[ecrea] cfp: Identity, Identification and Modern Media - International conference

Identity, Identification and Modern Media



International Conference

(Within the framework of the XV annual April conference on the 
development  of economics and society «Modernization of economics and 
society»)





National Research University – Higher School of Economics

Faculty of Media Communications,  Laboratory for media research



Moscow, 1-3 April 2014



This conference proposes to examine the problem of building and 
transformation of identities in the new media environment. During last 
50 years the concept of identification and identity became significant 
in the social sciences. Scientists from different areas of knowledge are 
interested in identities transformation: globalization has exacerbated  
the desire to protect the local identity and ability to resist 
(Castells, 2009; Tomlinson 1999). At the same time it  has contributed  
to a change within boundaries between identities and cultures that 
nowadays are less related to the boundaries of the nation states and 
increasingly more with meanings and values of the everyday occurrence 
and aspirations of individuals to create their own individual culture 
(McCracken, 2008). There are some sex and lesbian communities, digital 
cultures etc. All of these changes are largely related to the media: 
division into niches, fragmentation of audiences, transition to the 
nonlinear and individualized media usage have resulted in an inability 
to maintain the broad identity that previously formed the national states.

At the same time the globalization of lifestyles very largely connected 
to the export of mass Hollywood  cinema, global division of labor and  
network organization of global business have worsened the separatist 
demands and expanded the autonomy of a number of regions. Mass flows of 
migrants have contributed to the transformation of politics of different 
states. The migration issue has become the major problem for European 
politics. The clash of cultures or the "shock of civilizations" pointed 
by Huntington (Huntington, 2005; 2011). is definitely transferred to the 
level of media when the borrowing of cultural products is becoming a 
problem in terms of center-periphery relations (Schiller, 1976)  and  
informational domination of  rich countries over the poor ones, in terms 
of the intertwining of media cultures (Appadurai, 1996), in terms of 
media products perception in different cultures (Liebes & Katz, 1993), 
in terms of the representation of violence and political violence 
(Schlesinger, 1991). The appearance of new media changes the current 
system of identification. New interactive media raises the issue of new 
forms of identity, which are not connected with  non-ethnic group and 
cultures but with the protest events, for instance. Some new forms of 
digitally connected organized identification are appeared and they are 
structuring political and social protests (Castells, 2012; Bennett 
(ed.), 2008).

We believe that it is relevant to gather the representatives of 
different schools and approaches in order to discuss the media aspect of 
the identity creation and transformation in the modern world, both at 
the personal level and the group level. During this conference it is 
suggested to discuss new forms of identity related to the media and 
answer the following questions:

    * What role does the media play in the process of identity formation
    * How  does media create and maintain the geographical and cultural 
identity
    * What kinds of identities are created and supported by modern 
media in Russia and  in the world
    * What conflicts do arise between identities and how are they 
related to media
    * How does new media change the identity and ways of identification 
and self-identification of people
    * How are the organizational and institutional structure of the 
media system and identity (that it creates and maintains) related
    * With what kind of content do consumers associate themselves
    * What is the local and global identity created by media

All interested in participating should register on the website 
http://conf.hse.ru/en/2014/registration before November 11, 2013, attach 
abstracts of their papers on the Russian or English, and send them to 
the email (epronkina /at/ hse.ru). We are kindly asking you during the 
registration process to mark the topic of you papers as “media 
communication”. All abstracts will bypass reviewing process. Authors 
will be informed about the decision of the program committee before 
January 28, 2014.

A detailed abstract of the proposed paper should be attached to the 
application, in Word or RTF format, in 1 - 3 pages with 1, 5 line 
spacing (up to 7000 symbols). The summary should outline the issue, show 
the level of the research, include characteristics of the research 
(theoretical or empirical type of the work, its informational base), as 
well as its main results. Abstracts which are less than 1 page in length 
will not be accepted. One author may submit a personal paper to the 
conference and no more than two papers co-authored.

Authors of the papers included in the Conference program are requested 
to send full-text versions of the text (in Word, RTF) by March 5, 2014 
for publication on the Conference website. At the end of the conference 
Higher School of Economics will prepare and issue a conference e-volume, 
containing all papers which were presented at the conference. Final 
versions of the papers should be sent by May 20, 2014. (20 000 symbols 
with spaces in Word, RTF). The decision about their publication in the 
Conference e-volume will be made by the editorial board. The papers not 
presented at the Conference will not be considered for publication.

Participants from the CIS and Eastern Europe countries whose papers are 
included in the program may apply for a grant from the Moscow Office of 
the World Bank until February 14, 2014 to (interconf /at/ hse.ru)





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Ilya Kiriya



professor, Ph.D. in information and communication

Department of media communication

Vice-dean responsible for science, academic development and 
international relations

National Research University - Higher School of Economics

tel: +7 495 772 95 90 ext. 2394

mob: +7 916 519 80 47

www.hse.ru



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