The thematic sections and networks organize highly focused seminars and conferences under the ECREA umbrella.
Upcoming seminarsTarget participants: Ph.D. students.
Venue: Bergen, Norway.
Date: Dec 14 - Dec 17, 2006
Website: Cultural Techniques website
The deadline for applications expired on September 10, 2006. Go the Cultural Techniques website for further details about the course.
Read moreTarget participants: ECREA section members (but open to all)
Affiliation: ECREA Philosophy and Communication Section
Venue: University of Central Lancashire, Preston, United Kingdom
Date: Mar 02 2007
Contact: Johan Siebers
Website: www.philosophy-of-communication.eu
The section for Philosophy and Communication invites all members and prospective members for a one-day inaugural meeting.
The main objective of the meeting will be to discuss and agree on the Section's objectives and modus operandi and plan activities for the coming year. Two documents, outlining our ideas about what we want to do and how, have been prepared by the Board. They can be downloaded from our website (see above).
Read moreTarget participants: ECREA section members (but open to all)
Affiliation: ECREA Communication Law and Policy Section
Venue: Leeds University
Date: Mar 09 2007
Contact: Section email
The main scope of this one day meeting is to present a showcase of current policy research, and to define research priorities, policy groups and explore further steps for the section. The workshop is open to all, but you will need to register your interest as soon as possible and before February 15.
Read moreTarget participants: ECREA section members (but open to all)
Affiliation: ECREA Organisational and strategic Communication Section
Venue: University of Bucharest, Faculty of Letters, Bucharest, Romania
Date: Jun 01 - Jun 02, 2007
Contact: Adela Rogojinaru
The Conference represents the first event of the ECREA Section on Organisational and Strategic Communication.
It also represents a joint annual event of two faculties and departments of the University of Bucharest: the Department of Communication and Public Relations of the Faculty of Letters and the Centre for Media Studies and New Communication Technologies of the Faculty of Sociology.
There is a registration fee of 100 Euros which includes conference folders, conference proceedings, coffee breaks and buffet. Reductions will be admitted for doctoral students, master students.
Read moreTarget participants: Members of the Radio Research Section
Affiliation: Radio Research Section
Venue: Lincoln, England
Date: Jun 18 2007
Contact: Rosemary Day
The first business meeting of the Radio Research Section of ECREA will be held on Wednesday 18th July 2007 in Lincoln, England. It will be a central event during the international conference "The Radio Conference: A Transnational Forum" (please visit the conference site).
Read moreTarget participants: ECREA section members (but open to all)
Affiliation: Audience and reception studies section
Venue: University of Westminster, UK
Date: Sep 06 - Sep 07, 2007
Contact: Geoffroy Patriarche or David Gauntlett
Call for papers: Transforming Audiences
Website: Transforming Audiences
The conference is organised by the University of Westminster, in association with the Audience and Reception Studies section of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), and the Popular Communication Division of the International Communication Association (ICA).
Plenary speakers will include Sonia Livingstone (London School of Economics) and Joke Hermes (Inholland University and University
of Amsterdam).
All proposals should be sent by 20 April 2007 to Erica Spindler. Electronic submissions only.
Read moreTarget participants: ECREA section members (but open to all)
Affiliation: ECREA Diaspora, Migration and the Media Section
Venue: Institute of Communications Studies, Leeds University, Leeds, UK
Date: Sep 07 - Sep 08, 2007
Contact: Myria Georgiou
Website: ics.leeds.ac.uk/ecrea-diasporamedia
The debate around cultural difference, communication, and the media is the prime focus of this workshop.
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Marie Gillespie, Open University.
Charles Husband, Bradford University.
Kim Knott, Leeds University; Director of AHRC 'Diasporas, Migration and Identities' programme.
Target participants: ECREA section members (but open to all)
Affiliation: ECREA section International Communication
Venue: Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Brussels, Belgium
Date: Oct 10 2007
Contact: Leo Van Audenhove
This Symposium aims to critically reflect on the Internet as a global medium.
