[ecrea] Call for papers - ECREA 7th ECC Lugano 2018

ECREA 7th ECC Lugano 2018
Call for papers

We warmly invite you to submit your abstract to the ECREA 7th European 
Communication Conference (ECC) to be held in Lugano, Switzerland, 31 
October - 3 November 2018. The overarching conference theme is “Centres 
and Peripheries: Communication, Research, Translation”.

The European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) in 
partnership with USI Università della Svizzera italiana call for 
proposals to be presented at the 7th European Communication Conference, 
to be held in Lugano, Switzerland, from 31 October to 3 November 2018.

The Conference has chosen the key theme of “Centres and Peripheries: 
Communication, Research, Translation”. Organisers call for proposals 
that address the main conference theme and which relate to each ECREA 
Section, Network or Temporary Working Group.

Conference theme

This conference aims to analyse and to address the theme “Centres and 
Peripheries: Communication, Research, Translation” in communication from 
a multiplicity of perspectives.
First, the conference examines the issues of “core” and “margins”, 
inviting scholars to stretch the boundaries of media and communication 
research as an academic discipline. We welcome presentation of research 
that seeks to take communication and media studies to new territories 
and new fields of application.

“Stretching” media and communication research means bringing attention 
to underdeveloped fields of research and bringing theories, approaches 
and methods from other academic fields and disciplines into view. 
Academic subjects previously not concerned with aspects of mediated 
communication now acknowledge the role of media and communication 
processes for their discipline. This is both a challenge and an 
opportunity for the future role and socio-cultural impact of media and 
communication research.

Second, the key conference theme of centres and peripheries means 
reconsidering geographical, cultural and linguistic borders or 
boundaries. Many areas of media and communication research have been 
dominated by American and European scholarship, but these traditions can 
learn methodological and theoretical insights coming, for example, from 
Asian, South American and African research. In this regard, as the 
subtitle of the conference emphasizing “translation” suggests, this also 
requires re-examination in the continual dominance of the English 
language in academic affairs. There is no doubt that the English 
language has become the lingua franca in the scientific community, 
allowing scholars from different countries to communicate and to access 
each other’s work. Nevertheless, the English language-centrality needs 
to be questioned and discussed in a plurilingual setting such as the 
Swiss context and, in particular, when findings in other languages are 
marginalized, considered
peripheral or less important. This is why special panels addressing this 
topic will be organised during the conference.

Reconsidering borders, however, goes beyond mere reflection and deals 
with the materiality of communication flows. In the present global 
context of migration and mobility, and where terms such as flow, 
mobility, multi-cultural, multi-perspective, transcultural, hybrid and 
fragmented are ubiquitous, the issue of what we consider as 
communicative centres and peripheries is highly important. We thus also 
invite contributions that focus on the stability and fragility of the 
concepts of “centre” and “periphery”. This topic addresses historical 
and spatial instability, understanding and explaining how certain 
physical or immaterial entities become centres – or peripheries – for 
certain issues in critical times (e.g., the Silicon Valley for 
technological innovation related to the Internet, online communication 
and network societies).

Third, the key concepts of centres and peripheries in communication are 
associated with economic and political power. Communication flows often 
go from rich (central) countries to poor (peripheral) ones. Within 
single countries distribution of resources are often unequal in terms of 
information and connectedness between privileged and unprivileged areas 
(e.g., urban peripheries and rural areas). People in disadvantaged areas 
are often excluded by flows, forms and practices of communication that 
are taken-for-granted in richer regions. In this regard, we also welcome 
contributions addressing European “divides”, exclusions or fights for 
inclusion from a communication perspective.


Submission and deadline

Proposals for individual papers, panels, and posters can be submitted to 
one of ECREA Sections, Temporary Working Groups and Networks through 
ECREA 2018 submission platform until 28 February 2018. Submission opens 
on 11 December 2017 onwww.ecrea2018lugano.eu 
<http://www.ecrea2018lugano.eu/>.

Abstracts should be written in English and contain a clear outline of 
the argument, theoretical framework, and, where applicable, methodology 
and results. The maximum length of individual abstracts is 500 words. 
Panel proposals, which should consist of five individual contributions, 
combine a panel rationale with five panel paper abstracts, each of which 
shall be no more than 500 words.

Please note that participants can be nominated as the first (presenting) 
author in one accepted submission only. If more than one contribution 
with the same first (presenting) author is accepted, the participant 
stated as the first (presenting) author will be asked to decide which 
paper he/she wants to present. There is no restriction on the number of 
presentations where a conference participant is listed as co-author and 
participants can still act as chair or respondent of a panel.

All proposals must be submitted through the conference website until 28 
February 2018. Early submission is strongly encouraged. Please note that 
this submission deadline will not be extended.
Abstracts will be published in a PDF Abstract Book. Full papers 
(optional) will be published via the conference submission system and 
available to registered attendants after logging into the system.
Please consult the guidelines for your submission on the conference website.


Timeline

Submission system opens: 11 December 2017
Submission of paper and panel abstracts and posters: 28 February 2018
Notification of Acceptance: 7 May 2018
End of Early Bird Registration Fee: 31 August 2018
Presenters’ registration deadline: 15 September 2018
Deadline for submission of the full papers (optional): 1 October 2018

We are looking forward to your contribution. Should you have any 
questions do not hesitate to contact the ECREA 2018 Conference 
Secretariat (atinfo /at/ ecrea2018lugano.eu) <mailto:(info /at/ ecrea2018lugano.eu)>.


Kind regards,

Lorenzo Cantoni (Chair of the Local Organising Committee)
Gabriele Balbi (Chair of the Local Organising Committee)
Katharina Lobinger (Vice Chairman of the Local Organising Committee)

E-mail Contact:(info /at/ ecrea2018lugano.eu) <mailto:(info /at/ ecrea2018lugano.eu)>






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