CONFERENCE OF THE ECREA POLITICAL COMMUNICATION SECTION
COMPARING POLITICAL COMMUNICATION ACROSS TIME AND SPACE
20TH and 21ST October, 2011, MADRID.
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Avda. Complutense s/n,
Facultad Ciencias de la Información
PROGRAMME
Thursday 20th October
12.00 Registration.
12.45 Welcome/Introduction
13.00 PLENARY PANEL 1. Communicating politics: professionalization and popularization
- Chair: Jesper Strömback, Mid Sweden University, stromback@miun.se
Popularization of politics: a comparative analysis
- Gianpietro Mazzoleni, Università degli Studi di Milano
- Patricia Moy, University of Washington
- Michael Xenos, University of Wisconsin-Madison
What factors explain the professionalization of political campaigning? Evidence from a comparison between Swiss cantonal elections
- Stefanie Knocks, University of Bern
Dissolved politics: Trends in televised leaders’ debates reports in Canada, 1968-2008
- Frederick Bastien, Laval University
A comparative perspective in government communication? Looking at government communication across 13 countries
- María José Canel, Madrid Complutense University
- Karen Sanders, CEU San Pablo University
14.15 PLENARY PANEL 2. Role perceptions and performance of journalists
Chair: María José Canel, Madrid Complutense University. mjcanel@ccinf.ucm.es
Journalists’ trust in public institutions in 18 Countries
- Rosa Berganza, University Rey Juan Carlos
- Thomas Hanitzsch, University of Munich
Making sense of press freedom. A comparison of journalists’ interpretations of press freedom in six new democracies
- Katrin Voltmer, University of Leeds
Perceptions of journalists on the political agenda-setting power of the media in comparative perspective
- Peter Van Aelst, University of Antwerp/Leiden University
- Arjen Van Dalen, University of Southern Denmark
A comparison of interpretative political journalism in Swedish election campaigns 1998-2010
- Lars Nord, Mid Sweden University
- Jesper Strömbäck, Mid Sweden University
15.30 Coffee break
16.00 PARALLEL PANEL 3. The mediatisation of political institutions.
- Chair: Magdalena Wojcieszak, IE School of Communication, Madrid, Magdalena.Wojcieszak@ie.edu
Comparing newspaper coverage of parliaments across time and space
- Rene Jainsch, Dresden University of Technology
Studying the tango: A longitudinal analysis of parliamentary questions and media coverage in the Netherlands
- Peter Van Aelst, University of Antwerp/Leiden University
- Rens Vliegenthart, University of Amsterdam
Powerful but communicative as well? Similarities and differences in the communicative relationship between the administration and the media in Germany and Switzerland.
- Marlis Prinzing, Macromedia University for Media and Communication
How much does communication matter? A comparison between strategies of Italian governments: 2001-2011
- Giuliano Bobba, University of Turin.
16.00 PARALLEL PANEL 4. Constructed realities and public attention.
Room: 542, 5th floor, Old Building Facultad de Ciencias de la Información. See map for indications.
- Chair: Guillermo Velasco, Universidad Panamericana Guadalajara, México, jgvelas@up.edu.mx
The impact of different political and media systems on European TV programs
- Steffen Kolb, University of Fribourg
Good old days or bright futures? A discursive reconstruction of the structural transformation of the British public sphere 1960-2005
- Thomas Haeussler, University of Bern
A case of identity: The role of political culture proximity in international newsworthiness
- Tamir Sheafer, Hebrew University
- Shaul Shenhav, Hebrew University
- Elad Segev, Tel Aviv University
- Janet Takens, VU University Amsterdam
Tracing differences in media logic: A comparative content analysis of newspapers across six democracies and five decades
- Frank Esser, University of Zurich
- Andrea Umbricht, University of Zurich
17.15 PARALLEL PANEL 5. Campaign images and campaign agendas.
- Chair: Gianpietro Mazzoleni. University of Milan. gianpietro.mazzoleni@unimi.it
Marketing the candidate. Personalization in election posters in Austrian national election campaigns, 1945 – 2008
- Lore Hayek, University of Innsbruck
New perspectives on agenda formation: Agenda building processes during election campaigns in Austria, 1970-2008
- Gabriele Melischek, Commission for Comparative Media and Communication Studies, Austria
- Josef Seethaler, Commission for Comparative Media and Communication Studies, Austria
Mapping political reporting styles. The struggle between journalist-centered and politician-centered election communication in the United States, Great Britain, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy, and Spain
- Frank Esser, University of Zurich
- Florin Buechel, University of Zurich
U.S. and international coverage of the election of Barack Obama: Trends and differences
- Salma Ghanem, Central Michigan University
17.15 PARALLEL PANEL 6. Changing technologies-changing politics?
Room: 542, 5th floor, Old Building Facultad de Ciencias de la Información. See map for indications.
