Transitions, Visions and Beyond
9th Baltic Conference in Europe, Södertörn University,
Huddinge, Stockholm,
12-15 June 2011
Section: Media, Communication and Technology – Call for Papers
Media has a historical legacy of promoting continuities as well as
changes and breaks. During the turbulent years of revolution in 1989/1990
the media were celebrated as catalysts of social change establishing a
space for negotiating the configurations of a new public sphere. In the
aftermath of the immediate revolutionary times media were mainly
characterised by commercialisation in support of dominant political and
economical interests. Visions of media are often still caught in this
tension between emancipation and manipulation in today’s discourses.
This section seeks to adopt historical perspectives on media in order to
understand today’s media landscape. The section invites presentations
dealing with the broad question of how the relationship between media as
institutions, spaces of negotiation, discourse catalysts and the
political sphere, the society and everyday life look like.
Suggestions for panels, individual papers and offers to serve as chair
are welcome and should be forwarded to Anne Kaun ((anne.kaun /at/ sh.se)) no
later than 1 February 2011
Selected papers will be published in special issues of
The Journal for Baltic Studies and
Baltic Worlds.
Section Heads: Patrik Aker, Anne Kaun
Important Dates:
Deadline for Abstract
Submission
1 February 2011
Notification of
Acceptance
1 March 2011
Conference
Registration
1 May – 1 June 2011
Contact: Anne Kaun,
(anne.kaun /at/ sh.se).
http://tinyurl.com/balticstudiesconference
Anne Kaun
Media and Communication Studies
Baltic and East European Graduate School (BEEGS)
Södertörns Högskola (University College)
141 89 HUDDINGE, SWEDEN
Phone: +46 (0)8 608 47 91
(anne.kaun /at/ sh.se)
http://www.technocult.se/
