International Federation of Communication Association

International Federation of Communication Association

Newsletter

September/October 2012 www.ifedca.org

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

International Federation of Communication Associations—Newsletter 1

Dear Friends and Colleagues, It is my pleasure to announce and confirm that Prof. Dr. MARIO PLENKOVIC from the University of Zagreb was elected the new President of IFCA for the term 1 October 2012 to 30 September 2014. In line with this, I would like to send warmest congratulations and best wishes for Prof. Plenkovic. I wish all the best with the forthcoming activities, projects and ideas! Since this is the last issue of IFCA Newsletter distributed by the Polish team, I would like to thank all of you for cooperation during the last two years. Above all, on behalf of the Polish Communication Association, I would like to thank for your support and all the valued suggestions towards the development of the IFCA Network. Best regards, Boguslawa Dobek -Ostrowska & Paweł Baranowski Past President of IFCA Webmaster

Welcome !

IFCA IN THE ERA OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES

The session will provide an opportunity to discuss one of the key objectives of IFCA: Is the Federation needed in the era of the new technologies, when messages can be distributed easily by the Internet, social platforms and official websites of communication associations? What has changed over the last 30 years since the foundation of IFCA by Prof. Dr. Klaus Krippendorff in the 1980s?

Firstly, the session will briefly introduce the main activi-ties, principles and goals of IFCA during the period of 2010-2012. Secondly, the panel will aim at discussing problematic aspects of IFCA future and its perspectives. Among them one may find new links between IFCA and national associations, new ways of exchanging news and information as well as development of new forms of col-laboration. National and regional journals for communi-cation research will be other topic of panel also. We would like to discuss about a future and perspectives of those journals. We aim at exchanging ideas about the content and organization of editorial process. We would discuss about common problems and how to resolve them.

Chair: Bogusława Dobek-Ostrowska (Past President of IFCA, President of the PCA, Poland)

Roundtable:

Mario Plenkovic ( President of IFCA, Croatian Commu-nication Association)

Nico Carpentier (Vice-President of ECREA)

Tomas Trampota (Chair of Central and Eastern Euro-pean Network ECREA)

Irina Rozina (Russian Communication Association, Russia)

Vincenz Wyss (Swiss Association of Communication and Media Research, Switzerland)

Nurcay Turkoglu (Communications Research Associa-tion / ILAD, Turkey)

Michal Głowacki (Polish Communication Association, Poland)

IFCA SESSION IN ISTANBUL

Mario Plenković, Ph.D, was elected as a full professor in Social Science scientific-educational field; He is the head of The Department for Commu-nication Science at The Faculty of Graphic Arts, University of Zagreb, He is the President of Croatian Com-munication Association (1993-2011), vice-president of International Fede-ration of Communication (2001- 2011).

CALL FOR PAPERS

International Federation of Communication Associations—Newsletter 2

ICRC Conference 2013 International Crisis & Risk Communication Conference

University of Central Florida on March 4 – 6, 2013 in Or-lando, Florida.

The 2013 International Crisis & Risk Communication (ICRC) Conference is calling for abstract papers and pre-sentations in the area of crisis and risk communication, especially those related to the 2013 theme: Rethinking Media. The review committee welcomes submissions including; case studies, original research, lessons lear-ned/best practices, experiential reports, or normative re-commendations. The conference encourages submis-sions reflecting interdisciplinary approaches in this area and those that have application for professionals/practitioners working in the field.

Find out more at: http://www.icrcconference.com/

Researching Film and Television Through the Ar-chive, Friday 9 Nov 2012, Warwick

This is a one-day multi-disciplinary symposium exploring the practices and implications of researching film and television through the archive. This may include using archives to access television and film materials themse-lves, or using written archives and ephemera to gain new insights into visual material. Whatever the approach, ma-king the archive the basis of a project, or incorporating archival research into an existing project can be an in-sightful, rewarding, and frequently also a frustrating expe-rience.

