[ecrea] Communicating food for health benefits: international workshop

 Communicating food for health benefits: international workshop


The Department of Communication Studies at Universitat Rovira i Virgili 
has announced the details on the International workshop 'Communicating 
food for health benefits', to be hold in Tarragona (Spain) next 8-9th 
November 2012. The seminar is focused in the study of how communication 
could improve institutional logics in food information. The event is 
particularly interested in exploring social networks and new experiences 
in delivering information about food to spread healthy practices among 
population.

Therefore, the sessions will be on identifying institutional needs to a 
better communicative practices, exploring the European policy 
experiences and the social marketing framework as a productive tool, 
among other topics. The participants will also treat the new meanings of 
functional foods and the innovations in the food sector relating to 
communicative practices.

Among the speakers, the following will participate in the workshop: 
Laura Smillie (Acting Head of the Editorial and Media Relations Unit at 
European Food Safety Authorithy), Francesc Puiggròs (Scientific 
coordinator of Technological Center for Nutrition and Health at URV), 
Aine McConnon (University College Dublin) or Julie Barnett (Brunel 
University).

The workshop will present some of the findings of the European project 
on Benefit and Risk Food Communication, 
<http://www.eufic.org/article/en/food-safety-quality/risk-communication/rid/foodrisc/> 
in which the Department of Communication of URV is participating. The 
Catalan Journal of Communication and Cultural Studies will also present 
the CFP of the Special Issue 5.2 on "Communication and Food for Health 
Benefits. Negotiating meanings in networked times". 
<https://catalanjournal.wordpress.com/2012/05/30/call-for-articles-special-issue-on-food-and-communication/>

More information and inscriptions (open): 
<http://www.urv.cat/media/upload/arxius/comunicacio/workshop_tgn_8-9_november.pdf> 


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Enric Castelló
Departament d'Estudis de Comunicació
http://ecastello.com/
http://mediosyconflicto.wordpress.com/
http://www.urv.cat/asterisc




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