The deadline for submission of abstracts (max 500 words) is 15/07/2007. Please send your abstract to: Dorien Baelden
Read moreTarget participants: ECREA section members (but open to all)
Affiliation: ECREA Sections Communication and democracy; Journalism Studies; Gender and communication; and Political communication; with the support of the European Journalism Centre and Vesalius College
Venue: Residence Palace (Brussels - Belgium)
Date: Oct 11 - Oct 12, 2007
Contact: Sofie Van Bauwel
Call for papers: Equal Opportunities and Communication Rights
In this Symposium we aim to critically discuss and interrogate the role of media and communication relating to issues of equality, diversity, civic participation and democracy beyond the nation state, on the basis of theoretical and/or empirical research.
The deadline for submission of abstracts (max 500 words) is 01/05/2007. The deadline for submission of full papers is 15/09/2007.
Read moreTarget participants: ECREA section members (but open to all)
Affiliation: ECREA Digital Culture and Communication Section
Venue: University of Sussex, UK
Date: Nov 02 - Nov 03, 2007
Contact: Maren Hartmann
Call: To be published
Read moreTarget participants: ECREA section members (but open to all)
Affiliation: Philosophy of Communication Section
Venue: University of Surrey, Guildford
Date: Nov 08 - Nov 09, 2007
Contact: contact@philosophy-of-communication.eu
Website: Philosophy of Communication Section Website
LANDMARKS is the Biannual conference of the Philosophy of Communication Section of ECREA.
Keynote speaker for the 2007 conference is Siegfrid J. Schmidt.
Rethinking communication theory seems to be in vogue again. Even though it is dangerous to seek to predict future theoretical trends, the field of communication theory seems likely to continue to generate much attention. And yet, this field still disguises what might be uncovered: its analytical background and the constraints resulting from an implicit incorporation of philosophical thinking into current communication theory in its various manifestations.
Read moreTarget participants: ECREA section members (but open to all)
Affiliation: ECREA Film studies Section, in collaboration with the University of Antwerp Visual Culture research group, the Ghent University Working Group Film and Television Studies, the Flemish Service for Film Culture (VDFC), the Royal Belgian Film Archive and the HoMER-network
Venue: Royal Belgian Archive in Brussels, Belgium (tbc)
Date: Dec 13 - Dec 15, 2007
Contact: Philippe Meers
Call: To be published
Read moreAffiliation: ECREA Film Studies Section in collaboration with the International Cinema Audiences Research Group (ICARG).
Venue: Brussels
Date: Dec 15 - Dec 16, 2007
Contact: Gert Willems and Liesbeth van de Vijver
Website: www.cinemagoingconference.ugent.be (under construction)
The aim of the conference is to review the current state of research in the history of moviegoing and film exhibition and distribution. We seek to bring together scholars dealing with these subjects from all over the globe.
Please submit abstracts (500 words) with short bio to Gert Willems and Liesbeth van de Vijver before 6 July 2007. Speakers will be notified of acceptance by 31 July 2007.
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Annette Kuhn (University of London)
Richard Maltby (Flinders University)
Target participants: Scholars interested in narratives
Affiliation: Narrative Network, ECREA Audience and Reception Studies Section and Department of Communication, University of Vienna
Venue: University of Vienna, Austria
Date: Apr 04 - Apr 05, 2009
Contact: susanne.kinnebrock@univie.ac.at, helena.bilandzic@uni-erfurt.de
Call for papers: http://www2.kommunikationswissenschaft-erfurt.de/uploads/call_narrative_workshop.pdf
The workshop deals with the question of 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.
Read moreTarget participants: Members of the International and Intercultural Communication, Communication and Democracy, Communication, Law and Policy Sections (but open to all)
Affiliation: Giganet and International and Intercultural Communication, Communication and Democracy, Communication, Law and Policy Sections of ECREA
Venue: Brussels, Belgium
Date: May 11 2009
Contact: Meryem.Marzouki@lip6.fr
Website: http://giganet.igloogroups.org/publiclibr/giganetcos/2009brusse
The Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) invites you to participate in a scholarly workshop to be held in Brussels, Belgium, on 11 May 2009. This full day workshop is organized in cooperation with three thematic sections of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA): International and Intercultural Communication, Communication and Democracy, Communication, Law and Policy sections.
Read moreTarget 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.
