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[ecrea] Media+Generations Conference
Mon May 11 21:05:21 GMT 2009
- CALL FOR PAPERS -
11-12 September 2009
Catholic University of Milan, Italy
Generational identities are an increasingly
relevant issue within contemporary society. While
people deals with economical and technological
gaps related to differences between cohorts,
generations becomes active resources to make
sense of their living. Generations are helpful
labels to define their position in the new
environment of collective identities, boosting a
wide range of discourses and debates:
intergenerational conflicts around welfare; the
production of ?generational? goods and services;
generational factors in shaping digital divide; and so on.
In particular, a crucial element emerges within
these social processes: the media. In an
historical moment in which social experience ?
among individuals and communities, on both public
and private sphere - is marked by the presence
and the mediation of media, generational
belonging become visible and relevant in complex
forms and in different, opaque ways that in the
past, according to a more decisive role of media
in shaping peoples? identities.
In this context we believe that the relevance of
generations as a conceptual tool needs to be
reconsidered. It is clear, today, that different
segmentations of the population cannot be reduced
anymore to either individual socio-demographic
traits (such as age, gender, education, job
position) or the corresponding life styles (such
as those codified by marketing). Within
contemporary society the idea of generation must
be reconsidered as a multi-dimensional category,
where historical, biographical and cultural
traits are deeply interlinked. Following that
multi-dimensional approach, different
segmentations have to be strictly and
simultaneously related to several factors - such
as one's position along the lifecycle, media
biography, contexts provided by families and
friendship networks as environments for the
elaboration of media experience, the belonging to
a world of values shared with other members of
the same generation, the historical development
of the media system, the different phases of
technological innovation, the processes of
domestication and incorporation of technologies
and media products, as well as the wider
structural changes affecting the social and cultural system.
The aim of the Media+Generations Conference is to
investigate the cohorts? processes of genesis and
self-recognizing, where biographical and
historical traits, social discourses and
reflexivity continuously intersect with symbolic
resources provided by media. So the emphasis on
the role of generations in the field of cultural
production and consumption seems more and more
relevant today, as each generation is
characterized by a different experience with
media products and media technologies. The
constitution of digital ?networked society?, too,
is affected by some differences between baby
boomers and post-war generations, but also
between digital ?immigrants? and digital ?natives?.
Many questions are raising from a reconsideration
of the relationship between media and
generations. How media take part in the
construction of generational identities? In which
ways generational belonging affects media usage
and sense-making in everyday practices of media
consumption? What kind of differences are
introduced by new media in the relationship
between media and generations? How digital media
collaborate in shaping identities among new
generations? Looking toward future advances in
our media environment, we can also ask: how
generational differences will have relevant
consequences both in the development of products,
applications and consumption practices of the
culture industries? And how they are relevant in
furthering participation in democracy,
involvement in (virtual) communities and
reflexivity for an enhanced living in a mediated world?
The proposed topics are:
* Definition of generation, and the role of cultural and media factors
* Generations and their influence on media uses and practices
* ?Generational turns? in cultural history and media history
* The role of generation in the social
shaping of memory: media as resources
* Collective identities and generational
discourses: expressing ?we sense? in the media
* Local and national differences between generational identity and media
* Educational processes, generational identity and media literacy
* Generational frames in authors? cultures and authorial models
* Generational texts, languages and cultural products
* The use of ICTs: generational values and habits
* Generational differences in the networked space
* Products and applications development for different generations
Media+Generations Conference is promoted by
The ?Media+Generations? Conference is organized
by the research network ?Media and generations in
Italian society?, a publicly-funded research
project (Progetto PRIN 2006) involving five Italian research teams:
Catholic University of Milano > Prof. Fausto Colombo
University of Urbino ?Carlo Bo? > Prof. Giovanni Boccia Artieri
University of Trento > Prof. Luigi Del Grosso Destreri
University of Bergamo > Prof. Francesca Pasquali
University of Rome ?La Sapienza? > Prof. Michele Sorice
Organised in collaboration with
OssCom ? Media and Communication Research Center, Catholic University of Milano
Organisation and Informations
Matteo Stefanelli (Catholic University of Milano)
Tel.: 0272342845 - Email: (matteo.stefanelli /at/ unicatt.it)
Program and updates: http://mediageneration.wordpress.com
Institutional partners
AIS/PIC ? Cultural Processes and Institutions /
Italian Sociological Association
Department of Communication and Performing Arts
Sciences, Catholic University of Milano
Proposals and submissions
Submission deadline: 8th June 2009
Presentations will normally consist of 15-minute speech.
Abstracts should include the presenter?s name,
institutional affiliation, title of paper, email
and work address, as well as a 400 word abstract
(or 2500 characters), a list of 3 to 5 keywords,
and a brief biographical note (up to 80 words / 600 characters).
Abstracts should be in English. Papers should be
presented in English or in Italian. The
Conference will provide a simultaneous translation.
The Conference welcomes both theoretical,
methodological and empirical contributions.
Abstracts should highlight the original
contribution to the research in the area.
All proposals (electronic submissions only)
should be sent by 8th of June 2009 to the
Conference Committee at
(mediagenerations /at/ gmail.com). Communications of
accepted papers will be sent to participants at 26 June 2009.
Authors selected for oral presentations will be
invited to submit a full paper for publication.
The publication will be scheduled for 2010, in
English language, and published by Peter Lang
(Berlin), in the collection "Participating in
Broadband Society" directed by Leopoldina
Fortunati, Julian Gebhardt, Jane Vincent.
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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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