[ecrea] Call for papers "Mediatized Worlds"

>MEDIATIZED WORLDS:
>CULTURE AND SOCIETY IN A MEDIA AGE
>
>Thursday, 14th April 2011 - Friday, 15th April 2011,
>University of Bremen, Haus der Wissenschaft
>
>­ Call for Papers ­
>
>In the present age, people's lives and 
>experiences take place in mediatized worlds: 
>Our work is increasingly work on and with 
>computers, what we know about politics is 
>mediated and, hence, staged by technical media, 
>we spend our spare time watching television and 
>playing computer games, but also these days 
>education and religion cannot be thought of 
>beyond technical media. Mediatization as a 
>concept tries to describe this increasing media 
>saturation of the present on a meta level. The 
>dispersal of media in very different social and 
>cultural fields cannot be comprehended as a 
>neutral act. As media change the way we 
>communicate, an increasing mediatization is 
>interwoven with a changing social process of 
>constructing the world. However, mediatization 
>has to be grasped as a contradictory process. 
>There is no single media logic impacting 
>everyone and everything in the same way. 
>Different media offer various influences, which 
>become concrete in specific ways, depending on 
>the social field that is mediatized. There is no 
>one homogenous mediatized world but various 
>moments of mediatization working differently 
>depending on their context in lifeworlds: The 
>mediatization of politics might follow a 
>different trajectory to the mediatization of 
>education, work, religion or leisure time.
>
>Invited keynote speakers:
>
>- Nick Couldry, Goldsmiths College University of London, UK
>- Stig Hjarvard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
>- Hubert Knoblauch, TU Berlin, Germany
>- Lynn Spigel, Northwestern University, USA
>- John B. Thompson, University of Cambridge, UK
>
>The aim of the international conference is to 
>discuss this ongoing mediatization of present 
>social and cultural fields. Papers -- both 
>theoretically oriented and/or empirically 
>grounded -- are invited on the theme of mediatization.
>
>Topics might include:
>
>- Defining and theorising mediatized worlds,
>- Approaching media change in the context of social and cultural change,
>- Empirical studies on mediatization in relation 
>to different social and cultural fields
>- Methods and approaches of mediatization research,
>- Exploring processes of mediatisation in a historical perspective
>- Studies concerning the relation between 
>technical developments and social and cultural changes
>- Studies on the relation between mediatization 
>and other long term meta-processes like 
>globalization, individualization, commercialization
>
>The conference is the international start 
>conference of the six-year DFG priority research 
>program Mediatized Worlds: Communication in the 
>media and social change. For further 
>information on this program and the conference 
>please visit the programs homepage http://www.mediatizedworlds.net.
>
>We encourage contributions on mediatization from 
>different academic perspectives. Please send 
>your abstracts (not more than 400 words) by Saturday 15th January 2010 to:
>
>    Prof. Dr. Friedrich Krotz
>    University of Bremen
>    IMKI, Institute for Media, Communication & Information
>    Enrique-Schmidt-Strasse 7
>    D-28359 Bremen, Germany
>
>    Phone: +49 (0)421 218-67625
>    E-Mail: (krotz /at/ uni-bremen.de)
>
>--
>Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp
>University of Bremen - FB 9
>IMKI, Institute of Media, Communication & Information
>IPKM, Institute of Media History, Media and Communication Studies
>Enrique-Schmidt-Strasse 7
>D-28359 Bremen, Germany
>
>Phone:   +49 (0)421 218-67620
>
>http://www.imki.uni-bremen.de
>http://www.ipkm.uni-bremen.de
>

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