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