International conference “Mediatization of Culture: Constructing New Texts and Practices”

Abstract

The paper presents the chronicle of the conference “Mediatization of Culture: Construction New Texts and Practices” (Moscow, November 30 — December 1, 2018). The purpose of the conference was to discuss the phenomenon of mediatization of culture, as seen by different scholars from the point of their optics (social studies, anthropology, folklore studies, media studies) or from the perspective of purely applied projects. Today, the media don't merely transmit information, don't merely mediate between humans or between humans and technologies, and don't merely, on a daily basis, demonstrate new ways of transmitting information. Mediality permeates the surrounding world through and through and constructs it together with other social institutes; from a mediator or transmission channel it has turned into an actor within the cultural or social reality, with all the resulting consequences. The conference participants discussed these consequences.