The European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School brings together a group of 45 highly qualified doctoral students from different European countries as well as lecturing senior researchers and professors from 22 European universities. The main objective of the fourteen-day summer school is to organise an innovative learning process at doctoral level, focusing primarily on enhancing the quality of individual dissertation projects through an intercultural and interdisciplinary exchange and networking programme. This said, the summer school is not merely based on traditional postgraduate teaching approaches like lectures and workshops. The summer school also integrates many group-centred and individual approaches, especially an individualised discussion of doctoral projects, peer-to-peer feedback - and a joint book production. The topic “Media Practice and Everyday Agency in Europe” is dedicated to the fundamental question: How is media change related to the everyday agency and sense making practices of the people in Europe? This volume consists of the intellectual work of the 2013 European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School, organized in cooperation with the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) at the ZeMKI, the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research of the University of Bremen, Germany. The chapters cover relevant research topics, structured into four sections: “Dynamics of Mediatization”, “Transformations”, “Methods”, and “The Social”.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 32813917The ESF Forward Look on Media Studies, conducted between 2012 and 2014, aimed to define, in discussion with science policy organisations, practitioners and other stakeholders, a common European research agenda that would begin to address the new research and policy challenges relating to media and communications. Four leading and critical areas of inquiry emerged in the Forward Look process. In a period in which coincident crises of economy, welfare, political participation, and private–public provision are all creating levels of uncertainty and social disquiet unknown in a generation in Europe, the role of the media in enabling, thwarting and transforming the nature of political engagement and citizenship is of critical concern. Furthermore, rather than acting as a democratising and levelling force, the diffusion of communication technologies may actually be causing what is broadly known as the digital divide to deepen rather than disappear; differences in access to and use of technologies do not only reflect existing social inequalities, in fact, they may also be an element in their reproduction. Digital media and communications technology have also been heralded as a new domain of and platform for creativity, allowing individuals to be producers and users of content and applications as never before. However, there remains much to understand about changes in content creation and the creative industries, and how they will influence cultural production, ownership regimes, business models, distribution systems and consumption practices, not to mention the economic implications of all these. Media are furthermore at once a resource, an environment and a vehicle for the construction, dissemination and expression of individual and collective identities. New media forms offer new possibilities, conditions and constraints for identity formation and association which are potentially changing the very nature of social interaction and the relationship between the physical and the virtual. It is urgent to develop research that investigates and understands the changes taking place and how they are affecting individual or collective identities and/ or promoting new forms of agency.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 32647773Javnost/The Public. Splichal, Slavko (editor in chief, 1994-2012). Ljubljana: European institute for communication and culture, 1994-. ISSN 1318-3222. [COBISS.SI-ID 40119808]
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