<nettime-ann> Crises, ‘Creative Destruction’ and the Global Power and Communication Orders (IAMCR Dublin)

[Geert Lovink <geert@xs4all.nl>]

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The International Association for Media and Communication Research  
invites submissions of abstracts for papers and panel proposals for  
the 2013 IAMCR conference to be held from 25 to 29 June, 2013 at the  
Helix Conference Centre at Dublin City University, Ireland. The  
deadline to submit your abstract is midnight GMT on 28 January 2013.

List of CfPs of individual Sections and Working Groups

Conference theme: Crises, ‘Creative Destruction’ and the Global Power  
and Communication Orders
The conference theme centres on whether and how the current economic  
crisis and its attendant gales of "creative destruction" may serve to  
reshape the geo-political and communication orders. Will this crisis  
prompt or enable multi-dimensional change in the prevailing forms and  
modes of mediated communication on the one hand, and in global power  
structures and control processes on the other?

Much of the 'Western' core of the international system is now  
experiencing the deepest economic and financial crisis since the  
1930s, manifest in a sustained period of austerity and low economic  
growth. Amidst the 1930s crisis and depression context, Schumpeter  
invoked the image of the gales of "creative destruction" to refer to  
the multiple forms of struggles, innovations and restructuring  
involved in the search for sustainable solutions to such deep crises.  
Such historically-rare crises and depressions tend to prompt multi- 
dimensional change - social, organisational, political as well as  
techno-economic innovations. They are not only financial or economic  
in scope, as such deep crises also engender struggles over causes and  
solutions which link to differing political, social and economic  
interests as well as cultural and value systems. Furthermore, such  
deep crises in the global north also articulate with crises in the  
global south in complex ways (e.g. the former may provide  
opportunities for development in the south, as occurred in many areas  
during the 1930s).

The overall conference theme lends itself to panels and papers dealing  
with a wide range of specific sub-themes and topics. These may include :

	• Whether and how the current crisis and associated restructuring  
processes may serve to further amplify the role of new/digital  
communication networks, services and functions or even accelerate the  
long-run processes of ‘mediatisation’? What does the current crisis  
imply for the evolving role and relations between ‘new’ and ‘mature’  
media? What, if any, is the relation between the broader economic  
crisis and the specifics of ‘crisis’ (or ‘creative destruction’)  
within the news media and journalism sectors? In what ways will ‘new  
media’ developments further extend the long-run expansion of the role  
of successive media and communication networks, services, and  
functions across all key spheres of social, political and economic life?
	• Will the current crisis amplify strategic shifts in geo-political  
orders and/or in the forms and operations of global power and  
influence, and if so, how? How can we best define the role of media  
networks and public communication as increasingly important features  
of the geo-political order and the global operation of power and  
influence?
	• How has the current economic crisis served to challenge, change or  
re-affirm the ‘public interest’ or ’public service’ roles and  
orientations of the media? What are the implications of the financial  
and economic crisis for the prevailing theories and practices of  
professional journalism, news media or other media of public  
communication? What does the current crisis and emerging shifts imply  
for the ‘watchdog’ role of news media or the established patterns of  
professional practices, routines, regulations and policy structures  
and/or the related corpus of theories, concepts or models across  
communication studies fields?
	• How have the media served to define, characterise or represent the  
current crisis or to identify its implications for political, economic  
and social relations and the geo-political order? Does this crisis  
highlight tensions between the increasingly global scope of economic  
and financial relations and the ‘national prism’ framing political  
cultures and media discourses? Can we talk meaningfully of a singular  
crisis or of crises in the plural, each varying by specific global  
region or by sector? Does the current crisis and its attendant  
‘creative destruction’ point to major shifts in the mediation of  
political processes or in the structures of power across different  
areas or sectors?
	• In what ways is the current economic crisis likely to generate ‘new  
combinations’ of technological and political-economic, social or  
institutional innovations to enable a sustainable new period of social  
and economic development? What’s new and special about the role of  
mediated communication in enabling such a new phase of development –  
especially one that delivers enhanced welfare and social justice for  
the  great majority of citizens whilst also addressing pressing  
environmental issues? In an era of pervasive and social media, how can  
we redefine the role, forms and potential of mediated communication in  
efforts to design and deliver a sustainable new paradigm or regime of  
social and economic development?

Submission of Abstracts
Each Section and Working Group of the IAMCR will issue its own Call  
for Papers, based on the general thematic outline above. The list of  
Sections and Working Groups and links to their respective Calls may be  
found below.

Abstracts should be submitted only via IAMCR's Open Conference System  
(OCS) at http://iamcr-ocs.org from 15 November 2012 to 28 January 2013.

Early submission is strongly encouraged.

Deadlines
The deadline for submission of abstracts is 28 January 2013. Please  
note that this deadline will not be extended. The OCS system at http://iamcr-ocs.org 
 will close at midnight GMT on 28 January 2013.

Decisions on acceptance of abstracts will be communicated to  
applicants by their Section or Working Group Head no later than 28  
February 2013.

Conference registration will be open for bookings by participants in  
January 2013.

For those whose abstracts are accepted, full conference papers are to  
be submitted via the IAMCR OCS by 28 May 2013.

Guidelines for Abstracts
Unless otherwise stated by a Section or Working Group, abstracts  
should be between 300 and 500 words in length.

All abstract submissions must be made via IAMCR's OCS at http://iamcr-ocs.org 
. There are to be no email submissions of abstracts addressed to any  
Section or Working Group Head.

It is expected that for the most part, only one (1) abstract will be  
submitted per person for consideration by the Conference. However,  
under no circumstances should there be more than two (2) abstracts  
bearing the name of the same applicant either individually or as part  
of any group of authors. Please note also that the same abstract or  
another version with minor variations in title or content must not be  
submitted to other Sections or Working Groups of the Association for  
consideration, after an initial submission. Such submissions will be  
deemed to be in breach of the conference guidelines and will be  
automatically rejected by the Open Conference System, by the relevant  
Head or by the Conference Programme Reviewer. Such applicants risk  
being removed entirely from the conference programme.

Upon submission of an abstract, you will be asked to confirm that your  
submission is original and that it has not been previously published  
in the form presented. You will also be given an opportunity to  
declare if your submission is currently before another conference for  
consideration.

For further information, please consult the conference website at: http://iamcr2013dublin.com/ 
 or contact the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) by email: info (at)  
iamcr2013dublin.com


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