[ecrea] CFP: New Communications and Demonstrations

**REMINDER** (Deadline for abstract submission is May 1st, 2011):
Event organized by the BSA Media Study Group and Department of Media and 
Communication, University of Leicester
CALL FOR PAPERS
Wednesday 13th July 2011, 10.30am -- 4.30pm Attenborough Building, 
University of Leicester Venue details can be found at: 
_http://www2.le.ac.uk/maps_.
Theme: New Communications and Demonstrations
The media's images and narratives of protest and demonstration, 
contribute to our understanding of the relationship between public 
opinion, the mass media and democracy.  Past studies suggest television 
news reports follow the inferential frameworks (Halloran, Murdock and 
Elliott 1970) or dominant frames (Gitlin 1980) adopted by their news 
organisations, reproducing accounts which depoliticise events and even 
demonise their participants on occasion.  The view that reporting is 
always characterised in this way and, in turn, serves to reflect 
hegemonic interests is challenged however, in later work whose 
fine-grained analysis reveals various repertoires of protest and 
instances of sympathetic portrayals (eg. McAdam 2000).  Studies of 
protest, demonstration and new media technologies develop this theme 
further, albeit in a new context. These reveal the new online 
opportunities for various types of protest expression and action (Gillan 
et al 2008) and the use of technologies in the actual organisation and 
performance of protest and demonstration (Van de Donk et al 2004).  What 
is more, Cottle (2008) makes clear that the media politics of dissent 
cannot be fully understood without grasping the changing context of 
international politics and the general profusion of protest groups, 
campaigns, movements and transnational coalitions as well as evolving 
forms of protests and the different types of representations that find 
expression across local, national and global media forms and complex 
communication flows.  This event welcomes papers from ongoing research, 
already published studies or theoretical discussion on communication, 
protest and demonstrations. Suggestions include, but are not limited to:
.       Media frames, representations and the mediation of competing 
issues and viewpoints on protest and demonstration.
.       Journalists, news culture and the production of protest news 
reports.
.       News photographs and visualization of protest and demonstration.
.       Established and alternative news outlets and the reporting of 
protest.
.       Youtube videos, bloggs and protest action
.       Tweating dissent? The role of twitter before/ during / after 
protest events.
.       Active audiences, media reception and protest news.
.       Websites, mobile phones and the organisation of protest and 
demonstration.
Please send 250 word abstracts for 20 minute papers to Julian Matthews 
((_jpm29 /at/ leicester.ac).uk_ <mailto:(jpm29 /at/ leicester.ac.uk)>).
Deadline for abstract submission is May 1st, 2011.
For more details about the BSA Media Study Group please visit : 
_http://www.britsoc.co.uk/specialisms/Media.htm_
Organiser: Dr Julian Matthews, Convenor BSA Media Study Group.  
Department of Media and Communication, University of Leicester.
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Dr Julian Matthews
Lecturer
Course Director, MSc Media and Communication Research
Department of Media and Communication
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University of Leicester
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