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The 15-M and the 22-M, discussed in Katz



The School of Journalism at the University of Castilla-La Mancha sponsors the conclusion of a university summer course which analyze the results of recent local and regional elections. The Carmelite Convent of Cuenca will host the next 20 and 21 June interventions renowned sociologists and political scientists, as well as the views of representatives of each of the three main parties (PP, PSOE and IU). There will also be the testimony of journalists from both Castilian-La Mancha, privileged witnesses of the regional battle between Maria Dolores and Jose Maria Cospedal Barreda. Surely, the citizens' movement 15-M and its demands for "real democracy " peep in presentations and discussions during the seminar. The

syllabus, which is valid for 1 ECTS, is reproduced below. More information about registration on the website of the summer courses at the University of Castilla-La Mancha .

June 20, 2011

09.30 h. Documentation delivery

10.00 h. Presentation

10.30 h. "Participation. The role of media in political life "
D. VICTOR WHITE SAMPEDRO
Professor of Public Opinion URJC

12.00 h. "Internet and Democracy"
D. Joaquin Martin CUBAS
Professor of Political Science at the UV

16.30 h. "Messages and campaigns: the rise of video politics"
D. JORDI PÉREZ Llavador
Professor of Public Opinion in the CH-CEU

18.00 h. Round table "The election campaign strategies and objectives"
Moderator:
D. LUIS ANGEL LOPEZ VILLAVERDE
Participants: Directors of campaign
PSOE, PP and IU

June 21, 2011 10.00 am

"The reasons for voting"
D. FERMÍN BOUZA ÁLVAREZ
Catedrático de Sociología de la UCM

11,30 h. “La predicción del voto: las encuestas”
D. ANTONIO ALAMINOS CHICA
Catedrático de Sociología de la UA

13,00 h. “Las claves del éxito electoral”
D. ANTONIO LAGUNA PLATERO
Profesor Titular de Periodismo de la UCLM

16,30 h. “La fuerza de la emoción o la vuelta al populismo. Las tendencias de la comunicación política del siglo XXI”
D. ANTONIO GUTIÉRREZ RUBÍ
Asesor de Comunicación y profesor de distintas universidades

18,00 h. Mesa redonda “La incidencia de los medios communication in the election results "
Moderator:
D. ANTONIO LAGUNA PLATERO
Participants: Directors
regional media

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Basin: word of mouth and new social media go hand in hand



Elihu Katz, sociologist Paul Lazarsfeld disciple who last visited March Segovia to participate in the symposium "Transnational Connections " of IE University, was among the first to emphasize the limited impact of media on the masses, the impact would be screened by community opinion leaders, true guides between their political lobbyists. At a time (years 50) in which the power of the media embracing thought, Katz and Lazarsfeld drew attention to the old 'word of mouth'.

As suggested by Katz in a recent interview Gabriela Cardoza, a second year Bachelor of Communication at the University of Segovia, the recent social revolutions in the Middle East shows that word of mouth opinion leaders can increase social impact through the media like Facebook or Twitter 2.0: "Social media is a mobilizing force. Word of mouth and new media are now together. Have been strengthened while the mainstream media have been weakened. " In the interview

Katz addresses two of his main contributions to communication studies: the 'two-step flow' (in collaboration with his mentor Lazarsfeld) and 'media events', he studied with Daniel Dayan.

hear from one of its protagonists anecdotes about the history of communication research is a privilege, a great little nuance: Katz is judge and jury and, therefore, from a journalistic point of view, source concerned. His famous book Katz, Personal Influence (1955) marked a before and after in the history of research on social media. His theory that the media were not as influential as he believed that sociology lost for a time his interest in studying the impact of mass media in . The Lang of Chicago (Gladys and Kurt ), whose careers were devoted to study the massive influence, could not believe the unprecedented success of the book. Interestingly, Katz and Lazarsfeld's emphasis on the word of mouth has become remarkably relevant in the era of the 'social networking sites. "

Jeff Pooley, professor at Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania, devoted his doctoral dissertation at Columbia to dismantle myths and legends related with the history of communication research. Recently returned to print, in collaboration with David Park, a collection of essays critically analyzing the reasons of the agendas of communication scholars.

myths, myths are. Good to know.

