We
invite proposals for the 11th Annual APSA Preconference on Political
Communication to be held on Wednesday, August 28, 2013, at the
University of Illinois at Chicago. This year's theme
is Sentiment, Politics, and Citizenship.
The
study of political communication is at an inflection point. As
communication technology has become more individualized the quality of
messages has become more personal and emotional. At
the same time the sheer number of such messages has increased by an
order of magnitude. Moreover, these messages have become more public and
open to scholarly analysis. Prior to the inflection point scholars
generally relied on qualitative methods for analyzing
the emotive content of messages. Now the sheer number of messages
available from sources such as Twitter allows quantitative mappings of
very large datasets, frequently referred to as big data analysis. This
scalar inversion has led to the increased study
of sentiment and emotion as components of citizenship, politics, and public opinion.
We
invite papers and panels that address this and related themes and the
fresh approaches to research they suggest. Comparative studies are
encouraged and individual paper submissions as well
as proposals for entire panels are invited.
If you are interested in
serving as a panel facilitator, please let us know. The deadline for
proposals is March 15, 2013. Please send proposals to
polcomm@uic.edu.
The
preconference is jointly sponsored by the APSA Political Communication
Division and the Department of Communication at the University of
Illinois at Chicago. The co-chairs are Andrew Rojecki
and Zizi Papacharissi, both at UIC.
To register for the preconference, send a note to
preconf@uic.edu. Please include your name, affiliation, and preferred email address.
Stephen Farnsworth
University of Mary Washington
Fredericksburg VA
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Monday, January 28, 2013
ICA 2013 Political Communication Division Travel Fund Application
The political communication division offers travel grants for the London conference. Here is how to apply:
ICA 2013 Political Communication Division Travel Fund Application
Answers marked with a * are required.
1. Introduction To apply for a division travel grant, complete the following form by February 24, 2013 (late submissions not accepted). Notice of awards will go out by April 1. The awards are for the paper, and so those with more than one author require a completed application by each author and receive the same consideration and level of funding as those with one author.
To expand the pool of funds, the ICA matches division funding, but each applicant must apply to both ICA and the Division. Please apply first to ICA (see below). Because the deadline for the entire ICA process is March 1, the Political Communication Division has set an earlier deadline, which leaves time for divisional decisions. The deadline for completing the information in the following survey is Feb. 24, and notice of the division and ICA award decisions and combined amounts will reach you by April 1.
1. I am an ICA Member. Note: You must be an ICA Member to apply for travel funds. *
Yes
No
2. I have completed the on-line travel grant application at the ICA website (go to the Travel Grant Request Form link). Note: You must fill out the travel grant application at the ICA before you submit this survey.
Yes
No
2. About You Please provide the following personal information.
3. Name (Last, First) *
4. E-Mail Address *
5. Mailing Address *
6. University *
7. Status *
In Coursework
In Dissertation
PhD Holder
Other (Please Specify)
8. Number of Papers Ever Accepted to ICA (any Division) *
1
2
3-5
9. Country Tier of Current Residence (To find the country tier, go to http://www.icahdq.org/
A
B
C
10. Minority Status within current Country of Residence *
Non-minority
Minority (Please Specify)
3. About the Paper/Panel Please provide some information about the accepted paper or panel.
11. Title of accepted paper or panel *
12. Other Authors (If your paper is single-authored, please type None below.) *
4. About the Travel Please provide some information about the travel.
13. Distance from conference venue (hours of travel from your city to London) *
1-3
4-7
8-12
more than 12
14. Estimated cost of transportation only (in US$) *
15. Other Sources of Funding (in US$) *
Department
University
Other Agency (Government or Grant)
16. Please mark this box to certify that the above information is complete and accurate and that if awarded a travel grant you will attend the convention and deliver the paper yourself. *
I Accept these Terms.
Please fill in the form and return it by email Sophie Lecheler. If you have any questions, please also direct them to: s.k.lecheler@uva.nl
Thanks and best wishes,
Jesper Stromback (program planner 2013), Sophie Lecheler (division secretaty), and Claes de Vreese (division chair)
ICA 2013 Political Communication Division Travel Fund Application
Answers marked with a * are required.
1. Introduction To apply for a division travel grant, complete the following form by February 24, 2013 (late submissions not accepted). Notice of awards will go out by April 1. The awards are for the paper, and so those with more than one author require a completed application by each author and receive the same consideration and level of funding as those with one author.
