Communicating Emergencies. New date

Communicating Emergencies

Constitution, Individual Liberty and Political Communication 

Faculty of Communication Sciences Università della Svizzera italiana

James Madison Program Princeton University

Lugano, Switzerland – October 28th-30th 2013

ICA 63rd Annual Conference

ICA’s 63rd Annual Conference

Challenging Communication Research

London, UK – June 17th-21st 2013

Furter information

 

The Party’s Over?

The Party’s Over?

63rd Political Studies Association Annual Conference
Cardiff, Wales, UK – March 25th-27th 2013

Further information

CALL FOR PAPERS. Italian Association of Political Communication

Linguaggi pop e decisioni hard. La comunicazione politica in tempi di crisi (Pop languages and hard decisions. Political Communication in a crisis era)

December 13-15 2012

Torino – Luigi Einaudi Campus

Call for papers

 

In recent years, contemporary democracies have had to address increasingly complex challenges. At a time when those in power are forced to make hard and unpopular choices, public distrust of politics leads governments to use communication as a strategic tool to reach disaffected citizens and to propose compelling and winning narratives. The importance assumed by communication and the transformations involving the media have fostered the expansion of what is now known as pop politics. This is a phenomenon that involves politicians, journalists and citizens and redefines forms of mediation and mutual relationships.

The 2012 annual conference of the Italian Association of Political Communication (Associazione Italiana di Comunicazione Politica) aims to explore the problematic nature of these new challenges. In particular, we encourage papers that – using different theoretical and methodological approaches – address the following issues:

1. Italian style Popularization

Featuring the presentation of the results of a national research project, this panel will discuss the concept of popularization and its empirical relevance, looking at the Italian context in comparative perspective as much as possible.

2. Communicate to win and to decide

With an eye to 2013 Italian General Election Campaign, this panel will debate empirical findings and theoretical reflections concerning the relation between campaigning and governing. Particular attention will be paid to the problems of consensus-building while in office, electoral mobilization and the formation of informed public opinion about decision-making processes.

3. Communication on the move: new actors and new flows between participating and protesting

This panel deals with the role that the Internet and online social networks have played (and play) in substantially innovating the forms of political communication. Particular attention will be devoted to the growing presence of unconventional political actors in public debate and to the rise of new forms of interaction between citizens and politics.

Abstracts (maximum 250 words), along with full contact information (title, name, affiliation, email) and a short biography (of between 50 and 100 words), should be submitted to convegno.asscom@unito.it by September 21, 2012.

Accepted papers will be announced in the first week of October 2012.

While the conference will be held primarily in Italian, papers in English are also welcomed.

STUCK. New webseries

“genial chuckles and smiles of appreciation.Good A+”

“I just watched the first two episodes (p and 1 ep), and I give it two Deity-sized thumbs up”

Only two of the many good comments about STUCK, the upcoming web series directed by Ivan Silvestrini, starring Riccardo Sardonè, Ivana Lotito, Vincenzo Alfieri, Valentina Izumi, Gaia Scodellaro, Mark Lawrence.It is a very good audiovisual product. Produced in Italy. Played in English. Excellent!

 

Studentship at the University of Leeds

 

Scholarships for PhD students at the University of Leeds

ESRC White Rose Doctoral Training Centre Studentship

The University of Leeds has been allocated a number of ESRC studentships as part of the White Rose Doctoral Training Centre, a major collaboration between the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York. One of these awards is in the area of Communications and Media Studies and is available on either a 1+3 or +3 basis.

1+3 Studentships consist of a full-time integrated research-training Masters with a 3-year PhD programme.

+3 Studentships are for full-time 3-year PhD study for applicants who have already completed an ESRC-recognised Master’s Degree or appropriate research training programme.

Note: these awards are only available to nationals from the UK and EU and are not open to applicants who are liable to pay academic fees at the international fee rate.

Closing date for applications: 17 Feb 2012 

For more information, please visit: http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/sub1.cfm?pbcrumb=PhD%20Scholarships or contact Kate Oakley at k.oakley@leeds.ac.uk

Burns Night

January 25th 2012

Burns Night

January 25 marks the annual celebration of Scotland’s national poet Robert Burns.

Haggis, celebrations, facts: HERE

 

Bliadhna Mhath Ur!

Happy New Year to all our followers and readers.

Peace and Happiness to everyone.

MECCSA Conference 2012

MeCCSA Conference, 11-13 January 2012

The Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA) is the UK subject association for those researching and teaching in the area, whether in arts, humanities or social sciences departments. In 2012 the MeCCSA annual conference will be hosted by the Bedfordshire Institute for Media, Arts and Performance at the Luton Campus Centre, University of Bedfordshire.

The conference will be held on 11-13th January 2012, in the Luton New Campus Centre of the University of Bedfordshire

Plenary speakers include:

• Steven Barnett on policy
• Clio Barnard on practice
• John Downing on alternative media
• Christine Geraghty on film narrative
• Stuart Laing on media in higher education
• Janet Murray on new media

The conference will also feature scholarly papers, presentations of practice, posters and panels across the full range of interests represented by MeCCSA and its networks.

