[ecrea] 2-day PhD course in Mediatization - social and cultural change (travel grant available)

2-DAY PHD COURSE IN MEDIATIZATION - SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CHANGE (4 ETCS)

TIME AND PLACE:

April 26th (10:00- 16:00) – 27th (9:00- 15:00), 2012 at Lillehammer 
University College, Norway (travel grant available).

Mediatization has become a key concept in media and communication 
research, and is by some scholars regarded as one of the four 
metaprocesses that shapes modernity along with globalization, 
individualization and commercialization. In general, the concept focuses 
on how media - in our increasingly media saturated society - intervenes 
in, changes and sometimes substitutes social institutions. Mediatization 
challenges traditional theories of media effects or impacts by taking 
richly contextualized, historical processes as the point of departure. 
Its ambition is to explore and increase our understanding of how media 
transform family life, education, professions, politics, religion and 
other significant areas of social existence.

The aim of the PhD course is to clarify the meaning of the concept, 
discuss its potential for renewing media research as well as other 
research areas, and present empirical research that illuminates the 
functionality of the concept.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Stig Hjarvard, Ph.D., Professor and Vice-Chair, Department of Media, 
Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen. He has published 
books and articles on media history, journalism, globalization, ratings 
analysis, media and religion, and mediatization theory. He is 
editor-in-chief editor of Northern Lights. Recent publications in 
English include "The Mediatization of Society" (Nordicom Review, 2008), 
"The Production of News" (in Handbook of Media and Communication 
Research, K.B.Jensen (ed.), Routledge, 2011), and "The Mediatization of 
Religion: Theorising Religion, Media, and Social change" (Culture and 
Religion, 2011). Hjarvard is the head of the major research project 
Mediatization of Culture: The Challenge of New Media 
(http://mediatization.ku.dk/).

Andreas Hepp, Dr., Professor, Faculty of Cultural Studies, University of 
Bremen. His main research areas are media and communication theory, 
media sociology, transnational and transcultural communication, cultural 
studies, media change, methods of media culture research, and everyday 
appropriation of television. He is involved in numerous research 
projects, including the priority program "Mediatized worlds", and is 
(co-)author of eight books and more than 100 articles in journals and 
edited volumes. His book “Medienkultur” will soon be published in an 
English translation titled “Cultures of Mediatization” (Polity Press).

Andreas Hepp and Stig Hjarvard are chair and vice chair for the ECREA 
Mediatization Temporary Working Group 
(www.ecrea.eu/divisions/twg/id/21), which aims to bring the European 
mediatization research together and to stimulate an open, rich and 
informed exchange on theoretical and empirical questions of mediatization.

COURSE ACTIVITIES:

The course will be run over two consecutive days and will be a 
combination of lectures, paper presentations and discussions based on a 
reading list with recommended key literature. The participants are 
encouraged to submit papers relevant to mediatization prior to the seminar.

STUDY POINTS (ECTS):

Participation with approved paper earns 4 ECTS. Final paper (approx. 10 
pages) must be submitted no later than four weeks after the course. 
Participation without paper earns 1 ECTS.

SUPPORT, TRAVEL AND COST:

There is no course fee. PhD candidates may apply for financial support 
to cover travel and board costs limited to NOK 3.500/450 EURO.

APPLICATION:

An online application form can be found on 
http://www.hil.no/mediatization. The application deadline is February 
20th 2012. Students admitted to a PhD program have precedence.

It is also possible to apply for the course by sending an email with the 
following information to (brit.svoen /at/ hil.no): Name, email, institution, 
address, cell phone, PhD-program and a short description of PhD project 
(max 100 words).

If you apply for financial support, please include a travel budget.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

The PhD course is organized as a joint effort by the PhD-program “Child 
and Youth Competence Development” (http://hil.no/eng/BUK-English) and 
the research group “Audiovisual Media” (http://hil.no/vismed) at 
Lillehammer University College.

Professor Eva Bakøy ((eva.bakoy /at/ hil.no))
Professor Halvor Fauske ((halvor.fauske /at/ hil.no))
Coordinator Brit Svoen ((brit.svoen /at/ hil.no))

More information/website: http://www.hil.no/mediatization