[Commlist] CFP Mediatization Conference 5

*Mediatization versus Datafication. Dialogue or competition?*

10 May, 2024
Hybrid: Lublin & Online
Accompanying events: 9 and 11 May, 2024

Organizers: Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin
University of Wrocław
Polish Communication Association, Mediatization Section

This year the keynote speech will be given by Professor *Andreas Hepp* 
(Universität Bremen): */Datafication, automation and communicative AI: 
Toward a redefinition of mediatization research/* (personal 
presentation; see the abstract here: https://www.umcs.pl/en/ms-keynote.htm)

For more details please visit the conference website: 
https://www.umcs.pl/en/ms-registration.htm

Call for papers

Mediatization is one of those complex theoretical approaches that allow 
us to understand the complexity of contemporary social phenomena in 
which media technologies are entangled. In recent years, social action 
has become even more tightly intertwined with the operation of 
technologies, which in turn are based on the collection of (big) data. 
This has provided the impetus to look at the data-based nature of 
processes and to develop the trend of datafication research. At the same 
time, with technological advances and market convergence, media has 
ceased to be a separate sector. It has become integrated with IT. We are 
also witnessing an institutional shift toward data-driven media and 
automated, algorithmic communication.

Mediatization (understood as the deep and complex two-sided media and 
social spheres) and datafication (the process of transforming selected 
aspects of social life into data and then inscribing these data into 
social relations) can help us explain how data generated by human 
networked practices are used in contemporary cultural, social, political 
and market processes (Hepp and Couldry, 2023; Kaun 2023; Kopecka-Piech 
and Bolin 2023; Hepp, 2020; Couldry and Meijas, 2019; van Dijk 2014).

Therefore, we consider mediatization and datafication as conceptual 
tools that can be used to comprehensively understand the current social 
phenomena that constitute the digital shift towards the prevalence of 
data-driven media. At the same time, the question of the relationship 
between mediatization and datafication needs to be raised, as it is not 
clear whether datafication represents a new and qualitatively different 
phase of deep mediatization or whether it is just another layer, an 
element of mediatization. Finally, should the concept of datafication 
transform research on mediatization? If so, in what way? Since there are 
only a few attempts to establish a dialogue between mediatization and 
datafication research (e.g. Hepp, 2020; Kaun, 2023), we are convinced 
that there is still a need to discuss these two topics.

To address these problems we have invited the renowned keynote speaker 
Andreas Hepp (Universität Bremen) who will give a keynote speech on: 
Datafication, automation and communicative AI: Toward a redefinition of 
mediatization research (personal presentation; see the abstract here).

However, as in the previous years, we open our conference to a wide 
range of topics related to mediatization and media studies in general, 
and therefore welcome all papers that address the topics listed below:

    Mediatization and datafication – a conceptual dialogue and/or 
competition
    Datafication as a phase/layer of mediatization
    Mediatization research in times of datafication
    Datafication of interpersonal, organizational and institutional 
communication
    Data colonialism; colonial appropriation of social-personal data
    Digital infrastructures and platform economies
    Artificial intelligence as a tool of mediatization
    Algorithmization of public and interpersonal communication
    Platformization of interpersonal, organizational and institutional 
communication
    Automation of communication
    Mediatization of politics and electoral campaigns
    Mediatization of war and conflict
    Mediatization of sport, physical activity and recreation
    Mediatization of business and economy
    Mediatization of popular culture and fashion
    Mediatization of leisure
    Mediatization of religion and spiritual life
    Mediatization of daily and family life
    (De)mediatization, counter-mediatization and media de-saturation

In addition to the scientific discussions, we are planning social events 
for our participants to get to know each other better and to spend some 
time in a more relaxed way in the beautiful city of Lublin during the 
best season of the year:

    Thursday (May 9) evening: Welcome-and-get-together party (location 
to be announced), where we can get to know each other and spend some 
time together before attending Friday's speeches and panels.
    Friday (May 10) evening: Dinner for the conference participants.
    Saturday (May 11) morning: A guided walk through the marvelous city 
center to learn more about Lublin's fascinating history and 
multicultural heritage.

Important dates:
Abstract submission: 20 March, 2024
Abstract acceptance: 25 March, 2024
Languages of the conference: English and Polish
Form of participation: oral presentations or posters, personal and 
online form
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