News of the Action

Facebook Event created for Tampere Conference

Submitted by Zeller on Tue, 03/19/2013 - 15:59

The Tampere organizing team kindly set up a Facebook event page for our upcoming Tampere meeting. All those of you who have a Facebook account: Please do sign up and help us to make the most out of Web 2.0!
You will find the event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/220617871412616/

New Media, New Audiences workshop and discussion forum, April 13, 2013

Submitted by patriarche on Sun, 03/17/2013 - 21:52

When: 13 April, 2013 (Saturday), 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Where: University of Lodz Conference Centre, Kopcińskiego 16/18, Łódź, Poland

NO conference FEE

New publication of WG2 - "Audience Interactivity and Participation: Interviews/Essays with/on journalists and politicians"

Submitted by patriarche on Thu, 03/14/2013 - 11:09

Working Group 2 of the COST Action IS0906 "Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies" is pleased to present a new publication entitled "Audience Interactivity and Participation: Interviews/Essays with/on journalists and politicians".

The publication is available at:

http://www.cost-transforming-audiences.eu/system/files/essays-and-interv...

Call for COST conference grant for early-stage researchers

Submitted by patriarche on Wed, 03/13/2013 - 15:40

The COST instrument “Conference Grant for Early-Stage Researchers” (ESR) provides direct financial support for the participation of early-stage researchers in international conferences as a means of capacity-building.

Please find in attachment the call and the application form. Only one application per Action can be submitted to the COST Office. In case several applications are submitted, the chair and the vice chair of the Action will select one candidate. Their decision will then be confirmed by the steering group.

Please note that:

Deadline extended till 8/3: Call for COST Action participants @ ECREA Doctoral Summer School 2013

Submitted by patriarche on Mon, 03/04/2013 - 11:38

Call for COST Action participants

ECREA Doctoral Summer School 2013

Deadline for application has been extended to: March 8, 2013

As part of the strategy of the COST Action IS0906 “Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies” to support the current research of its PhD students, a partnership was established with the ECREA Doctoral Summer School (http://www.comsummerschool.org), and the Management Committee of the Action has allocated 2000 EUR to fund the participation of two PhD students.

New publication of the COST Action: Critical insights in European media literacy research and policy (in Media Studies)

Submitted by patriarche on Mon, 02/18/2013 - 22:25

MEDIA STUDIES, Vol. 3 (2012) No. 6

Media Studies is Croatian, peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal that provides an international forum for the presentation of research and advancement of discourse concerning media, communications, journalism, and public relations, within each field’s cultural, historical, political and/or economic contexts.

SPECIAL ISSUE:

Critical insights in European media literacy research and policy

Online open access:
http://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=toc&id_broj=7793

Call for Articles: Participatory Journalism (Medijska istraživanja/Media Research)

Submitted by patriarche on Thu, 02/07/2013 - 13:17

Medijska istraživanja/Media Research

CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue (2013, Vol. 19, No. 2) on:

Participatory Journalism: Possibilities and Constraints for Audience
Participation

Editor-in-Chief: Nada Zgrabljic' Rotar (University of Zadar, Croatia)

Guest Editor of the Special Issue: Igor Vobic( (University of Ljubljana,
Slovenia)

COST Action IS0906: ‘Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies’:
Working Group 2 ‘Audience Interactivity and Participation’.

Aim of the Special Issue:

In late modern societies journalism is shaped by the concepts such as

CfP: Online journalism and its public

Submitted by patriarche on Wed, 02/06/2013 - 15:14

Call for Papers:
Online journalism and its publics

December 5-6, 2013, Brussels

Official languages of the conference: English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese

CfP: Special issue of CM Communication Management Quarterly on "Histories of Media(ted) Participation"

Submitted by patriarche on Wed, 01/30/2013 - 11:18

Call for Papers for a
Special Issue of CM Communication Management Quarterly
on Histories of Media(ted) Participation

Call for COST participants to the 21013 ECREA Doctoral Summer School

Submitted by patriarche on Wed, 01/16/2013 - 12:17

Call for COST Action participants

ECREA Doctoral Summer School 2013

Deadline for application: March 1, 2013

As part of the strategy of the COST Action IS0906 “Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies” to support the current research of its PhD students, a partnership was established with the ECREA Doctoral Summer School (http://www.comsummerschool.org), and the Management Committee of the Action has allocated 2000 EUR to fund the participation of two PhD students.