Braga 2010 - Post-Socialist, Post-Authoritarian Media and Intercultural Communication CFP

Braga 2010The Post-Socialist, Post-Authoritarian Media and Intercultural Communication Working Group welcomes submissions for the IAMCR 2010 Conference. This working group will meet during the IAMCR 2010 Conference in Braga, Portugal, 18-22 July 2010. The overall IAMCR-conference theme is  'Communication and Citizenship. Rethinking Crisis and Change'.

This Working Group is dedicated to the studies of the post-socialist and post-authoritarian media systems and political landscapes in different countries in transition. Intercultural communication research is necessary to understand and explain the emerging new systems and models, and the differences between these numerous regional and national ways of overcoming authoritarian heritage in these countries.

The Working Group is particularly interested in the many different and changing processes in media and journalism of so-called   transitional societies' or   new democracies'. This includes work on national adaptation to new journalistic standards, new media, and the political functions of popular culture in different national contexts. Members also have an interest in comparative (multi-language) discourse analyses, the visualization of international journalism and the role of globalization and critical global justice movements in this process.

This year the general theme to be discussed in the Post-Socialist, Post-Authoritarian Media and Intercultural Communication Working is the mobile society and media: prosperity for the XXI century. Papers addressing the theme are most welcome.

We also wish to focus the attention on papers that emphasize the theoretical and conceptual re-thinking of the mobile society, and new media functioning. 

The Post-Socialist, Post-Authoritarian Media and Intercultural Communication Working Group covers four main themes:

  1. Citizen media and citizen journalism.
  2. New media and new communication principles.
  3. Media-communication model in condition of mobile society.
  4. Media and public understanding of human rights and citizenship in Post-Socialist, Post-Authoritarian countries.

The Post-Socialist, Post-Authoritarian Media and Intercultural Communication Working Group and the Media Law Section will hold a joint panel in Braga 2010. This panel will be dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the change in post-socialist media and media law.

The deadlines are as follows:

  • Submission of abstracts: January 31, 2010 (papers will be assessed and provisionally accepted on the basis of the abstracts).
  • Announcement of acceptances: March 15, 2010.
  • Full papers due: April 30, 2010.

IAMCR accepts presentations in English, French and Spanish. However, it is requested that abstracts, if at all possible, be submitted in English.

Further information about IAMCR and this conference will be available at the conference website.

Abstracts should be between 350-500 words long. Each abstract must include title, name(s), affiliation, institutional address and email address of author(s), and should be sent to the Post-Socialist, Post-Authoritarian Media and Intercultural Communication Working Group, and should be submitted only through the conference official website: http://www.lasics.uminho.pt/ocs/index.php/iamcr/2010portugal/schedConf/cfp

Chair of the  Post-Socialist, Post-Authoritarian Media and Intercultural Communication Working Group:
Professor Yassen N. Zassoursky
zassoursky.yassen[AT]smi.msu.ru,
yzassoursky[AT]gmail.com
Faculty of Journalism,
Moscow State University
Mokhovaya, 9.
Moscow 125009.
Russian Federation.

Co-chair of the Post-Socialist, Post-Authoritarian Media and Intercultural Communication Working Group:
Dr. Anastasia V. Grudha
anastasia_grusha[AT]mail.ru

Post-Socialist, Post-Authoritarian Media and Intercultural Communication Working Group coordinator:
Dmitry N. Lubkovskii
d_lubkovskii[AT]mail.ru

For additional information see the official conference website.