Read moreTarget participants: Science and Environment Communication Section (but open to all)
Affiliation: Science and Environment Communication Section, Network on Experts and the Communication of Knowledge, Nordic Network for the Study of the Dialogic Communication of Research
Venue: University of Copenhagen
Date: Oct 09 2009
Contact: christal@hum.ku.dk, louisep@ruc.dk
Website: http://www.scienv-com.eu/
We would like to invite you to participate in a one-day symposium at the University of Copenhagen on Exploring the Communication of Research across Contexts and Theoretical Perspectives, 9 October, 10.00-16.00.
Read moreTarget participants: Members of the ECREA Radio Research Section, Radio Academics and Professionals
Affiliation: ECREA Radio Research Section and Cyprus University of Technology
Venue: Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol
Date: Oct 14 - Oct 16, 2009
Contact: angeliki.gazi@cut.ac.cy
Website: http://www.radiostudies.eu
The Cyprus University of Technology and the ECREA Radio Research Section invite the submission of abstracts for their forthcoming conference, Radio Content in the Digital Age.
Read moreTarget participants: Scholars and postgraduate students of interpersonal communication and social interaction
Affiliation: ECREA Interpersonal Communication and Social Interaction section, Finnish Doctoral School of Communication Studies and Department of Speech Communication and Voice Research, University of Tampere
Venue: University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland
Date: Oct 21 - Oct 23, 2009
Contact: teija.waaramaa@uta.fi
Call for papers: http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/puheoppi/autumn_conference/#cfp
Website: http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/puheoppi/autumn_conference/
The 1st Autumn Conference of Interpersonal Communication and Social Interaction, organised by the ECREA's Section for Interpersonal Communication and Social Interaction, the Finnish Doctoral School of Communication Studies and the Department of Speech Communication and Voice Research at the University of Tampere, Finland, will center around three themes and 31 papers will be presented on these themes:
- Interpersonal communication and social interaction in close relationships,
- Interpersonal communication and social interaction in professional context
- Mediated interpersonal communication.
Target participants: Members of the Diaspora, Migration and the Media Section (but open to all)
Affiliation: ECREA Diaspora, Migration and the Media Section, Nottingham Trent University and Utrecht University
Venue: Utrecht University, Netherlands
Date: Nov 06 - Nov 07, 2009
Contact: Sonja de Leeuw (J.S.deLeeuw@uu.nl), Manon Meijer (M.D.J.Meijer@uu.nl), Olga Bailey (olga.bailey@ntu.ac.uk), Gemma Moran (gemma.moran@ntu.ac.uk)
Website: http://www.uu.nl/NL/faculteiten/geesteswetenschappen/Actueel/Agenda/Pages/20090918-diasporamigrationandmedia.aspx
Studying the relationship between diasporas and the media presents several challenges and issues that are at the core of humanities, social sciences, anthropology, and cultural and media studies.
Read moreTarget participants: Members of the ECREA Communication Law and Policy Section (but open to all)
Affiliation: ECREA Communication Law and Policy Section in collaboration with the Institute of Mass Communication and Media Research (IPMZ), University of Zurich
Venue: Zurich, Switzerland
Date: Nov 06 - Nov 07, 2009
Contact: m.puppis@ipmz.uzh.ch, n.just@ipmz.uzh.ch
Call for papers: http://www.mediapolicy.uzh.ch/ecrea/ecrea_callforpapers.pdf
Website: http://www.mediapolicy.uzh.ch/ecrea/
The Communication Law and Policy Section of ECREA is organizing an event on New Directions for Communication Policy Research.
Read moreTarget participants: ECREA section members (but open to all)
Affiliation: ECREA Journalism Studies Section in cooperation with the Swiss Association of Communication and Media Research (SGKM) and the German Communication Association (DGPuK), with the support of ICA and IAMCR
Venue: Zürich/Winterthur, Switzerland
Date: Nov 19 - Nov 21, 2009
Contact: th.hanitzsch@ipmz.uzh.ch
Website: http://project.zhaw.ch/de/linguistik/jrc.html
The international conference Journalism Research in the Public Interest intends to provide a venue for the theoretical, critical and empirical engagement with the social relevance and applicability of journalism research in both national and international contexts.
Read moreTarget participants: ECREA members, DGPuK members and COST298 participants (and open to all)
Affiliation: University of the Arts (UdK), Germany, University of Sussex, UK, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
Venue: University of the Arts (UdK), Berlin, Germany
Date: Nov 20 - Nov 21, 2009
Contact: hartmann@udk-berlin.de
Call for papers: http://digitalcultureandcommunication.blogspot.com
This two-day conference on ’Digital Technologies Revisited’ aims to understand contemporary developments in digital media and digital media theory by looking backwards as well as forwards.
