[ecrea] Comparative Media Systems: Media Cultures as Cultures of Mediatization (IUC-CMS 2015) Postgraduate course & research conference,

Comparative Media Systems: Media Cultures as Cultures of Mediatization 
(IUC-CMS 2015) Postgraduate course & research conference,

Inter University Center, Dubrovnik, 13th-17th April 2015



Course directors:

Carmen Ciller, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Steffen Lepa, Technische Universität Berlin

Paolo Mancini, Università di Perugia

Snježana Milivojevic, University of Belgrade

Zrinjka Peruško, University of Zagreb

Slavko Splichal, University of Ljubljana



Course Description:

In 2015, the IUC-CMS postgraduate course and research conference will be 
focusing on works that regard different media systems across Europe as 
expressions of historically developed and steadily transforming media 
cultures (Jansson 2003). By comparing long-term change in empirical 
articulations of different “cultures whose primary meaning resources are 
mediated through technical communications media” (Hepp 2014) we want to 
enrich the European media research discourse by a cross-national 
perspective on Mediatization.


Central Topics of Interest:

·       How do the media cultures of different countries transform as 
part of Mediatization?

·       Do Mediatization processes take place at different speeds in 
different media cultures?

·       To which extent are media systems still determined by national 
governance, legislation, culture and language barriers, to which extent 
are they already forming trans-local global figurations?

·       What kind of changes in different media cultures may be observed 
alongside digitalization?

·       How are production, distribution and reception in the cultural 
worlds of popular arts
(cinema, tv-series, music, literature) affected by Mediatization?

·       How are media legislation and overall politics reacting to media 
cultural change?



Course Organization:

The IUC-CMS is an interdisciplinary research conference open to doctoral 
and post-doctoral students in media, communication and related fields. 
Each year the topic of the course will focus on one or a combination of 
areas which define media systems from a comparative perspective. In 
2015, we will center on research that adopts a media culture perspective 
on media systems and refer to the Mediatization concept. Course 
attendees will have extended opportunity to present and discuss their 
current own works with the course directors and other participants in 
seminar form (English language) and in further informal meetings around 
the beautiful old-town of Dubrovnik (UNESCO World Heritage).

While a comparative perspective across Europe will be foreground of the 
general course discussion, individually presented works may also adopt a 
comparative perspective on specific media cultures in single countries 
across time (i.e. media generations / biographies). A complementary 
methodological workshop will introduce selected qualitative and 
quantitative research methods that may be useful when adopting a media 
culture oriented approach to media system comparison, whether in time or 
space.



Venue Information:

The Inter-University Centre was founded in Dubrovnik in 1972 as an 
independent, autonomous academic institution with the aim of promoting 
international co-operation between academic institutions throughout the 
world. Courses are held in all scientific disciplines around the year, 
with participation of member and affiliated universities.



Additional Information and Application:

For further information, please contact the course director:
Professor Zrinjka Peruško, Centre for Media and Communication Research,
Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb. Email: (zperusko /at/ fpzg.hr)

To apply for the course, please visit the IUC website: 
http://www.iuc.hr/course-details.php?id=875

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