[ecrea] IAMCR 2010 - Political Communication Research Section Call for Papers

> The Political Communication Research Section 
> will be organizing panels at the 2010 IAMCR 
> conference in Braga, Portugal. The section is 
> interested in papers bearing on all the 
> dimensions in political communication of the subject of the conference.
>
> Note that we also seek papers on any of the 
> whole range of political communication research: 
> the media and political socialization, political 
> campaigning, public opinion and political 
> participation, interactions between the media 
> and intermediary organizations such as interest 
> groups and political parties, as well as the 
> involvement and uses of the medias in campaigns, 
> election; and also the media and marketing 
> processes in government, from policy making to 
> day to day politics at the local level, 
> including Town Halls and other Local Government 
> Institutions communication, from their day to 
> day governance to the answers given to problematic neighborhoods.
>
> The use of Internet, blogs and all king of 
> Internet social networks in modern political 
> communication is also of interest to the 
> section, as well as other new media and e-government processes.
>
> Paper proposals should be one page, and should 
> list the author's name, address, university 
> affiliations, telephone, fax, and e-mail, 
> followed by the paper's title and an abstract of 
> 500 words/1500 signs. The abstract should 
> specify the subject, questions asked, methodology and findings.
>
> Proposals must be submitted, before the deadline 
> indicated on IAMCR website, via the conference's 
> online system. 
> <http://www.lasics.uminho.pt/ocs/index.php/iamcr/2010portugal/schedConf/cfp>Click 
> here to begin submitting a proposal.
>
> Also, in keeping with our section?s tradition of 
> exploring points of intersect with other 
> sections of IAMCR, this year we wish to convene 
> a joint panel, with the Gender Section, on the 
> theme: ?Assessing Gender Bias in Contemporary 
> Electoral Communication?. Those who wish to 
> submit a proposal for this session are 
> encouraged to contact either Philippe J. Maarek, 
> Head of the Political Communication Section at 
> (maarek /at/ univ-paris12.fr) , or Todd Holden, Head of 
> the Gender Section, at (holden.intcul /at/ gmail.com).
>
> For any further information, it is possible to 
> contact the section head, Professor Philippe J. 
> Maarek, at (maarek /at/ univ-paris12.fr).
>
> E-mail should be privileged, but he can also be reached as follows:
>
> Philippe J. Maarek
> Professeur à l'Université Paris 12,
> 41 rue du Colisée,
> 75008 Paris,
> France
> Fax 331-43.59.57.03,
> Tel 331- 42.25.85.82
>
> In order to improve the on-site discussions, all 
> panels will have a discussant. Colleagues 
> willing to act as discussants may apply as far 
> as they have already taken part to at least two 
> previous meetings of the section and/or are 
> well-known researchers in the field. Paper 
> givers may also volunteer to be discussants in 
> other panels than theirs. Would-be discussants 
> should specify in which field of political 
> communication they are rather willing to work 
> and also send in the same personal data required from paper givers.

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