[ecrea] Digital Culture and Communication section elections

Dear colleagues,

as many other sections, the Digital Culture and Communication section  
is also approaching the end of its first official term in office.

We are therefore planning an election during the ECREA conference in  
Barcelona.

We would like to invite all members to consider a more active role in  
the section at this point and to consider standing for election for  
the chair and vice chair positions.

There are two possibilities to put yourselves forward for election:  
first of all as an individual (for the post of Vice-Chair) or second  
as a  whole section team (i.e. three people).

The first stems from the fact that I, Maren Hartmann, will step down   
as chair of the section. I have other commitments that do   
unfortunately not allow me to continue this post at present.  
Caroline  Bassett and Kate O'Riordan, however, have declared their  
willingness to stand for re-election. I fully endorse their candidacy  
(I could not have wished for better co-chairs) and hope  that  
interested individuals will step forward to join them in these efforts.

Please send any nominations (individual or team) to me (hartmann@udk- 
berlin.de) on or before October 15th, 2008. We currently assume that  
the election/s of nominated candidates will take place during our  
business meeting during the conference in November.



Let me also take this chance to thank everyone for having made this   
work so rewarding and fun (especially my two co-chairs, but also   
everyone who has attended our events and everyone from ECREA who has   
supported us thus far.

With having had a very interesting stream of papers during the first  
ECREA conference (where we had a separate call) and a great workshop   
in Sussex last autumn plus yet another wonderful set of abstracts  
for  this autumn (many of which we unfortunately had to turn down), I  
feel  the section is beginning to have both a content identity and an  
organisational structure (see http:// 
www.digitalcultureandcommunication.blogspot.com/). Surely this work  
will be the continued  focus of the section until the next election.

Together with my German colleagues (from the media sociology and  
computer-mediated communications sections of the German communication  
association), I will still host the section conference planned for  
November 2010 in Berlin.

My involvement with the section, I hope, will therefore not cease.

I am very much looking forward to your nominations as well as to the  
conference in November.



Regards,

Maren Hartmann



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Prof. Dr. Maren Hartmann
Juniorprofessur Kommunikationssoziologie/ Assistant Professor  
Sociology of Communication
Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftskommunikation/ Strategic Communication  
and Planning
Universität der Künste/ University of the Arts
Mierendorffstraße 30
D-10589 Berlin
Tel./Phone: +49 30 3185 2943
Email: (hartmann /at/ udk-berlin.de)