News

The Call for Papers and the Pre-Conferences have been published.  

The 10th ECREA ECC will be organised by the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Ljubljana (UL FDV) and the Slovene Communication Association, from 23 to 27 September 2024 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, under the title 'Communication & social (dis)order'. 

The organisers call for proposals that contribute to rethinking communication and social (dis)order from the different perspectives of ECREA sections, networks and working groups. Proposals for individual papers, panels and roundtables can be submitted to all ECREA sections, temporary working groups and networks via the ECREA ECC 2024 submission platform until 11 January 2024. 

The conference will support independent pre-conferences. The call for pre-conferences has now been published. Information on the individual calls and submission deadlines can be found on the conference website: https://ecrea2024ljubljana.eu  

ECREA is happy to inform you that the new Temporary Working Groups has been established.

Aging and Communication Studies will explore ageism, biases in data, algorithms and artificial intelligence. 

The Media Literacies and Communication Competencies TWG will pursues to live up to the needs of an ever-increasing community of researchers and educators, who identify as media literacies and/or communication competencies scholars and benefit from the consolidation of these disciplinary approaches.

You can check your profiles here: https://ecrea.eu/Sections

We encourage all interested ECREA members to formally join the TWGs, 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 new TWGs.

The 2023 ordinary General Assembly of ECREA opens on Monday 12 June (6:45 CEST) and will close on Friday 16 June (23:45 CEST) 2023. We invite all the members, who are eligible to vote, to participate and cast their votes online.

The Assembly deals with a number of important issues, such as Approval of ECREA Executive Board Report for 2022 as well as Approval of the budget for 2023, and also Approval of the nominated Ethics Committee members.

WHO CAN VOTE

Please note that only individual members and institutional coordinators are entitled to vote. If you are a member through an institution, you do not have the right to vote but need to communicate to your institutional coordinator. If you do not know who your institutional coordinator is, please ask ECREA’s Office Manager at info@ecrea.eu. In line with ECREA Statutes, each individual member has one vote and each coordinator of an institutional member holds five votes.

All members, who are eligible to vote, will receive a separate email with voting credentials and a link to dedicated online area when the General Assembly opens.

ECREA is pleased to introduce the new Advisory Board. At the same time, we want to thank all candidates - we received many high-quality applications and the decision was really difficult.

New members are:

• Murat Akser
  
• Valentina Anania
• Divina Frau-Meigs
  
• Joke Hermes
  
• Galina Miazhevich
  
• Christoph Raetzsch
  
• Carla Sousa
  

• Pawel Surowiec-Capell

• Ilja Tomanic Trivundza
  
• Miguel Vicente
  
• Katrin Voltmer
  

ECREA Advisory Board consists of members elected by Executive Board and of ex-officio members (former members of the Executive Board). The Advisory Board provides the Executive Board with advice on the long-term strategies of the association. The consultation by Advisory Board can be summoned by the decision of the Executive Board or the Bureau.  

We are happy to inform you that the new management team of the Women's Network has been elected:

• Roman Horbyk (chair)
  
• Katalin Feher (vice-chair)
  
• Tomasz Gackowski (vice-chair)
  

You can check their CVs and statement here: S/N/TWG additional election.

ECREA will convene the 2023 ordinary General Assembly from 12–16 June. This Assembly will gather in an online space. Links to documents and voting tool will be shared with members when the General Assembly is opened.

During the Assembly, ECREA members will be asked to approve the Annual Report 2022 as well as the budget for 2023, and also to approve the nominated Ethics Committee members.

WHO CAN VOTE

Following our statutes (see http://www.ecrea.eu/about/statutes), each individual member has one vote, and each coordinator of an institutional member holds five votes. If you are an ECREA member through an institutional membership and you are not the institutional coordinator, you cannot vote but need to communicate with your institutional coordinator. If you do not know who your institutional coordinator is, please ask ECREA’s General Secretary Andra Siibak (generalsecretary@ecrea.eu) and ECREA Administrator (info@ecrea.eu) in cc.

ECREA has witnessed the terrible earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, the many thousands of deaths, and the continuing suffering of millions more in their aftermath. We stand in solidarity with our members in the region at this difficult time and are ready to support colleagues in their future endeavours.

We are happy to inform you that there is a team of 3 candidates applying for the new management team:

• Roman Horbyk (chair)
  
• Katalin Feher (vice-chair)
  
• Tomasz Gackowski (vice-chair)
  

You can check their CVs and statements here: S/N/TWG additional election.

The election will take place online between March 13-17, 2023. All Mediatization section members will receive the link with all the instructions before the election.

The IAMCR 2023 conference theme Inhabiting the planet: Challenges for media, communication and beyond address the fundamental questions such as: What does it mean to be human in a digital world? What does it mean to build a common future? IAMCR 2023 seeks to provide a forum where the international community of media and communication scholars and researchers can reflect on and debate challenges related to five interconnected topics: Humanity and progress, Democracy, Media, information and communication, Cities and territories, Environmental accountability.

ECREA will host one panel at IAMCR 2023 and invites the submission of panel proposals that are focused on timely and innovative topics and are diverse in terms of methodologies, theoretical standpoints and/or nationalities of the presenters. We especially encourage panel proposals which include a European perspective and a comparative research focus. This call for panel proposals is open to ECREA members of all ECREA sections and to all topics.

Please note the following information:

Panel submissions. Panels provide a good forum for the discussion of new approaches, ongoing developments, innovative ideas, and debates in the field. If you plan to submit a panel, please submit the following details: (a) Panel theme or title, (b) a 75-word description of the panel for the conference program, (c) a 400-word rationale, providing justification for the panel and the participating panelists, (d) 300-word (max) abstract of each paper, (e) names of panel participants (usually 4-5 presenters, plus an optional designated respondent), and (f) name of panel chair/organizer. In terms of diversity, we expect a strong panel proposal to (a) include contributions of at least two different countries, (b) feature gender balance, and, ideally, (c) include not more than one contribution from a single faculty, department or school. Panel proposals need to be original and may not have been submitted to IAMCR before or at the same time. The format of the panel can be in person or virtual. Accepted panel presentations do not count towards the max. allowed individual paper presentations at the IAMCR conference.

Registering panelists. All panelists must be ECREA members by the time the conference takes place and agree in advance of submission to participate as panel presenters and to register for the IAMCR conference. IAMCR only provides a registration waiver for the panel convener, not for the other panelists.

How to submit?

• Email to: info@ecrea.eu
• Submission deadline is 10 February 2023, 23:59 CET

In case of questions please contact: Patricia Núñez- Gómez (pnunezgo@ccinf.ucm.es) and ECREA Administrator (info@ecrea.eu).

ECREA-IAMCR Conference Review Committee:
Patricia Núñez-Gómez (Complutense University of Madrid, chair)
Christina Holtz-Bacha (University Erlangen-Nürnberg, co-chair)
Irena Reifová (Charles University, Prague, co-chair)

The Executive Board invites applications to serve on ECREA’s Advisory Board.

Members of Advisory Board serve for a period of 8 years. Advisory Board members will be expected to attend two meetings per annum and provide advice to the Executive Board upon request. The Executive Board will decide on the membership of the Advisory Board taking into account research specialism, region, gender, age, ethnicity, and disability.

Please apply by sending your CV and a brief supporting statement (500 words maximum) outlining why you would like to be on the Advisory Board by Friday 24th February to info@ecrea.eu.

The Executive Board are particularly eager to appoint members who would be able to advise on issues of equality, diversity, and inclusion.