[ecrea] Call for abstracts- Political Communication in Europe between populisms and anti-political sentiments

Call for Abstracts
Annual Conference of the “Associazione Italiana di Comunicazione Politica”
Catania (Sicily): 11-13 December 2014
Conference Theme: Political Communication in Europe between populisms 
and anti-political sentiments
Conference Planners: Gianpietro Mazzoleni (University of Milan), Franca 
Roncarolo (University of Turin), Rossana Sampugnaro (University of Catania)
Deadline: August 10

The 2014 election campaign for the European Parliament has highlighted 
the diffusion of strong anti-Europe, anti-Euro sentiments in several EU 
countries. On the one hand, new movements and new leaders have appeared 
on the campaign scenes, joining the existing anti-European parties, to 
exploit and further inflame the social and political tensions created by 
years of economic crisis and of austerity policies implemented by the 
Union. On the other, there has been the attempt on part of the Union 
itself and of many established parties to contain the abstention trends 
and to contrast the populist wave. The parties have waged election 
campaigns centered on the voter and linked to the candidates to the 
presidency of the Commission.

From the perspective of political and electoral communication 
strategies and rhetorics, several political players have used heavy 
populist accents in their electoral propaganda, thus gaining momentum 
and large visibility thanks to the logic of the mainstream media to 
cover controversial issues and events, and capitalizing on the large 
dissemination of their creed and slogans by the social networks.

The Conference of the Italian Assocation of Political Communication will 
analyze and discuss three main sets of issues:

1. how and to what extent the communication implemented by parties, 
movements, leaders and candidates has harped on the existing discontent, 
antipolitic, anti-Europe moods that clatter much political communication 
in European countries?
2. what role have played the traditional and the new media: did they 
provide space and fuel for anti-European claims?
3. What dynamics of public opinion have been observed in the 
pre-campaign, campaign and voting phases in relation to media coverages 
and to voting?


Please e-mail a 500-word abstract, along with a five-source bibliography 
and brief biographical statement, by August 10, 2014 to Gianpietro 
Mazzoleni ((assocompol /at/ ngi.it))
More info on the Conference available soon at www.dsps.unict.it


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