Apologies for cross posting. On 10/25/11 10:14 AM, "Carpentier Nico" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >*Call for Papers*** > >*Media and Participation* > >International Conference, Media and Communication, Lund University, >Sweden, March 29th 2012. Organisers Professor Annette Hill, Michael >Rübsamen and Tina Askanius. > >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. > >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. > >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). > >Please submit abstracts of 300 words in English via the conference website > >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. > >---------------- >ECREA-Mailing list >---------------- >This mailing list is a free service from ECREA. >--- >To unsubscribe, please visit http://www.ecrea.eu/mailinglist >--- >ECREA - European Communication Research and Education Association >Postal address: >ECREA >Université Libre de Bruxelles >c/o Dept. of Information and Communication Sciences >CP123, avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50, b-1050 Bruxelles, Belgium >Email: [log in to unmask] >URL: http://www.ecrea.eu >---------------- Clemencia RodriguezClemencia Rodriguez Professor Department of Communication The University of Oklahoma 610 Elm Avenue Norman OK 73019 405 325 1570 [log in to unmask] >