SMID – Sammenslutningen af medieforskere i Danmark

On April 29th 2011, the Center for Network Culture at the IT University of Copenhagen will be hosting a kick-starter research symposium focusing on the mobile and local aspects of today’s networked cultures.

The symposium will address topics, such as:

• Mobile communication and location awareness in everyday life practices; New urban spatialities developed with mobile gaming and locative social media;
• Privacy and surveillance issues as they relate to location-based social networks;
• Identity and spatial construction through locative media art / performance design;
• Civic engagement and political participation through mobile social media, new mapping practices and location-aware technologies;
• Learning and education potentials of mobile and location-based media;

Invited Speakers:

Mimi Sheller (Drexel University, USA), Keynote

Christian Licoppe, Telecom Paristech (France)

Ana Maria Nicolaci-da-Costa (Pontificial Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil)

Larissa Hjorth (RMIT University, Australia)

The event is free.
Registration required as seating is limited.
RSVP to net-cultures@itu.dk with name and affiliation.

See full program: http://itu.dk/networkculture/?page_id=548

More information: http://itu.dk/networkculture/?page_id=536

The NordMedia conference takes place in Iceland August 11-13, 2011, and the division on Media, Culture and Society will again convene several sessions. Below you find a description of the research agenda of the division.

I will remind you, that the deadline for submission of abstracts is March 25th, 2011.

Please notice that submission of abstracts should be done through the conference’s website (and only through this channel). The website of the conference is here: http://english.unak.is/conferences/page/call_for_papers

I hope to see you in Iceland!

Best regards,

Stig Hjarvard, Professor, Ph.D., Chair of Division
Media, Culture and Society

Chairs:   Stig Hjarvard (stig@hum.ku.dk)
              Professor, Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen

              Göran Bolin (goran.bolin@sh.se)
              Professor, Media & Communication Studies, Södertörn University College

The division focuses on the interplay between the media and their cultural and social context. The media have emerged as a central institution of modern society, and other actors and institutions must increasingly accommodate to the logic of the media in order to gain access to the communicative resources that media control. At the same time media, including mobile and interactive media technologies, become integrated into the fabric of the wider culture and society: Work, consumption, politics, family life, religion and many other social and cultural phenomena are transformed by the increased mediatization of modern society at the same time as the media themselves are influenced by cultural and social factors. The development of new social networks, changes in political communication and governance, and the changing relationship between art, culture, and commercial market are important aspect of these new dynamics.

The media perform important rituals in modern society, both by the staging of major media events and through the ritualization of everyday social practices. Media discourses establish political realities and negotiate the social meaning of age, gender, class, and ethnicity, and media have become important vehicles for the reproduction and renewal of lifestyles. The importance of media needs to be considered in the context of other transforming forces of high modernity: globalization, individualization, commercialization etc. The division invites theoretical, historical, methodological, and empirical contributions and it will provide a forum for a renewed dialogue between the social sciences and the humanities.

Northern Lights. Film & Media Studies Yearbook 2010 has just been published

 The 2010 volume of Northern Lights focuses on the role of news media and journalism as a cultural and political resource in the contemporary media landscape. The spread of new media technologies, changing market structures, shifting journalistic practices and changing behaviour of audiences have profound consequences for the press, as well as for the public in general.

 With contributions from Sigurd Allern, Annika Bergström, Martin Eide, Unni From, Stig Hjarvard, Christian Kobbernagel, Nete Nørgaard Kristensen, Kim Christian Schrøder, Ingela Wadbring, Karin Wahl-Jørgensen, Claire Wardle, Andy Williams and Ida Willig. Editor of 2010 volume: Stig Hjarvard.

 Northern Lights is an international, peer reviewed journal published by Intellect Press. For more information go to: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=1876/

Resultater fra forskningsprojektet
Aviser og journalistik i forandring:
Den trykte presse som kulturel og politisk ressource

Mandag den 29. november kl. 13-16,30
Københavns Universitet, lokale 21.1.15.
Njalsgade/Karen Blixens Vej 21 (Nye KUA)

Gennem tre år har en række forskere fra Københavns Universitet, RUC og Aarhus Universitet undersøgt de danske avisers forhold, herunder:
• Avisernes produktions- og konkurrenceforhold
• Journalistiske stofområder om politik og kultur
• Læsernes brug og opfattelser af avisen i samspil med andre nyhedsmedier
Dette afsluttende seminar er henvendt til en bredere offentlighed. Her fremlægges hoved-resultaterne i fire korte foredrag.

