Tirsdag 29. september 2009 kl. 14-17 med efterfølgende tidlig middag.

FMKJ inviterer alle FMKJ-stipendiater til introduktions- og netværksseminar tirsdag den 29. september på SDU (FMKJ betaler rejseudgifter).

Seminarets primære formål er:
Introducere til FMKJs aktiviteter:
• Kursusaktiviteter
• Hvad er god vejledning
• Vidensdeling
• Ph.d.-processen – erfaringsudveksling
• øvrige aktiviteter: Korte præsentationer af ph.d.-projekter, etablere netværk.

Dagens program er primært rettet mod ph.d.-stipendiater, men ph.d.-vejledere er meget velkommen til at deltage i seminaret.

Program:
14.00 -14.30
Kort velkomst ved forskerskoleleder Kim Schrøder og præsentationsrunde

14.30 -15.00
Oplæg om FMKJ’s aktiviteter v. forskerskoleleder Kim Schrøder, samt Nævnsmedlemmerne Klaus Bruhn Jensen, Jørgen Bang, Finn Frandsen

Oplæg om ph.d.-processen – v. ph.d.-studerende NN

Oplæg om hvordan ph.d.-studerende kan blive kursusplanlæggere for FMKJ-kurser – v. Malene Charlotte Larsen, AAU

15.00 - 15.15 Kaffe

15.15 - 16.00
Gruppediskussion – kursusbehov, vidensdeling og netværksdannelse

16.00 - 17.00
Plenumdiskussion – FMKJ din forskerskole

18.00
FMKJ byder på tidlig middag i Odense.

Tilmelding til FMKJ sekretær Chris Holmsted Larsen, fmkj@ruc.dk
senest fredag 11. september 2009

Tilmeldingsskema kan hentes på http://www.fmkj.ruc.dk/eng/skemaer/


Husk ved tilmelding at give besked, om du deltager i den efterfølgende middag

Analytical strategies and methodologies for the study of virtual worlds

Ph.d. seminar

September 28th 12:00 - October 1st 13:00 2009, Roskilde University, Denmark

AIM

To explore different methodological approaches in relation to the particularities of virtual worlds

INVITED SPEAKERS AND TEACHERS

Associate Professor TL Taylor, Center for Computer Games Research, IT University of Copenhagen

Professor Thomas K?hler, University Innsbruck School of Management

Academic Associate Greg Wadley, Department of Information Systems, University of Melbourne

Associate Professor Maja Horst, Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School

Associate Professor Louise Phillips, Department of Communication, Business and Information Technologies, Roskilde University

Post. Doc. CarrieLynn Reinhard, Department of Communication, Business and Information Technologies, Roskilde University

Professor Sisse Siggaard Jensen, Department of Communication, Business and Information Technologies, Roskilde University


COURSE CONTENT

Assertions about the significance of virtual worlds for innovation, business, and society circulate in media and public debate. Virtual worlds such as Second Life, EverQuest, Eve and World of Warcraft are inhabited by millions of people around the world. They are complex and involve intricate systems and several classes and characters that can be upgraded, transformed and multiplied.

In a world such as Second Life, the virtual world resident?s co-design of the world is pivotal. Proficiency in scripting and graphic design facilitates the creation of self-produced objects, and systems exist for trading objects and virtual property in the virtual world currencies. ?Virtual? forms of communication, organisation, management, knowledge sharing and market dynamics have emerged along with these worlds. Likewise, a new field of academic inquiry is developing.

Online ethnography, netography, and virtual ethnography were terms coined to designate the use of ethnographic methods and approaches to the study of computer-mediated practices. How can these methods be applied effectively to produce good analyses of virtual worlds? In what ways does ethnography of virtual interaction and communication extend and transform traditional approaches to field study, participant observation, interviewing, or discourse analysis? What are the specific methodological challenges when studying practices in which user-based design, transformation and co-creation are pivotal? What role might the notions of ?laboratory? and ?experiments? play, offline or online?


SENIOR SCHOLARS

This Ph.D. seminar brings together a number of contributors to illuminate such questions.

T.L. Taylor (IT University of Copenhagen) specialises in researching the culture of online communities, e.g. massively multiplayer online games like EverQuest and World of Warcraft, as well as non-game virtual worlds. Her most recent work is on the professional computer gaming scene (such as the World Cyber Games) and the culture of high-end competitive play. Her analytical strategy combines ethnography, actor-network theory and a variety of qualitative methods.

Thomas K?hler (University Innsbruck School of Management) has explored the opportunities virtual worlds offer for real-world innovation and how virtual worlds can be employed systematically for innovation management. His research draws upon ethnography, sociology, and in particular, grounded theory.

Greg Wadley (University of Melbourne) conducts research on communication and collaboration in virtual worlds. His research applies ethnography, ?quasi-experiments? as well as laboratory studies.

Furthermore, MAJA HORST (Copenhagen Business School) and SISSE SIGGAARD JENSEN, LOUISE PHILLIPS, and CARRIELYNN REINHARD (Roskilde University) will provide examples of their research in/on virtual worlds applying laboratory experiments, participant observation, video analysis, discourse analysis, dialogic communication theory, actor-network theory and Dervin?s sense-making methodology.

The course thus explores a broad range of different methodological and analytical approaches to virtual worlds.

COURSE STRUCTURE

The course is organized as a workshop where afternoon group sessions are dedicated to in depth discussions of the Ph.D. students? projects in smaller groups and hands-on exercises with the techniques presented. Participants are required to submit a 5-page paper discussing their own project?s methodology and particular challenges. These papers will form the point of departure for presentations and discussions in the group sessions.

VENUE

The course will take place at Roskilde University, Denmark (25 min. by train from Copenhagen). Lodging has been booked at Danhostel Roskilde VandreRhjem.

COSTS

Ph.d. students who are enrolled in the National Doctoral School in Media, Communication and Journalism (FMKJ) will have their expenses reimbursed by the School. For other participating ph.d. students, the course fee, including lodging and food, is estimated at DKK 1500, in addition to which expenses for travel and transportation must be taken into account. The course is limited to 20 Ph.D. students.

ECTS

Participants are required to present a 5-page paper, and to prepare short feedback to 5-6 papers presented by other participants. A package of course readings will be circulated 3 weeks prior to the course. The total workload is therefore equivalent to 3 ECTS.


IMPORTANT DATES

* Deadline for registration August 24th ? including submission of 1-page paper outline

* Notification of acceptance September 2nd

* Deadline for 5-page paper contributions September 24th


REGISTRATION AND PAPER SUBMISSION

Contact for registration and paper submission: Dixi Louise Strand - dixi at ruc.dk


PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

September 28th:

12:00 Arrival, registration and lunch
13:00 Welcome by Sisse Siggard Jensen, Roskilde University
13:30 Greg Wadley, University of Melbourne, Combining Second Life ethnography and laboratory studies
14:30 Thomas K?hler, University of Innsbruck, Qualitative research in SL
15:30 Group session 1, kickoff
18:00 Dinner + poster session and dancing

September 29th

8:30 Breakfast, Roskilde VandreRhjem
9:30 TL Taylor, IT University of Copenhagen, Bricolage, Play, and the Games Researcher
10:30 Maja Horst, Copenhagen Business School, Ethnography and actor-network theory (+ group task)
12:00 Lunch, Roskilde Universit
13:00 Project group session 2, papers x-x
15:00 Coffee
15:30 Project group session 3, papers x-x
18:30 Dinner + social event

September 30th

8:30 Breakfast, Roskilde Vandrehjem
9:30 Sisse Siggaard Jensen, Roskilde University, Participative ethnography and video-analysis
10:30 CarrieLynn Reinhard, Roskilde University, Dervin\\\'s Sense-Making, experiments and interviews (+ group task)
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Project group session 4, papers x-x
18:30 Dinner

October 1st

8:30 Breakfast
9:30 Louise Phillips, Roskilde University, How to analyse knowledge production processes in collaborative research on virtual worlds: an interdisciplinary approach combining dialogic communication theory, STS and action research
10:30 Group task and closing
12:00 Lunch

The course is organized in connection with the 7th International Conference of the Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image,
University of Copenhagen, June 24-27, 2009

It therefore shares the objectives and scholarly content of this conference.

For further information about the conference, see http://scsmi09.mef.ku.dk/


Course and conference registration: please e-mail Jens Borglind on jborg@hum.ku.dk

The course takes place in KUA Room 23.02.47
Guidelines for presenters: 20 minutes presentation, 20 minutes Q&A, 10 minutes coffee break

COURSE PROGRAMME

10.00 Welcome note, Johannes Riis

Paper presentations by ph.d. students

10.05 Isaak Thorsen, Nordisk Film?s distribution around WWI (preliminary title)

10.55 Eva Novrup, Screenwriting as collaborative problem finding and problem solving

11.45 Morten Egholm, ?From Literary sources: The adaptation style of Carl Th. Dreyer (preliminary title)

12.30 Lunch in the canteen.

Lecture with David Bordwell (Room 22.0.11)

14.15 David Bordwell: Understanding Influence: The Case of Hollywood Style in the 1910s and 1920s.


ABSTRACTS FROM SPEAKERS

David Bordwell
The Case of Hollywood Style in the 1910s and 1920s. The approach to editing scenes, known as analytical or continuity editing, was well established in the U. S. by the end of the 1910s. It is also apparent that other national cinemas adopted this style soon afterward. The question is: Did American cinema influence other nations, or did some arrive at it independently? More generally the talk hopes to suggest that there are \"transnational traditions\" of filmmaking from almost the start of cinema. The talk also proposes some concepts that may be useful in further research into the problem of stylistic dissemination.