This symposium will offer a space for archival resear-chers from across disciplines to share practices, metho-dologies and experiences of using different types of ar-chive to research film and television texts, contexts and histories. It will explore the possibilities and boundaries of conducting archival research. It is also intended that a number of archivists will be present to highlight contem-porary challenges to archiving procedure that might have implications for archival research and allowing a space for dialogue between the archive and the academy.

Contributions can take the form of EITHER a 20 minute paper, outlining research ideas related to the themes of the symposium OR a 10 minute presentation discussing the practical, methodological or scholarly implications of using archival research as an aspect of film and televi-sion research.

Contributions are particularly welcome in the following areas:

 Archival research methodologies

 Why do archival research?

 The allure of the archive

 Practical aspects of using archives

 Archiving policy and practice

 The possibilities of the archive

 The limits and limitations of archival research

 The archive, impact and the REF

Please send an abstract (max 200 words), and a short biographical note to Richard.wallace@warwick.ac.uk by MONDAY 08 OCTOBER 2012. Be sure to specify the type of contribution you wish to make.

Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government 21-25 May 2013 Danube University Krems Austria

Transparency and access to information, new ways of interacting with government and democratic institutions, and Internet-based, decentralized grassroots activism have caused profound changes to the way states are run and society expected to function. Social media and new dimensions of online social activity, including individual and collective content generation, collaboration and sha-ring as well as the emergence of spontaneous multilevel networks change our understanding of how to run coun-tries and companies. Services provided by public and private organisations have increased citizens’ indepen-dence and flexibility, but at the same time allow for more control. Now we have reached the point where we need to look at what the ideas, promises and suggestions have brought and why some projects have failed to reach the aims. Have aims and expectations been set too high? Or is the question how we define success (and failure)? Has the role of technology been overemphasised? These are some of the questions and topics we would like to discuss at the 2013 Conference. CeDEM13 criti-cally analyses present and future developments in e-democracy and open government.

DATES Deadline for the submission of papers and workshop pro-posals: 15 January 2013 Notification of acceptance: 29 March 2013 Camera-ready paper submission: 21 April 2013 Pre-conference event: 21 May 2013 Conference: 22-23 May 2013 Open space, extended workshops, colloquia: 24-25 May 2013

Download CfP here: http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/imperia/md/content/department/gpa/zeg/dokumente/cfp_cedem13.pdf

International Federation of Communication Associations—Newsletter 3

CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS

The Central European Journal of Communication

The Central European Journal of Communication is re-ceiving article proposal for its next issue:

The Extension of Public Service Media in the Multi-platform Scenario

Introduction

Digitalization and the subsequent technological innova-tions have fostered the detachment between content, physical supports, networks and devices. At the same time, the latter become more versatile thanks to conver-gence and acquire a new protagonism in the media and communication ecosystem. As a result, a multiplatform scenario is being configured. This has a major impact on media contents and services, which today experience a strong wave of innovation and hybridization. Being avai-lable online is not any more an add-on but a pre-requisite for success. In addition, mobility emerges as the next distribution trend. Consequently, ubiquity, time-shifting, on-demand, personalization and social sharing are beco-ming current and necessary characteristics of any media content.

Objectives

According to this scenario, this special issue of the Cen-tral European Journal of Communication wants to explore the current transformations and adaptations experienced by Public Service operators with regard to their remit, organization and performance. In addition, the issue wants to identify the different conflicts arising from that evolution and in which way they are addressed by natio-nal authorities by means of policy or regulatory instru-ments, like the so called ex-ante evaluation procedures. By means of tackling these facts, this special issue also aims to identify and systematize the current debate re-garding the future role of public service in the field of me-dia.

Questions

Submitted articles are expected to provide answers to some of the following questions:

- Which are the main challenges, opportunities and risks that public service faces due to the configuration of a multiplatform scenario?

- How do public service operators adapt themselves to the multiplatform scenario? What does it imply from the point of view of management culture, internal structure, productions practices and the configuration of an exten-ded offer?

