Dear all:
Some of you may be interested in this call for
papers regarding a conference on alternative media.
Best,
Nick Jankowski
CALL FOR PAPERS
Alternative Media and New Public Settings
International conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, October 13–14, 2006
The Peace Institute, Institute for Contemporary
Social and Political Studies, Ljubljana, together
with the Slovenian Communication Association,
Ljubljana, and Masaryk University, Brno will hold
an international conference to discuss how new
media development has influenced the terrain for
alternative media use in its relation to
citizens’ empowerment. Activisms that have
mobilized citizens in new, post-Westphalian
settings can nowadays hardly be imagined without
the potential of new media communication, i.e.
digital coordination and practice. Alternative
and counter-active engagement brings forward both
alternative media use and transformed public
spaces. While new media praxis is seen as an
empowerment of citizens’ potential for public
action and an arena to offer alternative
media-making as compared to mass mediated
frameworks, alternative media power to create or
trigger engagement is also criticized as limited.
What are alternative media potentials/limits and
how are they related to citizenship? What are
their practices in comparison to mass media news
repertoire? Can global issues (environmentalism,
migration, wars etc.) mobilize vital energies in
various local and transnational public settings?
Original papers locating and tracing theoretical
claims and/or practical, empirical application of
alternative media in relation to new public
settings are welcome to be submitted.
Selected papers will be considered for publication.
Deadline for abstracts: April 25, 2006
Deadline for papers: September 5, 2006
Please send inquiries to:
Dr. Mojca Pajnik
E.mail:
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Peace Institute,
Institute for Contemporary Social and Political Studies
Metelkova 6, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Tel.: +386 1 234 77 20
Fax.: +386 1 234 77 22
and/or
Dr. Andrej Pinter
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UP ZRS Science and Research Center of Koper,
University of Primorska
Garibaldijeva 1, 6000 Koper, Slovenia
Tel.: +386 5 66 37 700
Fax.: +386 5 66 37 710
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