[ecrea] CFP Mediatisation and Media Socialisation

CALL FOR PAPERS

Conference: Mediatisation and Media Socialisation: Complementary or 
Competing Perspectives?



Date 18 - 19 September 2014, University of Siegen, Germany

Deadline for extended abstracts (of max. 500 words): Monday 31 March 2014

The response regarding participation will be given by 15 May 2014 at the 
latest.



Please send abstracts to: (reissmann /at/ medienwissenschaft.uni-siegen.de)

For more information visit: www.mediatisierung-mediensozialisation.org



When it comes to the integration of different media into everyday life 
and the consequences of these processes for growing up and living 
together in the short, medium and long term, the research areas 
mediatisation and media socialisation are currently at the forefront. 
One important commonality of the two research areas is their emphasis on 
a processual perspective, i.e. focussing on questions of communicative, 
social and cultural change. It seems logical to combine mediatisation 
and media socialisation conceptually and understand them as 
complementary research fields whose representatives could mutually 
inspire and learn from one another. Mediatisation theory works 
explicitly or implicitly along the assumption that socialisation 
conditions change during the development of new media (environments) and 
their adoption. Conversely, media socialisation research is legitimised 
by the change in media and the resulting social and cultural change, 
which merits continuous observation. Both research fields share problems 
such as the open question, beyond microsociological explorations, they 
can deliver on zealous explanatory and interpretational claims (e.g. 
“mediatisation as a metaprocess”; “media socialisation as social 
integration”), or in other words what is the relationship between the 
necessarily limited empiricism and the theoretical reflection upon 
overarching consequences of medial change.



The aim of the conference “Mediatisation and Media Socialisation” is to 
intensify the dialogue between the two research areas, to explore 
relations and ‘task sharings’, to discuss affinities as well as 
incompatibilities, and to develop perspectives for mediatisation 
research and media socialisation research.



The call is for papers presenting theoretical and/or empirical results that:



• trace back the historical development of mediatisation and/or media 
socialisation research and, based on this, identify priorities (at 
national level and/or internationally comparative);

• discuss the present status and current challenges of mediatisation 
research and/or media socialisation research;

• outline the relationship between the two research approaches in terms 
of where they overlap and where their boundaries lie;

• attempt to correlate the structural levels and aspects of action 
systematically in mediatisation research and/or media socialisation 
research;

• reveal the practical dimensions and research paths of media 
socialisation and mediatisation.



Organisation: Sociology of Media Communication division of DGPuK, the 
Media and Communication Sociology section of DGS and the DFG Priority 
Program 1505 Mediatised Worlds



Conference Organizers: Dr. des. Wolfgang Reissmann and Prof. Dr. Dagmar 
Hoffmann



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University of Siegen

Faculty of Arts and Philosophy

Media Studies

Media and Communication

Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2

57068 Siegen

Germany

Office      +49-271-740-2082

www.mediatisierung-mediensozialisation.org











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