[ecrea] Fearing the Media panel in Sociology of Culture Conference Milan

>** On behalf of Liesbet Van-Zoonen - 
>(E.A.Van-Zoonen /at/ lboro.ac.uk)<mailto:(E.A.Van-Zoonen /at/ lboro.ac.uk)> **
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>The European Sociological Association holds its Sociology of Culture 
>mid-term conference in Milan, 7-9 October. One of the panels 
>possibly relevant to MeCCSA members organised is 'Fearing the media' 
>(chair: Liesbet van Zoonen), see below for detail. The deadline for 
>submission of abstracts is May 15, instructions for submissions are 
>on: 
>http://www.esaculturebocconi2010.org/call-for-paper/how-to-submit-an-abstract.html
>
>Modern mass media and the new digital communication technology have 
>always produced concern and sometimes outright fear among the social 
>and cultural elite, especially about the impact of media on the 
>vulnerable moral and social lives of the young. Violence in games, 
>but also sexualization in music videos and privacy of social network 
>sites, are the most recent varieties of these fears. Yet, popular 
>music, comic books, dance halls and penny dreadfuls have produced 
>similar worries.
>We invite papers about these fears, from historical, sociological or 
>socio-psychological perspectives. Questions of interests concern the 
>continuities in these panic, the role of moral enterpreneur, the 
>particular fears at hand, the social 'function' of these fears, 
>cultural policy, etcetera.
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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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