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[ecrea] IAMCR Section calls - Istanbul, Turkey, July 13-17, 2011 - part 2

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Audience Section

CALL FOR PAPERS

(IAMCR Conference at Istanbul, Turkey, July 13-17, 2011)

The Audience Section invites submissions for its open sessions at the IAMCR to be held in Istanbul (Turkey) 2011 from July 13-17. The conference theme for 2011 is ?Cities, Creativity, Connectivity?.

The Audience Section invites papers within this overall theme and which reflect the Section?s interest in new approaches and thinking to audience research in the context of the urban, the creative, and the network. The nature of audiences as ?knowledge communities? and producers, ethnographic approaches to researching them and their embeddedness in everyday life, and the extent to which traditional classifications of audiences (masses, publics and markets) are being challenged by the fluidity and ephemeral nature of virtual and mobile audiences are important concerns. The Section gives special attention to reassessing the theories, methods and issues that inform practices of audience researchers. The Section encourages and aims to inspire greater interest in exploring and understanding audiences in diverse settings. The Section also encompasses investigations of the appropriateness of ?Western? and ?non-Western? theories and methods in this diversity of settings.

Themes:

In addition to the open call for papers, we would like to invite papers and proposals for panels which address the following themes:

1.    Embedded audiences

The contextualisation of audiencehood in everyday life has opened up audience studies to look at the audience as radically embedded, also in space. The strong emphasis on the cultural turn has in some cases diverted our attention from an equally significant movement, which has been labelled the spatial turn. Falkheimer and Jansson's core questions (in Geographies of Communication: The Spatial Turn in Media Studies) touch upon the key issues of this spatial turn for communication and media studies scholars: how does communication produce space and how does space produce communication. The translation to audience studies raises questions about the geography and spatiality of audiencehood: How do audiences relate to private and public spaces, how does the local, cultural, national (and the translocal, transcultural and transnational) relate to audiencehood, how are audiences embedded and embodied in urban cultures, and how do audiences function in online, networked, liminal and alternative spaces?

2.    Resistant audiences, critical audiences, networked audiences

Central to the audience research tradition has been a commitment to examining forms of resistance and opposition exhibited by audiences. Much of the seminal work of audience studies was forged in a time of economic crisis through the 1970s and 1980s when forms of audience resistance revealed deep-seated social tensions and a charged political environment. Are similar patterns evident in the current global economic crisis? The locus of resistance has shifted from the ideal-interpretative to the material-productive. How does this affect the nature of resistance? How do audiences network and join forces in alternative interpretative communities? How is the resistant and critical audience manifest across today?s more complex media landscape? How do media organizations and professionals deal with the resistant and critical audiences? And how is resistance, at the level of the ideal-interpretative and the material-productive incorporated and transformed into compliance? We invite papers that look across the full spectrum of audience experience and examine diverse accounts of readings, modes of engagement and mediation of audience relationships with the wider society.

3.    Decentralizing the audience

Audience studies have often implicitly centralized mediated experiences while at the same time contextualizing, qualifying and decentralizing the role of media in people?s everyday lives. This tension has lead to an over-emphasis on audience activity, both at the level of media consumption and media (self-)production, while more passive and indifferent media uses and referential interpretations are under-theorized and under-researched. We invite papers that focus on the everyday passiveness of (some) media audiences and their acceptance of or indifference to the media frameworks that are offered to them. Moreover, we also call for papers that theorize or research the sometimes limited importance attributed to media in the everyday life of audience members.

4.    Children as audiences

Children and young people represent are a hugely important constituency for today?s media and are frequently seen to be in the vanguard of new audience trends and emerging practices of consumption and engagement. As a distinct audience grouping, children are the focus of special public policy provisions including codes regarding media content, professional guidelines regarding children as subjects and participants in the media, and a host of initiatives designed to foster citizenship and creativity through media literacy. Empirical work on children as audiences remains scarce however and in this stream we invite papers that explore audience experience from the child?s perspective, and that examine opportunities, risks, and challenges faced by children in the current media environment. Questions might include the extent to which media literacies are evident in children?s audience practices or how agency supported or strengthened through civil society, educational or governmental action?

Proposals for papers under any of the above can be made by submitting an abstract of between 300-500 words long through the Conference website. Each abstract must include title, name(s), affiliation, institutional address and email address of author(s). Proposals for panels, containing details of each paper, are also welcome. IAMCR accepts presentations in English, French and Spanish. However, it is requested that abstracts, if at all possible, be submitted in English.

For more on the submission of abstracts, registration, theme, location, etc., please go to http://iamcr2011istanbul.com or visit IAMCR at: http://iamcr.org/

The deadlines are as follows:
February 8, 2011: Submission of abstracts (papers will be assessed by double blind review of abstracts).
March 25, 2011: announcement of acceptances.
June 3, 2011: Full papers due.

