*CFP* CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTER, ROUTLEDGE STUDIES IN EUROPEAN COMMUNICATION RESEARCH AND EDUCATION SERIES

The Series Editors Galina Miazhevich, Christina Holtz-Bacha and Ilija Tomanic Trivundza invite the submission of book proposals for the Routledge Studies in European Communication Research and Education Series.

The Book Series aims to provide a diverse overview of the work of ECREA members and working groups, showcasing

• diversity of topics and areas within the field of contemporary media and communication research, and 
• addressing this diversity from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, and 
• promoting collaborative research of our members, either within or between ECREA Sections, Networks and Temporary Working Groups (S/N/TWGs).

 

New Series Feature – Open Access

*CFP* "PARTICIPATION IN A WORLD OF COMMUNICATION" INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM, UCLOUVAIN SAINT-LOUIS

Participation in a world of communication

International colloquium

September 12 & 13, 2019

UCLouvain Saint-Louis, Brussels (Belgium)

The issues of participation overwhelm discourses and practices, while questioning at the same time the visions of communication that they involve. Participation remains nevertheless a polysemic concept, reinterpreted by different disciplines, as it can be employed by multiple and diverse lines of activities: politic, social, economic, cultural, etc. As a scientific concept, it is used in different fields of research such as political sciences and management sciences, but also in sociology, cultural studies… and information and communication sciences. During this conference, we wish to revisit and question the concept of participation, while making these different approaches interact with each other. Exploring the concept of participation with a communicative approach, beyond disciplinary differences, is making us question peripherical concepts such as collaboration, debate, mobilization and even engagement. During this conference, we acknowledge participation as a boundary object. It can be defined as a “rhizome” in which different points of views encounter each other and cooperate.