NEW BOOK

It is our pleasure to announce the publication of 
our fourth ECREA Summer School Book, entitled 
"Communicative approaches to politics and ethics 
in Europe. The intellectual work of the 2009 
ECREA European Media and Communication Doctoral 
Summer School," edited by Nico Carpentier, Pille 
Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, Richard Kilborn, Tobias 
Olsson, Hannu Nieminen, Ebba Sundin and Kaarle 
Nordenstreng. You can download a PDF-version of 
this book - free of charge - from the Summer 
School website (http://www.comsummerschool.org), 
or the Researching and Teaching Communication 
Series website 
(http://www.researchingcommunication.eu/). The 
direct link to the book is: 
http://www.researchingcommunication.eu/reco_book5.pdf. 
A print version can be ordered by sending an email to [log in to unmask]

This book includes a series of papers that were 
presented by lecturers and PhD-students at the 
ECREA European Media and Communication Doctoral 
Summer School, in August 2009 in Tartu (Estonia) 
(supported by a European Commission Socrates 
Erasmus IP Project (contract number: 
69935-IC-1-2007-EE-ERASMUS-EUC-1), the European 
Communication Research and Education Association 
(www.ecrea.eu), the University of Tartu - the 
Department of Journalism and Communication 
(www.jrnl.ut.ee), the Danish National Research 
School for Media, Communication and Journalism, 
the Finnish National Research School and a consortium of 22 universities.

Contributors are (in alphabetical order): Agnes 
Aljas, Jess Baines, Petr Bedna?ík, Michael 
Brüggemann, Bertrand Cabedoche, Nico Carpentier, 
Nur Betül Çelik, Fausto Colombo, Benjamin De 
Cleen, Šimon Dominik, Aristea Fotopoulou, Iñaki 
Garcia-Blanco, François Heinderyckx, Andreas 
Hepp, Rikke Bjerg Jensen, Anastasia Kavada, 
Katharina Kleinen-von Königslöw, Swantje 
Lingenberg, Denis McQuail, Johanna Möller, Maria 
Francesca Murru, Hannu Nieminen, Tobias Olsson, 
Manuel Parés I Maicas, Pille 
Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, Irena Reifová, Ebba 
Sundin, Anders Svensson, Ilija Tomani?-Trivundža, 
Indrek Treufeldt, Yin-han Wang, and Anna Zoellner.

The book consists of six sections: 1/The Summer 
School, 2/Changing communicational spaces and 
systems; 3/Audience participation and politics; 
4/Identity politics, ideology and media; 5/Media 
and ethics; and 6/The politics of Academia. It 
also includes all PhD-student abstracts of the 
work presented at the Summer School.

ECREA's partnership allows PhD-students - that 
are an individual ECREA member or whose 
institution is an ECREA institutional member - 
access to the 2010 Summer School, which will take 
place in August 2010 in Ljubljana. More 
information can be found at the Summer School 
website (http://www.comsummerschool.org), at the 
ECREA website (http://www.ecrea.eu), and at the 
Researching and Teaching Communication Series 
website (http://www.researchingcommunication.eu/).


PART ONE: The Summer School

Introduction: The intellectual work of the 2009 
ECREA European media and communication doctoral 
Summer School in Tartu - Nico Carpentier

The ECREA Summer School survey. Results and 
reflections - Benjamin De Cleen, Iñaki 
Garcia-Blanco and Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt

PART TWO: Research

SECTION ONE: Changing communicational spaces and systems

Media in crisis? Social, economic and epistemic dimensions - Hannu Nieminen

Political discourse cultures in Europe: 
Explaining the multi-segmentation of the European 
public sphere through a transnational and 
transcultural perspective - Andreas Hepp, Johanna 
Möller, Katharina Kleinen-von Königslöw, Michael 
Brüggemann and Swantje Lingenberg

Digital cultural heritage - Challenging museums, 
archives and users - Agnes Aljas and Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt

'It's a business, that's just how it is …': 
Documentary development in Great Britain and Germany - Anna Zoellner

British military media strategies: New wars - new ways - Rikke Bjerg Jensen

SECTION TWO: Audience participation and politics

Organized producers of net culture: Theoretical 
approach and empirical illustrations - Tobias Olsson and Anders Svensson

The freedom of the press belongs to those who 
control the press: The emergence of radical and 
community printshops in 1970s London - Jess Baines

Collective action and the social web: Comparing 
the architecture of Avaaz.org and Openesf.net - Anastasia Kavada

New media - new public spheres? An analysis of 
online shared spaces becoming public agoras - Maria Francesca Murru

SECTION THREE: Identity politics, ideology and media

Cultural identity in local, national and global 
perspectives. Reflections on variables - Ebba Sundin

Translocal connectivity and political identity: 
Brighton queer cultural activism - Aristea Fotopoulou

'Posing into being': an exploratory study of 
Taiwanese girls self-portraiture online - Yin-han Wang

Constructing alternative nationhood: Television 
of Soviet Estonia against Finnish capitalism - Indrek Treufeldt

Articulation of ideology and romance. Storyline 
dynamics in Czechoslovak communist television 
serials 1975-1989 - Irena Reifová, Petr Bedna?ík and Šimon Dominik

Analysing Kemalism through discourse theory - Nur Betül Çelik

SECTION FOUR: Media and ethics

Journalism ethics in the age of para-journalism - François Heinderyckx

The strange case of Silvio Berlusconi and the 
role of lying in political discourse - Fausto Colombo

Two sides of the same coin: Religious overtones 
of factual discourse on photojournalism ethics - Ilija Tomanic Trivundza

The human rights influence on communication 
sciences: An overview - Manuel Parés I Maicas

SECTION FIVE: The politics of Academia

Diversity and convergence in communication 
science: The idea of 'National Schools' in the European area - Denis McQuail

Communication and media studies: The French 
tradition(s). Keys concepts and key schools - Bertrand Cabedoche

Oscillations between coherence and fragmentation, 
and between globalisation, glocalisation and 
translocalisation: The Europeanisation of the 
Communication and Media Studies discipline - Nico Carpentier

PART THREE: The Summer School student abstracts


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