[ecrea] Cfp: Media, Event and Social Theory - Transnational Challenges for Analysis 18 Feb 2016

Call for Papers
Media, Event and Social Theory: Transnational Challenges for Analysis
Workshop

Tampere Research Centre for Journalism, Media and Communication (COMET)
School of Communication, Media and Theatre (CMT)
University of Tampere, Finland
18 Feb 2016

School of Communication, Media and Theatre at the University of Tampere, 
Finland will organize one day interdisciplinary workshop on the topic of 
Media, Event and Social Theory: Transnational Challenges for Analysis. 
The goal of the workshop is to investigate and examine new theoretical 
and conceptual frameworks as well as analytical tools to better capture 
the contemporary aspects of media-saturation of social life and related 
eventization beyond methodological nationalism. The conference invites 
scholars from different fields of social and cultural sciences 
(sociology, philosophy, anthropology, media studies, political science, 
cultural studies, gender studies, etc.) to discuss the complex interplay 
between media, event and social theory in the such frameworks as 
globalization, transnationalism, transculturalism and/or 
cosmopolitanism, for understanding the current post- national 
architecture of event-driven, media-saturated sociality.

Topics suitable for this workshop could include, but are not
limited to, the following:

-       Media or event theory?
-       Media-saturated sociality in global society
-       Post-Durkheimian reflections on collective (media) effervescence
-       Beyond spectacle – Debord 2.0.
-       Baudrillard and simulation of events
-       Ethics and politics of contemporary event theory
-       Cosmopolitan media events?
-       Disruption, conflict and media events
-       Media, event and history
-       Manufacturing media-driven events
-       Transnational/transcultural media events
-       Mediatization of event(s)
-       Media anthropology of public events


Please send your abstract (max 200 words) by 2 November 2015 to:

Dr. Johanna Sumiala
(johanna.sumiala /at/ helsinki.fi)
(johanna.sumiala /at/ uta.fi)

The workshop is organized by Tampere Research Centre for Journalism, 
Media and Communication (COMET) research project Je suis Charlie – The 
symbolic battle and struggle over attention (2015-2017) co-directed by 
Research Director, Adjunct Professor Katja Valaskivi and Adjunct 
Professor Johanna Sumiala, University of Tampere, Finland. The project 
is funded by the Helsingin Sanomat Foundation.


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