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 program's 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 2011 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)
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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
