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Dear ECREAns,

ECREA is happy to present you the first statistics from 8th European Communication Conference (online):

• 1185 registered participants from more than 17 countries
• 229 parallel sessions
• 31 bussiness meetings
• 3 plenary sessions
• 5 special sessions

The opening plenary session about Decolonising the curriculum attracted the interest of many - with more than 300 participants listening in on the discussions. Most popular sessions, however, dealt with the topics surrounding Children, Youth and Media; Journalism and its audiences; or Disconnection and the good life.

We do realize that spending considerable hours in front of the screens is tiresome and we really appreciate all of you who invested their time and energy into making this conference a success.

We are hoping to greet many of you in person next October during our conference in Aarhus!

After the election of the new members, Executive Board organizes the second phase of the elections, which will consist of the election of two Sections representatives, one Temporary Working Groups representative and one Networks representative - they represent the Sections, TWGs, and Networks in the Executive Board. Representatives are elected by the S/N/TWG management teams. Each member of a Management Team of a Section holds one vote for this election.

See the candidates list here

ECREA is happy to inform you that the new Temporary Working Group called Affects, Emotion and Media has been established.

The aim of the TWG is providing a platform for European media and communication scholars to engage in an interdisciplinary exchange on this multifaceted and timely topic. TWG members are interested in or work on developing theoretical concepts and methodological approaches focusing on how affect and emotions shape and are shaped by media technologies, texts, and productions in mass and social media in numerous societal contexts, such as journalism, politics, entertainment, advertising, and everyday lifeworlds. Researchers working with qualitative, quantitative, and computational methods will have the chance to exchange ideas and collaborate.

We encourage all interested ECREA members to formally join the TWG, in order to receive and circulate important updates on events and publications. Please access your profile on the intranet, click on “update profile” and select the TWG Affect, Emotion & Media. You can also follow the TWG on Twitter: @AffectTWG_ECREA.

Débora Medeiros, Karin Horsti & Manuel Menke, are excited to welcome you!

The ECREA Book Series editors Göran Bolin, Christina Holtz-Bacha and Simone Tosoni are happy to announce an extension of the deadline for submissions of proposals for wave 18 of the Routledge Studies in European Communication Research and Education Series until 4th of October 2021.

Since one of the main objectives of the book series is the promotion of collaborative research within in the ECREA community, only proposals for edited volumes are accepted. The editors select up to five proposals for publication in the series within one call. From wave 18, the top-ranked proposal will be published open access and thus will be freely available to the academic community. There are further open access options for the other volumes.

The publication of a volume in the ECREA book series benefits from the expertise and experience of the series publishers, from the prestige of being associated with ECREA, from the placement with a renowned publisher and from its marketing as well as from the promotion of the association among its members.

For information on the ECREA Book Series and for downloading the Book Series form, please consult the Call for Proposals on the ECREA website. Should you have further questions, don't hesitate to contact the series editors via info@ecrea.eu.

Read more here: https://ecrea.eu/news/10716703

ECREA is pleased to announce that the 9th European Communication Conference will take place from 19 to 22 October 2022. It will be hosted by the Department of Media and Journalism Studies, Aarhus University and the City of Aarhus, Denmark.

Under the theme ‘Rethink Impact’, ECC 2022 will aim to draw attention to the questions how research insight is translated into tangible outcomes for society, how it can be quantified and validated, and how teaching, community building and outreach as core academic practices are assessed.

Read more about the conference here: https://cc.au.dk/om-instituttet/afdelinger/medievidenskab-og-journalistik/nyheder-og-arrangementer/vis/artikel/aarhus-university-to-host-ecrea-2022-9th-european-communication-conference/

Watch the host presentation video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGCxinseTb4

See the official website here: https://conferences.au.dk/ecrea2022/

ECREA is happy to announce that the new ECREA bureau has been elected:

• President - John Downey (Loughborough University, UK)
• Vice-President, Sections, Temporary Working Group and Networks co-ordinator - Irena Reifová (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic)
• General Secretary - Andra Siibak (University of Tartu, Etonia)
• Treasurer - Zlatan Krajina (University of Zagreb, Croatia)

During the 2021 online conference, ECREA members elected new management teams of Sections, Temporary Working Groups and Networks (S/TWG/N).

The names of the new chairs and vice-chairs with their affiliation can be found on the page of selected entity here: https://ecrea.eu/Sections

Complete results can be found here: https://ecrea.eu/page-18242

ECREA is happy to announce that  the new Executive Board has been elected. The elections took place during the 8th European Communication Conference between 6 and 9 September. The EB is elected for the period 2021-2024.

The list of EB members:

• Göran Bolin
• John Downey
• Christina Holtz-Bacha
• Zlatan Krajina
• Patricia Nunez Gomez
• Irena Reifová
• Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt
• Ruth Sanz Sabido
• Andreas Schuck
• Andra Siibak
• Simone Tosoni

ECREA thanks the outgoing members for their work and welcome the new EB!

During the 2021 online conference, ECREA members will elect management teams of Sections, Temporary Working Groups and Networks (S/TWG/N).

The elections will take place during online business meetings.

All ECREA members irrespective of the type of their membership can participate S/TWG/N elections if they are members of respective S/TWG/N (members can manage their S/TWG/N membership in your profile on ECREA intranet).

Business meetings will be public, so members can participate in elections even if they are not registered for the conference.

You can read the list here: https://ecrea.eu/S/N/TWG-election-2021/

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During the 8th European Communication Conference, we will elect a new Executive Board of the association.

The list of the 13 candidates, their position statements and CVs for up to 11 Executive Board positions are available here: https://ecrea.eu/page-18238.

The elections will take place online between 6 and 9 September. Members with voting rights (members with individual membership and coordinators of institutional memberships) will receive links to the online voting tool at the beginning of the conference. The results of the elections will be announced at the online conference General Assembly, which will take place on 9 September 2021 from 13:30 to 15:00 (CEST).