[ECN] Call for Papers: IAMCR Environment, Science and Risk Communication Group

Environment, Science and Risk Communication Working Group CALL FOR PAPERS The Environment, Science and Risk Communication Working Group invites proposals for papers to be presented at the 2010 International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) Conference in Braga, Portugal, July 18-22, 2010. Papers from the full range of environment-science-risk-communication topics and perspectives will be considered, and those relating to the conference theme ‘Communication and Citizenship: Rethinking Crisis and Change’ will be particularly welcome. Key themes for the Braga sessions of the Working Group will include: * Communication, environmental justice and human rights * Media and global environmental change and controversy * Media and public understanding of science/environment issues * Science and health-related media panics * Science/environmental journalism * Media-communication roles in environmental disasters * Political uses/constructions of nature * Media and environmental pressure groups * New media and activism on science/environment issues. Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be submitted via the conference website at http://www.iamcr2010portugal.com/ by January 31st 2010. Notification of the results of the abstract selection process will be issued by 15th March 2010. Full papers are due by 30th April 2010 and should be submitted via the conference website. Working Group Chair: Anders Hansen Department of Media and Communication University of Leicester University Road Leicester LE1 7RH UK Email: ash@le.ac.uk ECN - Mailing list of the Environmental Communication Network: http://www.esf.edu/ecn/ To subscribe to, unsubscribe from, or change your settings for ECN go to: http://listserv.syr.edu/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=ecn&A=1 Indications: Environmental Communication and Culture blog: http://indications.wordpress.com/

Environment, Science and Risk Communication Working Group

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

The Environment, Science and Risk Communication Working Group invites proposals for papers to be presented at the 2010 International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) Conference in Braga, Portugal, July 18-22, 2010.

 

Papers from the full range of environment-science-risk-communication topics and perspectives will be considered, and those relating to the conference theme ‘Communication and Citizenship: Rethinking Crisis and Change’ will be particularly welcome.

 

Key themes for the Braga sessions of the Working Group will include:

• Communication, environmental justice and human rights
• Media and global environmental change and controversy
• Media and public understanding of science/environment issues
• Science and health-related media panics
• Science/environmental journalism
• Media-communication roles in environmental disasters
• Political uses/constructions of nature
• Media and environmental pressure groups
• New media and activism on science/environment issues.

 

Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be submitted via the conference website at  http://www.iamcr2010portugal.com/
by January 31st 2010.

 

Notification of the results of the abstract selection process will be issued by 15^th March 2010.

 

Full papers are due by 30^th April 2010 and should be submitted via the conference website.

 

Working Group Chair:

Anders Hansen

Department of Media and Communication

University of Leicester

University Road

Leicester LE1 7RH

UK

Email: ash@le.ac.uk

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