SMID – Sammenslutningen af medieforskere i Danmark

Research seminar: The mediatization of intimate experiences

25 & 26 November 2009, 9:30-18:00 & 10.00-16:15

University of Copenhagen, KUA/ Southern Campus, room 27.0.17

The main aim of this seminar is to contribute to the theoretical and empirical exchange and discussion about the interaction between the media and aspects of intimacy. In order to approach this research field we especially invite contributions, which make use of the perspectives of ‘mediatization’ or ‘mediation’ in order to expand the understanding of the ways in which media and intimacy interact and converge. Sexuality and emotional bonding are core characteristics of human nature. However, these characteristics are always historically and culturally structured, and like other cultural institutions they are constitutive of human societies. The interaction between media and intimacy takes on various forms depending on different technologies, genres, and formats like for example mobile phones, social network sites, transformational reality programs, and films. The use of social and personal media like network sites and mobile phones influences the ways in which we search for partners and the way we make emotional bonds. Social and personal media can structure the very performance of intimacy by serving as the space for the actual intimate practices – as for example in user-generated porn and in avatar sex and emotional interaction. Turning to the more traditional mass-media, they influence the understanding and the performance of intimacy, as well as the construction of sexual and emotional identity. The seminar invites quantitative, qualitative, ethnographic, sociological, cognitive and textual approaches to the question of how media contributes to the sense making of sex, emotions, and relationships – and to the question of how the media transform and affects sexual, emotional, and relational interaction.

Everybody is welcome – no submission.

The seminar is arranged by the research group: The Mediatization of Culture. Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen

Program with abstracts: http://medialisering.mef.ku.dk/autumn_2009/dokument/dokument/

Cecilie Givskov
PhD Fellow, MA (ed)
Principle Project Manager of CEMES for Young Scholars (CYS)

Seminar på Danmarks Journalisthøjskole fredag d. 13. november: Politisk Valgkamp i et socialt mediemiljø

Download programmet politisk valgkamp – journalistikkens dag

Bogudgivelse: Bogen Kids Online. Opportunities and risks for children, redigeret af Sonia Livingstone og Leslie Haddon, London School of Economics, kan nu købes.

Bogen præsenterer i en række artikler skrevet at projektets deltagere resultater fra det europæiske forskningssamarbejde EU Kids Online. Det 3årige projekt sluttede i juni 2009 og straks derefter startede EU Kids Online II. I dette projekt skal der gennemføres ensartede undersøgelser af børns brug af online medier i 28 europæiske lande.

Yderligere information om projekterne fås ved henvendelse til Gitte Stald: stald@itu.dk

Seminaret med Dan Burk på IT Universitetet 30.9.2009 er aflyst, da Dan Burk har fået H1N1. Vi håber at kunne afholde arrangementet i foråret i stedet.

Mvh
Gitte Stald

Ny deadline for indsendelse af artikler: Fredag den 18. december 2009
Vi indbyder hermed artikler om mediesociologi til et temanummer af Dansk Sociologi, planlagt til at udkomme i foråret 2010. Artiklerne kan omhandle alt fra journalistiske nyhedsmedier til sociale netværksmedier, men skal være funderet i sociologisk teori og metode. Temanummeret vil lægge vægt på klassiske mediesociologiske spørgsmål:

• Hvad er mediernes sociale rolle?
• Hvordan bruges medier og hvordan undersøges de?
• Hvad er mediesociologiens rolle i det 21. århundrede?
• Holder de gamle teorier og hvad er bud på nye?

Artikler der skønnes egnet til temanummeret vil blive reviewet af to anonyme bedømmere. Forslag til essays, kronikker og kommentarer er også velkomne. Manuskripter skal følge retningslinjerne for manuskripter til Dansk Sociologi.
Spørgsmål eller uddybning fås hos redaktørerne: Ida Willig idaw@ruc.dk eller Rasmus Antoft ras@socsci.aau.dk.