Special CM Journal Issue ‘Interrogating audiences: Theoretical horizons of participation’, edited by Nico Carpentier & Peter Dahlgren

Special CM Journal Issue ‘Interrogating audiences: Theoretical horizons of participation’, edited by Nico Carpentier & Peter Dahlgren

 

The special journal issue ‘Interrogating audiences: Theoretical horizons of participation’, edited by Nico Carpentier & Peter Dahlgren has just been published in the academic journal CM (Communication Management Quarterly). This peer-reviewed special issue aims to contribute to the development of participatory theory within the framework of communication and media studies. As always, this requires careful manoeuvring to reconcile conceptual contingency with the necessary fixity that protects the concept of participation from signifying anything and everything. In order to deepen the theorisations of participation, two strategies have been used in this special issue: In a first cluster of articles, the concept of participation will be confronted with another theoretical concept or tradition that will enrich the theoretical development of participation. In the second cluster of articles, the workings of the notion of participation will be analysed within a specific topical field, which will allow deepening participatory theory by confronting participation with the contextualised logics of that topical field.

 

The entire special issue can be downloaded from the Cost TATS website at the WG2 download page:

http://www.cost-transforming-audiences.eu/node/303

 

The direct link is:

http://www.cost-transforming-audiences.eu/system/files/pub/CM21-SE-Web.pdf

“Het MAS is van A” en “Shakespeare in Liedekerke”

Afgelopen weken verschenen er twee opiniestukken van Katia Segers, onder meer naar aanleiding van de opening van het MAS – Museum aan de Stroom in Antwerpen.

1) Het MAS is van A

2) Shakespeare in Liedekerke

Masterclass ‘The Politics of Popular Culture’

In het kader van de internationale Francqui leerstoel met Professor Jostein Gripsrud vindt op donderdag 12 mei de CeMeSo masterclass ‘The Politics op Popular Culture’ plaats op de campus van de VUB.

Klik hier om het programma te bekijken

Wetenschap(pers) en media

Op maandag 2 mei organiseert de Vereniging voor Sociologie op de campus van de VUB een debat over de verhouding tussen het wetenschappelijk onderzoek en wetenschappers enerzijds en media en het publiek anderzijds.

Sprekers zijn Rudi Laermans (KUL), Dave Sinardet (VUB/UA) en Igance Gloriuex (VUB). Het debat wordt gemodereerd door Joël De Ceulaer (Knack).

Praktisch: maandag 2 mei, 19u30. Locatie: campus Etterbeek, Pleinlaan 2, gebouw D, lokaal D0.07. Inkom: leden gratis, niet-leden 2,5 euro

International Arts Professionals Summer School

The International Arts Professionals Summer School is organised by the University of Kent, School of Arts in partnership with ENCATC (European Network of Cultural Administration Training Centers) and will be hosted in the University of Kent in Brussels. The Summer School will include contributions from leading international experts and cultural leaders from UK and Europe. It will be based on a mix of lectures, presentations, workshops and practical exercises. These will be delivered by both academics and international experts. The programme and activities has been develop to engage cultural managers and creative practitioners with experience in the sector in new theories and practices in cultural management and offer new directions as well as practical example for their work and professional development.

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ACS Summer Institute: Critical Literacies

Registration is now open for the inaugural Summer Institute of the Association for Cultural Studies (ACS) to be held 11-15 July 2011 at the Department of Educational Studies of Ghent University in Belgium. The theme of the Summer Institute is Critical Literacies.

More information can be found here.

“Marie-Rose Morel, de dood van…”

Dra. Leen Van Brussel heeft naar aanleiding van de dood van Marie-Rose Morel een analyse gemaakt van deze gemediatiseerde gebeurtenis. Ze pleit voor een genuanceerder beeld van het complexe begrip ‘identiteit’. Lees hier het opiniestuk dat verschenen is in DeWereldMorgen 

Call for abstracts: International Professor Francqui Chair: Jostein Gripsrud

From 1 January to 30 June 2011, professor Jostein Gripsrud of the University of Bergen in Norway, will reside as International Francqui Professor in Belgium. Within the context of his Francqui professorship, communication and media studies departments from the VUB, UGent and ULB organise a series of masterclasses for PhD students, for which a call for abstracts is now opened.

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Nieuwe working paper

Cemeso working paper 14 is beschikbaar op de cemeso-website. Lien De Cang, Lieselotte Goessens, Katia Segers en Kristin Van den Buys zijn de auteurs van “Radio as the people’s university: the politics and music of the catholic Flemish radio broadcaster.”

CFP – content seminar on content analysis

This international content seminar, organized by the Doctoral school of Human Sciences and CeMeSo (Centre for the Studies on Media and Culture) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, warmly welcomes PhDstudents to present their research on content analysis within diverse academic fields such as sociology,
media studies, history and educational sciences.

Click here for the CFP.