Mediatization: media, power and change

Mediatization: media, power and change

Call for the panel of the
ECREA TWG Mediatization
at the ECREA 2012 conference SOCIAL MEDIA&  GLOBAL VOICES,
24 to 27 October 2012 in Istanbul

Chairs: Andreas Hepp, Stig Hjarvard, Sonia Livingstone

We live in times in which ‘media’ have become part of nearly everything: our work, our leisure time, politics, organizations, economy and other parts of culture and society rely more and more on media communication. To grasp this increasing media saturation, ‘mediatization’ has become a core concept for analyses and critical reflection. Mediatization does not refer to a closed theory of media change, but rather it invites an open investigation of the interplay of media communicative change, on the one hand, and other processes of social and cultural change on the other. In this way, mediatization seeks to understand the role of media developments in relation to other processes of modernity such as, most notably, globalization, individualization and commercialisation.

Within the such an overall understanding of mediatization the aim of the panel “Mediatization: media, power and change” is to discuss how far processes of mediatization are related to questions of power as part of media and communicative change. Both empirical as well as theoretical papers are invited, focusing especially on following topics:

• In which way are processes of mediatization related to ‘empowerment’ and ‘disempowerment’?
• How can we integrate ‘questions of power’ into theories of mediatization?
• How far does the present or historical mediatization support certain ‘forms of authority’?

Abstracts should be written in English and contain a clear outline of the argument, the theoretical framework, and, where applicable, methodology and results. The preferred length of the individual abstracts is between 400 and 500 words (the maximum is 500 words). All abstracts should be submitted by e-mail not later than 28 February 2012 to the ECREA TWG chair (Andeas.Hepp@uni-bremen.de). The panel “Mediatization: media, power and change” itself can consist out of up to 5 papers.

For further information on the ECREA TWG Mediatization please visit http://www.mediatization.eu/ .

Book announcement – Teaching and Researching on Communication as and object of study

The book, titled Teaching and Research on Communication as an object of study in European and Latin American Universities, has already been published. It is featuring the results of an international survey   about teaching and researching on Communication as an object of study.
The survey was widely conducted around the world in six languages
(English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish)
This book is the 15th volume of a collection edited by Cuadernos
Artesanos Latina (http://www.revistalatinacs.org/067/cuadernos/artesanos.html), a book project built upon one of the leading journals in the CommunicationResearch field in Spanish, Revista Latina de Comunicación Social(http://www.ull.es/publicaciones/latina/).

Full text available in English at the following websites:
Traditional PDF: http://www.revistalatinacs.org/067/cuadernos/15_ingles.pdf
Dynamic PDF: http://issuu.com/revistalatinadecomunicacion/docs/15_ingles1
Full database at the following address:
http://www.revistalatinacs.org/11/CD/index_pinuel.html

Texto completo en castellano:
PDF: http://www.revistalatinacs.org/067/cuadernos/15_espanol.pdf
PDF dinámico: http://issuu.com/revistalatinadecomunicacion/docs/15_espanol1
Base de datos completa:
http://www.revistalatinacs.org/11/CD/index_pinuel.html

Call for Papers: Media Practices in Globalized and Multilocal Lifeworlds Between Economics and Subject-Orientation in merz

The Call is titled “Media Practices in Globalized and Multilocal Lifeworlds Between Economics and Subject-Orientation”.

Responsible editorial team: Prof. Dr. Friedrich Krotz (University of Bremen) and the merzWissenschaft (JFF) editorial department

An increasing number of areas of our lives are becoming profoundly mediatized. This process is also changing the basic conditions of human perception and experience, behavior and activity, and communication. New forms and means of communication are emerging: The new smart phones and tablets, for instance, allow for highly flexible media practices – regardless of time and place we are
able to process media content, communicate with other people and send out our own message into the world. Mobile technology in particular expands the possibility to access content and tools for communication, thus increasingly intertwining individual and mass communication. Acting and communicating are thus becoming multi and translocal. In parallel to this, acting and communicating are, in a new sense of the word, becoming embedded in an economic context: In order to fathom all the options of our self-determined living, we have to stay up-to-date with all the given media content and tools and engage with the corresponding communicative structures. The use of digital media relies on technology and forms of organization that have been designed and developed with an economic interest. What happens to communication and personal data beyond the direct experience has become almost untraceable.

Globalization and economization thus accompany the mediatization processes. The resulting cultural, political, economic and media developments are proving to be closely related, changing the way we construct and reconstruct the world. The subject as interpreter and shaper of their own lifeworld is increasingly obligated to adapt their life to all the requirements “from the outside world”.

