Thursday, 8th of May 2008
Dear guests, thank you very much for your visit at the University of Lugano. We hope, that you’ve enjoyed your stay at the Faculty of Communication Sciences. Pictures of the conference you’ll find here.
Whenever you will come back to Ticino, we are happy to welcome you again!
Your Organisation Team DG PuK 2008
Peter J. Schulz
Simone Keller
Simone Ehmig
Nadia Galli
Nathalie Crivelli
Cristina Furrer
Nicola Diviani

Wednesday, 23rd of April 2008
The Book of Abstracts with summaries of all presentations (including the Open Panels) is now online. --> Program

Wednesday, 9. April 2008
The participants of the public discussion about “Kulturelle und wissenschaftliche Vielfalt als Voraussetzung europäischer Identität“ are fixed now:

• Moderator: Jürgen Wilke – Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
• Mauro Dell’Ambrogio - Schweizer Staatssekretär für Bildung und Forschung
• Wolfgang Donsbach - Technischen Universität Dresden
• Eddo Rigotti - Università della Svizzera Italiana
• Edy Salmina – Informationschef Radio Televisione della Svizzera italiana (RTSI)
• Beate Schneider - Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover

Thursday, 3rd of April 2008
Within the first deadline of March 31st, more than 200 partecipants have already been signing up to the conference. Please note that registrations after April 20, 2008 cannot be anymore considered for the list of participants.

Tuesday, 26th of February 2008
44 reviewers are examining a total of 23 abstracts submitted for the Open Panels. The feedbacks are expected for the 14th of March.

Wednesday, 20th of February 2008
The temporary conference program is now available online.

Monday, 11th of February 2008
The titles of the Keynote Presentations are fixed now:
Elihu Katz: „On Conceptualizing Media Effects“
Sonia Livingstone: „The benefits and harms of media for children: reflections on academic contributions to the policy process”
Otfried Jarren: „Die Medien der öffentlichen Kommunikation. Theoriearbeit als Herausforderung für die Kommunikationswissenschaft“

Monday, 17th of December 2007
The call for papers for open panels is now available online. Submission deadline is the 15th of February 2008.

Wednesday, 12th of December 2007
The results of the review process for the DGPuK Conference 2008 in Lugano are now complete and the authors of the abstracts have been informed. 50 reviewers examined a total of 75 abstracts and 6 panel proposals. Every contribution has been reviewed by 3 subject experts using 6 fivefold scales. Based on the sum of the scale values (maximum 90), the 75 submitted abstracts were ranked, which was the central criterion for the choice of the selected abstracts. The highest rated contribution achieved 85 points (94% of all possible), the lowest score was 33 (37% of all possible points). The 27 highest rated single papers have been chosen for the conference program. To complete the thematic program, an additional 6 abstracts were selected. To choose among the submitted panel proposals, an analog review process has been applied; 3 panels have been selected.

Wednesday, 14th of November 2007
The keynote speakers of the DGPuK Conference 2008 in Lugano are:
Elihu Katz, Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Emeritus Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Scientific Director of the Guttman Institute of Applied Social Research.
Sonia Livingstone, Professor at the Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and President of the International Communication Association (ICA).
Otfried Jarren, Director of the Institut für Publizistikwissenschaft und Medienforschung der Universität Zürich (IPMZ) and Professor at the IPMZ.

Monday, 5th of November 2007
Lugano is a very popular destination. Especially on holidays in springtime the warm temperatures lure numerous guests in Ticino. Therefore, the deadline for some hotel booking via contingent is already in January. We advise all participants to book the hotel rooms early, in order to ensure the price and availability of the rooms. -->HOTEL

Friday, 2nd of November 2007
75 abstracts and 6 proposals for panels have come in and were sent to 50 reviewers. We expect their feedbacks before the 23 of November and we will announce the results of the review process at the beginning of December.