8th Biennial MESEA Conference
\nThe Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas 13\u00e2\u20ac\u201c16 June 2012
\nBlanquerna School of Communication, Ramon Llull University, Barcelona, Spain
\nCall for Papers Media and Mediated Performances of Ethnicity<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153A decade into the twenty-first century, media culture has become a prime driving force in politics, culture, society, and everyday life. We can argue that the media\u00e2\u20ac\u201dreadily accessible to everyone\u00e2\u20ac\u201dprovide models for cultural perspectives and positions, and new forms of identity. In many ways the media have become today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dominant culture, with visual, aural\/oral, and digital forms of media culture increasingly replacing book culture among large sectors of the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s urban population, requiring a fundamental revision of the notion of literacy. Media have also become prime constituents of socialization, with social-networking sites, blogs, Twitter, YouTube, and other similar vehicles shaping our lives in significant ways\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (Davis, Fischer- Hornung and Kardux, 1).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
This argument, put forth in the introduction to the MESEA volume Aesthetic Practices and Politics in Media, Music and Art (Routledge 2010), points to the current need to heighten our critical engagement with media in its multiple forms.<\/p>\n
The 2012 MESEA Conference, to be held at the Ramon Llull University in Barcelona, invites papers that focus on the place, role, influence, effects and forms of media in contemporary society, with particular emphasis on its intersection with the performance of ethnicity and citizenship. Topics may include, but are not limited to:<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Media literacy\/Literacy and the Media \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Media and literary intertextualities \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Youth cultures and the media \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Performance and performative media \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Mediating traditions: virtual natives and migrants \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Media, ethnic division; and social exclusion; media coverage: discourse and nationality \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Media Cartographies: landscapes\/seascapes\/mediascapes; global and glocal media
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Cyber hedonism versus cyber activism and responsibility \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Ethnic media, political protest and naturalization \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Mediating ethnic space and time; ethnic simulacrums \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0McDonaldization and ethnic homogenization; advertising and virtual power \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Cultures of circulation\/flow: cultural capital
\nProposals should be submitted to our website between August 15 and November 15, 2011. Submitters will receive notification of acceptance by January 1, 2012.
\nPreference will be given to complete panel proposals with an inter\/transdisciplinary and\/or transnational focus. Panels may not include more than 2 participants from the same institution. Presenters must be members of MESEA or MELUS in 2012.
\nAs in previous years, MESEA will award two Young Scholars Excellence Awards. For more information please see: https:\/\/www.mesea.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"8th Biennial MESEA Conference The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas 13\u00e2\u20ac\u201c16 June 2012 Blanquerna School of Communication, Ramon Llull University, Barcelona, Spain Call for Papers Media and Mediated Performances of Ethnicity \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A decade into the twenty-first century, media culture has become a prime driving force in politics, culture, society, and everyday life. 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