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Another communicative situation. Right?

These are just things to be avoided. Remember the text Cachay the mot and published in this blog, I send the link

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Two unmissable in Portugal

Portugal offers this year two appointments indispensable to researchers in political communication. The first is a international conference on the public sphere to be held on 19 and 20 May in Covilhã, beautiful mountain village in northern of Portugal in which sits the Universidade da Beira Interior (UBI). It will involve researchers from the likes of Theodore Glasser (Stanford University) and Paul Statham (Bristol University), among others. The second meeting is held in Lisbon on 17 and 18 November. The Institute of Ciênciais Sociais e Policy (ISCSP) of the Technical University of Lisbon (UTL) will host the joint conference sections political communications of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) and the International Association of Media and Communication Research (IAMCR).

The conference "Public sphere reconsidered "coordinated by Professor João Carlos Correia (UBI) under the project ' two Cidadao Agenda', intends to review the concept of public sphere in the present context of technological change and multilevel governance. Besides Portuguese experts will come from across the Atlantic leading figures such as Wilson Brazilian Gomes (Universidade Federal da Bahia) and Rouseley Maya (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais). To evaluate the effect of 'civic journalism' and other reform movements of journalistic mediation will be attended by Theodor Glasser (Stanford University), one of the major theorists U.S. journalism To discuss the possibility of a European public sphere Guy Haarscher intervene, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Hans-Jörg Trenz (University of Copenhagen) and Paul Statham (Bristol University).

The conference of the IPSA political communication and IMCR , coordinated by the researcher and teacher Paula do Espírito Santo (UTL) will serve for presenting recent research (in progress or completed) on issues related to political marketing , journalism, new media and innovations in communication policies. The deadline for submitting proposals (conference2011@iscsp.utl.pt) is 30 April 2011.

These two quotations provide further evidence of the clear will of internationalization of Luso neighbor, to which both have to learn his brother Peninsula.

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The return of newspapers



The quality press survive, but take the form of journals of payment and not as printed newspaper. To Jaume Guillamet , Professor of Journalism at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bjournalistic mediation of matters of public interest may have a better payment arrangement in publishing for an elite of citizens in the current Morning reference. In a lecture this morning at the School of Journalism at the University of Castilla-La Mancha in Cuenca , Guillamet warned that the print media is under threat from Internet radio or television, because the press "is an industry heavy, slow, distant, not universal access and payment. " The professor at the Pompeu defined the current time of technological change in the communications industry as a time of "uncertainty", but was confident that the social need for quality journalism will remain intact, either in support or in another . "Journalism is not the support," he said, "But the content and not have to die." The extinction of the printed paper would, however, the end of, in his words, "purely journalistic only means" born to give information and linked to the idea of \u200b\u200bliberal democracy. "Radio and television can live without news, the press, no."

Newspapers reference Guillamet said, still require the commitment of a reader willing to pay for news. The information verified and can not compete in chilled instantly with the radio or television. The newspaper printed requires a costly paraphernalia typical of the industrial age: tonnes paper to be printed and distributed throughout a geography of retail outlets. Commercial advertising reduces the price of the printed newspaper to make it more popular, but at the cost of sacrificing the seriousness of the spectacle. "Advertising media requires the maximum possible audience. But the bigger groups, lower quality, "he said Guillamet. Journalism was, in his view, a kind of sugar cube that dissolves in the coffee industry communication. Journalism gives some flavor to all this industry, but at the cost of disappearing as a standalone product and differentiable.

