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Call for Papers: Media Engagement, International Conference at Lund University
Department of Communication and Media, Lund University, Sweden, March 19th 2015. Organisers Annette Hill, Michael Rübsamen, Tina Askanius and Sanchari De.
Engagement refers to the various ways we encounter and experience media within politics, society and culture. Media engagement matters, but what we mean by engagement is open to debate. There are competing definitions, discourses and methods for media engagement. For example, political discourses of engagement can focus on rational and subjective dimensions of being political and participating in civic cultures. Policy and industry discourses of engagement rely on technologies and strategies to measure and secure public and consumer engagement. And, audience research explores the processes and practices of people’s engagement and disengagement with cross media content. In this way, engagement is about forms of media pleasure as well as forms of media knowledge.
This conference focuses on media engagement in four areas of enquiry: political engagement, policy and industry engagement, audience engagement, and methodology and methods for researching media engagement. The research questions include: What role does media play in processes of political and public engagement? What are the models of engagement within media and cultural industries? How and why do audiences engage with media in politics, society and culture? In what ways can we research engagement with media and social media?
These research questions can be applied to a range of theories, ideas and problems concerning political culture, citizenship and democracy, television, film, radio and print media, social media, popular culture, live events, as well as other topics. Different approaches to research on media engagement can include media, communication and cultural studies, media history, film studies, sociology, social psychology, sociology of media and culture, political communication, and cultural geography, amongst others. The aim is to provide a platform for international scholars from various disciplines to debate the complex issues at work in understanding the theories, processes and practices of media engagement.
The schedule includes a combination of keynote addresses, pre-constituted panels, and open panels. Confirmed keynote speakers include Professor Raymond Boyle (Glasgow University, UK), Professor John Corner (Leeds University, UK), Emeritus Professor Peter Dahlgren (Lund University, Sweden), Professor Joke Hermes (In Holland University, Netherlands). Other invited speakers include Professor Göran Bolin (Södertörn University, Sweden), Julie Donovan (International Formats Consultant), Professor Annette Hill (Lund University, Sweden), Dr Jane Roscoe (London Film School), Professor Jeanette Steemers (University of Westminster, UK), and Douglas Wood (Shine Group).
Please submit an abstract of 300 words in English by December 9th 2014 to the conference email [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. For further information please consult our website www.kom.lu.se/mec2015<http://www.kom.lu.se/mec2015>. There is a registration fee of 750 SEK (80 Euros) that covers food and drink for the day and an evening buffet.
Tina Askanius
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Post-doctoral researcher and lecturer
Department of Communication and Media
Lund University
Box 117
221 00 Lund –SE
+46 46-222 86 21
http://www.kom.lu.se/person/TinaAskanius
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