Call for papers for a panel of the ECCR ?New media technologies? section @ The First European Communication Conference KIT, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 24-26, 2005 We would like to invite abstracts for contributions to a panel of the ?New media technologies? section of the ECCR, the European Consortium for Communications Research (http://www.eccr.info/) at the First European Communication Conference (http://www.ecc2005.nl/) in Amsterdam in November. The ECCR aims to strengthen the European research area in media and communication research. Joining forces with the ECA (the European Communication Association ? http://www.eca.org) for this conference, the ECCR is currently expanding its scope. Its links with the IAMCR are still strong, but the emphasis is on facilitating a consolidation of European networking seen as here as additional to, not exclusive from, other networks. Within the existing CfP of the overall conference (to which we have to send the panel applications), we would like to concentrate on the second set of topics: ?State-of-the-art research and theory building? which includes Assessments of the theories and methods developed in the field during the past half century as well as analytical work on lessons learned; Critical summaries of research findings in the various (sub)fields of European communication research; Comparative intra-European communication research; Innovative methodologies, pedagogies and theories; State-of-the-art research findings; Future studies in communication and mediation: issues and methods. The ?New media technologies? section shares the aim of strengthening the European networking efforts. It aims to be a forum that brings together researchers in the field from a variety of backgrounds. The emphasis of the current leadership team is on media and communications studies, cultural studies as well as the representation and sociology of technology. The first emphasis within the section will be on technology and its particular role in relation to both everyday life and cultural theory. This applies to technological and cultural forms and their intersections and crystallisations. Recognising the importance of new media and technologies within the conduct of everyday lives around the world, but also emphasising the limitations of possible changes, this panel aims to concentrate on the axes of new media and technologies as they move across communicational and interactional fields. Possible contributions could cover fields such as the aesthetics and form of new media; digital illiteracy; the domestication of technologies; metaphors of new media; political economies; and cultural theories of technology. Abstracts of no more than 800 words should be sent by April 27th to Maren Hartmann (Maren.Hartmann@uni-erfurt.de). The section was only recently founded and is currently in its formation phase. Thus any contribution made now can help to define what this section?s role within the ECCR shall be. The conference will be the official inauguration of this newly formed section. A section meeting will take place in Amsterdam. Here, new members will be welcomed and asked to contribute to the content-formation of the section. Thus a draft of the ?letter of intent? of the section will be open to discussion. Maren Hartmann (Erfurt, D) Kate O?Riordan (Lancaster/Sussex, UK) Caroline Bassett (Sussex, UK)