Dear all,

Thank you for a wonderfully inspiring conference in Odense. We hope to see many of you again for the ECREA Journalism Studies Section Conference in 2017, also to be held at the Centre for Journalism, University of Southern Denmark.

Best wishes

Your Local Organising Team

PS: We’ll make sure that the right flags will be outside the university again in 2017 – just in case any of you did not notice it, here’s a picture:

Dear conference attendees,

We are writing to invite you to the Business Meeting of the ECREA Political Communication Section on Thursday, 27 August from 13:00 to 13:45 in Room O 100. Here is our agenda:

• Update since Lisbon conference (Nov 2014)

• Odense conference: Background on paper selection and programming

• Odense conference: Top Paper Award

• Update on journal plans

• Section plans until Prague conference (Nov 2016)

Attending the Business Meeting is a good opportunity to stay informed about what is going on and to communicate your needs and expectations back to the section leadership. We look forward to welcoming you.

We have now uploaded the detailed programme for the conference, you can find it here. (Note: The programme has been updated 11 July 2015; 23 July 2015; 11 August 2015; 18 August 2015; 22 August 2015).

Thank you for registering!

We will now set up the programme for the conference. As soon as the programme is ready, we will post it here on this website. Thank you for your patience.

Dear all, kindly remember that the deadline for registration is 3 June. The registration website can be found here.

The registration website has been opened and can be found here.

We are looking forward to seeing you all in Odense this summer!

By midnight April 1-2, we had received ~100 submissions from the community. We are now in the process of finding reviewers for these submissions.

Remember the upcoming deadline for this year’s ECREA Political Communication Conference 27-28 August in Odense. More information on how to submit can be found here: https://ecreapoliticalcommunication2015.wordpress.com/submit-soon/.

The theme of the upcoming conference is “Changing political communication, changing Europe?”. Currently, we are witnessing massive changes in media and political systems all over Europe. To mention a few of these changes, the number of communication channels, in particular social media continues to grow, making media diets more and more individualized. Media organizations around the Europe have been hit hard by the economic crisis, and newspapers struggle to reinvent their business model. These changes make journalists vulnerable to economic and political pressures. Politically, the global economic crisis and sociodemographic changes put pressure on governments for structural reforms. We see that trust in institutions and elites as well as social cohesion are under pressure, while EU scepticism and populism are on the rise. At the same time new social movements are emerging, transforming the dissatisfaction and ideals of citizens into new forms of political participation. Technological developments have simultaneously given governments more means of surveillance of their citizens and made them more vulnerable to information leaks.

This conference will address these diverse changes. We will discuss how and under which conditions changes in the political and media systems reinforce, but also counteract each other. We will discuss the normative and empirical implications of these changes for the functioning of our democracies and their political communication practices as well as the implications for our scholarly research and teaching. We welcome new empirical studies as well papers presenting new theoretical approaches relating to the theme “Changing political communication, changing Europe?”, in the broadest sense. Among the many possible approaches to the conference theme, some questions that submitters may want to address could be:

• How do social media, media polarization and fragmentation of news use affect social cohesion and political participation?
• Is media logic particularly suited for populist politicians and anti-EU messages?
• How do new demands of transparency and surveillance techniques affect government communication?
• What is the role of social and traditional media in new modes of citizenship and political activism?
• How has the economic crisis affected the power balance between journalists and politicians?

Submission details

• You are asked to submit abstracts of no more than 300 words.
• Submission will undergo scholarly peer-review.
• When submitting, you will be asked to specify who will present the paper. Only one presentation per presenter can be accepted.
• Deadline for submission is 1 April 2015.
• Notifications of acceptance will be issued no later than 1 May 2015.

Please send your submissions to: ecrea [at] sam.sdu.dk—thank you!

Welcome to this website on 2015 ECREA Political Communication Conference to be held at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark 27-28 August 2015. The conference theme will be “Changing political communication, changing Europe?” (read more here). On this website, you will find all the practical information you will need: how to submit and register for the conference, how to travel to Odense and where to book accommodation.

If you have any questions or queries about the workshop, please feel free to contact us, see more here.

Your ECREA Political Communication Section team