Media and Participation, International Conference, at the Media and Communication Research Department, Lund University, Sweden, SOL Centre, March 29th 2012. Organisers Professor Annette Hill, Michael Rübsamen and Tina Askanius
Media and participation signals the merging of ideas around democracy, power and politics, and producers, audiences and publics. Media and participation includes a broad understanding of our involvement, engagement and interaction with politics and civic cultures. Media and participation also considers the individual, audience and public as an agent of change, engaged in dynamic practices. This range of ideas across the public and popular makes this topic a rich site for analysis. To understand media and participation today involves historical, social, political and cultural perspectives on such issues as live events, social networking, political communication, museums and galleries, sports, talkshows and reality TV.
The conference will be organised thematically, focusing on political, social, cultural and historical approaches to media and participation. The research questions include what is the role of social, political and cultural participation in people’s experiences of the media? What is the relationship between the political and non-political in cases of media participation? How can different approaches and methods open up our understanding of media and participation? The aim is provide a platform for international scholars and junior scholars from disciplines such as media, communication and cultural studies, film studies, sociology and political communication, to debate the complexity and ambiguity at work in public participation in mediated spaces and places.
Invited speakers include Raymond Boyle (Glasgow University, UK), John Corner (Leeds University, UK), Peter Lunt (Leicester University, UK), Natalie Fenton (Goldsmith’s College, UK). Other invited speakers include Göran Bolin (Södertörn University, Sweden), Nico Carpentier (Loughborough University, UK), Peter Dahlgren (Lund University, Sweden), Tobias Olsson (Jönköping University, Sweden), Kim Schrøder (Roskilde University, Denmark), and Kristina Riegert (Stockholm University, Sweden).
The presentations will be filmed and made publicly available on MKV’s YouTube channel which includes video clips, photo gallery from MKV’s international conference Civic Cultures March 31st 2011. Further information on last year’s event
