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[ecrea] cfp: Identity, Identification and Modern Media - International conference

Tue Sep 17 17:53:35 GMT 2013





Identity, Identification and Modern Media



International Conference

(Within the framework of the XV annual April conference on the development of economics and society «Modernization of economics and society»)





National Research University – Higher School of Economics

Faculty of Media Communications,  Laboratory for media research



Moscow, 1-3 April 2014



This conference proposes to examine the problem of building and transformation of identities in the new media environment. During last 50 years the concept of identification and identity became significant in the social sciences. Scientists from different areas of knowledge are interested in identities transformation: globalization has exacerbated the desire to protect the local identity and ability to resist (Castells, 2009; Tomlinson 1999). At the same time it has contributed to a change within boundaries between identities and cultures that nowadays are less related to the boundaries of the nation states and increasingly more with meanings and values of the everyday occurrence and aspirations of individuals to create their own individual culture (McCracken, 2008). There are some sex and lesbian communities, digital cultures etc. All of these changes are largely related to the media: division into niches, fragmentation of audiences, transition to the nonlinear and individualized media usage have resulted in an inability to maintain the broad identity that previously formed the national states.

At the same time the globalization of lifestyles very largely connected to the export of mass Hollywood cinema, global division of labor and network organization of global business have worsened the separatist demands and expanded the autonomy of a number of regions. Mass flows of migrants have contributed to the transformation of politics of different states. The migration issue has become the major problem for European politics. The clash of cultures or the "shock of civilizations" pointed by Huntington (Huntington, 2005; 2011). is definitely transferred to the level of media when the borrowing of cultural products is becoming a problem in terms of center-periphery relations (Schiller, 1976) and informational domination of rich countries over the poor ones, in terms of the intertwining of media cultures (Appadurai, 1996), in terms of media products perception in different cultures (Liebes & Katz, 1993), in terms of the representation of violence and political violence (Schlesinger, 1991). The appearance of new media changes the current system of identification. New interactive media raises the issue of new forms of identity, which are not connected with non-ethnic group and cultures but with the protest events, for instance. Some new forms of digitally connected organized identification are appeared and they are structuring political and social protests (Castells, 2012; Bennett (ed.), 2008).

We believe that it is relevant to gather the representatives of different schools and approaches in order to discuss the media aspect of the identity creation and transformation in the modern world, both at the personal level and the group level. During this conference it is suggested to discuss new forms of identity related to the media and answer the following questions:

    * What role does the media play in the process of identity formation
* How does media create and maintain the geographical and cultural identity * What kinds of identities are created and supported by modern media in Russia and in the world * What conflicts do arise between identities and how are they related to media * How does new media change the identity and ways of identification and self-identification of people * How are the organizational and institutional structure of the media system and identity (that it creates and maintains) related
    * With what kind of content do consumers associate themselves
    * What is the local and global identity created by media

All interested in participating should register on the website http://conf.hse.ru/en/2014/registration before November 11, 2013, attach abstracts of their papers on the Russian or English, and send them to the email (epronkina /at/ hse.ru). We are kindly asking you during the registration process to mark the topic of you papers as “media communication”. All abstracts will bypass reviewing process. Authors will be informed about the decision of the program committee before January 28, 2014.

A detailed abstract of the proposed paper should be attached to the application, in Word or RTF format, in 1 - 3 pages with 1, 5 line spacing (up to 7000 symbols). The summary should outline the issue, show the level of the research, include characteristics of the research (theoretical or empirical type of the work, its informational base), as well as its main results. Abstracts which are less than 1 page in length will not be accepted. One author may submit a personal paper to the conference and no more than two papers co-authored.

Authors of the papers included in the Conference program are requested to send full-text versions of the text (in Word, RTF) by March 5, 2014 for publication on the Conference website. At the end of the conference Higher School of Economics will prepare and issue a conference e-volume, containing all papers which were presented at the conference. Final versions of the papers should be sent by May 20, 2014. (20 000 symbols with spaces in Word, RTF). The decision about their publication in the Conference e-volume will be made by the editorial board. The papers not presented at the Conference will not be considered for publication.

Participants from the CIS and Eastern Europe countries whose papers are included in the program may apply for a grant from the Moscow Office of the World Bank until February 14, 2014 to (interconf /at/ hse.ru)





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Ilya Kiriya



professor, Ph.D. in information and communication

Department of media communication

Vice-dean responsible for science, academic development and international relations

National Research University - Higher School of Economics

tel: +7 495 772 95 90 ext. 2394

mob: +7 916 519 80 47

www.hse.ru



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