[ICTs-and-Society] Call: ECPR Workshop on Contemporary Transnational Protests & Media

[Christian Fuchs]

Dear colleagues and friends,

the ECPR just opened the call for paper for the next ECPR Joint 
Sessions, in Mainz (Germany) from 11 to 16 March 2013. Donatella della 
Porta and I will direct one of the workshops dealing with the 
transnational dimension of recent protests occurring in the Arab, 
European and North-American countries. With a special focus on 
imageries/practices of democracy and communication/mediation processes. 
Here it is the workshop abstract (you can find a longer description on 
the ECPR website http://ecprnet.eu):
"The workshop intends to analyze the transnational dimension in the 
recent wave of global protests like the Arab Spring, the European 
Indignados, and Occupy Wall Street. Literature on transnational social 
movements flourished in the last decades, exploring social movement 
networks that organized counter-summits demonstrations and social forums 
meetings. Most recent protests across the world had, amongst their 
target, national governments and policies. But they also maintained a 
strong transnational stance. Starting from a comparative perspective, 
the workshop focuses on the transnational mechanisms and processes at 
work in the Arab Spring, the European Indignados, and Occupy Wall Street 
by paying particular attention to 1) imageries and practices of 
democracy and 2) communication and mediation processes."
Please spread the news about the workshop. You can submit paper 
proposals via the ECPR official website. The deadline for submission is 
Monday, 5 November 2012.

Prof. Dr. Donatella della Porta
Department of Political and Social Sciences
European University Institute
Badia Fiesolana, Via dei Roccettini, 9,
50014 San Domenico di Fiesole Firenze, Italy
39 055 4685240 -- secretary (Adele Battistini) 055 4685211
donatella.dellaporta at eui.eu
http://www.eui.eu/Personal/DonatellaDellaPorta/
skype donatelladellaporta