[ecrea] Political Communication in the Era of New Technologies

> Conference sponsored by Political Communication 
> Division of International Communication Association
>
> POLITICAL COMMUNICATION
> IN THE ERA OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS ? FINAL REMINDER
>
> The Polish Communication Association and the 
> Institute of Political Science at the University 
> of Warsaw invites proposals for the conference 
> entitled "Political Communication in the Era of 
> New Technologies" that is going to be held in 
> Warsaw (Poland), 22 - 23 September 2011.
>
> New technologies makes the new ways of 
> communication and lead election campaigns to be 
> more sophisticated and detailed targeted. 
> Internet, new media, large databases, very fast 
> development of polling and many other methods is 
> used to create good image of politicians and 
> gives them a stronger support. This phenomenon 
> is relevant for both "old", well developed 
> democracies and young democracies in Central and 
> Eastern Europe. However, there is a long 
> tradition of investigation of political 
> communication in Western countries, while 
> scholars from Central and Eastern Europe have 
> begun that kind of research only two decades 
> ago. All of that cause a strong need for new 
> empirical and comparative studies that may help 
> to understand similarities and differences in 
> political communication and the usage of new 
> technologies in different parts of the world.
>
> The conference will be focused on:
>
> 1. ELECTION AND CAMPAIGNS
> 2. MEDIATIZATION OF POLITICS
> 3. DEVELOPMENT OF POLITICAL ADVERTISING
> 4. POLITICAL COMMUNICATION AND POLITICAL MARKETING
> 5. NEWS MEDIA COVERAGE
> 6. NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND CITIZENS
> 7. INFOTAINMENT AND POLITICOTAINMENT IN POLITICAL COMMUNICATION
>
> Submission deadline EXTENDED:
>
> We ask scholars to submit
> by 15 January 2011 an abstract of max. 250 words.
> by 30 April 2011 full papers (no longer than 40 000 characters)
>
> Conference fee is EUR 150 (EUR 200 after 30.06.2011)
>
> More information:
> <http://www.ptks.pl/>www.ptks.pl
> <mailto:(conference /at/ ptks.pl)>(conference /at/ ptks.pl)

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Free University of Brussels
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