[ecrea] CFP: Mediatization and New Media: ECREA TWG workshop in Copenhagen

Mediatization and New Media

International research workshop by ECREA TWG Mediatization

University of Copenhagen, Denmark

March 15-16, 2013

Call for papers

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.

Workshop papers may be both theoretically oriented and empirically 
grounded and topics of papers may include (list

is not exhaustive):

• New media as a theoretical challenge in mediatization studies

• New media and the reconfiguration of social power

• Empirical studies of new media and cultural, political, economic or 
social transformations

• Methods and approaches to the study of new media and processes of 
mediatization

• New media and the reconfiguration of media systems

• Theorizing new forms of mediatization

• Critical approaches to mediatization studies

The number of participants in the workshop is limited and precedence 
will be given to paper presenters.

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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