[ecrea] CFC Dynamics of Mediatization

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DYNAMICS OF MEDIATIZATION:
UNDERSTANDING CULTURAL AND SOCIAL CHANGE

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: OCTOBER 30, 2015

Mediatization studies examine a wide range of dynamics of media-related 
transformations. These dynamics vary in form and they have been studied 
using different conceptual vocabularies. Examples of dynamics are 
media-related changes in the organization and operations of 
institutions, shifting power relations, changes in social relationships 
and interactions, and new ways to explore (self-)representations and to 
express identities.

One important strand of research into these dynamics has concentrated on 
the ways different institutions in society have been influenced and even 
reshaped by media logics (be they mass media, new media or social media 
logics). Others have looked at a more interactional level and changes in 
media-related practices of agents, for example, while still others have 
found inspiration in social theory to suggest that Elias’ figurational 
sociology offers a way forward to study dynamics of mediatization 
empirically.

What all of these approaches have in common is a strong ambition to 
study social change in relation to the media as a complex and long-term 
process that accounts for a variety of dynamics of which the media are 
an important but only one element. Building on these insights, we invite 
proposals for book chapters that further advance our understanding 
of mediatization’s dynamics, in particular in the following areas:

1) Grasping dynamics of mediatization:
For this theme we welcome chapters that critically discuss theoretical 
and methodological challenges for the empirical study of 
mediatization’s dynamics. For example, how can we bring the different 
approaches mentioned above into a closer dialogue so that we can fully 
grasp mediatization as a general and long-term process of modernity? 
What can mediatization studies learn from scholarship in media history 
for longitudinal analyses of social change? What difference does 
mediatization make for historical accounts of media-related social change?

2) Studying dynamics of mediatization in relation to other long-term 
processes:
Mediatization is a long-term process that obviously does not occur in 
isolation. Yet relatively little attention has been paid to the 
interaction or interrelations of its dynamics with other long-term 
structural processes, such as globalization, personalization, 
celebritization, secularization, commercialization or politicization. 
How exactly do dynamics of mediatization relate to these other 
processes, and have certain changes been too easily ascribed to only 
mediatization? Conversely, how can we revise those sociological studies 
that have ignored media and communication in their analyses of social 
change? What insights can we gain from comparative research (in time, 
space or particular fields) to examine these questions?

3) Analysing dynamics of mediatization in specific fields and contexts:
In relation to the last point, much more empirical research is needed in 
a variety of fields and areas of life. Each of these social domains has 
their own dynamics which might be driving forces for media-related 
dynamics, but they might also be in conflict with them. Herein also lies 
a huge opportunity for interdisciplinary research by collaborating with 
specialists in those fields (e.g. law, sexology, governance, economics, 
medicine, criminology and anthropology). What do we learn about the 
specific modes, speed and characteristics of mediatization by looking at 
different fields and different contexts (e.g. in the Global South)? What 
characteristics of agents and fields have what particular effects on the 
extent to or ways in which mediatization does (not) take place?

The volume will be edited by the management team of ECREA’s Temporary 
Working Group Mediatization (www.mediatization.eu): Stig Hjarvard 
(chair), GÓ§ran Bolin (co-chair), Andreas Hepp (co-chair) and Olivier 
Driessens (YECREA-representative).

1000-word proposals for theoretical and/or empirical chapters with a 
clear focus on socio-cultural changes in relation to media and 
communication can be sent to Olivier Driessens ((od252 /at/ cam.ac.uk)).

Deadline: 5pm 30 October 2015

Notifications of acceptance will be sent by the end of December. Authors 
will then have 6 months to submit their full chapters.

Informal queries can be emailed to members of the management team: 
http://www.mediatization.eu/management-team.html




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