To expand the pool of funds, the ICA matches division funding, but each applicant must apply to both ICA and the Division. Please apply first to ICA (see below). Because the deadline for the entire ICA process is March 1, the Political Communication Division has set an earlier deadline, which leaves time for divisional decisions. The deadline for completing the information in the following survey is Feb. 24, and notice of the division and ICA award decisions and combined amounts will reach you by April 1.
1. I am an ICA Member. Note: You must be an ICA Member to apply for travel funds. *
Yes
No
2. I have completed the on-line travel grant application at the ICA website (go to the Travel Grant Request Form link). Note: You must fill out the travel grant application at the ICA before you submit this survey.
Yes
No
2. About You Please provide the following personal information.
3. Name (Last, First) *
4. E-Mail Address *
5. Mailing Address *
6. University *
7. Status *
In Coursework
In Dissertation
PhD Holder
Other (Please Specify)
8. Number of Papers Ever Accepted to ICA (any Division) *
1
2
3-5
9. Country Tier of Current Residence (To find the country tier, go to http://www.icahdq.org/
A
B
C
10. Minority Status within current Country of Residence *
Non-minority
Minority (Please Specify)
3. About the Paper/Panel Please provide some information about the accepted paper or panel.
11. Title of accepted paper or panel *
12. Other Authors (If your paper is single-authored, please type None below.) *
4. About the Travel Please provide some information about the travel.
13. Distance from conference venue (hours of travel from your city to London) *
1-3
4-7
8-12
more than 12
14. Estimated cost of transportation only (in US$) *
15. Other Sources of Funding (in US$) *
Department
University
Other Agency (Government or Grant)
16. Please mark this box to certify that the above information is complete and accurate and that if awarded a travel grant you will attend the convention and deliver the paper yourself. *
I Accept these Terms.
Please fill in the form and return it by email Sophie Lecheler. If you have any questions, please also direct them to: s.k.lecheler@uva.nl
Thanks and best wishes,
Jesper Stromback (program planner 2013), Sophie Lecheler (division secretaty), and Claes de Vreese (division chair)
Friday, January 18, 2013
Call for Nominations: Murrary Edelman Career Achievement
The
Murray Edelman career achievement award in political communication has shifted
to a biennial award, and nominations for 2013 are now open. The committee
(Lance Bennett, chair, Rosalee Clawson and Michael Delli Carpini) will consider
nominations that are accompanied by a short statement of the nominee's
contributions to our field. Nominations will be accepted until March 1, 2013.
Please send all nominations to Lance Bennett: lbennett@uw.edu.
Here are the past recipients of The
Murray Edelman Distinguished Career Award
for lifetime contribution to the
study of political communication.
2011 Diana Mutz, University of
Pennsylvania
2009 Daniel Hallin, University of
California, San Diego
2008 Michael X. Delli Carpini,
University of Pennsylvania
2007 Marion Just, Wellesley College
(Co-recipient)
W. Russell Neuman, University of Michigan (Co-recipient)
2006 Robert Entman, George
Washington University
2005
Jay Blumler and Michael Gurevitch
2004
Michael Schudson
2003 W. Lance Bennett, University of
Washington
2002 Thomas E. Patterson, Harvard
University
2001 the late Steven Chaffee,
University of California, Santa Barbara
2001 Jack McLeod, University of
Wisconsin, Madison
2000 Roderick Hart, University of
Texas
1999 Bernard C. Cohen, University of
Wisconsin
1998 Shanto Iyengar, University of
California, Los Angeles
1997 Ellen Mickiewicz, Duke
University
1996 Maxwell McCombs, University of
Texas, Austin (Co-recipient)
Donald Shaw, University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill (Co-recipient)
1995 Kathleen Hall Jamieson,
University of Pennsylvania
1994 Kurt Lang and Gladys Lang,
University of Washington
1993 Elihu Katz, Guttman Institute
of Applied Social Research, Jerusalem, Israel
1992 Doris Graber, University of
Illinois, Chicago
Call for Papers, Paris June 14th-15th 2013 Conference on Comparative Political Communication
On June 14th and 15th 2013, the Center
for Comparative Studies in Political and Public Communication (Ceccopop) headed
by Philippe J. Maarek, convenes a 2 days conference in Paris, just before the
ICA conference in London on
"Comparing the French and American 2012 Presidential Campaigns: a new transnational model of campaigning or two specific patterns? Towards a modern congruence of Political Communication Campaigns?"
