[ecrea] [ECREA NEWS] European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School

European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School
27. July - 9. August 2008, Tartu, Estonia.

We are happy to invite you to participate in the 
European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer 
School 2008 in Tartu, Estonia from the 27th of 
July till the 8th of August 2008.

The European Media and Communication Doctoral 
Summer School 2008 brings together members of the 
European research community to this summer school 
in order to debate contemporary issues in media, 
communication and cultural studies. The main 
emphasis of this summer school is on providing 
structural and individuated PhD-support for young 
European scholars, through a variety of working 
forms, including feedback seminars, workshops, 
and lectures. The summer school aims to provide a 
supportive international setting where doctoral 
students can present their ongoing work, receive 
feedback on their PhD-projects from international 
experts and meet students and academics from 
other countries, establishing valuable contacts 
for the future. The summer school also generates 
a clear picture of the international landscape of 
communication and media research, and its 
diversity of academic cultures, allowing 
PhD-students to situate themselves within this academic field.

The overall theme for the programme: "Democracy, 
journalism and technology: new developments in an 
enlarged Europe" provides one of the structures 
of the summer school. As this summer school is 
open to the full variety of academic work in the 
field of communication and media studies, the 
summer school theme will not be used as a 
criterion for participant selection. The theme is 
to be understood through wide range of 
contemporary media and communication related 
research. The enlargement of Europe has generated 
vast number of societal changes. At the level of 
media and communication, the enlargement has 
brought even more media organizations, 
journalistic practices and cultures, formats, 
traditions and media styles. The thrust towards 
the knowledge society has various effects on the 
everyday life of European citizens, their 
participation in societal activities and media 
consumption and production. To facilitate the 
successful, continuous and democratic European 
integration, media have a vital role to play.

The summer school will take place in the premises 
of University of Tartu, at the Institute of Journalism and Communication.

There are three options possible to attend the summer school:
1. For students whose universities are a member 
of the organizing consortium  the fee for the 
summer school will be 390 euros. The (cheapest 
possible) travel costs to the summer school 
location (Tartu) will also be refunded to the participating students.
2. For individual or institutional ECREA members 
(see http://www.ecrea.eu), the fee will also be 
390 euros. This fee will not cover the travel costs.
3. Non-consortium and non-ECREA members can 
become an ECREA member at a highly reduced fee. 
The ECREA membership application (see 
http://www.ecrea.eu) can be submitted 
simultaneously with the summer school 
application. The summer school fee will be 390 
euros. This fee will not cover the travel costs.

1 grant for non-consortium members (covers fee and travel money)
2 grants for consortium members (covers fee and 
travel money on condition that there is and other 
applicant from the same university paying the 
full fee). More information can be found at (http://www.comsummerschool.org).

Summer school materials (including 2 books), 
accommodation, breakfast, coffee and lunches are 
included in all three options.

Applications will be submitted only via summer 
school website (http://www.comsummerschool.org), 
where interested students are expected to 
register. The deadline for the application is the 
14th of April. A wide range of student papers is 
sought for, and it is not necessary to fit into 
the yearly theme of the doctoral summer school. 
The working language of the summer school will be 
English; therefore sufficient understanding and 
ability to express oneself in this language is expected.

When applying, each interested student will be 
expected fill out a form on the summer school 
website (prior registration on the website is 
necessary). This will include 1/a short CV 
according to the provided forms, 2/information on 
their academic profile, 3/an abstract of their 
PhD project (no more than 400 words, with a 
structure and contents of their choosing) and 
4/short answers on the following five questions concerning their PhD project:
1. What's your main paradigm?
2. What's your theoretical framework?
3. What are the objects and methods of your analysis?
4. What's your main objective/hypothesis?
5. How much time have you used, how much time have you left?

The abstracts from all successful applicants will 
also be published in the summer school book (see 
the summer school website for an online version 
of the 2006 and 2007 books 
www.researchingcommunication.eu). Students are 
therefore requested to pay close attention to the 
correctness of all details. Students will have 
possibility to update their information during 
the application procedure, thus early submission is encouraged.

Notification of the accepted students will come 
after 28th of April. Details of the summer school 
programme will be updated regularly based on the 
draft programme available on the web. The 2007 
progamme can be regarded as an example of the 
lecturers that will possibly attend.

Students whose abstracts are accepted will then 
(in a second phase) be expected to provide the 
following documents and information by the:
1. A 10-page (3000 words) paper on their PhD 
project as a whole. The 10 page paper should be a 
report of the student's ongoing doctoral research 
and not a conventional conference paper or a 
report of findings. Rather, it is expected that 
the student will briefly present the focus of the 
research and then take up aspects of the research 
process: methodological, theoretical and 
practical issues on which he/she would like to 
receive feedback. (Deadline16th of June)
2. A set of questions (maximum 1 page) with 
questions or problems that students would like to 
be discussed during the workshops. This one page 
needs to be part of the same Word/PDF file that 
also contains the 10-page paper. (Deadline 16th of June)
3. Based on the abstracts and titles of other 
student papers, everyone is expected to choose up 
to 3 papers they would be interested in being a 
respondent. This preference will be taken into 
consideration while setting up student working groups. (1st of July)

By the time of the summer school, each student 
has to prepare a 10-minute seminar presentation 
covering the main points of their work. Each 
student is also expected to actively participate 
in the discussions of their own and other 
people's work. As mentioned above, they will act 
as a respondent of someone else's paper (which 
they have to have read beforehand).

The total number of students will be limited to 
54, up to 47 from consortium members and additional students through ECREA.

All questions concerning the application 
procedure and other information can be directed 
to the Co-ordinator of the Summer School Pille 
Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt from the University of 
Tartu by e-mail ((pille.vengerfeldt /at/ ut.ee)) or via 
the website: http://www.comsummerschool.org.

The Programme Committee members are: Prof. Nico 
Carpentier, Prof. Maren Hartmann, Prof. Kaarle 
Nordenstreng, Dr. Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, 
Prof. Slavko Splichal and Prof. Peeter Vihalemm

The Intensive Programme is supported by Socrates 
Erasmus IP project contract number: 
69935-IC-1-2007-EE-ERASMUS-EUC-1, the European 
Communication Research and Education Association 
(http://www.ecrea.eu), the University of Tartu, 
the Institute of Journalism and Communication 
(http://www.jrnl.ut.ee) and a consortium of 21 universities.


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