[ecrea] A Sociology for Media Society, IIS, Yerevan

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> Call for Papers - extended deadline:
> "A Sociology of Media Society" - Panel Session at the IIS 2009 
> conference in Yerevan (June 11-14, 2009)
> *PLEASE NOTE: The deadline for submitting papers/abstracts has been 
> extended until March 31, 2009!*
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> Many of the current theories of society point to the immanent 
> importance of mediated (mass) communication, albeit, more often than 
> not, in passing. Still, Information-, Knowledge- or Network-Society, 
> however divergent at times, all rely on a central precondition: the 
> technologies, institutions, logics and protagonists of global and 
> ubiquitous communication. Still, a theory of a "society of the 
> media" has not yet been consolidated. Media, in this case, means all 
> technical, institutional and cultural processes by which news, 
> stories, people and events are related to us via a highly 
> specialized system of globe-spanning technology. Such a theory would 
> then have to combine structural accounts of infrastructures and 
> material preconditions (such as in Castell's Network Society) with 
> cultural accounts of the ramifications of abundant artifacts and 
> processes of communication (such as in e.g. Baudrillard's version of 
> a hopelessly "mediatised" world). Doubtlessly, a society so deeply 
> and fully saturated with mediated communications must differ from 
> other and earlier forms in many respects. What, then, lies at the 
> core of this new society, what are its principle features? Paper 
> themes could deal with, but are not confined to:
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> * Tracing Media Society: Roots, pioneers and protagonists of a 
> theory of Media Society
> * Converging at the core: reading theories of society through the 
> eyes of mediated communication
> * The Economy/Culture/Science(s)/etc. of Media Society;
>
> Programmatic papers which focus on the theme of a sociology of the 
> media (society) are particularly welcome. The focus of the panel 
> rests mainly on theoretical issues but does not exclude empirical 
> studies, especially when they embed their findings in a theoretical 
> frame that goes beyond the micro-perspectival level.
>
> Please send your extended abstracts or full papers to:
> <mailto:(marian.adolf /at/ zeppelin-university.de)>(marian.adolf /at/ zeppelin-university.de)
> Authors of accepted papers will be notified by April 7, 2009.
>
>
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