Political Communication seems more and more global, particularly during campaigns. While in the past Political Marketing advisors and Politicians on both side of the Atlantic had to travel to each other to learn the new strategies and tools of winning campaigns, today's media globalization, emphasized by Internet growth has accelerated this globalization process, making it nearly instantaneous.
One of the most visible occurrence of this evolution has been the similarity of Nicolas Sarkozy and Barack Obama winning presidential runs in 2007-2008, both based on "storytelling". Barack Obama was matching his own personal path to the history of the United States, and Nicolas Sarkozy was displaying publicly his personal life and family history, and in so doing, they seem to have set new campaigning rules. Later, their presidential communication pattern has also taken a comparable turn, to the surprise of the French journalists and politicians, in particular, who were not used to unceasing media intervention from their Presidents. Similarly too, Barack Obama's wife Michelle frequent interventions in the U.S. media, and the public exposure of Nicolas Sarkozy new marriage may also be noticed.
The 2012 elections in both countries seem to have taken a different turn: Barack Obama has been reelected, Nicolas Sarkozy not. But have the campaigns been so different? Could it be that François Hollande winning strike has been helped by an unsaid identical kind of communication strategy? When he advocated his "normalcy", wasn't it the same kind of storytelling but with a different kind of story, trying to establish a proximity from the voters? Also, how did French politicians manage to cope with their strong legal restriction of access to media and did it make so much difference from the exponential increase of spending allowed by the 2011 Supreme Court ruling? How come political campaigns in those two countries seem less and less different in spite of apparently non negligible differences? And can some of these findings be extended more generally to other countries and even as a new transnational model, or are there French and American specifics?
These are some of the questions which will address political communication specialists from both side of the Atlantic, scholars and professional from the field, at the Paris Conference on Political Communication which will take place on June 14th and 15th, just before the start of the ICA conference in London. The conference is hosted by Philippe J. Maarek, Professor in Political Communication, former Chair of IPSA and then IAMCR Political Communication Research Groups, within the frame of the Center for Comparative Studies in Political and Public Communication of the University Paris East (Ceccopop/Largotec).
Collegues interested in presenting a paper should send an application, before February 16th to maarek@u-pec.fr . Proposals should include a 200-500 words abstracts and a short 1 page vitae.
The scientific board of the Conference is composed of:
Donatella Campus, University of Bologna, Italy Ann Crigler, University of Southern California, United States of America Christina Holtz-Bacha, University of Nurenberg-Erlangen, Germany Philippe J. Maarek, University Paris Est, France Eric Maigret, University Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle, France Arnaud Mercier, University of Lorraine in Metz, France Richard Nadeau, University of Montreal, Canada David L. Paletz, Duke University, United States of America Claes de Vreese, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Dominic Wring, University of Loughborough, United Kingdom
The Organizating Committee is composed of :
Brigitte Sebbah, Philippe J. Maarek and Susanne Merkle, Paris East University.
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Call for Papers
Special Issue of Journalism Studies on the Mediatization of Politics
Mediatization is in the process of becoming a key concept in research on the media’s influence in different spheres of social and political life. However, it is only recently that scholars have moved beyond using mediatization as a catchall concept. Although there is still not one authoritative definition, most observers agree that ultimately, mediatization of politics refers to media-induced changes in the public representation of politics and the adaptive behaviors of political actors and institutions.
In this process, the role of the news media is central. Theoretically, the process of mediatization of politics gains pace when the news media increase their independence from politics and when news journalism increasingly is shaped by the news media’s own logic and standards of newsworthiness. Since the news media have become the most important communicative link in political circles and to the public, the incentives to adapt to the operating logic of media become stronger, to the extent that media logic may eventually subsume political logic. Hence, on a theoretical level of analysis the news media and news journalism both shape and are shaped by processes of mediatization.
