Dear friends and colleagues,
please find attached the Call for Papers for the
conference "Beyond East and West: Two Decades of
Media Transformation After the Fall of
Communism" which will take place at Central
European University in Budapest on 25-27 June
2009. The conference will be an official
regional conference of the International
Communications Association (ICA). It will also
mark the closure of the COST A30 Action "East
of West: Setting a New Central and Eastern European Media Research Agenda".
The conference will analyze the state of media
and of communication research in Central/Eastern
Europe after 20 years of transformation. It will
provide an opportunity for critically
re-examining the social, technological and
policy changes in the regional media landscape
and for exploring future trajectories of media
development. Participants will discuss what can
be learnt from these changes, compare European
experiences to those from other regions in
transition, re-examine the usefulness of
standard Western media and communication
research to study the media and society in
regions undergoing systemic transformations, and
explore the necessary building-blocks for a future research agenda.
Within this framework, the conference will focus
on the following eight themes:
-> CEE Media Systems 20 Years On: An Enhanced Framework of Analysis
-> Media Policy and Democratic Legitimacy: Risks
and Options in the Enlarged Europe
-> New Media Developments and Online Research Innovations
-> Popular Culture: Media Uses, Media Literacy, Socialism(s) and Nostalgia
-> Political Communication between Commercialization and Political Influence
-> Alternative and Community Media
-> Global Communications, Development and Transition
-> Reviewing International Media Assistance Programs
Deadline for abstracts (maximum 500 words) and
panel proposals: 15 November 2008
Deadline for paper submission: 15 April 2009
Please submit abstracts to: (beyondeastandwest /at/ ceu.hu)
Abstracts must relate to the above themes and include keywords.
Please direct queries to
Center for Media and Communication Studies
(CMCS) at Central European University (CEU).
Email: (cmcs /at/ ceu.hu)
Phone: +36 1 237 3000 ext 2607
Postal address: Nador u 9, 1051 Budapest, Hungary
Further information will be posted to the
conference Website at http://www.costa30.eu
