[ecrea] CFP: Theorising Media and Social Change workshop, EASA 2012, Nanterre, 10-13 July 2012

We are currently organising a workshop on the theme of “Theorising Media and Social Change” for the EASA 2012 Conference in Nanterre, near Paris, 10-13 July 2012. We seek proposals consisting of a paper title, a (very) short abstract of 300 characters, and an abstract of 250 words. See details below.

All proposals must be made via the online form, no later than **28 November 2011**. On submission, the proposing author will receive an automatic confirmation of receipt.

To propose a paper, please visit the workshop page:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2012/panels.php5?PanelID=1344

See also the EASA 2012 website:
http://www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2012/callforpapers.htm

We look forward to hearing from you!


John Postill (Sheffield Hallam University)
Elisenda Ardevol (Open University of Catalonia)
Sirpa Tenhunen (University of Helsinki)

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Workshop Title: Theorising Media and Social Change

In recent decades media anthropologists have built a substantial ethnographic record on media and social change around the world. However, we have yet to systematically compare and theorise our findings under the rubric of media and social change. This workshop aims to focus on the empirical and theoretical challenges facing the comparative study of media and social change in the current global scenario of political and economic uncertainty.

Paper presenters are invited to address one or more of the following questions:

* What do we actually know and don't know about media and social change?
* What are the strengths and limitations of existing theories of media and/or social change?
* What are the key questions in need of further research and theorisation?
* How useful are concepts such as mediatisation, media practices, polymedia, or mediaspace?
* How can we integrate the diachronic and synchronic dimensions present in any process of mediated change?

This workshop is part of the recently launched Media and Social Change research initiative (http://mediasocialchange.net), EASA Media Anthropology Network. It is envisaged that the workshop will lead to an edited volume provisionally titled Theorising Media and Social Change and to bids for European research network funding.


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