Eva Novrup
I will present aspects of the theoretical framework behind my PhD thesis on screenwriting collaborations in Danish feature filmmaking and exemplify my method by presenting an analysis of one of my qualitative case studies, Lille soldat (Little Soldier, 2008) by director Annette K. Olesen and screenwriter Kim Fupz Aakeson. Drawing on studies of problem finding in art and models of the stages of the creative process, I will discuss how a highly collaborative approach of dealing with a discovered problem situation like developing an initial idea into a finished screenplay challenges the traditional compartmentalized view of the filmmaking process as well as the film analytical focus on singular authorship with the director in focus.


PARTICIPANT REQUIREMENTS AND PAPERS

Participants are invited to present their own work for feedback and discussion.

ECTS VALUE FOR THE COURSE 23 JUNE: 2? ECTS (with paper presentation), ? ECTS (without paper presentation).

ECTS VALUE FOR THE CONFERENCE 24-27 JUNE: 1 ECTS


COSTS AND PRACTICAL MATTERS

The Danish Research School FMKJ covers all participation expenses (travel, meals, accommodation) for its enrolled doctoral students. In addition to travel costs, other doctoral students will have to pay their own accommodation and meals.

Multimodality in human interaction: qualitative methods for analyzing audio and video recordings

Place: Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus

Time: June, 17-19, 2009

Course description:

Through this course, participants will learn how to analyze audio and video recordings of social interaction and activity, with special attention to multimodality. During social interaction, multimodality includes the situated coordination of talk and prosody; bodily manoeuvres such as posture and gesture; the use of symbol systems such as writing and drawing; as well as the use of objects, artefacts, and tools. We will focus on established and emerging qualitative research methods. While methods for studying verbal interaction are well developed, tools for an integrated analysis of various modes of interaction (such as verbal, nonverbal, and artefactual) are still under development. We will introduce participants to a selection of relevant approaches (conversation analysis, discourse analysis, context analysis, video ethnography, and more) by giving them a hands-on experience with various kinds of audio and video recordings.

The course will consist of (1) a variety of presentations and demonstrations by the organizers and participants; (2) joint discussions about research methods and their associated theories; and (3) hands-on workshops so that participants can practice analyzing audio and video recordings. All of these activities will feature multimodality as a primary focus of attention and consideration. This will be done on the basis of relevant readings provided by the organizers. During workshops, when participants are actually working with data, they will be guided through different phases of the analyzing process: including transcription, observation, collection, and argumentation. Students will be able to work with either their own data (audio or video recordings), or with data provided by the organizers.

Participants:

This course is designed for students who are interested in the study of human activity and social interaction. Students who already have data in hand (such as video recordings to be used in a PhD project) will be able to use their own data for the purpose of workshops and presentations. Students who have not yet collected their own data will be able to use a variety of recordings provided by the organizers.

Prior to the course, we ask students to submit a two-page description of their PhD project, focusing specifically on issues of data collection and research methodology. The project description should be sent to the organizers with the application for enrolment by May 18th, so that descriptions can be reviewed and eventually shared with all participants prior to the course. The project description should form the basis for a short individual presentation, by all participants, at the beginning of the course.


Programme:

1st day

10:00 – 16:00
Introduction
Overview of qualitative research methods
Conversation analysis
Workshop: transcribing and analyzing

16:00 – 18:00
Assignment

2nd day
9:00 – 16:00
Context analysis
Multimodality
Video ethnography
Workshop: transcribing (revisited) and analyzing

16:00 – 18:00
Assignment

3rd day
9:00 – 12:00
Argumentation
Presentations by participants


Convenors:

Curtis LeBaron, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Warren Jones Fellow
Organizational Leadership & Strategy
Marriott School of Management
Brigham Young University, USA

Birte Asmuß, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Centre for Corporate Communication
University of Aarhus, Denmark

Curtis LeBaron is an expert in qualitative research methods such as video ethnography, conversation and discourse analysis, and context analysis. His main research interests are in the field of strategy as practice, organizational knowledge, innovation, learning, and identity work within organizations. His work has appeared in leading academic journals, such as: Journal of Communication and Human Studies. His books include, Studies in language and social interaction (co-edited with Phillip Glenn and Jenny Mandelbaum; Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2003) and Multimodality and Human Activity (co-edited with Charles Goodwin and Jürgen Streeck; Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). For more information: http://marriottschool.byu.edu/employee/employee.cfm?emp=cdl35

Birte Asmuß is an expert in conversation analysis, and has dealt with analysis of video-based data in different workplace settings, such as (intercultural) team meetings and job appraisal interviews. She is also interested in microanalysis of different aspects of alignment and disalignment in talk. She has published articles in international journals, such as Journal of Business Communication and Corporate Communications and she has co-edited a book with Jakob Steensig “Conversations at the workplace”. For more information: http://www.asb.dk/staff.aspx?i=bas


ECTS:

2 ECTS


Course enrollment and application deadline:

The course application, including a 2-page project outline, should be sent by email no later than 18 May 2009 to the secretary of the national doctoral school, Chris Holmsted Larsen, holmsted@ruc.dk

Registration form available at http://www.fmkj.dk/eng/skemaer/


Costs and practical matters:

The Danish Research School FMKJ covers all participation expenses (travel, meals, accommodation) for doctoral students who are enrolled members of FMKJ.

Doctoral students from other national or international institutions are encouraged to participate. They will have to pay their own travel and accommodation costs. The course itself is offered free of charge.


For questions about practical arrangements, please contact Chris Holmsted Larsen, holmsted@ruc.dk

Course readings
Course readings will be made available in April 2009 with required reading and suggested literature for the Ph.D. course. Students are expected to have read the literature before the beginning of the course.

Dato: 13.-15. maj 2009

Sted: Roskilde Universitet

Tilmeldingsfrist: Der er endnu få ledige pladser ved hurtig tilmelding til FMKJ-sekretær Chris Holmsted Larsen: fmkj@ruc.dk. Tilmelding sker ved at udfylde tilmeldingsblanketten, som du kan finde her: http://fmkj.dk/skemaer/

Kursusunderviser: Professor Søren Kjørup, RUC (sk@ruc.dk)

Kursusindhold:

Eisenstein om montage, Panofsky om ikonografi og ikonologi, Barthes om forankring og om punktum, Goodman om hvorfor billeder ikke ligner, Sontag om fotografi – det meste af dette kender vel enhver der har studeret medier eller visuel kommunikation. Færre har nok læst de pågældende originaltekster, og endnu færre har læst dem for nylig med det særlige blik som ph.d.-studier kan give. Det er så det vi skal gøre i dette kursus, altså læse og diskutere indsigter i og anvendelighed af en række billedteoretiske tekster med klassikerstatus. Vi begynder helt tilbage med Platons kritik af billedet og tager fx en tur rundt om Lessing og hans skel mellem hvad henholdsvis billeder og verbalsprog formår, men som eksemplerne ovenfor viser, vil vi have hovedvægt på tekster fra det 20. århundrede.
Mellem læsningerne vil der også blive mulighed for at diskutere billedteoretiske og billedanalytiske problemer fra deltagernes egne ph.d.-projekter, for mon ikke klassikerne kan sige noget begavet også om nutidens billedmedier og deres anvendelse?

Kursusmateriale:

Senest den 20. april vil deltagerne få tilsendt et kompendium med de tekster vi kommer til at diskutere. Deltagere som ønsker problemstillinger eller tekster fra deres eget afhandlingsarbejde drøftet under kurset, kan rundsende op til 10 sider (men gerne færre!) til hele holdet senest mandag den 27. april. Detaljeret program vil så foreligge senest 1. maj.

ECTS: 2,5 ECTS med eget oplæg, ellers 2 ECTS

Deltagelse i kurset er gratis for ph.d.-studerende indskrevet ved danske forskerskoler. FMKJ betaler rejse-, forplejnings- og opholdsudgifter (evt. hotel) for ph.d.-studerende der er indskrevet ved FMKJ. Der vil blive arrangeret fælles aftensmad mandag og tirsdag i forbindelse med at der vil blive lange arbejdsdage.

AUDIOVISUALITY IN THE ERA OF DIGITAL CONVERGENCE

A Danish-Finnish Ph.D. Course, 22nd-25th April 2009

COURSE OBJECTIVES

The aim of this Ph.D. course is to critically engage with the digital convergence of communicative forms, and to question the relevance of some established approaches to audiovisuality by exploring the multimodal nature of digital media convergence. Critical approaches will include aesthetics, semiotics, media and communication theory, cinema studies, audio/visual culture, visual sociology, audio research, media history, studies of technology and media production. We will investigate two core questions: What is the future of audiovisuality in the era of digital convergence? And how can scholars develop theoretically sound approaches to exploit, or to study, the use of audiovisuals in their research?

For further reflections about the understanding of audiovisuality, audiovisual literacy, and digital convergence that inform this course, please scroll to the bottom of this text.


COURSE ORGANIZERS
The course is organised and funded as a joint venture between a Danish and a Finnish doctoral school: The Danish National Research School for Media, Communication and Journalism (FMKJ), and the Finnish ELOMEDIA Doctoral School of Audiovisual Media. The course vision and the course program have been generated in cooperation between Assistant Professor Francesco Lapenta (Roskilde University, lapenta@ruc.dk) and Professor Taisto Hujanen (University of Tampere, taisto.hujanen@uta.fi). Enquiries about the academic content of the course should be directed to them.


