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During the student-workshops, each PhD student presents his or her project, which is then commented upon by the student-respondent, the lecturer-respondent and the flow-manager, and finally discussed by all participants. At the end of the series of student-workshops, a joint workshop is organised, where the diversity of paradigmatic, theoretical and methodological approaches is discussed, combined with the intellectual lessons learned at the Summer School. More than in the previous years, the lectures and student-workshops were complemented by a series of other workshops. These other workshops provided the PhD students with more practical training on issues related to making posters, publishing and abstract-writing, oral presentations, interviewing, discourse analysis, and ideological analysis. A second group of workshops informed participants on issues related to the European research landscape and the European educational landscape. The working visits gave the participants more insights in Estonia's media structures, politics and history. 3. THE PEOPLE / THE HALL OF FAME At the 2008 Summer School, 48 PhD students participated. The first flow group consisted of Barış Engin Aksoy, Zykas Aurelijus,
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Critical Perspectives on the European Mediasphere
2012
"Critical Perspectives on the European Mediasphere. The intellectual work of the 2011 ECREA European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School This book includes a series of papers that were presented by lecturers and PhD-students at the ECREA European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School in August 2011 in Ljubljana (Slovenia). Contributors are (in alphabetical order): Bertrand Cabedoche, Bart Cammaerts, Nico Carpentier, Viorela Dan, Jeoffrey Gaspard, François Heinderyckx, Jan Jirák, Anders Johansen, Janis Juzefovics, Jens E. Kjeldsen, Friedrich Krotz, Manuel Parés i Maicas, Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, Michael Rübsamen, Francis Shennan, Heiner Stahl, Burcu Sümer, Ebba Sundin, Ilija Tomanić Trivundža, Leen Van Brussel, Juho Vesa and Pika Založnik. The book consists of four sections: 1/ Theoretical frameworks and applications, 2/ Journalism and media, 3/ Perspectives on european mediasphere, 4/ Methodological and pedagogical approaches. The book also includes all abstracts of PhD projects presented at the Summer School."
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This book, the fourteenth in the Researching and Teaching Communication Book Series launched in 2006, stems from the communal intellectual work of the lecturers, the students and the alumni of the 2018 edition of the European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School (SuSo). The book gives an account of the plurality of research interests and analytical perspectives that the SuSo community values as its main asset. What was especially apparent in this year’s cluster of contributions is that our field of study integrates a wide variety of media technologies (ranging from old to new), demonstrating that contemporary societies are not characterized by the replacement of technologies, but by the always unique articulations, integrations and intersections of old and new. The book is structured in four sections: 1) Theories and Concepts 2) Media and the Construction of Social Reality 3) Mediatizations 4) Media, Health and Sociability Contributors are: Fatoş Adiloğlu, Magnus Andersson, Nico Carpentier, Xu Chen, Vaia Doudaki, Edgard Eeckman, Timo Harjuniemi, Kari Karppinen, Alyona Khaptsova, Ludmila Lupinacci, Fatma Nazlı Köksal, Ondrej Pekacek, Michael Skey, Piia Tammpuu, Ruben Vandenplas, Konstanze Wegmann and Karsten D. Wolf. The book additionally contains abstracts of the doctoral projects that were discussed at the 2018 European Media Communication Doctoral Summer School.
Thanks to the great success of the UPEC Summer School’s 2015 edition, we are delighted to announce the launch of the Summer School 2016 and the 2nd second session of the IMPACT program (East Paris July 4 to 22, 2016). IMPACT (International Media, Political Action & Communication Technologies) is a 3-weeks program of courses within the UPEC-UPEM Summer School (East-Paris) which aims to provide a critical perspective on International Media, Political Action & Communication Technologies. IMPACT aims to give its students a critical perspective on how the internationalization of communication, the sharp increase in and acceleration of the production of information, and the unprecedented development of digital media play a role in the way political action, citizen mobilization and public debate are now being framed. The course is available for Masters and PhD level students interested in political and public communication, social movements and transnational media activism, as well as the role of communication technologies in international relations. Suitable academic backgrounds include communication studies, political science, discourse analysis, area and cultural studies and sociology. The IMPACT course allows you to obtain 3 ECTS. The academic program has been prepared by Benjamin Ferron and Stéphanie Wojcik, both lecturers at the UPEC. **Program:** • Dominique Marchetti - The Spaces of Production and Circulation of “International” Information: the Example of “Moroccan” News in Foreign Media – Tuesday July 5 • Jiangeng Sun - A Study of the Practice of French Correspondents in China – Wednesday Juy 6 • Florence Brisset - Producing Media Speech in Africa: Coercion, Resistance and the Invention of a Profession – Thursday July 7 • Romain Badouard - Social Networks and Public Debate in Post-Charlie France – Friday July 8 • Jib Comby - Studying Social Structures of a Public Debate: the Case of Climate Change – Monday July 11 •Simon Gadras - Electoral Campaigns in the 21st Century: Web, Social Media and Political Communication – Tuesday July 12 • Tristan Mattelart - Exploring the Transnational Circulation of News in Digital Times: from Myths to Realities – Wednesday July 13 • Rabia Polat - Social Media during the Gezi Park Protests in Turkey and afterwards (2013-) – Friday July 15 • Stephanie Wojcik - Political Participation and the Internet: Some Issues from Public Debates to Web-Campaigning – Monday July 18 • Victor Marí - The Field of Communication for Development and Social Change. From Spain to the Entire World: Hybridizations, Tensions and Possibilities – Tuesday July 19 • Simon Smith - Discussion in Online Newspapers and the Realignment of Journalistic Work: the Case of Slovakia and Post-Communist Europe – Wednesday July 21 •Benjamin Ferron - Mobilizing through and for “Alternative” Media: Comparative Perspectives from Latin America, the Middle East & Europe – Thursday July 21 The workload of the courses is approximately 50 hours (30 hours of courses and approximately 20 hours of personal work) and they can be recognized by up to 3 ECTS credits at the home university. The Summer School fees include accommodation and meals, local transport in Paris area, cultural tours and sport, among other services (welcome at the airport, a French student buddy, wifi, library access, etc.). For further practical information, please visit our Summer School website: summerschool.univ-paris-est.fr We’ll be happy to answer your practical questions: summerschool@univ-paris-est.fr Looking forward to welcoming your students to our university! Best regards, Stéphanie Wojcik (stephanie.wojcik@u-pec.fr) and Benjamin Ferron (benjamin.ferron@u-pec.fr)
A snapshot from the European educational landscape
Media technologies and democracy in an enlarged Europe, 2007
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