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Lars Holmgaard

13 Ph.D. Fellowships at the University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Humanities

This book presents video-based processual methods for researching experiences in a variety of settings ranging from the museum, to news photography, and interactive media. The research led to the development of a set of methodological tools and approaches we term the ReflexivityLab. The interaction in the experimental situation between the media and body, dialogue, moods, values and narratives have been investigated qualitatively with more than sixty informants in a range of projects. The processual methodological insights are put into a theoretical perspective and also presented as pragmatic dilemmas. 
     Researching Experiences is relevant not only for students and researchers in media and communication studies but also for practitioners within the fields of media, communication and experience design.

»The book supports the reader in moving beyond a verbal account of experience to a more complex, situated and nuanced account of experience as visual, embodied and spatial. In doing so the book offers ways to respond to the complex multimodal environment of the twenty-first century.«
Dr Carey Jewitt, Reader in Education and Technology, 
Institute of Education, University of London.

»As new media technologies develop, new research methodologies are required to investigate them. Gjedde and Ingemann approach this important topic imaginatively, and with a wealth of experience.«
Dr Judy Robertson, Heriot-Watt University

Lisa Gjedde and Bruno Ingemann (2008): Researching Experiences: Exploring Processual and Experimental Methods in Cultural Analysis, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

226 pages + 12 colourplates.
US $ 69.99 
ISBN (10): 1-84718-600-9, ISBN (13): 9781847186003

See the content and the introduction chapter at Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Additional material plus multimedia examples of research cases can be found at www.researching-experiences.net

NordMedia09     BODY, SOUL AND SOCIETY
Rethinking Media and Communication Ontologies

13th – 15th of August 2009
Karlstad, Sweden
www.nordmedia09.se

Call for papers, research panels and posters

The objective of the conference theme, Body, Soul and Society:

Rethinking Media and Communication Ontologies, is to scrutinize the triadic interplay between Body, Soul and Society in terms of how they have been, and are as of now, understood, implied and implemented in media and communication studies and to what ends. How have Body, Soul and Society been applied as concepts of “reality”, and on the other hand how have they (re)produced certain formations of knowledge? How do these concepts, in their broadest sense, produce certain ways of thinking in media and communication studies? How are the thinking around these categories bound up with (inter)disciplinary power-fields in terms of scholarly traditions and paradigms? A number of Nordic scholars will address issues related to the conference theme in plenary sessions throughout the conference.

We encourage the submission of:

a)      Paper proposals (150 to 200 words)

b)      Panel proposals (four to five paper proposals together with an overall panel theme proposal)

c)      Poster proposals (150 to 200 words)

Paper, panels and posters will be given within one of the new NordMedia Divisions (se below).
We invite you to e-mail your proposal(s) to the chair of one of these divisions.

1. Environment, Science and Risk Communication

chair: Anna-Maria Jönsson, anna-maria.jonsson@sh.se

2. Journalism Studies

chair: Flemming Svith, fts@djh.dk

3. Media and Communication History

chair: Henrik Örnebring, henrik.ornebring@politics.ox.ac.uk

4. Media, Culture and Society

chair: Stig Hjavard, stig@hum.ku.dk

5. Media, Globalization and Social Change

chair: Hilde Arntsen, Hilde.Arntsen@uib.no

6. Media Literacy and Media Education

chair: Sirkku Kotilainen sirkku.kotilainen@cc.jyu.fi

7. Media Organizations, Policy and Economy

chair: Karl Erik Gustafsson, Karl.Erik.Gustafsson@ihh.hj.se

8. Media, Technology and Aesthetics

chair: Arild Fetveit, fetveit@hum.ku.dk

9. Organization, Communication and Society

chair: Jesper Falkheimer,  Jesper.Falkheimer@iks.lu.se

10. Political Communication

chair: Mark Ørsten, oersten@ruc.dk

11. Theory, Philosophy and Ethics of Communication

chair: Kaarle Nordenstreng, Kaarle.Nordenstreng@uta.fi

12. Theme Division: Body, Soul and Society

chair: Miyase Christensen, miyase.christensen@kau.se

Important dates:

16 February: Deadline for submitting proposals for panels, papers and posters.

1 April: Note of acceptance from division chairs.

1 May: Final date for registration at early-bird rate.

15 July: Deadline for submitting full papers.

1 August: Final date for registration at ordinary rate.

You can find more information on the theme, programme, plenary sessions, new division structure and modes of participation on www.nordmedia09.se
We are exited to welcome You to Karlstad next summer. Please feel free to circulate this call in other networks and to colleagues that may be interested in submitting a proposal.
The Conference is hosted by the Department of Media and Communication Studies at Karlstad University, in co-operation with the Swedish Association for Media and Communication Research, FSMK and Nordicom.