Summer School registration is now open! Please distribute widely.
Dear All,
We are pleased to announce that European Media
and Communication Doctoral Summer School 2007 registration is now open.
You can find the call for papers below (and at
http://young.meso.ee/?q=node/60). The summer
school will take place in Tartu 19.-31. August
2007. Registration and application is open until
1st of May, only fully completed profiles will be
considered valid for application.
We are happy to announce that this year summer
school consortium in cooperation with ECREA gives
out 2 individual and 2 institutional grants
covering all costs for participation in the
summer school (travel, accommodation and
tuition). More information can be found at http://young.meso.ee/node/59.
You can also download the summer school flyer (at
http://young.meso.ee/files/ecrea%20flyer%20online.pdf)
or request paper versions to be sent to your university.
Should there be any questions or problem you are
welcome to contact the summer school coordinator
Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt via e-mail ([log in to unmask])
Regards,
Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt
Summer School Coordinator
++++Call for Participation
European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School
19. August – 31. August 2007, Tartu, Estonia.
We are happy to invite you to participate in the
European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer
School 2007 in Tartu, Estonia from the 19th of
August till the 31st of August 2007.
The European Media and Communication Doctoral
Summer School 2007 brings together members of the
European research community to this summer school
in order to debate contemporary issues in media,
communication and cultural studies. The main
emphasis of this summer school is on providing
structural and individualized PhD-support for
young European scholars, through a variety of
working forms, including feedback seminars,
workshops, and lectures. The summer school aims
to provide a supportive international setting
where doctoral students can present their ongoing
work, receive feedback on their PhD-projects from
international experts and meet students and
academics from other countries, establishing
valuable contacts for the future. The summer
school also generates a wide picture of the
international landscape of communication and
media research, and its diversity of academic
cultures, allowing PhD-students to situate
themselves within this academic field.
The overall theme for the programme: “Media
technology and Democracy in an enlarged Europe”
provides one of the structures of the summer
school. As this summer school is open to the full
variety of academic work in the field of
communication and media studies, the summer
school theme will not be used as a criterion for
participant selection. The theme is to be
understood through a wide range of contemporary
media and communication related research. The
enlargement of Europe has generated vast number
of societal changes. At the level of media and
communication, the enlargement has brought even
more media organizations, formats, traditions and
media styles. The thrust towards the knowledge
society has various effects on the everyday life
of European citizens, their participation in
societal activities and media consumption. To
facilitate the successful, continuous and
democratic European integration, media have a
vital role to play. Further technological
developments will bring further changes. We thus
aim to better understand the relationship between
technological and social change.
The summer school will take place on the premises
of University of Tartu, at the Department of Journalism and Communication.
There are three options possible to attend the summer school:
1. For students whose university is a member of
the organizing consortium[1] the fee for the
summer school will be 370 euros. The (cheapest
possible) travel costs to the summer school
location (Tartu) will be refunded to the participating students.
2. For individual or institutional ECREA members
(see http://www.ecrea.eu), the fee will also be
370 euros. This fee will not cover the travel costs.
3. Non-consortium and non-ECREA members can
become an ECREA member at a highly reduced fee.
The ECREA membership application (see
http://www.ecrea.eu) can be submitted
simultaneously with the summer school
application. The summer school fee will be 370
euros. This fee will not cover the travel costs.
There will be 4 travel grants for those students
who are not part of the consortium, and have no
access to other resources to attend the summer
school. More information can be found at http://www.comsummerschool.org.
Summer school materials (including 2 books),
accommodation, breakfast, coffee and lunches are included in all three options.
Applications will be submitted via summer school
website (http://www.comsummerschool.org), where
interested students are expected to register. The
deadline for the application is the 1st of May. A
wide range of student papers is sought for, and
it is not necessary to fit into the yearly theme
of the doctoral summer school. The working
language of the summer school will be English;
therefore sufficient understanding and ability to
express oneself in this language is expected.
When applying, each interested student will be
expected fill out a form on the summer school
website (prior registration on the website is
necessary). This will include 1/ a short CV
according to the provided forms, 2/ information
on their academic profile, 3/ an abstract of
their PhD project (no more than 400 words, with a
structure and contents of their choosing) and 4/
short answers on the following five questions concerning their PhD project:
1. What’s your main paradigm?
2. What’s your theoretical framework?
3. What are your methods?
4. What’s your main objective?
5. How much time have you used, how much time have your left?
The abstracts from all successful applicants will
also be published in the summer school book (see
the summer school website for an online version
of the 2006 book). Students are therefore
requested to pay close attention to the
correctness of all details. Students will have
possibility to update their information during
the application procedure, thus early submission is encouraged.
Notification of the accepted students will come
after 15th of May. Details of the summer school
programme will be updated regularly based on the
draft programme available on the web. The 2006
programme can be regarded as an example of the
lecturers that will possibly attend.
Students whose abstracts are accepted will then
(in a second phase) be expected to provide the
following documents and information by the 1st of July 2007:
1. A 10-page (3000 words) paper on their PhD
project as a whole. The 10-page paper should be a
report of the student’s ongoing doctoral research
and not a conventional conference paper or a
report of findings. Rather, it is expected that
the student will briefly present the focus of the
research and then take up aspects of the research
process: methodological, theoretical and
practical issues on which he/she would like to receive feedback.
2. A set of questions (maximum 1 page) with
questions or problems that related to their own
PhD projects. This one page needs to be part of
the same Word file that also contains the 10-page paper.
3. Based on the abstracts and titles of other
student papers, everyone is expected to choose up
to 3 papers they would be interested in being a
respondent. This preference will be taken into
consideration while setting up student working groups.
By the time of the summer school, each student
has to prepare a 10-minute seminar presentation
covering the main points of their work. Each
student is also expected to actively participate
in the discussions of their own and other
people’s work. As mentioned above, they will act
as a respondent of someone else’s paper (which
they have to have read beforehand).
The total number of students will be limited to
50, up to 45 from consortium members and additional students through ECREA.
All questions concerning the application
procedure and other information can be directed
to the co-ordinator of the Summer School Pille
Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt from the University of
Tartu by e-mail ([log in to unmask]).
The Programme Committee members are: Prof. Nico
Carpentier, Dr. Maren Hartmann, Prof. Kaarle
Nordenstreng, Dr. Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt and Prof. Peeter Vihalemm.
The Intensive Programme is supported by Socrates
Erasmus IP project contract number:
69935-IC-1-2005-EE-ERASMUS-IPUC-7, the European
Communication Research and Education Association
(http://www.ecrea.eu), the University of Tartu,
the Department of Journalism and Communication
(http://www.jrnl.ut.ee) and a consortium of 18 universities.
[1] These universities are: Amsterdam (UvA),
Barcelona (Universidad Autonoma), Bergen, Bremen,
Brussel (VUB), Budapest (Eötvös Loránd), Cracow
(Jagiellonian), Erfurt, Helsinki, Jönköping,
Kaunas (Vytauto Didzio), Ljubljana, London School
of Economics and Political Science (in process),
Lund, Roskilde, Stendhal Grenoble 3, Stirling, Tampere and Westminster.
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