- What are the main arguments of those economic profit oriented players against the extension of public service activities?

- How do public service operators counteract the increa-sing hostility of commercial players against them?

- How can public service operators improve the value-for-money proposal that they offer to the citizens?

- What policy and regulatory mechanisms are being im-plemented to address / determine / influence the evolu-tion of public service?

- Is Public Service still necessary in order to face market failure situations and to ensure that the media system provides social profitability?

Paper submission

We ask scholars and researchers interested in publica-tion to submit manuscripts of max. 45 000 characters by 31 October 2012. Eight papers for the publication will be selected by 15 November 2012. Full-length papers shall be submitted tojournal@ptks.pl and

r.suarez@hans-bredow-institut.de according to the Style and Manuscript Guidelines laid out on the official website of the CEJC: www.cejc.ptks.pl

The Journal of Popular Television

Call for Papers: The Journal of Popular Television This international, peer-reviewed journal invites articles on all aspects of popular television, both fictional and non-fictional, from docudramas and sports to news and cultu-ral programming. The first volume will be published in 2013 by Intellect (UK).

The journal seeks to be equally responsive to contempo-rary developments in television production and contem-porary currents within television criticism and theory, and to historical approaches and re-evaluation of canonical and non-canonical texts. Possible topics of interest might include (but are not limited to): studies of individual pro-grammes, audiences, format trading, comparisons of different broadcast policies, quality television, reality te-levision, television personalities and stars, documenta-ries, sport, children’s television, and comedy Articles of between 6,000 and 8,000 words in length (excluding references) are invited, and should use the Harvard referencing system. Further information, inclu-ding Notes for Contributors, are available at: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=216/view,page=0/. Articles and queries can be submitted di-rectly to the principal editor, James Leggott, at james.leggott@northumbria.ac.uk. Articles can also be submitted via the Intellect website. The journal will pu-blished themed issues and prospective guest editors are invited to contact the editor with a proposal. Prospective book reviewers should also approach the editor directly.

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CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS

Media, War & Conflict

Media, War & Conflict is a major new international, peer-reviewed journal that maps the shifting arena of war, con-flict and terrorism in an intensively and extensively me-diated age. It explores cultural, political and technological transformations in media-military relations, journalistic practices, and new media, and their impact on policy, publics, and outcomes of warfare. The journal bridges communications, political science, sociology, history, and other disciplines.

We invite papers on a range of topics, including: - Contemporary and historical war reporting - Changing forms of credibility, legitimacy and authority - Media ethics in the coverage of conflict - The role of citizen-users and social media in conflict - Terrorism, media and publics - Intelligence operations and media - Digital or cyber warfare - Media and conflict prevention, peacekeeping and post-conflict scenarios - Photo and video journalism in wartime - War and conflict in popular culture - The power of the visual and other modalities - Commemoration and memorialisation of war and con-flict

For more info please visit: http://mwc.sagepub.com/

Journalism Studies

Journalism Studies has published a Call for Papers for a Special Issue focusing on the Mediatization of Politics. The Special Issue will be guest-edited by Jesper Strömbäck and Frank Esser, and focus on the role of the news media and of news journalism in the processes of the mediatization of politics. They invite theoretical as well as empirical articles that focus on different aspects on the role of the news media and news journalism in the processes of the mediatization of politics, including but not limited to:

* the production of news and the relationship between news media and political actors; * the content of news journalism and the extent to which it is shaped by different logics; * the news media as an institution * the extent to which as well as how political actors adapt to the news media; and * the implications of the rise of digital media for the me-diatization of politics

Complete call of papers can be downloaded here:

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/cfp/rjoscfp.pdf

Humanistic leadership research

The special issue will focus on issues relevant to leaders-hip and management in a humanistic perspective. In mo-re recent understandings of leadership, humanistic con-cepts and approaches have gained an increasingly pro-minent place, e.g. by the increased focus on topics such as learning, development, personal skills, communica-tion, identity, creativity, innovation and aesthetics. Lea-dership is still an area which is often treated by other academic fields (the social sciences and in the mercantile area) than the humanities. The special issue therefore wants to explore the range of humanistic leadership and management research in organizational, historical and aesthetic approaches to the subject.

