[ecrea] Globalization and Changing Patterns in the Public Sphere

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National School of Political Studies and Public Administration
The Center for Research in Communication, Faculty of
Communication and Public Relations, Romania
in cooperation with
Fulbright Commission Romania
International Conference on
Globalization and Changing Patterns in the Public Sphere
November 12-13, 2010, Bucharest, Romania
Call for Papers
The Center for Research in Communication at the Faculty of Communication and
Public Relations (FCRP), Bucharest, Romania in cooperation with Fulbright
Commission Romania invites you to attend the International Conference on
Globalization and Changing Patterns in the Public Sphere, November 12-13, 2010,
Bucharest. The EU project, as well as the increasingly substantial effects of
globalization in general, raises the question of 
changing patterns in the public sphere.
It is this context too that highlights the 
importance of debating the very concept of
public sphere  both as interactive space and 
symbolic reality. As things stand, there
is little agreement about any single definition 
of this concept. Euro-optimists advertise
an emergent European public sphere, while 
Euro-skeptics doubt its mere existence.
The latter group has argued that a European 
public sphere is undermined by at least
two clusters of factors  national and global. 
What one notices, the argument goes, is
either that the member nations find it hard to 
leave their own interest behind and act
on a European agenda, or that the putative 
instances of the European public sphere
are results of the general advance of transnational, global communication.
We seek contributions that might help in locating 
proper ways to think about the
public sphere in this historical context. We encourage the presentation of new
research by scholars, policy makers, or 
advertisers, with the aim of providing an
international forum for these important topics. We accept contributions in the
following forms:
 theoretical presentation adding new insights to the debate in the literature;
 original empirical research;
 case studies.
Faculty of
Communication and
Public Relations
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Paper topics might include, but are not limited to the following topics:
 Changing Patterns in the National / European / Global Spheres
 Towards a European Public Sphere
 EU Communication Deficit
 Civic Participation in the Public Sphere
 Institutional Communication in the Public Sphere
 Social Responsibility in the Public Sphere
 Reconfigurations of the Cultural Identity in the Public Sphere
 Effects of the Global Crisis on the Public Sphere
 Fragmentation of the Public Sphere
 Online Communication and Reconfigurations of the Public Sphere
 Reconfigurations of Public Relations Practices
 Media, Public Opinion, Political Actors
 Economic and Social Crisis in Contemporary World
 Globalization and Communication; global communication as the driver of
globalization
 Public Policy
 Teaching and Research in the History and Philosophy of Science
 Children and Families: Social Perspectives
 Business Administration, International Banking in a Global World
 Environmental Studies
 Public Health
 Cultural Studies and the Public Sphere
 Radicalism, Extremism and the Public Sphere
 Immigration, Populism and Public Sphere in the EU
 Education Policies and the Public Sphere
 Linguistic Barriers, Multilingualism and Public Sphere
Important Deadlines
May 30, 2010: abstract submission;
June 15, 2010: abstract acceptance (notification of authors);
July 30, 2010: full paper submission;
September 1, 2010: full paper acceptance (notification of authors).
Abstracts
The abstracts (max. 200 words followed by 3-5 keywords) will be submitted for
review in electronic MS Word format. Please 
provide the full names, affiliations,
mailing addresses, telephone and fax numbers, and 
e-mail addresses of all authors,
indicating the contact author. There will be accepted only one paper for each
participant as a first author. Abstracts will be 
submitted online to the following e-mail
address: (conference /at/ comunicare.ro). The official languages of the conference are
English and French.
All accepted papers will be published in 
electronic format (Conference CD). Selected
papers will be published in the conference volume.
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The authors will receive confirmation via email.
Guidelines
Guidelines for paper submission will be available on the conference website.
Conference fee
Conference fee is 150 euro/ participant and it 
includes: conference papers volume,
conference CD, conference program and conference banquet.
For PhD and MA candidates the conference fee is 50 euro/ participant.
Information and contacts
Further information and updates regarding 
conference venue, registration, conference
program, and accommodation details will be posted on the conference website:
http://centrucomunicare.ro/conference2010.html
Organizing Committee
Paul Dobrescu, PhD, Rector of the National School 
for Political Sciences and Public
Administration
Remus Pricopie, PhD, Dean of the Faculty of Communication and Public Relations
Alina Bârgaoanu, PhD, President of the Commission for Assurance and Evaluation
Quality, National School for Political Sciences 
and Public Administration, Faculty of
Communication and Public Relations
Dorina Gutu, PhD, Executive Director of Fulbright Commission Romania
Nicoleta Corbu, PhD, Executive Director of the Center for Research in
Communication
Mihaela Alexandra Ionescu, PhD, Scientific Secretary of the Faculty of
Communication and Public Relations
Contact
Conference email: (conference /at/ comunicare.ro)

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