Alle er velkomne – tilmelding er ikke nødvendig

Forskningsprojektet har været støttet af Forskningsrådet for Kultur og Kommunikation i perioden 2007-10. Yderligere information om forskningsprojektet kan findes på http://aviser.mef.ku.dk/

Program

Kl. 13,00: Velkomst ved professor Stig Hjarvard, leder af forskningsprojektet.
13,15 – 13,45: Segmentpressen: En ny infrastruktur. Ved lektor Ida Willig
De grundlæggende produktionsvilkår for danske dagblade har ændret sig radikalt i de sidste 10-15 år. Forandringer inden for økonomi, teknologi, redaktionel ledelse, ejerskab og opfattelser af læserne tegner en ny infrastruktur, hvor den danske tradition for at tænke i publicistisk produktion bliver udfordret af et øget behov for at overleve kommercielt.
Kl. 13,45 – 14,30: Journalistik om kultur som profileringsstrategi. Ved lektor Nete Nørgaard Kristensen og lektor Unni From.
Journalistik om kultur fylder mere og mere i aviserne. Oplægget præsenterer resultater fra en ny bog om kulturjournalistik, som viser, hvordan kulturjournalistik i dag er med til at profilere aviserne – både når man ser på indholdet og spørger læserne og kulturjournalisterne. Kulturstoffet er blevet vigtigt i konkurrencen mellem aviserne.
14,30-15: Pause
15-15,45: Når danskerne shopper nyheder. Ved professor Kim Schrøder
De nyhedsmedier, vi danskere putter i vores nyheds-indkøbsvogn, har betydning for vores muligheder for at fungere som borgere, forbrugere og deltagere i hverdagens mangfoldige netværk. Oplægget præsenterer resultaterne af forskning, der med anvendelse af en ny metodisk tilgang finder frem til, at danskerne kan opdeles i 7 typer af nyhedsbrugere.
15,45-16,15: Meningernes holdeplads: Den moderne opinionspresse. Ved professor Stig Hjarvard.
News og views holdes ikke altid klart adskilt. Internet og gratisaviser har sat den korte nyhed i højsædet, men en række trykte betalingsaviser har også satset på holdninger i både journalistik og på lederplads. Der er fortsat politiske skel blandt avisernes læsere, og nogle avislæsere ser ikke sammenblandingen af news og views som et problem.
16,15-16,30: Afrunding

Post-Rorty Pragmatism: The New Wave of Pragmatism in Communication Research
International Communication Association Preconference – Boston, 2011
Sponsored by the Communication History Interest Group and Co-sponsored by the Philosophy of Communication Division

Organizers:
Chris Russill – Carleton University, Canada
Robert Craig – University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Klaus Bruhn Jensen – University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Mats Bergman – University of Helsinki, Finland
Robert Danisch – Concordia University, Canada

Call For Papers:
Philosophical pragmatism has been a significant substream in the history of ideas as well as in communication research – from John Dewey via Jim Carey to John Durham Peters. The neopragmatist work of Richard Rorty, while widely influential, has remained contested, and has left important contributions of classic pragmatism untapped. Indeed, Richard Rorty’s position of “postmodernist bourgeois liberalism” was, in certain respects, in discord with the committed, communal, and communicative conception of society and politics that is at the heart of the pragmatist legacy. Recently, an article by Mats Bergman (2008) identified a “New Wave of Pragmatism in Communication Studies,” which has returned to the classics, recruiting pragmatism for both theory development and empirical studies of media and communication. This preconference proposes to advance this development and to explore its future potential by involving the wider community of researchers in the ICA. Coordinated by some of the central contributors to the new wave of pragmatism, it invites contributions from across the sections of ICA to an interdisciplinary symposium. The format emphasizes a combination of paper presentations about ongoing theoretical and empirical work with extended discussions, concluding with a panel on the present state and future prospects of pragmatism for the field.
Pragmatism has a very long, a medium long, as well as a short history in the perspective of communication studies. Ancient rhetoric counts as one central influence on modern pragmatism, including its conception of community and democracy. The three classic figures of American pragmatism – Charles Sanders Peirce, George Herbert Mead, William James, and John Dewey – engaged communication, in various ways, as a descriptive and explanatory category. Peirce’s semiotics, for one, fed twentieth-century theory development about communication across the humanities and social sciences. In the last decade, debates on communication theory have returned to pragmatism. The aim of this preconference is to further promote the line of research that examines the relationship between pragmatism and communication first initiated by Peirce, James, and Dewey. Therefore, we invite submissions examining any one of a number of themes to which this relationship draws attention: democratic deliberation, semiotics, communication ethics, media and the public sphere, the importance of face-to-face communication, philosophical foundations of rhetoric, media and communication, and social movements to name just a few. The purpose of this preconference is to showcase the manner in which the intellectual tradition of pragmatism has helped with the advancement of communication scholarship, and to continue to develop communication theory by using the tradition of pragmatism to advance our understanding of key questions in the field. We welcome any papers that aid in either of these tasks.

The preconference will be limited to 40 participants. Dr. Peter Simonson from the University of Colorado-Boulder will be a featured speaker. All events will take place at the conference site; a preconference registration fee will be announced at a later date. A minimum of 15 papers will be selected through a peer-review process. Participants are invited who are interested in reflecting on the preconference¹s themes, whether from the sponsoring divisions or beyond.

Submission guidelines
-Preconference will be held on May 26th, 2011.
- Abstracts of no more than 500 words are due by December 15, 2010.
- Submit your abstract via email to Robert Danisch- rdanisch@gsu.concordia.ca – as an MS Word attachment (please use your full name to label the file).
- The authors of accepted abstracts will be notified by February 1, 2011
- After the preconference, the coordinating group will explore the possibility of an edited volume on communication research and the pragmatist tradition. Final Papers will be considered for inclusion in this edited volume.