[Commlist] PhD Course Announcement: Contemporary Debates in Media and Communication Theory - Karlstad University and Malmö University

*PhD COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT: Contemporary Debates in Media and 
Communication Theory - 7,5 hp (Karlstad University and Malmö University). *

The TRAIN network PhD course Contemporary Debates in Media and 
Communication Theory will run again in the coming spring semester 
(Spring of -19).

The goal of the course is to familiarize participants with the 
theoretical forefronts of contemporary media and communication studies, 
and the ontological and epistemological debates through which these are 
articulated. The course also traces the historical roots of contemporary 
theoretical positions within a number of research areas/themes, e.g. 
algorithms and platform studies, mediatization, comparative media 
studies, media activism, collaborative media.

The course is given as two intense two-day seminars at *Malmö 
University* ( *Feb 25-26 2019*) and *Karlstad University* ( *March 18-19 
2019*), and will be examined (with course paper presentations) at the 
annual TRAIN symposium, which in 2019 will be held *April 8-9* at 
*Örebro University* (pls note - PhD students who already know that they 
cannot attend on these dates should /not/ register for the course since 
attendance and active participation in all course events are mandatory). 
Participants will take part in lectures describing the central debates 
within selected research areas as well as literature seminars where the 
various approaches are discussed and evaluated in relation to both 
contemporary media society and the theoretical legacies of the 
discipline. The reading list (to be distributed when registration for 
the course is completed) mainly consists of journal articles published 
in the last decade. The course assessment is a written essay which will 
be distributed and discussed among participants in conjunction with the 
annual TRAIN symposium.

Please register for the course by sending your name, institutional 
affiliation and contact details to Åsa Nilsson ( 
<mailto:(asa.nilsson /at/ kau.se)>(asa.nilsson /at/ kau.se) 
<mailto:(asa.nilsson /at/ kau.se)> ) at Karlstad University no later than 
*January 28, 2019*. The course is in the first instance open to PhD 
students from institutions that are part of the TRAIN network (i.e. 
media/communication departments at the Karlstad, Malmö, Örebro, 
Södertörn, Göteborg, Lund and Stockholm Universities); PhD students from 
other institutions will be accepted if there is space.

Further questions about the course content should be directed to course 
coordinators Professor Henrik Örnebring, Karlstad University ( 
<mailto:(henrik.ornebring /at/ kau.se)>(henrik.ornebring /at/ kau.se) 
<mailto:(henrik.ornebring /at/ kau.se)> ) and Professor Pille Pruulmann 
Vengerfeldt, Malmö University ( 
<mailto:(pille.pruulmann.vengerfeldt /at/ mau.se))>(pille.pruulmann.vengerfeldt /at/ mau.se) 
<mailto:(pille.pruulmann.vengerfeldt /at/ mau.se)>) .

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