[ecrea] CFP Bridging the Quantitative-Qualitative Divide in,Comparative Communication Research: Heading towards Qualitative,Comparative Analysis (QCA)

For those scholars wanting to bridge the Quantitative-Qualitative divide 
in their work and are seeking an introduction to Qualitative Comparative 
Analysis

ICA POST-CONFERENCE: Bridging the Quantitative-Qualitative Divide in
Comparative Communication Research: Heading towards Qualitative
Comparative Analysis (QCA)

London - June 22, 2013, 9:00 -- 17:00, Hilton Metropole (Cadogan)

PROGRAM

9:00-10:00 Keynote 1
A Quarter Century of QCA: Assessing Past Achievements, Looking to the
Future | Axel Marx (University of Leuven)
Chair: Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

10:00-10.30 Coffee

10:30-11:45 Panel 1: Methodological Challenges and Advancements in QCA
- Critical realism and Qualitative Comparative Analysis | Roy Krovel
(Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences)
- Building Empirical Typologies with QCA: Towards a Classification of
Media Systems | Florin Buechel, Edda Humprecht, Laia Castro, Sven
Engesser & Michael Brüggemann (University of Zurich)
- Working with Limited Diversity in QCA: A Methodological Case Study |
Julia Lück & Hartmut Wessler (University of Mannheim )
- What Influences News Work across 18 Societies? A Comparison between
fsQCA and Conventional Correlational Techniques | John Downey
(Loughborough University), Thomas Hanitzsch (University of Munich) &
James Stanyer (Loughborough University)
Chair: Frank Esser (University of Zurich)

11:45-1:00 Lunch Break

1:00-2:00 Keynote 2
Set-Theoretic Methods: Challenges, Good Practices, and a Long-Sought
Common Ground for Qualitative Researchers? |  Carsten Schneider (Central
European University)
Chair: James Stanyer (Loughborough University)

2:00-3:15 Panel 2: Applying QCA to Media Production Research and
Institutional Contexts (roundtable)
- Comparative Approach to the Study of Changes in Political Parallelism
| Roei Davidson (University of Haifa)
- Qualitative Comparative Analysis when Studying Public Service Media:
Establishing Criteria Methods in Six Different European Countries |
Karen Arriaza Ibarra (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) & Lars W. Nord
(Mid-Sweden University)
- Journalists' perception of objectivity and professional roles in
Spain and Switzerland | Rosa Berganza, Martín Oller & Katrin Meier
(Universidad Rey Juan Carlos)
- Employing Qualitative Comparative Analysis Approach to Examine
Communicative Actions of Chinese Environmental NGOs | Jingfang Liu
(Fudan University)
Chair: Hartmut Wessler (University of Mannheim)

3:15-3:45 Tea

3:45-5:00 Panel 3: Applying QCA to Audience and Message Effects
Research (roundtable) + Closure (Q&A)
- Using QCA to Understand Messages about Student Debt Among
Disadvantaged High School Students | Jeremy Schulz (UC Berkeley) & Laura
Robinson (Santa Clara University)
- Complex Engagements: Explaining Communication Practices of Mexican
Immigrants in the US through Multiple Methodologies | Antonieta Mercado
(University of San Diego)
- The Comparative Method as a Breaching Experiment | David Mathieu
(Roskilde University)
- Bridging the Qualitative-Quantitative Divide in "Big Data": The Case
of Occupy Wall Street and Twitter | Lana Swartz & Kevin Driscoll
(University of Southern California)
Chair: John Downey (Loughborough University)

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Inquiries to Thomas Hanitzsch ((hanitzsch /at/ ifkw.lmu.de)), James Stanyer
((j.stanyer /at/ lboro.ac.uk)) or Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt
((keren.tw /at/ mail.huji.ac.il)).