[ecrea] CFP "Comparative media studies in today’s world: social media in network societies"

CFP: International conference “Comparative media studies in today’s 
world: social media in network societies”

Date: 23th April 2015

Place: School of journalism and mass communications, St. Petersburg 
State University,

St. Petersburg, Russia (http://eng.jf.spbu.ru/)

Deadline: 20.03.2015

Language: English



Description: The study of social media and their implications on the 
processes of social transformations is gaining growing importance within 
today’s media research, with big attention being paid to critical 
evaluation of the role of social media for social and political change 
and for the development of civil society. The study of ‘network 
societies’ today already goes beyond studying online/social media and 
their audiences, but relates Internet communicative milieus to the wider 
societal structures and political processes.

While Internet research today is focusing more on how online 
communication itself and its impact upon selected political, economic 
and cultural aspects of social life, media studies have developed 
several other discourses looking at the same communication phenomena but 
not yet very much connected to Internet-oriented studies. Among those, 
comparative media research and media hybridization research may be 
named; these areas, like some others, contribute to bringing us (Western 
and Eastern Europe in particular) closer to understanding of the 
interdependences between media and political systems and the process of 
technological and political hybridization of media systems in various 
contexts.

This year, the Third international conference ‘Comparative media studies 
in today’s world’ held annually in St.Petersburg, Russia, brings 
together the papers oriented to research upon online/offline 
communication cleavages, communication on social issues in online 
networks, inter-media agenda setting and other aspects that unite online 
communication and wider socio-political life.

The program of the previous conference can be found here: 
http://eng.jf.spbu.ru/news/42-45.html

General topics and questions for discussions:

- Theoretical approaches to comparative studies of hybrid media systems;

-  Social media in the context of today’s comparative research;

- Methodology of social media research;

- Inter-media agenda setting and agenda flows;

- Online/offline media parallelism and the online public sphere(s);

-  Social media and political mobilization in various societies;

- The role of social media in fostering social change;

- Online communication milieus as ‘virtual fireplaces’ and/or ‘echo 
chambers’.

Abstracts should range between 150 and 300 words including research 
objectives, theoretical framework, methodology, and (non-compulsory) 
generalized description of results. Each proposal must include a caption 
bearing the title(s), name(s), affiliation, institutional address(es) 
and email address(es) of the author(s); the caption is not included in 
the abstract word count.



There will be no registration fee for the conference. Travel and 
accommodation costs will be covered by participants. The organizers 
will, on request, provide the necessary letters for the purposes of 
issuing visas to foreign visitors.



Submission deadline: 20.03.2015

Email: (nauka /at/ jf.pu.ru) (for Anna Smoliarova)



International Neva Award in Journalism and Mass Communication Research



St Petersburg State University invites applications from emerging 
scholars for the International Neva Award in Journalism and Mass 
Communication Research, to be awarded  at the  opening ceremony of the 
annual forum “Media in modern world. 54th Petersburg readings” in St. 
Petersburg, Russia (23th April 2015). The deadline for submissions is 31 
March 2015.

The award  is given for the following nominations:

·         “Theory” – for scientific and theoretical publications

·         “Education” – for scientific and methodological and popular 
science publications

·         “Recognition” – for achievements in journalistic science and 
education



The Award 2015  in the nomination “Theory” went to Dr. Thomas Hanitzsch, 
Professor of Communication at the LMU Munich, Germany.

The Neva Award was established in 2011 by School of journalism and mass 
communications, St. Petersburg State University in order to stimulate 
scientific research in journalism and mass communications; raise the 
level of scientific and methodological and popular science publications 
on mass media issues; as well as to reward specialists for outstanding 
achievements in journalistic science and education.

Please learn more about the rules and application forms - 
http://eng.jf.spbu.ru/news/42-51.html.

Procedure

    * The closing date for submissions is March  31, 2015. Send 
submissions in electronic form or via post to the School of journalism 
and mass communications. The subject of your message should be Neva 
Award 2015. Postal address: 199004, Russia, St. Petersburg, 1 Linia VO 
26, Room 614. E-mail: (nauka /at/ jf.pu.ru).
    * If an award is made, the author(s) will be notified 2 weeks 
before the conference when the result will be publicly announced.






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