[ecrea] CFP: STS and Media Studies: Empirical and conceptual encounters?

at the 2014 meeting of the European Association for the Study of Science
and Technology (EASST) a call for papers for the following track is now
open:

*STS and Media Studies: Empirical and conceptual encounters?**
*the conference will be in Torun 17-19 September 2014

/Abstract: //
/Over the last years, we have seen an increasing interdisciplinary
interest in the overlapping areas of STS and media studies. Both fields
are inherently concerned with questions of mediation, they ask similar
questions concerning related topics. However, they also differ in their
empirical and conceptual approaches.

Conceptually, media studies centre around, of course, the notion of
'media' and 'machine', while STS more often theorise in terms of
'instruments' and 'apparatus', 'tools', 'devices', and of course
'technology'. Empirically, STS pays little attention to leisure and
entertainment media and media content. Media studies, on the other hand,
is less interested in how innovations are politically and legally
regulated. The notion of 'technology' evokes questions about what this
phenomenon 'does', about mechanisms of production and control
(Deuber-Mankowsky 2007), while 'media' invites inquiries into what it
'holds', into aesthetics and emotional aspects.

In this track, we would like to trace the similarities and differences
between empirical and conceptual approaches. We are interested in the
characteristics of how the notions of media and technology are applied
in such heterogeneous fields like STS and media studies. We want to
enable a fruitful discussion which makes possible exchanges between STS
and media studies concerning the manifold processes of mediation in
current societies. Thus, we call for papers which address, among others,
questions about differences in understandings and vocabularies as well
explorations of empirical, methodological, and theoretical overlappings
which already exist.

While the motivation of this call is conceptual, we very much welcome
empirically founded papers.

/Chair/: Cornelius Schubert and Estrid Sørensen

To submit a paper, please follow this link:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easst/easst2014/panels.php5?PanelID=3194



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Jun.Prof. Dr. Estrid Sørensen
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Mercator Research Group "Spaces of Anthropological Knowledge"
AG4 "Knowing Media Harm"
Universitätsstrasse 150, FNO 02/15
44801 Bochum
Germany

http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/mrg/knowledge
(estrid.sorensen /at/ rub.de)
+49 (0)23432 27947

New Publication:
Sørensen, Estrid (2013) "Violent computer games in the German press" in New Media and Society 15(6): 963-981
http://nms.sagepub.com/content/15/6/963.abstract


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