ECREA Newsletter Autumn 2009

The Autumn 2009 issue of the ECREA Newsletter has been published. It features a round-up of the association's activities including recent publications, ongoing initiatives, and forthcoming events that will take place in Europe throughout 2010.

Newsletter Autumn 2009 cover

Table of contents

- Call for proposals for organising the European Communication Conference 2012

- Call for papers for ‘Transcultural Communication, Intercultural Comparisons’, 3rd European Communication Conference, Hamburg, 12-15 October, 2010

Sections activities
- New sections: Communication History and Television Studies
- New journal: Empedocles - European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication
- Report on the 1st Autumn Conference of Interpersonal Communication and Social Interaction Section, Univesity of Tampere, Finland, 21-23 October
- Report on Organisational and Strategic Communication workshop on ‘Strategic and Organizational Communication in firms: Crisis as Opportunity, Toulouse, France, 9 June

New books from members
- Gendered Transformations: Theory and Practices on Gender and Media, by Tonny Krijnen, Claudia Alvares, and Sofie Van Bauwel (editors) - expected in ECREA Book Series as Volume 6
- Nanotechnology, Risk and Communication, by Alison G. Anderson, Alan Petersen, Clare Wilkinson and Stuart Allan
- Anti and Pro-Social Communication: Theories, Methods, and Applications, by Terry Kinney and Maili Pörhölä (editors)
- Current Trends in International Public Relations, by Adela Rogojinaru and Sue Wolstenholme (editors)

New book from ECREA
Fourth Summer School Book, “Communicative approaches to politics and ethics in Europe. The intellectual work of the 2009 ECREA European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School,” edited by Nico Carpentier, Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, Richard Kilborn, Tobias Olsson, Hannu Nieminen, Ebba Sundin and Kaarle Nordenstreng.

ECREA Book Series now fully available online, including The European Information Society. A Reality Check (2003), edited by Jan Servaes, Towards a Sustainable Information Society. Deconstructing WSIS (2006), edited by Jan Servaes and Nico Carpentier; Reclaiming the Media. Communication Rights and Democratic Media Roles (2007), edited by Nico Carpentier and Bart Cammaerts; Finding the Right Place on the Map. Central and Eastern European Media Change in a Global Perspective (2008), edited by Karol Jakubowicz and Miklós Sükösd; and - Press Freedom and Pluralism in Europe. Concepts and Conditions (2009),

ECREA’s Women’s Network website now online

Forthcoming events:
- Communication History thematic section inaugural conference, Potsdam, 3-5 June, 2010;
- Philosophy of Communication thematic section’s second Landmarks conference,London, 9-11 December, 2009.
- IAMCR conference, Braga, Portugal, 18-22 July 2010;
- ICA conference, Singapore, 22-26 June 2010

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