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[Commlist] Call for Papers Storytelling at Paris Dauphine

Mon Jun 06 16:48:09 GMT 2022





Email (deirdre.gilfedder /at/ dauphine.psl.eu)
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*/Stories:/*Narrative in business, media, and politics Université Paris-Dauphine, 10 Novembre 2022.

Participants in this one-day conference are invited to address the interface and relations between the study of narrative and concepts of storytelling in corporate communications, the media and politics today. The seminar will examine the changing ways in which stories get crafted outside of fiction – whether they be instituted strategically by corporations and communication experts or constituted at the receiving end of the message by media readers, consumers or other stakeholders in the communications act. Although stories continue to be seen by many as an indispensable resource for communicators to develop proximity and trust with their addressees, the ongoing decline of the broadcast model of communication and the corresponding rise of digital and social media have seen the recent emergence of a new economy of discourse, which has led specialists in the fields of business, corporate communication and management to question the effectiveness and relevance of storytelling. So too, in the political domain, the proliferation of stories, and the so-called posttruth, “post-narrative” politics of Donald Trump, can be seen to have diminished their value, prompting commentators like Christian Salmon to argue recently that in political communication “the era of storytelling is coming to an end” (L’Ere du clash, 2019). Yet, narrative remains one of the driving forces behind media business - television and film, streaming platforms - while documentaries and the news also often rely on the construction of information as a causal chain that makes sense. Stuart Hall famously claimed when speaking of television news, “we make an absolutely too simple and false distinction between narratives about the real and the narratives of fiction”. In a context in which the range of communicational options is expanding, having a good story may no longer be sufficient or even necessary to attract attention, but stories, with their capacity to transcend a single medium and thrive in a transmedia world, are arguably more than ever key to retaining attention, especially when they are underpinned by powerful narratives. New generations of technology offer new ways of developing and deploying narratives, such as visually or in a collaborative fashion as with Twitter. Papers that cover any of these areas – specific examples of corporate and political storytelling, theoretical approaches to narrative in the media, social media storytelling – are welcome, with a hope that a dialogue can be set up between critical approaches and practical approaches to the uses of narrative in these spheres. Please submit an abstract of around 250 words and send it to the following addresses for the 20th June 2022.

Appel à communications pour une journée d’études à l’Université ParisDauphine, le 10 novembre, 2022 « Stories : La place/le rôle du récit dans l’entreprise, les médias et la vie politique. » Cette journée d’études se propose d’explorer l’interface et les relations qui existent entre narratologie et concepts du storytelling dans la communication d’entreprise, dans les médias et au sein de la vie politique contemporaine.


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