*Final reminder: Media@LSE Doctoral workshop 2010*

Media@LSE summer symposium on communication, information and culture: Emerging questions, conceptual innovations and changing approaches to research

Monday 7 June 2010, 09h30
Deadline for submissions of abstracts and panel proposals: 24 April 2010
 
 

The symposium will see a keynote presentation by Professor Sonia Livingstone, a response plenary from Professor Robin Mansell, an electronic output of all selected abstracts and reviewer comments on all submitted abstracts
This year’s Media and Communication PhD workshop hosted by Media@LSE in June 2010 builds on the success of the workshops organized in previous years. The 2010 workshop offers the opportunity for students to present in two formats.

The first format is a traditional paper submission, where papers will be divided into panels. We aim to cut across and cluster around the four directions offered by the circuit of culture model. Under production we invite critical analyses of media production, policy and regulation as well as research on critical and cultural industries from any theoretical perspective. Following text, we invite papers that look at representations across a range of mediation technologies, particularly new media textual environments. Under consumption we welcome audience as well as user research and we locate this all in the circuit of culture/social relations, where we welcome papers looking at public participation, engagement and democracy as well studies of specific cultural processes/societal relations.
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second format is that of roundtables organized around ‘keywords’, that offer students the opportunity to participate in dialogue. This invites individual or group submissions outlining panel contributions around- 1) conceptual approaches to mediation, publics/publicness, or usage; OR 2) methodological approaches to use, new technologies and changing social constellations, of the significance of comparative research
We invite research students working on projects in any discipline with a focus relating to media or communications to submit abstracts to this one day interdisciplinary symposium. Please submit a 250-word abstract for a paper indicating if it is for the paper or dialogue (A or B) by 24 April 2010, including details of your institutional affiliation, PhD project title, and supervisor. Pre-formed panel proposals for Stream B are also welcome. Successful submissions will be announced by 15 May 2010. Send submissions to mediation.LSE@gmail.com

Research students wishing to attend the workshop without presenting are welcome (subject to availability); please indicate your interest by e-mailing the same address with details of your institutional affiliation, PhD project title, and supervisor.