MEDIA EVENTS, GLOBALIZATION AND CULTURAL CHANGE Call for Papers Media Events have become an important area of international media and communication studies research. The international conference "Media Events, Globalization and Cultural Change" will articulate these discussions. Conference Time: Friday 6th July–Saturday 7th July 2007, University of Bremen (Germany) Organiser: Media Sociology Group of the German Communication Association(DGPuK) and Psychology and Public Opinion Section (PPO) of the IAMCR Conference team: Nick Couldry, Andreas Hepp, Friedrich Krotz Topics of the conference are: - Defining and theorising media events - Exploring processes of ritualization, as worked out in and around media events - Empirical studies on media events, their globalization and change - Studies on the relation of media events and (global) popular culture - Analysing media events production and consumption - Everyday appropriation of media events - Transnational media flows, global media events and the global public sphere - Ritual media events and the changing nature of religion - The role of digital media (the internet, weblogs etc.) within media events Invited Keynote speaker include: - Daniel Dayan, - Eric Rothenbuhler and - Ingrid Volkmer. For the complete call and more information please visit the conference website at: http://www.media-events-bremen07.org Please send your abstracts (not more than 300 words) to mediaevents@uni-bremen.de by Sunday 31st March 2007 or contact: Nick Couldry: N.Couldry@gold.ac.uk Andreas Hepp: Andreas.Hepp@uni-bremen.de Friedrich Krotz: Friedrich.Krotz@uni-erfurt.de