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italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies Dear Colleagues, Since the technical problems we have been experiencing with our website have prevented people to get in touch with us, we have extended the deadline for proposals for the 2008 ASMI Conference. Submissions are now due by June 27th, 2008 and should be sent directly to Dr Matthew Hibberd at [log in to unmask] For further details and call for papers, please see below. Regards, Lucia Rinaldi ASMI Communication Officer [log in to unmask] -------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS The Association of the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI) - 2008 Annual Conference In association with the Italian Cultural Institute, Edinburgh and the Stirling Media Research Institute The Media in Italy: Historical Perspectives and Future Challenges 21-22 November 2008 Italian Cultural Institute, Edinburgh (UK) From the development of newspapers in the 18th and 19th Centuries to the emergence of the internet and other digital technologies, the media have had a significant impact across the Italian peninsula. But if the media have influenced political and social institutions and democratic processes, social developments have also played a central part in Italian media development. From Fascist domination of the mass media to post-war partition of public service broadcasting and party-controlled newspapers, political patronage of media institutions has remained a strong feature of Italian life. The development of social utility or networking sites means that Italian consumption of media is changing, especially among the young. Recent years have also witnessed the rapid growth in academic research examining relations between media development and collective memory, identity and nation-building. The development of new technologies has altered irrevocably the ways in which politicians communicate with their electorates and how Italians engage with one another. The 2008 ASMI Conference will bring together leading academics from history, the political and social sciences, film and media studies to examine issues relating to the conference theme: the media in Italy: historical perspectives and future challenges. ASMI is now soliciting 500-word abstracts of papers, including postgraduate student papers, for presentation at the 2008 conference. Proposals should be based on current theoretical or empirical research relevant to the conference themes, and maybe from any disciplinary perspective. Individual papers may, amongst other topics, focus on the following academic subjects: * Media in late 18th and 19th Century * The Internet, New Technologies and National Life * The Media and Italian Collective Memory/Forgetting * Media Economics, Policy and Ownership * Political Communication * Gender and Communication * News and Journalism * Film and Documentary in Italian Life * Immigration, Race and the Media * Media in the Christian Democrat era * Communism and the Media * Post War Cinema * Public Service Broadcasting * Newspapers, Cinema and Radio During Fascism * Media in the Berlsuconi Era * Devolution, Italian Regions and the Media * Minorities and Media * The Digital Revolution * Social Networking Websites Submissions are due by June 27th, 2008 and should be sent to Dr Matthew Hibberd at [log in to unmask] ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join italian-studies YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave italian-studies to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/italian-studies.html