COURSE LECTURERS
The confirmed speakers and supervisors for the course are Michel Chion, John Caldwell, Sara Pink, Pino Losacco, Francesco Lapenta, Arild Fetveit, Taisto Hujanen, Luc Pawels, and Eija Timonen. Their lecture abstracts and short CVs will be posted on this site shortly.


COURSE STRUCTURE
The Ph.D. course will comprise three main activities. DAILY MORNING SEMINARS in which senior scholars will present relevant theories and interpretations. STUDENT PRESENTATIONS, in which students will present a paper in specially dedicated sessions. And RESEARCH GROUP WORK in which students will be asked to engage in an onsite research project aimed at the production of a multimedia presentation for the final session of the Ph.D. course:

1. MORNING SEMINARS: Each morning invited scholars will give a lecture of relevant subjects. Each one hour lecture conducted by a senior scholar will have a 40 min presentation and 20 minutes for discussion.

2. STUDENT ACTIVITIES: Students will engage in three main activities: A) They will participate in the daily seminars. B) They can choose to present a paper in one of the three student sessions. C) They will join one research group and participate in the research group work.

The students presentations organised in the three dedicated sessions will receive feedback from their peers and from the senior scholars participating in the session. The student contributions (app. 10 pages) should reflect on theoretical and methodological issues of audiovisuality and multimodality in their respective projects. Practice-led research approaches are encouraged to combine perspectives of theory and practice in their contributions. Student presentations will be 10 minutes presentation and 20 minutes feedback and discussion.

3. RESEARCH GROUP WORK AND MULTI-MEDIA PRESENTATIONS: The Ph.D. course wants to create an advanced hands-on laboratory for students interested in the use of images, sounds, visuals, and multi-media contents either as subjects or instruments of their research practices. The course is specifically designed to develop the research skills required from a scholar to critically interact with the theoretical and practical challenges posed by media based scholarly research. In an attempt to realize this agenda, the course will be divided in two sections. One theoretical, in which students will be presented with relevant theories and approaches in the Morning Seminars, and one practical, in which students will be asked to create research groups and design a small case study to be conducted on location. The aim of the research activities of each group, which will be supervised by a senior scholar, is that of creating a multimedia presentation that draws on the theories and subjects presented and discussed in the daily seminars.


FURTHER INFORMATION
Inquiries regarding the content of the course may be directed to Francesco Lapenta (Roskilde University, lapenta@ruc.dk) and Professor Taisto Hujanen (University of Tampere, taisto.hujanen@uta.fi)

For questions about practical arrangements, please contact FMKJ secretary Chris Holmsted Larsen, fmkj@ruc.dk

ECTS
Participation with individual paper presentation: 4 ECTS
Participation without individual paper presentation: 3 ECTS


COURSE REGISTRATION
The course will be attended by doctoral students from the two organizing doctoral schools. In addition, the course is open to all ph.d. students with an interest in the course topic. All costs (transport, accommodation, meals) of participants who are enrolled in the two doctoral schools are paid for by the schools. Other participants will have to pay their own accommodation and meals (estimated at app. 640 euro), in addition to transport. Doctoral students must be prepared to share a double room with another participant.

Participants from the Danish Doctoral School (FMKJ) must register with Chris Holmsted Larsen, fmkj@ruc.dk.

Participants from the Finnish Doctoral School (Elomedia) must register with Sari Elfving, sari.elfving@taik.fi

All other participants must register with Chris Holmsted Larsen, fmkj@ruc.dk.

DEADLINES

Registration (accompanied by 1-page description of ph.d. project): Monday 2nd March 2009.

Registration form available on http://www.fmkj.dk/

Submission of individual paper: Monday 23rd March 2009.


COURSE PROGRAM (4 days 3 nights)

DAY 1 - 22 APRIL 2009

9am to 12 am: Check in and Registration.

12:00: Lunch
13:15 Course Introduction
14:00 First lecture (1)
15:00 Second lecture (2)

16:00 Coffee break

16:30 Third lecture (3)


17::30 Group formation
Supervisions by all staff (rotation)
Project definition and Assignment of Supervisors

19:30 Dinner


DAY 2 - 23 APRIL 2009

9:00 First lecture (4)
10:00 Second lecture (5)
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Third lecture (6)

12:30: Lunch

13:45 Group work

19:30 Dinner


DAY 3 - 24 APRIL 2009

9:00 First lecture (7)
10:00 Second lecture (8)
11:00 Coffee break

11:30 Third lecture (9)

12:30 Lunch

14:30 Group work with supervisors

19:30Dinner


DAY 4 - 25 APRIL 2009

9:00 Student presentations.
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Student presentations.

12:30 Lunch

13:30 Official presentation of group projects to other students and all supervisors. 30 min per group.

15:30 Coffee break

15:45 Short course evaluation and Good Bye


ABOUT AUDIOVISUALITY AND AUDIOVISUAL LITERACY

Audiovisual communication and audiovisual literacy are two established modes of expression and perception in contemporary society. The history of image and sound is characterised by separations and reunions; in some periods the two have been artificially divided by technology while in others they are brought together as a rather ‘natural’ fusion. Thus the indivisible relations of technology, sound and image indicate continuous evolution and ever changing cultural significations.

Photography, radio broadcasting and print media all brought about enormous changes in human communication and world perception in the early 20th century. Audiovisual media merged them, thereby creating a fusion of forms, communicative contents and world views. A century later the Internet and digital media are again reshuffling the cards of the communicative and creative palette which in turn again requires renegotiating the relations among pre-existing media and their contents. An unprecedented scale of distribution and circulation of images, videos and texts nurtures the evolution of new media, and their convergence as multimedia. The progressive adoption of new digital technologies has abruptly transformed a community of viewers accustomed to exposure to a select number of contents distributed by a handful of mainly domestic broadcasters and publishers into an active global community of content producers and distributors.

The growth of audiovisual content production and distribution is not the only dominant aspect of this transition. It can also be argued that the tradition of media fusion and juxtaposition characteristic of the audiovisual realm is becoming the key feature of the multimodality that is increasingly typical of all digital forms and contents. There is much to be explored in the emerging convergence of digital media. The history of the moving image and cultural approaches that have studied it have much to contribute to such study.

ABOUT DIGITAL CONVERGENCE

Convergence is an elusive term that is used in multiple contexts and is often ambiguous in its definition. According to Brooks, Kennedy, Moen and Ranly (2004) it is : “the practice of sharing and cross promoting content from a variety of media”. According to Wirtz “Convergence can be defined as the dynamic approach or partial integration of different communication and information based market applications” (Wirtz 1999:15). Nachison defines convergence as “the strategic, operational, product and cultural union of print, audio, video and interactive digital information services and organisations” (Nachison 2002 in Lawson-Borders 2006:3). The former content based, technologically driven, and culturally renegotiated definition of digital (media) convergence define the four areas of investigation that will be developed in this spring school.

It is therefore clear that the term ‘convergence’ helps to delineate a range of different social, economic and cultural dynamics, but also generates a great deal of confusion and misconceptions. Two problems are particularly relevant for us, as suggested by Jenkins (2007:9). One is the “Black Box Fallacy” and the other is the confusion between “delivery systems” convergence and media convergence. The black box fallacy is based on the idea of technology-driven convergence that will see the death of all existing media technologies in favour of an omni-inclusive black box that will replace all of them. This prediction is not only negated by the existence and constant development of different media platforms (cd, dvd playes, ipods, mobiles, televisions, computers, video games consoles, digital cameras, video cameras, audio recorders etc.) and the different economic interests that they serve, but also fails to understand and acknowledge the profound differences that exist between “delivery systems”. Culturally and phenomenologically, different functions account for how and why separate media serve or privilege particular areas. “Delivery systems are simple and only technologies, media are also cultural systems. Delivery technologies come and go all the time, but media persist as layers within an ever more complicated information and entertainment stratum.” (Jenkins 2007: 14)
So on one side we see the resistance of pre-existing media forms, while on the other we see a diversification of their access and experience based on different needs and cultural interpretations. Blogs did not kill professional journalism, amateur film-making did not replace professional film-making and so on. But we are experiencing a re-negotiation of the forms of experience and the expectations associated with them. Media convergence is more than a simple technological shift. Convergence alters the relationship between existing technologies, industries, markets, genres, audiences and the definition of producers and consumers, and even more fundamentally it alters the very idea of cultural commodities and their production, distribution and exchange. These developments are strongly linked both to global trends and local economies and cultures, where the same new technologies might be associated with different use, and the same technologies might acquire different cultural meanings in different communities.

Dato: 16. – 18. marts 2009

Sted: Roskilde Universitet, daglig kl. 9.30-16.00. Mødelokale 3.2.4.

