[ecrea] Info about an International Workshop in Bremen

/*International Workshop "Media and Cultural Change Outside of Europe"*/
on September 28, 2012 at the University of Bremen, organized by 
Friedrich Krotz, Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz and Iren Schulz

Since some decades we live in a rapidly changing world, especially by 
looking at media and communication. From Internet to mobile phone, from 
Second Life to Facebook – more and more media devices and services came 
up and are used by the people in very different ways. The development of 
media and communication takes place in the context of important 
developments of the social and cultural worlds we live in.
Until today it seems that Communication studies analyze these long-term 
developments not very carefully. Of course, there have been Harold 
Innis, Marshall McLuhan and some others who worked about the so called 
“Medium Theory”, that separates time and development with reference to 
media. But mostly, researchers in the tradition of communication studies 
analyze single media, its content and use and do not generate or develop 
comprehensive theories. This is the topic that we want to discuss in the 
workshop with researchers from outside of Europe in order to learn how 
and with which theoretical appearances they do their work.

*Workshop Program*

08.30 Registration and Get Together (Rotunde/Cartesium at the University 
of Erfurt)

09.00 Welcome and Thematical Introduction (Friedrich Krotz, University 
of Bremen)
09.30  USA (Jeffrey Pooley, Muhlenberg College, Pennsylvania and 
Christian Schwarzenegger, Univ. of Augsburg)
10.15  Japan (Akihiro Kitada, Tokyo University and Fabian Schäfer, 
University of Zürich)
11.00  Coffee Break

11.30  India (Daya Kishan Thussu, University of Westminster)
12.15  Mexico (Lorena Frankenberg, Universidad Metropolitana de 
Monterrey and José Carlos Lozano Texas A&M University)
13.00  Lunch Break
14.00  Africa (Thomas Tufte, Roskilde University)
14.45  Nothern Africa (Randa Aboubakr, Kairo University)
15:30  Coffee Break

15.45  China (Lu Xinyu, Fudan University Shanghai)
16.30  Discussion of all Participants (Respondent: Tom R. Jacobson, 
Temple University and Chair: Friedrich Krotz, University of Bremen)
18.00  End of Workshop

19.00  Common Conference Dinner

*Registration*
Registration for the Workshop "Media and Cultural Change Outside of 
Europe"  on September 28, 2012 at the University of Bremen is needed by 
June 30, 2012.

Please register with Iren Schulz: (iren.schulz /at/ uni-bremen.de).

With the confirmation oft he workshop registration you will receive a 
list of recommended hotels in Bremen as well as further information 
about directions.The number of participants is limited.

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For more information please visit www.mediatizedworlds.net*/