[ecrea] cfp - Political Communication and Democratic Innovations

COMPOL, the leading Italian academic journal in Political Communication,
opens a call for article for a special issue about Political
Communication and Democratic Innovations.


CALL FOR ARTICLES

COMPOL: ISSN: 1594-6061

Special Issue
Political Communication and Democratic Innovations

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The increase of information and the need to have a large number of
sources of knowledge and debate, makes strategic the role of
communication and, in particular, of the digital media. A particular
place in which political communication can play a new strategic role
(not limited to the usual dimensions of campaigning) is constituted by
the democratic innovations (from the innovative form of institutional
design to the first experiences of participatory-deliberative democracy).

Themes include (but are not limited to):

- Conceptual innovations: In what ways, if any, do the concepts of
participation and deliberation need to be reframed in response to
contemporary challenges and developments?
- The role of political communication: How can political communication
better support democratic innovations? Is it possible – even in academic
field – to avoid the risk to conceive political communication as a mere
intervening variable in social processes?
- Political engagement and communication: How can we develop tools and
methods to encourage and support participation? How can communication be
embedded in already existing social and political structures? How can
communication empower the quality of democracy?
- Democracy and scale: The proliferation of digital and online
technologies opens up new possibilities for participatory methods and
practices to engage a broader public. Can the quality of deliberation be
correspondingly improved? What the role of communication in this
perspective?
- Digital platforms and democratic innovations: What are the
peculiarities of the digital platform for participation, also in a
comparative perspective? What are the relationship between
public/political communication and the national/European public policies
to improve participation? Can political communication play a role in the
re-shaping of the open government projects? What are the relationships
between the Internet governance and the innovations in institutional design?

We encourage contributions from different theoretical and methodological
approaches. Papers can be theoretical or empirical in kind. Papers that
tackle the above issues from a historical and/or a comparative
perspective are also welcome.

Submission Details

Please send your abstracts (300-500 words) by 10 December 2015 to
(compol.rivista /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(compol.rivista /at/ gmail.com)> and to
Michele Sorice ((msorice /at/ luiss.it) <mailto:(msorice /at/ luiss.it)> or
(michele.sorice /at/ stir.ac.uk) <mailto:(michele.sorice /at/ stir.ac.uk)>)
- Notification of outcome: 20 December 2015
- Full papers submission (7,000 words maximum, including abstract and
references, footnotes): 15 March 2016
- Notice of acceptance: 15 April 2016

Please ensure that author(s) names are removed from the text and from
the supplementary files. Submissions should preferably use Harvard
citation system (BS ISO 690:2010).





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*Michele Sorice*

*LUISS University**
**Centre for Media and Democratic Innovations "Massimo Baldini"*
Democratic Innovations | Participatory and Deliberative Democracy |
Political Communication*
Viale Romania, 32  |  00197 Rome RM  |  Italy**
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*E:* (msorice /at/ luiss.it) <mailto:(msorice /at/ luiss.it)> | *E:

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