[ecrea] Call for Papers (Media Research - Medijska istraživanja): Political Communication and Campaigning in South-East Europe

*CALL FOR PAPERS: DEADLINE 31 MAY 2017*
Special Issue: Political Communication and Campaigning in South-East Europe
Media Research - Medijska istraživanja 2018 (Vol. 24, Issue 1)

Media Research is an open access journal and it is indexed in Scopus, 
Sociological Abstracts (SA), Linguistic and Language Behavior Abstracts 
(LLBA) and Social Planning/Policy & Development Abstracts (SOPODA), 
Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE).

Editor-in-Chief: Nada Zgrabljic Rotar
Special Issue: Political Communication and Campaigning in South-East Europe
Guest-Editors: Jelena Jurisic and Lucia Vesnic-Alujevic

In the majority of South-East European countries (Slovenia, Croatia, 
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania, 
Bulgaria, Romania), the first democratic elections were held 
approximately 25 years ago. Since then, these countries have experienced 
significant political, cultural, economic and social changes and 
challenges, such as the transition from communism to democracy, from 
one-party systems to multi-party systems, from censorship and media 
under constant political pressure to free media. In many of them, the 
process of post-communist transition and democratization coincided with 
the state-building process. The basis of democracy, rule of law, 
political dialogue and human rights were relatively slowly being 
established.

This all led to the transformations of political communication and 
campaigning, as well as political elites themselves, media and 
audiences. Many world-famous political consultants and agencies were 
hired to organize political campaigns, help candidates win and teach 
them the basics of political advertising.  Following world and European 
trends, political communication in South-East Europe nowadays is 
characterized by the extensive use of digital media and social networks. 
This is also due to the high internet usage in these countries.

The special issue is looking at the development of political 
communication in the region of South-East Europe, especially in relation 
to electoral campaigning and advertising and the rise of digital media, 
as we feel that this region is not researched enough in the field of 
political communication. We look forward to receiving papers that 
discuss these issues from different theoretical and methodological 
perspectives.

Specific areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Historical development of campaigning
- Comparative research of different electoral cycles and different countries
- Campaigning in traditional and social media
- Political advertising
- Political rhetoric
- Personalization
- TV debates
- Audiences
- Public opinion

Submission Instructions
Deadline for full manuscripts: 31 May 2017 (sent to: (jjurisic /at/ hrstud.hr))
Length: 6,000-7,000 words (references included).
Publication date: June 2018

The articles need to be original, not previously published or under 
review elsewhere and should be in accordance with the Contributor 
guidelines <http://nmi.hr/en/guidelines-for-contributors/>. All 
contributions will be subjected to two blind peer reviews.

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