[Air-L] Reminder: Call for Papers ECREA Symposium “Political Agency in the Digital Age: Media, Participation and Democracy”

[Anne Kaun]

[1]Call for Papers ECREA Symposium "Political Agency in the Digital Age:
Media, Participation and Democracy"

   ECREA Communication and Democracy Conference 2015 9-10 October 2015,
   Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

   Deadline for submission is 1 May 2015

   Research on media and politics has traditionally tended towards
   separating the sphere of politics from political processes in other
   societal spheres, focusing on parliamentarian politics and formal,
   institutionalised interest group politics (e.g. unions). At the same
   time, there has been a tendency to focus on elites, whether political,
   corporate, media or cultural. With the emergence of digital media, the
   research agenda within the field of media and politics research is
   shifting towards exploring interrelations between institutionalised
   politics and political processes in other societal spheres, and moving
   beyond elites to also include "ordinary" people. The personalization of
   digital media and the rise of user-generated content have led to an
   increased interest in personal self-expression of citizens at an
   individual level as a political act. While this represents an important
   development, it also warrants fundamental questions about what counts
   as politics and who count as political actors. At the same time
   euphoric accounts of the potential of digital media for political
   agency are questioned critically both in terms of actual potential and
   the wider structures in which they are embedded.

   We are seeking for contributions that address questions of shifting
   agency in connection with changing media technologies, while
   considering a dialectical relationship between social and media-related
   change. Contributions could address - but are not limited to - the
   following topics
     * Social movement/radical/alternative media
     * Digital activism
     * Materiality of media participation
     * Spaces of participation and protest
     * Civic resilience in times of crisis
     * Digital media uses in extra-parliamentarian and
       non-institutionalized politics
     * Digital media representations of extra-parliamentarian and
       non-institutionalized politics
     * Digital media at the intersections of traditional politics and
       social movements
     * DIY citizenship and digital media
     * Performance and political agency
     * Everyday life and civic culture
     * Popular culture and civic engagement
     * Digitization and individualization

   Confirmed keynote speakers [2]Nick Couldry, London School of Economics
   and Political Science; [3]Anastasia Kavada, University of Westminster;
   [4]Guobin Yang, Annenberg School for Communication, University of
   Pennsylvania

   Submission details
   Individual presentations Please submit a 300 Word anonymised abstract

   Panel proposals Panel proposals should include a 300 word panel
   rationale plus individual 200 word abstracts from a minimum of four
   speakers Please submit your abstract here:
   [5]https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cd2015

   Important Dates Deadline for submission is 1 May 2015 Notifications of
   acceptance will be issued by 1 June 2015

References

   1. https://communicationanddemocracy.wordpress.com/2015/02/16/call-for-papers-ecrea-symposium-political-agency-in-the-digital-age-media-participation-and-democracy/
   2. http://www.lse.ac.uk/media%40lse/WhosWho/AcademicStaff/Nick-Couldry.aspx
   3. http://www.westminster.ac.uk/?a=19224
   4. https://www.asc.upenn.edu/people/faculty/guobin-yang-phd
   5. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cd2015