[Commlist] Political Communication Research in Central and Eastern Europe CFP

Political Communication Research in Central and Eastern Europe

	

*Political Communication Research in Central and Eastern Europe*

CALL FOR PAPERS

Joint event of ECREA Central and Eastern European Network and IPSA RC 22 
– Political Communication

Co-organisers:

  * Department of Political Science, Faculty of Law and Political
    Sciences, University of Szeged, Hungary
  * Faculty of Political Science and Journalism, Adam Mickiewicz
    University in Poznań, Poland
  * Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism, Faculty of Social
    Sciences, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
  * Institute of Journalism, Media and Social Communication, Faculty of
    Management and Social Communication, Jagiellonian University in
    Kraków, Poland

10.10.2022, online

In the post-socialist Central and Eastern European region the first 
democratic election campaigns took place more than 30 years ago. In 
parallel with this, political communication as a field of research 
emerged in the region’s scientific community. Since then, phenomena such 
as the changes in voters’ levels of volatility (Blumler 2016; Blumler 
and Kavanagh 1999; Swanson 2004), the shift of communication and in news 
consumption (Thomassen 2005), the appearance of ‘modern’ political 
marketing (Maarek 2011), and long-term relationship between political 
actors and electorate as a strategy (Wring 1996) shaped the directions 
of research in political communication. Although these symptoms are 
widely studied in Western democracies, the situation is different in the 
CEE region. However, the processes mentioned above have also conquered 
political campaigns in the region (Eibl and Gregor 2019). Seeing that 
their voters live their everyday lives on social media, political actors 
have ‘moved up’ to the leading platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, 
YouTube, and nowadays Instagram and TikTok. This process has to be 
reflected in research on political communication. The new platforms 
demand different communication techniques. The significance of 
personalized politics has increased too (Bennett 2012). The basics of 
political communication have not changed in response to new platforms. 
However, the density of communication means of interaction and a 
constant race for attention have resulted in a significant turnaround. 
Populist-illiberal parties, the decline in media freedom in the region, 
and – inevitably – the heightened public opposition to the government 
decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic, which is sometimes interspersed 
with fake news and conspiracy theories caused by the epidemic and 
vaccinations have further contributed to the changes in political 
communication.

KEY QUESTIONS

The event’s focal point is the conceptual and practical overview of 
political communication scholarship in Central and Eastern Europe. The 
organizers look forward to presentations in (but not limited to) the 
following areas of interest:

  * patterns of political communication research in the region,
  * features of the communication patterns,
  * digital communication,
  * personalisation of the content,
  * challenges to political marketing in the region
  * illiberal/anti-liberal tendencies in the user-generated content
  * polarization of public discourses in the region
  * future of political communication in the CEE region.

Abstracts (with maximum length of 350 words) will be evaluated by 
members of the Scientific

Committee. Please include the name, affiliation and email address of 
author(s).

Upload your abstract here: https://shorturl.at/ceFOX

Deadline: *June 10, 2022*

Organizing Committee:

Norbert Merkovity (University of Szeged, Hungary)

Magdalena Musiał-Karg (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland)

Lenka Vochocová (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)

Małgorzata Winiarska-Brodowska (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland)


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