Political Communication Research Section, IAMCR conference

> Call for paper for the Mexico Conference
>
> The Political Communication Research Section will be organizing panels at
> the 2009 IAMCR conference in Mexico City. The section is interested in
> papers bearing on all the dimensions in political communication of the
> subject of the conference. Note that we also seek papers on any of the
> whole range of political communication research: the media and political
> socialization, political campaigning, public opinion and political
> participation, interactions between the media and intermediary
> organizations such as interest groups and political parties, as well as
> the involvement and uses of the medias in campaigns, election; and also
> the media and marketing processes in government, from policy making to day
> to day politics at the local level, including Town Halls and other Local
> Government Institutions communication, from their day to day governance to
> the answers given to problematic neighborhoods. The use of Internet,
> blogs, Web 2.0, etc., in modern political communication is also of
> interest to the section, as well as other new media and e-government.
>
> Paper proposals should be one page, and should list the author's name,
> address, university affiliations, telephone, fax, and e-mail, followed by
> the paper's title and an abstract of 500 words/1500 signs. The abstract
> should specify the subject, questions asked, methodology and findings.
>
> Anyone interested in presenting a paper should send his application,
> before January 31st, through the IAMCR website, and/or contact the section
> head, Professor Philippe J. Maarek, at maarek@univ-paris12.fr.
>
> E-mail should be privileged in communicating with the head of section, but
> he can also be reached as follows:
> Philippe J. Maarek
> Professeur à l'Université Paris 12,
> 41 rue du Colisee,
> 75008 Paris,
> France
> Fax 331-43.59.57.03,
> Tel 331- 42.25.85.82
>
> In order to improve the on-site discussions, all panels will have a
> discussant. Colleagues willing to act as discussants may apply as far as
> they have already taken part to at least two previous meetings of the
> section and/or are well-known researchers in the field. Paper givers may
> also volunteer to be discussants in other panels than theirs. Would-be
> discussants should specify in which field of political communication they
> are rather willing to work and also send in the same personal data
> required from paper givers.