[Air-L] Final Reminder: Political Agency in the Digital Age. Media, Participation and Democracy

[Anne Kaun]

   CfP - Abstract deadline: Friday 1 May 2015
   ECREA Communication and Democracy Conference 2015
   9-10 October 2015, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
   Political Agency in the Digital Age. Media, Participation and Democracy



   Confirmed keynote speakers

     * Nick Couldry, London School of Economics and Political Science
     * Anastasia Kavada, University of Westminster
     * Guobin Yang, Annenberg School for Communication



   Theme
   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. The conference aims to
   gather papers that provide a differentiated analysis of political
   agency in the digital age.


   We are seeking 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
   o    Social movement/radical/alternative media
   o    Digital activism
   o    Materiality of media participation
   o    Spaces of participation and protest
   o    Civic resilience in times of crisis
   o    Digital media uses in extra-parliamentarian and
   non-institutionalized politics
   o    Digital media representations of extra-parliamentarian and
   non-institutionalized politics
   o    Digital media at the intersections of traditional politics and
   social movements
   o    DIY citizenship and digital media
   o    Performance and political agency
   o    Everyday life and civic culture
   o    Popular culture and civic engagement
   o    Digitization and individualisation
   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: [1]https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cd2015
   Deadline for submission is 1 May 2015.
   Notifications of acceptance will be issued by 1 June 2015.



   Registration and fees

   Early bird registration EUR50
   Full fees EUR75
   Early bird reduced student fee EUR30
   Reduced student fee EUR40

   More information:
   [2]http://www.tilmeld.dk/ECREAcommunicationanddemocracy2015

References

   1. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cd2015
   2. http://www.tilmeld.dk/ECREAcommunicationanddemocracy2015