This Special Issue of Journalism Studies on the Mediatization of Politics will thus focus on the role of the news media and of news journalism in the processes of the mediatization of politics. We invite theoretical as well as empirical articles that focus on different aspects on the role of the news media and news journalism in the processes of the mediatization of the politics, including:
– the production of news and the relationship between news media and political actors;
– the content of news journalism and the extent to which it is shaped by different logics;
– the news media as an institution;
– the extent to which as well as how political actors adapt to the news media;
– the implications of the rise of digital media for the mediatization of politics.
Prospective authors should email an abstract of approximately 500 words to Jesper Strömbäck (jesper.stromback@miun.se) and Frank Esser (f.esser@ipmz.uzh.ch). The editors will review all submissions, and successful authors will be invited to submit a full manuscript. Selected papers will be subjected to peer review.
• Deadline for abstracts: December 15, 2012.
• Deadline for submission of full articles: June 2013
Mediatization is in the process of becoming a key concept in research on the media’s influence in different spheres of social and political life. However, it is only recently that scholars have moved beyond using mediatization as a catchall concept. Although there is still not one authoritative definition, most observers agree that ultimately, mediatization of politics refers to media-induced changes in the public representation of politics and the adaptive behaviors of political actors and institutions.
In this process, the role of the news media is central. Theoretically, the process of mediatization of politics gains pace when the news media increase their independence from politics and when news journalism increasingly is shaped by the news media’s own logic and standards of newsworthiness. Since the news media have become the most important communicative link in political circles and to the public, the incentives to adapt to the operating logic of media become stronger, to the extent that media logic may eventually subsume political logic. Hence, on a theoretical level of analysis the news media and news journalism both shape and are shaped by processes of mediatization.
This Special Issue of Journalism Studies on the Mediatization of Politics will thus focus on the role of the news media and of news journalism in the processes of the mediatization of politics. We invite theoretical as well as empirical articles that focus on different aspects on the role of the news media and news journalism in the processes of the mediatization of the politics, including:
– the production of news and the relationship between news media and political actors;
– the content of news journalism and the extent to which it is shaped by different logics;
– the news media as an institution;
– the extent to which as well as how political actors adapt to the news media;
– the implications of the rise of digital media for the mediatization of politics.
Prospective authors should email an abstract of approximately 500 words to Jesper Strömbäck (jesper.stromback@miun.se) and Frank Esser (f.esser@ipmz.uzh.ch). The editors will review all submissions, and successful authors will be invited to submit a full manuscript. Selected papers will be subjected to peer review.
• Deadline for abstracts: December 15, 2012.
• Deadline for submission of full articles: June 2013
Call for Special Issue
The United States Presidential Election 2012
Perspectives from Election Studies, Political and Communication Sciences
Edited by Christoph Bieber & Klaus Kamps
With Barack Obama and Mitt Romney engaged in a tight race for the White House, the 2012 US Presidential Election will offer a broad range of starting-points for academic scrutiny. Especially, the use of media (old and new) will be crucial for the candidates, as well as for the public perception of the political system as a whole. The role of the US in international politics, an enduring global economic crisis, a struggling European Union, and the emergence of a set of new players on the global political stage provide the context for various analyses from different perspectives in the Social Sciences. In the US, the polarized party system with some new undercurrents (Tea Party Patriots, Occupy Movement), the advent of the SuperPACs, and the rise of social media have significantly changed the foundations for political campaigning.
The book will examine the complex aspects of the US presidential election, reflecting it as a multi-faceted communication process in the context of current societal conditions. Within the German-speaking social sciences, some monographs are concerned with e.g. the electoral system or electoral demographics in the US, but there is no integrated approach combining the resources and methods from different disciplines. This collection promises a comprehensive approach and provides additional perspectives for further (e.g. comparative) research.
The book will be published by Springer VS in the summer of 2013, editors are Christoph Bieber (University of Duisburg-Essen / Germany) & Klaus Kamps (University of Erfurt / Germany); papers may be written (and will be published) in English or German.
