The thematic sections and networks organize highly focused seminars and conferences under the ECREA umbrella.
Upcoming seminarsTarget participants: Members of the ECREA Journalism Studies (but open to all)
Affiliation: Pamplona, Spain
Venue: School of Communication, University of Navarra
Date: Jul 04 - Jul 05, 2011
Contact: rsalaver@unav.es
Call for papers: http://www.unav.es/fcom/english/
Website: http://www.journalismstudies.eu/pamplona2011
The goal of this conference is to address the concept of diversity related to contemporary journalism in a comprehensive and international way
Read moreTarget participants: Researchers from a variety of disciplines interested in social interaction in games as well as gaming industry experts (but open to all)
Affiliation: University of Hohenheim, Chair of Communication Studies (Interactive Media and Online Communication)
Venue: University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
Date: Jul 21 - Jul 23, 2011
Contact: gamescon2011@uni-hohenheim.de
Website: https://sofoga.uni-hohenheim.de/conference_home.html
The international conference multi.player, hosted by the University of Hohenheim (Stuttgart, Germany), will take a closer look at the various forms of human interaction in digital games.
Read moreTarget participants: Audience researchers, communication scholars; faculty, students, and practitioners
Affiliation: School of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster
Venue: London, UK
Date: Sep 01 - Sep 02, 2011
Contact: D.Gauntlett@westminster.ac.uk
Website: http://www.transformingaudiences.org.uk
Event presented in association with ICA, IAMCR, ECREA, & the COST project 'Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies'.
Read moreTarget participants: Members of the ECREA Philiosophy of Communication Section (but open to all)
Affiliation: Literary Communication Project, Åbo Akademi University
Venue: Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland
Date: Sep 02 - Sep 03, 2011
Contact: aborch@abo.fi
Call for papers: http://web.abo.fi/fak/hf/enge/ECREA/Papers.html
Website: http://www.abo.fi/ECREA
This symposium is to provide a forum in which to assess both the broader and more detailed implications of this trend for our understanding of literature’s place within the lives of individuals and communities.
Read moreTarget participants: Scholars of Media History in Europe who are interested in taking part in a transnational Hand- and Textbook Project
Affiliation: Dublin City University, School of Communications
Venue: Dublin, Ireland
Date: Sep 07 - Sep 09, 2011
Contact: ECREA-Commhist@dcu.ie
Call for papers: http://www.dcu.ie/conferences/ECREA/call_for_papers_form.php3
Website: http://www.dcu.ie/conferences/ECREA/index.shtml
The ECREA Communication History Section has identified ‘post-national perspectives and approaches to the [his]-stories of mediated communication in Europe’ as an increasingly important, if challenging, theme for this field of study. Thus, the Section invites contributions from scholars who are interested in topics related to this theme and who can present papers and engage in the discussion at its 2011 workshop in Dublin.
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