The priority program "Mediatized Worlds" at the annual conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)

08.07.2015

Members of the priority program give presentations at the annual conference of the IAMCR, July 12th-16th in Montréal, Canada

This year's conference theme "Hegemony or Resistance? On the Ambiguous Power of Communication" seeks to explore the ambiguous relationship of communication towards hegemony and resistance. It relates, for example, to the various ways in which communication has been described not only as a value of our times – echoing an ideal for social transparency and communality – but also as a threat in terms of global domination. This ambiguity has prompted debates in academia about communication being at the same time a value and a tool, a space of consent and one of struggle, and having (more authentic) local and global dimensions.

Members of the DFG-funded priority program "Mediatized Worlds" will present results of the reseach within the priority program to the international scientific community. 

The following presentations will be held by members of the priority program:

Monday, 13th July 2015

Panel: The Digital Public Sphere as an Ambigious New Power: Twitter during the EU Elections 2014 (14:00-15:30)

• Caja C. Thimm, Jessica Einspänner-Pflock & Mario Anastasiadis: The EU Elections on Twitter in Germany: Anti-European voices on Twitter

Tuesday, 14th July 2015

Panel: Media Technology and Society - New Theoretical Approaches (14:00-15:30)

• Friedrich Krotz: Upcoming Media and Social Movements: Which Future for the Internet

Panel: American Superheroes, Superheroines (14:00-15:30)

• Martin R. Herbers: Concepts of Justice in Contemporary American Superhero Comics

Wednesday, 15th July 2015

Panel: Digital Forms of Resistance & Incorporation (09:00-10.30)

• Caja C. Thimm & Jessica Einspänner-Pflock: Collective Actions on Twitter - Digital Storytelling as a Resistance Strategy

Thursday, 16th July 2015

Panel: TV and its audiences: changing configurations (14:00-15:30)

• Martin R. Herbers, Udo Göttlich & Luise Heinz: Changes in Television Audiences’ Practices: Commentary and Co-Orientation in the Age of Second Screens

Please find further information at the conference website and in the final programme.