Tilmeldingsfrist: Mandag 2. februar 2009 kl. 12. Tilmelding sker ved at udfylde tilmeldingsblanketten, og sende den til fmkj@ruc.dk. Blanketten finder du her: http://fmkj.dk/skemaer/

Kursus-undervisere

Professor Ib Poulsen, RUC, e-mail: ibpo@ruc.dk
Lektor Inger Mees, CBS, e-mail: im.isv@cbs.dk

Kursusindhold

Dag 1 og 2: Når man skriver på dansk

Kurset vil behandle en række genrespecifikke emner og problemer der knytter sig til udformningen af en akademisk afhandling og diskutere kriterier for god akademisk fremstilling. Kurset vil bl.a. belyse følgende spørgsmål: Hvilke generelle krav knytter der sig til genren ’den akademiske afhandling’, herunder hvad kendetegner en god indledning, en god problemformulering og en god konklusion? Hvilke kriterier kan anlægges for en hensigtsmæssig disponering? Hvilke akademiske fremstillingsformer kan man bruge til hvad? Hvordan inddrages og bruges kilder, og hvordan bruger man bedst citater, noter mv.? Og hvilke principper kan anlægges for opstilling af referencer?

Dag 3: Når man skriver på engelsk

Den tredje kursusdag vil blive brugt til at drøfte de muligheder og problemer der er knyttet til at skrive en afhandling på engelsk og publicere internationalt. Man kan vælge at deltage alene i kursets første del om skrivning af afhandling på dansk (dag 1-2). Deltagelse i kursets anden del om skrivning af afhandling på engelsk, samt international publicering forudsætter, at man har deltaget i første del. Kursussproget er dansk alle 3 dage.

Kursusmateriale

På kurset vil vi dels behandle spørgsmålene generelt, dels i videst muligt omfang inddrage deltagernes projekter og udkast. Ca. en måned før kurset bliver alle tilmeldte bedt om at indsende et materiale bestående af

• Udkast til indledning
• problemformulering og disposition
• Evt. en engelsk version af indledningsudkastet til brug for kursets 3. dag.

ECTS:
Deltagelse i dag 1+2: 1 ECTS
Deltagelse i dag 1-3: 1,5 ECTS


Tilmelding til FMKJ-sekretær Helle Falk Jakobsen, fmkj@ruc.dk.

Deltagelse i kurset er gratis for ph.d.-studerende indskrevet ved danske forskerskoler. FMKJ betaler rejse-, forplejnings- og opholdsudgifter (evt. hotel) for ph.d.-studerende, der er indskrevet ved FMKJ. Der vil blive arrangeret fælles aftensmad mandag og tirsdag.

Tilmeldingsfrist: Mandag 2. februar 2009 kl. 12. (men meget gerne før, så vi kan bestille overnatning) Tilmelding sker ved at udfylde tilmeldingsblanketten, og sende den til fmkj@ruc.dk. Blanketten finder du her: http://fmkj.dk/skemaer/

Doctoral seminar with Lynn Schofield Clark and Johanna Sumiala

Media, Religion, and Popular Culture

Date: March 16-17, 2009.

Location: University of Copenhagen, Njalsgade 80, 2300 Copenhagen S.


This doctoral seminar examines the exchange of religious discourse and (popular) culture on different media platforms (films, television, newspapers, internet etc.). Religion becomes mediatized, as the media supplement, modify or replace the role of institutionalized religion.

Keynote speaker Lynn Schofield Clark argues that both religion and popular culture create utopian ideals for society. Keynote speaker Johanna Sumiala examines the religious aspects of violent visual media performances. Research on how media and established religious organisations interconnect gives us new insight to understanding the role of religion and faith in modern Western cultures.

We invite and encourage Ph.D. scholars to give presentations.


Keynote presentations:

Lynn Schofield Clark: Exploring Utopia & Ideology in Religion & Popular Culture

This presentation explores the ways in which both religion and popular culture create images of what might be: of utopian ideals that uphold important values such as love, peace, and the dignity and value of each person. It also considers how both religion and popular culture create messages that support ideologies and that justify relationships and arrangements as they are, rather than as they could be. The presentation then reviews research into the utopian and ideological aspects of religion and popular culture that have informed Clark’s work on popular narratives of the supernatural and presents directions the study of media, religion, and culture is currently taking.

Lynn Schofield Clark, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Director of the Estlow International Center for Journalism and New Media School of Communication University of Denver. Author of From Angels to Aliens: Teenagers, the Media, and the Supernatural , Oxford University Press, New York, 2003, and Media, Home, and Family (together with Stewart Hoover and Diane Alters) Routledge, New York, 2004. Further info at: http://mysite.du.edu/~lclark29/


Johanna Sumiala: Religion, Violence and YouTube

Characteristic of world culture is the strong emphasis on mediatized communication practices often embodied in extraordinary, violent events. Terrorist attacks and school shootings are examples of the phenomenon. This type of violence is characterized by theatrical display and strong presence of mediatized communication. It also shares many similarities with religious violence. As Mark Juergensmeyer (2003) states these creations of terror are done to make a symbolic statement. They are vivid and yet horrifying acts and they intend to illustrate something beyond their immediate target. My presentation explores school shooting performances on YouTube as extraordinary violent events. I’ll look especially for religious traces of school shooting performances: what kind of religious aspects can be traced out on the performances, how these violent acts are communicated and performed as religiously inspired events on YouTube, and how different actors (perpetrators, victims, witness, as well as other YouTube users) use Youtube as means of religious communication.

Johanna Sumiala is a Lecturer at the Department of Communication, University of Helsinki, Finland. She is a media scholar specialising in media anthropology and visual culture. Her interests include topics such as the visualisation of religion and death in the media and the ritualised use of mediated images. Her most recent work includes articles on the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat 2007, circulation of Abu Ghraib images 2008, and historical study on national Finnish catastrophes 2009. Her latest book, co-authored with Matteo Stocchetti, is entitled Images and Communities: The Visual Construction of the Social, Gaudeamus-Helsinki University Press, 2007. Further info at: http://blogs.helsinki.fi/jsumiala/


Doctoral presentations

This seminar is for doctoral students with topics concerning the relationship between media, religion, and culture. The seminar is opportunity to present and discuss your own research project as well as getting feedback from prominent researchers within the field.

For enquiries about the academic content of the course, please contact professor Stig Hjarvard at stig@hum.ku.dk. For practical enquiries, please contact FMKJ secretary Chris Holmsted Larsen at fmkj@ruc.dk


Participant requirements and papers

All participants are required to submit a 1-page outline of their project. Participants are invited
to present their own work for feedback and discussion. A course package of required readings
will be compiled and circulated to participants one week prior to the course.
ECTS value: 2 ½ ECTS (with paper presentation), 1½ ECTS (without paper presentation).


Course enrolment and application deadline

Enrolment by email: Wednesday February 11, 2009 to the FMKJ secretary Chris Holmsted Larsen: fmkj@ruc.dk

Your registration must be accompanied by the 1-page project outline. Papers for presentation
must be submitted by March 5th.

Registration form available at http://www.fmkj.dk/eng/skemaer/


Costs and practical matters

The Danish Research School FMKJ covers all participation expenses (travel, meals,
accommodation) for its enrolled doctoral students. In addition to travel costs, other doctoral students will have to pay their own accommodation and meals. Students who need accommodation may consult the course secretary for hotel and hostel recommendations. Doctoral students from other countries and non-member institutions may also apply for participation but will have to cover their own expenses (travel+hotel).

Media, Youth and Political Participation

Doctoral seminar with Lynn Schofield Clark and Kevin Barnhurst


COURSE CONTENT
This doctoral seminar focuses on young people’s use of media to participate in public life and political communication. Traditional mass media may appear less attractive to young people, but new media may provide a platform for public connection. Research on young people’s own account of their experiences with political communication produces new insights into the problems and opportunities of a new generation of citizens, including the objective and subjective dimensions of political citizenship in a media saturated era. Are young people finding more meaning than before in new forms of citizenship such as volunteering, protesting, and involving themselves in court cases as well as political campaigns?


KEY NOTE PRSENTATIONS

Lynn Schofield Clark: Media and the Making of Young Citizens

In the recent U.S. Presidential election, record numbers of young people went to the polls in support of Barack Obama. The percentage of voters under 30 swelled to 52%, with 23 million voting (an increase by 3.4 million over those voting in 2004). What does this rise in voting mean? Is this part of a trend, described alternately by Dalton (2007) as the emergence of an “engaged” citizenship or by Bennett (2008) as “actualized” citizenship? In the U.S., young people who are identified by their teachers as good writers are encouraged to be involved in journalism programs at their high school. Reviewing qualitative research with 44 high school journalists from 18 different schools, this presentation examines how involvement in high school journalism socializes these participants into emergent understandings of engaged citizenship as defined in recent work by political scientist Russell Dalton (2007) and earlier by communication scholar Michael Schudson (1999). The presentation also considers how some young people come to articulate engaged forms of citizenship after negative experiences with their school’s administration as such experiences reveal differing understandings of the roles of authority, journalism, and collective responsibility within the high school community that its high school journalism program is meant to serve.