- Chair: Pablo López Rabadan, Universidad Jaume I, rabadan@com.uji.es
Institutionalized political change and mobile phones: Exploring global trends and linkages from the post-war era through the information age
- Jacob Groshek, Erasmus University Rotterdam
- Alex Farivar, University of Michigan
Comparing online politics: Parties’ and candidates’ websites in seven Western democracies (2006-2010)
- Cristian Vaccari, University of Bologna
The effect of elections on the digitisation of political communication. A panel study looking for the role of political interest and cognitive mobilisation
- Pablo Porten, Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany
- Jens Wolling, Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany
18.30 End of day one
Friday 21st October
9.30 PLENARY KEY NOTE: Promise fulfilled? Comparative research in political communication systems.
- Speaker: Barbara Pfetsch. Free University of Berlin
- Chair: Katrin Voltmer, University of Leeds
10.30 PLENARY PANEL 7. Audience responses to political messages
Chair: Claes de Vreese, Claes De Vreese, University of Amsterdam, c.h.devreese@uva.nl
Candidate‐voting revisited. A longitudinal analysis of individual media usage and voting behaviour
- Reimar Zeh, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Direct democracy and political socialization: Comparing Switzerland and the Netherlands
- Judith Möller, University of Zürich
- Ruth Kunz, University of Zürich
- Frank Esser, University of Zürich
- Claes De Vreese, University of Amsterdam
Youth conceptions on elections and mediated democracy: what patterns reveals timeline?
- María José Brites, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
- Cristina Ponte, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
- Isabel Menezes, Universidade do Porto
The dynamics of political interest and news media consumption: A longitudinal perspective
- Jesper Strömbäck, Mid Sweden University
- Monika Djerf-Pierre, University of Gothenburg
- Adam Shehata, Mid Sweden University
11.45 Coffee break
12.15 Business Meeting
13.15 Lunch. Restaurante Museo del Traje. See map for indications.
15.00 PARALLEL PANEL 8. The mediatisation of European elections.
- Chair: Frank Esser, University of Zurich, f.esser@ipmz.uzh.ch
Across time and space. Explaining over-time and cross-country variations in the coverage of European Elections
- Hajo Boomgaarden, University of Amsterdam
- Claes de Vreese, University of Amsterdam
- Andreas Schuck, University of Amsterdam
- Matthijs Elenbaas, University of Amsterdam
- Rachid Azrout, University of Amsterdam
- Rens Vliegenthart, University of Amsterdam
- Joost Van Spanje, University of Amsterdam
Framing Europe: A cross-cultural analysis of party-political broadcasts for the 2009 EU elections
- Manon Van der Laaken, University of Amsterdam
Transformations in second-order campaigning: A German-Finnish comparison on the occasion of the European parliamentary elections 2004 and 2009
- Jens Tenscher, Universität Augsburg
- Tom Moring, University of Helsinki
- Juri Mykkänen, University of Helsinki
Between European and national public spheres: The Euroelections 2009 in British and German quality newspapers
- Hannanh Middendorf, University of Muenster
15.00 PARALLEL PANEL 9. Crossing borders: Transnational communications and transnational connections.
Room: 542, 5th floor, Old Building Facultad de Ciencias de la Información. See map for indications.
- Chair: Andreu Casero Ripollés, Universidad Jaume I, casero@com.uji.es
In or out? A cross-national comparative newspaper analysis of reciprocal perceptions between Western Balkan countries and the EU against the background of a future EU accession
- Romy Wohlert, Austrian Academy of Sciences
City-diplomacy in the EU context
- Teresa La Porte, Universidad de Navarra
Mediating alliance: The role of the press in sustaining reciprocity in the US-Canada relationship
- Katherine Dunsmore, Fairleigh Dickinson University NJ
Migrant minority media in Madrid and London: political actors in the migratory transnational field
- Alicia Ferrández Ferrer, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
16.15 Coffee Break
16.30 PLENARY PANEL 10. The art of comparing political communication: methodological issues.
- Chair: Barbara Pfetsch. Free University of Berlin. pfetsch@zedat.fu-berlin.de
Political vs. media logic or simply different worlds? A typology of political communication cultures across Europe
- Barbara Pfetsch, Freie Universität Berlin
- Eva Mayerhöffer, Freie Universität Berlin
- Tom Moring, University of Helsinki
Media attention cycles
- Steffen Kolb, University of Fribourg
- Sünje Paasch-Colberg, University of Fribourg
Politicians’ peccadilloes in comparative context: Using fuzzy set qualitative case analysis (fsQCA) to explain the frequency of political sex scandals in eight democracies
- James Stanyer, Loughborough University
- John Downey, Loughborough University
5.45 Final Remarks
6.00 End of workshop
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