[ecrea] Call for Papers: Media Engagement, International Conference at Lund University

Call for Papers: Media Engagement, International Conference at Lund 
University

Department of Communication and Media, Lund University, Sweden, March 
19th 2015. Organisers Annette Hill, Michael Rübsamen, Tina Askanius and 
Sanchari De.

Engagement refers to the various ways we encounter and experience media 
within politics, society and culture. Media engagement matters, but what 
we mean by engagement is open to debate. There are competing 
definitions, discourses and methods for media engagement. For example, 
political discourses of engagement can focus on rational and subjective 
dimensions of being political and participating in civic cultures. 
Policy and industry discourses of engagement rely on technologies and 
strategies to measure and secure public and consumer engagement. And, 
audience research explores the processes and practices of people’s 
engagement and disengagement with cross media content. In this way, 
engagement is about forms of media pleasure as well as forms of media 
knowledge.



This conference focuses on media engagement in four areas of enquiry: 
political engagement, policy and industry engagement, audience 
engagement, and methodology and methods for researching media 
engagement. The research questions include: What role does media play in 
processes of political and public engagement? What are the models of 
engagement within media and cultural industries? How and why do 
audiences engage with media in politics, society and culture? In what 
ways can we research engagement with media and social media?

These research questions can be applied to a range of theories, ideas 
and problems concerning political culture, citizenship and democracy, 
television, film, radio and print media, social media, popular culture, 
live events, as well as other topics. Different approaches to research 
on media engagement can include media, communication and cultural 
studies, media history, film studies, sociology, social psychology, 
sociology of media and culture, political communication, and cultural 
geography, amongst others. The aim is to provide a platform for 
international scholars from various disciplines to debate the complex 
issues at work in understanding the theories, processes and practices of 
media engagement.

The schedule includes a combination of keynote addresses, 
pre-constituted panels, and open panels. Confirmed keynote speakers 
include Professor Raymond Boyle (Glasgow University, UK), Professor John 
Corner (Leeds University, UK), Emeritus Professor Peter Dahlgren (Lund 
University, Sweden), Professor Joke Hermes (In Holland University, 
Netherlands). Other invited speakers include Professor Göran Bolin 
(Södertörn University, Sweden), Julie Donovan (International Formats 
Consultant), Professor Annette Hill (Lund University, Sweden), Dr Jane 
Roscoe (London Film School), Professor Jeanette Steemers (University of 
Westminster, UK), and Douglas Wood (Shine Group).

Please submit an abstract of 300 words in English by December 9th 2014 
to the conference email (engagement /at/ kom.lu.se). For further information 
please consult our website www.kom.lu.se/mec2015. There is a 
registration fee of 750 SEK (80 Euros) that covers food and drink for 
the day and an evening buffet.







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