[ecrea] International "Communicative Figurations" conference

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Invitation: International "COMMUNICATIVE FIGURATIONS" conference

- no registration fees - - more than 50 communication and media scholars 
from all over Europe and North America present their up-to-date research 
on transforming communications -
On December 8 and 9, 2016, the Bremen House of Science (Haus der 
Wissenschaft, Sandstr. 4/5, Bremen, Germany) will host the international 
conference 'Communicative Figurations' on the interdependent 
transformation of communication, media, society and culture.

The ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research, 
University of Bremen, organises the international conference in 
collaboration with the Hans-Bredow-Institute for Media Research, Hamburg 
and the SOCIUM, University of Bremen. The conference welcomes numerous 
speakers from all over Europe and the United States who investigate 
transforming communications against the background of an increasing 
complexity of the media environment. Richard Rogers (Digital Method 
Initiative,  University of Amsterdam) and Gina Neff (Oxford Internet 
Institute, University of Oxford) will be keynote speakers.

For today’s life-worlds, media communication is essential: work, 
leisure, socialization, the public sphere, public engagement, etc. are 
articulated by different types of mediated communication. Even from a 
historical point of view it is impossible for us to imagine the multiple 
and contradictory processes of modernization without media. Today, 
various domains of the social world are so closely related to (digital) 
media that they could not exist in their present form beyond media. In 
this sense, we live in times of 'deep mediatization'.

A particular challenge of researching this stage of mediatization is the 
present complexity of the media environment: It is not one single medium 
that is the driving force of change. With the spreading of various 
technical communication media - television, radio, mobile phone, 
internet platforms etc. - we are confronted with a 'media manifold' 
which stimulates various processes of re-mediation and transmediation. 
And as media are more and more software-based and related to the 
internet, their use becomes entangled with processes of datafication. 
How can we investigate then transforming communications in times of deep 
mediatization? How do the figurations of living together change with the 
media environment?

The conference takes these fundamental questions seriously and moves the 
transformation of communications and figurations through the 'media 
manifold' into the foreground. The focuses of the conference are the 
transformation of journalism, religion, education, communities, 
politics, and public discourse. Beyond this, the conference puts an 
emphasis on the (digital) methods used to investigate related processes 
of transformation. It is the concluding event of the Creative Research 
Unit 'Communicative Figurations', being funded within the framework of 
the Initiative of Excellence.

Registration for the conference is now open (no fees apply). Please 
register via e-mail ((commfigurations /at/ uni-bremen.de)) with your name, 
status group and affiliation. You will receive a confirmation.
More information and the full programme: 
http://www.communicative-figurations.org


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