[H-verkko] CFP: CFP: The role of the Enemy in war propaganda, ECIW 2010 Thessaloniki, Greece

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CFP: The role of the Enemy in war propaganda, ECIW 2010 Thessaloniki,
Greece

The 9th European Conference on Information Warfare and Security,
2010

The 9th ECIW will be organised in 1-2 July 2010, in Thessaloniki,
Greece. The conference will address elements of both theory and
practice of all aspects of Information Warfare and Security, and
offers an opportunity for academics, practitioners and consultants
involved in the domain to come together and exchange ideas. 

The abstract submission deadline is 10 December 2009. Notifications
of abstract acceptance will be sent by 17 December 2009. Full papers
are due for the review process by 28 January 2010. Notifications of
paper acceptance, with any requested changes, will be sent by 8 April
2010. 
Final paper is due in 6 May 2010. Author registration final date is
27 May 2010.

Publication opportunity

Papers accepted for the conference will be published in the
conference proceedings, subject to author registration. The
proceedings for this conference are listed on the Thomson Reuters ISI
Index to Scientific and Technical Proceedings (ISTP/ISI Proceedings),
the Thomson Reuters ISI Index to Social Sciences & Humanities
Proceedings (ISSHP) and the Thomson Reuters ISI Index to Social
Sciences & Humanities Proceedings (ISSHP/ISI Proceedings).

Selected papers from the Conference will be considered for
publication in a special issue of the Journal of Information Warfare:
http://www.jinfowar.com 


Historians of enemy-related discourses and/or war propaganda should
find the following session (mini track) particularly interesting: 

The role of the Enemy in war propaganda.
Track Chair: Marja Vuorinen, University of Helsinki

The importance of propaganda is evident to any observer of aggressive
military regimes. To engage a nation into a war effort it is vital to
establish a figure of 'the Enemy' in the popular imagination. It is
easy enough to recognise such images in the past, e.g. the German as
'the Hun' as seen by the Americans of the First World War, or 'the
Bolshevist Jew' as the imagined conglomerate enemy of the Nazi regime
in the second. But similar images are created by the media, government
officials and representatives of fighting (terrorist) groups even
today. The papers of this track discuss the role of enemy images and
enemy-centred propaganda in many different settings, both past and
present.

Topics for submissions to this mini track may include, but are not
limited to:

* peace-time cases of imagined enemies, passed to mass audiences via
print, celluloid or electronic media, as an overt or covert means of
preparing for a war; in historical or present-day context

* war-time propaganda from, or in co-operation with, official
sources: posters, films, broadcasts, flyers, bulletins, manufactured
news, embedded journalism

* peace-time public discourse on enemy images in comparison to
official propaganda released by a government during a war: a
continuum or a take-off?

* gradual dampening of the sinister image of the enemy and
re-introducing their more human qualities as a part of preparing for
peace, to ease the future co-operation with the former enemy

* 'securitizing', or making something originally harmless into a
security issue, particularly as a cold-war practice

* approaches on propaganda and enemy issues in different academic
disciplines, including media studies, identity sociology, discourse
analysis and semiotics

More information:

http://academic-conferences.org/eciw/eciw2010/eciw10-home.htm
http://academic-conferences.org/eciw/eciw2010/eciw10-minitrack.htm
marja.vuorinen at helsinki.fi
 

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Ilmoituksen lähetti: Marja Vuorinen <marja.vuorinen at helsinki.fi>
Ilmoitus vanhentuu: 10.12.2009
Lisätietoja WWW-osoitteesta:
http://academic-conferences.org/eciw/eciw2010/eciw10-minitrack.htm