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[Commlist] cfp: International Colloquium: The Grip of Communication

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*Call for papers (PDF version available here <https://www.academia.edu/73966443/International_Colloquium_The_Grip_of_Communication_December_15_16_2022_Sciences_Po_Toulouse_France_>)*
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*The grip of “communication”*

*International Colloquium organized on the occasion*

*of the 10^th  anniversary of the French academic journal*

*/Politiques/**/de Communication/*

*At Sciences Po Toulouse, Manufacture des Tabacs, 21 allée de Brienne, 31000 Toulouse - France*

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·Dates: December 15-16, 2022

·Submission of proposals (abstract): June 15, 2022

·Response and selection: July 15, 2022.

·Final submission of papers (7,500 words max.): November 15, 2022

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For its tenth anniversary, the French academic journal /Politiques de/<https://www.cairn.info/revue-politiques-de-communication.htm>/communication /is//organizing an international colloquium whose ambition is to propose an overall reflection on "the grip of communication" in the structuring of contemporary social spaces.

The term "communication" is polysemic: depending on the context of use, it designates interpersonal relations, data, broadcast media, infrastructures, economic sectors, professional groups, organizational policies, or even new ways of acting on and thinking about the social world. “The grip of communication” can therefore be defined, in a first approximation, as the partial transformation of relatively autonomous social activities due to the generalization of the use of mass media and digital media, and the standardization of the knowledge, know-how and professional or profane beliefs associated with them.

As various studies have shown, it can be detected in the transformations of organizations, public and private, commercial or not, in a mutation in the forms of expression, or in the evolution of the resources and skills necessary to succeed socially, and therefore of the hierarchies, cleavages and forms of legitimate socialization and sociability. For about two decades, this unequal grip of communication has manifested itself in an exemplary way in the digitalization of social relations: commercial, professional, non-profit, militant, but also friendly or amorous. It is also reflected in the growing weight of communication professionals in sectors and professions where they were historically absent: gastronomy, sports, justice, science, university, publishing, etc.

The ambition of this colloquium is to bring together and bring into dialogue empirical studies aiming to measure the forms and the strength of this grip of communication in various social fields: politics or economic activities, of course, but also culture, journalism, teaching and research, sport, fashion, law, religion, food, clothing and even ways of being and living in society.

The "grip of communication" is not a new question for social science research. Its ideological, political, economic, technical and organizational dimensions have been explored. In a cumulative perspective, the first ambition of this colloquium is to propose an assessment of the works on the evolution of social practices and representations of communication and their organizational implications. It also proposes to question the social relations of domination - of gender, class, "race", generation - of which communication is a tool and sometimes a revealer. In what proportions and according to what variable modalities is this "grip" of communication exercised (or felt), according to the specific logics of a given social space? Is the professionalization of communication a form of rationalization of the work of legitimization or of symbolic domination? Does the extension of the practices of communication take part of a growing subordination to economic and political interests? Is it a resource monopolized by a few institutions or people with better resources? On the contrary, is it also observed - and with what ambivalences - in the militant, scientific or artistic practices of contestation of the social order?

The need to capitalize on the numerous contributions of the social sciences is in line with the desire of the journal /Politiques de communication/ to open up new avenues for research. These new ways are established by the exploration of objects having escaped until now the investigations of the research, but they can also be drawn in the course of a renewed work of problematization and distancing that highlight the induced effects of communication in social universes already well studied.

Researchers from different social science disciplines are invited to participate in this collective critical enterprise. The expected proposals should, on the one hand, present an explicit construction of the object around this "grip of communication", and on the other hand, mobilize and rely on rigorously constructed empirical data in order to avoid the risk of speculative denunciation.

The expected communications can be inscribed in one of the three following axes:

*1)**The “professionalization” of communication and its effects*

In this first axis, the expected contributions will try to show how agents who seek to legitimize communication skills and know-how are gradually imposing themselves in sectors that until now had escaped them, affecting at the same time the logics of functioning and sometimes even the hierarchies of the spaces in which they evolve.

