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[ecrea] Comparative Perspectives on Social Media in Political Communication

Fri Oct 11 20:09:31 GMT 2013


Next year's democracy conference at the University of Oslo (jan 8-9 2014) will feature a workshop on "Comparative Perspectives on Social Media in Political Communication", described below.

Social media such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are increasingly used to communicate about societal issues by politicians, journalists and citizens alike, This workshop invites scholars to present research on social media in connection with different political contexts, across regions and national borders. While an important area of this type of research deals with the uses of services like these during democratic elections, the workshop also welcomes papers that analyses the employment of social media by politicians and political parties, social movement groups and journalists, as well as ordinary citizens also outside of such recurring parliamentary events. One workshop panel will be devoted to recent research from the Norwegian elections, taking place on September 9th, 2013. Beyond the above listed topics, scholars working on related issues are more than welcome to submit an abstract. For instance, the roles of journalists could be approached, posing questions such as if social media is becoming an ambiguous platform for source communication and source-journalist interaction, where the lines of front- and backstage communication is often hard to draw. Also, we welcome research that from a more aesthetic point of view, reflect on how the forms of social communication opens up for inclusions and representations of the ordinary, the popular and everyday life of politicians and political institutions.

Full papers to be submitted not later than 2nd of January, 2014.

Abstracts and paper proposals (200-300 words in PDF format, file labeled with the first authors last name) to be sent within 1st of November to Anders Olof Larsson:

(a.o.larsson /at/ media.uio.no) <mailto:(a.o.larsson /at/ media.uio.no)>

You can find more information regarding the conference itself at this address:

http://www.uio.no/english/research/interfaculty-research-areas/democracy/news-and-events/news/2013/annual-international-conference-2014.html

Hope to see you in Oslo!

Best regards

Anders Olof Larsson
www.andersoloflarsson.se <http://www.andersoloflarsson.se>


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