We set out to explore an in-between time: a time, when much of the hype concerning digital media has died down, much research material has been gathered and analyzed and quite a bit about the possibilities and limitations of digital media (especially in comparison to older media forms) has been understood.
Read moreTarget participants: Scholars and graduate students interested in the situation of women in the European academia
Affiliation: 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.simelio.sola@uab.es, sinikka.torkkola@uta.fi
Website: http://www.iscap.ipp.pt/~cei/ecrea_WS_home.htm
The workshop intends to analyse the actual situation of gender discrimination and to evaluate academic quality within European universities and polytechnics.
Read moreTarget participants: Members of the ECREA Gender and Communication, Communication and Democracy, and Film Studies sections, and the Young Scholars' Network (but open to al
Affiliation: Erasmus Research Centre for Media, Communication and Culture (ERMECC), Erasmus University Rotterdam, in collaboraion with the ECREA Gender and Communication, Communication and Democracy, and Film Studies sections, and the Young Scholars' Network
Venue: Erasmus University, Rotterdam
Date: Nov 26 - Nov 27, 2009
Contact: ermecc@fhk.eur.nl
Call for papers: http://www.fhk.eur.nl/english/ermecc/ecrea/
This colloquium aims to provide a broad overview of recent theories and empirical work engaging with the phenomenon of the spectacle by focussing on media and communication in relation to film studies, gender and democracy.
Read moreTarget participants: Members of the ECREA Radio Research Section and of the Groupe de Recherches et d'Etudes sur la Radio (GRER), radio academics and professionals
Affiliation: GRER (Groupe de Recherches et d'Etudes sur la Radio) in association with the ECREA Radio Research Section
Venue: Université Paris 1 – Sorbonne Panthéon, Paris
Date: Nov 26 - Nov 28, 2009
Contact: grer.mail@club-internet.fr
Website: http://www.grer.fr/agenda.php?id=20
GRER, the Groupe de Recherches et d'Etudes sur la Radio, and the ECREA Radio Research Section together invite the submission of abstracts for their forthcoming conference, Vers la post radio - Enjeux des mutations des objets et formes radiophoniques. The title loosely translates as Towards Post-radio - Stakes in the Development of Radio Content and Genres.
Read moreTarget participants: Researchers working in philosophy, communication theory, communication and cultural studies and related disciplines
Affiliation: ECREA Philosophy of Communication Section, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London
Venue: Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
Date: Dec 09 - Dec 11, 2009
Contact: JISiebers@uclan.ac.uk
Call for papers: http://www.philosophy-of-communication.eu/news_landmarks2.php
Website: http://www.philosophy-of-communication.eu
The Philosophy of Communication section of ECREA will host its second Landmarks conference, from 9-11 December 2009, at the University of London’s School of Advanced Study. Landmarks is the name of our bi-annual conference exploring current pathways of research and scholarship in the philosophy of communication. We aim to provide a platform for interdisciplinary discussion and engagement, spanning philosophy and communication studies broadly understood, and creating opportunities for established as well young scholars and researchers to present their work and their ideas.
Read moreTarget participants: Members of the ECREA Television Studies section (but open to all)
Affiliation: ECREA Television Studies section, in collaboration with the Popular Communication Division of the ICA, the Popular Culture Working Group of the IAMCR, the Media and Communication section and the section of Cultural Sociology of the German Sociological Association
Venue: Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen
Date: Jan 14 - Jan 16, 2010
Contact: l.mikos@hff-potsdam.de
Website: http://csc.hff-potsdam.de
The Television Studies section of ECREA will held its inaugural conference in Potsdam, Germany on January 14 - January 16, 2010.
Read moreTarget participants: Graduates and members of YECREA (but also open to MA and BA students)
Affiliation: Centro para as Ciências da Comunicação (C2COM -University of Porto) in collaboration with the European Communication Research and Education Association’s Young Scholars’ Network (YECREA) and Media XXI - Investigação e Consultoria/FormalPress
Venue: University of Porto
Date: May 13 - May 14, 2010
Contact: icmc2010info@icicom.up.pt
Website: http://icmc2010.wordpress.com/
The I International Graduate conference on Media and Communication (ICMC) at the University of Porto will provide a timely opportunity to spark a discussion on the dynamics between media and the political world, in different countries, with a particular focus on the role of the media in exceptional times: the way candidates and parties are covered during elections campaigns and the media performance in wartime periods.
