Date:	April 29th to May 1st 2009
Venue:	University of Bremen, Germany

54th Annual Conference of the German Communication Association (DGPuK)

Our present cultures cannot be understood beyond the media. If one  
understands cultures in the widest sense of the word as the whole  
conflicting way of living, knowing and acting of a major group of  
people, then they are communicatively mediated: Through communication  
we become socialized within cultures, and cultural practices are to a  
large degree expressed in communication. These processes of  
communication occur increasingly via technical media, beginning with  
newspapers and journals, through television, radio and film up to the  
so-called hybrid media of computers and mobile phones. In this sense  
we can understand our present cultures as media cultures.

Taking this as a starting point the conference ?Media Culture in  
Change? has a threefold objective: First aim is to discuss how to  
describe media cultures within media and communication studies  
theoretically and empirically. Secondly, the subject of the conference  
is to reflect how change can be described adequately and also how it  
can be operationalised. Third, the conference addresses the question  
of the significance of research on media cultures for the theoretical  
development of media and communication studies.

Papers on the following topic fields are welcome:
        ? Concepts of media culture
        ? Empirical media culture research
        ? Historical dimension of media cultural change
        ? Present relevance of media cultural change
        ? Media politics, public sphere and political discourse  
cultures
        ? Integration, segregation and conflicts in media cultures
        ? Cultures of journalism, production and organisation
        ? Contents, formats and discourses of media cultures
        ? Everyday life, appropriation and socialisation in media  
cultures

Invited keynote speakers are:
        ? Hans Adler, University of Wisconsin, Madison
        ? Claus Leggewie, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen
        ? Robin Mansell, London School of Economics and Political  
Science
        ? David Morley, Goldsmiths College University of London

For further information on the conference and the full call for papers  
please visit the web page http://www.dgpuk2009.de/index_en.html.

Abstracts must be submitted by 15th October 2008 via the online  
abstract management system, accessible via this web page after 1st  
September 2008.

Responsible for local organisation: Andreas Hepp ((Andreas.Hepp /at/ uni-bremen.de) 
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