[ecrea] "Mobilizing in the media" - Call for paper - Thematic Section n°49 - Congress of the French Association of Political Science (Montpellier, France, 11/7/2017).

In the framework of the next congress of the French Association of 
Political Science (July 2017, Montpellier, France), we organize a 
thematic section dedicated to the following topic : *« Mobilizing in the 
Media » (ST49, Tuesday the 11th of July in the morning)*.

You will find below a call for papers. The propositions should not have 
more than *750 words and be sent before the 15th of october 2016* to : 
(benjamin.ferron /at/ u-pec.fr) <mailto:(benjamin.ferron /at/ u-pec.fr)> and 
(erica.guevara /at/ univ-paris8.fr) <mailto:(erica.guevara /at/ uni-paris8.fr)>


<mailto:(erica.guevara /at/ uni-paris8.fr)>

The organizers : Benjamin Ferron (East-Paris Créteil University & 
Céditec) and Erica Guevara (Paris 8 University & Cemti)

*ST 49**
Mobilizing in the media*

*/Keywords/*/: political participation, social movements, activism, 
media, communication, public problems/*

*After the outbreak of the « Arab Spring » and the numerous 
mobilizations such as /Anonymous/, /Indignados/, /Occupy Wall Street/…, 
which have used new digital technologies to call for action and increase 
public awareness on political issues, there has been a renewed interest 
in academic researches on the communication of social movements and 
collective action by the media. However, the rich international 
literature on these protests would gain from exploring crucial questions 
raised by political sociology: the socio-historical conditions of 
possibility and legitimacy of this media-centered political activism; 
the processes of division, differentiation and prioritization of the 
political and media work, within and between social movement 
organizations; the prosopographical study of agents who, like « 
media-activists », are sometimes lastingly invested in communication and 
information issues and reap specific benefits from this investment.

Many studies have tried to adopt a sociological perspective to analyze 
the complex « associates-competitors » relationships between the mass 
media and social movements. Others have focused on the 
professionalization of communication services of activist organizations, 
or the activist commitment of journalists in trade unions or 
professional associations. However, few studies have used the conceptual 
and methodological apparatus of political sociology to analyze, from a 
relational and critical point of view, these forms of activism which 
don’t operate only « through » or « for » the media (Patrick Champagne) 
but also fully « in » the media. We think about the rise, since the 
1970s, of the parallel and underground press, free and community radio, 
pirate or non-for-profit television channels or, more recently, multiple 
forms of “web activism”.

The aim of this thematic section is thus to participate to a renewal of 
the analysis of the different media repertoires and the activist 
construction of public problems, and to open a theoretical and 
methodological reflection on the processes of production, diffusion and 
legitimization of social movements media. Numerous recent researches 
dedicated to the study of media and collective actions have been made on 
non-European fieldworks. The section will give a special attention to 
comparative approaches, comparing case studies or exporting concepts 
from the political sociology field on new cases.

We welcome contributions that address the following interrelated issues:*

Issue 1: Career paths and multi-organizational positions of media activists*

Who uses communication tools for activism? How do activists get an 
access to the « traditional » and digital media, and how do they use and 
appropriate them? Do their trajectories and career paths share specific 
features? What social factors (gender, age, profession, socialization) 
predispose the individuals to engage in this kind of activism and allow 
them to position themselves in the advocacy work? What are the 
relationships of these activists with other related social fields (such 
as journalism, associations, syndicates, parties, politics, public 
institutions, artists, information technology professionals)? Are they 
able to reconvert the stocks of resources accumulated from one social 
field to another? How should we study the trajectories of « on-line 
activists »?

*Issue 2: Practices and organizational resources of activists’ media and 
communication devices*

What are the internal properties of activists’ media and communication 
devices? What are the daily practices of « social movement journalists 
»? What are the specific technical, economical and editorial constraints 
faced by the agents? What are their day-to-day production and 
distribution routines? What kind of beliefs and professional mythologies 
do these actors share and how do they express their internal conflicts? 
How do organizational dynamics appear in « cyber activism », or in 
social networks used for militancy? How do communication issues change 
the activist division of labor? Our purpose is to open the « black box » 
of militant communication devices and organizations, and to capture 
interactions between actors and their implications for the mobilization. 
Methodologies like ethnological observation, sociological interviews and 
archive analysis are most welcome.

*Issue 3: Social movement media as entrepreneurs of public problems*

What are the effects of social movements communication strategies on 
public authorities and the media? How and to what extent does the 
communicational repertoire of social movements follow the internal 
transformations of politics and journalism fields? Can we say that this 
communicational repertoire of social movements has become autonomous, 
and that it is used to mobilize for specific public problems such as 
media critique, media system democratization or « alternative » media 
promotion? What are the consequences of its potential autonomy for more 
« traditional » ways of activism? We are particularly interested by 
adjustment and/or rejection reactions of social movement organizations 
when confronted with this communicational repertoire of activism.

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*Benjamin Ferron*
Maître de conférence
Département de Communication Politique et publique
Université Paris-Est Créteil(UPEC)
Centre d’étude des discours, images, textes, écrits, communication 
(Céditec, EA 3119)
Programme IMPACT(/International Media, Political Action & Communication 
Technologies/), UPEC Summer School
Adresse professionnelle : (benjamin.ferron /at/ u-pec.fr) 
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