[Commlist] Media Atmospheres international symposium Jönköping, Sweden

*Media**Atmospheres* *International Symposium, Jönköping University Sweden*

Organisers: Annette Hill (MKV, Jönköping University) and Hario 
Priambodho (MKV, Lund University)

Venue: Grand Hotel & Gamla Rådhuset, Jönköping

Dates: 2-3 May 2025

Media atmospheres are under pressure. There are scientific and 
metaphorical meanings of atmospheres as related to both climate and 
infrastructures and emotions and experiences.From the political economic 
forces applied to media industries, the representation of different 
climates in film and media, to the feeling of atmospheres surrounding 
political and cultural engagement, it is timely to question the 
generation of atmospheres by media technologies and institutions, texts 
and artefacts, and citizens and audiences.

How can we forge links between established and new theories and methods 
for media and the environment? We use the concept of ‘media atmospheres’ 
to promote engagement on this crucial set of topics. For example, media 
devices, infrastructures and systems impact on atmospheres, including 
the forces applied to the financing, regulation, production and 
distribution of media in society and the detrimental impact of media on 
the climate and environment. How various media create atmospheres is 
also of significance, from the mood of certain genres in film, TV, 
podcasts and streaming media, to the political and emotional climate of 
social media, campaigns and activism.

This multidisciplinary symposium addresses the role of media in 
generating various atmospheres, both positive and negative, material and 
symbolic. We invite international researchers to critically examine the 
theme of media atmospheres through empirical and theoretical research 
across media and communications, critical infrastructures and 
technologies, climate and the environment, culture and society.

Core questions for this symposium include 1) What different kinds of 
atmospheres are generated in media and communications, culture and 
society? 2) How do media atmospheres generate power and social 
(in)equalities? 3) Which methodologies and methods can be applied to 
critically analyse media atmospheres?

The symposium addresses a range of areas, including:

  * Phenomenology of atmospheres and media, communication and cultural
    studies;
  * Atmospheres and critical infrastructures studies, critical data
    studies and science and technology studies;
  * Atmospheres in audience studies, fan studies, and film and reception
    studies;
  * Atmospheres and eco media studies, environmental communication and
    sustainable society;
  * Creating atmospheres in arts, film, radio, television, social media
    and web series;
  * Atmospheres and organisations, work, and labour relations;
  * Political atmospheres in news, documentary, information,
    disinformation and
polarization, and campaigns;

  * Atmospheres in live events, social media, drama, film, radio,
    podcasting and television studies;
  * Atmospheres in mobility, transnational communication and
    transportation of goods and services, humans and non humans.

The programme for the symposium across two days includes three keynote 
panels with invited speakers and open parallel panels. There will be a 
dedicated website, video and podcasts of keynote panels, and selected 
papers from the symposium will be edited in an international academic 
publication. The senior editors at Intellect Press and Routledge will be 
present, chairing an interactive roundtable on academic publishing for 
scientific books and journals.

International invited speakers include Julia Brockley (Intellect Press), 
Simon Dawes (Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, 
France), Natalie Foster (Routledge), Christine Geraghty (Glasgow 
University, UK), Joke Hermes (InHolland University, Netherlands), 
Annette Hill (Jönköping University, Sweden), Peter Lunt (Leicester 
University, UK), and Dylan Mulvin (LSE, UK), Hario Priambodho (Lund 
University, Sweden).

Please submit an abstract of 300 words in English by *January 15 2025 
*to Hario Priambodho ((hario.priambodho /at/ kom.lu.se)). For further 
information please consult our website 
https://ju.se/Media%20Atmospheres%20international%20symposium 
<https://ju.se/Media%20Atmospheres%20international%20symposium>

There is a registration fee of 2800 SEK. The fee covers lunches, 
beverages and snacks over two days, and a grand three course meal at the 
end of symposium at Grand Hotel.

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