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.
Publiziert von: Barbara Ventarola