[ecrea] Media and power - PhD course in Denmark

Media and power: Theoretical perspectives on analytical practicalities

Roskilde University, 24.-27 . February 2015



Key note presentations by international experts: Sigurd Allern, Oslo 
University, Rens Vliegenthart, University of Amsterdam, Tim Markham, 
Birkbeck University of London, and Rodney Benson, New York University.



Participation is free of charge.



COURSE OBJECTIVES AND CONTENT

The Centre for Power, Media and Communication at Roskilde University 
works on the basis of a broad multi-dimensional understanding of power 
in relation to media, covering “power over”, “power to” and “power 
through”. The purpose of this PhD course is to pull together theoretical 
perspectives in empirical analysis of media and power in the three – 
still often separated – fields of empirical research on media and power; 
production of media, media content, and media use. The media development 
towards e.g. more mobility and interaction is commonly used to argue for 
suggesting the necessity of making more subtle or even breaking down the 
categories and distinctions about media-production, content and use. 
However, how this might be done in empirical analysis is dependent upon 
the theoretical perspective taken. The focus in this PhD course is to 
connect the theoretical perspective of the researcher with the ways in 
which empirical design and analysis is formed, and the applied 
theoretical categories work.

The PhD course runs for four days, 24.-27 . February 2015, is 
co-arranged with the PhD programme in Communication, Journalism and 
Perfomance Design, and located at the Department of Communication, 
Business and Information Technologies, Roskilde University.

COURSE FORMAT

The course is organised as a mix of three basic elements:

• Key note presentations by international experts (confirmed are Sigurd 
Allern, Oslo University, Rens Vliegenthart, University of Amsterdam, Tim 
Markham Birkbeck University of London and Rodney Benson, New York 
University).

• Participant presentation of papers, receiving and giving feed back on 
each others’ papers, together with an international expert and the 
organisers.

• Summing up workshop on participants projects the last day with the 
organisers.

The theme of the paper (10 pages maximum) for the PhD course is “How 
does your theoretical perspective on power, media and communication 
inform your empirical data?”

APPLICATION DEADLINE

Deadline for application to participate is 31. January 2015 to PhD 
administrator Signe Berri, (cbit-phdadmin /at/ ruc.dk). Everybody will be 
notified hereafter, and reading material will be sent out to the 
participants. Deadline for sending the paper to (cbit-phdadmin /at/ ruc.dk) 
will be announced.

Participants are selected by application (1 page maximum) which must 
contain a short description of the PhD project and an argumentation for 
why and how the theme of the course is relevant for the project.

FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THE COURSE



Please contact:



Professor Bente Halkier, (bha /at/ ruc.dk)



Professor Mark Ørsten, (oersten /at/ ruc.dk)



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