Call for Papers, IAMCR Durban 2012

Annual Conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research

Durban, South Africa, July 15-19, 2012

Theme: ‘SOUTH-NORTH CONVERSATIONS’

The Environment, Science and Risk Communication Working Group invites submissions of abstracts for papers for the 2012 IAMCR conference to be held from July 15-19, 2012 at the Howard College Campus of the University of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN) in Durban, South Africa.

Call for Papers information and deadline

Please visit the Environment, Science and Risk Communication Working Group

or contact Anders Hansen (ash@le.ac.uk) for further information.

CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS

Call for Manuscripts for a Special Issue of Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, Volume 6, Issue 4 (December, 2012)

Further details

Contact: Anders Hansen, Associate Editor of Environmental Communication: A Journal of Culture and Nature

RECENT DEPARTMENTAL EVENT

Wednesday 13th July 2011, 10.30am – 4.30pm
Attenborough Building, University of Leicester

Venue details

New Communications and Demonstrations: Programme

The media’s images and narratives of protest and demonstration, contribute to our understanding of the relationship between public opinion, the mass media and democracy.  Past studies suggest television news reports follow the inferential frameworks (Halloran, Murdock and Elliott 1970) or dominant frames (Gitlin 1980) adopted by their news organisations, reproducing accounts which depoliticise events and even demonise their participants on occasion. The view that reporting is always characterised in this way and, in turn, serves to reflect hegemonic interests is challenged however, in later work whose fine-grained analysis reveals various repertoires of protest and instances of sympathetic
portrayals (eg. McAdam 2000). Studies of protest, demonstration and new media technologies develop this theme further, albeit in a new context. These reveal the new online opportunities for various types of protest expression and action (Gillan et al 2008) and the use of technologies in the actual organisation and performance of protest and demonstration (Van de Donk et al 2004). What is more, Cottle (2008) makes clear that the media politics of dissent cannot be fully understood without grasping the changing context of international politics and the general profusion of protest groups, campaigns, movements and transnational coalitions as well as evolving forms of protests and the different types of representations that find expression across local, national and global
media forms and complex communication flows. This event welcomes papers from ongoing research, already published studies or theoretical discussion on communication, protest and demonstrations. Suggestions include, but are not limited to:

• Media frames, representations and the mediation of competing issues and viewpoints on protest and demonstration.
• Journalists, news culture and the production of protest news reports.
• News photographs and visualization of protest and demonstration.
• Established and alternative news outlets and the reporting of protest.
• Youtube videos, bloggs and protest action
• Tweating dissent? The role of twitter before/ during / after protest events.
• Active audiences, media reception and protest news.
• Websites, mobile phones and the organisation of protest and demonstration.

Organiser: Dr Julian Matthews, Convenor BSA Media Study Group.
Department of Media and Communication, University of Leicester.

Event organized by the Media Study Group and Department of
Media and Communication, University of Leicester