[Air-l] CfP: Media Events, Globalization, and Cultural Change

[Ralf Bendrath]

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MEDIA EVENTS, GLOBALIZATION AND CULTURAL CHANGE

Friday 6th July - Saturday 7th July 2007, University of Bremen (Germany)

Call for Papers

Organiser:  Media Sociology Group of the German Communication
Association
(DGPuK) and Psychology and Public Opinion Section (PPO) of the IAMCR

Conference team:  Nick Couldry, Andreas Hepp, Friedrich Krotz

Media Events have become an important area of international media and
communication studies research. The international conference "Media
Events, Globalization and Cultural Change" will articulate these
discussions. Topics of the conference are:

- Defining and theorising media events
- Exploring processes of ritualization, as worked out in and around
media events
- Empirical studies on media events, their globalization and change
- Studies on the relation of media events and (global) popular culture
- Analysing media events production and consumption
- Everyday appropriation of media events
- Transnational media flows, global media events and the global
public sphere
- Ritual media events and the changing nature of religion
- The role of digital media (the internet, weblogs etc.) within media
events

Invited Keynote speaker include

- Daniel Dayan,
- Eric Rothenbuhler and
- Ingrid Volkmer.

For the complete call and more information please visit the
conference website at:
http://www.media-events-bremen07.org
Please send your abstracts (not more than 300 words) to
mediaevents at uni-bremen.de by Sunday 31st March 2007 or contact:

Nick Couldry: N.Couldry at gold.ac.uk
Andreas Hepp: Andreas.Hepp at uni-bremen.de
Friedrich Krotz: Friedrich.Krotz at uni-erfurt.de

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Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp
University of Bremen - Faculty of Cultural Studies
Institute of Media, Communication & Information
Enrique-Schmidt-Strasse, SFG 4320
D-28359 Bremen, Germany

Phone:   +49 (0)421 218-3046
Fax:         +49 (0)421 218-7574

http://www.imki.uni-bremen.de/
http://www.medien.uni-bremen.de/