[ecrea] Mediatisation workshop 23-24 April

CALL FOR PAPERS:


 /Mediatisation of Culture and Everyday Life:
 Comparisons, Histories and Critiques/

International workshop in Stockholm 23–24 April 2015, organised by 
Stiftelsen Riks­bankens Jubileumsfond’s sector committee ‘Mediatisation 
of Culture and Everyday Life’ in cooperation with ECREA TWG Mediatization.

This workshop prioritises cultural perspectives in both the aesthetic 
and the anthro­po­logical sense, attending to arts and cultural 
industries as well as cultural practices of making sense in/of their 
daily lives. Three themes are of particular interest:

(1) Intermedial /comparisons/ between different media forms, cultural 
fields and realms of everyday life, so as to balance media specificity 
with general media trends, overcome disciplinary compartmentalisation 
between different humanities, and open up for linking the cultural 
sector to the lifeworlds of civil society at large. How has 
mediatisation been studied in different fields and spheres of culture 
and everyday life?

(2) Intertemporal /histories/ making comparisons and studying processes 
across larger time spans, including ideas of remediation and 
recontextualisation that allow breaking up simplistic linear narratives 
and contrasts between past and present. How has mediatisation unfolded 
over time, and how is it related to other types of transformations, such 
as modernisation, globalisation, commodification or individualisation?

(3) Interdisciplinary /critiques /that not only describe mediatisation 
processes but also scrutinise their social, individual and ethical 
impact on culture and everyday life. How are emancipatory and 
authoritarian potentials balanced in contemporary mediatisation 
processes? How can media-related transformations on the societal macro 
level be linked to experiential spaces and modes of socialisation on an 
individual micro level?

*Location*: Hotel Skeppsholmen in Stockholm (www.hotelskeppsholmen.com 
<http://www.hotelskeppsholmen.com>).

*Keynote speakers*: A: Comparisons:/ Emily Keightley /(Loughborough/UK), 
B: Histories: /John Durham Peters /(Iowa/USA) and C: Critiques: /Mikko 
Lehtonen /(Tampere/Finland).

*Papers & posters*:* *There will be five paper sessions (and if needed 
also a poster session) during the workshop, to which we invite papers 
dealing with the above-mentioned thematic areas.
Send max. 500 words /proposals /before 1 December 2014 to: 
(mediatisation /at/ rj.se) <mailto:(mediatisation /at/ rj.se)>

*Participants*: Max. 42 in all.

*Organisers*: /Johan Fornäs /(Södertörn/Sweden, (johan.fornas /at/ sh.se) 
<mailto:(johan.fornas /at/ sh.se)>) & /André Jansson /(Karlstad/Sweden, 
(andre.jansson /at/ kau.se) <mailto:(andre.jansson /at/ kau.se)>) with /Göran 
Blomqvist/ and /Maria Wikse /(RJ/Sweden, (maria.wikse /at/ rj.se) 
<mailto:(maria.wikse /at/ rj.se)>).

http://www.rj.se/en/About-RJ/Sector-Committees/Mediatisation-of-culture-and-everyday-life