The Association of the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI)
2008 Annual Conference
In association with the Italian Cultural Institute, Edinburgh and the Stirling Media Research Institute
The Media in Italy : Historical Perspectives and Future Challenges
21-22 November 2008
Italian Cultural Institute, Edinburgh, 82 Nicolson Street Edinburgh
CALL FOR PAPERS
Introduction
From the development of newspapers in the 18th and 19th Centuries to the emergence of the internet and other digital technologies, the media have had a significant impact across the Italian peninsula. But if the media have influenced political and social institutions and democratic processes, social developments have also played a central part in Italian media development. From Fascist domination of the mass media to post-war partition of public service broadc as ting and party-controlled newspapers, political patronage of media institutions h as remained a strong feature of Italian life. The development of social utility or networking sites means that Italian consumption of media is changing, especially among the young. Recent years have also witnessed the rapid growth in academic research examining relations between media development and collective memory, identity and nation-building. The development of new technologies has altered irrevocably the ways in which politicians communicate with their electorates and how Italians engage with one another. The 2008 ASMI Conference will bring together leading academics from history, the political and social sciences, film and media studies to examine issues relating to the conference theme: the media in Italy : historical perspectives and future challenges.
ASMI is now soliciting 500-word abstracts of papers, including postgraduate student papers, for presentation at the 2008 conference. Proposals should be based on current theoretical or empirical research relevant to the conference themes, and maybe from any disciplinary perspective. Individual papers may, amongst other topics, focus on the following academic subjects:
1) Media in late 18th and 19th Century
2) The Internet, New Technologies and National Life
3) The Media and Italian Collective Memory/Forgetting
4) Media Economics, Policy and Ownership
5) Political Communication
6) Gender and Communication
7) News and Journalism
8) Film and Documentary in Italian Life
9) Immigration, Race and the Media
10) Media in the Christian Democrat era
11) Communism and the Media
12) Post War Cinema
13) Public Service Broadc as ting
14) Newspapers, Cinema and Radio During Fascism
15) Media in the Berlsuconi Era
16) Devolution, Italian Regions and the Media
17) Minorities and Media
18) The Digital Revolution
19) Social Networking Websites
Submissions are due by June 15th, 2008 and should be sent to Dr Matthew Hibberd at m.j.hibberd@stir.ac.uk
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