Further information: http://www.beds.ac.uk/meccsa/conference

PSA: Alex Salmond “Politician of the Year”

The Political Studies Association of the UK awards Mr. Alex Salmond as Politician of the Year

Rt Hon Alex Salmond MSP – Politician of the Year

Salmond, who previously won this award in 2007, was again selected unanimously by the judging panel for this award. They said: ‘At the last Scottish Parliamentary Elections Alex Salmond demonstrated the full extent of his political skill. The campaign run under Salmond’s leadership not only resulted in the party’s best election result since the 1970s but also in a mathematically improbable majority. This performance demonstrates not only Salmond’s appeal and political prowess but also the traits which single him out as Politician of the Year.’ In pursuing the SNP agenda Alex Salmond has expanded the party’s appeal beyond the issue of national independence, a feat which helped secure its historic victory in the 2011 elections. However, Salmond is committed to pursuing the issue of independence and when asked in a recent interview for the Times; ‘What is the earliest at which Scotland could become independent?’ he stated: ‘I am working on a referendum for this Parliament, so in a few years at the earliest. I believe the destination of Scottish independence is as near inevitable as anything can be.’

An academic article (by Emiliana De Blasio, Matthew Hibberd, Michele Sorice) about the so-called “horizontal leadership” and Mr. Alex Salmond, HERE

St. Andrew’s Day

Happy St. Andrew’s Day, from Mediaresearch and the Political Communication Lab.

Here First Minister of Scotland, Alex Salmond, issued a St Andrew’s Day message, ahead of celebration across the country to mark Scotland’s national day.

 

• St Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland
• St Andrew is celebrated on 30 November
• St Andrew’s Day is a day to celebrate Scottish culture, food and dance
• St Andrew’s flag is the flag of Scotland
• The flag is in the form of a white X on a blue background and is commonly known as The Saltire
• St Andrew’s Societies celebrate Scottish culture around the world
• Scotland is one of the few countries to have one of Christ’s disciples as their patron saint
• St Andrew was one of the Twelve Apostles (disciples of Jesus) and brother of St Peter
• St Andrew is believed to have died on a diagonally transversed cross which the Romans sometimes used for executions and which, therefore, came to be called St Andrew’s Cross
• St Andrew’s Day is connected with Advent, which begins on the first Sunday after November 26
• St Andrew’s Day marks the beginning of Scotland’s winter festivals

Social Movements in in the Age of Internet

Department of Media and Communications public lecture

Date: Thursday 24 November 2011
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue:  Sheikh Zayed Theatre, NAB
Speaker: Professor Manuel Castells
Chair:  Professor Terhi Rantanen

How are Social Movements shaped by the availability of horizontal communication networks based on the Internet and wireless communication?  How can indignation become collective action by the connection between neural networks, digital social networks and urban networks?  Which are the cultural and political consequences of these developments? Case studies in different contexts ground a theory of power and social change in the network society presented in the book Communication Power (Oxford University Press, paperback edition 2011) is to be presented in this lecture.

Manuel Castells is University Professor and the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He is a Harold Lasswell Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, as well as a fellow of the Spanish Royal Academy of Economics, a fellow of the Academia Europea, a fellow of the Mexican Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the British Academy.

http://www2.lse.ac.uk/publicEvents/events/2011/20111124t1830vSZT.aspx

Popular politics, populism and the leaders. New e-book from CMCS

Now available a new short essay in e-book format, published by the Centre for Media and Communication Studies “Massimo Baldini” based at LUISS University at Rome.

The e-book, Popular politics, populism and the leaders. Access without participation? The cases of Italy and UK, has been written by Emiliana De Blasio (LUISS University), Matthew Hibberd (University of Stirling) and Michele Sorice (LUISS University).

It represents an important starting point to study the complexity of the relationships between political leadership and populism in the media age.

The e-book is downloadable  for free at http://communication.blogs.luiss.edu (section WP). You can also read it in ISSUU reader, clicking this link.

Politics and Political Leadership in Europe. A seminar at LUISS University, Rome

Politics and Political Leadership in Europe

Seminar at LUISS University, Rome, Italy, about the crisis of politics in Europe and the new political leaderships across the continent.

Wednesday October 12th 2011, h 5.45-7.45 pm

Room 101, LUISS (Viale Romania, 32 – Rome, Italy)

With:

• Sergio Fabbrini, LUISS University, director LUISS School of Government
• Ludger Helms, University of Innsbruck
• Philip Schlesinger, University of Glasgow, Academic Director of the Centre for Cultural Policy Research, chair of Ofcom Scotland
• Michele Sorice, LUISS University, director CMCS
• Chairperson: Emiliana De Blasio, LUISS University, coordinator CMCS

Free access

Politics, Culture, Creativity, Europe

Four words to begin an open debate. Seminars at LUISS University, Rome, Italy.

 

Programme:

Wed October 12th 2011, h 17.45-19.45, room 102

• Politics and Political Leadership in Europe.

With: Sergio Fabbrini, Ludger Helms, Philip Schlesinger, Michele Sorice. Chairperson: Emiliana De Blasio

 

Thu October 13th 2011, h 10.45-12.15, room 102

• Communication and the stateless nation: the Scottish case

With: Philip Schlesinger and Michele Sorice

 

Tue October 18th 2011, h 14.00-15.30, room 307b

• The construction of the “creative economy” as a project, conception and policy field: some reflections on cultural theory from Adorno onwards

With: Emiliana De Blasio and Philip Schlesinger

 

Wed October 19th, h 14.00-15.30, room 305a

• Copyright and creative work: a discussion of the relationship between the current copyright regime in the UK and the realities of precarious creative work

With: Emiliana De Blasio and Philip Schlesinger

 

Thu October 20th, h 10.45-12.15, room 102

• The creation of creative industries policy

With: Philip Schlesinger and Michele Sorice

 

Venue: LUISS University, Viale Romania, 32 – 00197 Rome, Italy

Info: communication@luiss.it