Mediatization in transcultural and transnational perspectives
Workshop of the ECREA TWG “Mediatization” in cooperation with the Priority Research Program “Mediatized Worlds”,
Goldsmiths, University of London, 30th to 31st March 2012
Friday, 30th March 2012
Opening:
10:00 Nick Couldry (Goldsmiths, UK), Sonia Livingstone (LSE, UK): Welcome
10:15 Andreas Hepp (University of Bremen, Germany): Mediatization in transcultural and transnational perspectives – Theoretical and empirical challenges
11:00 Coffee break
Panel 1: The geneses of mediatization theory in a transcultural and transnational perspective
Chair: Stig Hjarvard
11:30 Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz (University of Bremen, Germany): Mediation (médiation, mediación) or mediatization? Is there a conceptual frame for mediatization research in romanophone communication research?
12:00 Suzanne de Cheveigné (Centre Norbert Elias, France): Eliseo Veron on Mediatization
12:30 Friedrich Krotz (University of Bremen, Germany): Mediatization as a metaprocess and its dependence of cultural conditions: concepts and historical case studies
13:00 Lunch break
Panel 2: The historical development of mediatization as a challenge for transnational and transcultural research
Chair: Katja Valaskivi
14:00 Thomas Steinmaurer (University of Salzburg, Austria): Historical Stages of a Development towards Mediatised Connectivity. From the Nation/State to the Global/Individual
14:30 Kim Sawchuk (University of Montreal, Canada): Remediating (personal) history: Montreal seniors and mediatized storytelling at the Atwater Library and Computer Centre
15:00 Salli Hakala (University of Helsinki, Finland): MEDIATIZED CRISIS. From Soviet Chernobyl to the Japanese disasters – an historical perspective on mediatization
15:30 Coffee and tea break
Panel 3: Perspectives on Mediatization Beyond the West
Chair: Friedrich Krotz
16:00 Oscar Hemer (Malmö University, Sweden), Thomas Tufte (University of Roskilde, Denmark): Communication for Development in the Mediatized World
16:30 Shani Omari (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania), Ylva Ekström, Høg Hansen (University of Malmö, Sweden): Social Engagement at the Intersection of Arts, Cultural Heritage and New Media. The House of Culture in Dar es Salaam, Tanzani
17:00 Ines Braune (University of Marburg, Germany): “Mon ami l’Internet” - Mediatization in postcolonial Morocco
20:00 Conference dinner (self-paid)
Saturday, 31st March 2012
Panel 4: Mediatization and Communalization in transcultural perspectives
Chair: Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz
9:45 Mirca Madianou (University of Leicester, UK): Mediating Migration
10:15 Matthias Berg, Andreas Hepp, Cindy Roitsch (University of Bremen, Germany): Horizons of Mediatized Communalization: The Community-Building of Digital Natives in Mediatized Worlds
10:45 Coffee and tea break
Panel 5: Mediatization of (transnational) politics
Chair: Knut Lundby
11:00 Mikkel Eskjar (University of Århus, Denmark): The mediatization of climate change. Global features and regional variations
11:30 Mette Mortensen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark): The Mediatization of Political Struggle. The Western News Media’s Coverage of Post-election Unrest in Iran (2009)
12:00 Lunch break
Panel 6: Mediatization of religion in transnational and transcultural perspectives
Chair: Suzanne de Cheveigné
13:00 Stig Hjarvard (University of Copenhagen, Denmark): Three Forms of Mediatized Religion: Changing the Public Face of Religion
13:30 Knut Lundby (University of Oslo, Norway), Mia Lövheim (University of Uppsala, Sweden) : Transnational traces of mediatized religion across Nordic newspapers
Panel 7: The mediatization of school, climate and surveillance as transnational challenges
Chair: Göran Bolin
14:00 Andreas Breiter (University of Bremen, Germany): Schools as Mediatized Organizations. Transcultural Perspectives of Changing Schools
14:30 Miyase Christensen, André Jansson (University of Karlstad, Sweden): Interveillance, Complicit Surveillance and the Question of Cosmopolitanism: Towards a Phenomenological Understanding of Mediatization
15:00 Coffee and tea break
Panel 8: Methodological reflections on the transnationality and transculturality of mediatization
Chair: Micra Madianou
15:30 Göran Bolin (Södertörn University, Sweden): Mediatization, non-mediacentrism and the critical potential in media and communications research
16:00 Peter Csigo (University of Budapest, Hungria): „Living on the bubble”: mediatized politics and media experts in late capitalism
16:30 Katja Valaskivi, Johanna Sumiala (University of Tampere, Finland): Circulation: a methodological perspective on transnational mediatization
Closing
17:00 Final discussion: Mediatization research in a transnational and transcultural perspective – challenges and emerging issues
17:30 End of Workshop
Further information about accommodation will be published at the conference website (http://www.mediatization.eu) beginning of March 2012.
The book of anstracts can be downloaded here
Places for participation in the workshop are strictly limited. To book a place please email Sebastian Kubitschko at s.kubitschko@gold.ac.uk