The challenges to the subject in these media appropriation processes can be seen as unfolding in different dimensions, such as:

• Communitization: The social, cultural and political spheres, in which different topics are negotiated according to the counterpart or audience, are constituted increasingly via mediatized social relationships. This creates and reveals new forms of communitization that are not based on traditional bonding, and in which delimitation is experienced and shaped with mediatic means,e. g. in multilocal families, friendships or romantic relationships.
• Localization: Subjects are forced by medially prestructured relationships and negotiations with others to continually present their different facets and position themselves in relation to various issues, e. g. global or local news topics, and often in relation to the design and shape of local,regional or transcultural identity.
• Flexibilization: Mobile media practices allow flexibility in subjects’ use of media structures or tools. Flexibility has to be discussed, however, in terms of society’s demands of the individual,which are becoming increasingly more important, e. g. in the work place.
• Condensation: Mediatization leads to an observable condensation of communications and relationships. This raises questions of proximity and distance in the shaping of our social lives. At the same time, it shows the new need for orientation as it becomes increasingly difficult to fully understand the consequences of our communicative actions, which are observed, recorded and processed on a huge scale.

The change in the conditions of socialization and social action and perception on the one hand leads to new forms of relationships; on the other hand it might lead to a constriction, allowing only the structurally possible, which could in turn lead to a fundamental uncertainty in our communicative acts. The increasing demand for subjects to deal with the requirements of a mediatized lifeworld and
to actively form it by way of their media activity puts the question of the individual between economic interests and their own sovereign acting back in the focus of research in the communication and media sciences.

merzWissenschaft 2012 invites you to submit your research papers examining processes of media engagement in globalized media markets and structures and (multi) local environments from an action-oriented perspective, as well as papers analyzing media structures under current social  conditions, or otherwise targeting these questions empirically or theoretically. merzWissenschaft seeks to back up and push forward the scientific discussion with the provision of
qualified, international papers from various relevant disciplines.

The kind of papers sought:
- are based on empirical or theoretical research,
- offer new knowledge, aspects or approaches to the subject, and
- have not been published elsewhere.

In the first instance, interested authors are asked to submit an abstract of no more than 4,000
characters (including spaces) to our editorial team (merz@jff.de) by 20 February 2012. Please ensure
that the papers follow the merzWissenschaft layout guidelines. These are available at www.merzzeitschrift.
de (-> über merz -> für autoren).

If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact Susanne Eggert by phone on +49.89.68989.120

Deadlines Overview
20 February 2012: Submission of abstracts to merz@jff.de
12 March 2012: Decision on acceptance/rejection of the abstracts
11 June 2012: Submission of papers
11 June – 25 July 2012: Peer review
August/September 2012: Revision Period (several phases if needed)
Final submission: 24 September 2012

Conference on the Role of Media in the Arab World’s Transformation Process

INVITATION AND CALL FOR PAPERS

The University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, the Cologne University of Applied
Sciences and DW-AKADEMIE cordially invite you to take part in the
Third Deutsche Welle Media Dialogue.
The Role of Media in the Arab World’s Transformation Process
May 16, 2012
Deutsche Welle | Kurt-Schumacher-Str. 3 | 53113 Bonn

CHAIRED BY:
Prof. Dr. Michael Krzeminski (University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg)
Prof. Dr. Christoph Schmidt (DW-AKADEMIE)
Prof. Dr. Rolf Schwartmann (Cologne Media Law Research Department,
Cologne University of Applied Sciences)

KEY TOPIC:
Since the “Arab Spring” uprisings beginning in December 2010, social media and its influence on the transformation process in the Arab world has often been praised as being the core medium in times of revolution. In some countries, in fact, it appears to have played an important role.
But has social media been more effective than traditional media? Which other factors spurred these revolutions? Why have some uprisings been successful and others suppressed? And what role does media development play?
The conference aims to analyze the diverse structural, economic, legal and political dimensions of the media market in the Arab world and their influence on political developments.

PROGRAM:
Two panels will explore the following topics:
Panel 1 Regulation versus liberty: Media landscape transformation
The focus will be on the state and development of the media market in the Arab world,
the legal and economic situation, and future perspectives for the media there.
Panel 2 social media revolution and freedom of expression
The focus will be on the impact of social media on political mobilization, and on social
media’s possibilities and obstacles regarding the recent social processes in the Arab world.

