[ecrea] ECREA Pre-Conference invitation, Dealing with the Local, Prague

We kindly invite you to submit a paper to ECREA Pre-Conference /Dealing 
with the Local: Media, Proximity and Community./

The pre-conference will be held in Prague, Czech Republic, 8 November 2016.

The submission deadline is 30 April 2016.

For more information see http://precon.fss.muni.cz/localmedia/

We hope to see you all in Prague.

Best,

Lenka Waschkova Cisarova

pre-conference chair



*Call for Papers *

*ECREA Pre-Conference *

*Dealing with the Local: Media, Proximity and Community *

Pre-Conference to ECREA´s sixth European Communication Conference, ECC 
2016, Prague, 8 November 2016.

Event organized by the Department of Media Studies and Journalism, 
Masaryk University, Brno.

There are media whose main value is simply the close relationship their 
proximity provides for and with their audiences. Local and community 
media are often praised for giving voice to the voiceless, namely 
invisible local community members. Although being largely ignored by 
communication researchers, these small-scale media are undoubtedly an 
irreplaceable part of all media systems and fulfil important functions 
in society (e.g. the construction of community). Compared to other types 
of media, they have certain distinctive features, which always made them 
– as existing research shows – remarkably viable and vulnerable. Despite 
recent studies on local journalism, community media, audience 
participation in public communication and the relationship between local 
media and local politics, much research remains to be done with regard 
to the fundamental questions regarding media and closeness. These 
include: What are the contemporary local and community media functions 
in society? How has the contemporary media development transformed local 
and community media, and more broadly media closeness? How, if at all, 
has the priorities of audiences regarding local and community media 
changed? These and similar questions are among the main concerns of the 
/Media and closeness /ECREA pre-conference. To stimulate further 
international academic discussion in this area, we expect to publish the 
best papers as part of a special issue or edited book.

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*Conference topics include: *

- Local media and local journalism specifics.

- New trends in local journalism.

- Local media organizations´ development.

- Local and community journalists.

- Local audiences.

- Community and media.

- Local politics, local economy and media.

- New media and locality.


*Abstracts: *

Empirically-based abstracts outlining the topic, as well as the 
theoretical and methodological approach, should not exceed 500 words and 
should include short contact details (name, affiliation, email). The 
abstracts will be subject to a peer review process and should be 
submitted to the following email address: (cisarova /at/ fss.muni.cz) 
<mailto:(cisarova /at/ fss.muni.cz)>

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*Deadlines: *

Deadline for submission of abstracts: 30 April 2016

Notification of acceptance: 31 May 2016

Registration: 15 September 2016 (30 June 2016 for early bird fee)

Pre-conference: 8 November 2016

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*Venue: *

The pre-conference will take place at Autoklub ČR, Opletalova 29, Praha 1.

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*Contact: *

Lenka Waschkova Cisarova

Department of Media Studies and Journalism

Masaryk University

Brno, Czech Republic

(cisarova /at/ fss.muni.cz) <mailto:(cisarova /at/ fss.muni.cz)>

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