[ecrea] Invitation ECREA 2016 Pre-conference "Cleaning the House"

ECREA 2016 Pre-conference, Prague 8-9 November:
Cleaning the House: Testing critical concepts on communication and society.

The aim of this preconference is to critically scrutinize contemporary 
key concepts and paradigms in communication research. The presentations 
aim to identify such concepts and their status, assess their usefulness 
to theoretical development and empirical work, and/or critique the 
theoretical/normative assumptions they carry.

Programme:

Day 1 (Tuesday 8 Nov)
1 pm Opening of the preconference

Theme 1: Mediatization: Are we mediatized?
•    Graham Murdock, Loughborough University, UK: Mediatization and the 
Transformation of Capitalism: Economy, Ecology, Crisis
•    Gianpietro Mazzoleni,  University of Milan, Italy: Is 
“mediatization” a process underlying changes in the contemporary 
communication ecosystems?

2:30 pm (continue)
•    Friedrich Krotz, University of Bremen: Explaining the Mediatization 
Approach.
•    Juha Herkman, University of Helsinki: Populism as a challenger of 
the mediatisation thesis?

5:30 pm End of day one

Day 2 (Wednesday 9 Nov)
9 am Opening of day 2

Theme 2: Inequality: Do the media contribute to social inequality?
•    Robin Mansell, London School of Economics and Political Science, 
UK: Inequality, Mediated Communication and Social Inequality: A Critical 
Perspective
•    Peter Bajomi-Lazar, Central European University, Hungary: 
Inequalities in the Media in Central and Eastern Europe

10:45 am (continue)
•    Amit Schejter and Noam Tirosh, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev: 
Introducing Rawlsian and Senian distributive justice philosophies to new 
media policy

1 pm Theme 3: Normativity and activism: What is the role of 
communication academics in society?
•    Des Freedman, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK: Academics and 
the politics of engagement
•    John Downey, Loughborough University, UK: A case for Public 
Communication scholarship

2:30 pm (continue)
•    Liisa Hänninen, Universidad Complutense de Madrid: RRI as a 
critical concept for future science and
communication frontrunners: Scrutinizing conceptual framework for 
responsible R&I and assessing its usefulness to empirical work
•    David Domingo, Université Libre de Bruxelles: Embracing 
normativity: strategies and implications

4:30 pm Closing session

Registration and further information, see at 
http://blogs.helsinki.fi/ecrea16preconf/.
Organisers:
- Helsinki Media Policy Research Group
- Euromedia Research Group


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