Lynn Schofield Clark , Ph.D., Associate Professor and Director of the Estlow International Center for Journalism and New Media School of Communication University of Denver. Author of From Angels to Aliens: Teenagers, the Media, and the Supernatural , Oxford University Press, New York, 2003, and Media, Home, and Family (together with Stewart Hoover and Diane Alters) Routledge, New York, 2004. Further info at: http://mysite.du.edu/~lclark29/


Kevin Barnhurst: How Young Adults See Themselves as Citizens and as Members of the Media Audience

Political communication research tends to take either a macro-level view of citizens (through survey and voting data) and audiences (through circulation and ratings data) or a micro-level view based on political psychology or behavioralism. The Life History & Media Project takes a mid-level sociological view, examining the stories young adults tell about their experiences with political processes and communication outlets. It uses a narrative technique that sheds light on their public presentation of self (the micro level) in relation to the political context and the media system (the macro level). This presentation reviews the project and presents a study by Barnhurst (UIC), Richard Besel (Texas Polytechnic Institute), and Christopher Bodmann (UIC), \"Public Subjective Posture and Subjective Affluence among Working Class Young Adults in Chicago.\" To elaborate on Pierre Bourdieu\'s macro field theory and his micro concepts of habitus, social space, and symbolic capital, we compare our collected life history accounts to results from previous studies of young adult citizens/audiences in Spain and Brazil. We show that political communication research needs additional concepts, mapping what we call the \"subjective postures\" of research participants (public stances, as a subset of habitus in communication social space) across a range of what we call \"subjective affluence\" (a subset of symbolic capital). Our results also question the models in Hallin & Mancini\'s Comparing Media Systems.


Kevin Barnhurst, Ph.D., Professor at The Department of Communication, University of Illinois at Chicago. Author of The Form of News, A History (with John Nerone, New York: Guilford Press, 2002); and Seeing the Newspaper (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994). Further info at: http://tigger.uic.edu/~kgbcomm/pdf/kgbres-08-02.pdf


DOCTORAL PRESENTATIONS

This seminar is for doctoral students with topics concerning journalism, political communication, youth studies, media theory, public sphere, media sociology and cultural analysis. The seminar is an opportunity to present and discuss your own research project as well as getting feedback from prominent researchers within the field.

For enquiries about the academic content of the course, please contact professor Stig Hjarvard at stig@hum.ku.dk. For practical enquiries, please contact the FMKJ secretary, Chris Larsen, at fmkj@ruc.dk.


PARTICIPANT REQUIREMENTS AND PAPERS

All participants are required to submit, with their registration form, a 1-page outline of their project. Participants are invited to present their own work for feedback and discussion. A course package of required readings will be compiled and circulated to participants 2-3 weeks prior to the course.


ECTS VALUE
3 ECTS (with paper presentation), 1 ½ ECTS (without paper presentation).

COURSE ENROLLMENT AND APPLICATION DEADLINE

Enrollment by email: Wednesday February 11, 2009 to the FMKJ secretary: fmkj@ruc.dk

Your registration must be accompanied by the 1-page project outline. Papers for presentation must be submitted by March 5th.

Registration form available at http://www.fmkj.dk/eng/skemaer/


COSTS AND PRACTICAL MATTERS

The Danish Research School FMKJ covers all participation expenses (travel, meals, accommodation) for doctoral students who are enrolled members of FMKJ. Other doctoral students from other institutions will have to pay their own accommodation and meals, in addition to travel costs. Students who need accommodation may consult the course secretary for hotel and hostel recommendations. Doctoral students from other countries and non-member institutions may also apply for participation (free of charge), but will have to cover their own expenses (travel+hotel).

Master class in relation to Knowledge Media Conference

Learning 2.0

Terry Anderson, Professor, Athabasca University, Canada
&
Simon Heilesen, Roskilde University

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
Aarhus University, Department of Information and Media Studies


CONTENT
The role of digital media within education is changing as a consequence of the internet and the increased digitalisation. Web 2.0, social software, and social media are terms used to describe developments within new digital media – such as weblogs, wikis, social networking sites, etc. New digital media have increased use of the web for social interaction, collaboration, networking, and user-generated content.

The purpose of the Learning 2.0 master class is to discuss the role of new digital media (Web 2.0) within education in both formal and informal settings. The main question for the master class is:

What are the potentials of digital media in relation to learning, knowledge sharing and knowledge construction?

Conference on Knowledge Media prior to master class
The master class is preceded by a two-day international conference on “Knowledge Media” (January 19-20), which will discuss topics that are related to the master class. Participants in the master class are encouraged to register for the conference. (Participation in the conference is not a requirement for participation in the master class).

Read more about the conference: http://www.cil.au.dk/en/conference/about

ORGANISERS
The master class is organised by Jørgen Bang (jbang@imv.au.dk), Associate Professor and Christian Dalsgaard (cnd@imv.au.dk), Post doc., Department of Information and Media Studies, Aarhus University.

PROGRAM
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

9.30-10.00 Coffee

10.00-11.00 Terry Anderson: Overview on e-learning research, with a focus on social software

11.00-12.00 Simon Heilesen: Learning 2.0 – Conditions and potentials of the social web
12.00-13.00 Workshops and discussion

13.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00-16.00 Student presentations and discussion
(In this session participants will present short papers (app. 15 minutes) on their research, for comments and discussion by the group)

16.00-17.00 Individual consultations

COURSE ENROLLMENT AND PAPERS
Enrollment by online registration: http://www.cil.au.dk/arrangementer/aabne/20090121masterclass

DEADLINE for enrolment is January 7, 2009. Course registration must be accompanied by a ½-1 page project outline. Participants are invited to present short papers of their research. The project outlines and papers should be submitted on registration to Christian Dalsgaard cnd@imv.au.dk.

Participation is free for all PhD students. FMKJ covers travel costs for FMKJ doctoral students. Coffee and lunch will be provided for all participants.

ECTS:
½ ECTS (without paper presentation), 1½ ECTS (with paper presentation)


PRESENTATION OF THE SPEAKERS

Terry Anderson
Professor, Athabasca University

Terry Anderson is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Distance Education at Athabasca University – Canada’s Open University (http://www.athabascau.ca/). He is also the director of the Canadian Institute of Distance Education Research (CIDER, http://cider.athabascau.ca/) and editor of the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (http://www.irrodl.org/).

He teaches educational technology courses in the Masters of Distance Education program. Terry’s most recent research has focused on social software use in distance education.

Read more: http://cider.athabascau.ca/Members/terrya


Simon Heilesen
Associate Professor, Roskilde University

Simon Heilesen is a senior lecturer in Net media and Computer-mediated Communication at Institute of Communication Studies, Business and Information Technologies, Roskilde University (http://www.ruc.dk/komm/). His main areas of interest include net media in professional communication, net-based learning and collaboration, and new media and culture / society.

Read more: http://akira.ruc.dk/~simonhei/

FMKJ er vært for en poster-session specielt for ph.d.-studerende på årets SMID Årsmøde den 4.-5. december om \"Medialisering og Kulturelle Fællesskaber\".

Deadline 1. oktober - men mulighed for eftertilmelding.

Se Årsmøde-programmet på SMIDs hjemmeside:
http://www.smid.dk/wordpress/wp-content/smid-arsmc3b8de-hardcopy-version.pdf

Man tilmelder sig med en poster, hvor man præsenterer sit projekt (eller en afgrænset problemstilling fra det). Poster-sessionen ligger uden for Årsmødets tema, så alle projekter er velkomne.

FMKJ giver et tilskud på 1000 kr. til betaling af Årsmøde-gebyret. Desuden har FMKJ levet en aftale med SMID om, at FMKJ betaler FMKJ-indmeldtes kontingent til SMID (til særprisen 200 kr.), hvis I indmelder jer gennem FMKJ.

Der er deadline for tilmelding 1. november - man tilmelder sig gennem SMID (se Årsmøde-annonceringen om detaljerne).

COURSE DAYS

Thursday 23 Oct 11 am, until Friday 24 Oct 2008 4 pm.


COURSE VENUE

Aarhus University, Department of Media and Information Studies, Helsingforsgade 14, DK-8200 Aarhus N. Denmark.

COURSE CONVENORS

Associate professor Poul Erik Nielsen and Ph.d. fellow Anja Bechmann Petersen, Department of Media and Information Studiesm Aarhus University. For enquiries about the academic content of the course, please contact Anja Bechmann Petersen at anjabp@imv.au.dk. For practical enquiries, please contact ph.d. secretary Dorthe Lindvald Pedersen, imvdlp@hum.au.dk.


COURSE CONTENT

Broadcasting, film, newspaper and print industries are challenged by the digital media landscape forcing them to innovate e.g. the core business idea, products, professional identity and workflow routines. The demand for ‘new combinations’ or innovations among media producers because of the digital media era are the focus of this Ph.D. seminar. We welcome presentations and participators working within all kinds of aspects of this challenge - just to name a few: social software, user generated content, mobile content, cross media production, newsroom studies, media evolution theories, innovation strategies, creativity theories and public service broadcasting.


PARTICIPANTS REQUIREMENTS AND PAPERS

All participants are required to submit a 1-page outline of their project. Participants are invited to present their own work for feedback and discussion. A course package of required readings will be compiled and circulated to participants 3-4 weeks prior to the course.

ECTS value: 3 ECTS (with paper presentation), 2 ECTS (without paper presentation).


COURSE ENROLMENT AND APPLICATION DEADLINE

Enrolment by email: Monday 29 September 2008 to ph.d. secretary Dorthe Lindvald Pedersen, imvdlp@hum.au.dk. Course registration must be accompanied by the 1-page project outline. Papers for presentation must be submitted by 10 October at 12 noon.


COSTS AND PRACTICAL MATTERS

The Danish Research School FMKJ covers all participation expenses (travel, meals, accommodation) for doctoral students from its member institutions. In addition to travel costs, doctoral students from other institutions will have to pay their own accommodation and meals.

Students who need accommodation may consult the course secretary for hotel and hostel recommendations.


