Advanced Methodologies for Communication Studies
1st Spring School, CECC-FCH-UCP
Lisbon, 10th to 14th April
Organizers:
Rita Figueiras
Verónica Policarpo
Call for Applications
«There are times in life when the question of knowing if one can think differently than one thinks, and perceive differently than one sees, is absolutely necessary if one is to go on looking and reflecting at all.»
These lines of Michel Foucault, in his introduction to the second volume of his History of Sexuality, inspire the core concept of the First Spring School in Advanced Methodologies for Communication Studies, organized by the research line “Media, Technology, Contexts” of the Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC), Catholic University of Portugal. As social phenomena seem to grow in complexity in the mediated world western societies live in, social scientists are invited to reinvent their methodological approaches, defying restrictive views on disciplinary boundaries.
Aiming to discuss the most advanced approaches on research methods and techniques for studying communication issues, the Spring School aspires to be a space of inception of new ideas on how to imagine creative methodologies, as well as how to develop the inheritance of classic ones to the study of emergent and complex phenomena.
What? This Spring School seeks to address questions concerning both the multiple dimensions of communication methodologies at the intersection of culture and communication, and the innovative methods for designing communication research objects of analysis. This will be done through an intensive five days course, which will include a two-hour theoretical session during the morning, a two-hour hands-on session in the afternoon, and a workshop in the end of the day, where students can discuss their own work in progress papers with specialists.
Thematic sessions:
New Communication Theory – Ciro Marcondes Filho (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
Visual Methodologies – Dawn Mannay (Cardiff University School of Sciences, Wales)
Bridging boundaries: “old methodologies”, new insights – Álvaro Pires (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Understanding Media as Practice – Nick Couldry (Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom)
Network Analysis and Visualization at the Age of the Social Web – Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues (University of Oporto, Portugal)
Qualitative materials: rediscovering categorical analysis – Rosalina Costa (University of Évora, Portugal)
For Whom? The School is open to 20 PhD and Master students, post-docs and junior researchers from Communication Studies, and related areas, as well as all social scientists interested in Advanced Research Methods and Techniques or Communication Studies.
Where? In Lisbon, at the facilities of the Research Centre of Communication and Culture (CECC). CECC aims to bring together international key scholars in these fields of inquiry. Recent guests at our events include Barbie Zelizer, Lawrence Grossberg, François Jost, Michael Schudson, Michael Delli Carpini, Richard Grusin, Daniel Dayan, Charles Ess, Gianpietro Mazzoleni. As in previous initiatives, CECC will provide an inspiring venue for fresh intellectual discussion during the upcoming Spring School on Advanced Methodologies in Communication Studies.
CECC is located and the Faculty of Human Sciences of the Catholic University of Portugal, in Lisbon. Elected by the British Academy of Urbanism The European City of the Year 2012, Lisbon is a vibrant place: http://www.visitlisboa.com/Lisbon.aspx
When? April 2012, from the 10th to 14th. Participants are requested to arrive 9th April. Over 5 full days (Tuesday-Saturday) they will attend lectures and take part in discussion groups where they will present their research projects. The working language is English. All participants will receive a Certificate of Completion and will be awarded 3 ECTS.
How and when to apply? Applicants should send their Curriculum Vitae, a one-page cover letter of intentions, and a draft of their work in progress paper (7 000 characters maximum, references included) by email to Sonia Pereira (CECC Representative), sonia.pereira@fch.lisboa.ucp.pt, until February 29th. Candidates will be selected on the basis of the letter stating their motivations to take part in the Spring School, the paper outlining their research projects and their CV. The organizing committee will notify all applicants until March 6th.
Fee: The enrolment fee is 200 Euro, to be paid only on acceptance of the application.
