[ecrea] Mediatization and New Media - International workshop in Copenhagen in March

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Mediatization and New Media

International research workshop by ECREA TWG Mediatization

University of Copenhagen, Denmark

March 15-16, 2013



New media like the Internet and mobile phones have come to play a 
crucial role in contemporary culture and society. They have not only 
reconfigured the entire media landscape and transformed older forms of 
mass media but have become integrated into the very fabric of social 
life in a variety of social, political and cultural domains. In this 
research workshop we will consider the influence of new media through 
the theoretical framework of mediatization. Mediatization has emerged as 
a key concept to theorize and empirically investigate how media are 
implicated in social and cultural change across a variety of domains 
like family life, work, politics, economy, religion and warfare. Early 
mediatization theory was focused on the influence of mass media and the 
spread of new media may both question key propositions of mediatization 
theory and provide evidence for a more pronounced and complex 
mediatization of social, political and cultural phenomena. New media 
reconfigure and diversify processes of communication and interaction at 
the same time as they become institutionalized and come to influence new 
patterns of power relationships.

Read the full call for papers: 
http://mediatization.ku.dk/documents/CfP_Mediatization_workshop_Copenhagen.pdf/


The workshop will comprise approx. 25-35 researchers; precedence will be 
given to paper presenters. Participants will have to cover their own 
travel expenses and hotel. University of Copenhagen will provide lunch, 
coffee and tea during the two days.

We encourage contributions from different academic perspectives on 
mediatization. Please send your abstracts (not more than 300 words) by 
Monday 14th of January 2013 to secretary Agnete Mette Juul: 
(media /at/ hum.ku.dk). Questions concerning the topic of the workshop may be 
addressed to Professor Stig Hjarvard: (stig /at/ hum.ku.dk)

The workshop is organized by the ECREA TWG on Mediatization 
(http://www.mediatization.eu/) in cooperation with the Research Program 
The Mediatization of Culture: The Challenge of New Media at University 
of Copenhagen: http://mediatization.ku.dk/





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