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 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Virginia Nightingale" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> 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 > > > > IAMCR, 23-25 July, 2007, UNESCO, Paris (France) > > Media, Communication, Information: Celebrating 50 Years of Theories and > Practices > > > > Section Chair: Virginia Nightingale, University of Western Sydney, > Australia > > Deputy Chair: Brian O'Neill, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland > > > > Please submit abstracts directly to Virginia Nightingale > > 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. > > > > 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. > > > > 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). > > > > 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 > > > > 1. Abstracts should include the following: > > Ø Presenter's name > > Ø Institutional affiliation > > Ø Email address > > Ø Paper Title > > Ø Keywords (no more than five) > > Ø The Abstract > > 2. All abstracts must be submitted by 15th February 2007. > > 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. > > > > > Associate Professor Virginia Nightingale > School of Communication Arts > University of Western Sydney > Australia > > Member of the Centre for Cultural Research