New Media, Everyday Life and Social Change: Seminar at Ørecomm

What is the role of new media in our everyday life? How does it nurture social changes? On 3 March, 2016 Ørecomm and Global Dynamics welcome you to join discussion with top scholars visiting from UK and US. 

Two leading international scholars are now visiting Roskilde University for the first time: Shaun Moores, Professor of Media and Communications from the UK, and Mark Allen Peterson, Professor of Anthropology and International Studies from Miami University.

Mark Allen Peterson has published more than 40 articles and book chapters on media and social life in India, Egypt and the United States. He is the author of the books Connected in Cairo: Growing Up Cosmopolitan in the Modern Middle East, and Anthropology and Mass Communication: Myth and Media in the New Millennium. Visit his webpage for more information on his research.

There is a lot of academic work about the role of digital media in uprisings in 2011. Yet how about the lived experience of the revolution and  a dramatic social change that it incurs? At Ørecomm’s seminar Professor Peterson will reflect on mediated experience in the Egyptian revolution.  He will suggest some directions for studying  interaction between new media and social change by examining lived transformations taking place during the Egyptian revolution.

Shaun Moores is Professor of Media and Communications at the Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Sunderland, UK. He is the author of academic books including Interpreting Audiences: The Ethnography of Media Consumption (1993), Media and Everyday Life in Modern Society (2000), Media/Theory: Thinking about Media and Communications (2005) and Media, Place and Mobility (2012).  He is currently working on the book to be titled Digital Orientations: Non-Media-Centric Media Studies and Non-Representational Theories of Practice, which is forthcoming in 2017.

Professor Moores writes that he has

“always been working with a ‘non-media-centric’ perspective, in which everyday actions and interactions are centred so that media, with their distinctive characteristics and affordances, can be investigated in this quotidian context. In other ways, though, the work I’ve been doing recently marks a break from at least some of my earlier concerns. This is because I’ve been engaging increasingly with phenomenological and ‘non-representational’ approaches from across the humanities and social sciences, which assert the primacy of practice or movement.”

To learn more about his approach to studying new media and social change,  please sign up here. The seminar will take place on 3 March, at 10.00-12.30, in Room 40.2.25 at the Department of Communication and Arts, Roskilde University. It will also be streamed at: https://orecomm.net/.  More information about the seminar is available here.

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