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>>> CALL FOR PAPERS: Panel 27: Roundtable: Advancing the Discursive Turn in
>>> Communication Law & Policy Scholarship
>>> 
>>> As part of the 6th International Conference in Interpretive Policy Analysis:
>>> Discursive Spaces, Politics, Practices, and Power
>>> http://www.ipa-2011.cardiff.ac.uk/
>>>  
>>> Dates - Thursday June 23, Saturday June 25, 2011
>>> Location - Cardiff University, Wales, UK
>>> Deadline for abstracts - January 31, 2011 (see instructions below)
>>> General Inquiries to [log in to unmask]
>>> Conference website - www.ipa-2011.cardiff.ac.uk
>>> <http://www.ipa-2011.cardiff.ac.uk>
>>> Supported by ESRC Centre for Business Relationships, Accountability,
>>> Sustainability & Society
>>>  
>>> For complete panel listing for other CFPs:
>>> http://www.ipa-2011.cardiff.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/IPA_2011_Panels
>>> .pdf
>>>  
>>> Panel 27: Roundtable: Advancing the Discursive Turn in Communication Law &
>>> Policy Scholarship
>>> Chairs: Becky Lentz, McGill University, Canada, [log in to unmask] and
>>> Thomas Streeter, University of Vermont, USA
>>>  
>>> Interpretive methods are well established as legitimate modes of scholarship
>>> in a wide range of research fields: not just cultural studies or other
>>> culturally-inflected fields like feminist media studies, but also more
>>> traditional fields like education, critical race studies, law and
>>> literature, policy studies, science and technology studies, international
>>> relations, cultural political economy, and urban research and planning.
>>> However, even though the larger discipline of media studies is focused on
>>> the communicative, with few exceptions this discursive turn is not yet as
>>> common in the subfield of communication law and policy scholarship, in
>>> particular, telecommunications policy scholarship, which has become more
>>> important in recent years due to the convergence of industries, media
>>> platforms, and legal doctrines used to regulate them.
>>>  
>>> This panel examines several reasons for this blind spot and offers insights
>>> into how discourse theory, particularly critical discourse analysis, offers
>>> a distinctly communications-oriented point of entry into communication law
>>> and policy scholarship on policy formation, policy advocacy, and policy
>>> resistance. More specifically, it shares examples of how discourse theory is
>>> being used as an analytical lens for research on policymaking and policy
>>> advocacy. For example, how do legislative, regulatory, judicial, corporate,
>>> and Œthird sector¹ institutions¹ policy discourses and discursive processes
>>> construct, shape, reflect, act upon, or negotiate the construction of social
>>> identities, social relations, and subject positions in the media, online,
>>> and in society? How do the discursive instruments of policymaking serve to
>>> signify the world, its processes, entities, and relations into systems of
>>> knowledge and belief? How does a discourse perspective expose the wordplay
>>> involved in policy making and the degree of strategic nuance, or the
>>> discursive artifice, involved in writing legislation or rules? Finally, how
>>> does a discursive approach expose the malleable and ambiguous nature of
>>> regulatory categories themselves?
>>>  
>>> Proposals for Papers
>>>  
>>> Paper proposals will be submitted via email directly to
>>> [log in to unmask] by 31 January 2011 with ³IPA Paper proposal Panel 27²
>>> in the subject heading.
>>>  
>>> All paper proposals should be sent as Word file attachment and contain the
>>> following:
>>> * Title of your paper
>>> * Name, institutional affiliation(s) and email(s) of the
>>> authors/presenter(s)
>>> * Abstract (max 300 words) which includes your theoretical framework,
>>> research questions, primary and/or secondary data sources, empirical methods
>>> used, and key findings
>>> * Up to five keywords
>>> * Please use Arial 11 to facilitate further processing.
>>> 
>>> Paper givers will be notified about acceptance of their papers by mid
>>> February. 
>>>  
>>> For those paper proposals that are accepted, full papers of no more than
>>> 6,000 words will be due April 23, 2011. They should be emailed to both
>>> [log in to unmask] and the panel convenors, writing ³Full paper² in the
>>> subject heading. Submitted conference papers will be accessible for
>>> registered participants through the conference website.
>>>  
>>> Papers from the conference may be considered for a special issue of Critical
>>> Policy Studies, Editors - Frank Fischer (Rutgers University, USA) and Steven
>>> Griggs (De Montfort, UK); Forum Editors ­ Navdeep Mathur (Indian Institute
>>> of Management, India) and Douglas Torgerson (Trent University, Canada).  To
>>> reach the editorial team of Critical Policy Studies, please contact Helen
>>> Hancock at [log in to unmask]
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