A1 - Leadership, campaigns and theoretical frames
Chairperson: Matthew Hibberd

Kevin Rafter,

Dublin City University, Ireland

Leadership debates in Ireland

Christian Schnee,

University of Worcester, UK

Presenting the Prime Minister. An exploration of strategic reputation management in British politics

Iryna Sivertsava,

University of Bologna, Italy

European Parliament Election

Gianluca Giansante,

Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Empires of the Mind. Metaphors and strategic discourse in Italian politics

C1 - TV, Press and beyond
Chairperson: Paolo Peverini

Ville Pitkänen,

University of Turku, Finland

The changing representations of political leadership. Political television debates in Finnish newspapers from 1960’s to the new millennia

Denisa Kasl Kollmannovà,

Charles University Prague, Czech Republic

“Family Picture” – Interaction of Political PR and Media in Portraying Private Issues of Czech Politicians

Nigar Degirmenci,

Pamukkale University, Turkey

Berlusconization Process of Politics in Turkey: Political Parties, Individual Politicians and Media

D1 - Political Communication in the age of web 2.0
Chairperson: Fausto Colombo

Andrea Burmester,

University of Zurich, Switzerland

What do our representatives want us to know about them. A comparison of content provided on politicians’ homepage

Giorgia Pavia,

LUISS University Rome, Italy

From clicktivism to web-storytelling: the relationship between politics and TV as audience sees and concretizes it through the web

Francesco Pira,

University of Udine, Italy

Communicate to the voters in the Facebook era. Political communication and the online identity that still lacking in Italy Politicians

A2 - Leadership, campaigns and theoretical frames
Chairperson: Domenico Fracchiolla

Alejandro de Marzo,

University of Bari, Italy

International mediatic fluxes and political State governance

Ali Fuat Borovali,

Dogus University Istanbul, Turkey

Deciphering the Codes of  (recent )  Turkish Foreign Policy:  The 2011 Libyan  Episode as  Case-study

Hale Oner,

Dogus University, Turkey

Servant leadership within the context of Prime Minister Erdogan’s political communication discourse in 2002 elections in Turkey: Serving the society as customer consumers or citizen consumers

Sunthai Constantini,

University of Kent, UK

From Alo Presidente to Participatory Democracy: notions of political communication in the case of Hugo Chavez

D2 - Political Communication in the age of web 2.0
Chairperson: Daniela Gentile

Lorenza Parisi, Rossella Rega,

Sapienza University Rome, Italy

Disintermediation on political communication: chance or missed opportunity?

Antonio Momoc,

University of Bucharest, Romania

The rising of Romanian President Traian Basescu and the role of digital guerilla

Maria Cristina Sciannamblo,

LUISS University Rome, Italy

Internet goes to politics. From pirates to political leaders: the Swedish Pirate Party

Donatella Selva,

LUISS University Rome, Italy

Net-based participation

E1 - Intersections
Chairperson: Michael Higgins

Mari K. Niemi,

University of Turku, Finland

Changing Political Leadership. Party Leader Selection in Finnish Media Publicity

Bianca Marina Mitu,

University of Bucharest, Romania

Social Movements, Leaders and the Public Sphere

Enrico Gandolfi,

LUISS University Rome, Italy

The virtual nodes as erosion of the national view; the destruction of the inside/outside in Egypt (Twitter), Japan (Mixi) and Brazil (Orkut)

E2 - Intersections
Chairperson: Paolo Peverini

Norman Melchor R. Peña Jr.,

Pontifical Salesian University, Vatican City

Animating Leadership: Symbio-political Communication Paradigms from the Japanese Manga Dragon Ball Z

Mesut Hakki Casin,

Yeditepe University Istanbul, Turkey

Can Turkish diplomacy become a model following the revolutions in the Middle East?

Ruben Arnoldo Gonzalez Macias,

University of Leeds, UK

Partisan Realms. Political news produced by a journalist-politician relationship shaped by the local media system:  The case of Morelia, Mexico

D3 - Political Communication in the age of web 2.0
Chairperson: Michael Higgins

Agnese Vardanega,

University of Teramo, Italy

The role of Web 2.0 in Italian local campaigns: the case of 2011 regional elections

Karolina Koc-Michalska,

Science-Po Paris, France

Darren G. Lilleker,

Bournemouth University, UK

“Hello!? Any leaders here?” Community leading, knowledge sharing and representation: MEPs use of online environments for e-representation

Todd Graham,

University of Groningen, The Netherlands

User generated content, journalism and the public sphere: The case of comment fields at the Guardian

Meria Almonkari, Pekka Isotalus,

University of Tampere, Finland

Current Trends in Political Communication and Criteria for Political Leaders. Perspectives of the Finnish Press and Party Leaders