COURSE PROGRAM

Thursday October 23 2008

11.00-11.30 Welcome by Ph.D. Fellow Anja Bechmann Petersen

11.30-13.00 Professor Anne Dunn: EXPLORING NEW MEDIA WORLDS

13.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00-15.30 Associate Professor Per Darmer, Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School: CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION IN THE CREATIVE INDUSTRIES

15.30-15.45 Break

15.45-18.00 Ph.D. presentations

19.00- Dinner


Friday October 24 2008

09.00-10.30 Professor Anne Dunn: DIGITAL MEDIA AND PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING - NEW MODELS AND RELATIONSHIPS

10.30-10.45 Break

10.45-11.30 Ph.D. presentation

11.30-13.00 Keynote TBA

13.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00-16.00 Individual Ph.D. consultations with Anne Dunn


KEYNOTE SPEAKER PRESENTATIONS

Dr Anne Dunn,
Department of Media and Communications,
University of Sydney, Australia
Email: anne.dunn@usyd.edu.au

ANNE DUNN is Senior Lecturer and Chair of Department, Media and Communications, University of Sydney. Prior to entering academic life Anne spent over 20 years as a broadcaster, producer and director, for radio and television in Australia and Britain. Her research interests include public broadcasting, new media, and journalism education.


Dr Per Darmer
Institute of Organization,
CBS (Copenhagen Business School), Denmark
Email: pd.ioa@cbs.dk

PER DARMER is associate professor at Institute of Organization, CBS. Per is generally interested in research within organization theory, organizational behaviour and method. His specific research has been focused on organizational culture and culture formation in organizations, organizing & sense making, HRM, identification, innovation, creativity, entrepreneurship emotions, and poetry related to research, organizing and management Recent publications have been about these topics related to creative enterprises within the Danish music and film industry.


PRESENTATION ABSTRACTS

1. Anne Dunn: Exploring New Media Worlds

‘Increasingly, audiences of all ages not only want the choice of what to watch and listen to when they want, they also expect to take part, debate, create and control. Interactivity and user-generated content are increasingly important stimuli for the creative process.’ (BBC Creative Future – media release (retrieved from BBC web site 17.2.2007).

Most Australian media organisations have already weathered what BBC Director-General Mark Thompson calls ‘the first’ wave: they have converted production from analogue to digital, they are poised to switch to digital delivery and all now have a presence on the World Wide Web (the web). The ‘second wave’ refers to the growing phenomenon of ‘user generated content’, sometimes also referred to as ‘citizen journalism’, and the concomitant loss to ‘traditional’ broadcast media of younger audiences (15-35 years). The aim of this paper is to interrogate the challenge of audience-generated media content for professional production, particularly for public service broadcasters such as the Australian Broadcasting Corporation(ABC). The ABC receives considerable sums of public money towards fulfilling its chartered obligation to ‘educate and inform’ citizens in democratic societies, and is expected to be both responsible towards and responsive to that audience. The research literature recognizes the challenge but differs on the ability of the established media organizational models to respond. Media organisations can be seen as struggling to keep up with the vanguard of an active audience, especially in news and current affairs, and unable to respond adequately to this challenge because it assigns creativity and power to the professionals, leaving the audience ‘sprawled on the couch’ (Hartley 2007). If this is so, it is highly significant for one of the central functions of broadcast media in democratic societies, the provision of trustworthy news and journalism. The paper suggests we may be seeing the emergence of a new type of journalism, one that shifts journalists’ focus ‘from content to connectivity’ (Deuze 2003:218). It explores some of the ways journalists might reinvent themselves, concluding that journalism must be able to incorporate both access and participation.

Deuze, M. (2003). ‘The web and its journalisms: considering the consequences of different types of newsmedia online’. New Media and Society, Vol 5(2): 203-230.
Hartley, J. (2007). Uses of creativity: Creative content and the creative citizen. Keynote address to the conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, Brisbane, September 2007.


2. Per Darmer: Creativity and Innovation in the Creative Industries

The focus is on how companies within the cretive industries (the experience economy) are creative and innovative and about what. The creative companies will be related to some aspects of Schumpeter\\\'s classical theories on innovation. There are different types of innovation: New products (services or experoences): New production processes; New organization- and management processes or New ways to do marketing or new behaviour on the (existing) market. The companies might be creative and innovative on one or more of these innovation types simultanously , or even go beyond these types in the creativity and innovation. There are different phases within an innovation, Schumpeter mentions invention, innovation and adaptation or diffusion. Invention is where the idea for a new product is found. Innovation is geeting the idea into a production and getting it on the market. While the adaptation or diffusion is how the product is spreading on / received by the market. Related to these categorisations it is discussed whether companies in creative industries (the experience economy) are more creative and innovative than other companies.

3. Anne Dunn: Digital media and public service broadcasting - New models and relationships

“Digital media is now integral to everything we do. It is not an add-on, it is not a novelty, it is the present reality as well as the future,” Mark Scott, Managing Director, ABC, 7 February 2007
Digital media delivered across platforms such as podcasts, satellite and mobile telephony are central to the work of today’s media organisations. Australia’s public service broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, initiated and continues to make a leading contribution to Australia’s role in the new digital media. In this world, the role of public service broadcasting (PSB) is being dramatically reconfigured, most significantly through changing relationships between producers and their audiences: the professional identity of producers who work across media platforms is unstable, and relations with their audiences are undergoing challenging transformations. This situation raises profound questions about the fundamental nature and role of PSB: Is the traditional PSB model appropriate to the new relationship with audiences? What is the best role for PSB in Australia in the digital era? The implications of these questions resonate beyond PSB to the roles of all digital media in developed democracies (Given 2003). This paper considers these questions and proposes a new model for PSB that will position it to foster innovative and creative use of the new media.

Call for Participation

Wednesday October 15th
In relation to the
Association of Internet Researchers (A.o.I.R) Annual Conference 2008
Internet Research 9.0
Copenhagen, Denmark

http://conferences.aoir.org/

The Internet Research 9.0 Doctoral Colloquium
offers Ph.D. students working in internet research or a related field a special forum on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 where they will have a chance to briefly present their dissertations-in-progress and discuss them at length with peers and established senior researchers.

Interested students should prepare a two page summary of their research. This summary should provide a context for the research, describe the methods being used, the progress to date, and expectations and hopes from the colloquium.

Faculty mentors include:
Axel Bruns, Australia
Sue Fragoso, Brazil
Alex Halavais, USA
Caroline Haythornthwaite, USA

We hope to announce additional mentors shortly.


Submission/Participation

To apply for participation in the doctoral colloquium, please submit your two page application by Friday, May 23, 2008 by email to the organizer
Klaus Bruhn Jensen: kbj AT hum.ku.dk.

Applicants will be notified of acceptance by June 15, 2008. Successful applicants will be asked to prepare an eight page paper on their research and the issues they wish to discuss by August 15, 2008. For further details, please check back here or contact the organizer of the Doctoral Colloquium, Klaus Bruhn Jensen: kbj@hum.ku.dk


The Internet Research 9.0 Doctoral Colloquium is sponsored by
the Danish National Research School for Media, Communication and Journalism.

NEW EARLIER APPLICATION DEADLINE: 18 AUGUST 2008

Course days

Monday 6 Oct until Wednesday 8 Oct 2008. Course participants should plan to arrive in the evening of 5 October.

Course venue

Kalundborg Youth Hostel, Kalundborg, Denmark. A 1-hour train ride from Copenhagen

Course convenors

Associate professors Bente Halkier and Iben Jensen,Department of Communication, Business and Information Technologies, Roskilde University. For enquiries about the academic content of the course, please contact Bente Halkier at bha@ruc.dk. For practical enquiries, please contact FMKJ at fmkj@ruc.dk.


Course objectives

There is a distinct need for qualifying and developing methods to analyse qualitative data after the perspectivist view of knowledge and knowledge production has gained decisive influence in the social and human sciences. As researchers, we are faced with a long list of practical epistemological challenges to exchange experiences about and reflect upon, such as e.g. how to validate dialogically produced knowledge, how to analyse and represent complexities, and how to generalise in-stable knowledge. The purpose of the course is to put the participants through a number of processes, which will sharpen their own methodological reflections in relation to analysis of their qualitative empirical data-material in their phd-research. We attempt to achieve this by having analytically experienced senior researchers as presenters and discussion-partners at the course, and by making participants work with their own analytical material during the course in order to end up with a provisional analysis design for their own data-material. Our international senior researcher is Adele E. Clarke, who is developing a social constructivist approach to grounded theory within qualitative data analysis. Adele E. Clarke is the author of “Situational Analysis. Grounded theory after the Post-Modern Turn”, 2005, Sage. Among the Danish presenters will be Bente Halkier, Department of Communication, Roskilde University, Denmark.


Course Organisation

The course is organised as a workshop with extensive interaction with the senior presenters and among the participants. The 3 days will comprise analytical/methodological presentations, qualified reflection rounds, discussions of participants\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\' problem-oriented papers, and practical exercises with participants’ own data-material.


Participant requirements

Adele Clark\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s book “Situational Analysis. Grounded theory after the Post-Modern Turn”, 2005, Sage, is required reading.

In addition,The participants are required to fulfill 3 things in order to participate. 1. It is necessary as ph.d.-student to actually have produced some empirical data-material in order to participate. 2. To deliver a short paper (3-5 pages maximum) about the two most prominent methodological challenges in analysing one’s own data-material. 3. To deliver 1 page that describes one’s own research question and phd-project.

