Communication and Democracy

The Communication Review special issue:
"Twitter Revolutions?  Addressing Social Media and Dissent"   Volume 14, Issue 2 (2011)
Guest Editor: Christian Christensen, Uppsala University, Sweden

Contact
Christian Christensen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Media & Communication Studies
Department of Informatics and Media
Uppsala University, Sweden
christian.christensen AT im.uu.se

Last issue of Quadern del CAC - "The Internet and electoral communication", December 2009
Full papers available online in English and in Spanish : http://www.cac.cat/web/recerca/index.jsp?NDc%3D&MQ%3D%3D&L3dlYi9yZWNlcmNhL3F1YWRlcm5zL2RhcnJlckNvbnRlbnQ%3D

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CSSC Summer Courses at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, from June 17 to July 7

Internet, Politics, Policy 2010 Conference

The Oxford Internet Institute (University of Oxford) is pleased to announce
that speakers for the 'Internet, Politics, Policy 2010' Conference (16-17
Sept 2010, Oxford, UK) will include:

Prof. Arthur Lupia, University of Michigan.
A leading scholar on voting, civic competence, parliamentary governance and
political communication, his research has clarified our understanding of how
information and institutions affect policy and politics, and how people make

This annual Award honors outstanding contributions by individuals or
organizations to the theory and practice of Communication for
Sustainable Social Change (CSSC). We strongly encourage
inter-governmental organizations, non-governmental organizations,
international, regional and national academic and professional
communication associations, international media networks and
communication and social change consortia to submit nominations for this
Award.

For more details, go to:

On behalf of Rachel Gibson - Rachel.Gibson AT manchester.ac.uk.

An ESRC PhD studentship on new media/elections will start at the Institute for Social Change -

University of Manchester later this year.

Further Details are at:

Department of Media & Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science Lecturer in Media and Communications Salary: £40,323 to £46,710 per annum inclusive
 

Postdoctoral Fellowship in International Relations, Politics, Policy or Political Economy (Canadian Studies)
Salary: £31,117 per annum inc LW The Institute for the Study of the Americas and Queen Mary, University of London, invite applications for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in a politics-related field with specialist knowledge of Canada. The successful candidate will be expected to promote the study of Canada in the UK by:

* Conference background and goals
This conference aims to encourage and foster efforts of researchers and practitioners by sharing cutting-edge research, innovations, models, theories and strategies that address issues and challenges related to cultivating online communities for grassroots democracy, equity and social justice.

Media and Democratization: The African Experience
Editors: Anthony A. Olorunnisola & Aziz Douai

Abstract Submission: April 15, 2010; Notification to Authors: May 1, 2010;
Final Paper Submission: August 30, 2010*

*Introduction*

Though the terms are independent and often conjoined, the media in Africa
have always played an important role in democratic and non-democratic
states. African countries under autocratic dispensations have witnessed