[ecrea] CFP - Political Agency in the Digital Age. Media, Participation and Democracy

CfP - Abstract deadline: *Friday 1 May 2015*

*ECREA Communication and Democracy Conference 2015*
9-10 October 2015, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

*Political Agency in the Digital Age. Media, Participation and Democracy*

*Confirmed keynote speakers*

  * Nick Couldry, London School of Economics and Political Science
  * Anastasia Kavada, University of Westminster
  * Guobin Yang, Annenberg School for Communication


*Theme*
Research on media and politics has traditionally tended towards
separating the sphere of politics from political processes in other
societal spheres, focusing on parliamentarian politics and formal,
institutionalised interest group politics (e.g. unions). At the same
time, there has been a tendency to focus on elites, whether political,
corporate, media or cultural. With the emergence of digital media, the
research agenda within the field of media and politics research is
shifting towards exploring interrelations between institutionalised
politics and political processes in other societal spheres, and moving
beyond elites to also include “ordinary” people. The personalization of
digital media and the rise of user-generated content have led to an
increased interest in personal self-expression of citizens at an
individual level as a political act. While this represents an important
development, it also warrants fundamental questions about what counts as
politics and who count as political actors. At the same time euphoric
accounts of the potential of digital media for political agency are
questioned critically both in terms of actual potential and the wider
structures in which they are embedded. The conference aims to gather
papers that provide a differentiated analysis of political agency in the
digital age.

We are seeking contributions that address questions of shifting agency
in connection with changing media technologies, while considering a
dialectical relationship between social and media-related change.
Contributions could address - but are not limited to - the following topics

•    Social movement/radical/alternative media
•    Digital activism
•    Materiality of media participation
•    Spaces of participation and protest
•    Civic resilience in times of crisis
•    Digital media uses in extra-parliamentarian and
non-institutionalized politics
•    Digital media representations of extra-parliamentarian and
non-institutionalized politics
•    Digital media at the intersections of traditional politics and
social movements
•    DIY citizenship and digital media
•    Performance and political agency
•    Everyday life and civic culture
•    Popular culture and civic engagement
•    Digitization and individualisation


*Submission details*

*Individual presentations *
Please submit a 300 word anonymised abstract.

*Panel proposals*
Panel proposals should include a 300 word panel rationale plus
individual 200 word abstracts from a minimum of four speakers.

Please submit your abstract here:
_https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cd2015_
*Deadline for submission is 1 May 2015.*
Notifications of acceptance will be issued by 1 June 2015.

Registration and fees
Early bird registration €50
Full fees €75
Early bird reduced student fee €30
Reduced student fee €40

More information: http://www.tilmeld.dk/ECREAcommunicationanddemocracy2015





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