CALL FOR ARTICLES ON "MEDIATIZATION: EMPIRICAL PERSPECTIVES"
Special issue of Communications. The European Journal of Communication
Research
Special issue editors: Stig Hjarvard, Andreas Hepp, Knut Lundby
Mediatization has become a key concept in media and communication
research (see for example Hjarvard 2008, Livingstone 2009 and the
discussion collected in Lundby 2009).
In general, the concept of mediatization tries to capture long-term
processes of the interrelation between media change on the one hand
and social and cultural change on the other. As institutionalized and
technological means of communication media have become integral to
very different contexts of human life, the media themselves are not
just neutral instances of mediation. Media like television, radio,
newspaper, the web or the mobile phone are in themselves mediators of
social and cultural change. This cannot be understood through a single
'media logic' but has to be researched in a highly contextualized way:
The mediatization of sports, politics or religion may be highly
different to the mediatization of education, while the same media are
involved.
The aim of the special issue on "Mediatization: Empirical
perspectives" of Communications. The European Journal of Communication
Research is to present up-to-date empirical investigations of
mediatization. Within this overall frame, all forms of empirical media
and communication research are welcome, whether qualitative or
quantitative, orientated towards theory development or testing,
critical or descriptive, contemporary or historical. The contributions
should offer empirically based critical answers on the dynamics of
media change within the concept of mediatization.
The deadlines for submission are as follows:
- November 15, 2009: Digital submission of two-page abstracts to one
of the special issue editors
- January 15, 2010: Digital submission of the final article to one of
the special issue editors (proofed American English)
- August/September 2010: Publication of accepted articles
All submitted articles are double blind reviewed. For style sheet and
further information see the Communications web page:
http://www.degruyter.de/journals/communic/detailEn.cfm
Contact details:
Stig Hjarvard: University of Copenhagen, e-mail (stig /at/ hum.ku.dk)
Andreas Hepp: University of Bremen, e-mail (Andreas.Hepp /at/ uni-bremen.de)
Knut Lundby: University of Oslo, e-mail (knut.lundby /at/ media.uio.no)
References:
Hjarvard, S (2008) "The Mediatization of Society. A Theory of the
Media as Agents of Social and Cultural Change", Nordicom Review,
29(2): 105-134
Livingstone, S. M. (2009). On the Mediation of Everything. Journal of
Communication, 59(1), 1-18.
Lundby, K. (Ed.). (2009). Mediatization: Concept, Changes,
Consequences. New York: Peter Lang.
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Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp
University of Bremen - FB 9
IMKI, Institute of Media, Communication & Information
Enrique-Schmidt-Strasse, SFG 4320
D-28359 Bremen, Germany
Phone: +49 (0)421 218-67620
http://www.imki.uni-bremen.de/
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