Professor of Journalism at the Pompeu also alluded to two currents of thought in vogue: the ' citizen journalism' and the 'all for free. " Guillamet in participatory journalism is an electronic reprint of amateurism that has always inhabited the local press. The theory that Internet must be free and brings up the recurring dilemma of who pays journalists, whose role is precisely to distance itself from the newsmakers. Guillamet According to the Wikileaks case has highlighted the social needs of journalism. Assange had to resort to the mainstream media to have credibility. "Journalism is, above all, brokerage," said Guillamet. El valor añadido del periodismo profesional es la elaboración de la información, el contraste de fuentes, la distancia de los protagonistas de la actualidad. “¿Qué interés tiene un periodismo no profesional, sin distancia? ¿Qué credibilidad tiene una noticia contada por sus propios protagonistas?”, se preguntó. Para Guillamet, el final del periodismo no vendrá por el fin del periódico impreso, sino por el fin de la mediación, por la sustitución de la inter-mediación a cargo de profesionales entrenados para “recoger, seleccionar e interpretar información de interés público” por la in-mediación de “lo que la gente dice que pasa”.

Guillamet Jaume's conference was held in the framework of the conference "25 years later : University and media", drawing the first quarter century of existence of the University of Castilla-La Mancha, recall the evolution the regional press and journalism since the mid-eighties to today.

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Wikileaks and the duration of the journalism



Site Leaks Wikileaks are important and do not represent a failure of journalism, but of media companies. This was considered Guillermo López García, a professor at the University of Valencia and speaker at a panel discussion entitled "Wikileaks and journalism of the century", held this morning at the School of Journalism at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) Cuenca. The debate also included the participation of Juan Miguel Ortega, a professor of International Law at the UCLM, and Delia Rodriguez, a freelance journalist author of the blog ' Trending Topics' to El Pais Digital, which agreed on the increase visibility of power led by Julian Assange leaks, the controversial founder of Wikileaks.

Although governments have tried to downplay the revelations of Wikileaks, López García considers relevant for two reasons: because "we are told how the power when you are not observed" and that have been uncovered as the exclusive real alleged U.S. pressure to develop the "law Sinde" against illegal downloads on the Internet or the alleged attempts to silence the inquest into the death of Jose Couso, a English cameraman hit by a U.S. in the Iraq war. "If anyone doubts the importance of Wikileaks," said the professor at the University of Valencia, "has test the reaction of governments, which have placed emphasis on the rape allegations leveled against Assange and pressured-successfully-to the company that hosts the Wikileaks website (Amazon) or facilitated by citizen donations cards (Visa and Mastercard).

According to López García, Wikileaks no evidence the failure of journalism, but of media companies. "For what Wikileaks says have any effect need of traditional journalism," professionals who are able to digest the vast amount of data filtered by Assange and verify the accuracy of the information. In fact, says teacher, the impact of Wikileaks is due largely to the "mainstreaming" and "centrality" of mainstream media as The Country, The New York Times , Der Spiegel, Le Monde or The Guardian , who acted as relay amplifiers without which Wikileaks leaks could hardly have come to monopolize the agenda of public discussion. Paradoxically, in his view, the case Wikileaks exposes the dereliction of duties of traditional media companies that avoid publishing scandals involving large companies or related to political power. "Journalism and companies journalism are not the same, "he said López García. Fallacy argument


Juan Miguel Ortega elaborated on the importance, in their opinion, deserve the revelations of Wikileaks. "Governments tell us that what he says Assange already knew, but that argument is fallacious," he said. "More than knowing it sensed the difference is that now we have proof of what we suspected." For Professor of International Law UCLM Wikileaks means a preference for anonymous reporting on freedom of expression, which in his opinion reveals the weakness of Western democracies, whose mass media Traditional come to be confused with institutional political power.

