Networks of transnational and transcultural communication:

Concepts in theory, methodology and research

Conference of the International and Intercultural Communication section

of the German Communication Association (DGPuK)

November 22-23, 2012, Erich Brost Institute for International Journalism,

TU Dortmund University, Germany

Program

Integrated PhD workshop (Participation in the PhD workshop is restricted to the presenters and respondents that are listed in the

program. Additional participants will only be admitted on inquiry. If you are interested, please contact the

organizers via e-mail: iic2012@brost.org)

November 22, 2012

13:00 – 14:00 Registration and Snack

14:00 – 14:15 Welcome Address

14:15 – 15:00 Almuth Schellpeper, Dortmund

Mobile journalism in Southern Africa: A tool for media plurality and

participation

Respondent: Thomas Hanitzsch, München

15:00 – 15:45 Christina A. Becker, Düsseldorf

„Think global, act local“: Kulturelle Unterschiede als Herausforderung

interner Unternehmenskommunikation.

Respondent: Alois Moosmüller, München

Chair: Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz

15:45 – 16:15 Coffee Break

16:15 – 17:00 Wiebke Schoon, Hamburg

Der touristische Blick und die (innere) Globalisierung

Respondent: Philippe Viallon, Strasbourg

17:00 – 17:45 Julia Lönnendonker, Dortmund

Zweckbündnis oder Wertegemeinschaft? Konstruktionen europäischer

Identität im Zeitverlauf

Respondent: Mike Schäfer, Hamburg

Chair: Hartmut Wessler

17:45 Conclusion of the PhD workshop

Afterwards Get-together for the main conference „Networks of transnational and

transcultural communication“

Main conference

November 23, 2012

8:00 – 9:00 Registration

9:00 – 9:10 Welcome Address

Hartmut Wessler, Mannheim (Germany)

Julia Lönnendonker, Dortmund (Germany)

9:10 – 10:00 Opening Keynote

George A. Barnett, Davis, California (USA)

A Network Model of International/Intercultural Communication

Chair: Julia Lönnendonker

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 – 12:00 Panel 1

Andreas Hepp, Bremen (Germany)

Networks of transcultural communication: Analysing communicative

figurations in a globalised world

Manu Sharma & Sagorika Singha, Noida, Uttar Pradesh (India)

Transnational cinema and India: A theoretical framework

Uwe Krüger, Leipzig (Germany)

Bringing social psychology back in: Transcultural communication networks

and adult cognitive development

12:00 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 15:00 Panel 2

Christian Schwarzenegger & Susanne Kinnebrock, Augsburg (Germany)

Rooting “Network” in “Space”? Lessons learned from a study on

transnational life-worlds and communication spaces in the Euroregion

Meuse-Rhine

Sigrid Kannengießer, Bremen (Germany)

Translocal networks of civil society organizations: APC Women as an

example

Gerit Götzenbrucker, Jürgen Pfeffer, Fares Kayali, Vera Schwarz, Peter

Purgathofer & Barbara Franz, Vienna (Austria)

Promoting inter-ethnic social networks: 2nd generation migrants and majority

Austrian teenagers playing a positive impact game

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 – 16:30 Panel 3

Monika Lengauer, Kathmandu (Nepal)

Academic journalism education in selected Arab countries: Towards a home-

grown Arab professionalism?

Débora Maria Moura Medeiros, Berlin (Germany)

Global Echoes in Cyberspace: Comparing the coverage of the Belo Monte

Dam on Global Voices Online to mainstream media

16:30 – 17:00 Coffee Break

17:00 – 17:50 Closing Keynote

Jo L. H. Bardoel, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)

Network journalism: The changing role of media professionals in the age of

converging communication spaces

Chair: Tobias Eberwein

17:50 – 18:00 Farewell Address

Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz, Bremen (Germany)

Tobias Eberwein, Dortmund (Germany)

18:00 – 19:00 Meeting of the Section for International and Intercultural Communication of

the DGPuK and NIIK

19:00 Dinner

Venue and registration

The main conference and the integrated PhD workshop take place in the Erich Brost Institute

for International Journalism, Otto-Hahn-Straße 2, located on the northern campus of the TU

Dortmund University.

The conference fee is 30 Euro (20 Euro for students and PhD students). Registration online

only!

Please visit the conference website for further information: http://iic2012.brost.org

Local organization

Dipl.-Journ. Tobias Eberwein/

Prof. Dr. Susanne Fengler/

Dipl.-Geogr. Julia Lönnendonker, M.A.

Erich Brost Institute for International Journalism

TU Dortmund University

Otto-Hahn-Straße 2

D-44227 Dortmund

Tel.: +49 (0) 231/755-4152

Fax: +49 (0) 231/755-4131

www.brost.org