CfP: ECREA Communication History section's 2011 Workshop
The History of Mass Media in Europe:
Towards Post-National Perspectives and [His]-Stories
Location: Dublin City University, School of Communications, Dublin, Ireland
Dates: 7th to 9th September, 2011.
Expected participants:
Scholars of Media History in Europe who are interested in presenting a
paper on topics related to the theme of this workshop. The workshop will
also help in identifying potential contributions to a transnational
handbook or textbook project focused on the abovementioned theme.
Call for Papers and Scope of this event:
The ECREA Communication History Section has identified 'post-national
perspectives and approaches to the [his]-stories of mediated
communication in Europe' as an increasingly important, if challenging,
theme for this field of study. Thus, the Section invites contributions
from scholars who are interested in topics related to this theme and who
can present papers and engage in the discussion at its 2011 workshop in
Dublin.
The ECREA Communication History Section is also planning to publish a
handbook and/or textbook with the aim of providing a coherent set of
contributions which yield a well-structured and relevant overview of
European mass media history and so provide a platform for more
transnational perspectives on relevant historical developments. Thus the
2011 workshop in Dublin will also provide an opportunity to identify
potential contributions and advance the Section's plans for a handbook
or textbook project around this theme.
The starting point for this workshop (and in the proposed book project)
is that authors of relevant papers should not focus merely on specific
countries and their national media history but engage with certain
problems, influences, challenges, trends, developments or historical
situations and experiences that relate to all or several European
countries, or particular regions or coherent clusters of countries. It
is of course possible to concentrate on a limited number of countries as
examples but analyses should be embedded in a broader context. The focus
of this project will be on modern mass media and their development in
the last 100 years (i.e. from the late 19th century onwards).
Contributions should be focused on time periods or events within these
time limits. If different authors (from different countries) send in
acceptable proposals covering the same or similar topics, our aim is not
to exclude authors but to bring them together.
Proposals for the workshop (and the book project) may address topics
such as the following:
- The emergence of and the discourse about new mass media (popular
press, film, radio and TV broadcasting, the internet)
- Roles of state and private-sector influences (PSB and market-based
models, public and private broadcasting)
- Struggles over "press freedom" and "public spheres": competing
conceptualizations, val-ues, norms, regulations issues
- 'History-friendly' accounts of the co-evolution of media and other
forms of institutional changes in Europe
- Role of counter publics and social movements
- Audience behavior, consumptions norms and consumer/audience identities
- The formation, roles and engagement of the public, media 'audiences'
or users
- Mass Communication in the two World Wars or in the Inter-War Crises
(Russian Revolution and Rise of National Socialism/facism)
- The Cold War: East-West conflict
- Media structures, ownership, concentration and related policies
- Media Change in specific European 'regions' or geo-political formations
- The EU project and the European Public
- The American influence and trends like globalization, mediatization or
visualization
We now invite submission of extended Abstracts (500 words max) for
15-minute presentations at this workshop. You may submit your Abstract,
by 2nd April 2011, at following web address:
http://www.dcu.ie/conferences/ECREA/index.shtml
Alternatively, you may send your Abstract by email to:
(ECREA-Commhist /at/ dcu.ie).
All Abstracts will be subject to peer-review.
SCHEDULE - KEY DATES:
Closing date for submission of Abstracts: 2 April 2011
Notification of acceptance (or not) of Abstracts: 25 April 2011
Draft programme prepared and circulated: 29 April 2011
Deadline for (online) Registration: 25 May 2011
Further information and registration facilities will be available at the
following U.R.L.:
http://www.dcu.ie/conferences/ECREA/index.shtml
Contact Email: (ECREA-CommHist /at/ dcu.ie)
Organizers
Prof. Dr. Paschal Preston, Vice-Chair of the ECREA Section Communication
History
Head, School of Communication, Dublin City University
E.Mail: (Paschal.Preston /at/ dcu.ie)
Prof. Dr. Klaus Arnold, Chair of the ECREA Section Communication History
Media Studies, Universtiy of Trier
E.Mail: (arnold /at/ uni-trier.de)
Prof. Dr. Susanne Kinnebrock, Vice-Chair of the ECREA Section
Communication History
Institute for Language and Communication Studies, RWTH Aachen University,
E.Mail: (s.kinnebrock /at/ isk.rwth-aachen.de)
