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[ecrea] Participatory Governance... PhD Course 8-10 September: Final Call

Wed Jul 29 10:39:04 GMT 2009



Please find below the final call for the PhD seminar:

Participatory Governance: Civic inclusion and community empowerment. The role of mediated initiatives.

Call also available at: http://fmkj.dk/?p=599

Deadline for applications is August 10.

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Thomas Tufte, Professor
Bldg 42-3, Roskilde University, POB 260, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark
Tel: (+45) 46743204 Fax: (+45) 46743075 Email: (ttufte /at/ ruc.dk)
http://www.ruc.dk/komm/Ansatte/vip/ttufte/

Principal Investigator of MEDIeA 2009-2012 (Media Empowerment & Democracy in East Africa) Further info at: Ørecomm, Consortium for Communication & Glocal Change http://orecomm.net

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Participatory Governance: Civic inclusion and community empowerment. The role of mediated initiatives.
8/9 10:30 - 10/9 04:00 2009, Pappersbruket, Osby, Southern Sweden


A DOCTORAL COURSE

Course leader: Professor Thomas Tufte, Roskilde University and Associate Professor Norbert Wildermuth, University of Southern Denmark

COURSE DESCRIPTION

One of the major challenges in processes of social change and democratic development today is to secure inclusive processes. This implies an ideal that all groups of society have the right to participate the change and development of society. It implies that everybody feels in some way included, have a say in decisions influencing their lives, and that they see a way forward in their individual and collective development.

With the advent of web 2.0 and with the spread of mobile phones in many countries, not least in developing nations, conditions for and processes of citizen participation, public debate and social critique seem to be changing. Combined with the further spread of more traditional media as tv and radio in particular, improved conditions for participatory governance seems right at hand.

However, what is really happening out there? How is citizen participation in governance processes taking place? What characterizes the public debate and to which degree does social critique occur, and at what price? And in the midst of these fundamental questions of democratic development, citizenship and social change, what role are the media and are communication practices playing in enhancing ? or not - these processes?

Through the prism of academic debate and analysis we hope with this PhD course to shed some light on definitions of and relations between media development, communication spaces and practices, civil society development, decision-making, policy implementation and ordinary citizen?s ability to engage in society.

By establishing a platform where PhD students can meet and debate with a group of experienced researchers from both Europe, Africa, Latin America and USA, we hope to provide challenging perspectives and gain insights regarding some of the questions raised above. The group of lecturers bring with them substantial experience from many corners of the world. We hope the course attracts PhD students with similar international orientations from whatever corner of the world you come from or find interesting. What will unite the variety of empirical foci are the theoretical and methodological questions. This Ph.D. course will consequently be organized around some of the current theoretical debates which delineate this exciting research field - a research field whose epistemological drive lies in exploring the relation between media and communication practices, agency and social change processes.


COURSE DYNAMICS

The course will be organised primarily around two modalities:

1. Keynote lectures combined with key readings to each lecture.
2. Presentation, commenting and discussion of Ph.D. projects.


COURSE VENUE

The course will take place at Pappersbruket, Broby, Southern Sweden (see www.pappersbruket.se) Accommodation and Ph.D. seminar will all be at the same venue. Transport by train is estimated to take 1 hour and 45 minutes from Copenhagen Central Station.


COURSE CONVENORS

The course concept is developed by Professor Thomas Tufte, RUC, together with Associate Professor Norbert Wildermuth, University of Southern Denmark. For enquiries about the academic content of the course, please contact Thomas Tufte at (ttufte /at/ ruc.dk). For practical enquiries, please contact FMKJ at (fmkj /at/ ruc.dk).


PARTICIPANT REQUIREMENTS

A course package of required readings (twelve Ph.D. student papers + six background articles from the keynote lectures) will be compiled and circulated to participants two to three weeks prior to the course.

The participants are required to read the full package of scholarly texts and to take an active part in discussing them. Each Ph.D. student will be asked to comment specifically on two of his/her fellow Ph.D. student colleagues.


ECTS value: 3 ECTS.


COURSE ENROLLMENT AND APPLICATION DEADLINE

A registration form is available on www.fmkj.dk (Skemaer/Kursustilmelding)

Monday 10 August 2009, to the FMKJ Secretary at (fmkj /at/ ruc.dk). The application must be accompanied by a 2-page PhD project description.

The draft PhD student paper to be presented at the course is due by August 15.


COSTS

The Danish Research School FMKJ covers all participation expenses (travel, meals, accommodation) for doctoral students who are enrolled in the School. Doctoral students from other institutions will have to pay their own travel, accommodation and meals, while participation in the course is free of charge. Accommodation (hotel) and meals are estimated at app. DKK 3000.


COURSE PROGRAM

DAY ONE

10.30   Arrival and registration

11.00   Coffee Break

11.30   Introduction ? course leader Thomas Tufte and Norbert Wildermuth

12.00   Lunch

13.00             Session 1: Questioning communication approaches to governance
By Professor Karin Wilkins, University of Texas, USA

14.00             Coffee Break

14.30 Session 2: Citizen Media, Governance and Social Change: (re)claiming voice,
democratic space and accountability in mediated societies,
By Professor Thomas Tufte, Roskilde University, Denmark

15.30   Fruit Break

16.0 Session 3: Citizen Participation and Local Governance. By Senior Lecturer Linje Manyoso, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

19.30   Common Dinner


DAY TWO

9.00     Session 4: Ph.D. Student Presentations and Discussion

10.30   Coffee Break

12.30   Lunch

13.30   Session 5: Shereen Usdin, Soul City, South Africa

14.30   Coffee Break

15.00   Session 6: Speaker to be confirmed.

16.30   Fruit Break

17.00 Session 7: Social network media, participation and new forms of ?digital enclosure?,
by Associate Professor Norbert Wildermuth, University of Southern Denmark

19.00   Common Dinner


DAY THREE

9.00     Session 8: Ph.D. Student presentations and discussion

12.00   Lunch

13.00   Session 9: Ph.D. Student presentation and discussion

16.00   Wrap-up, Panel Discussion

17.00   Departures

Maksimum no of participants: 15
Papers: To be submitted by August 15th







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