The thematic sections and networks organize highly focused seminars and conferences under the ECREA umbrella.
Upcoming seminarsTarget participants: Members of the ECREA Diaspora, Migration and Media Section (but open to all)
Affiliation: National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Venue: Maynooth, Ireland
Date: Dec 02 - Dec 03, 2011
Contact: olga.bailey@ntu.ac.uk, gavan.titley@nuim.ie, J.S.deLeeuw@uu.nl
Website: http://maynoothcampus.globalenginemedia.com/conference2?conf=ECREA
The scale and density of migration and migratory pathways, the centrality of transnational networks to the lives of multitudes, and the profound impact of ICTs on the experience and nature of migration and transnational life has led to an intensive research focus on the field of Diaspora, Migration and Media.
Read moreTarget participants: Members of the Communication and Democracy and Gender and Communication sections, YECREA members, and academics who are not section members
Affiliation: Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics
Venue: London, UK
Date: Dec 16 - Dec 17, 2011
Contact: ecrea2011@hotmail.com
Website: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/media@lse/Home.aspx
Scandals and the moral outrage they invariably provoke are not new, but the networked synoptic viewer society that we have become, makes scandalitis more permanent, more global and above all a profitable business for media organisations. The advent of crowd sourcing, web 2.0, blogging, CCTV, mobile phones with video capacity and an ever more hungry media eager to produce scandal and direct moral outrage, has made that not only celebrities and politicians are the object of scandal, but ordinary people caught doing something morally condemnable are increasingly thrown into media frenzy as well, while police brutality has become easier to expose through so-called sousveillance or 'inverse surveillance' - watching those that watch.
Read moreTarget participants: IIC, JS and CLP Sections members (but open to all)
Affiliation: Committee of the Regions, Rue Belliard 99-101, 1040 Brussels, Belgium
Venue: Brussels, Belgium
Date: Feb 02 2012
Contact: luciano.morganti@vub.ac.be
Website: http://www.smit.vub.ac.be/EPSC
In order for the European Integration Project to develop further and beyond its economic rationale, European citizens need a well-functioning European Public Sphere (EPS) where they can discuss Europe and participate in European debates and policymaking.
Read moreTarget participants: Members of the Media & the City TWG (but open to all)
Affiliation: Catholic University, Milan, Italy
Venue: Milan, Italy
Date: Feb 10 2012
Contact: simone.tosoni@unicatt.it, matteo.tarantino@unicatt.it
Call for papers: http://twg.ecrea.eu/MC/?p=91
Website: http://twg.ecrea.eu/MC
The first TWG Workshop will feature parallel sessions and a final plenary. During the parallel sessions, members will be able to share and discuss their research. The final plenary session will discuss the organizational aspects of the Group and delineate future activities. Parallel sessions will be open to all interested scholars, while the plenary will be open only for TWG members.
Read moreTarget participants: Members of the Communication Law and Policy Section (but open to all)
Affiliation: Department of Communication Science and Media Research, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich
Venue: Munich, Germany
Date: Mar 16 - Mar 17, 2012
Contact: loeblich@ifkw.lmu.de, pfaff@ifkw.lmu.de
Website: http://www.ifkw.uni-muenchen.de/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/ecrea2012/index.html
The Communication Law and Policy Section of ECREA hereby invites abstracts for presentations on the topic of Communication and Media Policy in the Era of the Internet and Digitization.
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