Advertising in Communication & Media Research
Advertising Research TWG
ECREA Symposium 14th-15th of June 2012 | University of Tuebingen - Germany

Advertising has been appreciated as a growing demesne within the field of communication and media research. Obviously, the assumption that advertising is one of the driving forces within western media systems can be called a mainstream topic within communication studies. Yet, research concerning this mainstream topic is still lacking orderly continuity as well as a systematic approach within the field of communication and media research. From this vantage point the symposium addresses research areas, ranging from advertising communicators, media, messages, to audiences, and effects. What are the challenges of advertising and its research in the 21st century? What might be the USP of communication and media scholars' advertising research? Which kind of origins mark communication and media scholars' point of departure? What are key differences and similarities related to advertising research in Europe?

The first symposium of the Advertising Research Temporary Working Group of ECREA welcomes contributions that address these questions from a variety of research perspectives. Object of this inaugural symposium is a synoptic view of the current status of advertising research in communication and media research on an international level.

Guidelines for Contributions
This symposium will consider both theoretical and empirical papers in form of abstracts for double blind peer reviews. The conference also welcomes panel proposals consisting of 4 presentations.     

Authors should provide a 500-words abstract for a single paper proposal. Please note the author names and affiliations on an extra cover sheet followed by an anonymised abstract page.

In all cases the panel proposals should consist of a panel abstract (500 words), in combination with abstracts for each of the individual presentations (500 words). Complete panel proposals only - consisting of 4 papers and a panel abstract - are considered for presentation. No more or less than 4 presentations should form a panel proposal. The proposals should indicate a panel chair or respondent.

All contributions should be submitted electronically in Microsoft Word, Rich Text Format, or PDF format to: submission@advertising-research.org

Submitted abstracts preferably conform to APA 5th reference style.

The conference language is English.

Important Dates
Submission deadline for abstracts (paper and panel proposals):
15th of January 2012, 24.00 CET

Notification of acceptance (paper and panel proposals):
15th of February 2012

Conference Registration and Reception:
13th of June 2012

Conference Days:
14th -15th of June 2012

Call for Papers
II International Conference on
COMMUNICATION, COGNITION AND MEDIA:
POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC DISCOURSE
September 19-21, 2012

Catholic University of Portugal
Braga, Portugal
http://www.cicom2012.org
Call deadline: March 31, 2012
Contact: cicom2012@gmail.com

Plenary speakers
Mats Alvesson (Lund University, Sweden)
Patrick Charaudeau (Universite Paris 13, CNRS, France)
Jonathan Charteris-Black (University of the West of England, UK)
Veronika Koller (Lancaster University, UK)
Joao Cesar das Neves (Catholic University of Portugal)
Ruth Wodak (Lancaster University, UK)

The Conference aims to promote interdisciplinary research into the cognitive, socio-cultural, functional-pragmatic, linguistic and semiotic dimensions of political and economic discourse, organizational and businesses discourse, including their various, new and traditional genres and underlining empirical methodologies. It brings together Critical Discourse Analysis and Communication Studies traditions, the Cognitive Linguistics paradigm and other cognitively and socially oriented approaches to political and economic discourse.

Within this sociocognitive and interdisciplinary context of research into political and economic discourse, papers are invited on the following (non exclusive) themes and topics:

• conceptual metaphor and metonymy, image schemas and conceptual blending in political and economic discourse
• cognitive frames and cultural cognitive models in political and economic communication
• construal and perspectivization operations (profiling, salience, distribution of attention, force dynamics, intersubjectivity) and their semantic, grammatical and pragmatic expressions within political and economic discourse
• overt and covert, conscious and unconscious ideologies in political and economic discourse, sociopolitical and socio-economic ideologies, ideologies of crosscultural otherness
• discursive representations of national, ethnic, collective and corporate identities
• psychological, linguistic and semiotic strategies for manipulation in political and economic discourse
• political and economic rhetoric; corporate promotional communication; structures and strategies of argumentation, persuasion and propaganda
• traditional and new genres in political, economic, business and organizational communication; political speeches, campaigns, debates, interviews, elections, talk shows, blogs, parliamentary discourses; public relations, advertising, marketing, management, customer chat forums; new hybrid genres in the Internet
• multimodality in political and economic/business communication
• interplay between political and economic communication, interdiscursivity and intertextuality, political economy and economic politics
• the media agents in political and economic discourse; political and economic journalism, advertising and marketing
• language variation and change and crosscultural variation in political and economic discourse
• globalization and localization of political and economic discourse; supra-national, corporate and sub-national political and economic organizations
• discursive legitimization of political and economic power; political polarization, socio-economic Darwinism, and economic imperialism
• perception of political and economic actors; social attitudes to political and economic discourse
• political and economic systems, political and economic behavior, public policies, political and economic audiences
• immigration, multiculturalism, racism and ethnic or nationalist conflicts
• corpus analysis of political and economic discourse and the implementation of advanced quantitative and multivariate techniques
• language training of politicians, economists and business people.

