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SUMMARY:The Mediated Construction of Reality: from Berger and Luckmann to 
 Norbert Elias  - Professor Nick Couldry\, LSE
DTSTART:20191118T170000Z
DTEND:20191118T183000Z
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CONTACT:Tellef S. Raabe
DESCRIPTION:We are honoured to introduce Nick Couldry as our first speaker
  of this academic year. He is a professor of Media\, Communications and So
 cial Theory at The London School of Economics and Political Science - LSE.
 \n\nAs always: Our seminars are free and open to all\, and no booking is r
 equired. Snacks and drinks will be provided. Meet us in 17 Mill Lane\, Roo
 m B at 5 pm.\n\nFULL TITLE\nThe Mediated Construction of Reality: From Ber
 ger and Luckmann to Norbert Elias\n\nABSTRACT\nIn this talk Nick Couldry w
 ill outline the project of his recent book\, The Mediated Construction of 
 Reality (2016/2017\, co-written with Andreas Hepp). The book offers a crit
 ical re-evaluation and re-articulation of the social constructivist ambiti
 ons of Berger and Luckmann’s 1966 book The Social Construction of Realit
 y while radically rethinking the implications of this for a world saturate
 d not just with digital media\, but with data processes. The talk will out
 line how a materialist phenomenology can draw not just on traditional phen
 omenology\, but on the social theory of Norbert Elias\, particularly his c
 oncept of figurations\, to address the challenges of social analysis in th
 e face of datafication. Elias\, he will argue\, is a particularly importan
 t theorist on whom to draw in making social constructivism ready to face t
 he deep embedding of the social world with digital technologies\, and more
  than that\, to outline the challenges for social order of such a world. E
 lias’ concept of figuration\, if suitably developed\, offers a radical a
 lternative to other concepts for grasping social complexity that have beco
 me dominant in social theory\, such as network and assemblage.    \n\nBIO\
 nNick Couldry is a sociologist of media and culture. He is Professor of Me
 dia Communications and Social Theory at the London School of Economics and
  Political Science\, and from 2017 has been Faculty Associate at Harvard
 ’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. He is the author or ed
 itor of fourteen books including most recently The Costs of Connection: Ho
 w Data is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating Life for Capitalism (wit
 h Ulises Mejias\, Stanford UP)\, Media: Why It Matters  (Polity\, 2019)\, 
 The Mediated Construction of Reality (with Andreas Hepp\, Polity\, 2016)\,
  Ethics of Media (Palgrave 2013\, coedited with Mirca Madianou and Amit Pi
 nchevski)\, Media\, Society\, World: Social Theory and Digital Media Pract
 ice (Polity\, 2012) and Why Voice Matters (Sage\, 2010).
LOCATION:17 Mill Lane\, Room B (1st floor)
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