[ecrea] Breaking the Media Value Chain: VII International Conference, Barcelona, 13 – 14 June, 2013

CORRECTION: NEW Deadline for abstracts: 16 DECEMBER, 2012.

Subject: Extension of Deadline for Abstracts: Breaking the Media Value Chain
VII International Conference on Communication and Reality, Barcelona, 13 
– 14 June, 2013
Blanquerna School of Communication Studies, Ramon Llull University
http://cicr.blanquerna.url.edu/

NEW Deadline for abstracts: 16 December, 2012.

Please pass this message on to your department and to colleagues who may 
be interested in our conference.

Dear Colleague,

Please take note of the deadline extension for the submission of 
abstracts to your VII International Conference on Communication and 
Reality, entitled Breaking the Media Value Chain. For the complete Call 
for papers, and comprehensive information on the venue, provisional 
program, timelines, and travel information, please visit our event site 
at: http://cicr.blanquerna.url.edu/eng/default.asp

We are proud to announce our confirmed keynote speakers:

Federico Subervi, Director of the Center for the Study of Latino Media & 
Markets<http://www.masscomm.txstate.edu/cslmm.html> at the School of 
Journalism and Mass Communication, Texas State University-San Marcos; and

Joshua Benton, founder and director of the Nieman Journalism 
Lab<http://www.niemanlab.org/> at Harvard 
University<http://www.harvard.edu/>, an effort to help journalism adapt 
to the Internet age.
Topics of interest for the conference may be related, but not limited, 
to the following:

A.  The business of communication

Communication business reengineering


•         Rethinking communication business models.
•         Evolution and trends of the professions and the relationships 
within professional communication.
•         Key aspects of the resilience of the media.
•         The new bulwarks of brands: specialization, innovation y 
gratification.
•         Web 3.0: standardization, artificial intelligence, mobile 
devices, global positioning and mobility, and enhanced reality.
•         Replicable communication projects.
•         Durability and functionality of the media.
•         Youth, alternative economy, infrastructures and renewable energy.

Co-business
•         Open design. New models of communication companies. New forms 
of viewing the media. New resources and how to use them. The importance 
of sources.
•         Space of flux (nets) and physical spaces.
•         Media fusion. Approaches and methods from other fields of 
knowledge, and economic sectors, applied to the media.

Let’s Co!!!
•         Co-creation, co-consumption, co-activism, co-solutions, 
co-production, co-laboratory (co-lab).
•         Media Fab-labs. Media-labs. Communication research Labs.
•         Co-society project. Infrastructures, communities and methodology.


B.  The business of communities

Bidirectionality of the relationships
•         New forms of relationships/interactions among individuals, 
with society as a whole, and organizations and governing bodies.
•         Multidirectional communication with the audiences.
•         Cultural mediation, projects connector.
•         Assessment, control and audits of the communication 
businesses. Assessment of corporate relationships in terms of 
connections and the exchange of skills.

Participation, proximity and new referents
•         Dialogic communication: trust, appreciation and satisfaction.
•         Stimulation and promotion of interdisciplinary collaboration. 
Granularity of participation.
•         Distributive communication web. Hubs and nodes: bloggers, etc.
•         Human capital and social facilitators of individual and 
collective action.
•         Media capitalism: capacity to share, collaboration and trust.


C.  Business and power

Ethics
•         Individual online users. Subjects with rights and 
responsibilities: freedom of speech, pluralism, free access to information.
•         Communication and minors.
•         The ethics and practice of exerting influence.
•         De-universalization or “privatization” of human rights in the 
media.

Influencing and decision making
•         Changes in the behaviour regarding production and consumption 
of information and knowledge. New approaches to power, influencing, and 
decision making.
•         Journalism, opinion, and activism on the Internet.
•         Social movements and their mobilizing capacity.
•         Issues management: managing potential conflicts.

Regulation
•         Regulating the Internet: a global problem with mainly local 
implications.
•         Large corporations and the emergence of private gate keeping.
•         Issues of liberalizing the Internet in countries with 
democratic and autocratic forms of government.





We look forward to hearing from you and receiving your comments at 
(cicr /at/ blanquerna.url.edu)<mailto:(cicr /at/ blanquerna.url.edu)>.

Sincerely,

Klaus Zilles Ph.D.
Joan Cuenca Ph.D.

Facultat de Ciències de la Comunicació Blanquerna
Universitat Ramon Llull
Valldonzella, 23
08001 Barcelona
tel: (34) 93 253 3108
fax: (34) 93 253 3123

(cicr /at/ blanquerna.url.edu)<mailto:(cicr /at/ blanquerna.url.edu)>





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Klaus Zilles
Professor Titular
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