Read moreTarget participants: Members of the ECREA Communication History section (but open to all)
Affiliation: ECREA Communication History section, in collaboration with the Center for Research on Contemporary History (ZZF), the Historical Section of the German Communication Association (DGPuK) and the Working Committee for Historical Communication Research (AHK), Austria.
Venue: Center for Research on Contemporary History (ZZF), Potsdam, Germany
Date: Jun 03 - Jun 05, 2010
Contact: klaus.arnold@ku-eichstaett.de
Call for papers: http://sections.ecrea.eu/CHIS/CFP-UGC-Potsdam-2010.pdf
The Communication History thematic section of ECREA will held its founding conference in Potsdam/Berlin on 3-5 June 2010. Abstracts for the international workshop 'User Generated Content. Historical perspectives on the participation of audiences in social communication' have to submitted by 17 January 2010.
Read moreTarget participants: PhD researchers in Communication History, and theoretical and methodological aspects of transnational and comparative research
Affiliation: Young Scholars Communication History Network of the German Communication Association (DGPuK) and YECREA – ECREA Young Scholars Network in cooperation with the Center for Research on Contemporary History (ZZF), Potsdam
Venue: Center for Research on Contemporary History, Potsdam/Berlin (Germany)
Date: Jun 03 2010
Contact: loeblich@ifkw.lmu.de
The idea behind the workshop is to discuss concrete theoretical and methodological issues of doing communication history transnationally or comparatively within working groups and in a plenary session. The aim of this working method is to optimize exchange and networking between PhD students and experts in the respective fields of research. At the beginning of the workshop there will be keynotes presented by these experts in transnational and comparative research from all over Europe. Prof. Dr. Marcel Broersma (Groningen), Prof. Dr. Andreas Fickers (Maastricht), Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp (Bremen), Prof. Dr. Sonja de Leeuw (Utrecht) and Dr. Josef Seethaler (Vienna) are requested.
Read moreTarget participants: Audience researchers, communication scholars; faculty, students, and practitioners
Affiliation: Centre for Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb
Venue: Zagreb, Croatia
Date: Apr 08 - Apr 09, 2011
Contact: helena.bilandzic@phil.uni-augsburg.de
Call for papers: http://www.cost-transforming-audiences.eu/system/files/Call%20COST%20conference%20Zagreb.pdf
Website: http://www.cost-transforming-audiences.eu/
This conference deals with methodological innovations triggered by changes in the media environment, for example the convergence of traditional mass media, computers and telecommunication, emergence of user-generated formats as well as social and cultural changes that intersect with technological changes.
Read moreTarget participants: Members of the Organizational and Strategic Communication Section (but open to all)
Affiliation: Faculty of Communication and Arts, University of Beira Interior and LabCom, Covilha, Portugal
Venue: Faculty of Communication and Arts, University of Beira Interior and LabCom, Covilha, Portugal
Date: May 05 - May 06, 2011
Contact: gisela.ubi@gmail.com
Call for papers: http://www.oscs-ecrea2011.ubi.pt/#CallForPapers
Website: http://www.oscs-ecrea2011.ubi.pt
This workshop aims to analyse how contemporary developments in strategic and organizational communication theory contributes to understand how corporations struggle to continuously cultivate and develop positive relationships within the organization and with different publics.
Read moreTarget participants: Communication scholars, researchers and students
Affiliation: Pontifical University John Paul II, Cracow
Venue: Cracow, Poland
Date: May 05 - May 07, 2011
Contact: mdrozdz@rdn.pl
Call for papers: http://www.ptks.pl/pliki/cfp_cecf2011.pdf
Website: http://www.ptks.pl
The four speakers of ECREA's CEE Network panel (Tomas Trampota, Epp Lauk, Aukse Balcytiene, Boguslawa Dobek-Ostrowska) will speak about different issues associated with visibility and representativeness of communication research and will talk about different practicalities of giving voice and visibility to Central and Eastern Europe, and, at the same time, recognizing research traditions, cultural patterns and development perspectives in CEE as yet another voice of the same Europe.
