The Political Communication Research Section will be organizing panels
at the 2009 IAMCR conference in Mexico City.
The section is interested
in papers bearing on all the dimensions in political communication of
the subject of the conference.
Note that we also seek papers on any of
the whole range of political communication research: the media and
political socialization, political campaigning, public opinion and
political participation, interactions between the media and
intermediary organizations such as interest groups and political
parties, as well as the involvement and uses of the medias in
campaigns, election; and also the media and marketing processes in
government, from policy making to day to day politics at the local
level, including Town Halls and other Local Government Institutions
communication, from their day to day governance to the answers given to
problematic neighborhoods. The use of Internet and blogs in modern
political communication is also of interest to the section, as well as
other new media and e-government.
Paper proposals should be one page, and should list the author's name,
address, university affiliations, telephone, fax, and e-mail, followed
by the paper's title and an abstract of 500 words/1500 signs. The
abstract should specify the subject, questions asked, methodology and
findings.
Anyone interested in presenting a paper should send his application,
before the deadline indicated on IAMCR website , through the IAMCR
website, and/or contact the section head, Professor Philippe J. Maarek,
at maarek [AT] univ-paris12.fr.
E-mail should be privileged in communicating with the head of section, but he can also be reached as follows:
Philippe J. Maarek
Professeur à l'Université Paris 12,
41 rue du Colisee,
75008 Paris,
France
Fax +331-43.59.57.03,
Tel +331- 42.25.85.82
In order to improve the on-site discussions, all panels will have a
discussant. Colleagues willing to act as discussants may apply as far
as they have already taken part to at least two previous meetings of
the section and/or are well-known researchers in the field. Paper
givers may also volunteer to be discussants in other panels than
theirs. Would-be discussants should specify in which field of political
communication they are rather willing to work and also send in the same
personal data required from paper givers.