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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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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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