Read moreTarget participants: Members of the Communication and Democracy Section of ECREA (but open to all)
Affiliation: Faculty of Arts and Letters and the Laboratory of Online Communication from University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal
Venue: University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal
Date: May 19 - May 20, 2011
Contact: public.sphere.reconsidered@gmail.com
Website: http://agendadocidadao.ubi.pt/PSR/
This International Conference aims to analyze contemporary developments in the concept of public sphere. Special attention will be paid to a cross-disciplinary approach to the theme and to a comparative methodology regarding different related issues and new tools of communication.
Read moreTarget participants: Members of the ECREA Television Studies Section (but open to all)
Affiliation: Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias (ULHT), LINI (Lisbon Internet and Networks Institute)
Venue: Lisbon, Portugal
Date: Jun 29 - Jul 01, 2011
Contact: info.euroitv2011@gmail.com
Call for papers: http://www.euroitv2011.org/
Website: http://www.euroitv2011.org/
This is a Call for Papers for the Panel “Television Audiences and uses: Beyond Consumption" at the EuroITV2011 conference, themed “Ubiquitous TV”. EuroITV is the leading international conference for media related to video and television.
Read moreTarget 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.
Read moreTarget participants: ECREA Young Scholars (YECREA), members of the ECREA Communication History section (but open to all)
Affiliation: Dublin City University, School of Communications
Venue: Dublin, Ireland
Date: Sep 07 2011
Contact: c.schwarzenegger@isk.rwth-aachen.de
Website: http://www.dcu.ie/conferences/ECREA/index.shtml
The workshop aims to learn how scholars in different stages of their careers confront these specific challenges that communication history poses (and whether they truly are so specific). It shall be tried to unravel similarities and peculiarities of the nature of these challenges in different European settings as well as inquired how experiences and preconditions differ in European countries and what experiences scholars have made and which strategies they have followed in their personal careers.
Read moreTarget participants: Members of the ECREA Interpersonal Communication and Social Interaction Section (but open to all)
Affiliation: Faculty of Social Sciences, School of Communication
Venue: University of Ulster
Date: Sep 08 - Sep 09, 2011
Contact: icsiabstracts@ulster.ac.uk
Call for papers: http://sections.ecrea.eu/ICSI/2011_ICSI_call_for_papers.pdf
Website: http://www.socsci.ulster.ac.uk/comms/ecrea/index.html
The 2011 Interpersonal Communication and Social Interaction (ICSI) Section Conference of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) will be hosted by the School of Communication, University of Ulster.
Read moreTarget participants: Members of the ECREA Radio Research Section (but open to all), radio practitioners, radio journalists, media and communication students
Affiliation: University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
Venue: Braga, Portugal
Date: Sep 14 - Sep 16, 2011
Contact: stanislaw@ics.uminho.pt, madalena.oliveira@ics.uminho.pt
Call for papers: http://radioevolution2011.wordpress.com/call-for-papers/
Website: http://radioevolution2011.wordpress.com/
Throughout its history, radio has been undergoing constant transformations. Perhaps this is why it has survived the changes of the political and economic environments, has taken advantage of technological advances, and has adapted to transformations in listening modes. Regardless of whether they have been accidental or intentional, voluntary or forced, these changes have clearly resulted in the evolution of radio being a continuous and lasting process.
Read moreTarget participants: Members of the Media Industries and Cultural Production TWG, race and the media scholars (but open to all)
Affiliation: Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds
Venue:
Date: Sep 14 2011
Contact: a.saha@leeds.ac.uk
Website: http://www.raceandtheculturalindustries.leeds.ac.uk/
This conference, hosted by the Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds, will explore issues of race, the cultural industries and cultural production.
Read moreTarget participants: Academics, researchers, practitioners and students in the field of political communication
Affiliation: Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Venue: Madrid, Spain
Date: Oct 20 - Oct 21, 2011
Contact: info@compolitica.com
Call for papers: http://ecreapoliticalcommunication.wordpress.com/
Website: http://ecreapoliticalcommunication.wordpress.com/
The Political Communication Section of ECREA, along with ACOP (Asociación de Comunicación Política) is calling for a Workshop to provide a forum to discuss and advance comparative political communication research, including both longitudinal and cross-national comparisons.
