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15.09.2011

CfP: France’s electoral year 2011-12

  • Ort: Nottinghäm
  • Beginn: 13.09.12
  • Ende: 14.09.12
  • Disziplinen: Medien-/Kulturwissenschaft, Weitere Teilbereiche
  • Sprachen: Französisch, Sprachenübergreifend
  • Frist: 31.05.12

Conference to be held at the University of Nottingham, in association

with the French Media Research Group, 13th & 14th September 2012.

 

With the spotlight on the forthcoming Socialist primaries for the

Presidential election, France is about to enter a year with three major

ballots: the renewal of half of the Senate, the election of the

president, and a new National Assembly. Through the institutions of the

Fifth Republic, the multiparty system and the role of political parties

as the gatekeepers of office, these elections are inextricably linked,

and their media representations impact on each stage of their

development, as does electoral behaviour. The aim of this conference is

to chart and analyse this election-packed year from the perspective of

any of its actors: parties and their candidates, candidates and their

campaign teams, mainstream, alternative and social media, voters,

lobbyists, party militants, media professionals, bloggers and ‘citizen’

journalists.

 

Papers are invited on any of the following (this list is not exhaustive):

 

- The electoral interface: the role of any of the 2011/12 elections in

relation to any of the other elections of the period.

 

- The electoral calendar: real and false starting points, candidate

selection and declaration; high spots, pre-campaign and official

campaign periods; from the first to the second round; consequences.

 

- Electoral campaigns: campaign teams and management, media coverage,

manifestos, themes and image projection, campaign geography and

chronology.

 

- Gender and diversity: candidate profiles; socio-cultural targeting;

voting patterns; profiles of elected assemblies; media representations.

 

- Genres: role of various press outlets and types: newspapers, weekly

magazines, broadcasting, the Internet; tone and register: infotainment,

satire, ‘hard’ politics, celebrity magazines, chat shows, debates, etc.;

word and image / photos; official outlets vs pirated or reappropriated

sites.

 

- The electorate: political affiliation or activism vs depoliticisation;

decided and undecided voters; participation in campaign rallies and

interaction with media outlets; opinion polls; voting patterns and

abstention rates.

 

- Institutions: direct / indirect elections; ‘ordinary’ vs ‘grands

électeurs’ ; /parrainage/ and the definition of a candidate.

 

Proposals should be submitted to both organisers :

 

sheila.perry@nottingham.ac.uk <mailto:sheila.perry@nottingham.ac.uk> and

paul.smith@nottingham.ac.uk <mailto:paul.smith@nottingham.ac.uk>

 

Due date: 31/05/12

 

Please submit an abstract of around 300 words, indicating your subject

of enquiry and the methodology or perspective to be adopted.

 

 

Von:  Paul Smith

Publiziert von: Barbara Ventarola