[ecrea] CFP: Media and Participation - International Conference at Lund University

*Call for Papers***

*Media and Participation*

International Conference, Media and Communication, Lund University,
Sweden, March 29th 2012. Organisers Professor Annette Hill, Michael
Rübsamen and Tina Askanius.

Media and participation signals the merging of ideas around democracy,
power and politics, and producers, audiences and publics. Media and
participation includes a broad understanding of our involvement,
engagement and interaction with politics and civic cultures. Media and
participation also considers the individual, audience and public as an
agent of change, engaged in dynamic practices. This range of ideas
across the public and popular makes this topic a rich site for analysis.
To understand media and participation today involves historical, social, 
political and cultural perspectives on such issues as live events, 
social networking, political communication, museums and galleries, 
sports, talkshows and reality TV.

The conference will be organised thematically, focusing on the
political, social, cultural and historical approaches to media and
participation. Papers should address one or more of the following
research questions - what is the role of social, political and cultural
participation in people’s experiences of the media? What is the
relationship between the political and non-political in cases of media
participation? How can different approaches and methods open up our
understanding of media and participation? The aim is to provide a
platform for international scholars from disciplines such as media,
communication and cultural studies, film studies, sociology and
political communication to debate the complexity and ambiguity at work
in public participation in mediated spaces and places.

The schedule includes a combination of keynote addresses,
pre-constituted panels, and open panels. Confirmed speakers include
Raymond Boyle (Glasgow University, UK), John Corner (Leeds University,
UK), Natalie Fenton (Goldsmith’s College, UK), Peter Lunt (Leicester
University, UK). Other invited speakers include Stina Bengtsson
(Södertörn University, Sweden), Göran Bolin (Södertörn University,
Sweden), Nico Carpentier (Loughborough University, UK), Peter Dahlgren
(Lund University, Sweden), Tobias Olsson (Jönköping University, Sweden), 
Kim Schrøder (Roskilde University, Denmark), and Kristina Riegert 
(Stockholm University, Sweden).

Please submit abstracts of 300 words in English via the conference website

http://mediaparticipation2012.se <http://mediaparticipation2012.se/>
online registration form – deadline December 9th 2011. For further
information contact Michael Rübsamen ((michael.rubsamen /at/ kom.lu.se)
<mailto:(michael.rubsamen /at/ kom.lu.se)>). There is a registration fee of 650 
SEK (70 Euros) that covers food and drink for the day and an evening buffet.

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