The aesthetic perspective may include articles on Histori-cal, social and cultural perspectives on leadership, such as descriptions of how leaders and leadership have been portrayed in literature, film and media.

The aesthetic perspective may include management that uses aesthetic effects, such as image, narrative and de-sign or analysis of the impact of collaborations between artists and organizations.

New ways of using the management concept. Classroom management is a term used more and more frequently, but what does it mean, and how is it practiced? How do-es it influence teaching when the teacher thinks of her-self as a leader? Another new concept is self-management. What does the emergence of this concept say about the development of society? Is it about mana-ging ourselves in terms of being in control of our lives

and governing the self to meet the standards of society e.g. expressed in norms for BodyMassIndex and / or is it about controlling our image, our history in social media like for instance Facebook.

Download the full call from this link: http://akademiskkvarter.hum.aau.dk/pdf/vol6/callUK.pdf

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NEW BOOKS AND JOURNALS

Transformations Issue 22: Hyperaesthetic Culture

Transformations is an independent, double-blind peer-reviewed electronic journal addressing the transformative processes of new technologies and mediating practices that change the way we think, feel and interact with others both in a contemporary and historical sense. We welcome writing from the perspective of cultural theory, critical philosophy, aesthetics, media studies and other humanities approaches.

Find out more at:

http://www.transformationsjournal.org/journal/index.shtml

Advertising and Reality: A Global Study of Represen-tation and Content

Advertising and Reality: A Global Study of Representa-tion and Content offers, for the first time, an extensive study of the ways in which we are represented in adverti-sing. Leading scholars from different countries, who spe-cialize in marketing communication and media studies, review and analyse different forms of advertising and give a truly cross-cultural view of the issues at hand. This edited collection contains a wide-ranging discussion of advertising’s relationship to sexuality, violence, family activities, gender roles, vocations, minorities’ roles, pe-riodical reconstruction and more.

Purchase at: http://www.continuumbooks.com/books/detail.aspx?BookId=158520&SntUrl=152998

Media Life

Research consistently shows how through the years mo-re of our time gets spent using media, how multitasking our media has become a regular feature of everyday life, and that consuming media for most people increasingly takes place alongside producing media.

Media Life is a primer on how we may think of our lives as lived in rather than with media. The book uses the way media function today as a prism to understand key issues in contemporary society, where reality is open source, identities are - like websites - always under construction, and where private life is lived in public forever more.

Ultimately, media are to us as water is to fish. The que-stion is: how can we live a good life in media like fish in water? Media Life offers a compass for the way ahead.

Purchase at:

http://politybooks.com/book.asp?ref=9780745649993

Digital Labor: The Internet as Playground and Factory

Digital Labor calls on the reader to examine the shifting sites of labor markets to the Internet through the lens of their political, technological, and historical making. Inter-net users currently create most of the content that makes up the web: they search, link, tweet, and post updates—leaving their "deep" data exposed. Meanwhile, govern-ments listen in, and big corporations track, analyze, and predict users’ interests and habits.

This unique collection of essays provides a wide-ranging account of the dark side of the Internet. It claims that the divide between leisure time and work has vanished so that every aspect of life drives the digital economy. The book reveals the anatomy of playbor (play/labor), the lure of exploitation and the potential for empowerment. Ulti-mately, the 14 thought-provoking chapters in this volume ask how users can politicize their troubled complicity, create public alternatives to the centralized social web, and thrive online.

