[ecrea] CFP Mediatization in transcultural and transnational perspectives

CFP Mediatization in transcultural and transnational perspectives

<<<Submission deadline: 15th January 2012>>>

Workshop of the ECREA TWG “Mediatization”, Goldsmiths, University of 
London, 30th to 31st March 2012

http://www.mediatization.eu/

Mediatization has become more and more a core concept to describe 
present and historical media and communicative change: If media become 
part of ‘everything’, we can no longer see them as a separate sphere but 
must develop an understanding of how the increasing spread of media 
communication changes our construction of culture and society. In such a 
perspective, mediatization is used as a concept to describe the 
long-term process of spreading different technical media and the linked 
interrelations between media-communicative change and socio-cultural 
change. So far, studies of mediatization have primarily been occupied 
with social and cultural transformations in Western cultures and 
societies, but processes of mediatization are also visible in other 
parts of the world. Mediatization may, however, display different 
dynamics and have other consequences in different cultural and social 
contexts.

The aim of this workshop is to discuss whether mediatization constitutes 
a global process of change, and, if yes, where the inequalities and 
dissimilarities of this process are located. Additionally, it can be 
expected that mediatization is not the same everywhere. Therefore, there 
might be differences but also similarities between cultures and nations 
in the process of mediatization. This said, mediatization becomes part 
of comparative media and communication research, not only in a current 
but also in an historical perspective: We must think about what the 
(trans-)cultural and (trans-)national differences are and how to compare 
them. Also there is a need to do this in a postcolonial and non-western 
perspective. And, finally, there is the challenge of doing comparative 
work to separate out different aspects of mediatization.

Topics of workshop papers -- both theoretically oriented and/or 
empirically grounded -- might include:

- Defining and theorising mediatization in a transcultural and 
transnational perspective

- Methods and approaches of comparative mediatization research

- Studies on differences between mediatization processes in various 
cultures and
(nation) states

- Reflections of comparative methods within mediatization research

- Research on transcultural and transnational similarities of 
mediatization processes

- Differences in the mediatization process of mediatization, within 
states but also across Europe and the globe, whether generally or in 
relation to specific fields

- (Digital) divide and inequalities as a topic of mediatization research

- Mediatization in a postcolonial and/or non-western perspective

- Historical differences of various stages of mediatization

We encourage contributions on mediatization from different academic 
perspectives. Please send your abstracts (not more than 300 words) by 
Sunday 15th January 2012 to one of the organizers, Andreas Hepp 
((andreas.hepp /at/ uni-bremen.de)) or Sonia Livingstone ((S.Livingstone /at/ lse.ac.uk)).

Please visit the ECREA TWG “Mediatization” web page for further
information:
http://www.mediatization.eu/

The conference is held in cooperation with:

Priority research program “Mediatized Worlds”
http://www.mediatizedworlds.net/

Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths College, University
of London, UK
http://www.gold.ac.uk/media-communications

Department of Media and Communications, LSE, UK
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/media@lse/Home.aspx

ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research,
University of Bremen, Germany
http://zemki.uni-bremen.de/
http://www.mediatization.eu/
www.mediatization.eu

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