[Air-L] Interdisciplinary PhD workshop - Researching the relational/sociable self - Nov. 27-28, 2013 - University of Oslo

[Charles Ess]

Dear AoIRists:

Please distribute to potentially interested PhD students.

We invite doctoral students from a range of disciplines ­ including media
and communication studies, information science, sociology, philosophy, and
political science ­ to participate in this interdisciplinary PhD course.

  Researching the relational/sociable self: Methods, Privacy, Ethics
 27. Nov. 2013 09:15 -  28. Nov. 2013 17:00, Room 418, Department of Media
and Communication, University of Oslo

Co-organizers:
  Charles Ess  <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/personer/vit/charlees/index.html>
(Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo)
  Stine Lomborg  <http://mcc.ku.dk/staff/presentation/?id=293359&f=3>
(Department of Media, Cognition, and Communication, University of
Copenhagen)  

Additional lecturers / mentors:

Hallvard Fossheim, Director, (Norwegian) National Committee for Research
Ethics in the Social Sciences and the Humanities (NESH)

Annette Markham, Visiting Professor, School of Commmunication, Loyola
University / Guest Professor, Informatics, Umeå University

Espen Ytreberg, Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo
 
Background
Especially over the last decade or so, both social science and humanistic
research have recognized the emergence of ³the relational self,² as fostered
by Internet-facilitated modes and venues of communication ­ most especially
social media. 
Understanding how far our conceptions of selfhood may be changing in Western
societies ­ broadly, from more individual to more relational, and, perhaps,
from more rational to more emotive ­ is critical, especially as these
changes seem further tied to
* changing circumstances of socialization and togetherness in everyday life,
and interweaving of different networks of affiliation that is associated
with networked media for personal communication (cf. Rainie & Wellman,
2012); 
* changing methodologies and approaches to research designed to better tease
out and explore the multiple dimensions of relationality;
* changing sensibilities and expectations regarding privacy and notions of
privatlivet and the (proper) boundaries of our intimsfære (intimate sphere),
and thereby 
* possible coherencies and/or conflicts with current research ethics codes
and law, e.g., expected changes in EU data privacy protection law that
increases individual privacy protections, but may remain silent regarding
privacy and other protections for close relationships such as are already
encoded, for example in the NESH 2006 guidelines (Norway) as already more
relationally oriented.

The workshop addresses theories of relational selfhood; research
methodologies as retuned to such selfhood; and new research ethics questions
evoked by changing senses of selfhood and thus privacy expectations.

For more details, including available ECTs and registration procedures,
please see the workshop website:

<http://www.hf.uio.no/forskning/doktorgrad-karriere/forskerutdanning/gjennom
foring/linjer/medie/arr_medie/2013/methods-privacy-ethics.html>

Many thanks in advance,
Charles Ess
Associate Professor in Media Studies
Department of Media and Communication
Director, Centre for Research on Media Innovations
<http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/research/center/media-innovations/>
University of Oslo 
P.O. Box 1093 Blindern
NO-0317 
Oslo Norway
email: charles.ess at media.uio.no