Dear colleagues,



In the framework of the next congress of the French Association of
Political Science (July 2017, Montpellier, France), we organize a thematic
section dedicated to the following topic : *« Mobilizing in the Media »
(ST49, Tuesday the 11th of July in the morning)*.



You will find below and as attachement a call for papers. The propositions
should not have more than *750 words and be sent before the 15th of october
2016* to : [log in to unmask]  and [log in to unmask]
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The organizers : Benjamin Ferron (East-Paris Créteil University & Céditec)
and Erica Guevara (Paris 8 University & Cemti)



*ST 49*
* Mobilizing in the media*

* Keywords**: political participation, social movements, activism, media,
communication, public problems*

After the outbreak of the « Arab Spring » and the numerous mobilizations
such as *Anonymous*, *Indignados*, *Occupy Wall Street*…, which have used
new digital technologies to call for action and increase public awareness
on political issues, there has been a renewed interest in academic
researches on the communication of social movements and collective action
by the media. However, the rich international literature on these protests
would gain from exploring crucial questions raised by political sociology:
the socio-historical conditions of possibility and legitimacy of this
media-centered political activism; the processes of division,
differentiation and prioritization of the political and media work, within
and between social movement organizations; the prosopographical study of
agents who, like « media-activists », are sometimes lastingly invested in
communication and information issues and reap specific benefits from this
investment.

Many studies have tried to adopt a sociological perspective to analyze the
complex « associates-competitors » relationships between the mass media and
social movements. Others have focused on the professionalization of
communication services of activist organizations, or the activist
commitment of journalists in trade unions or professional associations.
However, few studies have used the conceptual and methodological apparatus
of political sociology to analyze, from a relational and critical point of
view, these forms of activism which don’t operate only « through » or
« for » the media (Patrick Champagne) but also fully « in » the media. We
think about the rise, since the 1970s, of the parallel and underground
press, free and community radio, pirate or non-for-profit television
channels or, more recently, multiple forms of “web activism”.

The aim of this thematic section is thus to participate to a renewal of the
analysis of the different media repertoires and the activist construction
of public problems, and to open a theoretical and methodological reflection
on the processes of production, diffusion and legitimization of social
movements media. Numerous recent researches dedicated to the study of media
and collective actions have been made on non-European fieldworks. The
section will give a special attention to comparative approaches, comparing
case studies or exporting concepts from the political sociology field on
new cases.

We welcome contributions that address the following interrelated issues:

* Issue 1: Career paths and multi-organizational positions of media
activists*

Who uses communication tools for activism? How do activists get an access
to the « traditional » and digital media, and how do they use and
appropriate them? Do their trajectories and career paths share specific
features? What social factors (gender, age, profession, socialization)
predispose the individuals to engage in this kind of activism and allow
them to position themselves in the advocacy work? What are the
relationships of these activists with other related social fields (such as
journalism, associations, syndicates, parties, politics, public
institutions, artists, information technology professionals)? Are they able
to reconvert the stocks of resources accumulated from one social field to
another? How should we study the trajectories of « on-line activists »?

*Issue 2: Practices and organizational resources of activists’ media and
communication devices*

What are the internal properties of activists’ media and communication
devices? What are the daily practices of « social movement journalists »?
What are the specific technical, economical and editorial constraints faced
by the agents? What are their day-to-day production and distribution
routines? What kind of beliefs and professional mythologies do these actors
share and how do they express their internal conflicts? How do
organizational dynamics appear in « cyber activism », or in social networks
used for militancy? How do communication issues change the activist
division of labor? Our purpose is to open the « black box » of militant
communication devices and organizations, and to capture interactions
between actors and their implications for the mobilization. Methodologies
like ethnological observation, sociological interviews and archive analysis
are most welcome.

*Issue 3: Social movement media as entrepreneurs of public problems*

What are the effects of social movements communication strategies on public
authorities and the media? How and to what extent does the communicational
repertoire of social movements follow the internal transformations of
politics and journalism fields? Can we say that this communicational
repertoire of social movements has become autonomous, and that it is used
to mobilize for specific public problems such as media critique, media
system democratization or « alternative » media promotion? What are the
consequences of its potential autonomy for more « traditional » ways of
activism? We are particularly interested by adjustment and/or rejection
reactions of social movement organizations when confronted with this
communicational repertoire of activism.

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*Benjamin Ferron*
Maître de conférence
Département de Communication Politique et publique
Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC)
Centre d’étude des discours, images, textes, écrits, communication
(Céditec, EA 3119)
Programme IMPACT(*International Media, Political Action & Communication
Technologies*), UPEC Summer School
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