In an analysis centered on the study of the processes of construction of the professional groups, it is first a question of studying the emergence, in sectors of activities from which they were excluded until now, of agents specialized in communication. How is the profession of communicator invented in the artistic, gastronomic or associative sectors, for example? By what type of agents are these activities carried out and how are new skills and competences imposed in these sectors? How is the recognition of these specialties organized through the action of professional groups, associations, unions or schools? In sectors where professional groups are in the process of being institutionalized - such as politics or sports - it will be possible to understand how spaces are reconfigured and how new professional norms are imposed.

We will then look at the emergence and construction of new professions which, based on digital technologies, offer new professional opportunities to agents. How are the jobs of influencers, streamers, gamers, community managers, etc. being invented today? What are the conditions that allow people to make a living from these activities? What are the trajectories of those who invest in these new spaces? How does professional socialization take place in these sectors? How are the norms of the profession progressively constructed and organized?

Finally, it will be a question of understanding what the emergence of these professional groups does to the sectors of activity in which they have invested. How does the arrival of communicators transform the world of publishing or gastronomy?  What are social networks doing to politics? How are beauty influencers transforming gender norms? It is therefore the grip of communicators on certain fields and sectors of activity that will be studied here and their effects on the fields in question. In what way does the presence of these agents transform or not these sectors of activity and the social hierarchies that govern them? What about the effects of their symbolic action on social relations of domination?

*2)**Information under the grip of communication*

A second line of questioning deals with the current forms of the grip of communication on the production of journalistic information. If the professionalization of sources and their influence on the co-production of journalistic information, the modalities of information dissemination and the representations of the public associated with them, or even the sources of media consecration are classic problems since the 1990s and 2000s, there is a lack of recent empirical work that updates knowledge and makes the contemporary forms of these fundamental issues intelligible. The answers to the questions raised here will be attentive to the characteristics of press institutions and their editorial offices, to the distribution of resources and competencies, and to the issues of competition in and around the journalistic field.

The contributions can first of all question the modalities of the professionalization of information sources and its effects on the information produced. Has it become more pronounced? Is it based on new knowledge and communication practices, especially with the use of social-digital networks? It seems impossible today for a minister, an artist or even a scientist to exist publicly without maintaining a Twitter account, just as it seems unthinkable for political, cultural or scientific journalists not to scrutinize this social network for news. Have new sources of information, previously neglected or in the minority, acquired a new influence thanks to new communication practices? Has the professionalization of sources also developed in social sectors - and journalistic specialties - where it was marginal (sports information, cultural information, etc.)? Has the development of digital technology, and in particular social networks or online videos, offered new resources to journalists, allowing them to distance themselves more critically from traditional information sources?

The contributions can also take as their object the transformations of the modes of diffusion of journalistic information, thanks to the new means of communication (websites, smartphones, social networks) and the development of "transmedia", and their effects in return on the representations of the public and the production of the information. What new formats do these means of communication offer, and how are they appropriated by journalists? Does the intensification of the measurement of Internet users' online behavior increase the influence of marketing considerations already identified in the production of information in the 1980s? Has the generalization of the use of digital media made possible the emergence or the diffusion of "alternative" (non-journalistic) forms of information? How is determined the credibility and authority of the information thus disseminated?

The contributions can finally question the current forms of media consecration. If the processes of accumulation and monetization of media capital are beginning to be well known, there are still few works that articulate the analysis of the notoriety acquired by the journalistic field, and that gained by other means of communication, notably digital networks. Under what conditions and for which social agents does the latter allow to compensate or increase the former?

*3)** “The grip of communication” as a public problem and a problem of the public*

A third axis will focus on the grip of communication, and in particular of digitalization, on the "public" in the broadest sense, whether it is a question of the reproduction and/or transformation of ordinary social relations (receptions, appropriations and uses of the media), on the one hand, and of the arenas of construction of public problems (claims-making activities), on the other.

One of the effects of the rise of "communication" is the trivialization of strategies of self-presentation in the most ordinary interactions, such as self-branding on social media or the renewal of profane practices of production and circulation of information. If these aspects have been widely studied for the last twenty years, few works have tried to analyze the social conditions of possibility of these activities, their costs and benefits of appropriation - economic and symbolic - according to the social properties of the agents who invest in them. What assessment can be made of the existing research concerning the hold of communication on the receivers, the users, the publics of the media, according to the positioning of the agents in social space, of the capitals they have, and of the unequal distribution of the material and cognitive instruments necessary for the incorporation of the most legitimate information and communication practices? What benefits of conformity or distinction are agents likely to derive from their behaviors and attitudes towards digital media and tools within the family circle, peer groups, their professional worlds, their political and religious commitments, or their leisure practices? Is digital media a recognized and active resource, and if so, for whom and under what conditions?

