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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span
style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Reminder<o:p></o:p></span></b>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span
style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Call for Papers</span></b><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Media and Participation<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">International Conference, Media and Communication,
Lund University, Sweden, March 29th 2012. Organisers Professor
Annette Hill, Michael Rübsamen and Tina Askanius.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="font-family:Helvetica;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Media and
participation signals the merging of ideas </span><span
style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="font-family:Helvetica;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">The
conference will be organised thematically, focusing on the
political, social, cultural and historical approaches to media
and participation. Papers should address one or more of the
following research questions <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>-
</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial" lang="SV">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 to provide a platform for
international 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="font-family:Helvetica;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">The schedule
includes a combination of keynote addresses, pre-constituted
panels, and open panels. Confirmed speakers include Raymond
Boyle (Glasgow University, UK), John Corner (Leeds University,
UK), Natalie Fenton (Goldsmith’s College, UK), Peter Lunt
(Leicester University, UK). Other invited speakers include Stina
Bengtsson (</span><span
style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">Södertörn University, Sweden), Göran Bolin
(Södertörn University, Sweden), Nico Carpentier (Loughborough
University, UK), Peter Dahlgren (Lund University, Sweden),
Tobias Olsson (Jönköping University, Sweden), Kim Schr</span><span
style="font-family:Helvetica" lang="SV">ø</span><span
style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">der (Roskilde University, Denmark), and Kristina
Riegert (Stockholm University, Sweden).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US" lang="EN-US">Please submit abstracts of 300 words in
English via the conference website </span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times;
mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
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New
Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span lang="SV"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://mediaparticipation2012.se/"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-fareast-font-family:
Cambria;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-US">http://mediaparticipation2012.se</span></a></span><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-fareast-font-family:
Cambria;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> online
registration form </span><span
style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">– deadline December
9<sup>th</sup> 2011. For further information contact Michael
Rübsamen (</span><span lang="SV"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:michael.rubsamen@kom.lu.se"><span
style="font-family:
Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">michael.rubsamen@kom.lu.se</span></a></span><span
style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US" lang="EN-US">). There is a registration fee of 650 SEK
(70 Euros) that covers food and drink for the day and an evening
buffet.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Times;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="SV"><o:p> </o:p></span><br>
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