Summer School 2007 book is ready!

Dear summer school students, authors, and consortium members, and friends of the Summer School

It is our pleasure to announce the publication of our second Summer School Book, entitled "Media technologies and democracy in an enlarged Europe. The intellectual work of the 2007 European media and communication doctoral summer school," edited by Nico Carpentier, Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, Kaarle Nordenstreng, Maren Hartmann, Peeter Vihalemm, Bart Cammaerts and Hannu Nieminen.

You can download a PDF-version of this book - free of charge - from the Summer School website (http://www.comsummerschool.org), or the Researching and Teaching Communication Series website (http://www.researchingcommunication.eu/). The direct link to the book is: Direct link to the summer school book.

All ECREA institutional members, consortium members and authors will also receive a print version. Others can contact the Tartu University Bookshop (at bookshop@ut.ee, see also Tartu University Press) to purchase print copies (if they wish to do so).

This book includes a series of papers that were presented by lecturers and PhD-students at the European Communication and Media Studies Summer School (supported by the EC grant 69935-IC-1-2005-EE-ERASMUS-IPUC-7), in August 2007 in Tartu (Estonia). Contributors are (in alphabetical order): Aukse Balcytiene, Jo Bardoel, Frank Boddin, Bertrand Cabedoche, Bart Cammaerts, Nico Carpentier, Tomasz Goban-Klas, Todd Graham, Janne Halttu, François Heinderyckx, Nicholas W. Jankowski, Richard Kilborn, Katharina Kleinen-v.Königslöw, Anne Laajalahti, Denis McQuail, Andréa Medrado, Hannu Nieminen, Tobias Olsson, Manuel Parés i Maicas, Gregor Petric, Louise Phillips, Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, Laurie Schmitt, Zoetanya Sujon, Maja Turnšek, Martine van Selm, and Xin Xin.

The book consists of seven sections: 1/technology, democracy and policy, 2/journalism, 3/communication and participation, 4/participation and citizenship, 5/European perspectives, 6/methodologies, 7/learning and being. It also includes all PhD-student abstracts of the work presented at the Summer School.

The Summer School is organised by the University of Tartu, in collaboration with a consortium of now 19 universities and ECREA. ECREA's partnership allows PhD-students - that are an individual ECREA member or whose institution is an ECREA institutional member - access to the 2008 Summer School, which will take place in July 2008 in Tartu.

More information can be found at the Summer School website (http://www.comsummerschool.org), at the ECREA website (http://www.ecrea.eu), and at the Researching and Teaching Communication Series website (http://www.researchingcommunication.eu/).

Yours sincerely,
Nico Carpentier & Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt
On behalf of the Summer School Programme Committee and ECREA