**Spam**: [ecrea] Transnational Connections: Challenges and Opportunities for Political Communication

We are pleased to invite you to an international 
Symposium Transnational Connections: Challenges 
and Opportunities for Political Communication to 
take place at the IE University in Segovia, Spain on March 24-25, 2010.

Website 
<http://www.transnationalconnections.ie.edu/welcome>http://www.transnationalconnections.ie.edu/



Organizer:

IE School of Communication-IE University

(<http://www.ie.edu/IE/site/php/en/school_communication.php>http://www.ie.edu/IE/site/php/en/school_communication.php)

Cardenal Zúñiga, 12. Segovia 40003, Spain

Annenberg School for Communication-University of 
Pennsylvania. Center for Global Communication 
Studies United States 
(<http://www.global.asc.upenn.edu>www.global.asc.upenn.edu)



In partnership with:
Political Communication Divisions of: 
International Communication Association (ICA), 
the World Association of Public Opinion Research 
(WAPOR),  International Political Science 
Association (IPSA), the International Association 
for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), and 
the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA).


At the IE University, which puts a 21st century 
facilities and technology in a 12th century 
convent, political communication researchers and 
practitioners will meet for panels and 
round-tables on the recent developments in theory, research and practice. .

The symposium will be structured around the 
following themes: ?What can be learned from 
thinking about political communication as 
transnational phenomenon?? ?What are the 
similarities and the differences in the European 
and the US perspectives on the field?? ?What 
cross-cutting ideas studied in the US need to be 
replicated in other contexts?? ?What are the 
challenges and the opportunities for 
transnational cooperation and international 
research?? and ?How can the academic perspective 
inform the real-life practice and vice versa??

Some speakers include Bruce Bimber, UC, Santa 
Barbara; Shanto Iyengar, Stanford; Patricia Moy, 
University of Washington; Monroe Price, 
University of Pennsylvania; Hernando Rojas, 
University of Wisconsin, Madison; Andrew Rojecki, 
University of Illinois; Yariv Tsfati, University 
of Haifa; Michael Xenos, Louisiana State University, among others.


For more information visit 
<http://www.transnationalconnections.ie.edu/>http://www.transnationalconnections.ie.edu/ 
or contact:
<mailto:(magdalena.wojcieszak /at/ ie.edu)>(magdalena.wojcieszak /at/ ie.edu) 
or  <mailto:(communication /at/ ie.edu)>(communication /at/ ie.edu).






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