Transforming Audiences 2 Conference

Transforming Audiences 2 was a great success and received very positive feedback.

All informations about the conference, photos and videos from the event will be very soon available at http://www.transformingaudiences.org.uk

The CMCS (Centre for Media and Communication Studies “Massimo Baldini”) based at LUISS University, Rome, Italy, participated to the conference, with the appreciated paper “From Spectators to Participants? Political Engagement and Social Networking in Italy” presented by Emiliana De Blasio.

Some photos are available clicking the folder below.

Transforming Audiences 2

Transforming Audiences 2

The full, final programme, and book of abstracts, is now available online HERE

Gender in European Academia

Gender in European academia: difference and discrimination in communication research

Target participants: Scholars and graduate students interested in the situation of women in the European academia
Organized by: ECREA Women’s Network
Venue: Centre for Intercultural Studies (CEI), Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração, Oporto Polytechnic Institute, Portugal
Date: Nov 25 2009
Contact: Nuria Semelio Sola, Sinikka Torkkola
Website: http://mediagender.wordpress.com/

The workshop intends to analyse the actual situation of gender discrimination and to evaluate academic quality within European universities and polytechnics. Therefore, the workshop would render the actual situation of women in academia visible and, as a result, facilitate their institutional participation.

The deadline for submissions is 25 June 2009. The proposals should include the name, affiliation, e-mail address, along with no more than 200 words of research work description. The program committee will notify applicants by 15 September 2009.

Further questions regardig papers submission should be directed to Nuria and Sinikka.

Strategic and Organizational Communication in firms: Crisis as Opportunity?

Workshop ECREA

Toulouse, June 9, 2009

Strategic and Organizational Communication in firms: Crisis as Opportunity?

Organizational and Strategic Communication Section Institute is pleased to invite you to participate in this workshop to be held in Toulouse on June, 9, 2009. This full day workshop will take place in University of Toulouse III, at the Department Génie Chimique. This meeting, opened to experts, practitioners and scholars, is an invitation to a joint reflection on the crisis. It will be an excellent opportunity to exchange and debate about the trends of Organizational and Strategic communication

Address University of Toulouse III (University Paul Sabatier) Department Génie Chimique 137, avenue de Rangueil, 31077 TOULOUSE

Conference format This will be a small working conference, facilitating conversations intended to develop future connections between participants. Each scholar is asked to submit a paper (30-minute presentations and to provide one approach, theory or analytical tool that can be used to productively understand and/or resolve the issue presented in the paper. Examples could include a media text, a transcript of a conversation, a videotape of interaction, a web page, or a narrative written by a group member. Possibility to do a PowerPoint presentation. Participants will share their case studies before the conference, and spend time during the conference analyzing them from a variety of approaches. After the conference is over, the paper will serve as a common database to facilitate further research. To facilitate discussions at the conference, the conference languages will be English and French.

Specific topics 1. Information and Public Relations in a period of crisis 2. Identity, Culture in a period of crisis

Abstracts Abstracts were submitted to a the Scientific Committee for double-blind review. The proceedings will be available in a next newsletter (Quaderly newsletter n°2, 2009) of the section. (contact Arlette Bouzon mailto:arlette.bouzon@iut-tlse3.fr)

Registration: All participants to the conference, including those who present papers, must register electronically. Registrations will open after May 15, 2009. The deadline for conference registration will be June 1, 2009. Please fill in and e-mail the form to Arlette Bouzon: arlette.bouzon@iut-tlse3.fr.

Transforming Audiences 2

3 – 4 September 2009, University of Westminster, London, UK

All the informations HERE

Transforming Audiences 2

Transforming Audiences 2: creativity / knowledge / participation

University of Westminster, in association with the ECREA Audience and Reception Studies Section, the Popular Communication Division of the International Communication Association (ICA), and the Audience Section of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)

University of Westminster, London, UK

Sep 03 – Sep 04, 2009

Contact: e.spindler@wmin.ac.uk

Call for papers: http://www.transformingaudiences.org.uk/transforming-audiences-2-cfp.pdf

Website: http://www.transformingaudiences.org.uk

The first Transforming Audiences conference, in September 2007, featured over 100 presentations by audience researchers from around the world. Transforming Audiences 2 signals its development as Europe’s major recurring international conference for audience/user studies.

Mediated Citizenship

Mediated Citizenship: Political Information and Participation in Europe

ECREA Political Communication Section and Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds

Venue: University of Leeds, United Kingdom

Date: Sep 17 – Sep 18, 2009

Contact: k.voltmer@leeds.ac.uk

In June 2009 European citizens will elect a new European Parliament, some of them who joined the European Union only recently for the first time. 2009 will also see numerous national elections throughout Europe. The Political Communication section will take this important election year in Europe as an opportunity to revisit one of the key issues of political communication research – how democratic participation is shaped and transformed by processes of mediatisation and what consequences this has for the nature of contemporary citizenship.

Centre for Media and Communication Studies “Massimo Baldini”

Internet pages of the Centre for Media and Communication Studies “Massimo Baldini” are now online.

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The new Centre is institutional member of ECREA and affiliate member of MeCCSA

ECREA Section “Audience and Reception Studies” – Workshop

Workshop
Narrative Fact and Fiction
Patterns of narrative construction in media stories and differential effects

(Hosted by the “Narrative Network”, the ECREA Section “Audience and Reception Studies” and the Department of Communication of the University of Vienna)

Date: 4-5, April 2009, location: University of Vienna
One of the most important functions of media is to inform and connect citizens, enabling them to participate in democratic processes and providing the grounds for integration and social cohesion in a society. Specifically, media stories support and uphold these functions. Both journalistic stories referencing real life events as well as fictional stories referencing fictitious worlds contribute to the audience’s knowledge and world view – possibly complementing or contradicting each other. Fictional and factual stories increasingly converge in terms of style and content. Topics are followed up across pragmatic boundaries. A good example of this is Dan Brown’s book “The Da Vinci Code” that reinterprets biblical history, which has solicited popular historical books scrutinizing the novel’s assertions. While the distinction of fact and fiction is clear on the production side, it seems to be less clear in the audience’s mind and next to irrelevant for actual story experience and effects.

The workshop deals with the question how fictional and factual stories are intertwined at various levels and intends to deepen insights of how patterns of construction and the effects of stories differ with respect to its factual or fictional background. Contributions may address aspects such as: What different types of narrative patterns exist in factual and fictional media stories? What are characteristics of effective stories? How do factual and fictional stories interact in the audience’s mind?

Please send abstracts (150 words) for 30-minute presentations via email to the organizers

[susanne.kinnebrock@univie.ac.at; helena.bilandzic@uni-erfurt.de]
Deadline for submissions is February 8, 2009.

ECC 08 – Philip Schlesinger

An interview to our friend Philip Schlesinger, in the frame of Ecrea Conference (Barcelona).