Contributors: Mark Andrejevic, Ayhan Aytes, Michel Bau-wens, Jonathan Beller, Patricia Ticineto Clough, Sean Cubitt, Jodi Dean, Abigail De Kosnik, Julian Dibbell, Chri-stian Fuchs, Lisa Nakamura, Andrew Ross, Ned Rossi-ter, Trebor Scholz, Tizania Terranova, McKenzie Wark, and Soenke Zehle

Purchase at:

http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415896955/

OTHER INFORMATIONS

3 PhD-candidates in Media and Culture

We are looking for three highly motivated PhD-candidates who consider it a challenge to conduct their PhD research in the context of a collaborative research project funded by the Dutch Science Foundation (NWO) on Locating Imagination. An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Literary, Film and Music Tourism. As a PhD-candidate of the Era-smus Research Centre for Media, Communication and Culture (ERMeCC), you will have ample opportunity to collaborate with renowned academics with an internatio-nal approach.

A master’s degree in the humanities or social sciences is a must, as well as a wide-ranging knowledge of and affi-nity for the sociology of media and culture and qualitative methods of social science research. In addition to an un-derstanding of the latest developments in the field, the candidate must possess didactic skills and an affinity for working with students. Candidates who take a proven interest in the field of literature, film, popular music, and/or media tourism are preferred.

For more info visit:

http://www.academictransfer.com/employer/EUR/vacancy/15178/lang/en/

Two assistant professor positions - Communication, Culture & Technology (CCT) - Georgetown University

Cultural History and Communication Technology

Assistant professor, tenure-track position in the Commu-nication, Culture and Technology (CCT) Masters program at Georgetown University. examining the relationship be-tween cultural history and new communication techno-logy. Candidates’ research areas should include, but are not limited to, critical studies of media technologies (including cinema, television, video, publishing and print culture, electronic communication), language analysis, material culture, race, class, sex/gender and national identity. Applicants should have a solid record of scho-larly publication and teaching. They should be prepared to advise students on their academic program and to mentor MA thesis projects.

CCT is an interdisciplinary program that focuses on the ways that new technologies of communication and digital media are reshaping human experience on all levels from local to global, and how these technologies are redefining the practice of science, research, education, government, media, business, and culture and the arts. Faculty mem-bers are expected to contribute broadly to the interdisci-plinary research and teaching of the program. Georgetown University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirma-tive Action Employer fully dedicated to achieving a diver-se faculty and staff. All qualified candidates are encoura-ged to apply and will receive consideration for employ-ment without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, age, religion, national origin, marital status, veteran status, disability or other categories protected by law.

For best consideration, send application letter/statement of interest, c.v., and the names of three referees to cctjobs@georgetown.edu<mailto:cctjobs@georgetown.edu> by 15 November 2012.

Global Perspectives on Technology Policy

Assistant professor, tenure-track position to teach in the Communication, Culture and Technology (CCT) Masters program at Georgetown University. Candidates’ research and teaching should deal with globalization and techno-logy policy. Areas of specialization may include, but are not limited to, governance in an international framework, global deliberations, diplomacy, development, internatio-nal law and treaties. Applicants should have a solid re-cord of scholarly publication and teaching. They should be prepared to advise students on their academic pro-gram and to mentor MA thesis projects. CCT is an interdisciplinary program that focuses on the ways that new technologies of communication and digital media are reshaping human experience on all levels from local to global, and how these technologies are redefining the practice of science, research, education, government, media, business, and culture and the arts. Faculty mem-bers are expected to contribute broadly to the interdisci-plinary research and teaching of the program.

Georgetown University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirma-tive Action Employer fully dedicated to achieving a diver-se faculty and staff. All qualified candidates are encoura-ged to apply and will receive consideration for employ-ment without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, age, religion, national origin, marital status, veteran status, disability or other categories protected by law.

For best consideration, send application letter/statement of interest, c.v., and the names of three referees to cctjobs@georgetown.edu<mailto:cctjobs@georgetown.edu> by 15 November 2012.

International Federation of Communication Associations—Newsletter 6

International Federation of Communication Associations—Newsletter 7