[ecrea] Comparative media systems: Implications for news media repertoires and democratic engagement across Europe

SPRING POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL & RESEARCH CONFERENCE

***Comparative media systems: Implications for news media repertoires
and democratic engagement across Europe (IUC-CMS 2016)*

Inter University Center, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 18th-22nd April 2016

Call for Applications

/Course Description: /

Media systems analysis and cross-media news consumption research are two
research areas currently characterized by ‘ferment in the field’. This
course and conference brings together leading scholars in these fields
in order to explore the opportunities for cross-fertilizing them in
comparative research projects across Europe. In media systems analysis,
scholars like Brüggemann et al. (2014) and Perusko et al. (2013, 2015)
are developing new tools for building better models to supplement or
replace the renowned Hallin & Mancini model (2004), arguing that we need
models which take account not just of politics and journalism culture,
but which incorporate the complete mediascape. Other scholars argue that
from the audience point of view these mediascapes must be conceptualized
as cross-media entities, and that we should understand better the ways
in which audience preferences lead to the formation of distinctive media
repertoires, with implications for citizens’ democratic engagement and
participation. From the encounter of this dual endeavor to build
empirically sound knowledge emerges the added value of bringing their
findings into a heuristic dialogue about the possible interplay of
relevant social institutions with media systems at the structural level
and audience-generated media repertoires at the level of agency. As a
result of this dialogue we can hope to obtain a better grasp of the
nexus of media consumption and democratic engagement.

/Lecturers & Course Directors/

Hanna Adoni, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Maria José Brites, University of Minho, Portugal

Carmen Ciller, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

Steffen Lepa, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

Paolo Mancini, Università di Perugia, Italy

Snježana Milivojević, University of Belgrade, Serbia

Hillel Nossek, Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee, Israel

Zrinjka Peruško, University of Zagreb, Croatia

Slavko Splichal, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia,

Kim Christian Schrøder, Roskilde University, Denmark

/Course Organization:/

This fifth "slow science" IUC-CMS is an interdisciplinary research
conference & post-graduate course open to doctoral and post-doctoral
students in media, communication and related fields. Each year the topic
of the course will focus on one or a combination of areas that define
media systems from a comparative perspective.

Invited lecturers will deliver keynote lectures with ample discussion
opportunities. Course attendees will have extended opportunity to
present and discuss their current own works with the course directors
and other participants in seminar form (English language) and in further
informal meetings around the beautiful old-town of Dubrovnik (UNESCO
World Heritage) over 5 full working days (Monday-Friday). The working
language is English. All participants will receive a Certificate of
Attendance.

The School is open to 15 PhD and Master students, post-docs and junior
researchers interested in comparative media systems.

While a comparative perspective across Europe will be foreground of the
general course discussion, individually presented works may also adopt a
comparative perspective on news repertoires and political engagement in
single countries across time. A complementary methodological workshop
will introduce selected qualitative and quantitative research methods.

/Abstracts and paper submission:/

//Proposals should be sent to (zperusko /at/ fpzg.hr)
<mailto:(zperusko /at/ fpzg.hr)>no later than January 31, 2016. Submissions
should include paper title, abstract in English (300 words), name,
e-mail address, institutional affiliation and a brief bio (max. 100
words) mentioning main research interests and ongoing projects.
Participants will be informed of acceptance by mid-February.
Exceptionally participation is also possible without presenting a paper.
After acceptance, participants are requested to register at the IUC web
site: http://iuc.hr/course-details.php?id=908.

/Fees/

A fee of 140 Euro is payable to the IUC on arrival. The fee covers
technical equipment and support, computer room & printers, free wifi,
handouts, etc.

/Venue Information:/

The Inter-University Centre was founded in Dubrovnik, Croatia, in 1972
as an independent, autonomous international academic institution with
the aim of promoting international co-operation between academic
institutions throughout the world. Courses are held in all scientific
disciplines around the year, with participation of member and affiliated
universities.

/Additional Information and Application:/

For further information about academic matters please contact the course
director:

Professor Zrinjka Peruško, Centre for Media and Communication Research,
Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb. Email:
(zperusko /at/ fpzg.hr) <mailto:(zperusko /at/ fpzg.hr)>

To apply for the course and for information on accommodation and venue,
please visit the IUC website: http://iuc.hr/course-details.php?id=908

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