[ecrea] Media and identity, ULB, 16-17 Dec

The conference organizers offer to facilitate a discussion about the
role of media in the construction of political identities, in four major
areas:
- The study of media discourse, especially in its contribution to the
inclusion or exclusion of members of the community, ethnic group or
nation (especially the continuities or resonances between media
discourse and other discourses from the world of politics and civil
society which are circulating in the public sphere and can be identified);
- The analysis of the links between media and political strategies,
between media actors (journalists, editors, bosses) and political actors
(parties, attorneys), especially in cases where community membership is
brought into play;
- The analysis of the internal functioning of the media organization
that contributes to configuring media discourse around these identity
issues (collection methods and selection of information, internal
hierarchies, use of expert discourse, use of social networks, ...)
- The analysis of the economic dynamics of the media which influences
how the different actors are involved in the construction of identities
(shareholders, advertisers, ...).

The organizers invite the submission of any proposal for setting out the
contribution of media (traditional and new media) to the political
construction of community, ethnic and national identities in one of
these four areas. Papers, which can be comparative or not, focusing on a
particular geographical area or not can give a theoretical or empirical
answer to the question: “media: actors or instruments in the
construction of community, ethnic and national identities?”

As the conference is organized jointly by a Research Center for
Political Science and a Research Center for Information and
Communication Science, it will also serve to encourage a
cross-fertilization of themes, methods and concepts used in these two
disciplines that intersect less often than one might think or hope. The
approaches from linguistics, social psychology, history and sociology of
the media are welcome as the conference will be inherently
interdisciplinary.

Proposals, including a title and an abstract of 500 words, in English or
French, should be sent (tobellarminus.kakpovi /at/ ulb.ac.be)  and
(jdaneroi /at/ ulb.ac.be)  by 30 June 2013. The authors of selected proposals
will be notified in August. The papers should be sent by 15 October.
Please note that transport and accommodation costs are the
responsibility of the participants.

Organizing committee :
Julien Danero Iglesias, Marie Fierens, Marie-Soleil Frère, Bellarminus
Kakpovi (ULB), Marc Lits (UCL).

Scientific committee :
Laura Calabrese, Ramona Coman, Jean-Michel De Waele, Irene Di Jorio,
Corinne Gobin, François Heinderyckx, Laurent Licata, Florence Le Cam,
Sharon Weinblum (ULB), Dave Sinardet (VUB).

Conference organized in collaboration with the Department of Information
Science and Communication of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, the
Department of Political Science of the Faculty of Social and Political
Sciences at the Université libre de Bruxelles, ReSIC, CEVIPOL, the
Faculty of Economic, Social, Political and Communication Sciences of the
Catholic University of Louvain and the Brussels Platform for Journalism.


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