ECTS value: 4 ECTS (participation without an analytical discussion paper is not possible).


Course enrollment and application deadline

Monday 18 August 2008, to the FMKJ Secretary at fmkj@ruc.dk. The application must be accompanied by the 1-page project outline mentioned above.


Costs

The Danish Research School FMKJ covers all participation expenses (travel, meals, accommodation) for doctoral students from its member institutions. In addition to travel, doctoral students from other institutions will have to pay their own accommodation and meals (estimated at app. DKK 2000).


Provisional programme

Monday 6.10:
9.00 – 10.00 Arrival Kalundborg Youth Hostel
10.00 – 12.30 Adele Clarke: From inductivism to social constructivism in qualitative data analysis
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 15.00 Reflection rounds about participants’ methodological challenges
15.00 – 15.30 Tea/coffee
15.30 – 17.30 Nina Blom Andersen: How I did my qualitative analysis in my recent phd-dissertation

Tuesday 7.10:
9.00 – 12.00 Adele Clarke: Situational analysis in practice
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch
13.00 – 16.00 Analysis exercises with participants’ own data-material (tea/coffee included somewhere)
16.00 – 17.30 Reflections rounds about participants’ methodological challenges

Wednesday 8.10:
9.00 – 11.00 Bente Halkier: How to generalise as social constructivist
11.00 – 12.30 Reflections rounds about participants’ methodological challenges, leading to preparation of suggestions for analysis design for participants
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 15.30 Participants present their own analysis designs
15.30 – 16.00 Tea/coffee
16.00 – 16.30 Evaluation

One-day ph.d. course: Pre-conference 17 September 2008

Digital Content Creation: Creativity, Competence, Critique

The second international DREAM conference 18-20 September 2008 University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark, is preceded by a one day pre-conference ph.d. course, which offers a venue for young scholars within relevant conference areas to meet with some of the main conference speakers and to make project presentations and discussions.

For further information about the conference theme, registration, and course registration, see the conference home page http://www.dreamconference.dk/

Course description
The aim of this ph.d. course is twofold: To explore research on citizenry as a rhetorical phenomenon - particularly with regard to questions raised by ideals about democratic debate and its multifarious manifestations - and to examine “schools” within communication studies, particularly with regard to the implications of differing theoretical and methodical traditions. The course will feature lectures by four notable international scholars – all interested in issues of public debate and citizenship – and with backgrounds ranging from philosophy over political science to discourse studies and rhetoric. A common theme is the exploration of ways and means of rhetorical citizenship to manifest itself, what common and /or local traits it might have, and what societal interests are vested in regarding citizenry as a rhetorical phenomenon.

Participating ph.d. students will have an opportunity to present their projects to peers and senior scholars in one of two afternoon workshops of their choice: In the Tuesday workshop the focus will be on theoretical issues, in the Wednesday workshop it will be on research materials and methodological questions.

The course is organized in collaboration between the researcher network Rhetorical Citizenship (funded by the Danish Research Council for Culture and Communication), the Rhetoric Section of the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen, and the Danish National Research School for Media,
Communication and Journalism (FMKJ).

Further information

Inquiries regarding the content of the course may be directed to Lisa S. Villadsen, Associate Professor of Rhetoric, University of Copenhagen: lisas@hum.ku.dk

For questions of a practical nature, please contact FMKJ secretary Annette Nørballe: fmkj@ruc.dk

Program:

Tuesday, May 13, 2008
(Room 27.0.09)

10:15: Welcome by Christian Kock and Lisa Villadsen

10:30: Bruce Gronbeck: "What Rhetoricians Claim to Know and How They Know It"

11:15: Ruth Wodak: “Europe and Media: Defining a European Public Sphere”

12:30: Panel discussion between professors Gronbeck og Wodak and questions and comments from course participants

13:00: Lunch

14:00- 15:30: Ph.d. student workshops A and B
(Rooms 27.0.47 and 27.0.49)

In 20 minute sessions doctoral candidates present their projects with a focus on the rhetorical and/or communication theoretical basis of their dissertation:

Discuss the theoretical sources of your dissertation. What theoretical issues do you deal with? What is the connection between any empirical material and selected theory? What challenges lie in the selection and application of your theoretical material? What strengths and weaknesses do you see in the theories you use?


15:30-16:00: Coffee break

16:00-17:30: Ph.d. student workshops A and B, cont.

19:00: Conference Dinner


Wednesday, May 14, 2008
(Room 27.0.09)

9:30: Robert Asen: ”The Public Sphere and the Question of Method”

Over the past three decades, scholars in Communication and Rhetoric have produced important theoretical insights into the constitution and conduct of the public sphere. Against ideas that envision public engagement occurring in a singular forum, scholars have developed a multiple model of the public sphere. Further, scholars have developed theories that address questions of inclusion, value pluralism, and identity. However, the question of method remains unanswered. This stems partially from a general hesitancy among humanists to discuss method for fear of constraining inquiry. To be sure, the contemporary development of rhetoric in the 20th century betrays a sad history of restrictive methods, such as unimaginative Burkean pentads and fantasy theme analysis, that revealed more about their originators that the supposed objects of inquiry. In this lecture, I will develop methodological insights from the vibrant literature on the public sphere that may avoid reducing analysis to a mechanistic process.

11:00: Trudy Govier: "Distinction, Dichotomy, and Polarization in Quebec's Reasonable Accommodation Debate"

12:30: Lunch

13:30- 15:00: Ph.D. student workshops C and D
(Rooms 27.0.49 and 27.0.47)

In 20 minute sessions doctoral candidates present their projects with a focus on the following questions:

Discuss the methodological and empirical bases of your dissertation. What methodological issues do you deal with? What is the connection between empirical material and theory? What challenges lie in the selection and processing of your empirical material?

15:00-15:30: Coffee break

15:30-17:00: Ph.D. student workshops C and D, cont.



Speakers:

Robert Asen Ph.D, is Associate Professor at the Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. He received the National Communication Association Gerald R. Miller Outstanding Dissertation Award in 1999 and the American Forensics Association Daniel Rohrer Research Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Argumentation (2001). His research interests and teaching are in the areas of public policy debate, public sphere studies, and rhetoric and critical theory. His research explores relationships between social and economic inequality and public deliberation as well as issues that arise in theorizing a post bourgeois public sphere. Publications include Visions of Poverty: Welfare Policy and Political Imagination. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2002 and Counterpublics and the State (Co-edited and introduced with Daniel C. Brouwer). Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001.
http://commarts.wisc.edu/People/Bios/asen.htm


Trudy Govier Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. Her research interests include trust, forgiveness, reconciliation, argumentation, and practices of conflict resolution. She teaches in the areas of political and social philosophy, peace and conflict studies, ethics, and critical thinking.
Trudy Govier is a philosopher whose interests and skills have made her active outside the academic community. Govier is often called upon to facilitate sensitive and potentially volatile discussions, particularly in the foreign policy area. She was a featured participant in several round-tables organized by the Law Commission of Canada. Govier's deep concern for issues of war and peace, stemming from anti-nuclear involvements in the eighties, led her to study conflict resolution and mediation. http://members.shaw.ca/govier/


Bruce Gronbeck Ph.D., is A. Craig Baird Distinguished Professor of Public Address, Dept.s of Television and Politics and Rhetoric and Media Studies, University of Iowa, USA. His research interests are in the area of rhetorical and media studies, with particular interests in contemporary television and politics. He teaches and writes about American cultural studies and the evolution of rhetorical thought, especially from the 18th century to the present.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/faculty/gronbeck/index.html


Ruth Wodak Ph.D., Dr. Habil., is Distinguished Professor of Discourse Studies at Lancaster University. Besides various other prizes, she was awarded the Wittgenstein Prize for Elite Researchers in 1996 and is also head of the Wittgenstein Research Centre “Discourse, Politics, Identity” at the University of Vienna. Her research interests focus on discourse analysis; gender studies; language and/in politics; prejudice and discrimination; and on ethnographic methods of linguistic field work. She is member of the editorial board of a range of linguistic journals and co-editor of the journals Discourse and Society, Critical Discourse studies, and Language and Politics. She has held visiting professorships in Uppsala, Stanford University, University Minnesota, University of East Anglia, and Georgetown University. For 2008, she was awarded the Kerstin Hesselgren Chair of the Swedish Parliament and will be staying at University Örebro in the spring 2008. See http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/wodak/index.htm for more information on on-going research projects and recent publications.
http://www.univie.ac.at/discourse-politics-identity/alt/people/ruthwodak.htm.



Course enrollment

The course is open to all ph.d. students with an interest in rhetorical studies and related fields. Participating students must be prepared to attend both ph.d. workshops and present their projects in one of them. Spaces are limited, so students should indicate which workshop they would like to present in when they sign up for the course.

Deadline for enrollment is March 25, 2008.
Please register for the course with: Annette Nørballe, e-mail: annoe@ruc.dk

Participation is free for all PhD students. FMKJ covers travel and accommodation costs for doctoral students who are members of FMKJ.


Participation requirements and important dates
Participants must submit an abstract (250 words) of a problem that relates to one of the workshop topics by the registration date March 25, 2008.

A reading packet, which must be read ahead of the course, will be put together and distributed to enrolled students mid-April.

Each participating student should submit their presentation (app. 8 pages) to FMKJ by May 1, 2008 so that they may be distributed to other participants and lecturers ahead of the seminar.


