[ecrea] ECREA Media and Communication Conference, Rotterdam 2009

ECREA Media and Communication Conference, Rotterdam 2009

Confirmed keynote speakers:
Nick Couldry, Goldsmiths, University of London
Douglas Kellner, University of California
Liesbet van Zoonen, Loughborough University

Rotterdam, 26-27 November 2009
(Deadline for submissions: 15 May)
Hosted by: ERMeCC (Erasmus Research Centre for Media, Communication 
and Culture), Erasmus University Rotterdam
www.fhk.eur.nl/english/ermecc/ecrea


We would like to hereby invite abstracts for a conference organised 
by ERMeCC (Erasmus Research Centre for Media, Communication and 
Culture) together with ECREA's Gender & Communication, Communication 
& Democracy, and Film Studies sections and the Young Scholars' 
Network. Please see below for a short description and a list of 
possible areas of contributions. Please note that the deadline for 
abstracts has been extended to 15 May 2009.

***Media, Communication and the Spectacle***
This conference is a collaboration between the ECREA sections Gender 
& Communication, Communication & Democracy, and Film Studies and 
invites abstracts in these domains. The theme of the conference is 
the interrelation between Media, Communication and the Spectacle (see 
www.fhk.eur.nl/english/ermecc/ecrea). Viewing the notion of the 
spectacle in broad terms, this colloquium seeks to bring together 
scholarly work from academic fields such as democracy and (new) 
media, as well as journalism and film studies.

We invite paper and panel proposals related to the central theme of 
the conference, including (but not limited to) the following topics:

-        The notion of society of the spectacle.
-        Culture as spectacle in the media.
-        The use of performance and spectacle by protest movements, 
creating or being part of media events
-        Infotainment as spectacle
-        Hollywood and spectacular images: blockbusters, CGI, etc.
-        Consuming the spectacle: historical and contemporary 
practices of cinema-going.
-        Behind the screens of the spectacle: the political economy 
of cultural industries
-        Screening the (un)spectacular? World cinemas and/as 
alternative screen cultures
-        Fandom, cult media/film and performative consumption
-        Youtube and citizens' spectacularised self-presentation
-        The hyperreality of the spectacle of 'truth' (linked to 
information, news, representations, visual culture as such, etc.).
-        The materiality of information production as commodity 
fetishism (commodities become images and the other way around).
-        Private/public debate and the spectacle of bodies, gendered 
bodies, politics, etc.
-        The imaginary and media performativity.
-        Vision and Voyeurism: The Politics of Surveillance Post-9/11

Organised by ERMeCC (Erasmus Research Centre for Media, Communication 
and Culture) and ECREA's Gender and Communication section, 
Communication and Democracy section, Film Studies section and the 
Young Scholars' Network.

See URL for full call for papers: www.fhk.eur.nl/english/ermecc/ecrea

Proposals: abstracts of max. 400 words can be submitted via e-mail 
to: (ermecc /at/ fhk.eur.nl). Abstracts may be submitted as attachment in 
word, .rtf or .txt format or embedded in the body of the email. 
Please make sure to include the name of the author(s), affiliation, 
contact address, and email. Young scholars are also encouraged to 
apply. When submitting your abstract, please indicate to which 
section you are submitting: Gender and Communication, Communication 
and Democracy, or Film Studies. Deadline for sending in the paper 
abstract is 15 May 2009. Notification of selection will be no later 
than 15 June 2009.



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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Free University of Brussels
Centre for Studies on Media and Culture (CeMeSO)
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