A second aspect of this axis concerns the place and the role of the grip of communication in the construction of public problems. We observe, on the one hand, a transformation of the processes of publicization and politicization of social problems in favor of the multiplication of communication channels and the diversification of the arenas of public debate. This observation, commonplace, of a rise in the carrying capacity of social problems can raise questions that are less so, if we reason with the tools of the sociology of public problems: what are the effects of this modification of the channels and spaces of expression on the principles of selection of the issues? How does the influence of communication on the processes of setting the agenda of problems work? Can we observe an intensification of the competition between public problem entrepreneurs, while the struggles for the attention of the public are subject to very sophisticated rationalization strategies? To what extent do these transformations contribute to making "communication problems" and their "solutions" into political ready-to-think?

The grip of communication is manifested, on the other hand, by the fact that it constitutes itself as a public meta-problem, that is to say a category subsuming other problems regularly put on the media and political agenda, whether it is a question of the criticism of the media and journalism, of commercial advertising, of political and public communication, or even of the criticism of digital media. How and by whom are the public problems of this all-encompassing problem of the "grip of communication" constructed and prioritized? Are they the object of a specific work of politicization or, on the contrary, of depoliticization and even their disappearance from the public agenda? Far from limiting ourselves to the analysis of critical discourses and "controversies" on these issues, the papers will pay attention to the concrete activities of claims-making in the arenas of public debate, but also to the power relations between claims-makers, according to their socio-professional positions and properties, to the social and institutional conditions of their positions and to the specificities, hierarchies and mutual relations between the social spaces of production and circulation of their discourses, be they local, national or international.

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Proposals for papers should be sent before June 15, 2022 to the following address: (colloque.emprise.communication /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(colloque.emprise.communication /at/ gmail.com)>

Short (about 450 words), they should present their object of study, the theoretical framework, the problematic and the empirical elements. They will be careful to explain the critical dimension of the approach and indicate what they wish to show/demonstrate.

Papers can be submitted in French and English. No payment from the authors will be required.

The authors whose proposals are selected will participate in the colloquium and, at the same time, will submit a written version of their paper, which will be reviewed for publication in the anniversary issue of the journal. The proposals will be selected by the editorial board of the journal /Politiques de communication/.

The committee will make its decision by July 15, 2022. For the publication of a special anniversary issue of the journal, papers should be written in a format that corresponds to the journal's format and sent to the conference organizing team by November 15, 2022.

***Organizing Committee*

- Olivier BAISNEE

- Benjamin FERRON

- Sandrine LEVEQUE

- Jérémie NOLLET

*Scientific Council*

Anne-Claude AMBROISE-RENDU | Olivier BAISNEE | Christine BARATS | Rodney BENSON | Clémentine BERJAUD | Loïc BLONDIAUX | Julien BOYADJIAN | Isabelle CHARPENTIER | Ivan CHUPIN | Clément DESRUMAUX | Benjamin FERRON | Charles GADEA | Jean-Paul Géhin | Nicolas HUBE | Christian LE BART | Jean-Baptiste LEGAVRE | Brigitte LE GRIGNOU | Pierre LEROUX | Sandrine LEVEQUE | Erik NEVEU | Jérémie NOLLET | Caroline OLLIVIER-YANIV | Aurélie OLIVESI | Stéphane OLIVESI | Valentina PRICOPIE | Rémy RIEFFEL | Julie SEDEL | Jean-Claude SOULAGES| Anaïs THEVIOT | Sandra VERA ZAMBRANO**

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The journal /Politiques de communication/ aims to shed light on communication in its social and political dimensions. Its objective is to produce rigorous, methodologically supported knowledge, seeking to uncover the logics of communication. An analytical journal, it uses the social sciences in their diversity to explore “apparatus,” “fields,” “worlds,” and “configurations,” within which communication takes part in the rationalization of practices, in the peaceful exercise of power and its legitimation, in the changes in the relationships that individuals have with themselves and with social groups, and in the new forms of subjectivity that result from this.