CONFERENCE LANGUAGE:
The conference will be held in English. We invite international media academics and political scientists, economists, academic lawyers and journalists to participate.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:
Please send your proposal for a 15-minute presentation to DW-AKADEMIE (see e-Mail below) as a pdf or doc. file. The abstract should contain no more than 6,000 characters (including blank spaces) and should be assigned to one of the panels.

Submissions should be made in English. Please include a title page with your proposal containing the presentation title and name(s) and address(es) of the presenter(s). Please also include a short abstract which – should your proposal be accepted – will be used for the program.
Papers will be subject to review. Submitters will be informed by February 29, 2012. All accepted proposals will be published in full length in the conference transcript.

POSTER SESSION:
Authors are encouraged to submit their abstracts/papers for consideration as posters. Posters can be presented during the conference breaks. The above conditions regarding the selection process for papers also apply to the poster session.

TIMELINE:
Submission date: Submissions are now being accepted
Submission deadline: February 06, 2012.
Submitters will be informed by February 29, 2012.

CONTACT:
DW-AKADEMIE
Prof. Dr. Christoph Schmidt
International Media Studies
T +49. 228. 429- 2031
F +49. 228. 429- 3520
mediendialog@dw-world.de<

mailto:mediendialog@dw-world.de>

CFP: Creating publics creating democracies

This two-day workshop is a collaboration organised by The Publics Research
Programme at the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance at The
Open University; The Centre for Global Media and Democracy at Goldsmiths
College; and, The Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of
Westminster. Details and a Call for Papers are attached. The event will
take place in central London, 18 & 19 June 2012.

We invite abstracts of up to 250 words to be submitted to Sarah Batt
(a.s.c.batt@open.ac.uk<mailto:a.s.c.batt@open.ac.uk>) by 16 March 2012.
For further information or if you have questions, please contact Sue Pell
(exs02sp@gold.ac.uk<mailto:exs02sp@gold.ac.uk>). The workshop programme
will be announced in May.

This attached is also available from the CCIG website:-

http://www8.open.ac.uk/ccig/events/call-for-papers-creating-publics-creating-democracies

Conference on Science and the Internet

DEADLINE EXTENDED: January 31, 2012!

Düsseldorf-Germany, August 1-3, 1012

Online media have brought about numerous changes in scholarly practices, including, but not limited to gathering data, finding relevant literature, making research and results accessible, organising collaboration, communicating with colleagues and students as well as creating fruitful learning environments.

The interdisciplinary conference “Science and the Internet”, to be held August 1-3, 2012 in Düsseldorf, brings together researchers and practitioners from multiple disciplines (e.g. information science, computer science, sociology, communication and media studies, linguistics, educations studies, legal studies, etc.).

Keynote speakers are

•  Axel Bruns (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
• Isa Jahnke (Umeå University, Sweden)
• Ralph Schroeder (Oxford Internet Institute, Great Britain)

We invite submissions on the following or related issues:

• How is the research process transformed through the use of digital infrastructures?
• How can the challenges of the public availability of (large scale) scientific data be met?
• How do scholars make use of social networking platforms (micro-)blogs, wikis, or websites?
• How does the Internet affect scholarly publishing (e.g. Open Access, unpublished manuscripts, blogs)?
• How has the Internet changed the practice and relevance of citations and of receiving reputation?
• How do teaching styles or beliefs and use of the Internet mutually influence each other?
• Do Web 2.0 platforms offer opportunities to advance public understanding of science?
• What is the role of ethics, policies, and legal regulation in academic use of the Internet?
• What theoretical and practical implications do the aforementioned considerations have for science and the Internet?

Call for Submissions:

The conference language is English. We invite two types of submissions:

- Abstracts for talks (20 minutes for presentation + 10 minutes for
discussion) should not exceed 500 words, excluding data and
references. In case of acceptance a full paper (max. 3.000 words or 12
pages) in either English or German must be submitted by July 15, 2012.
The full paper will be published in conference proceedings (print and
online).
- Proposals for interactive workshops (90 minutes) should outline both
the thematic focus and the session design. Workshops should engage
participants in developing the topics. Proposals should not exceed
1.000 words.

Both abstracts for presentations and proposals for interactive
workshops must be submitted via EasyChair
(https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=cosci12).

Important Dates:

- Deadline for submitting abstracts: January 31, 2012

- Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2012

- Camera-ready submission of papers: July 15, 2012

- Conference dates: August 1-3, 2012

Registration:  A registration fee of 50 ? must be paid by Paypal or on site.
Updates will be posted on the conference website
http://nfgwin.uni-duesseldorf.de/de/cosci12 .