To give a few examples of what individual chapters might include:
Basics, for example:
- Recent Trends in Presidential Elections
- Recent Trends in US-political Culture
- Role and Function of Midterm Elections
- Lobbying and Campaign Financing
- Reform of Campaign Finance: “Citizens United” and the Rise of SuperPACs
- Third parties? Tea Party, Organizing for America, #Occupy
- Early Voting, Electronic Voting and Other Ways of Modernizing the Electoral Process
Election studies, for example:
- Election Outcome and Electoral Behavior
- Sociology of Electoral Behavior from a Historical Perspective
- Dynamics of Electoral Agendas
Studies on the protagonists and communicative strategies, for example
- Campaign Strategies, Dynamics of Campaign Communication
- Campaign Events (e.g. Conventions, Debates)
- Perception of Campaigns
- Innovations in Campaigning
- Elections and Transparency (e.g. OpenSecrets, Sunlight Foundation)
- Campaign Coverage
Governmental studies, for example:
- Transition: From Election Day to Inauguration
- The Rhetoric Presidency / The Presidential Party
Contributions may address one or more of these aspects and may be delivered in German as well as in English (APA6 style).
Subject to funding, a symposium of authors will be held in Duisburg in February 2013, where authors will be invited to discuss their chapters.
Deadlines:
Deadline for EXTENDED ABSTRACTS (max. 1,500 words) is October 15th, 2012.
Deadline for contributions to the symposium of authors (about 5,000 words) is January 31st, 2013.
Deadline for the first version of the FINAL MANUSCRIPT is April 15th, 2013.
Deadline for the last version of the FINAL MANUSCRIPT is May 15th, 2013.
Please send your proposals to:
christoph.bieber@uni-due.de
klaus.kamps@uni-erfurt.de
Perspectives from Election Studies, Political and Communication Sciences
Edited by Christoph Bieber & Klaus Kamps
With Barack Obama and Mitt Romney engaged in a tight race for the White House, the 2012 US Presidential Election will offer a broad range of starting-points for academic scrutiny. Especially, the use of media (old and new) will be crucial for the candidates, as well as for the public perception of the political system as a whole. The role of the US in international politics, an enduring global economic crisis, a struggling European Union, and the emergence of a set of new players on the global political stage provide the context for various analyses from different perspectives in the Social Sciences. In the US, the polarized party system with some new undercurrents (Tea Party Patriots, Occupy Movement), the advent of the SuperPACs, and the rise of social media have significantly changed the foundations for political campaigning.
The book will examine the complex aspects of the US presidential election, reflecting it as a multi-faceted communication process in the context of current societal conditions. Within the German-speaking social sciences, some monographs are concerned with e.g. the electoral system or electoral demographics in the US, but there is no integrated approach combining the resources and methods from different disciplines. This collection promises a comprehensive approach and provides additional perspectives for further (e.g. comparative) research.
The book will be published by Springer VS in the summer of 2013, editors are Christoph Bieber (University of Duisburg-Essen / Germany) & Klaus Kamps (University of Erfurt / Germany); papers may be written (and will be published) in English or German.
To give a few examples of what individual chapters might include:
Basics, for example:
- Recent Trends in Presidential Elections
- Recent Trends in US-political Culture
- Role and Function of Midterm Elections
- Lobbying and Campaign Financing
- Reform of Campaign Finance: “Citizens United” and the Rise of SuperPACs
- Third parties? Tea Party, Organizing for America, #Occupy
- Early Voting, Electronic Voting and Other Ways of Modernizing the Electoral Process
Election studies, for example:
- Election Outcome and Electoral Behavior
- Sociology of Electoral Behavior from a Historical Perspective
- Dynamics of Electoral Agendas
Studies on the protagonists and communicative strategies, for example
- Campaign Strategies, Dynamics of Campaign Communication
- Campaign Events (e.g. Conventions, Debates)
- Perception of Campaigns
- Innovations in Campaigning
- Elections and Transparency (e.g. OpenSecrets, Sunlight Foundation)
- Campaign Coverage
Governmental studies, for example:
- Transition: From Election Day to Inauguration
- The Rhetoric Presidency / The Presidential Party
Contributions may address one or more of these aspects and may be delivered in German as well as in English (APA6 style).
Subject to funding, a symposium of authors will be held in Duisburg in February 2013, where authors will be invited to discuss their chapters.
Deadlines:
Deadline for EXTENDED ABSTRACTS (max. 1,500 words) is October 15th, 2012.
Deadline for contributions to the symposium of authors (about 5,000 words) is January 31st, 2013.
Deadline for the first version of the FINAL MANUSCRIPT is April 15th, 2013.
Deadline for the last version of the FINAL MANUSCRIPT is May 15th, 2013.
Please send your proposals to:
christoph.bieber@uni-due.de
klaus.kamps@uni-erfurt.de
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