[Commlist] 10th ECREA ECC conference 2024

Only one month left to submit to ECREA ECC conference 2024


The 10th ECREA ECC conference in 2024 will take place from 23 to 27 
September 2024 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. With the deadline for the 
conference just one month away (11 January), excitement is high and the 
organisers ECREA, the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Slovene 
Communication Association are inviting potential presenters to submit 
their proposals.

Under the title ‘Communication & social (dis)order 
<https://ecrea2024ljubljana.eu/conference-theme/>‘, the organisers are 
calling for proposals that contribute to rethinking communication and 
social (dis)order from different perspectives of ECREA sections, 
networks and working groups. Proposals for individual papers, panels and 
roundtables can be submitted to all ECREA sections, temporary working 
groups and networks via the ECREA ECC 2024 submission platform 
<https://www.czech-in.org/cmPortalV15/Account/Login?ReturnUrl=%2FcmPortalV15%2FPortal%2FECC24%2Fnormal>.

Conference Theme
What is the place of media and communication in today’s globalized 
society, affected by ongoing social and political conflicts, wars, the 
systemic crises of the capitalist order, prospects of further 
environmental degradation, weather extremes and continuous pandemics, 
the restructuring of everyday life by the rise of artificial 
intelligence, and the epistemic crisis within which contemporary 
academia operates?

Disruptions in the fields of politics, economy, health, and technology 
have significantly reshaped contemporary communication, resulting in 
dysfunctional unpredictability of the social system with troubling 
consequences for individuals and society as a whole. At the same time, 
recent technological developments and changing communication practices 
have often been labelled as exacerbators and even the origin of these 
systemic disruptions, emphasizing their destructive (disorder) or 
creative potential (new order).

Historically, however, technologies and communication practices have 
continuously been reconfigured by the tendencies to reproduce the 
prevailing social organization and its control, sustaining the 
established norms, values, and relations, and the struggles to transform 
the prevailing structures and relations to ameliorate inequalities, 
discrimination, and surveillance on individual, social, and global 
levels. Considering that the trajectories of future societal development 
are shaped by the outcomes of current struggles, this underscores the 
urgency of scientific reflection and examination at this moment, in 
support of the necessary social change towards greater social justice.

The ECC 2024 conference invites participants to reconsider the 
communication (dis)order by reflecting upon ongoing political, economic, 
environmental, health, and technological disruptions, their 
(dys)functional (un)predictability, and their long-term societal 
implications. While the speed and scope of contemporary communicative 
developments and social disruptions can easily generate an impression of 
unprecedented changes, felt either as a breakdown of the “old” order or 
the creation of a “new” one, this sensation is by no means exclusive to 
the present moment.

Submission and Deadline
Proposals for individual papers, panels, and roundtables can be 
submitted to one of ECREA Sections, Temporary Working Groups, and 
Networks through the ECC 2024 submission platform until 11 January 2024. 
All proposals should be written in English.

Abstracts for individual papers (300–500 words, including references) 
should succinctly convey the study’s primary research problem, 
methodology, key findings, and their implications. Individual papers 
should align with and support the conference theme.

Panel proposals should comprise five individual contributions, 
consisting of a panel rationale along with five panel paper abstracts. 
The panel rationale (300–500 words, including references) should 
elucidate the theme and its relevance within the broader conference 
context. Each panel paper abstract (300–500 words, including references) 
should further elaborate on specific research topics, main objectives, 
methodology, and findings, ensuring alignment with and support for the 
panel rationale.

Roundtables should involve no more than five initial participants and 
are designed to foster discussion and interaction among delegates on a 
specific topic. Roundtable submissions (300-500 words, including 
references) should provide details about the discussion topic and its 
relevance, including the names of the organizers and initial 
participants. The availability of these participants must be confirmed 
at the time of proposal submission.

Each participant may only be nominated as the first (presenting) author 
in one accepted submission. However, there are no restrictions on the 
number of presentations where a conference participant is listed as a 
co-author. Additionally, participants are welcome to serve as chairs, 
respondents for panels, or participants in roundtable discussions.


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