[ecrea] Mediatization of Culture: Constructing New Texts and Practices

status: CfP Call for papers
conference
Mediatization of Culture: Constructing New Texts and Practices
30.11.2018-01.12.2018
Moscow, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public 
Administration

During the conference we propose to discuss the process of mediation of 
culture, its effects and consequences, focusing on the following aspects 
(but not limited to them).

- Theoretical approaches to the research on mediatization. What concepts 
and methods should researchers use to take into account the changing 
media environment? How productive is it to use classical theoretical 
resources under these conditions? If a significant area of human 
interaction goes into the media field, how can we observe it?
- Mediatization of academic knowledge. Are there any transformations of 
scientific knowledge under the influence of mediatization? What are the 
new types of data that appear as a result of mediatization, and what are 
the ways of their processing (multimodal data, new software for 
quantitative / qualitative data processing)? Do they change humanitarian 
knowledge today? How are the results of academic research evaluated in 
the context of the idea of “post-truth”? How does the translation of 
academic knowledge into a language that is accessible to a wide audience 
work? What results of researches are chosen to be presented in media?
- Mediatization of memory. What are the opportunities for the 
accumulation, storage and spread of knowledge about the past that the 
media environment provides (including the development of websites on 
cultural and historical memory, folklore and ethnographic databases, 
blogging, online diaries, social networking pages)?
- Mediatization of everyday practices. How do the media transform 
everyday practices? In which areas are the media becoming an important 
source, legitimizing the rules by which we live? What new spheres are 
open to the mass audience under the influence of mediation, what effects 
does it cause?
- Mediatization of identity. How different are the strategies for 
identity construction happening in face-to-face interaction from 
construction strategies found in media environment? What are the 
strategies for building a personal identity in the media (through 
language and other semiotic means)? How is the identity of communities 
built in social networks?
- Mediatization of folklore. What is the media’s role in beliefs and 
development of cultural products? How are traditional views transformed 
when they get into the media environment? What are the semiotic and 
communicative aspects of the translation of folklore into the language 
of the media? What is the specificity of modern adaptations of folklore 
(cinema, animation, advertising, etc.)? How does the secondary 
folklorization of the media text (movie-dependent anecdotes, etc.) occur?
- Mediatization of political life. Does political activity correlate 
with actions outside of the media environment? What new practices of 
political participation does the mediaization of political life develop? 
How real are the “twitter-revolution”, the launching of paper airplanes 
and similar phenomena? What is their ontological status?

Researchers (anthropologists, sociologists, philologists and 
representatives of related disciplines), as well as cultural and public 
figures are welcome to apply.

Please fill out the participant form before September 10 following the 
link: https://goo.gl/forms/UxUuDmKoyxZoLym33  Notification of 
acceptance: no later than September 20. The Organizing Committee is 
considering the possibility of reimbursing participants' expenses for 
travels to / from Moscow and accommodation in the RANEPA hotel.
Conference languages are Russian and English.
You can find further information about the conference at 
http://www.shagi.ranepa.ru  and http://www.ruthenia.ru/folklore Please 
do not hesitate to ask any questions via (shagifolk /at/ gmail.com).

Contact person: Irina Dusacova
email: (shagifolk /at/ gmail.com)
telephone: +79162392935
Address: Prospect Vernadskogo, 82, Moscow, Russian Federation 119571


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