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[ecrea] CfP: IAMCR Section "Mediated communication, public opinion and society"
Sun Feb 01 18:09:07 GMT 2009
Extended Deadline: 16th of february, 2009:
Call for Papers
of the
Mediated Communication, Public Opinion and Society (MCPOS) Section
for the Sessions at the IAMCR Conference in
Mexico City, Mexico, July 21-24, 2009
The Mediated Communication, Public Opinion and
Society (MCPOS) Section plans four types of
sessions at the Mexico Conference of IAMCR.
¡P First, we intend to have a series of
thematically open sessions devoted to papers
which refer in general to the main theme of the
conference: "Human Rights and
Communication." And the research area of the
section: ¡§Mediated Communication, Public
Opinion and Society¡¨. We hope to get a variety
of interesting papers. We in general are
interested in papers that are concerned with all
types of communication and human interaction,
media, their content, and their use and
consumption, including the media of standardized
content like TV and newspaper, radio, books and
the websites, mediated interpersonal
communication e.g. mobile phone or Internet
chats and interactive communication as it takes
place in computer games or with robots of different type.
¡P Second, the section is interested to
promote the further theoretical discussions in
general. In the last years we organized panels
about the theoretical contribution to
communication studies made by Goffman, Habermas,
Schuetz, Bourdieu and Foucault. Following that
tradition we would like to organize for the
Mexico conference at least one session about
McLuhan: Marshall McLuhan was a creative thinker
and writer about communication and the media. He
developed his own theory about the relation
between media and society on the basis of the
work of the economist and historian Harold Innis
¡V without making any empirical studies, and of
course, with a heavy bias on technology.
Although he did not experience the success of
personal computer, the Internet and the mobile
phone, he is still one of the most quoted
academics for the digital media age. He is also
well known in the public by a lot of concepts
like the Medium is the Massage¡¨ ¡§Gutenberg
Galaxy¡¨ or the ¡§Global Village¡¨. What can we
learn from him for our research and theory
today? This is the question we hope to get
interesting answers by presentations and panels.
¡P Third, the Section intends to make a
session about the role of communication and
media in families and households. Families and
more general, households are under pressure in a
lot of societies by meta-processes like
Globalisation, Individualisation and neo-liberal
developments. But still, they are the main place
of media domestication and media use, and they
are the place where children learn to operate
with media and start their lifelong media
career. The main question we would like to
discuss is: how this takes place today in the
different cultures, different classes and with
reference to the different possibilities to deal with media.
¡P Forth, we would like to continue what
we started successfully in Paris and continued
in Stockholm, as a joint effort in cooperation
with Claudia Padovani: to become an open space
for the discussion and development and critical
assessment of the methodologies we use and we
need for communication research and especially
for international and cross cultural research
projects, both quantitative and qualitative.
We will accepts for review abstracts of 500
words in English about the intended
presentation, the title of it, the name, address
and details of the affiliation of the sender. In
addition, we expect a short bio-data of not mare
then 100 words. It is also possible to propose a
full panel of four participants, which should
come from at least three different countries. In
this case we expect the four abstracts of the
participants and their short bio-data and in
addition a framing text about the idea and the
goal of the full panel. The Deadline for all
abstracts and panel proposals is the 16st of February, 2009.
Proposals will be reviewed by the two heads of
section and by further specialists, named by the
heads. All authors will get an answer no later than the 15th of March, 2009.
You may submit the same abstract or paper to
only one section or working group. You may
submit different papers to different sections or
working groups or, as the case may be, different
papers to the same section. If the same paper is
submitted to different sections or working
groups, IAMCR and the local organizers of the
conference will ensure that it is (if accepted) presented in only one session.
If a proposal is accepted, the sender must
fulfil two preconditions to be included in the
final program of the section. She or he must
send a full paper until June, 20th 2009 and
register her- or himself for participation at
the Conference by the same date. This is
possible by visiting www.iamcr.org. Of course,
also non members of the IAMCR are welcome.
You may look for further information on the
sections¡¦ website that is accessible via the IAMCR website.
For further information on the 2009 Mexico City
Conference see:
<http://www.iamcr.org/content/blogcategory/147/373/>http://www.iamcr.org/content/blogcategory/147/373/
All abstracts (and later all full papers and
confirmation of registration) as well as further
questions and necessary information should be
sent by e-mail to the section heads:
Hillel Nossek, (College of Management Academic
Studies, Israel): <mailto:(hnossek /at/ colman.ac.il)>(hnossek /at/ colman.ac.il)
Friedrich Krotz, (University of Erfurt,
Germany): <mailto:(friedrich.krotz /at/ uni-erfurt.de)>(friedrich.krotz /at/ uni-erfurt.de)
# Managing Editor of "COMMUNICATIONS - THE
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION RESEARCH":
Please send us your excellent paper for publishing
#Head of Section "MEDIATED COMMUNICATION, PUBLIC
OPINION AND SOCIETY" of the International
Association of Communication and Media Research
(IAMCR) - Read the Call for Papers for the next
Conference in Mexico City at http://www2.colman.ac.il/iamcr_ppos/
# Managing Editor of "COMMUNICATIONS - THE
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION RESEARCH":
Please send us your excellent paper for publishing
#Head of Section "MEDIATED COMMUNICATION, PUBLIC
OPINION AND SOCIETY" of the International
Association of Communication and Media Research
(IAMCR) - Read the Call for Papers for the next
Conference in Mexico City at http://www2.colman.ac.il/iamcr_ppos/
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