Delia Rodriguez, for whom Wikileaks leaks are "the big world news over the last thirty years," Assange papers labeled the "poisoned gift" to the media. As a result of the weaknesses of traditional journalism, Wikileaks has made the major news media, highlighting their lack of independence and economic weakness due to the absence of a viable business model for journalism in the digital age. Rodriguez believes however that the Wikileaks case is also "a lesson in good journalism," in which professional mediators have made a considerable effort of synthesis and contextualization. "Having the roles of Wikileaks is like having a $ 500 ticket for bus fare," said freelance journalist to explain the challenge for journalists is the overabundance of information on the website of Assange. "Wikileaks is the epitome of what the Internet is, for better or for worse," said Rodriguez. "It's the equivalent of 'Save Me' on TV," the ultimate expression of the virtues and excesses of the media in question. The author of the blog 'Trending Topics' to El Pais Digital recommended reading Julian Assange profile published by the magazine Vanity Fair , piece that revealed that the founder of Wikileaks reached an agreement with several conventional media as a result of a calculated strategy, but to prevent their leakage were known from another source that had been sent to British newspaper The Guardian their own files.

From the audience, one of the journalism students asked the participants at the round table who said, Julian Assange would ask if given the opportunity to interview. For Delia Rodriguez, the hottest issue relates to the promised revelations about the Bank of America: "I wonder why they have not gone yet."

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Comparative Political Communication: Workshop in Madrid ACOP ECREA and Elihu Katz in Segovia

The Political Communication section of the European Communication Research & Education Association (ECREA) and Association for Communication Policy (ACOP) join forces to organize a workshop on the comparative study of political communication. Be held in Madrid on 20 and 21 October 2011. Proposals for presentations, summaries of which should not exceed 500 words should be sent to the address info [@] compolitica.com, to the attention of Professor María José Canel Crespo, before May 16, 2011.

More information on the web ECREA -section recently opened, by the way-that allows download the Call for Papers in PDF format .

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Elihu Katz, professor at the Annenberg School at UPenn and outstanding disciple of the legendary sociologist Paul F. Lazarsfeld, will deliver the inaugural lecture of the regional seminar that the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR) held in Segovia from 17 to 18 March under the sponsorship of IE University and Professor Magdalena organization Wojcieszak.

program (reproduced below from the conference web ) provides presentations by distinguished researchers in political communication from Robert Entman to Shanto Iyengar, young but settled through values \u200b\u200bthat do not hide my admiration and Matthew Hindman or Talia Stroud. pure intellectual delicatessen.

Katz In December 2008 he traveled to Leeds, England, to commemorate the beginnings of communication research with colleague Jay G. Blumler. The interventions of both the summarized in this report .

Take this opportunity to remember that the documentary The long road to Decatur (Glenda Balas, 2008), which details the difficult gestation of the legendary studio of Katz and Lazarsfeld, Personal Influence (1950), you can download online for free. Katz himself told me during his visit to Leeds for the existence of a recent French edition of the famous book with an introductory study of the French sociologist Éric Maigret .

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Agenda for the second edition of the symposium Transnational Connections
Segovia, 17-18 March 2011
(also available PDF format)

Day 0. March 16 - Madrid

20:00 Welcome remarks from Begoña González Cuesta (Dean of IE School of Communication) and Patricia Moy (World Association of Public Opinion Research) (Serrano 105, S-001 and S-002, IE Business School , Madrid)

Day 1. March 17 - Segovia

8:00 Bus to Segovia, NH Leaving from Zurbano (Zurbano, 79-81, Madrid, 28003, 914 414 500)
10:00 to 10:15 Welcome from Magdalena Wojcieszak, the symposium organizer IE School of Communication


KEYNOTE SPEAKER 10:15 to 11:15 Elihu Katz, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
"Some Dilemmas of Deliberative Democracy" PANEL PRESENTATIONS


11:15 to 11:45 COFFEE BREAK

11:45 to 13:15 MEDIA, NETWORKS, AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Dave Karpf, Rutgers Univ
"Internet-Mediated Organizations and the Changing Public Sphere "

José Manuel Robles, Stefano de Marco, Mirko Antino, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
" Political participation, Internet, digital activism and collective action "

Cristancho-Mantilla Camilo, Autonomous University of Barcelona
"Protest Mobilization and Disagreement in online issue networks"

Daniel Mutibwa, University of Leeds
"Romantic, Missionary-like and Oppositional: Gauging the Significance of Third Sector Media As Sites of Grassroots Organising. A Comparative Study of Britain and Germany”


