[ecrea] CfP Workshop „EU communication transformed? Politics and media in crisis mode”

Workshop „EU communication transformed? Politics and media in 
crisis mode”

8 March 2016

Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln Peter-Welter-Platz 2 | D-50676 Köln |
Germany


PADEMIA (http://www.pademia.eu) is a Europe-wide network of 56 academic
institutions from 31 countries to promote research and teaching in
reaction to growing European demands to study parliamentary democracy in
Europe. PADEMIA seeks to enhance discussion among students, junior and
senior researchers, also in exchange with stakeholders, on how to deal
with the new challenges that parliaments and citizens across Europe are
facing today.

The PADEMIA-Work Package 5 „Parliaments and the European Public Sphere“,
coordinated by the Institute for Media and Communications Policy (IfM),
focuses on the actors that exercise representative functions within the
European polity, notably the parliaments, their communicative dimension
in the context of European politics, and their role in legitimising
politics by publicising political processes and democratic decisions.
However, when it comes to representation, relevant actors may be
situated at extrainstitutional levels, too. Historically, the media have
been key to the institutionalization of modern democracies, serving as
technologies for publicity and, in a wider sense, means for social
integration. Today, mass media as well as political parties, both
intermediary organizations central to representative democracies, face
fundamental challenges by social and technological change, notably the
rising relevance of the internet and social media. The question how, in
an age of „communicative abundance" (John Keane) and an increasingly
fragmented media environment, the media, old and new, exercise their
function in relation to other actors – including parliaments – is
subject to intense debate.

At the same time, a multitude of crises (Eurozone, Greek debt, Ukraine
and refugees) has engulfed the EU over the past years, whose magnitude
and speed render European politics essentially permanent crisis
politics. Against this backdrop, the PADEMIA workshop „EU communication
transformed? Politics and media in crisis mode" focuses on the changing
communicative environment media and parliamentary actors find themselves
in as well as on crisis discourses in the EU. We are particularly
interested in empirical as well as theoretical and methodological
insights into – but not limited to – the following aspects:


• Crisis coverage: the changes that the crises, and the political
measures taken to respond to them, have brought to media reporting about
the parliamentary actors and EU politics.

• Crisis communication: Communication efforts and strategies employed by
political actors to respond to the EU’s crises.

• The way the legislative and electoral functions of parliaments as well
as the traditional "linkage function" of political parties are being
transformed by social and technological change, notably the rising
importance of the internet. How are extra-parliamentary movements, e.g.
populist, anti-European networks, making use of the internet?

• Implications for parliamentary democracy and the public sphere at the
European level.

• Patterns of politicisation through media and communication of EU
politics in crisis situations Proposals for presentations from different
disciplinary strands, whether theoretical or empirical in focus, are
invited.


Funding is available to support travel and accommodation expenses for
speakers. Proposals (no longer than 400 words) should be submitted via
email no later than January 21 (extended), 2016, to

Dr. Leonard Novy Mitglied der Institutsleitung IfM - Institut für
Medien- und Kommunikationspolitik gGmbH (leonard.novy /at/ medienpolitik.eu)
<mailto:(leonard.novy /at/ medienpolitik.eu)>




Many thanks and kind regards

Leonard Novy



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