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