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The International Association for Media and Communication Research invites submissions of abstracts for papers and panel proposals for the 2013 IAMCR conference to be held from 25 to 29 June, 2013 at the Helix Conference Centre at Dublin City University, Ireland.
List of CfPs of individual Sections and Working Groups
The conference theme centres on whether and how the current economic crisis and its attendant gales of "creative destruction" may serve to reshape the geo-political and communication orders. Will this crisis prompt or enable multi-dimensional change in the prevailing forms and modes of mediated communication on the one hand, and in global power structures and control processes on the other?
Much of the 'Western' core of the international system is now experiencing the deepest economic and financial crisis since the 1930s, manifest in a sustained period of austerity and low economic growth. Amidst the 1930s crisis and depression context, Schumpeter invoked the image of the gales of "creative destruction" to refer to the multiple forms of struggles, innovations and restructuring involved in the search for sustainable solutions to such deep crises. Such historically-rare crises and depressions tend to prompt multi-dimensional change - social, organisational, political as well as techno-economic innovations. They are not only financial or economic in scope, as such deep crises also engender struggles over causes and solutions which link to differing political, social and economic interests as well as cultural and value systems. Furthermore, such deep crises in the global north also articulate with crises in the global south in complex ways (e.g. the former may provide opportunities for development in the south, as occurred in many areas during the 1930s).
The overall conference theme lends itself to panels and papers dealing with a wide range of specific sub-themes and topics. These may include :
Each Section and Working Group of the IAMCR will issue its own Call for Papers, based on the general thematic outline above. The list of Sections and Working Groups and links to their respective Calls may be found below.
Abstracts should be submitted only via IAMCR's Open Conference System (OCS) at http://iamcr-ocs.org from 15 November 2012 to 28 January 2013.
Early submission is strongly encouraged.
The deadline for submission of abstracts is 28 January 2013. Please note that this deadline will not be extended. The OCS system at http://iamcr-ocs.org will close at midnight GMT on 28 January 2013.
Decisions on acceptance of abstracts will be communicated to applicants by their Section or Working Group Head no later than 28 February 2013.
Conference registration will be open for bookings by participants in January 2013.
For those whose abstracts are accepted, full conference papers are to be submitted via the IAMCR OCS by 28 May 2013.
Unless otherwise stated by a Section or Working Group, abstracts should be between 300 and 500 words in length.
All abstract submissions must be made via IAMCR's OCS at http://iamcr-ocs.org. There are to be no email submissions of abstracts addressed to any Section or Working Group Head.
It is expected that for the most part, only one (1) abstract will be submitted per person for consideration by the Conference. However, under no circumstances should there be more than two (2) abstracts bearing the name of the same applicant either individually or as part of any group of authors. Please note also that the same abstract or another version with minor variations in title or content must not be submitted to other Sections or Working Groups of the Association for consideration, after an initial submission. Such submissions will be deemed to be in breach of the conference guidelines and will be automatically rejected by the Open Conference System, by the relevant Head or by the Conference Programme Reviewer. Such applicants risk being removed entirely from the conference programme.
Upon submission of an abstract, you will be asked to confirm that your submission is original and that it has not been previously published in the form presented. You will also be given an opportunity to declare if your submission is currently before another conference for consideration.
For further information, please consult the conference website at: http://iamcr2013dublin.com/ or contact the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) by email: info (at) iamcr2013dublin.com This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The individual CfPs of IAMCR's 31 Sections and Working Groups can be accessed via the links below.
Download this general CfP as a PDF file...