Dear colleagues, This is a brief reminder that the deadline for abstract submissions for the European Sociological Association's bi-annual conference is this Friday, February 15th. Best, Christian Fuchs Chair, ESA RN18: Sociology of Communications and Media Research http://esa11thconference.eu/call-for-papers/research-networks/RN18 Deadline: February 15th European Sociological Association 2013 Conference "Crisis, Critique and Change" University of Torino, Italy August 28-31, 2013 The ESA 2013 conference asks the overall questions: What is behind the crisis? Which crisis is it? Whose critique is required? What changes are needed? RN18 - Sociology of Communications and Media Research: Communication, Crisis, Critique and Change Call for Abstracts Submission: http://esa11thconference.eu/call-for-papers/research-networks/RN18 (click on panel titles for submission...) ESA RN18 focuses in its conference stream on the discussion of how crisis, critique and societal changes shape the study of media, communication & society today. The overall questions we want to address are: Which crises (including the financial and economic crisis of capitalism, global wars and conflicts, ecological crisis, the crisis of democracy, legitimation crisis, etc) are we experiencing today and how do they influence media and communication in contemporary society? What are the major changes of society, the media, and communication that we are experiencing today? What forms of political critique (political movements) and academic critique (critical studies, critical media sociology, critical theory, etc) are emerging today and are needed for interpreting and changing media, communication and society? ESA RN18 is calling for both general submissions on “Communication, Crisis, Critique and Change” that address these questions as wellas more specific submissions that address a number of specific session topics. Sessions 01RN18 Capitalism, Communication, Crisis & Critique Today 02RN18 Communication, Crisis and Change in Europe 03RN18 Knowledge Labour in the Media and Communication Industries in Times of Crisis 04RN18 Critical Social Theory and the Media: Studying Media, Communication and Society Critically 05RN18 Sociology of Communications and Media Research (open) Joint Sessions 06JS18 - Critical Political Economy of the Media and Communication in Times of Capitalist Crisis and Change Joint session with RN06 - Critical Political Economy Chairs: Ian Bruff & Christian Fuchs 18JS29 - Social Theory and Media Sociology Today Joint session with RN29 - Social Theory Chairs: George Pleios and Csaba Szalo