Conceptualizing Mediatization

05.03.2012

Call for Papers for a special issue of the ICA Journal “Communication Theory"

Today, we can no longer understand culture and society in isolation from the media: If we do politics, for instance, it is politics by and through media. The way we spend our work time as well as our spare time is increasingly marked by the use of computers. Against this backdrop, ‘mediatization’ has evolved as a key concept to describe a fundamental transformation of the relationship between the media, culture, and society. Generally speaking, ‘mediatization’ captures the interrelation between media-communicative change, on the one hand, and socio-cultural change, on the other.

Against this background the Journal "Communication Theory" plans a special issue that stimulate debates by “Conceptualizing Mediatization” in a wider perspective.

Manuscripts must be submitted no later than 1 April 2012 through the online system of Communication Theory.

More information about the call for papers here