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[ecrea] CALL FOR PAPERS: Roundtable on Advancing the Discursive Turn in Communication Law & Policy Scholarship
Sun Dec 26 16:51:30 GMT 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS: Panel 27: Roundtable: Advancing
the Discursive Turn in Communication Law & Policy Scholarship
As part of the 6th International Conference in
Interpretive Policy Analysis: Discursive Spaces,
Politics, Practices, and Power
<http://www.ipa-2011.cardiff.ac.uk/>http://www.ipa-2011.cardiff.ac.uk/
Dates - Thursday June 23, Saturday June 25, 2011
Location - Cardiff University, Wales, UK
Deadline for abstracts - January 31, 2011 (see instructions below)
General Inquiries to <(IPA-2011 /at/ cardiff.ac.htm)>(IPA-2011 /at/ cardiff.ac.uk)
Conference website - www.ipa-2011.cardiff.ac.uk
<<http://www.ipa-2011.cardiff.ac.uk>http://www.ipa-2011.cardiff.ac.uk>
Supported by ESRC Centre for Business
Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability & Society
For complete panel listing for other CFPs:
<http://www.ipa-2011.cardiff.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/IPA_2011_Panels.pdf>http://www.ipa-2011.cardiff.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/IPA_2011_Panels.pdf
Panel 27: Roundtable: Advancing the Discursive
Turn in Communication Law & Policy Scholarship
Chairs: Becky Lentz, McGill University, Canada,
<(becky.lentz /at/ mcgill.htm)>(becky.lentz /at/ mcgill.ca)
and Thomas Streeter, University of Vermont, USA
Interpretive methods are well established as
legitimate modes of scholarship in a wide range
of research fields: not just cultural studies or
other culturally-inflected fields like feminist
media studies, but also more traditional fields
like education, critical race studies, law and
literature, policy studies, science and
technology studies, international relations,
cultural political economy, and urban research
and planning. However, even though the larger
discipline of media studies is focused on the
communicative, with few exceptions this
discursive turn is not yet as common in the
subfield of communication law and policy
scholarship, in particular, telecommunications
policy scholarship, which has become more
important in recent years due to the convergence
of industries, media platforms, and legal doctrines used to regulate them.
This panel examines several reasons for this
blind spot and offers insights into how
discourse theory, particularly critical
discourse analysis, offers a distinctly
communications-oriented point of entry into
communication law and policy scholarship on
policy formation, policy advocacy, and policy
resistance. More specifically, it shares
examples of how discourse theory is being used
as an analytical lens for research on
policymaking and policy advocacy. For example,
how do legislative, regulatory, judicial,
corporate, and ?third sector? institutions?
policy discourses and discursive processes
construct, shape, reflect, act upon, or
negotiate the construction of social identities,
social relations, and subject positions in the
media, online, and in society? How do the
discursive instruments of policymaking serve to
signify the world, its processes, entities, and
relations into systems of knowledge and belief?
How does a discourse perspective expose the
wordplay involved in policy making and the
degree of strategic nuance, or the discursive
artifice, involved in writing legislation or
rules? Finally, how does a discursive approach
expose the malleable and ambiguous nature of regulatory categories themselves?
Proposals for Papers
Paper proposals will be submitted via email
directly to
<(becky.lentz /at/ mcgill.htm)>(becky.lentz /at/ mcgill.ca) by
31 January 2011 with ?IPA Paper proposal Panel 27? in the subject heading.
All paper proposals should be sent as Word file
attachment and contain the following:
Title of your paper
Name, institutional affiliation(s) and email(s) of the authors/presenter(s)
Abstract (max 300 words) which includes your
theoretical framework, research questions,
primary and/or secondary data sources, empirical
methods used, and key findings
Up to five keywords
Please use Arial 11 to facilitate further processing.
Paper givers will be notified about acceptance
of their papers by mid February.
For those paper proposals that are accepted,
full papers of no more than 6,000 words will be
due April 23, 2011. They should be emailed to
both
<(IPA-2011 /at/ cardiff.ac.htm)>(IPA-2011 /at/ cardiff.ac.uk)
and the panel convenors, writing ?Full paper? in
the subject heading. Submitted conference papers
will be accessible for registered participants through the conference website.
Papers from the conference may be considered for
a special issue of Critical Policy Studies,
Editors - Frank Fischer (Rutgers University,
USA) and Steven Griggs (De Montfort, UK); Forum
Editors ? Navdeep Mathur (Indian Institute of
Management, India) and Douglas Torgerson (Trent
University, Canada). To reach the editorial
team of Critical Policy Studies, please contact
Helen Hancock at <(h.i.hancock /at/ bham.ac.htm)>(h.i.hancock /at/ bham.ac.uk).
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