11:45 - 13:15 MEDIA FRAMES AND PUBLIC OPINION
Richard Doherty, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
“Economic gain or ecological sustainability? Framing, environmental movements, and communication theory

Rita Figueiras & Barbora Petrova, Masaryk Univ.
“Mixed-gender campaigning communication: Comparing in Portugal and Slovakia”

Janet Takens, Anita van Hoof & Jan Kleinnijenhuis, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
“The effect of process oriented and personalized news on the strength of vote determinants “

Porismita Borah, Maryville Univ., USA
“Does it matter where you read the news story? Interplay of news frames and incivility in the political blogosphere -- influence of incivility and news frames on willingness to participate, attitude certainty, open-mindedness and information seeking”


11:45 - 13:15 METHODOLOGICAL AND MEASUREMENT ISSUES AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS

Wolfgang Donsbach, Dresden Univ. of Technology
“Have you heard about…? Measuring political knowledge and news sources on a day-to-day basis”

Dan Cassino, Farleigh Dickinson Univ.'s PublicMind Poll
“Bias in legislative generic ballot questions: building a better House election forecast”
Patricia Goerman, Leticia Fernández, Rosanna Quiroz, U.S. Census Bureau
“Translation of Survey Items on Country Specific Programs: The Case of Translating U.S. Educational Level Questions into English”

Pawel Sobkowicz
“Computer simulations of opinions in a three state networked society”

13:15 - 14:15 LUNCH

14:30 - 16:00 UNDERSTANDING PUBLIC OPINION POLLS

Katarzyna Staszynska, Kozminski Univ., Poland
“Perception of public opinion polls in a developing democracy”

Miguel Vicente-Marino, Univ. of Vallodid-Segovia Campus, Spain
“Public and published opinion about climate change: who is the one to blame?”

Michael Traugott, Univ. of Michigan, USA
“Understanding the causes of problems of pre-election polls in cross-national comparison”

Robert Luskin, James Fishkin, & Kyu Hahn, University of Texas at Austin, USA
“Deliberation and Net Attitude Change”


14:30 - 16:00 MEDIA, KNOWLEDGE AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION

Lilach Nir, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem
“Do Shared News Environments Reduce Barriers to Political Engagement?”

Lisa Mueller & Bruno Wuest, Univ. of Zurich
“Bringing the Media In: How the Press System Affects Electoral Participation in Established Democracies”

Marta Fraile, European Univ. Institute
“Testing the Knowledge Gap: A Comparison of Traditional Media and Internet in Finland and Spain”

Marina Popescu, Univ. of Essex, UK
“Can Mass Media Inform Citizens? How Media Systems Influence Citizens’ Political Knowledge and Knowledge Inequalities”


14:30 - 16:00 POLITICAL COMMUNICATIONS AND THE INTERNET AROUND THE GLOBE

Matthew Hindman, George Washington Univ., USA
“Online News and the Red Queen: Power Laws, Traffic Churn, and Why Saving Journalism Is Harder Than We Think”

Jorge Luis Salcedo Maldonado, Univ. Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain
“Conflicts about the regulation of intellectual property in Internet: comparing the issue networks in UK and Spain”

Jennifer Brundidge, Homero Gil de Zúñiga, Univ. of Texas at Austin, Kelly Garrett , Hernando Rojas
“Mobilization and Demobilization among Liberals and Conservatives: The Impact of Political Blogs o Voter Choice and Participation in the 2008 Election Cycle”

Marko M. Skoric, Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore
“Media, New and Old, and Civic and Political Participation in Singapore”

16:00 - 16:30 COFFEE BREAK

THEMATIC WORKSHOPS

16:30 - 18:30 KNOWLEDGE, IGNORANCE, AND MISINFORMATION: QUESTIONS OF DEFINITION, MEASUREMENT AND EXPLANATION
Led by Robert Luskin, Univ. of Texas, Austin

16:30 - 18:30 PERCEPTIONS OF THE MEDIA & THE PUBLIC
Led by Albert Gunther & Hernando Rojas, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison

16:30 - 18:30 NEW MEDIA AND THEIR SOCIOPOLITICAL IMPACT
Led by Matthew Hindman, George Washington Univ.