For further information, please visit the conference website
http://www.cicom2012.org

International Symposium Communication in the Millennium
Organized by Association of Turkish and American Communication Scholars
(ATACS)

In Cooperation with University of Texas at Austin (U.S.A.), Anadolu University (Turkey), Istanbul University (Turkey)

Hosted by Istanbul University,  Faculty of Communication (Turkey)

Dates:
May 24-26, 2012

Location:
Istanbul  (Turkey)

The Association of Turkish and American Communication Scholars (ATACS) seeks abstracts for the International Symposium Communication in the Millennium. The association welcomes original papers on a variety of topics, including Communication Theory and Communication Studies, Public Relations and Advertising, Journalism, New Technologies, Cinema-TV and Broadcast, Ethics, Communication Education.

Other topics will be considered if space is available in the program.

Communication in the Millennium is an annual, peer-reviewed international symposium. The participants of the symposium submit their abstracts via our web page. The abstracts that will be presented in the symposium are selected by the evaluation process.

Evaluation process... Each abstract is sent to at least three or a maximum of six referees who are the members of the scientific committee of the year and announced their names in the web page after the end of each year's evaluation process. The certain list of the each year is announced at the end of evaluation process. The list of scientific committee seen in the web site is the list of previous year.

Evaluation categories... The evaluation process takes place via Internet without seeing any information about the authors. The evaluation categories are such as "Introduction to the topic and review of the literature, methodology, importance, attractiveness, interest, scarceness, timeliness of the issue, and overall evaluation".

Referees evaluate each category within a scale from 0 to 10. The abstracts which get a final average of 7 points from 10, get right to be presented in the symposium.
Publication... And the only presented papers, which are convenient for the "full paper publication rules" are published in the CD and the web page of the symposium at the end of the process.

PhD Roundtable...It will give opportunity to new doctoral graduates tos hare their dissertations 

Symposium awards...
Best papers... Those whose full papers are presented into the symposium will also be reviewed by the award committee for the top three papers of the symposium.

Best presentations... In addition, the top three presentations made at the symposium will also be recognized.

Recipients of both the top three papers and top three presentations will receive a certificate on the final day of the symposium.
 
About the Association of Turkish and American Scholars (ATACS)
The international symposium Communication in the Millennium has been organized since 2003 by scholars in Turkey and the United States, and each year the symposium organizers have noticed increasing interest in this academic event. Because of this interest, the co-founders and the organization committee of this symposium decided to form an association where both countries' scholars are represented.

The mission of the ATACS is to advance the communication profession in both countries through well-grounded academic research and to foster communication academics' cooperation. The Communication in the Millennium is the established ATACS project, but the association will be working on different projects to serve its mission in the near future.

Symposium Objectives and Scope

The world is getting smaller with high technology-based communication systems. This also brings people together. Communication scholars, especially, should be close to one another and this is why we are gathering them and preparing a platform for discussion. The aim of this symposium is to establish and continue an international multidisciplinary forum for the development of innovative dialogue between Turkish and American scholars. This symposium serves a number of purposes:

• The main purpose is to establish a meeting ground for a dialogue between the Turkish and American communication scholars. The international symposium rotates between the two countries. Although the cooperation is mainly between two countries scholars, other countries' scholars are welcomed to this symposium as well, as in the previous ones.
• Secondly, popular and main issues of the communication field in the new millennium will be discussed.
• And with this dialogue, future projects and comparative studies will be developed.
• The symposium aims to foster and promote work that is intended to make a constructive contribution to the communication field and its development.
  The symposium welcomes work of scholars and graduate students in the communication field.

Suggested sessions

• Communication Theory and Research
• Agenda-Setting Studies
• Cultural & Critical Studies
• Political Communication
• Media and Technology / Communication Technology
• Media Literacy & Media Education
• Cinema, TV & Radio
• Advertising
• Public Relations
• Media Ethics
• Media Law

Important Dates
Abstract Submission Deadline: December 30, 2011.

Notification of the scholar/s about the accepted papers: February 17 , 2012.

Full Paper Submission Deadline: April 20, 2011.

Symposium Dates: May 24-26, 2012.

For Further Information:

Prof. Dr. Suat Gezgin
Tel: 212 440 00 00/12601
e-posta:suatgezgin@gmail.com

Prof. Dr. Serra Gorpe IU
Tel: 212 440 00 00/12680
e-posta: serragorp@yahoo.com

Aras. Gor. Dr. Adem Ayten 
Tel: 212 440 00 00/12665
ademay@gmail.com

Conference Pre-Call: ECREA's 4th European Communication Conference

ECREA and ILAD (Turkish Communication Research Association) will organize the 4th European Communication Conference in partnership with Istanbul Bilgi University. The conference will take place in Istanbul from 24 to 27 October 2012 and will emphasize "Social Media, Global Voices" as a theme.
The call for proposals will be launched on the 1st of December 2011 and will close on 28 February 2012.

Proposals for panels, and for individual papers and posters, can (from 1 December 2011 until 28 February 2012) be submitted to one of the 17 ECREA sections (see this URL for an overview of the section: http://www.ecrea.eu/divisions/section) through the conference website at http://www.ecrea2012istanbul.eu .

Prof. Dr. Nurcay Turkoglu
Host Organizer
nurcay@ecrea2012istanbul.eu