Media and Sports conference
The International Conference on Media and Sport (INCOMES), jointly
organized by the University of Porto and the Universidad Autónoma de
Barcelona aims to address the media construction of mega-sport events
as well as its social, economic and political significance related to
media studies.
The relationship between media and sport has become intermingled over
the last decades and prompted a growing quantity of academic attention
and interest. Indeed, sport and sports mega events, in particular, such as the football World Cup and the Summer Olympics Games, have flourished and grown in importance over the years to the point of being considered nowadays as an important popular content of the media. This has been favored, among other factors, by developments in media technology and the formation of a sport-media-business alliance with implications in terms of professional sport.
Possible topics can include, but are not limited to,:
- the ‘televisation’ of sport
- the representation and identity, gender and race
- globalization and nationalism
- marketing and commodification of sport
- audiences in mediated sports
This event is co-organised by
- University of Porto (UP)
- C2COM (UP)
- MA in Communication Sciences (UP)
- MA in Communication and Sport (UP)
- Centro de Estudios Olímpicos Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
The conference will be held at the University of Porto on 27-28 October 2010.
Confirmed guest speakers:
- Andrew Billings, University of Indiana (USA)
- Richard Haynes, Stirling University (UK)
Sponsors:
- ECREA
- O Jogo
- Global Media Journal, Portuguese Edition
An electronic version of the extended abstract, with a preferred
length between 750 to 1000 words, accompanied by contact details and a
brief bio on a separate page, should be sent no later than August 15.
Abstracts should be written in Portuguese, English or Spanish
(although presentations will be in English) and should summarize the
paper contents, explain relevance to conference theme, outline
methodology, contain a clear argument, theoretical framework,
methodology and key results, according to requirements of the call for
papers of the conference.
All proposals should be submitted to incomes2010abstracts@icicom.up.pt
Participants may submit more than one proposal, but only one paper by
the same first author will be accepted into the program.
Notification of acceptance will be sent by August 30, 2010
A selection of the best papers delivered at the conference will be
considered for publication in a special issue of the Global Media
Journal Portuguese Edition.
Conference fees:
- 50€ general
- 25€ UP, UAB and ECREA members
- 10€ students
- 5€ for UP students
If you have any further question, please contact the programme chair, > Rui Alexandre Novais
> Conference website
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