/Politiques de communication/ pays particular attention to knowledge without grandeur, to neglected or marginal systems of representation and the image of the social groups that bear them, to commonplace empirical data, to professional practice; in short, to all sorts of subjects that have been left behind. It aims to study the phenomena of communication from a symbolic viewpoint in order to gain a better understanding of their anthropological and political implications. It also seeks to not separate scholarly discourse from non-expert discourse, in order to enrich the former with all sorts of empirical data and to thus recall that the smallest glimpse of truth is reliant on one condition . . . politics.

Working to free itself from the academic routine, which is an expression of the social division of scientific work, /Politiques de communication /intends to curb the influence of disciplinary rationales. It seeks to be a forum for mutual and fruitful exchange between researchers from France and the rest of the world, who, working on the same objectives but with different methodologies and theoretical frameworks, hope to come together and challenge each other in order to renew perceptions of the contemporary reality of communication.


      *Editorial Board*

_Editor-in-chief_
Stéphane Olivesi (Université Versailles Saint-Quentin, France)

_Editorial committee_

Olivier Baisnée (IEP de Toulouse), Clémentine Berjaud (U. Paris 1), Julie Bouchard (U. Paris 13), Julien Boyadjian (IEP de Lille), Isabelle Charpentier (U. de Picardie), Ivan Chupin (UP Saclay), Jean-Baptiste Comby (U. Paris 2), Clément Desrumaux (U. Lyon 2), Benjamin Ferron (U. Paris Est), Nicolas Hubé (U. de Lorraine), Nicolas Kaciaf (IEP de Lille), Pierre Leroux (UCO), Philippe Le Guern (U. de Rennes), Sandrine Lévêque (IEP de Lille), Clément Mabi (U.T. de Compiègne), Jérémie Nollet (IEP de Toulouse), Aurélie Olivesi (U. Lyon 1), Julie Sedel (U. de Strasbourg), Anaïs Théviot (UCO).

_Scientific committee_

Anne-Claude Ambroise-Rendu (UP Saclay), Christine Barats (U. Paris 5), Loïc Blondiaux (U. Paris 1), Eric Darras (IEP de Toulouse), Pascal Dauvin (UP Saclay), Charles Gadéa (U. de Nanterre), Jean-Paul Gehin (U. de Poitiers), Chistian Le Bart (IEP de Rennes), Jean-Baptiste Legavre (U. Paris 2), Brigitte Le Grignou (U. Paris Dauphine), Gérard Mauger (CESSP-CSE CNRS), Erik Neveu (IEP de Rennes), Caroline Ollivier-Yaniv (U. Paris Est), Yves Poirmeur (UP Saclay), Rémy Rieffel (U. Paris 2), Jean-Claude Soulages (U. Lyon 2).

_International committee___

Patrick Amey (U. de Genève), Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz (U. de Brême), Rodney Benson (U. de New York), Marcel J. Broersma (U. de Groningue), Aeron Davis (Goldsmiths College - Londres), Oliver Fahle (U. de la Ruhr, Bochum), Andreas Fickers (U. du Luxembourg), Fiorenza Gamba (U. de Sassari), Eric Georges (U. du Québec - Montréal), Oliver Hahn (U. de Passau – Bavière), François Heinderyckx (U. libre de Bruxelles), Sylvain Lefèvre (U. du Québec - Montréal), Nadine Machikou Ndzesop (U. Yaoundé II), Victor Manuel Marí Sáez (U. de Cadix), Liz Moor (Goldsmiths College - Londres), David Morley (Goldsmiths College - Londres), Spiros Moschonas (U. d’Athènes), Valentina Pricopie (U. Valahia de Târgoviste), Veneza Mayora Ronsini (U. of Santa Maria - Brésil), Klaus Schonbach (U. de Vienne), Roland Schroeder (U. d’Iserlohn - Rhénanie-du-Nord-Westphalie), Rui Torres (U. Fernando Pessoa - Porto), Jean Zaganiaris (EGE - Rabat).


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