NEWS FROM THE
IAMCR Participatory Communication Research Section (PCR)
January 2019 PCR Section newsletter
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PCR SECTION CALL FOR THE IAMCR 2019 CONFERENCE: The invitation to submit abstracts for paper and panel proposals to the PCR Section at IAMCR 2019 is open till 8th Feb 2019. The 2019 IAMCR conference will be held from 7 to 11 July, 2019 at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
PCR SECTION CALL FOR VIDEO PRESENTATIONS: The PCR Section has also launched a call for video presentations for the IAMCR 2019 conference. The deadline for abstract submissions is 8th Feb 2019.
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0/NEW YEAR'S WISHES
1/PARTICIPATORY COMMUNICATION RESEARCH SECTION CALL 2019
2/PCR SECTION CALL FOR VIDEO PRESENTATIONS
3/PCR EBOOK "PARTICIPAD" PUBLISHED
4/RESPUBLIKA! OPEN ACCESS CATALOGUE RELEASED
5/POST-REPRESENTATIVE PARTICIPATIONS CONFERENCE SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED
6/PORTUGUESE TRANSLATION OF BEYOND THE LADDER OF PARTICIPATION
7/INTERVIEW PUBLISHED IN COMMUNIQUER
8/PCR SECTION SECRETARIAT MOVES TO CHARLES UNIVERSITY
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0/NEW YEAR'S WISHES
The PCR Section management, Nico Carpentier, Ana Duarte Melo and Jonas Agerbæk Jeppesen wish all members and friends of the IAMCR PCR Section a wonderful 2019. May this year become, against the odds, a year of democracy, peace and ... participation.
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1/PARTICIPATORY COMMUNICATION RESEARCH SECTION CALL 2019
The PCR Section calls for abstract submissions for the 2019 IAMCR conference, which will be held from 7 to 11 July, 2019 at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.
The deadline for abstract submissions is 8 February 2019.
Proposals for individual abstracts and panel presentations are both welcome and early submission is strongly encouraged. We kindly ask you to submit proposals in good time at the abstract submission site – https://iamcr-ocs.org.
We welcome, in particular, submissions to the PCR Section, whose remit is to explore the theory and practice of participatory communication. The PCR Section addresses issues related to communication processes within the local, regional, national or international spheres and the ways in which communication, information and/or media foster social change through participation. The PCR Section has traditionally accommodated creative approaches to participatory communication, the section has, over recent years, intentionally encouraged interdisciplinary methods marked by critique and innovation.
This year’s conference theme allows the PCR Section an opportunity to highlight that participation is a human right, and should be acknowledged as such. This implies that this year, even more than before, the right to communicate will be placed in the PCR Section’s spotlight, as a key materialization of, and guarantee for, human dignity.
For more details about the PCR Section call, visit https://iamcr.org/s-wg/section/PCR/2019-call-4-proposals
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2/PCR SECTION CALL FOR VIDEO PRESENTATIONS
For the 2019 IAMCR conference (7 to 11 July 2019 in Madrid, Spain) the PCR Section also calls for video presentations.
This joint initiative, with 4 other IAMCR sections and working groups, allows IAMCR members to present their work at the Madrid 2019 conference by using a pre-recorded video. Authors of accepted of video presentations will benefit from a reduced registration fee, which has been set at 50% of the normal fee for participants in the same category and country income level (if the presenter doesn’t attend the conference, of course).
Submissions of proposals for video presentations will follow the regular procedures for submitting proposals to the IAMCR conference. This means that abstracts must be submitted before or on 8 February 2019. We ask you to kindly submit proposals in good time at the abstract submission site – https://iamcr-ocs.org.
A more elaborate explanation can be found at https://iamcr.org/s-wg/section/PCR/videos-2019.
Moreover, to assist (potential) video presenters, a "Technical note for IAMCR conference video presentations" has been produced, which can be found here: https://iamcr.org/madrid2019/video-technical-note
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3/PCR EBOOK "PARTICIPAD" PUBLISHED
The PCR Section is happy to announce that "ParticipAD - Participatory advertising: a global perspective with a Latin American focus / Publicidad participativa: Una perspectiva global con un enfoque latinoamericano" has been published.
The book is open access, and can be downloaded from this link:
http://lasics.uminho.pt/ojs/index.php/cecs_ebooks/issue/view/244
The direct link to the pdf version of the book is:
http://lasics.uminho.pt/ojs/index.php/cecs_ebooks/article/download/3011/2916
The ebook came out of a PCR pre-conference in Bogota, and was edited by Ana Duarte Melo and Marcela Duque. Both English and Spanish are used, and the ebook combines contributions from researchers, advertising professionals and activists.
