The thematic sections and networks organize highly focused seminars and conferences under the ECREA umbrella.
Upcoming seminarsTarget participants: researchers in communication, social sciences, philosophy and related disciplines
Affiliation: ECREA Philosophy of Communication Section with the Department of Sociology, University of Padua
Venue: University of Padua
Date: May 15 2009
Contact: vincenzo.romania@gmail.com
Website: http://www.philosophy-of-communication.eu/
An informal workshop exploring recent research and theory development focussing on complexity, contingency and risk in communication.
Read moreTarget participants: Members of the Organisational and Strategic Communication Section (but open to all)
Affiliation: ECREA Organisational and Strategic Communication Section
Venue: University of Toulouse
Date: Jun 09 2009
Contact: arlette.bouzon@iut-tlse3.fr
This workshop aims to understand contemporary developments in communication theory by looking backwards as well as forwards. It intends to deal with the question of how communication is intertwined at various levels. Additionally, we would like to address the question of what kind of alterations can be used to adapt existing models and theories for current crisis.
Read moreTarget participants: Members of the Audience and Reception Studies Section (but open to all)
Affiliation: 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)
Venue: University of Westminster, London, UK
Date: 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.
Read moreTarget participants: Scholars interested in political communication, in particular media and elections both in domestic and European contexts
Affiliation: 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
Website: http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/sub1.cfm?pbcrumb=20th%20April%202009
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.
Read moreTarget participants: Members of the ECREA Communication Law and Policy Section (but open to all), media regulators
Affiliation: Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), University of Westminster and ECREA Communication Law and Policy Section
Venue: University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London, UK
Date: Oct 02 2009
Contact: Journalism@wmin.ac.uk
Call for papers: http://www.wmin.ac.uk/mad/page-2156
Website: http://www.wmin.ac.uk/mad/page-2156
This symposium will seek to bring together scholars and regulators from around Europe to discuss the nature of new policy initiatives being canvassed or implemented, and their repercussions for promoting (or foreclosing) the public interest.
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