[ecrea] NYRIS12. call for sessions extended until October 15th

Changing Societies and Cultures: Youth in the Digital Age


12-14 June 2013, Tallinn University, Estonia



Organized by the Institute for International and Social Studies, Tallinn 
University
NYRIS12, like previous Nordic research conferences, offers a platform 
for international, interdisciplinary and interactive discussion that 
will reflect research in youth studies from various perspectives. We now 
invite proposals for sessions to be held at the conference. NYRIS12 
focuses on cultural and social changes in the digital age. Rapid 
technological developments, structural changes in society and economic 
uncertainty may influence young people in some respects more than other 
age groups. In the highly globalising and ICT-saturated world young 
people can also be seen as one of the main agents of change in society.
Technological developments have enabled new forms of participation in 
international communities as well as rapid exchange of ideas and 
cultural products. The lives of many young people are being reconfigured 
by new digital technologies that bring about multi-directional trends 
and outcomes – opportunities as well as challenges. New cultural trends 
or political worldviews are often global in reach, spreading quickly to 
different locations while also developing unique local characteristics 
in different places. On one hand, technological advances like security 
cameras enhance safety, while, on the other hand, unregulated cyberspace 
creates too many uncontrolled or risky situations. In the digital era 
young people have broader opportunities for socializing and 
self-expression but digitally disadvantaged young people may be more 
excluded from social life.
Youth research has to consider all these changes, opportunities or risks 
while focusing on a variety of topics related to youth - youth cultures, 
identities, values, consumption, inequality, labour market, education, 
creativity, political participation, sexuality etc. Regardless of the 
research angle it is impossible to investigate contemporary youth 
without acknowledging the mutual shaping of young people’s agency, 
digital developments and social changes.
Confirmed key-note speakers:
Prof. Andy Bennett, Griffith University, Australia, Mediated youth 
cultures: The shifting nature of youth cultural association in the 
(post)digital age.
Dr. Ellen Helsper, London School of Economics, UK Unpacking Digital 
Natives: Digital Diversity and Inequality Among European Youth.
Dr. Siyka Kovacheva, University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria Cultural changes in 
the biographical constructions of East European youth.
Prof. Marju Lauristin, University of Tartu, Estonia, Social change and 
generations
Prof. Steven Miles, University of Brighton, UK Young people, resistance 
and the seductive complicities of consumption

NYRIS12 seeks to highlight multiple topics raised by digital revolution. 
The proposals for sessions may be on any topic relevant to the 
conference theme, but topics listed below are especially welcome:
• Youth cultures and new social movements
• Cultural and political values
• Consumption and lifestyles
• Online/offline identities
• Educational transitions and opportunities
• Economics and labour market
• Social networks and social capital
• Multiculturalism and immigration
• Gender and sexualities
• The changing conceptions of privacy
• Communication, self-expression and creativity
• Youth and localities
• Marginalized / disadvantaged youth
• Youth and memory
• Socialisation and inter-generational relations
In addition to sessions presenting original research findings in the 
traditional form, we encourage proposals that offer innovative 
approaches to presenting and discussing scholarship. These may include 
for example discussions and roundtables, moderated debates, interactive 
workshops, as well as sessions featuring audio and visual resources
The proposals should include the following information:
1. Title of the session.
2. Coordinators of the session: Provide full name, affiliation, mailing 
address, telephone number and e-mail address of the coordinator(s) of 
the session. Coordinators will be responsible for selecting the papers 
for the session and they will act as chairs of the session at the 
conference.
3. Description of the topic of the session (not exceeding 300 words)
4. Participants of the session (optional): If the proposal concerns a 
complete session with given participants, the proposal should also 
include the individual abstracts of each participant and a list of 
names, affiliations, mailing addresses and e-mail of each participant.
5. Requests for audio visual equipment and media requirements (data 
projector, DVD, internet, visual projection, audio and so on).

The length of a parallel session will be approx. 90–120 minutes. The 
suggested number of presenters in a session consisting of traditional 
workshop papers is 3-4 plus the coordinator and discussant.
The session proposals, in one document attachment (in WORD format), 
should be submitted to the Organizing Committee by October 15th, 2012 to 
the address (nyris12 /at/ tlu.ee). The e-mail should have the subject heading 
“NYRIS 12 session proposal”. More information http://www.tlu.ee/nyris12

On behalf of organizing committee
Airi-Alina Allaste

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Prof Dr Airi-Alina Allaste
Director of Institute of International and Social Studies, Tallinn 
University
Uus-Sadama 5
10120 Tallinn, Estonia



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