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

The Transformation of Newspapers and Journalism

Research seminar, October 29-30, 2009
Copenhagen University, Karen Blixens Vej, 2300 Copenhagen S
(New KUA), room 27.0.47

Thursday, October 29

Theme 1: The institution of journalism

Martin Eide, Professor, University of Bergen: Renegotiating a Social Contract
Stig Hjarvard, Professor, University of Copenhagen: The Views of the News. Newspapers as a Resource for Opinion Formation
Paschal Preston, Professor, Dublin City University: ‘Creative Destruction’? European Journalism in an Era of Crisis as well as Digitalisation

Theme 2: The texts and audiences of journalism

Kim Christian Schrøder, Professor, Roskilde University: Mapping news consumers’ navigation in the cross-media news landscape. Towards a new map of news consumption
Nete Nørgaard Kristensen, Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen: Cultural journalism in the Danish printed press – a history of decline or increasing media institutional profiling?
Unni From, Associate Professor, Aarhus University: Expectations for journalism on culture

Friday, October 30.

Theme 2 – continued

Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, Associate Professor, Cardiff University: Audiences Views on User-Generated Content: Exploring the value of news from the bottom up
Ida Willig, Associate Professor, University of Roskilde: Thinking about ‘the citizen’ but writing for ‘the consumer’: The Marketization of News Production

Theme 3: Journalism and politics

Henrik Bødker, Associate Professor, University of Aarhus: Journalism as Resources for Political and Cultural (Re)Alignments
Sigurd Allern, Professor, University of Stockholm: The power over election campaigns
Camilla Dindler, Doctoral Student, University of Copenhagen: New roles and functions among journalists and their sources in the Danish parliament?

You will find the full programme of the research seminar here:
http://aviser.mef.ku.dk/october09seminar/

The seminar is organized by the research programme “Aviser og journalistik i forandring” – see http://aviser.mef.ku.dk/front/

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Gitte Stald

Mød Dan Burk på IT-Universitetet onsdag d. 30. september kl. 13 – 16 i lokale 2A08.

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