Please note that the following conference submission date has been
extended to 3 March 2008:
ECREA's 2nd EUROPEAN COMMUNICATION CONFERENCE
SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT COMMUNICATION SECTION
CALL FOR PAPERS
ECREA's Science and Environment Communication Section welcomes the
submission of proposals for papers, posters and panels for ECREA's 2nd
European Communication Conference to take place in Barcelona on 25-28
November 2008.
Section overview:
The 21st century faces unprecedented challenges in the environment and
science fields. The meanings of issues such as climate change and
biotechnology, and the decisions taken in relation to them, are
associated with a variety of communication practices. Research on
communication can therefore provide a central contribution to current
debates about scientific and environmental problems and issues of
democracy, citizenship and power.
The Science and Environment Communication section seeks to foster a
strong network of research in the wide area of science and environment
communication. Science is understood here in broad terms as research
that has its roots in the social sciences, humanities or natural
sciences, including technology. Environment is also understood broadly
as both the natural and the built milieu.
Issues that are categorized as environmental and/or scientific are also
political, economic and social, and the section therefore aims to
promote an integrated, inter- and trans-disciplinary analysis of
communication practices. This opens up new opportunities for research
and education, including collaboration with other ECREA sections.
Topics:
Examples of topic areas that can be addressed include - but are far from
restricted to - the following:
* Media representations of science and/or the environment
* Political and commercial discourses on science, technology and/or
the environment
* The communication of environmental or science-related risks
* The dialogic, interactive communication of research-based
knowledge
* The discourse and politics of environmental activism
* The roles of communication in scientific (or environmental)
governance, democracy and citizenship
* Public engagement with science and/or with environmental issues
* Constructions of nature, science and technology in popular culture
* Communication and the production of research-based knowledge
The section welcomes work that crosses a range of disciplinary
(communication/media/cultural studies, science and technology studies,
sociology, social psychology) and methodological
(quantitative/qualitative/empirical/theoretical) boundaries.
PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 15th February 2008
Conference website: http://www.ecrea2008barcelona.org/
On-line forms for submitting proposals:
> PAPER PROPOSALS: http://www.ecrea2008barcelona.org/eng/callfor_pa.asp
> POSTER PROPOSALS: http://www.ecrea2008barcelona.org/eng/callfor_po.asp
> PANEL PROPOSALS: http://www.ecrea2008barcelona.org/eng/callfor_pn.asp
Feel free to circulate this call to colleagues or any other research
networks that may be interested in submitting a proposal.
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