18:30 - 18:40 Thank you and the end of Day 1

Day 2. March 18 - Segovia

09:00 - 09:30 2 simultaneous campus tours: by Juan José Prat and Miguel Larrañaga

PANEL PRESENTATIONS

09:30 - 11:00 MEDIA INFLUENCES ON PERCEPTIONS

Krzysztof Zagorski, Kozminski Univ., Poland
“Impact of economic news on evaluation of nation’s and family’ s conditions”

Mariano Torcal & Fabiola Mota, Universidad Pompeu Fabra
“English Public Opinion on the Models of the State: The role of partisan elite in shaping public opinion”

Maria Jose Canel, Univ. Complutense de Madrid, Spain
“Who is responsible for this? Public perceptions of public policies and their implications for government communication”

Philemon Bantimaroudis & Stelios Zyglidopoulos, Univ. of Aegean, Greece
“Cultural Agenda Setting”


09:30 - 11:00 POLITICAL DELIBERATION

Joseph Chan & Baohua Zhou, Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong
“Expressive Behaviors across Discursive Spaces and Issue Types”

Ernesto Ganuza, Regina Lafuente, Fernando Garrido, Francisco Frances, IESA/CSIC, Spain
“How deliberation influences on individual attitudinal net”

Wenjie Yan & Zhongdang Pan Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
“Entrapment of One’s Blind Spot: Perceptions of Bias in Others and Deliberative Prospect”

Magdalena Wojcieszak, IE Univ.
"Deliberation Reconsidered: What Happens When People with Extreme Views Encounter Disagreement?"

11:00 - 11:30 COFFEE BREAK

PANEL PRESENTATIONS

11:30- 13:00 SELECTIVITY & ITS EFFECTS

Michael Meffert, Leiden Univ
“Partisan Selectivity for Information and Media Sources”

Natalie (Talia) Jomini Stroud, Univ. of Texas at Austin
“Perceptions of bias in the media”

Jan Kleinnijenhuis, Janet Takens, Wouter van Atteveldt, Anita van Hoof, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
“Partisan news exposure and news effects: A ten‐wave longitudinal study”

Albert Gunther, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
“Information or Affirmation? Partisan Selective Exposure and the Hostile Media Effect”


11:30- 13:00 JOURNALISM: CONTEXT AND CONTENT

Regina Lawrence, Louisiana State Univ.
“Debunking Sarah Palin: Mainstream News Coverage of “Death Panels”

Ibrahim Al-Marashi, IE Univ.
“Reporting on the ‘Shia Bomb:’ Relationship between IR Theory and mainstream U.S. and Middle Eastern news coverage of Iran's nuclear program”

Minha Kim, Sungkyunkwan Univ., South Korea
“Conversational News & Peace Journalism Approach to Media Portrayals of Conflicts”

Motti Neiger, Eyal Zandberg, Oren Meyers, Netanya Academic College, Israel

“Serving the enemy? - Conceptualizing journalistic criticism and public opinion toward it during war and conflict”


11:30- 13:00 POLITICAL PARTICIPATION INTERNATIONALLY

Andrew Rojecki, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, USA
“Tea Party Politics: Making Virtue of Necessity and Necessity of Virtue

Jacob Groshek &Jiska Engelbert, Erasmus Univ. Rotterdam,Netherlands
“A Cross-National Comparison of Populist Political Movements and Media Uses in the United States and the Netherlands”

Joan Font Fábregas, CSIC, Clemente Navarro, Univ. Pablo Olavide, Spain
“Closeness and the evaluation of participatory instruments in English cities”

Weiyu Zhang, Tan Tarn How, Chung Siyoung, National Univ. of Singapore
“Political cynicism and political communications in an authoritarian society”

