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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