CALL FOR PAPERS
DEADLINE EXTENDED: April, 15!


The Faculty of Political Science and Journalism at the Adam Mickiewicz
University in Poznan, Poland

invites paper submissions for the international conference:


News in Europe, Europe on News.
The Proximity and Distance


Date: August 28 – 30, 2009
Venue: The Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland


The conference aims to promote an interdisciplinary, comparative,
multi-methodological approach to the study of the news media operating in
Europe and/or reporting about the European issues. The objective is to
contribute to our understanding of a process of selection and a phenomenon
of framing in news media. Europe as a key element of the theme may be
considered as a symbol of integration and diversity. Hence, the
participants of the conference will concentrate on features shared by
contemporary news media, as well as on those that determine a unique
cultural character of the journalism in countries all around the world.
Furthermore, the questions about an audience’s reception of the news and
the perception of the world covered by the news media will be raised. In
order to do this, the conference brings together a range of international
scholars, drawn from representative disciplines in the media studies and
journalism.
The core part of the conference is a presentation of the results of the
study conducted by a team of scholars from more than 20 countries,
introducing themselves as members of The Foreign News on TV Project. The
project was launched during the ICA Annual Conference in May 2007. It was
Prof. Akiba Cohen from Tel Aviv University who invited scholars from all
around the world to research the way foreign news is presented on
broadcast television.



We invite your submission in the following areas:

THE CONTEXT:
1.        Media systems in Europe.
2.        Legal aspects of the cross – border media in Europe.
3.        Cultural and political dimensions of the media and journalism.
4.        ‘Europeization’ of the public sphere.

THE CONTENT:
1.        Foreign news on national TV and radio channels.
2.        Foreign news in newspapers and magazines.
3.        Priming and framing in news media.
4.        Political, social and personal conflicts on news.

THE PARTICIPANTS:
1.        International TV channels and their European branches.
2.        EuroNews: international TV channel “with European perspective”.
3.        The audience: who is actually looking for foreign news?
4.        Journalists: who they are?

THE PROXIMITY AND DISTANCE
1.        International flow of information: its dynamics and directions
2.        News selection in the globalized media
3.        The image of Europe and European Union on non –European news media.
4.        European media reporting the world

SUBMISSION:
1.        Individual paper: please submit a max 900 - word abstract
followed by
the short (up to 50 words) note (name, surname, position, institution,
address, e-mail)  by April 15, 2009.
2.        Panel: please submit a max 350 – word panel rationale, followed
by 75 –
word panel description and 150 word – abstracts of the papers (max 4
papers per panel) by April 15, 2009.

Please send your submission to: [log in to unmask] or
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Agnieszka Stepinska, PhD, The Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan (Chair
of The Planning Committee).

Notification of accepted papers will be sent out by May 15, 2009.
The conference language is English.

The conference is a part of a research project funded by the Polish
Ministry of Science and Higher Education. The conference is organized
under a patronage of The President of the Adam Mickiewicz University –
Prof. Bronislaw Marciniak, The Mayor of City of Poznan – Ryszard Grobelny,
The Polish Communication Association, and The Polish Political Science
Association.


For details please check the website: http://wnpid.amu.edu.pl/newseuro

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Mireya Marquez
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Media and Communications
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross, London SE14 6NW
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