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**The European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA)
in partnership with USI Università della Svizzera italiana call for
proposals to be presented at the 7th European Communication Conference,
to be held in Lugano, Switzerland, from 31 October to 3 November 2018.**

ECREA and USI are delighted to host the 7th European Communication
Conference (ECC). The Conference has chosen the key theme of "Centres
and Peripheries: Communication, Research, Translation"**.** Organisers
call for proposals that address the main conference theme and which
relate to each ECREA Section, Network or Temporary Working Group.

##### **Conference theme**

This conference aims to analyse and to address the theme **"Centres and
Peripheries: Communication, Research, Translation"** in communication
from a multiplicity of perspectives.

**First**, the conference examines the issues of "core" and "margins",
inviting scholars to stretch the boundaries of media and communication
research as an academic discipline. We welcome presentation of research
that seeks to take communication and media studies to new territories
and new fields of application.

"Stretching" media and communication research means bringing attention
to underdeveloped fields of research and bringing theories, approaches
and methods from other academic fields and disciplines into view.
Academic subjects previously not concerned with aspects of mediated
communication now acknowledge the role of media and communication
processes for their discipline. This is both a challenge and an
opportunity for the future role and socio-cultural impact of media and
communication research.

**Second**, the key conference theme of centres and peripheries means
reconsidering geographical, cultural and linguistic borders or
boundaries. Many areas of media and communication research have been
dominated by American and European scholarship, but these traditions can
learn methodological and theoretical insights coming, for example, from
Asian, South American and African research. In this regard, as the
subtitle of the conference emphasizing "translation" suggests, this also
requires re-examination in the continual dominance of the English
language in academic affairs. There is no doubt that the English
language has become the *lingua franca* in the scientific community,
allowing scholars from different countries to communicate and to access
each other's work. Nevertheless, the English language-centrality needs
to be questioned and discussed in a plurilingual setting such as the
Swiss context and, in particular, when findings in other languages are
marginalized, considered peripheral or less important. This is why
special panels addressing this topic will be organised during the
conference.

Reconsidering borders, however, goes beyond mere reflection and deals
with the materiality of communication flows. In the present global
context of migration and mobility, and where terms such as flow,
mobility, multi-cultural, multi-perspective, transcultural, hybrid and
fragmented are ubiquitous, the issue of what we consider as
communicative centres and peripheries is highly important. We thus also
invite contributions that focus on the stability and fragility of the
concepts of "centre" and "periphery". This topic addresses historical
and spatial instability, understanding and explaining how certain
physical or immaterial entities become centres -- or peripheries -- for
certain issues in critical times (e.g., the Silicon Valley for
technological innovation related to the Internet, online communication
and network societies).

**Third**, the key concepts of centres and peripheries in communication
are associated with economic and political power. Communication flows
often go from rich (central) countries to poor (peripheral) ones. Within
single countries distribution of resources are often unequal in terms of
information and connectedness between privileged and unprivileged areas
(e.g., urban peripheries and rural areas). People in disadvantaged areas
are often excluded by flows, forms and practices of communication that
are taken-for-granted in richer regions. In this regard, we also welcome
contributions addressing European "divides", exclusions or fights for
inclusion from a communication perspective.

##### **Submission and deadline**

Proposals for individual papers, panels, and posters can be submitted to
one of ECREA Sections, Temporary Working Groups and Networks through the
ECREA 2018 [submission
platform](https://www.czech-in.org/cmportalV15/portal/ECC18/normal){target="_blank"
rel="noopener noreferrer"} until **28 February 2018**. Submission opens
on 11 December 2017.

Abstracts should be written in English and contain a clear outline of
the argument, theoretical framework, and, where applicable, methodology
and results. The maximum length of individual abstracts is 500 words.
Panel proposals, which should consist of five individual contributions,
combine a panel rationale with five panel paper abstracts, each of which
shall be no more than 500 words.

Please note that participants can be nominated as the first (presenting)
author in one accepted submission only. If more than one contribution
with the same first (presenting) author is accepted, the participant
stated as the first (presenting) author will be asked to decide which
paper he/she wants to present. There is no restriction on the number of
presentations where a conference participant is listed as co-author and
participants can still act as chair or respondent of a panel.

All proposals must be submitted through the conference website
until** 28 February 2018.** Early submission is strongly encouraged.
Please note that this submission deadline will not be extended.

Abstracts will be published in a PDF Abstract Book. Full papers
(optional) will be published via the conference submission system and
available to registered attendants after logging into the system.

Please consult our [guidelines for
submission](http://www.ecrea2018lugano.eu/submission-guidelines/){target="_blank"
rel="noopener noreferrer"}.

##### **Timeline**

- Submission system opens: **11 December 2017**
- Submission of paper and panel abstracts and posters: **28 February
  2018**
- Notification of Acceptance: **7 May 2018**
- End of Early Bird Registration Fee: **31 August 2018**
- Presenters' registration deadline: **15 September 2018**
- Deadline for submission of the full papers (optional): **1 October
  2018**


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 The European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) in partnership with USI Università della Svizzera italiana call for proposals to be presented at the 7th European Communication Conference, to be held in Lugano, Switzerland, from 31 October to 3 November 2018.
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ECREA and USI are delighted to host the 7th European Communication Conference (ECC). The Conference has chosen the key theme of “Centres and

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