Call for papers numero 8 revista Prisma Social dedicado al tema de la Incertidumbre social

Desde la Fundación iS+D para la Investigación Social Avanzada les informamos de que tienen la oportunidad de presentar artículos para el próximo número 8 de la revista de investigación social, Prisma Social, que será coordinado por el profesor Carlos Lozano Ascencio de la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid.

Link: http://www.isdfundacion.es/publicaciones/revista/

La Revista Prisma Social está orientada a la difusión de investigaciones procedentes de las Ciencias Sociales. La temática del siguiente número es: Revista Nº 8

Título: La incertidumbre social

Fecha límite de recepción de artículos: 1 de abril de 2012 (envío de material)

Fecha de publicación: junio 2012

La estructura que proponemos para que puedas encajar y enviar tu contribución tiene que ver con la percepción social de la incertidumbre o el fomento de la incertidumbre social, en los siguientes ámbitos:

a) Sobre lo que acontece socialmente según la agenda pública y la agenda mediática.

b) Sobre lo que se hace, es decir, las actuaciones o prácticas sociales frente al acontecer y sus imprevisiones o incertidumbres.

c) Sobre lo que se dice o se comunica a propósito de lo que acontece y lo que se hace.

d) Sobre lo que se piensa en relación a lo que acontece, se hace y se dice.

e) Finalmente, sobre las revisiones de las prácticas sociales y de las formas de comunicación social en relación a la incertidumbre.

Las condiciones y normas de publicación se pueden consultar en la página de la revista. http://www.isdfundacion.org/publicaciones/revista/normas_de_publicacion.html

Los artículos se remitirán a la siguiente dirección de correo: arodriguez@isdfundacion.org

Fuente: Facultad de Ciencias de la Comunicación
Campus de Fuenlabrada

Position announcement – Kansas State University

The Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at Kansas State University seeks a dynamic scholar to lead the A. Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications into its second century in the changing world of communications. The Miller School offers B.A./B.S. degrees in public relations, advertising, and journalism and digital media as well as a master’s program with emphases in areas such as health and risk communication. The new director will provide leadership in the achievement of the University’s goal to be recognized as a Top 50 Public Research University by 2025 http://www.k-state.edu/2025.

The director oversees the educational and extracurricular activities of the School. These include student media (TV, radio, advertising and PR agency), the Media Convergence Center, Huck Boyd Center for Community Media, National Headquarters for the Journalism Education Association, and the Great Plains Radio History Symposium. The director coordinates relationships with KSDB-FM, the TakeFlight advertising and public relations agency, the Royal Purple yearbook and the Collegian daily newspaper.

The director also coordinates with other departments and colleges on campus, works with the JMC advisory council of alumni, professionals and friends of the School, and engages in fundraising efforts for new initiatives and to increase the School’s endowment. The director should maintain an active research agenda and will teach one course a year.

The successful candidate will have an earned doctorate degree in communications or a related field, a successful track record of peer-reviewed publications and extramural funding commensurate with tenure and senior rank at a major research university; a strong record of teaching and professional service; administrative experiences necessary to lead department’s three focus areas in public relations, advertising, journalism and digital media; a demonstrated ability to work with diverse faculty and students; and a knowledge of ACEJMC accreditation standards.

Send curriculum vita, names and contacts of three references, and a statement outlining academic and management philosophy to:

Ms. Karen Solt
Miller School Director Search Committee
c/o College of Arts & Sciences, Dean’s Office
Eisenhower Hall
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS 66506

You may send your application material by e-mail to solt@ksu.edu. Please direct questions to Dr. Charles Griffin, search committee chair, charlieg@ksu.edu or 785-532-6860  For more information about the A.Q Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications visit http://jmc.ksu.edu.

Review of applications will begin February 1, 2012, and will continue until the position is filled. A background check is required for all new employees. Kansas State University is an affirmative action/equal-opportunity employer and seeks diversity in its applicant pool.

UC/ICA 2012 regional conference in Chile

“Trends in International and Latin American Communication Research”

Where? Santiago, Chile, October 18-20, 2012.

Papers and panel proposal submission deadline: April 20, 2012.

We will be very pleased to receive your contributions (full papers or panel proposals in Spanish and English) and to wellcome you in our country.

