*CFP* "DIGITAL DISCONNECTION, MEDIA DETOX, TECHNOLOGICAL DISENTAGLEMENT", ONLINE WORKSHOP

We would like to remind you that until the end of September the call for applications for the free online workshop with André Jansson, Karlstad University, Sweden is open.

Towards development of mediatization research V. Counter-mediatization, digital disconnection and other reverse trends in media use.

Online, 10.12.2021

Organized by the Institute of Social Communication and Media Studies at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, in partnership with Academia Europaea Wroclaw Knowledge Hub.

We invite all researchers who wish to discuss their research projects in a narrow and closed group of media scholars under the guidance of an expert. The aim of this year's edition is to answer questions like:

• What are the causes and effects of the retreat from media technologies and mediated processes? 
• How conscious media management, containment, contestation, negation is shaping? 
• How the media environment is being desaturated and what off-the-grid life is about? 
• How private, professional, social and public life is being demediated? 
• What digital disconnection is and what it entails? 
• How fashions, trends and tendencies such as digital detox, etc. are changing everyday media practice, as well as various aspects of private and social life? 
• How are various forms of counter-mediatization related to the production of space and place? 
• How are different disconnection strategies related to social power and privilege? 
• How the theory of mediatization can develop in the context of the reverse trends in media use?

 

The idea and format of the meeting is based on a closed specialization workshop in a formula proven in the previous editions, i.e.:

1. participants work on different types of materials (articles, works in progress, proposals, theses, reports, drafts etc.) under the guidance of the edition leader; 
2. meeting is preceded by substantive preparation by the leader and all participants on the basis of materials circulated among all participants in advance; 
3. during the meeting all participants focus on group discussion and expert feedback (presentations and speeches are limited to a minimum); 
4. seminar is preceded by an introductory lecture by the leader.

 

There is no conference fee.

 

Schedule

30.09.21 - submissions of proposals (please use the form available on the webpage: other submission will not be accepted)

10.10.21 - notification of acceptance of proposals

10.11.21 - submission of materials for discussion (only pdf format is accepted)

11.11-9.12.21 - preparation for the workshop by the leader and all participants

10.12.21 - closed online workshop (roughly from 9-11 am to 4-7 pm EST, on Google Meets)

 

Any substantive questions about the workshop can be answered by Katarzyna Kopecka-Piech, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, via email: (katarzyna.kopecka.piech@gmail.com)

For technical and organisational matters, please write to: tdomrv@gmail.com)