May 10, 2024, Accompanying events: 9 and 11 May, 2024

Hybrid: Lublin & Online

Deadline: March 20, 2024

Organizers: Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, University of Wrocław , Polish Communication Association, Mediatization Section

To address mediatization we have invited the renowned keynote speaker Andreas Hepp (Universität Bremen) who will give a keynote speech on:Datafication, automation and communicative AI: Toward a redefinition of mediatization research (personal presentation; see the abstract here). We open our conference to a wide range of topics related to mediatization and media studies in general, and therefore welcome all papers that address the topics listed below:

• Mediatization and datafication – a conceptual dialogue and/or competition
  
• Datafication as a phase/layer of mediatization
  
• Mediatization research in times of datafication
  
• Datafication of interpersonal, organizational and institutional communication
  
• Data colonialism; colonial appropriation of social-personal data
  
• Digital infrastructures and platform economies
  
• Artificial intelligence as a tool of mediatization
  
• Algorithmization of public and interpersonal communication
  
• Platformization of interpersonal, organizational and institutional communication
  
• Automation of communication
  
• Mediatization of politics and electoral campaigns
  
• Mediatization of war and conflict
  
• Mediatization of sport, physical activity and recreation
  
• Mediatization of business and economy
  
• Mediatization of popular culture and fashion
  
• Mediatization of leisure
  
• Mediatization of religion and spiritual life
  
• Mediatization of daily and family life
  
• (De)mediatization, counter-mediatization and media de-saturation
  

DETAILS: https://www.umcs.pl/en/ms-cfp.htm