What is ParticipAD?
ParticipAD, short for Participatory Advertising, is a concept based on the participatory and interventionist potential of advertising. This book presents critical reflections as well as cases of alternative uses of advertising, whether as a system, a modus operandi or simply as a code, for purposes other than the conventional profit, revenue and economic drivers, focusing instead on its participatory scope, as a tool for peace, social change and citizenship.
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4/RESPUBLIKA! OPEN ACCESS CATALOGUE RELEASED
"Respublika! - Experiments in the Performance of Participation and Democracy" (2019), edited by Nico Carpentier and published by the arts centre NeMe, reports on the Respublika! project, initiated and curated by Nico Carpentier and co-organised with NeMe and CCMC (Cyprus Community Media Centre). The catalogue reports on the 18 Respublika! art projects, through project narratives, artist interviews and more than 200 photographs. The catalogue also contains 12 reflexive articles, written by Bart Cammaerts, Nico Carpentier, Vuk Ćosić, Vaia Doudaki, Pascal Gielen, Helen Hahmann, Nicos Trimikliniotis, Olga Yegorova and Hazal Yolga.
The book is open access, and can be downloaded from this URL:
http://nicocarpentier.net/respublika/
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5/POST-REPRESENTATIVE PARTICIPATIONS CONFERENCE SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED
The conference “Post-Representative Participations” was a one-day event, which took place on 16 November 2018, and was hosted by MeCCSA Postgraduate Network (MeCCSA PGN), IAMCR’s PCR Section, and the Centre for Digital Media Cultures (CDMC) at the University of Brighton.
It brought together upcoming scholars from the USA, Sweden, Germany, Belgium, Turkey, and the UK, who are exploring (new) theoretical and empirical research modi to the question of participation, participatory research, activism and empowerment. The three key themes addressed in the panel discussions during the day were “Participation and Activism”, “Participation and Social Media”, and “Discursive/Visual Approaches to Participation”.
The videos of the two keynotes are available online:
Frauke Behrendt: “Mobile Urban Activism: Creative and Participatory Practices of Digital Cycling” > https://mediastream.brighton.ac.uk/Player/91471728
Nico Carpentier: “Maximalist participation as the horizon to move beyond representation” > https://mediastream.brighton.ac.uk/Player/10344957
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6/PORTUGUESE TRANSLATION OF BEYOND THE LADDER OF PARTICIPATION
The Portuguese translation of Nico Carpentier's article "Beyond the Ladder of Participation" has been published in the Brazilian journal Mídia e Cotidiano, Revista do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Mídia e Cotidiano, 12(3): 245-274. Simone Do Vale translated the article that was originally published in Javnost - The Public.
Both the translation and the original are available in open access. This is the link to the Portuguese translation in Mídia e Cotidiano:
http://periodicos.uff.br/midiaecotidiano/article/view/27559/16063
And this is the link to the original (English) article in Javnost - The Public:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13183222.2016.1149760
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7/INTERVIEW PUBLISHED IN COMMUNIQUER
Communiquer, the Revue de Communication Sociale et Publique / the Journal of Social and Public Communication, published an interview with Nico Carpentier, entitled "Stretching the Frontiers of Communication and Media Studies". The journal simultaneously published a French translation of this interview ("Étirer les frontières des études sur les communications et les médias"). The interview was conducted by David Grondin.
In this interview, Nico Carpentier discusses the significance of disciplinary dialogue within and beyond what he calls the “discipline/field” of communication and media studies. Throughout this interview, he also gives access to his most recent research. These seek to highlight the empirical case of the Island of Cyprus ongoing conflicts, by analyzing the discursive-material knot of a participatory-agonistic assemblage (a community radio station).
Both the French and the English version of the interview are available in open access at:
https://journals.openedition.org/communiquer/3345 (French)
https://journals.openedition.org/communiquer/3324 (English)
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8/PCR SECTION SECRETARIAT MOVES TO CHARLES UNIVERSITY
As the Chair of the PCR Section, Nico Carpentier, will take up on 1 March 2019 a full-time position at the Department of Media Studies of Charles University in Prague, the secretariat of the PCR Section has moved on 1 January 2019 from Uppsala University (Sweden) to Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic).
In due course, a new secretary will be appointed. The PCR section wishes to thank the former secretary of the PCR Section, Siddharth Chadha, for his work.
There will be only a few practical implications of this move for the PCR Section members and friends. Most importantly, as you can also see on the introductory section of the PCR Section webpage (https://iamcr.org/s-wg/section/PCR), the subscription and unsubscription URL for the newsletter has changed.
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