[Bilimsel Haber] Communicating Climate Change - A pre-conference to ECREA 2012, Istanbul, 23 October

26 Mar 2012 Pzt 14:38:02 EEST

Pre-Conference: Communicating Climate Change III - The Audience Perspective
(Changing Climate, Changing Media & Changing Audiences)

*Plato College of Higher Education, Istanbul
23 October 2012*

Event organized by the Institute of Journalism and Communication 
Studies, University of Hamburg
(Team: Prof. Dr. Irene Neverla, Dr. Monika Taddicken & Shameem Mahmud)

hosted by the Plato College of Higher Education

and organized in collaboration with the ECREA thematic sections
Audience and Reception Studies
Science and Environment Communication

*Call for Papers*

Over the past two decades global climate change has emerged as one of 
the most intensely researched and discussed environmental and 
socio-political issues. Like other disciplines, scholars from social and 
behavioural sciences have spent a large amount of time and resources to 
understand public perception, attitude and behaviour regarding climate 
change and related issues. Multiple communication initiatives have been 
undertaken by governments and non-governmental organizations with the 
expectation of increasing public awareness, enhancing understanding, and 
motivating people for actions towards mitigation and/or adaptation. At 
the same time, we have witnessed unprecedented media coverage of the 
issue across the world. Broadly speaking, all these factors have 
contributed to increasing public awareness and understanding about 
climate change.

Nevertheless, it is still unclear what roles the media play in relation 
to audiences' meaning-making and actions with respect to climate change. 
Do audiences draw on media representations of climate change problems 
and solutions in tackling risks of climate change? Are political actions 
on climate change shaped by media coverage? No easy answer is available. 
Research findings vary considerably between cultures, context, time, 
media coverage, and types of climatic risks, along with other factors. 
In recent years, the situation has become more complicated as the 
definition of audiences is going through a transformation in a new 
communicative landscape, which is largely shaped by the Internet and 
mobile technologies. Contemporary audiences are defined as active users 
or producers of media contents instead of the 'passive' consumers of the 
past. They have more channels to access and more platforms to express 
ideas and views transcending barriers of time and space. At the same 
time, in the developing world we have seen a paradigmatic change in 
communication systems in recent years triggered by the immense growth of 
broadcast and print media as well as the introduction of new media. 
Recent studies of climate change coverage in developing countries have 
also shown a trend of increased coverage of the issue. But little is 
known about how such coverage relates to people's understandings and 
actions in developing countries, which often are more vulnerable with 
respect to the effects of climate change.

It is against this background of changing communicative landscapes that 
we propose to re-examine climate change from the perspective of 
audiences and media/audience relations in both western and non-western 
countries. We expect that this conference will bring scholars from 
different scientific disciplines and geographical locations together for 
a critical assessment of existing knowledge of relations between climate 
change, communication and audiences.

We invite scholarly contributions on the following topics, but other 
aspects of the overall conference theme are also welcome:
. Methodological approaches for studying audiences in relation to 
climate change within the changing communicative landscape
. Climate change, communication and media: what influences public 
perceptions and behaviour?
. Changing climate, changing media and changing audiences
. Public understanding of climate change in western and non-western 
countries
. Scientific uncertainty, risk and audience views on climate change
. Climate change, media and politics

*Submission of paper proposals*
Submit a maximum of 500 words abstract of your research paper as a Word 
document file to the e-mail address *ccc3 at uni-hamburg.de *
The last date for proposal submission is *30 April 2012. *
Please include a paper title, author(s) names, affiliations, contact 
address and e-mail. All paper proposals are subject to a double-blind 
peer review process. The language of the pre-conference is English.

*Important Dates*
Abstract submission opens: 26 March 2012
Deadline for abstract submission: 30 April 2012
Notification of acceptance/rejection: 15 June 2012
Deadline for submission of full papers: 15 September 2012
Pre-Conference: 23 October 2012

*Registration for the pre-conference*
Further information about the registration will be available by Friday 
30 March 2012 on this page.

*Pre-conference location*
Plato College of Higher Education
Ayvansaray Caddesi No 33
Balat, Istanbul

Plato College of Higher Education has campuses in Balat and in Taksim. 
Both campuses are located in areas of Istanbul which stand out in terms 
of their cultural and social richness. Plato College of Higher Education 
is spreading its roots and becoming more institutionalised in the 
"street campus" which it is developing in one of the oldest areas of 
settlement of the historical peninsula: Balat.

Participants can easily reach all central locations of Istanbul by 
public transportation which runs from just outside the entrance of the 
campus. Beyoglu/Taksim, which is Istanbul's most dynamic location in 
terms of the cultural, arts and entertainment scene, is only 10 minutes 
away from the Balat Campus.

>  Map <http://en.plato.edu.tr/Page.aspx?id=11>

*Accommodation*
>  Selection of recommended hotels in the central area of Taksim Square 
<http://www.ecrea2012istanbul.eu/accommodation.html>

*Transport
* The pre-conference organisers will provide free shuttle service to and 
from the pre-conference venue to the main transport hub of Taksim Square.

*Further information*
If you have any questions regarding your abstract submission, 
registration or any other issues related to the pre-conference, please 
contact Shameem Mahmud at *shameem.mahmud at uni-hamburg.de
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Related Links
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>  Institute of Journalism and Communication Studies, University of 
Hamburg <http://www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/professuren/ijk/startseite/>

>  Plato College of Higher Education
<http://www.plato.edu.tr>
>  ECREA Audience and Reception Studies Section 
<http://www.ecrea.eu/divisions/section/id/1>

>  ECREA Science and Environment Communication Section 
<http://www.scienv-com.eu/>

Salvatore Scifo
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Salvatore Scifo
General Coordinator, ECREA 2012 Istanbul
4th European Communication Conference
Istanbul, 24-27 October 2012
W:www.ecrea2012istanbul.eu
E:conference at ecrea2012istanbul.eu

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