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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, 82 Nicolson Street Edinburgh
CALL FOR PAPERS
Introduction
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:
1) Media in late 18th and 19th Century
2) The Internet, New Technologies and National Life
3) The Media and Italian Collective Memory/Forgetting
4) Media Economics, Policy and Ownership
5) Political Communication
6) Gender and Communication
7) News and Journalism
8) Film and Documentary in Italian Life
9) Immigration, Race and the Media
10) Media in the Christian Democrat era
11) Communism and the Media
12) Post War Cinema
13) Public Service Broadcasting
14) Newspapers, Cinema and Radio During Fascism
15) Media in the Berlsuconi Era
16) Devolution, Italian Regions and the Media
17) Minorities and Media
18) The Digital Revolution
19) Social Networking Websites
Submissions are due by June 15th, 2008 and should be sent to Dr Matthew
Hibberd at [log in to unmask]
DRAFT PROGRAMME
FRIDAY 21ST NOVEMBER 2008
13:00 pm Welcome
13:15 Keynote I
14:30 Parallel Sessions
16:00 Break
16:30 Parallel Sessions
18:00 ASMI Annual Meeting
19:30 Dinner
SATURDAY 22ND NOVEMBER 2008
9:00 Parallel sessions
10:30 Break
11:00 Keynote II and III
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Parallel Sessions
16:00 Close
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