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IAMCR 2014 – Political Communication Research Section - Call for Proposals

The Political Communication Section invites submissions for the IAMCR annual conference to be held in Dublin, Ireland from 25-29 June 2013. The section focuses on the media and political socialization, political campaigning, public opinion and political participation and interactions between the media and intermediary organizations such as interest groups and political parties. Studies of the uses of the media in campaigns and elections as well as in political marketing processes in government and the role the media play in local and informal forms of governance are of interest. Comparative research is encouraged and the section particularly welcomes papers that refer to the overall conference theme “Crises, ‘Creative Destruction’ and the Global Power and Communication Order”.

The Political Communication Research Section will be organizing panels at the 2012 IAMCR conference in Durban, South Africa. The section is of course interested in Political Communication papers related to the main theme of the conference.

The section also is also seeking 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, blogs and all king of Internet social networks in modern political communication is also of interest to the section, as well as other new media and e-government processes.

The Political Communication Research Section will be organizing panels at the 2011 IAMCR conference in Istanbul, Turkey. The section is interested in papers bearing on all the dimensions in political communication of the subject of the conference.

The Political Communication Research Section will be organizing panels at the 2010 IAMCR conference in Braga, Portugal. 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 Political Communication Research Section received a strong number of more than 120 participation requests for the 2009 Mexico Conference. Thanks to the Mexico organization, we were allowed to obtain 14 slots totaling 62 papers and 20 poster sessions. Spanish was the language for 4 panels.

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.

At the business meeting, Philippe J. Maarek, Professor at University
Paris 12, France, was reelected Section Chair for a 4 years term,
according to IAMCR statutes, and has been confirmed at the following
General Assembly. In order to help with the increasing number of
members of the Political Communication Research Section, two
Vice-Presidents have also been elected, Dominic Wring, Senior Lecturer
from the University of Loughborough, and Maria-Jose Canel, Professor at
the University Complutense in Madrid.

The Section received an exceptionally high number of more than 200 participation requests for the 2008 Stockholm Congress. Thanks to the Stockholm organization, we were allowed to obtain 17 slots and 24 poster sessions (meaning more than the already all-high Paris program of 14 slots and 20 poster session). One of the panels was co-sponsored by the Participatory Communication Research Section and got a particularly high attention. Generally, attendance was very high, as in Paris the previous year, and there were very few "no shows" among panelists.

Report of the Political Communication Research Section on IAMCR's 50th Anniversary Conference held in Paris, on 23-25 July 2007.

14 panels and 20 poster sessions have been organized for the Paris Conference, totalling 111 papers (and even more participating colleagues, considering collective presentations). Last minute no-shows were very few, much less than usual (hardly a dozen). Panels attendance was ususaly also very high.

One of the panels was organized in collaboration with the International Communication Section of IAMCR, another with the Political Communication Group of ECREA, the newly founded Eruropean Communication Research Association. One panel was French speaking, another Spanish.

Considering the number of participants, the whole field of Political Communication Research might be considered as having been represented.

Paris 2007 - Call for papers

The section is interested in papers bearing on all the dimensions in political communication of the subject of the conference. But 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.

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 wellknown searchers 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.

Contact Philippe J Maarek