This year's preconference "Mediating Global Citizenship" is in some ways a continuation of the debate of last year's preconference on "Methodologies of International Comparative Research." Whereas last year's conference addressed methodological issues arising from today's transnational media space, we will particularly focus on citizenship models mediated within this globalized, i.e. enlarged/compressed communicative space. As media deliver not only images of 'the world' but epistemological and ontological notions of world construction in newly fragmented highly individualized spaces of mediation, it is timely to debate and critically assess not only 'cultures of difference' but reflect these in the perspective of an integrative conceptual framework of global citzenship.
The first part of the conference will address mediated citizenship in globalized frameworks, the second part will debate the framing of citizenship in national spheres of difference and the third part will discuss the mediation of citizenship in new public terrains. The conference is organized as a 2-day event and will bring together around thirty presenters who have conducted important research in these areas.
The preconference has been organized by the Philosophy of Communication Division and is cosponsored by the divisions Global Communication/Social Change and Political Communication. The preconference is also cosponsored by Center for Global Communication Studies (Annenberg School for Communication, U of Pennsylvania).
