[ecrea] call for papers: "communication and politics in the pop-democracy"

CALL FOR PAPERS. "COMMUNICATION AND POLITICS IN THE POP-DEMOCRACY" - 
Annual Conference of the Italian Association of Political Communication 
(AssoComPol)
University of Rome-La Sapienza and LUISS University - Rome (Italy)
14-16 December 2017

In a world characterized by the growing conflation of politics and 
communication, where democracies are experimenting deep changes and 
facing challenging innovations, the interest towards political 
communication is globally growing. The implication on the paradigms and 
the scientific research agenda, as well as on the various disciplines, 
have been far-reaching. Always more, a deep and comprehensive knowledge 
of the dynamics and complexities of politics in the global age requires 
theories, methodologies, and tools of analysis which consider the 
epistemological and conceptual challenges generated by technological 
innovations and, more generally, by the developments of media systems 
and communication flows and by the rising of the so-called 
“pop-democracy”. Therefore, it is necessary to gain a better grasp not 
only of the theories on politics and communication, but also of the 
rooted systemic relationships on such theoretical and methodological 
perspectives.
We would encourage contributors to use the idea of crisis and/pop 
democracy/to reflect on challenges facing media and political 
communication research. These include (but are not limited to):

  * The relationships between media and politics and their peculiarities
    in the frame of the pop-democracy.
  * The roles of media and culture in relation to democracy,
    political trust and the public sphere.
  * Mass media and social media influences upon ongoing ideological and
    political revolutions.
  * The work of media and journalism in relation to the rising of the
    pop-democracy.
  * The impacts of emergent media cultures, technologies and
    economies on political/geopolitical structures and conflicts.
  * The role of politics and of the media system in generating fake news
    and dystopic story-tellings.
  * The relationships between social media, dystopia and post-truth.

While the main theme of this conference is “Communication and politics 
in the pop-democracy”, the Italian Association of Political 
Communication operates an open and inclusive policy, and papers dealing 
with any aspect of media and politics are welcomed, as are papers from 
PhD students and early career researchers.

**DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS**:  31 August 2017.  Successful applicants will 
be notified by 15 October 2017. Abstracts should be 250 words. They must 
include the presenter’s name, affiliation, email and postal address, 
together with the title of the paper and a 150-word biographical note on 
the presenter. Please send all these items together in a single Word 
file (not as pdf!) to (convegno /at/ compol.it)
*PROGRAMME AND REGISTRATION* This two and half days conference takes 
place in the two campuses of Rome University-La Sapienza and LUISS 
University. It will consist of a keynote panel, paper and panel 
sessions. The fee for registration for all participants, including 
presenters, will be €40, to cover all conference documentation, 
refreshments and administration costs.
**WEBSITE":* https://www.compol.it/eventi/convegno/convegno-2017/ - More 
detailed info available from September.

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