[ecrea] CFP: “Digital Media and the Spatial Transformation of Public Contention” - ECPR Joint Sessions Workshop

Please see below for the call for papers of the ECPR Joint Sessions 
Workshop on *“Digital Media and the Spatial Transformation of Public 
Contention”*. The full description of the workshop can be found here: 
https://ecpr.eu/Events/PanelDetails.aspx?PanelID=4836&EventID=104

CFP: The proposed workshop explores and theorizes how the rise of online 
platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Tumblr, is affecting 
the spatial configuration of public contention. The goal is to create a 
cross-disciplinary network of scholars to develop a new dynamic 
conception of publicness. Rather than simply situating contentious 
politics within a specific ‘sphere’ that serves as their container, we 
are interested in examining how contentious politics unfolds across 
different geographical, cultural, political and material configurations. 
The workshop specifically calls for papers that investigate and 
conceptualize how in contemporary protests relations of publicness are 
constantly redrawn across the ‘local’, ‘national’, and ‘transnational’. 
Moreover, it aims to stimulate research on how the technological 
infrastructures of the emerging hybrid media system, in which digital 
platforms, broadcast media, and face-to-face communication are deeply 
entangled, shape the spatial trajectories of public contention. Finally, 
the workshop hopes to attract papers that critically examine how the 
intense use of digital media in public contestation, often in 
combination with alternative media, further confuses the traditional 
distinction between ‘public’ and ‘commercial’ space. In combination, the 
papers should enable a lively debate on how to research and theorize 
public contention in the new communication environment. Do we have to 
revise or even abandon dominant conceptualizations of publicness, like 
the public sphere, which are very much predicated on the nation state? 
And if so, what new concepts do we need to understand how the rapid 
development of digital platforms is transforming the spaces of public 
contestation?

Joint Session Workshops of the European Consortium for Political 
Research (ECPR) include 15-20 participants and allow in-depth discussion 
on a specific topic. The 2017 Joint Sessions will take place in 
Nottingham between 25-30 April 2017. The deadline for submitting paper 
proposals is on the *1^st December 2016*. To submit your paper proposal 
please follow this link: 
https://ecpr.eu/Login.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fMyEcpr%2fForms%2fPaperProposalForm.aspx%3fEventID%3d104&EventID=104 


For any questions about this workshop please contact Anastasia Kavada at 
(A.Kavada /at/ westminster.ac.uk) <mailto:(A.Kavada /at/ westminster.ac.uk)> and 
Thomas Poell at (Poell /at/ uva.nl) <mailto:(Poell /at/ uva.nl)>

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