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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoTitle"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Call for
Papers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; line-height: 150%;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; line-height: 150%;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;" lang="EN-GB">for a
workshop on<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; line-height: 150%;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; line-height: 150%;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;" lang="EN-GB">Media
Appropriations and Mediascapes in Subsaharan </span></b><st1:place><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;" lang="EN-GB">Africa</span></b></st1:place><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;" lang="EN-GB">: new media
entrepreneurs and changing technical and social configurations of public
communication<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; line-height: 150%;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;" lang="EN-GB">Centre
Point Sud, </span></b><st1:city><st1:place><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;" lang="EN-GB">Bamako</span></b></st1:place></st1:city><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;" lang="EN-GB">, </span></b><st1:place><st1:placetype><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;" lang="EN-GB">Republic</span></b></st1:placetype><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;" lang="EN-GB"> of </span></b><st1:placename><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;" lang="EN-GB">Mali</span></b></st1:placename></st1:place><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;" lang="EN-GB">,
2-9/01/2011 <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Roman; color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">The workshop addresses new
tendencies of media engagements in Subsaharan Africa by focussing on how
various kinds of actors and media entrepreneurs in particular appropriate these
media technologies. Recent scholarship has tended to focus on the press and the
video industry as important mass media in Subsaharan Africa. We especially
invite papers that address how various kinds of actors have drawn on radio and
TV to capitalize on the new spaces of entrepreneurship and cultural creativity
that have emerged from the liberalization of media landscapes since the early
1990s. Many African countries have witnessed the establishment of many new and
(state-) independent radio und TV stations, along with a broadening and
diversification of the institutional field of media production. Among the
entrepreneurs who benefit from these new opportunities are those who, although
they received formal training that prepared them for a career in media
production, have been enormously successful in establishing themselves as
leading media figures in this field. Other “media entrepreneurs” are
individuals who, thanks so their mass-mediated appearances and particular
preaching formats, draw large groups of supporters in their role as religious
or political brokers. Forms of entrepreneurship also include numerous
independent media production outlets that work on the basis of public or
private contracts and benefit from the new opportunities of, and needs for,
advertising emerging from transnational structures of commerce and finance. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">We especially invite
ethnographically informed case studies of independent radio & TV stations
and the forms and practices of creativity in which individuals engage who are
affiliated with these stations (stations, journalists, presenters, technicians,
those in charge of popular programs, etc.). Case studies should detail the
everyday routines and media production strategies of these actors, as well as
their interactions with media audiences on one side, and with public
authorities on the other. Papers should address regionally or locally specific
developments, or, alternatively, discuss what can be considered broader
tendencies that reflect on transformations in media engagements throughout
Subsaharan West Africa. Papers could also address methodological and conceptual
challenges emerging for empirical research on radio- and television-mediated
communication from recent transformations in national and transnational media
landscapes in </span><st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Africa</span></st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-GB">. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">The workshop intends to bring
together scholars working in European, African and US American academic
contexts so as to contribute to on-going scholarly debate on theoretical and
methodological perspectives on changing mediascapes in Subsaharan Africa. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Participants are requested to send
in draft versions of their paper (or extended abstracts of at least 6 pages) 4
weeks prior to the conference, to ensure a thorough preparation of the workshop
discussion. PhD students in early phases of their research may submit an
extended project outline.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Papers may be written in English or French,
but the oral presentations during the workshop (20-25 mins.) should be given in
English. Scholars able to draw on substantial empirical research at the
doctoral and post-doctoral level are particularly encouraged to apply Costs for
transport and accommodation for presenters and discussants will be covered
(Program Point Sud/VW- foundation).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Paper abstracts of approximately 200
words and a short CV should be submitted by </span><st1:date month="10" day="15" year="2010"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">October 15, 2010</span></st1:date><span style="" lang="EN-GB">, to the two organizers of the
workshop: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">PD phil. habil Tilo Grätz, Free University
of Berlin: <a href="mailto:tilograetz@yahoo.de">tilograetz@yahoo.de</a><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Prof. Dorothea E. Schulz, </span><st1:place><st1:placetype><span style="" lang="EN-GB">University</span></st1:placetype><span style="" lang="EN-GB"> of </span><st1:placename><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Cologne</span></st1:placename></st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-GB">: <a href="mailto:dschulz5@uni-koeln.de">dschulz5@uni-koeln.de</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Date of notification for accepted paper
proposals: </span><st1:date month="11" day="8" year="2010"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">November 8, 2010</span></st1:date><span style="" lang="EN-GB">. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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