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On 10/25/11 10:14 AM, "Carpentier Nico" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:


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>*Call for Papers***
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>*Media and Participation*
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>International Conference, Media and Communication, Lund University,
>Sweden, March 29th 2012. Organisers Professor Annette Hill, Michael
>Rübsamen and Tina Askanius.
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>Media and participation signals the merging of ideas around democracy,
>power and politics, and producers, audiences and publics. Media and
>participation includes a broad understanding of our involvement,
>engagement and interaction with politics and civic cultures. Media and
>participation also considers the individual, audience and public as an
>agent of change, engaged in dynamic practices. This range of ideas
>across the public and popular makes this topic a rich site for analysis.
>To understand media and participation today involves historical, social,
>political and cultural perspectives on such issues as live events,
>social networking, political communication, museums and galleries,
>sports, talkshows and reality TV.
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>The conference will be organised thematically, focusing on the
>political, social, cultural and historical approaches to media and
>participation. Papers should address one or more of the following
>research questions - what is the role of social, political and cultural
>participation in people¹s experiences of the media? What is the
>relationship between the political and non-political in cases of media
>participation? How can different approaches and methods open up our
>understanding of media and participation? The aim is to provide a
>platform for international scholars from disciplines such as media,
>communication and cultural studies, film studies, sociology and
>political communication to debate the complexity and ambiguity at work
>in public participation in mediated spaces and places.
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>The schedule includes a combination of keynote addresses,
>pre-constituted panels, and open panels. Confirmed speakers include
>Raymond Boyle (Glasgow University, UK), John Corner (Leeds University,
>UK), Natalie Fenton (Goldsmith¹s College, UK), Peter Lunt (Leicester
>University, UK). Other invited speakers include Stina Bengtsson
>(Södertörn University, Sweden), Göran Bolin (Södertörn University,
>Sweden), Nico Carpentier (Loughborough University, UK), Peter Dahlgren
>(Lund University, Sweden), Tobias Olsson (Jönköping University, Sweden),
>Kim Schrøder (Roskilde University, Denmark), and Kristina Riegert
>(Stockholm University, Sweden).
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>Please submit abstracts of 300 words in English via the conference website
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>http://mediaparticipation2012.se <http://mediaparticipation2012.se/>
>online registration form ­ deadline December 9th 2011. For further
>information contact Michael Rübsamen ([log in to unmask]
><mailto:[log in to unmask]>). There is a registration fee of 650
>SEK (70 Euros) that covers food and drink for the day and an evening
>buffet.
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Clemencia RodriguezClemencia Rodriguez
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Department of Communication
The University of Oklahoma
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