For enquiries or further information, please contact:

*Section Head : Nico Carpentier

Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Free University of Brussels
Centre for Studies on Media and Culture (CeMeSO)
Pleinlaan 2 - B-1050 Brussels ? Belgium
e: (nico.carpentier /at/ vub.ac.be)

*Deputy Head: Brian O?Neill

School of Media
Dublin Institute of Technology
Aungier Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
e: (brian.oneill /at/ dit.ie)

*Deputy Head: Toshie Takahashi

Department of Communication and Media Studies
Rikkyo University
3-34-1 Nishi-Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo, Japan 171-8501
e: (t-takahashi /at/ rikkyo.ac.jp)

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Call for Papers

International Communication Section
IAMCR Conference 2011, 13-17 July, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey
Conference Theme: Cities, Creativity, Connectivity
The International Communication Section of the IAMCR invites research proposals on the conference theme -- Cities, Creativity, Connectivity -- within and/or across national borders. In the heavily networked world of today, terms such as ?international? and ?global? have acquired renewed and new meanings, practices, status, and power relations in the media and communication arenas. Connections and divisions suggested by the conference theme are both old (as in metropolis-colony) and new (for example, the new global cities and related media connections at every level, institutional and individual). We especially welcome submissions from and about the global South, with an emphasis on international development. Other submissions on more general areas of interest to the International Communication section will also be considered. Proposals related to the conference theme may include (but are not limited to) the following topics:

? Urban policy-making for media and communication in rural development?contradictions, possibilities ? Recent and new actors (media NGOs, the third sector) and the city in the global South ? Media technologies and urban, semi-urban and rural divides and connectivities, with special attention to Web 2.0-based media and M4D (mobile technologies for development)
?	Urban development movements and the media
? Marginalized migratory populations (e.g., in urban slums), and media-related representations, practices, and information-seeking behaviours ? Media communication, contemporary built environments, and themes of sustainability in the global South
?	Communication and the remaking of cities in post-colonies
?	The virtual as transnational metropolis

Additionally, proposals are invited for more general areas of interest to the International Communication Section, which include
?	Press systems and international journalism
?	Comparative media research
? Challenges and opportunities presented by the processes of globalization to media and communication (including technology, culture, mobility, labour, migrations, etc.)
?	Information and communication flow
?	Global media industries
?	Global media ethics
?	Media and foreign policy
?	Media and international crises
? Theoretical and methodological concerns for studying global/international communication
Preparation and submission of paper and panel abstracts

Please ensure that abstracts contain the following:
1.	Title of the paper.
2.	Length: Up to 500 words.
3. Content: The section welcomes a variety of perspectives and methods. For full-fledged studies, reviewers will look for a clear idea of the following: what is the topic and why is it important to know about the research (significance of the study), the main question or research problem addressed, some form of conceptual framework or theory that inspires the paper, methods used to answer the main questions posed, anticipated analysis, and expected outcomes. For reviews and syntheses, some idea of framework, questions, methods and sources have to be addressed in the abstract, to help evaluate the submission. 4. Author information: The name(s) of author(s) and title (professor, postdoctoral fellow, graduate student, etc.), institutional affiliation, e-mail address, postal, phone and fax information should be provided on a cover page. All identifying information should be kept separate from the abstract page itself. To ensure connection between the cover sheet and the abstract, include a title-similar running head on the abstract page. 5. Number of submissions: Only one submission per author or co-author will be considered for review in the International Communication Section. 6. Official languages of the IAMCR: Although IAMCR accepts presentations in Spanish, English, and French, we encourage abstract submissions in English to facilitate timely completion of the reviews and selections for the conference. Abstracts should be submitted to the Open Conference System (OCS) at http://iamcr.org/congress/istanbul-2011.

OCS will begin accepting submissions from 01 December 2010.

The deadline for submission of paper abstracts is 08 February 2011.

For questions, please contact:

Section Head: Sujatha Sosale (sosaleui <AT>gmail.com)
or
Associate Conference Programme Coordinator: Tania Cantrell Rosas-Moreno (tcrosasmoreno<AT>loyola.edu)

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Environment, Science and Risk Communication Working Group

CALL FOR PAPERS



The Environment, Science and Risk Communication Working Group invites proposals for papers to be presented at the 2011 International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) Conference in Istanbul, Turkey, 13-17 July 2011.



Papers from the full range of environment-science-risk-communication topics and perspectives will be considered, and those relating to the conference theme ?Cities, Creativity, Connectivity? will be particularly welcome.



Key themes for the Istanbul sessions of the Working Group will include:

Creativity, connectivity and activism on science/environment issues
Visual media constructions of the city/urban environment
Environmental disasters, corporate spin and news management
Media and global environmental change and controversy
Media and public understanding of science/environment issues
Science and health-related media panics
Science/environmental journalism
Media-communication roles in environmental disasters
Political uses/constructions of nature
Media and environmental pressure groups
Environmental activism and new media
Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be submitted via the IAMCR?s Open Conference System (OCS) by 8th February 2011.



Notification of the results of the abstract selection process will be issued by 25th March 2011.



Full papers must be submitted online via the IAMCR-OCS by 3rd June 2011



Working Group Chair:

Anders Hansen

Department of Media and Communication

University of Leicester

University Road

Leicester LE1 7RH

UK

Email: (ash /at/ le.ac.uk)




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