13:00 - 14:15 LUNCH

PANEL PRESENTATIONS

14:15 - 15:45 POP POLITICS

Gianpietro Mazzoleni, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy
“The success of “pop politics events” in Italy: structural determinants and peculiar audiences”

Michael Xenos, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison & Patricia Moy, Univ. of Washington USA
“The Daily Showand the Nightly News: Agenda Overlap between Political Entertainment and Traditional News Outlets”

Katja Friedrich, Ludwig Maximilians Universitat-Munchen
“Spaces of the (un-)political: Political effects of entertainment media”

Katy Parry, Univ. of Liverpool
“Comedy, Political Subjectivity and the Formation of ‘Public Opinion’”


14:15 - 15:45 NEW WAYS OF LOOKING AT POLITICAL COMMUNICATION

Robert Entman, George Washington Univ., USA
“Polarization and Asymmetric Partisan Warfare”

Kevin G. Barnhurst,Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, USA
"The New “Media Affect” and Representation in Political Communication."

Lance Holbert, Ohio State Univ
"The Shifting of Explanatory Principles in Political Communication Research: A Call for Diversification" Shanto Iyengar

, Stanford Univ, USA
"Future Directions in Political Communication Research: Experimentation with Online Panels."

Thematic

WORKSHOPS 16:15 to 18:15 Led by Shanto Iyengar polarization, Stanford Univ

16:15 to 18:15 AGENDA SETTING IN THE REAL WORLD Led by Roland Schatz, Media Tenor

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Democracy? No thanks



a couple of years ago, during a summer, I met a young politician who worked for a European foundation in the Middle East. Although the objectives of the Foundation included the promotion of peace and democratic values, the young diplomat surprised me with a comment that, years later, I have to share: "The last thing you need to Jordan is a democratic government. With democracy, the most radical Islamists would take power and stability of the country and the region would be endangered. "

Where democracy does not dim with liberalism (protection of individual and minority rights, separation of powers, religious freedom charter, property Private ...), the resulting system can be hell for the minority loses. The religious factor also counts. As the political philosopher Pierre Manent , the correlation between Christian societies and liberal Democrat is no coincidence: Christianity, unlike Islam, it presupposes a separation between the kingdom of God and men. The kingdom of Christ, in fact, not of this world. Islam, however, blurs the distinction between civil law and religious law. For Manent typical political form of Christianity is the nation-state, while the political form of Islam is the rule.

Without the despotic mandate Mubarak is a dictator, or without the fragile balance between religious sects in Lebanon can be seen, pure and simple democracy would put in power the more radical (the Muslim Brotherhood and Hezbollah, respectively). This, once again highlights the taboos advanced by controversial political scientist Carl Schmitt , who saw democracy as a regime based on homogeneity. Liberalism has allowed us to live in ethnically heterogeneous democratic societies, but to be seen whether a majority government to advocate the conflation between civil and religious law is able to respect minorities nonbelievers or followers of other faiths.
Digressions
political theory aside, what really attracted the attention of experts in political communication is the role of new media in the revolutions of Tunisia and Egypt, both for its use within the respective countries, for their alleged effect snowball throughout the Middle East. Interestingly, they agree on the market two books that, to some extent contradictory. The first, more likely to judge the Internet as a means of democratic liberation, is due to Philip N. Howard: The origins of digital democracy: Information technology and Political Islam (Oxford, 2010). The second, entitled The net delusion: The dark side of Internet freedom (PublicAffairs, 2011) and written by Evgeny Morozov, says the network has become a tool for authoritarian regimes to suppress and now able to monitor more effectively with civil society.

A careful reading of these volumes certainly provide a more weighted on the true role of new technologies in the alleged wave of democratization in the Middle East.

Recommended Links:

• Web Project on Information Technology and Political Islam.
• article Philip Howard for the Huffington Post.
• Interview to Philip Howard on his new book .
  
• Video of Philip Howard conference at Duke University.
• Morozov's review of the book by Craig Calhoun , professor of sociology at New York University.
• Morozov's review of the book in The Economist.

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