[Commlist] call for participants: 10th Graduate Spring School & Research conference on Comparative Media Systems

Call for participation in the post-graduate course and research conference

*10th Graduate Spring School & Research conference on Comparative Media 
Systems*
co-organized with the MEDIADELCOM HORIZON 2020 and the ECREA CEE Network

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*Media System Characteristics as Risks or Opportunities for Deliberative 
Communication*

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IUC, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 11-15 April 2022

What is the relations between deliberative democracy as a normative and 
pragmatic concept, and political and media systems in Central and 
Eastern European and Western European countries? How can we analyze if 
the media in certain specific contexts really contribute, or are 
detrimental, to the practice of deliberative communication and 
deliberative democracy? Can this relationship be more that a normative one?

This year’s course is inspired by the research in the new HORIZON 2020 
project MEDIADELCOM (https://www.mediadelcom.eu, a project led by the 
University of Tartu, Estonia), which aims to answer just these 
questions. The project consortium members (from 14 European countries) 
argue that European political and cultural spaces evolve best if 
specific media related policies enhance the conditions for deliberative 
communication. The project aims to develop a methodology enabling the 
assessment and forecast of the risks and opportunities for deliberative 
communication emerging in the process of European media transformation 
in 2000-2020. A specific focus of MEDIADELCOM is to evaluate Central and 
Eastern European new democracies in a comparative fashion with their 
established Western European counterparts. The departure point for the 
project was the two-part question: In which domains, and in which ways 
does existing research depict the risks and opportunities (ROs) 
regarding the agency of news media in supporting deliberative 
communication. A broad preliminary literature review on the 
transformations of the news media during the past two decades, revealed 
four domains conditional on each other, where the risks and 
opportunities discourse is most clearly identifiable: journalism, 
legislation and ethics, media usage, and media competences. This year’s 
course will hear and discuss some of the first theoretical and 
methodological outputs stemming from the project.

The course includes a one day hands-on methodological workshop on the 
design and implementation of fuzzy set QCA and the accompanying 
statistical analysis, held by Dina Vozab and Filip Trbojević from the 
University of Zagreb.

The course is organized by course directors from 8 European universities:

Zrinjka Peruško, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Carmen Ciller, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Epp Lauk, Tartu University, Estonia
Steffen Lepa, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Paolo Mancini, Università di Perugia, Italy
Snježana Milivojević, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Slavko Splichal, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Miklós Sükösd, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

This 10^th "slow science" IUC-CMS is an interdisciplinary research 
conference & post-graduate course open to academics, doctoral and 
post-doctoral students in media, communication and related fields 
engaged with the issue of media and media systems, that wish to discuss 
their current work with established and emerging scholars and get 
relevant feedback.

Invited research conference participants will deliver keynote lectures 
with ample discussion opportunities. In this unique academic format, 
student course attendees will have extended opportunity to present and 
discuss their current own work with the course directors and other 
lecturers and participants in seminar form (English language) and in 
further informal meetings around the beautiful old-town of Dubrovnik 
(UNESCO World Heritage) over 5 full working days (Monday to Friday).

The working language is English.

Participation in the course for graduate (master and doctoral) students 
brings 3,5 ECTS credits, and for doctoral students who present their 
thesis research 6 ECTS. The course is accredited and the ECTS are 
awarded by the Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb 
(www.fpzg.unizg.hr <http://www.fpzg.unizg.hr>). All participants will 
also receive a certificate of attendance from the IUC.

/Enrolment/

To apply, send a CV and a motivation letter to (zrinjka.perusko /at/ gmail.com) 
Students who wish to present their doctoral research should also send a 
300 word abstract. The course can accept 20 students, and the 
applications are received on a rolling basis. After notification of 
acceptance you need to register also on this web page 
https://iuc.hr/programme/1518 <https://iuc.hr/programme/1518>

The IUC requires a small enrolment fee from student participants. 
Participants are responsible for organizing their own lodging and 
travel. Affordable housing is available for IUC participants. Stipends 
are available from IUC for eligible participants, further information at 
https://www.iuc.hr/iuc-support.php <https://www.iuc.hr/iuc-support.php>. 
For information on these matters please contact the IUC secretariat at 
(iuc /at/ iuc.hr) <mailto:(iuc /at/ iuc.hr)>.

/Venue Information/

The Inter-University Centre was founded in Dubrovnik in 1972 as an 
independent, autonomous academic institution with the aim of promoting 
international co-operation between academic institutions throughout the 
world. Courses are held in all scientific disciplines around the year, 
with participation of member and affiliated universities.

/Additional Information/

For further information about academic matters please contact the 
organizing course director: professor Zrinjka Peruško 
(zrinjka.perusko /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(zrinjka.perusko /at/ gmail.com)>, Centre for 
Media and Communication Research (www.cim.fpzg.unizg.hr 
<http://www.cim.fpzg.unizg.hr>), Department of Media and Communication, 
Faculty of Political Science (www.fpzg.unizg.hr 
<http://www.fpzg.unizg.hr>), University of Zagreb (www.unizg.hr 
<http://www.unizg.hr>).

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