[ecrea] CFP: ECREA Communication and the European Public Sphere TWG seminar 'The development potential of the European Public Sphere'

Call for Papers
ECREA Communication and the European Public Sphere TWG seminar
 'The development potential of the European Public Sphere'  7-8 
September, 2017
Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland
 This seminar aims at presenting various perspectives on the European 
Public Sphere. We will discuss responses to numerous crises which Europe 
is faceing right now. The European Union has to tackle challenges in 
many areas (first and foremost in foreign and security policy). Some of 
these questions - such as Brexit, migration or terrorism - create vivid 
debates and may provide potential for development of the European Public 
Sphere. There are also several institutional  attempts to foster new 
emerging debates and issues within the European Public Sphere and 
diverse projects contributing to promotion of European values.  We will 
distinguish among different concepts as well as examine models of 
European Public Sphere. We will take into consideration the contemporary 
state of European media and study communication trends in Europe (the 
declining impact of traditional media, such as major broadcast 
television networks and major national newspapers, weakening credibility 
of media vs. new sourses of information and new channels of 
communication such as social media and alternative media; we will look 
closely at phenomena such as echo chambers or filter bubbles and their 
implications for civic discourse). We welcome papers on the above 
mentioned topics but we are also open to other themes: eg. influnce of 
pre- and post-election discources and debates on the European Public 
Sphere - elections in the Netherlands, France and Germany, where 
nationalist discourses, populists' use of the media, fragmented and 
polarized audiences as well as quality of information (post-truth, fake 
news, disinformation) can be discussed. We welcome contributions from 
both scholars and practitioners reflecting on these topics.

Proposals of papers should be submitted in abstract form. Abstracts (no 
longer than 300 words) should be emailed to Malgorzata 
Winiarska-Brodowska <mail to: (malgorzata.brodowska /at/ uj.edu.pl)> by July 
15, 2017.
 Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors by July 20, 2017.
 Full papers must be submitted by August 20, 2017.

The conference fee (100 EUR/participant) should be paid after the 
notification of acceptance (by July 30, 2017).  Bank Pekao SA, III 
Oddzial w Krakowie
Szpitalna 15, 31-024 Kraków
 SWIFT: PL94124047221111000048566759
IBAN: PKOPPLPW

 Please remember to add following information:
'ECREA Communication and the European Public Sphere TWG seminar: The 
development potential of the European Public Sphere (2001359)'.
The fee includes conference attendance, coffee breaks and lunch (2 
days), conference bag as well as publication. After the payment 
participants are required to send the payment confirmation to Malgorzata 
Winiarska-Brodowska <mail to: (malgorzata.brodowska /at/ uj.edu.pl)> in order 
to register for the conference.

Conference website: 
http://www.media.uj.edu.pl/konferencje/-/journal_content/56_INSTANCE_TUDrLcWHQ1h4/1384650/136802436.





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