[Commlist] cfp - 12th Central and Eastern European Communication and Media Conference 2019

*CALL FOR PAPERS: 12th Central and Eastern European Communication and 
Media Conference 2019*

**

*Communication Management: Theory and Practice in the 21st Century 2019*

*PANEL: The Mediatization of Emotions*

*19^th & 21^th June 2019*

* Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication at the Sofia University, 
St. Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria*

Coordinators:

Dr Giovanni Boccia Artieri, IT University of Urbino, Marche, Italy
Dr Gevisa La Rocca, IT University of Enna, Sicily, IT

The mediatization of emotions is crucial point today. In fact, several 
scholars, in recent years, have questioned what should be understood by 
mediatization and whether it is a new paradigm, a meta-process (Krotz, 
2009), a cultural phenomenon. Lunt and Livingstone (2015) are questioned 
about this, discussing the work of numerous other scholars who have 
dealt with this topic, such as Schulz (2004), Hjarvard (2008), Hepp 
(2012), Deacon and Stanyer (2014, 2015), Hepp, Hjarvard, Lundby (2015), 
and so on.

As Lunt and Livingstone (2015) note, in reality, if today we search for 
#mediatization, we discover that under this umbrella we have already 
collected several media studies, linked to a mediatization of politics, 
education, the family, of sport, law, work, etc.

Whether we consider it as a paradigm, a meta-process, a cultural 
phenomenon, it is now here to stay.

Being still a multiform magma, it has not yet consolidated into a 
paradigm (Kuhn, 1962), but it should be considered as a sensitizing 
concept (Blumer, 1954), an undefined concept, which gives the user a 
general sense of reference and guidance in approaching empirical instances.

Thus we stand for the question of mediatization as opening up an 
enablihing and flexible research framework.

Within this research framework we want to record the phenomenon of the 
mediatization of emotions, to understand if it is a true globally 
mediatized emotional exchange, or just an externalization of emotions in 
social media that are now emotional media (Tettegah, 2016) ), where 
emotions are collected under the hashtags (Papacharissi, 2014, 2015).

Like Döveling et al. (2018) write, understand this complex spectrum 
ofmediatized emotions becomes highly relevant, as some studies have 
already shown, because this happens for political campaigns, terrorist 
attacks, natural disasters, and celebrity death.

But in all these cases it is an expression of new emotions, of cultural 
practices (McCarthy, 1994), of affective publics (Papacharissi, 2016), 
of digital affecte cultures (Döveling et al., 2018), of freedom of 
speech or hate speech? And in what way are they different from a 
traditional (offline) expression of emotions?



We invite abstracts of no more than 250 words for papers that address
any aspect of mediatization of emotinons.

We encourage two lines of analysis:

- a theoretical one, aimed at clarifying whether the mediatization of 
emotions is a new cultural practice or if it is in continuity with the 
past; if it is a habitus (Bourdieu, 1972); an affordance of social 
media; and which are and why the most suitable research tools to analyze 
it; and what are the consequences for media studies;

- an empirical one, aimed at exploring the externalization of emotions 
in different contexts in which there is an interconnection between media 
and social life, social processes, cultures and the everyday, which 
covers various topics (i.e. advertising, politics, immigration, 
environment, death,

etc.). In the empirical analysis it is necessary to poin out whether it 
is a matter of positive and negative emotions prevailing, looking for 
the reasons.


Please send any abstracts using: 
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1JhS8JUi8aQRaL1JkiBQgyPxakMipLeb1dfar6uDabr8/viewform?edit_requested=true 

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 > by *11^th February, 2019.*

You can join the discussion about the event on Facebook using 
https://www.facebook.com/CEECOM2019/ or visit _http://ceecom2019.eu/
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