[ecrea] Journalism, New media and Civic Engagement - PhD School at at University of Copenhagen

*Journalism, New media and Civic Engagement
PhD School at the Faculty of Humanities at University of Copenhagen *
Time: 19th-20th of May, 2014 from 9:30 am - 4 pm both days.


The institutions and practices of journalism are undergoing a major 
shift as the Internet has reconfigured payment mechanisms, delivery 
systems, and issues of expertise and credibility for news. At the same 
time, the urban populations of the world are becoming more densely 
diverse. The intersection of these two trends results in a need to 
rethink the relationship. John Dewey once theorized between news, civic 
engagement, diverse communities, and political competency. Which 
theoretical models are most helpful in addressing the current situation? 
How can current doctoral research into practices of news consumption and 
news sharing contribute to these understandings?

Digital media technologies are often associated with processes of 
democratization of the public sphere and of civic engagement with the 
enhanced access to creating and disseminating media content. One example 
is the professional news media’s appropriation of non-professional 
images in the coverage of major political events, such as the Arab 
Spring, which renders the points of view of citizens/participants 
visible in the public realm to an extent not seen before, but which also 
changes the traditional roles of professional journalists and their 
sources. Another example is the seemingly vibrant cultural public sphere 
which constitutes itself on numerous, in particular, 
non-institutionalized websites, where ordinary citizens - cultural 
consumers or amateurs - engage in proliferating cultural debates and 
reviewing, providing and exchanging experience-based cultural 
evaluations. This, again, points to changing relations between producers 
and users, in this case of cultural criticism.

In addition to discussions of research that explore these and related 
issues, this doctoral seminar features a discussion of new 
ethnographically based research that's soon to be published by Lynn 
Schofield Clark (University of Denver) and Regina Marchi (Rutgers 
University). Titled, Young People and the Future of News and picking up 
a discussion started by David Mindich, David Buckingham, Mark Bauerlein 
and others on young people and the future of democracy, this research 
outlines five different ways in which U.S. young people (ages 15 - 25) 
approach news, and how news from various sources are integrated into 
their lives, communities, and politics. Clark and Marchi argue that 
emergent news practices may share more in common with late 19th century 
than with late 20th century patterns, and it will be important for all 
constituents to understand these differing cultural patterns of news 
consumption/sharing in order to plan for democracy's future.

The following senior researchers will contribute as presenters and 
discussants:

* Professor Lynn Schofield Clark, University of Denver, Visiting 
Professor at University of Copenhagen spring 2014.
* Stig Hjarvard, Professor, University of Copenhagen
* Nete Nørgaard Kristensen, Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen


Time: 19th-20th of May, 2014 from 9:30 am - 4 pm both days.

Preparation: As preparation for the course, the doctoral students are 
required to read a compendium in addition to the submitted papers by 
doctoral students.

ECTS: 1,4 for participation; 2,9 for participation and presentation of 
paper.

Registration: please register *no later than the 7th of April 2014. *

Paper: Please submit your paper no later than the 28th of April 2014 to 
(phdschool /at/ hum.ku.dk).

Additional information: https://phdcourses.dk/Course/27632