Credits
Participation with a 20 minutes presentation at one of the two workshops: 3 ECTS


Further information
Inquiries regarding the content of the course may be directed to Lisa S. Villadsen, Associate Professor of Rhetoric, University of Copenhagen: lisas@hum.ku.dk

For questions of a practical nature, please contact FMKJ secretary Annette Nørballe: fmkj@ruc.dk

Master class

Researching media in the age of communication chaos

Brian McNair, Professor of Journalism and Communication, University of Strathclyde

April 23, University of Aarhus, Department of Information and Media Studies.

10.00-11.00 Opening lecture

There are more media channels, distributing more information, faster and to a wider audience spanning the entire globe, than ever before in human history. As a consequence, twentieth century paradigms of media impacts, of how ownership determines content, of how audiences interact with media, have come under increasing pressure within media studies. Current debates within the field are focused on the implications of the internet for a globalised public sphere; of the rise of social networking and other forms of interactive, participatory media for citizenship and democratic participation; and in Denmark especially, though not exclusively, the appropriate limits of censorship and regulation of controversial speech and images. Brian McNair has addressed these issues in his recent book, Cultural Chaos, and will lead this master class on the implications of the emerging, globalised public sphere for media and communications scholarship. Following a lecture setting the scene, he will lead discussion on the methodological and epistemological challenges posed by this emerging environment for researchers.

11.00-1300 Workshops and discussion on Research methodology.

Professor McNair will open the session with a short overview of key issues in media research methodology. Workshops will then focus on particular methodological issues, before group discussion.

1300-1400 Lunch

1400-1600 Student presentation of Ph.D research by students.

In this session participants will present short papers (15 minutes) on their research, for comment and discussion by the group.

1600-1700 Individual consultations.

Brian will be available to meet students individually, to discuss their research.
Course enrolment
Deadline for enrolment is 11 April 2008.
Please sign up with: Rikke Hougaard Sørensen, E-mail imvrhs@hum.au.dk
Participation is free for all PhD students. FMKJ covers travel costs for FMKJ doctoral students. Coffee and lunch will be provided for all participants.

Brian McNair’s CV

Brian McNair (M.A. [Hons] Sociology; M.Phil, Comparative Communist Studies; Ph.D Sociology, Glasgow) joined Strathclyde as Professor of Journalism & Communication in 2005, having previously occupied posts at the universities of Ulster (1986-89) and Stirling (1990-2004). He is the author of ten books and more than thirty scholarly essays on a wide range of media and culture-related topics including journalism, political communication, sexuality and the media, and journalism in the former Soviet Union and Russia. His books have been widely translated, with editions in Mandarin, Japanese, Spanish, Russian, Korean, Polish and Czech among others. Two of his books are in their 4th revised editions, and have become standard texts on media studies courses throughout the world.

He has held research grants from the Economic and Social Research Council, the Australian Research Council, the Broadcasting Standards Commission and the Carnegie Trust, and acted as a Media Adviser to the UK government's Know How Fund. He is a regular contributor to the press and broadcast media in the UK, including the Guardian, the Sunday Herald and Scotland On Sunday.

The Danish Research School for Communication, Journalism and Media Studies

invites doctoral students to the intensive Ph.d. course

“The Janus-faced Plethora of Corporate Communications”

Date / Venue
April 14th-16th 2008, Hotel Comwell Borupgaard, Nørrevej 80, DK-3070 Snekkersten (about 1 hours travel from Copenhagen Airport, north of Copenhagen)

Course Conveners
Roy Langer, Roskilde University
Lars Thøger Christensen, University of Southern Denmark

General description
Over the past two decades Corporate Communications has emerged as a highly productive interdisciplinary research field that has been able to attract contributors at the crossroads of organization studies, marketing, (organizational) communication studies and public relations. Scholars from disciplines as diverse as rhetoric, linguistics, management studies and even political science gained an interest in and contributed to the field.

This course addresses the plethora of concepts and approaches to corporate communications that have emerged over the past two decades, such as branding, storytelling, strategic CSR-communication, change communication, network communication, relationship marketing and integrated communication.

According to Roman mythology, Janus was the God of gates, doors, doorways, beginnings, and endings. His two faces symbolize changes and transitions between the past and the future, between one condition and another, and between one vision and another. More recently, Bruno Latour referred to Janus when discussing “science in action”, arguing for his methodological dictum that science and technologies must be studied in action and in the making.

Corporate Communications is such an organizational technology in action, where the vibrance of the field is based on polarities and contrasts between different approaches. Being Janus-faced includes also that research on corporate communications constantly reflects on advantages and disadvantages of different approaches to corporate communication practice, in particular when branding, storytelling, strategic CSR-communication reflect deliberate deceptiveness, corporate closure and hypocrisy by pretending one set of feelings while acting under the influence of another in the attempt to discipline and control corporate stakeholders.

Purpose
The objective of this three-day intensive course is to bring together doctoral students interested in the study of corporate communications, from different academic disciplines, intellectual and methodological traditions, and to discuss and share ideas with leading researchers and practitioners in the field. These include:

Joep Cornelissen (professor, Leeds University)
Wim Elving (professor, Amsterdam University)
Jesper Falkheimer (associate professor, Lund University)
Steve Kline (professor, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver)
T.C. Melawar (professor, Brunel University)
Lars Thøger Christensen (professor, University of Southern Denmark)
Roy Langer (professor, Roskilde University)

We will introduce, discuss and reflect upon the origins, state of the art and future of corporate communications the plethora of prominent approaches, strategies and concepts to corporate communications the interplay between research on, consultancy in and business applications of corporate communications.

Participants will be asked to present their own and discuss other participants’ research projects, while also hearing lectures and presentations by distinguished scholars and practitioners, and engaging in discussion with them.

The final course schedule will be available for enrolled participants from March 1st, 2008.

Target Group
This doctoral course is aimed at doctoral students in communication, media, organization, marketing and management studies and related disciplines, whose research projects relate to the plethora of corporate communications. Students must be currently enrolled in a doctoral program and must be formally enrolled in this course.

Teaching methods
Dialogue lectures and group discussions.

Course literature
• Christensen, L. T., Morsing, M. and Cheney, G. (2008). Corporate Communications: Convention, Complexity and Critique. London, Sage, (in press)
• Cornelissen, Joep (2004): Corporate Communications. Theory and Practice. Sage.
• A supplementary binder will be provided by March 15th.

Requirements and Preparations
Extensive readings, presence for all hours on all, and active participation in discussion are expected of all enrolled participants. Participants are expected to send in a project description or a paper/chapter draft related to their research project in advance, to prepare an oral presentation of their project, and to prepare for being a discussant for another participants’ project description or paper/chapter draft.

Course Enrolment
Please sign up with:
Annette Nørballe
E-mail: fmkj@ruc.dk
Please note an upper limit of 20 participants.

Enrolment Requirements
When signing up for the course, you will be asked to provide a short abstract (about 20 lines) of your research project.
A full project description or paper/chapter drafts (minimum 10 pages, maximum 25 pages) should be handed in no later than March 15th, 2008.
The Danish Research School covers participation expenses for doctoral students from its member institutions. Doctoral students from other institutions will have to pay a participation fee of 6.000 DKK covering the course, accommodation and food.
Credits
6 ECTS

Course schedule

Date Topic / title of activity Presenters
April 14th,
morning
10.00 –
11.00 Arrival
11.00 – 11.15 Welcome
11.15 –
12.30 Corporate Communications: origins, approaches and trends Lars Thøger Christensen & Roy Langer
12.30-13.15 Lunch break
April 14th, afternoon
13.15 – 14.30 Corporate Identity – a research journey… T.C. Melawar

14.30-14.45 Coffee break
14.45 –
16.30 Ph.d.-paper-session I Participants
16.30 –
16.45
Coffee break
16.45 –
18.00 Do organizations pay enough attention on communication with their employees? Wim Elving
April 14th,
evening
18.00–
20.00 Dinner Break
20.00 –
21.15 Academic Publishing-session Joep Cornelissen, Wim Elving, Lars Thøger Christensen, Roy Langer
April 15th,
morning
08.45 -10.00 Branding and Public Relations: Junk Food and Corporate Responsibility Steve Kline
10.00 –
10.15 Break
10.15 –
12.00 Ph.d.-paper session II participants
12.00 –
12.45 Lunch Break
April 15th, afternoon
12.45 – 14.15 Disciplined Imagination and Theorising in Corporate and Organizational Communication Joep Cornelissen
15.00 –
16.30 Integrated Communications: how far have we come, how far should we go? Joep Cornelissen, Wim Elving,
two Danish practitioners,
panel debate in “Huset Markedsføring” (House of Marketing)
April 15th,
evening On free disposal
April 16th,
morning
09.00-
09.30 Ph.d. paper session III participants
09.30 –
09.45 Coffee break
09.45 –
11.00 The Janus-face of corporate communications Lars Thøger Christensen
11.00 –
11.15 Coffee break
11.15 –
12.30 Going nuts? Buzz, guerrilla, gonzo, stealth and other marketing communication trends Roy Langer
12.30 –
13.30 Lunch break
April 16th, afternoon
13.30 –
14.45 To be announced Jesper Falkheimer
14.45 –
15.00 Break
15.00 -
15.45 Future issues and challenges in Corporate Communications – roundtable discussion Lars Thøger Christensen,
Roy Langer
15.45 –
16.15 Evaluation talk and good bye

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