Información y participación política: Conferencia europea en Leeds

Justo después de las Elecciones Europeas de junio de 2009, en las que se alcanzó un nuevo récord de abstención e incrementaron su representación partidos extremistas de toda condición, académicos de toda Europa se han citado en Leeds (Reino Unido) para el 17 y 18 de septiembre de 2009, a fin de estudiar la relación entre información y participación política durante la campaña europea.

La conferencia está organizada por la sección de Comunicación Política de ECREA (European Communication Research and Education Association), y dos de los centros de investigación de la Universidad de Leeds, el Centre for Digital Citizenship y el Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence, ambos con sede en el Institute of Communications Studies. La lección magistral correrá a cargo de Peter Dahlgren, de la Universidad de Lund (Suecia).

A continuación reproducimos el programa preliminar de la conferencia. La fecha límite para matricularse a precio reducido es el 15 de agosto de 2009. Más información en la web del simposio.

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Mediated Citizenship: Political Information and Participation in Europe

Leeds, 17-18 September 2009

Preliminary programme

WEDNESDAY, 16th September 2009

19.00.- Get together at local pub

THURSDAY, 17th September 2009

09.00 – 09.30.- Arrival of participants, registration, coffee

09.30 – 09.45.- Welcome

09.45 – 10.45.- Panel 1: Deliberation and citizenship (1)

• Mediated citizenship. Deliberation and opinion formation in dialogical formats, by Marianne Fraefel, Thomas Haeussler and Reinhard Riedl (Bern University of Applied Sciences)
• News talk – Types and functions of political talk after TV-news reception, by Denise Sommer (University of Leipzig)
• Images of Turkey and the construction of European identity. An analysis of media versus citizens’ discourses on Turkey’s EU accession process, by Agnes I. Schneeberger (University of Leeds)

11.00 – 12.00.- Panel 2: Deliberation and citizenship (2)

• Mediated citizenship in local issues discussion forums, by Simon Smith (University of Leeds)
• Citizens and activists: Analyzing the reasons, impact and benefits of civic emails directed at a grassroot campaign, by Anne-Marie Oostveen (Oxford Internet Institute)
• Digital public discourses. A case-study of the Swedish EU election 2009 at Newsmill.se, by Kristoffer Holt (Mid Sweden University)

12.00 – 13.30.- Lunch

13.30 – 14.30.- Key note. Mediated democracy and the centrality of civic identities and practices, by Peter Dahlgren (University of Lund, Sweden):

14.30 – 14.45.- Coffee/tea

14.45 – 16.15. Panel 3: Communication and participation in European elections

• European elections, the media, and public opinion: A research assessment and future prospects, by Claes de Vreese (University of Amsterdam)
• Are voters engaged citizens? British voters and the European election 2009, by Karin Wahl-Jorgensen and Inaki Garcia-Blanco (University of Cardiff)
• Going beyond informing? Online interaction and the UK EP candidates, by Darren Lilleker and Nigel A. Jackson (Bournemouth University)
• Towards a virtual constituency? Comparative dimensions of MEPs online and offline constituency orientations, by Jordanka Tomkova (European University Institute)

Related poster presentations:

Let’s talk about it: Civic participation and and the EU’s communication strategy, by Kristine Marie Berg (Københavns Universitet)

16.30 – 17.30.- Business meeting Political Communication section

19.00.- Dinner at a local restaurant

FRIDAY, 18th September 2009

09.30 – 11.15.- Panel 4: Mediated participation – online and offline involvement

• A mediated citizenship. Exploring the linkages between media systems and political involvement, by Adam Shehata, Jesper Strömbäck (Mid Sweden University)
• Participation in the European project: Analysing attempts to mobilise citizens in European issues at the local and regional level, by Jamal Shahin, Olof Soebech (Institute for European Studies), Jeremy Millard (Danish Technological Institute)
• E-participation and iCitizens. Political participation and citizenship in convergence culture, by Jakob Svensson (Karlstad University)
• An internet mediated domain of local governance, by Paul Hepburn (University of Manchester)
• (Re-)Conceptualizing citizenship – How the Internet changes political communication and participation, by Martin Emmer, Gerhard Vowe and Jens Wolling (Ilmenau University of Technology)

11.15 – 11.30.- Coffee/tea


11.30 – 13.15.- Panel 5: Mediation and representation

• Debating ‘deficit’: Mediated citizenship and communicational ethics, by John Corner (University of Leeds)
• Performing politics and performing protest in Scotland: Spectacle, citizenship and performance in the public sphere, by Sarah Hill (University of Edinburgh)
• Claiming in front of cameras: Forms of citizenship in Greek television, by Fani Kountouri and Nicolas Souliotis (University of Thessaloniki and University of Thessaly)
• The social imaginary of new mediated practices: issues for discussion, by Pantelis Vatikiotis (University of Athens)
• Replaying and relaying: Citizenship, popular culture and the role of social media, by Christian Christensen (Karlstad University)

Related poster presentations:

Personalization on politicians’ personal homepages and its perception, by Andrea Burmester (University of Zürich)

13.15 – 13.30.- Conclusion

14.30 – 16.30.- YECREA workshop

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