ComPol rivista – Call for Special Issue

Comunicazione Politica welcomes proposals for special issues on compelling and timely topics. Proposals should be submitted by at least two scholars – at least one of whom must be affiliated with a non-Italian academic institution –who are willing to serve as guest editors. Each proposal should include a concept paper of approximately 600–800 words, outlining:…

Best Paper by a Junior Researcher Award – 2024 Edition

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the Best Paper by a Junior Researcher award for the year 2024 is the paper entitled “Thou shall not be queer. The micro-foundations of anti-gender rhetoric” by Elena Pavan, Aurora Perego, and Matteo Scianna (University of Trento). The paper was presented at the 2024 AssoComPol Conference,…

PhD scolarship application project INTERFACED

Applications are now open for a PhD scholarship within the Horizon Europe project INTERFACED (Interfaces for Democratic Participation: Deliberation, Mobilization and Contestation Since the Onset of the Covid-19 Pandemic). The INTERFACED project undertakes a comparative study involving eight European countries and Tunisia, exploring a wide range of political contexts. It employs a broad array of…

CfA Eleventh Social Science Methodology Conference of RC33

The Call for Abstract to the Eleventh Social Science Methodology Conference of RC33, which will be held from 22-25 September 2025 in Naples, Italy, is open. Scholars from social sciences, and beyond, who are interested in methodological discussions are invited to propose their research contribution. Abstracts must be submitted by 15 March 2025, 23:59 GMT…

CfA AssoComPol 2025 Conference #ComPol25

The call for abstracts for the annual conference of the Italian Association of Political Communication (#ComPol25) is now online.The conference, titled “Media and Politics: Reconfiguring Authority and Trust“, will be held in Milan from July 3 to 5, 2025, at the Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan “Statale.” Important Deadlines: For more…

ComPol N. 3/2024

Online il numero 3/2024 della Rivista ComPol consultabile sul sito RivisteWeb. Indice SAGGI Gaetano Scaduto, Fedra Negri – The Pundit Paradox: Exploring the Mismatch between Supply and Demand in Italian Political Talk Show Guests https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.3270/115244 Aurelia Zucaro – What Matters to Citizens? Exploring Issue Salience in Europe: Insights from Italy, France, and Germany https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.3270/115245 Massimo…

Fringe democracy and platformization of the public sphere – Call for Paper ComPol n. 1/2025

Guest editors Giovanni Boccia Artieri (University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy)Axel Bruns (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)Ehsan Dehghan (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)Laura Iannelli (University of Sassari, Italy) Description The contemporary landscape of digital communication is characterized by a complex interplay of public, semi-public, and private spaces (Boccia Artieri et al., 2021). These digital spaces…