[ecrea] Call for Abstracts - Spring School "Studying Media Systems"

Studying Media Systems:

Anglo-Saxon, Lusophone and Asian Models

Spring School on the intersection of Political Economy of the Media and 
Journalism Studies

2nd Spring School CECC-FCH-UCP

Lisbon, 2-6 April 2013

Lecturers:

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen – University of Oxford

Jonathan Hardy – University of East London

Anthony Fung, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Silvio Waisbord – George Washington University

Rita Figueiras and Nelson Ribeiro, Catholic University of Portugal

Organizers:

Rita Figueiras ? Verónica Policarpo ? Nelson Ribeiro



Call for Applications

In the last three decades, European integration has led to major changes 
in media systems with the harmonization of legislation among member 
states. Under this context, besides dismantling state intervention, 
liberalization, deregulation and marketization of the sector has been 
witnessed along with increasing concentration and the 
transnationalization of the forms of ownership.

The mostly English-speaking multi-sectorial and transnational 
conglomerates (Tunstall, 2008) have taken a dominant role in the 
production and distribution of content (Hardy, 2008), which has blurred 
the specific nuances of national media systems and led to the reduction 
of the heterogeneity of international media supply. However, as 
emphasized by Albarran and Chan-Olmsted (1998: 15), despite the trend 
towards the greater homogenization of Western media systems, there are 
political, economic, geographical and cultural specificities that must 
be addressed in the analysis of media markets. Dan Hallin and Paolo 
Mancini, in their seminal study of 2004, proposed media models 
structured on similar political-historical standards, which 
simultaneously provided homogeneity among a set of countries and 
heterogeneity to Western media geography. And more recently, the same 
authors have both expanded and nuanced their argument by analyzing 
non-Western media systems (Hallin and Mancini, 2012).

However, in the post-crisis global context of present time, the United 
States and the European countries are losing terrain where their 
traditional political, economic, and symbolic supremacy is concerned, 
whereas other countries outside the Western geography, such as China and 
Brazil, are increasing their importance in the international arena. 
These countries possess large economies and are becoming global leaders. 
At the same time, regional dominant nations are also acquiring economic 
supremacy in different areas of the world, e.g. Angola in Africa or 
South Korea in the Pacific.

Strong non-Western economies are affirming themselves in the globalized 
world which has opened the way for them to buy strategic companies in 
several countries. Media companies are being considered strategic assets 
in the global affirmation of emerging countries with autocratic 
political regimes and this trend is introducing questions regarding how 
illiberal views on media articulate with Western culture’s founding 
prerogatives of journalism.

This is the motto that inspires the core concept of the 2nd Spring 
School on Studying Media Systems: Anglo-Saxon, Lusophone and Asian 
Models, organized by the research line ‘Media, Technology, Contexts’ of 
the Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC), Catholic 
University of Portugal. The 2nd Spring School is founded on the 
intersection between Political Economy of the Media and Journalism 
Studies and it intends to address theoretical perspectives and empirical 
methodologies to research in an articulated fashion media ownership with 
news media production. Identifying how the different components of the 
media articulate as a financial business and a news media project, 
understood as simultaneously a reflection and a promoter of a particular 
political culture, will contribute to a more in-depth knowledge and also 
add complexity to the scientific debate on media and cultural systems.

Thematic sessions:

Day 1 (April 2nd)

The Impact of the Internet and Global Recession on Media Systems

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen – University of Oxford

Day 2 (April 3rd)

Western Media Systems

Jonathan Hardy – University of East London

Day 3 (April 4th):

Transnational Media Corporations in China and Asia

Anthony Fung, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Day 4 (April 5th)

Media Systems in Latin America

Silvio Waisbord – George Washington University

Day 5 (April 6th)

The Lusophone Media Systems: Alterations following the 2008 World 
Economic Crisis

Rita Figueiras and Nelson Ribeiro, Catholic University of Portugal

For Whom? The School is open to 20 PhD and Master students, post-docs 
and junior researchers from Communication Studies, and related areas, as 
well as all social scientists interested in the Political Economy of the 
Media or Communication Studies.

Where? In Lisbon, at the facilities of the Research Centre of 
Communication and Culture (CECC). CECC aims to bring together 
international key scholars in these fields of inquiry. Recent guests at 
our events include Barbie Zelizer, Lawrence Grossberg, François Jost, 
Michael Schudson, Michael Delli Carpini, Richard Grusin, Daniel Dayan, 
Charles Ess, Gianpietro Mazzoleni, Nick Couldry, James Curran. As in 
previous initiatives, CECC will provide an inspiring venue for fresh 
intellectual discussion during the upcoming Spring School on Media 
Systems: Anglo-Saxon, Lusophone and Asian Models. CECC is located at the 
Faculty of Human Sciences of the Catholic University of Portugal, in 
Lisbon. Elected by the British Academy of Urbanism The European City of 
the Year 2012, Lisbon is a vibrant place: 
http://www.visitlisboa.com/Lisbon.aspx

When? April 2012, from the 2nd to the 6th of April 2013. Participants 
are requested to arrive at 1st of April. Over 5 full days 
(Tuesday-Saturday) they will attend lectures and take part in discussion 
groups where they will present their research projects. The working 
language is English. All participants will receive a Certificate of 
Completion and will be awarded 3 ECTS.

How and when to apply? Applicants should send their Curriculum Vitae, a 
one-page cover letter of intentions, and a draft of their work in 
progress paper (7 000 characters maximum, references included) by email 
to Sonia Pereira, (sonia.pereira /at/ fch.lisboa.ucp.pt), until January 31st 
2013. Candidates will be selected on the basis of the letter stating 
their motivations to take part in the Spring School, the paper outlining 
their research projects and their CV. The organizing committee will 
notify all applicants until February 15th 2013.

Fee: The enrolment fee is 200 €, to be paid only on acceptance of the 
application. Registration is due by March 19th 2013. Late registrations: 
300€ (after March 19th 2013). The Spring School will offer lunches and 
coffee breaks.

Contacts & Infos

Site: https://sites.google.com/site/springschoolcommunication/

E-mail: (methodologiescommunication /at/ gmail.com)

Address: Palma de Cima 1649-023, Lisbon (Portugal)

Fax: +351 21 727 17 00

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