[ecrea] Call for Papers Affects - Media - Power

Call for Papers

*Conference*

*Affects – Media – Power *

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*Organization***

Project B02 “Transcultural Emotional Repertoires in and through Reality 
TV” within the CRC 1171 “Affective Societies” of Freie Universität 
Berlin and the German Association of Communication Research (DGPuK) 
division “Sociology of Media and Communication” (in cooperation with the 
division “Media, Gender and Public Sphere”).

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*Date***

June 29^th -  July 1^st 2017**

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*Location *

Freie Universität Berlin

The social and cultural formations of emotions and affects have been of 
central interest to social science based emotion research as well as 
“affect studies” (Gregg/Seigworth 2010) mainly grounded in cultural 
studies. Media and communication scholars in turn have especially 
focused on how emotions and affects are produced by media, the way they 
are communicated through media, and the forms of emotions audiences 
develop during the use of media. Communication processes can have 
various affective dimensions: whether as a phenomenon of communication 
within a /shitstorm/ or a /moral panic; /as a mode of emotional 
reception at a distance as in /Fremdschämen;/ or as a trigger for 
circulation of information in an /affective flow/ (Wetherell 2012; 
Papacharissi 2015).

The conference wants to add to the ongoing research stream of /affect 
studies/ and the existing emotion research within media and 
communication studies. A special emphasis will be placed on exploring 
structures of difference and power  in relation to emotions and affects. 
We especially appreciate contributions to the discussion dealing with 
(but not limited to) the following aspects:

*/1. Concepts and theories of affect and emotion research /*

Approaches based in/affect studies /offer the potential to overcome 
existing dichotomies between cognition and affect, between the inside 
and the outside, the psychological and the social. Here, the question 
arises how these theoretical concepts can be made productive for media 
and communication studies. In particular, how can we integrate the 
different approaches with their disparate theoretical presuppositions. 
This area also includes attention to the role of feminist, queer and 
intersectional approaches in the social understanding of affects.

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*/2. Methods of affect and emotion research /*

The conceptual openness and complexities of affects pose methodological 
challenges to media and communication studies. Therefore, the definition 
of terms, theoretical development and methodological designs will have 
to be closely coordinated. Moreover, new empirical procedures will have 
to be connected to already existing concepts of affects. In this 
section, we invite presentations on new methods of affect research as 
well as adaptions of established methods for the research of affects and 
emotion.

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*/3. Empirical analysis: forms, formats and their audiences/**//*

Affects are omnipresent and can be studied in diverse social and 
mediated forms and formats. This area deals with affects in various 
media types, genres and formats as well as with explorations of 
techniques of the affective. For example, questions can be raised about 
the relationship between affects and technological artefacts, or about 
the circulation, transformation and renegotiation of affective 
practices. Contributions may also interrogate the effort and 
requirements of the performative elements of affective experience. 
Another area of research examines the affectivity of media 
appropriation. Empirical work dealing with affective practices 
surrounding the appropriation of media formats or (media) technologies 
is especially appreciated.

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*Filing of abstracts *

We invite /presentations/ (duration: 20 minutes), /panels/ (3-4 
individual talks) or /posters/. Contributions for /presentations /should 
be handed in as extended abstracts (max. 1000 words including 
bibliographical references); /panel /ideas should be submitted with a 
brief description of the joint topic as well as short abstracts of each 
individual contribution (max. 500 words each); /posters/ can be 
submitted with an abstract of 500 words max.

All proposals will undergo blind review. Therefore, we kindly ask you to 
add to your document (lecture, panel or poster) a separate cover sheet 
containing information on (1) the title of the contribution as well as 
(2) the names and contact data of the submitting persons. Please also 
remember to anonymize your file.

During the review process,the files will be evaluated according to the 
following categories: (1) Contribution to the conference topic; (2) 
plausibility and theoretical foundation; (3) adequacy of the approach 
(also methodology, if applicable); (4) clarity and concision of the 
submission as well as (5) overall contribution to the field of research 
(i.e., relevance and originality).

Please mail your anonymized abstract along with a separate cover sheet 
as pdfs to (tanja.maier /at/ fu-berlin.de) and (margreth.luenenborg /at/ fu-berlin.de) 
before *February 1^st 2017*. We will inform you about acceptance by mid 
March 2017.

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*For the organizational team in Berlin**
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Prof. Dr. Margreth Lünenborg ((margreth.luenenborg /at/ fu-berlin.de))**

Dr. Tanja Maier ((tanja.maier /at/ fu-berlin.de))

Claudia Töpper ((c.toepper /at/ fu-berlin.de))

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*For the sections of the DGPuK **
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Prof. Dr. Marian Adolf ((marian.adolf /at/ zu.de))

Dr. Sigrid Kannengießer ((sigrid.kannengiesser /at/ uni-bremen.de))

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