[ecrea] CONVERGENCE: MEDIA IN FUTURE ? FUTURE IN MEDIA

CONVERGENCE: MEDIA IN FUTURE ? FUTURE IN MEDIA
IV CENTRAL EUROPEAN COMMUNICATION FORUM (CECF)
CRACOW (POLAND), MAY 5-7, 2011
CALL FOR PAPERS
MAIN ORGANIZER:
Polish Communication Association: www.ptks.pl
The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Cracow: www.upjp2.edu.pl
CO-ORGANIZERS:
Cracovian Academy of Frycz Modrzewski, Poland:
1. THE TOPIC OF THE FORUM:
The IV Central European Communication Forum 
(CECF) continues the tradition of scholarly 
conferences held in Poland, the Czech Republic 
and Slovakia for the last 3 years and integrating 
the milieu of scholars, universities and media 
professionals from many Cen-tral European 
nations. It constitutes a new creative forum for 
exchange of thoughts, ideas and results of 
research done in the media and social 
communication against the background of the media 
civilization: Ksiaz (Poland: 2008), Brno / Telc 
(Czech Republic: 2009) and Bratislava (Slovakia: 2010).
The topic of The IV CECF is the convergence of 
media in its rich variety of aspects and 
consequences. The convergence of media results 
from the digital revolution as well as 
inter-penetration of different sectors of 
information, communication and information 
technology. The aim of IV CECF is to provide an 
investigating insight into media of the future 
and future of media from the perspective of the 
processes of technological, transmission, market, 
media product and services convergence as well as 
convergence on the level of the ethics, aesthetics and law of media.
The convergence of media creates, on the one 
hand, new opportunities for communica-tion, 
information, education, entertainment, public 
relations etc.; on the other hand, it has the 
invidual and society facing a lot of new 
challenges. These opportunities and challenges 
will become objects of creative research and 
analysis during The Central European 
Communi-cation Forum (CECF) in Cracow (Poland), 5-7 May, 2011.

2. GENERAL PROGRAMME OF IV CECF:
Programme of IV Central European Communication Forum (CECF) is as follows:
A. PLENARY SESSIONS
B. THEMATIC SECTIONS:
SECTION 1: Convergence ? old and new media: new 
technologies, new media services and products, 
the sociology, psychology and philosophy of new media;
SECTION 2: Media in future: systems, 
institutions, recipients, the journalism of the fu-ture;
SECTION 3: Future in media: convergence culture, 
politics in media, the media civiliza-tion;
SECTION 4: The ethics, aesthetics, public 
relations and law of media at the time of con-vergence;
SECTION 5: Market convergence: the economics of 
media, commercialization and car-telization;
SECTION 6: Convergence in Media: doctoral students section and poster session
C. ADDITIONAL EVENTS: NEW MEDIA IN PRACTICE
3. FORUM FEES (without hotel accommodation costs):
1. Participation ? 80
2. Doctoral students fees: ? 40
3. Members of PCA 200 ZLN
4. FORUM TIMELINE:
Abstract submission: by March 1, 2011
Abstract acceptance: by March 15, 2011
Conference fee payment: by May 1, 1011
5. CONTACT WITH MAIN ORGANIZER:
Chairman of the Forum: prof. Michal Drozdz Ph.D., (michal.drozdz /at/ ptks.pl);
tel. +48 600 349 572
Secretaries of the Forum: Bernadetta Cich, Aleksandra Zachara, (forum /at/ ptks.pl)
Submission and notification contact: (forum /at/ ptks.pl)
6. NOTE FROM THE ORGANISERS:
We hereby invite you to creatively participate in 
the Forum and submit applications form, which is included.
Notification of participation or abstract 
submission: by March 1, 2011 E-mail: (forum /at/ ptks.pl)
Address: Polish Communication Association, ul. Koszarowa 3, 50-149 Wroclaw
The Pontifical University of John Paul II, Forum 
CECF, ul. Kanonicza 9, 31-002 Kraków, Poland

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