Can't remember if this has already been circulated to the list - if  
so, apologies.

Elizabeth

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> From: "Mediation @ LSE" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 25 February 2008 11:48:09 GMT
> Subject: Reminder: Call for Abstracts: Mediation and  
> Multidisciplinarity
>
> Dear All,
>
> "Mediation, Multidisciplinarity and Media & Communications Research"  
> is a one day symposium for postgraduate research students working in  
> any discipline on any research project related to media and  
> communications. It will take place on 15 May 2008 at the London  
> School of Economics and is organised by the PhD student  
> representatives of [log in to unmask]
>
> This research workshop addresses overlaps and convergences between  
> mediation and interdisciplinary social research by focusing on two  
> themes: Globalization, everyday life and representation and  
> Citizenship, democracy and participatory media.
>
> The aims of the event are i) to initiate interdisciplinary debate  
> around mediation in two major themes of social research and ii) to  
> create an opportunity for early career development for current PhD  
> students (as well as recent graduates), who seek relevant  
> opportunities to present workshop papers based on their research  
> among their peers.
>
> Papers or presentations relating to any of the following workshop  
> streams are invited:
>
> Globalization, everyday life and representation
> Mediation, representation, identity
> Articulations of the global and the local
> Media and everyday life
> Consumer cultures, discourses and institutions and mediation
> Citizenship, democracy and participatory media
>
> Media, mediation and democracy
> New media, innovation and equality
>  Mediating participation: communications, contexts and culture
>  Citizenship, socialization, e-participation and new media
> Please submit a 250-word abstract for a paper or presentation by 15  
> April 2008, including details of your institutional affiliation, PhD  
> project title, and supervisor. Successful submissions will be  
> notified by 1 May 2008.
>
> Send submissions to [log in to unmask]
>
> Research students wishing to attend the workshop without presenting  
> are welcome; please indicate your interest by e-mailing the same  
> address with details of your institutional affiliation, PhD project  
> title, and supervisor.
>
> With warm regards
>
> The organising committee
>
> PS - Please forward this e-mail on to any contacts or colleagues who  
> may be interested.
>
>
>
> -- 
> This event is a student led initiative, and is organised by the PhD  
> student representatives of [log in to unmask] For more information please  
> contact [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]

Elizabeth Van Couvering
PhD Student
Department of Media & Communications
London School of Economics and Political Science
http://personal.lse.ac.uk/vancouve/
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