Dear Gabi and Virginia,
I submitted two abstracts to Political Economy Sector this year, but of
course if they accept and I can be there I´ll keep an eye on your sections.
The question I would like to mention here is that IAMCR this year is
acceptting abstracts preferrably in English but articles in spanish also. Is
it true!?

Thanks in advance,
Adilson

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From: "Virginia Nightingale" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 8:30 PM
Subject: Audience Section IAMCR


> Following the late prompt from IAMCR's Community Communication Section,
> here is a final prompt from the Audience Section too. Virginia
>
>
> Audience Section Call for Papers
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>
>
> IAMCR, 23-25 July, 2007, UNESCO, Paris (France)
>
> Media, Communication, Information: Celebrating 50 Years of Theories and
> Practices
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>
>
> Section Chair: Virginia Nightingale, University of Western Sydney,
> Australia
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> Deputy Chair: Brian O'Neill, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
>
>
>
> Please submit abstracts directly to Virginia Nightingale
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> Email: [log in to unmask]
>
> Closing date for abstracts: 15th February, 2007
>
> Guidelines for Submitting Abstracts: See below.
>
>
>
> Sub-Theme for the Audience Section: Integrating Digital Media: Emerging
> Issues for Audience Research.
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>
>
> For the Paris conference, the Audience Section welcomes contributions that
> explore the newer forms of audience research emerging as a response to the
> challenges of digital communications and globalisation. It will also
> welcome contributions that reflect on the history of audience research and
> its practice, with a view to exploring how the field might move on.
>
>
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> Ø      Digital Media Audiences: The internet and mobile media have changed
> the nature of mass communication. It can now be argued that the mediating
> form dominating digital media is the website, and the primary forms of
> online engagement are 'search' and 'social networking' - but in what
> senses do these new audience activities call into question our theories of
> participation and engagement, and to what extent do they develop or derail
> individuation as opposed to individualism? In what ways are the
> personalised formations that characterise mobile communications comparable
> with more formalised human formations like cooperatives, organisations or
> workforces? What is gained and what lost in the emergence of 'networked
> individualism' (Castells, 2001).
>
>
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> Ø      Audiences and the Public Sphere: Debates about the media and the
> public sphere centre on audiences and the changing nature of audience
> publics. The impact of commercialisation and its promotion of
> individualism raises questions about the future of the democratic
> political formations with which we are currently familiar. How is the
> strategic management of audiences affecting the nature and quality of
> public sphere?
>
>
>
> Ø      Audience Development: The recognition that audiences are made not
> given has added the new research field of audience development to the
> audience research agenda. At least three arenas where audience development
> is practiced are promoting new theories and methods in audience research.
> Audience development plays an important role in national development,
> where national governments rely on principles of audience development to
> interest and involve traditional communities in the development of skills
> for participation in the information age. Audience development has become
> a mainstay of Arts policy and administration, designed to create audiences
> for new and emerging art practices. And audience development practices
> have been enthusiastically adopted by the advertising industry as a key
> dimension of branding and brand development.
>
>
>
> Ø      Audience Response - Joint Session with Gender Section: In 2007 the
> Gender Section and the Audience Section will join forces to celebrate the
> contribution gender studies has made to audience research and that
> audience research has made to gender studies. For this session the
> convenors will particularly welcome abstracts that reflect (or encourage
> reflection) on the symbiotic relationship between these two fields and on
> the important contribution that studies of audience response have made to
> the history of audience research. Abstracts for this session may be
> submitted to either the Gender Section or the Audience Section.
>
>
>
> Guidelines for Submitting Abstracts
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>
>
> 1. Abstracts should include the following:
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> Ø      Presenter's name
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> Ø      Institutional affiliation
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> Ø      Email address
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> Ø      Paper Title
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> Ø      Keywords (no more than five)
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> Ø      The Abstract
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> 2. All abstracts must be submitted by 15th February 2007.
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> 3. Abstracts must be no longer than 300 words if submitted without
> references; or 500 words including references.
>
> 4. All abstracts will be blind refereed.
>
> 5. You will be notified as to whether your paper has been accepted as soon
> as all abstracts have been assessed, and the selection of papers for
> presentation has been made.
>
> 6. Completed papers must be submitted in accordance with IAMCR
> requirements.
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>
>
>
> Associate Professor Virginia Nightingale
> School of Communication Arts
> University of Western Sydney
> Australia
>
> Member of the Centre for Cultural Research