January 2020 PCR Section Newsletter
News from the IAMCR Participatory Communication Research Section (PCR)
January 2020 PCR Section newsletter
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1/ REMINDER // IAMCR 2020 PCR CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS DEADLINE // FEBRUARY 10, 2020
2/ REMINDER // IAMCR 2020 PCR CALL FOR VIDEO PRESENTATIONS DEADLINE // FEBRUARY 10, 2020
3/ ANNOUNCEMENT // THEMATIC JOURNAL ISSUE – ‘RESCUING PARTICIPATION’ (co-edited by Fábio Ribeiro, Ana Duarte Melo, and Nico Carpentier)
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1/ REMINDER // IAMCR 2020 PCR CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
We would like to remind you, that the due date for submitting abstracts of presentations for IAMCR 2020 conference in Beijing is 23:59 GTM on February 10, 2020.
The Participatory Communication Research Section (PCR) explores the theory and practice of participatory communication and has played an important role as a platform for new thinking. The PCR section addresses issues related to communication processes within the local, regional, national or international spheres and the ways in which communication and/or media foster social change through participation. We welcome contributions focusing on participation from a diversity of fields, including (but not limited to) development and social change, politics and democracy, health, museum and the arts, the urban/rural, education, and the everyday.
This year’s conference theme allows the PCR section an opportunity to highlight the role of participation in the digital future, without ignoring our post-digital (and sometimes plainly non-digital) realities. The study of participatory communication has received a significant boost with the popularization of digital technologies, and this conference is an ideal moment to take stock of how participation studies has evolved throughout the ‘digital years’. Moreover, the general subthemes of inclusiveness, respect and reciprocity provide equally relevant entry points for participatory communication research. In particular, these subthemes provide occasions to also critically focus on contemporary (media) practices that exclude, disrespect and monopolize, and on the conditions of possibility for genuine participation. This latter question also motivates more attention for contributions that emphasize why participation matters in the 21st century.
The PCR section encourages the submission of individual papers and complete panel proposals in any of the three official languages of the association (English, Spanish, French). For queries and comments, please contact the PCR section’s secretariat at pcr.secretariat@fsv.cuni.cz.
Abstracts should be between 300 and 500 words. All abstracts must be submitted through IAMCR’s submission platform https://beijing2020.iamcr.org/submit. Abstracts sent by email will not be accepted.
It is expected that authors will submit only one (1) abstract. However, under no circumstances should there be more than two (2) abstracts bearing the name of the same author, either individually or as part of any group of authors. No more than one (1) abstract can be submitted to any section or working group. Please note also that the same abstract or another version with minor variations in title or content must not be submitted to more than one section or working group. Any such submissions will be deemed to be in breach of the conference guidelines and will be rejected. Authors submitting them risk being removed entirely from the conference programme.
For more information see: https://iamcr.org/s-wg/section/pcr/cfp2020.
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2/ REMINDER // IAMCR 2020 PCR CALL FOR VIDEO PRESENTATIONS
We would like to remind you that you can also submit a video presentation for the IAMCR Beijing conference. This initiative is driven by the need to make headway towards virtual conference participation, and provide alternatives to address the environmental impact that our conferences have, and the exclusions that characterize current conference models. We also want to acknowledge and stimulate the creative opportunities that video presentations can offer to conference presenters.
If you can’t, or don’t want to, physically attend the Beijing conference, please consider a video presentation.
Abstracts for video presentations for the IAMCR 2020 conference in Beijing need to be submitted at the same time as regular abstracts, namely on (or before) 23:59 GTM on February 10, 2020.
If you wish to submit an abstract for a video presentation, please carefully read the call for video presentations, and follow the procedure explained there.
For more information about the conference itself, see: 1/ REMINDER // IAMCR 2020 PCR CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS (the first part of the Newsletter) or https://iamcr.org/s-wg/section/pcr/cfp2020.
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3/ THEMATIC JOURNAL ISSUE: RESCUING PARTICIPATION
Volume 36 of the Portuguese journal "Comunicação e Sociedade", entitled “Rescuing participation”, has been published in December 2019. It was co-edited by Ana Duarte Melo, vice-chair of the PCR section, and Nico Carpentier, chair of the section, together with Fábio Ribeiro. The thematic issue of this journal has 10 main articles, that are available both in English and in Portuguese. As this is an open access journal, the issue is available for free at https://revistacomsoc.pt/issue/view/103.
Rescuing participation deals with questions such as: Why is participation relevant? What is meant when the concept is used? How can we ensure that participation is used/organized in a responsible way? How can it be rendered meaningful in the different spaces of society? The thematic issue was produced by researchers from different latitudes that span the globe. Many come from Europe (Belgium, Portugal, United Kingdom, Spain and Sweden), but some come from Brazil and Indonesia. These authors present their perspectives on what they see as a positive – and pragmatic – approach to participation, in a variety of fields, including public consultations on environmental issues; participation within the scope of cultural policy; participation in elementary schools (as a media literacy project); in fiction/drama; and, ultimately, as a way to engage underprivileged and marginalized communities. This thematic issue thus offers a convincing case, theoretically and analytically embedded, for the relevance of participation in the many fields that make up our societies.
For the table of contents of the special issue see:
https://iamcr.org/s-wg/section/pcr/thematic-journal-issue-rescuing-participation (in English)
https://iamcr.org/s-wg/section/pcr/dossi%C3%AA-tem%C3%A1tico-resgatar-participa%C3%A7%C3%A3o (in Portuguese)
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