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

Thu Jul 17 19:50:46 GMT 2014




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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