Events

Dubrovnik, 30 May – 03 June, 2011. 

CALL FOR PAPERS

The conference is organized by the Institute for New Media and E-democracy (InMed), together with Department of Journalism; Faculty of Political Sciences, (University of Zagreb), Department of Information Sciences, Faculty of Philosophy, (University of Zagreb), Department of Communication and Tourism (University of Zadar)
This year the conference will be devoted to the topic of
 

E-democracy – Virtual or Real

We would like to hear about:

Digital divide and media literacy
Politics of social inclusion and ICT for development
Interaction, privacy, vulnerability and security
The impact of Internet and social networks on the political crisis in the Middle East
WikiLeaks: democratization or demonization of the electronic information
Multimedia content production, distribution, storage, retrieval and consumption
Copyright industries, innovative strategies of content producers, creative commons
Relationship between social media and mainstream media
What are the limitations and the risks of eDemocracy
How can the modern media support political education?
Internet economy and its future
The rise of a Fifth Estate

Important:

 IPSA's Research Committee 10 on Electronic democracy and the Institute for New Media and E-Democracy in partnership with DEL research network are organizing IPSA Workshop on „Net campaigning in the Global Context” on first two days of the Conference (30-31 May 2011).

Following topics are announced:
• Transformation of political communication through new media
•  ‘Americanization’ of the net campaigning
• ‘Glocalisation’: global distribution and local appropriation of the net campaigning
• Contribution of the emerging democracies to the net campaigning world-wide
• Elections and the net campaigning
• E-democracy and e-engagement
• Consumer citizens and the net
• Catching up with the net generation: governments, political parties and civil society
• The role of the new media in raising support for the EU
• EU institutions and the net
• Euroscepticism and the net
• Social networks, blogs and the EU

The deadline for submission of papers, presentations and posters is April 25, 2011. Submissions should be send via e-mail to one of the directors’ addresses. For presentations, please send us the title, author(s) name(s) and e-mail, institutional affiliation(s), and an abstract (150-300 words) written in English.

Registration deadline is May 15th, 2011. We kindly ask all potential participants to register in advance. Those who are not presenting their research or applied work may register before May 15 if places are still available.

The conference fee is 150€ for speakers, 200€ for participants without paper, and 75€ for students. Fee is payable at the conference in Dubrovnik.
For additional information contact the coordinator (or the directors of the conference):

The directors of the conference:
prof. dr. sc. Nenad Prelog
Institute for New Media and E-democracy University of Zagreb, University of Zadar
e-mail: nenad@edemokracija.hr

prof. dr. sc. Damir Boras
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Information Sciences
e-mail: dboras@ffzg.hr

prof. dr. sc. Inoslav Bešker
University of Bologna
inoslav@besker.com

prof. dr. sc. Robert M. Hayes
University of California Los Angeles, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
e-mail: rhayes@ucla.edu

Conference coordinator: dr. sc. Domagoj Bebić
Institute for New Media and E-democracy  and University of Zagreb
e-mail: domagoj@edemokracija.hr

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