The UC-ICA Latin American conference, organized by the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile’s School of Communications (http://comunicaciones.uc.cl), in agreement with the International Communication Association, ICA (www.icahdq.org), is scheduled for 18-20 October 2012 in Santiago, Chile. This is the first time this international conference will take place at a regional level in Chile.

Universidad Católica’s School of Communications and ICA´s scientific society seek to contribute to the development of strong relationships between academics and communication researchers. The conference will be in the building of the School of Communications of the Universidad Católica, in the campus Casa Central, Alameda 340 (please see http://www.uc.cl/es/mapas).
The Conference’s goals are the following:
• To contribute to the regional and international dissemination of information and communication research, as well as to develop academic, regional and international research partnerships.
• To create a space for dialogue between the positions of researchers and scholars who share a common interest in communication processes, but work in different fields and spheres of research (geographical, cultural, linguistic, organizational).
• To stimulate an open dialogue between different research traditions with an emphasis on assorted schools of thought regarding communication research in Latin America and around the world.

The four axes of research (see sub-topics at the bottom).
1. Policy and Industry
The evolution in the relationship between communication policy and governance, the changes in cultural industries and the emergence of new media business models triggered by the current communication processes.
2. Globalization, Convergence and Segmentation
Communication in a globalized world and issues of technological convergence.
3. Journalism
Fundamental assumptions about journalism today, new forms of journalistic narratives, ethical challenges, and quality of information.
4. Communication, organization and Society
The role of communication in the constitution and evolution of social systems.

Contact: Conference Program Chair: María Elena Gronemeyer
E-mail: mgronemeyer@uc.cl
Conference Secretariat: Rayén Condeza
E-mail: rcondeza@uc.cl

Deadlines
Submission of articles and panel session deadline 20 April 2012, midnight GMT
Decision notices will be sent No later than 30 June 2012
Conference registration Beginning in April 2012
Early birds registration deadline Until 15 August 2012
Conference 18, 19 and 20 October 2012

Source: ECREA mailing list http://www.ecrea.eu/mailinglist

CFP: “IDENTITY, CULTURE & COMMUNICATION” Conference at SLU Madrid Campus

“IDENTITY, CULTURE&  COMMUNICATION”

A Cross-Disciplinary, International Conference Convened at

SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY—MADRID, SPAIN CAMPUS

19-21 APRIL 2012

Call for abstarcts: 5-Jan.-2012

In the “Saturated Self”, Kenneth Gergen responds to globalization and
the ballyhooed “communications revolution” by coining the term
“multiphrenia”; this neologism accounts for “the splitting of the
individual into a multiplicity of self-investments”. On this
theorization, new technologies have saturated the subject in multiple
competing paradigms, values, ways of life, modes of communicating,
ideologies, and technological substrates. Without undue nostalgia, we
may posit the subject not as a stable monad – but as a malleable
conglomerate of relationships in an online and offline socio-cultural
milieu with some new (and not so new) ideological and material
concomitants.

The objective of this international and cross-disciplinary conference
is to investigate the overarching concepts of identity, culture and
communication as well as the relationships among them. Some orienting
questions: What ideologies and their associated subjectivities have
been enabled (or transmutated) by globalization and the
“communications revolution”? How is the subject represented on screen
and in new media – and to what effect? Has space been cleared for a
revival of social class in discussions of identity? As globalization
plays out, what is the relation between Self and Other, between Us and
Them? How do scholars move beyond 1990s concepts of identity and
identity politics? What is the place of agency?

Areas of interest: Interpersonal communication and relationships, new
media, the theory of ideology and the subject, critical accounts of
commercial culture, ethnography, intercultural communication,
international journalism, international education, conflict,
subcultures, identity on screen, immigration and media, discourse
studies.

KEY NOTE ADDRESS: Professor James Curran, Director of Goldsmiths
Leverhulme Media Research Center, University of London: “Demystifying
the Internet”

SPECIFICATIONS: To apply, please send the following material to the
committee: (1) An abstract of 250-350 words; (2) 5 keywords; (3) Name,
affiliation and contact information.

ABSTRACTS DUE: 5 January 2012.

LANGUAGES: Paper and address may be in English or in Spanish.

CONFERENCE DATES: Thursday, 19 April – Saturday, 21 April, 2012.

LOCATION: Saint Louis University-Madrid, Spain Campus.

EMAIL ADDRESS: icc.conference.2012@gmail.com

Link: http://www.conferencealerts.com/seeconf.mv?q=ca18s3hs

PDF: http://spain.slu.edu/academics/conferences_&_events/docs/Identify.pdf