Read moreTarget participants: Members of the edia Industries and Cultural Production TWG (but open to all)
Affiliation: nstitute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds
Venue: Leeds, United Kingdom
Date: Oct 28 2011
Contact: d.j.hesmondhalgh@leeds.ac.uk
Website: http://twg.ecrea.eu/MICP/
Event presented by the Media Industries Research Centre at the Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds, in association with the ECREA Media Industries and Cultural Production Temporary Working Group.
Read moreTarget participants: Members of the ECREA film studies section, members of ECREA, other interested scholars, policy makers, cinema professionals
Affiliation: University of East Anglia
Venue: Norwich, United Kingdom
Date: Nov 11 - Nov 12, 2011
Contact: philippe.meers@ua.ac.be, M.Jancovich@uea.ac.uk, kannik@ruc.dk
Call for papers: http://sections.ecrea.eu/FS/
Website: http://sections.ecrea.eu/FS/
The film studies section wants to reflect in the 2011 event on new forms of cinema exhibition, film consumption and critical reception in the digital age.
Read moreTarget participants: Open to all
Affiliation: University of Tampere
Venue: Tampere, Finland
Date: Nov 16 - Nov 18, 2011
Contact: sinikka.torkkola@uta.fi
Call for papers: http://www.uta.fi/cmt/en/WN_workshop2011/index.html
Website: http://www.iscap.ipp.pt/~cei/SITE%20PUBLISHER%20ecrea/ECREA%20-%20website/index.htm
ECREA Women’s Network works to assess the actual situation of gender in European communication research, within universities, polytechnics, colleges, and research centres. WN bases its activity upon the concrete problems and questions raised during national and international conferences, real and virtual academic meetings, and political discussions in general. Such problems and questions, however, still escape the attention of (or are perhaps avoided by) larger institutional studies, comprehensive political actions, and thorough social and cultural reflections.
Read moreTarget participants: Researchers, postgraduate students and practitioners in the fields of media and communication studies and visual arts (open to members of the section
Affiliation: Faculty of Arts, University of Brighton
Venue: Brighton, UK
Date: Nov 17 - Nov 18, 2011
Contact: J.Doyle@brighton.ac.uk
Website: http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/study/media-studies/news/visualising-science-and-environment-symposium
The symposium will explore the role of visual representation within science and environment communication across a diverse range of contexts including digital media, museums, television and print media. It will bring together researchers and practitioners across the fields of media and communication studies and visual arts.
Read moreTarget participants: Scholars, PhD students and researchers on digital culture and communication
Affiliation: Open University of Catalonia (UOC)
Venue: Barcelona, Spain
Date: Nov 24 - Nov 25, 2011
Contact: ecreadigitalculture@gmail.com
Call for papers: http://www.digitalcultureandcommunication.blogspot.com/
Website: http://www.digitalcultureandcommunication.blogspot.com/
This workshop seeks to explore innovative perspectives on digital culture and the study of digital culture. Its concern is to focus on developing forms of theorizing, critiquing, understanding and researching digital culture, forms and practice.
Read moreTarget 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.
Read moreTarget participants: Members of the Mediatization TWG (but open to all)
Affiliation: Goldsmiths College, University of London
Venue: London, United Kingdom
Date: Mar 30 - Mar 31, 2012
Contact: andreas.hepp@uni-bremen.de, S.Livingstone@lse.ac.uk
Website: http://www.mediatization.eu/
The aim of this workshop is to discuss whether mediatization constitutes a global process of change, and, if yes, where the inequalities and dissimilarities of this process are located. Additionally, it can be expected that mediatization is not the same everywhere.
Read moreTarget participants: Members of the ECREA Central and Eastern European Network (but open to all)
Affiliation: Charles University, Prague
Venue: Prague, Czech Republic
Date: Apr 27 - Apr 28, 2012
Contact: ceecom2012@fsv.cuni.cz
Call for papers: http://www.ceecom2012prague.cz/index.php?file=callforpapers.php
Website: http://www.ceecom2012prague.cz
CEECOM Prague 2012, to be held in on 27-28 April 2012, encourages scholars to send in proposals of papers, posters and panels pertaining to all aspects of media and communication processes and cultures in Central and Eastern Europe.
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