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Call for Papers: Culture, Communication and Creativity
International Conference at the
Technical University of Berlin
Technische Universität /
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin 5.-8.9.2012
In cooperation with the European Sociological Association Research
Network “Sociology of Culture” and the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin
we are organizing a conference on Culture, Communication and
Creativity in Berlin, from 5-8 September 2012. The aims of the
conference will be
(1) to encourage reflection on general theoretical and cultural
aspects of (empirical studies of) creativity,
(2) to discuss
general recent theories of culture from different cultural backgrounds
in the face of empirical studies of creativity and culture. Finally,
the conference aims
(3) at relating both these issues to the
changing role of communication, which is rarely respected within the
study of culture and creativity.
Given the far reaching
transformation of communication and culture by the new information
technologies in the last decades, it is rather surprising that the
transformation of the structure of communication has not been taken
more into consideration as one of the most decisive aspects of the new
“productivity” of culture. This does not refer to the role of
media and particularly “mass media culture”. Both have been
studied to an extensive degree. The focus here lies on the ways in
which communication is transformed by (but not only) the new media
(which has been called, among others, mediatization) and created what
may be called a new “communication culture”. Communication shall,
therefore, function as a link between the notion of culture and
creativity.
The conference will attempt to relate the three
notions. While culture, cultural theory and the sociology of culture
(or cultural sociology) provide for the general frame of the
conference, studies on creativity will be the specific empirical field
of research. Communication, i.e. the ways how creativity becomes
expressed and thus socially “visible” to others, will provide the
focus for both and the third pillar of the conference. Since the
combination of the three topics is not the starting point of the
conference but, hopefully, its potential result, this general concept
can be translated into a more concrete structure of the conference.
The goal of the conference is to link the three topics, theories of
culture, empirical studies of creativity and analyses of the effects
of communication and mediatization on culture and creativity.
A number of key note speakers are invited to the conference,
including Nick Couldry, Antoine Hennion, Andreas Hepp, Michael Hutter,
Mark Jacobs, Karin Knorr, Rudi Laermans, Geert Lovink, Celia Lury,
Knut Lundby, Tia de Nora, Andy Pratt, Andreas Reckwitz and Anna-Lisa
Tota.
In addition, we are inviting researchers who are
working at the interface of two of the notions mentioned to apply for
the conference (Creativity and Culture, Culture and Communication,
Communication and Creativity). If you are interested, please send an
abstract of up to one page at latest by March 31st 2012 to
culture@as.tu-berlin.de [1]
For further information about the conference visit the conference website: http://culture-communication-creativity.eu/ [2]
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