[ecrea] CFP Comparative Media Studies in Today’s World: Conf 20 April 2016

*4*^*th* *International conference ‘Comparative Media Studies in Today’s
World: New Research Areas and Approaches’*

*April 20, 2016, St. Petersburg State University, Russia
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within the 55^th International Scientific Forum ‘Media in the Modern
World’ (April 20-22, 2016)

Deadline for abstracts: February 25, 2016

The 4^th International conference ‘Comparative Media Studies in Today’s
World’ will take place at School of Journalism and Mass Communications,
St.Petersburg State University, Russia, on April 20, 2016. In previous
years, the conference has become a gathering point for scholars
interested in the leading media research from all over the world; this
year, it aspires to break through conventions in comparative media studies.

In 2016, the focus of the conference is upon new and under-developed
areas in comparative media research, as well as new methodologies of
their exploration. Recently, the basic domains of comparative media
studies have been contested by growing criticism towards classic media
effects research, de-westernization studies, and inquiries to previously
under-researched social milieus and geographical locations, to name just
a few. The conference, being this year seemingly broad in its scope,
clearly aims at gathering new research ideas that expand the mainstream
media research and illuminate new zones of possible comparative studies.

The format of the conference is mixed – traditionally, it unites
carefully selected invited speakers and researchers applying via call in
equal proportions. In 2013 to 2015, the guest speakers of the conference
were Paolo Mancini (Italy), Katrin Voltmer (UK), Thomas Hanitzsch
(Germany), Daya Thussu (UK), Elena Vartanova (Russia) and others. This
year, confirmed key guests list includes:

  * Prof Larry Gross, Annenberg School for Communication, University of
    Southern California, USA
  * Prof Nico Carpentier, Uppsala University, Sweden
  * Prof Susanne Fengler, Technical University of Dortmund, Germany

The structure of the conference will include a podium discussion, two
keynote speeches and a number of research panels. The working language
of the conference is English (with simultaneous translation into Russian
provided). The conference is also included in the German Week in
St.Petersburg and is supported by US and European consulates and
foundations.

In 2016, we welcome papers of comparative stance focusing mainly (but
not exclusively) on the following areas/topics/approaches:


Theory and methods:

  *

    Media systems research: definitions, country-level comparisons, and
    going beyond the nation state

  *

    De-westernization of comparative media research: theory and practice

  *

    Newest developments in the quantitative, qualitative, mixed, and big
    data methodologies in the application to comparative media studies

Area studies:

  *

    Media, media systems and media audiences in African, Latin American,
    and Asian countries in comparative perspective

  *

    Post-Soviet media in non-conventional perspective:
    back-to-bipolarism, BRICS, Eastern European and other research
    perspectives

  *

    New forms of media representation compared: marginal, queer, fringe,
    and diversity media studies

Please submit an abstract of 350 to 400 words in English to
(_applicationspbu /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(applicationspbu /at/ gmail.com)>_by
*February 25, 2016*. Please state ‘Conference 2016’ as the title of the
letter.

The applicants will be informed of the selection results not later than
March 1, 2016.

Visa invitations will be issued not later than March 15, 2016.

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Best wishes,
Anna Smoliarova

Associate Professor

School of Journalism and Mass Communications

St. Petersburg State University


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