[ecrea] CfP: International ZeMKI conference "The Mediatization of Time"

CALL FOR PAPERS
International ZeMKI conference
"The Mediatization of Time: New perspectives on media, data and temporality"

7-8 December 2017
ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research
University of Bremen, Germany

Recent innovations in the digitalization and datafication of 
communication fundamentally affect how people conceptualize, perceive 
and evaluate time to create the kind of world they live in. The 
conference invites participants to think through the interplay of media 
and data in respect of the way social time is constructed, modulated, 
and experienced. This allows to appreciate how new technologies and 
representations deeply affect the temporal organization of today’s media 
suffused societies, and it also sheds light on transformations in 
mediating time. We assume that mediatization as a fundamental societal 
change that interweaves with the development and spread of communication 
and information technologies leaves its mark on the ways we process and 
order the pace, sequence, rhythms and of social reality.
This conference invites to think through the role of media and data 
people have or had at hand to time their interactions, relations, and 
states of being. It encourages submissions related to the mediation of 
time and the timing of media(ization), and includes, but is not 
restricted to, the following themes:

- Transformativity of mediatization processes: How can we grasp the 
historically changing mediation of time and the relation to diachronic 
processes of mediatization? What are the dynamics between the 
transforming construction of time and the ongoing formation of 
mediatization?
- Temporality and mediation of time: Are there temporal affordances of 
media and how do they influence the experience of mediated time? What 
time principles characterize today’s media-saturated life? How do media 
technologies relate to the various temporalities of media practices?
- Memory and the rearrangement of the tenses: What temporal meanings are 
generated by the media? How are media used in order to knit together 
past, present and future?

Please send a 300-word abstract, along with your name, e-mail address, 
academic affiliation, and short bio to: (mediatizedtime /at/ uni-bremen.de)

Abstract submission deadline: September 1, 2017
Acknowledgment of acceptance: September 15, 2017
Conference dates: December 7-8, 2017

Confirmed speakers include: Staffan Ericson (Södertörn University): 
Mediatization in Time; Andreas Hepp (University of Bremen): Datafication 
and Temporal Media Practices; Johan Fornäs (Södertörn University): Media 
as Third-Time Tools; Helge Jordheim (University of Oslo): Modes of 
Synchronization; Emily Keightley (Loughborough University): Zones of 
Intermediacy; Irene Neverla (University of Hamburg): Media/Time Rhythms; 
Elizabeth Prommer (University of Rostock): Work, Time, Media; Espen 
Ytreberg (University of Oslo): Networked Simultaneities.
The conference is organized by Christian Pentzold and Christine Lohmeier 
from the ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information 
Research, University of Bremen in cooperation with Anne Kaun, School of 
Culture and Education, Södertörn University, Stockholm.

For more information, please contact (christian.pentzold /at/ uni-bremen.de)

Download the Call for Papers at
http://www.zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/conferences/the-mediatization-of-time.html

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