IPSA-RC 22: Activities

2006 World Congress						International Political Science Association
						Research Committee 22 Political Communication

Home General Information Membership Board Members 2006 Fukuoka World Congress 2002 Durban Workshop 1999 Quebec Workshop Newsletter 2005 Newsletter 2004 Newsletter 2002 Newsletter 2001 Newsletter 2000 Newsletter 1999 Newsletter 1998 Links						Fukuoka IPSA World Congress 2006 The 20th World Congress of IPSA is held in Fukuoka, Japan from July 9 to 13, 2006. with the overall theme "Is Democracy Working?". All panels proposed by our Research Committee 22 ("Political Communication ") have been accepted by IPSA: Panel 1: New Development in Election Campaigning (Convenor: Dominic Wring) This session is dedicated to discussing recent approaches to campaigning and political marketing in various countries. The papers should not only highlight the changes, for instance regarding the tools and techniques of campaigning but also stress the consequences of those changes for democratic rule and the political process in their countries. - Modernization limited. Comparing Parliamentary Campaigns in Germany and Finland (Jens Tenscher, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany and Tom Moring, University of Helsinki, Finland) - Trends towards the professionalization: Polish Election Campaigning in 2005 (Boguslawa Dobek-Ostrowska, University of Wroclaw, Poland) - Campaigning for Europe 2004: Green corporate identity across 25 countries (Christina Holtz-Bacha, University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany) - Developments in Political Brand and Reputation Marketing: the 2005 New Zealand General Election (Phil Harris, Mathew Parackal, Chris Rudd, University of Otago, New Zealand) - 'Operation Third Term': Political Communication and the British General Election of 2005 (David Deacon and Dominic Wring, Loughborough University, UK) - The same chatter wherever you go? A comparative study of political rhetoric in election debates (Nicklas Hakansson, Halmstad University College, Sweden) Panel 2: The Role of Media in International Conflicts like War and Terrorism (Convenor: Barbara Pfetsch) September 11, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have not only changed the public perception of many people who feel more than ever that they are living in a world under constant thread. The incidents have also marked a change of the perception of the media and their role in international conflicts like war and terrorism. The panel aims to discuss the various dimensions of the functions of the media as political arena and political actor in such situations as well as the chances and risks of the media's involvement and their constructions of violence. - Different Pictures? The Impact of Arab Television Channels on the Image of the Iraq War in Western International Television News Programs (Hartmut Wessler, International University Bremen, Germany) - 'The truth is out there': The Frontline Correspondent at work (Howard Tumber, City University, London, UK) - "No More Peace": How Disaster, Terror and War Have Upstaged Media Events (Elihu Katz University of Pennsylvania, USA, and Tamar Liebes, Hebrew University, Israel) - Vicious circle of the violence in the media (Bartolomiej Lodzki, Wroclaw University, Poland) - An old wine in new bottles: China-Taiwan computer-based 'information warfare' and propaganda (Gary D. Rawnsley, University of Nottingham, UK) Panel 3: Communication, Mobilization and the Media in European Integration (Convenor: Barbara Pfetsch) Against the background of the discussion about the Democratic Deficit of the European Union, the panel discusses dimensions and potentials of transnational communication in the EU and the conditions and chances for an emerging European public sphere which might help remedy the deficit of public legitimization of the EU. Papers present studies on the media or other modes of expressing political claims regarding issues around European integration. - Differential Europe, Differential Publics - on the Europeanization of National Publics (Anders Esmark & Mark Ørsten, Roskilde University, Denmark) - Who Inhabits the European Public Sphere? Winners and Losers, Supporters and Opponents in Europeanised Political Debates (Ruud Koopmans, Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) - The Voice of the Media in European Public Sphere (Barbara Pfetsch, University of Hohenheim, Germany) - From the European Parliamentary Elections of 2004 to the French Referendum of 2005. Do the media impact change according to the nature of the election? (Jacques Gerstle, Paris) - Information Revolution and European Public Sphere. E-democracy Experiences and Ideology (Francesco Amoretti, University of Salerno, Italy) - Transnational Discourses: Analyzing Political Communication in the European Public Sphere (Andreas Wimmel, University of Bremen, Germany) Panel 4: Communication and Democratic Political Culture (Convenor: Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck) The panel assembles papers with a focus on the role of communication processes and infrastructures for political cultures and citizens' involvement in democratic politics. This can concern active engagement, in terms of participation in public affairs, or passive involvement, concerning citizens' political knowledge and their motivation to keep informed about politics, as well as their beliefs and attitudes. - Personal communication, mass communication and turnout at local elections (Robert Huckfeldt, University of California at Davis, USA and Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) - Does Internet use lead to social and political participation? Accumulation of social capital using the media: the case of Japan (Ken'ichi Ikeda, University of Tokyo, Japan) - Bridging the lines of political conflict: Mass communication, interpersonal communication and respect for political opponents (Mansur Lalljee, University of Oxford, Katrin Voltmer, University of Leeds, UK) - Media and Democratic Consolidation in Taiwan (Ching-hsin You, Election Study Center, National Chengchi University Taipei, Taiwan) - Rethinking political communication as recursive governance (Michael Crozier, University of Melbourne, Australia) - Indymedia - democratic voice of Fourth Estate or media rebels? (Ilona Niebal, University of Wroclaw, Poland) back to the top of this side