<html><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><META name="Author" content="Novell GroupWise WebAccess"></head><body style='font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: #FFFFFF;'><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7469"><b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7773" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I <span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7774">EvalComDev</span> International Conference</b></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7469"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">9th -11th May 2017, Cadiz, Spain</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7469"> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin-bottom: 0cm;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7776"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7777"> </div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin-bottom: 0cm;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7778"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7779" lang="en-GB">This conference is convened within the framework of the <span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7780">EvalComDev</span> R&D Project, which aims to evaluate the field of Communication for Development and Social Change,</span><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7781" color="#4f81bd"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7782" lang="en-GB"> </span></font><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7783" lang="en-GB">closely linked to social justice, so that its guiding principles can be put into practice and its social impact can be reinforced.</span></div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin-bottom: 0cm;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7784"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7785"> </div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin-bottom: 0cm;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7786"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7787" lang="en-GB">The <span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7788">EvalComDev</span> Conference (Evaluation of Communication for Development and Social Change) is a continuation of the research and work lines started by Lennie & Tacchi (2013), among others. Its main objective is to share the research and experiences that, </span><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7789" color="#000000"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7790" lang="en-GB">at an inte</span></font><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7791" lang="en-GB">rnational level, have facilitated progress in the discussions within the C4D field. In this regard, these are some of the questions that lie at the heart of this conference:</span></div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin-bottom: 0cm;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7792"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7793"> </div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin-bottom: 0cm;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7794"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7795" lang="en-GB">- Which theoretical and methodological approaches currently coexist within the C4D field? To what extent is the C4D field being receptive t</span><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7796" color="#000000"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7797" lang="en-GB">o the chall</span></font><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7798" lang="en-GB">enges and needs raised by the financial crisis and to the alternative proposals that have emerged in both the </span><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7799" color="#000000"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7800" lang="en-GB">North a</span></font><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7801" lang="en-GB">nd the Global South?</span></div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin-bottom: 0cm;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7802"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7803"> </div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin-bottom: 0cm;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7804"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7805" lang="en-GB">- What research and evaluation strategies are likely to be recreated in contexts different from the ones where they arose?</span></div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin-bottom: 0cm;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7806"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7807"> </div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin-bottom: 0cm;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7808"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7809" lang="en-GB">- What might be the indicators that would enabl</span><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7810" color="#000000"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7811" lang="en-GB">e</span></font><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7812" color="#000000"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7813" lang="en-GB"> an advance in the t</span></font><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7814" lang="en-GB">ranslation, into operational terms, of guidelines, approaches, methodologies and knowledge historically accumulated within the C4D field?</span></div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin-bottom: 0cm;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7815"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7816"> </div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin-bottom: 0cm;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7817"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7818" lang="en-GB">The <span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7819">EvalComDev</span> Congress is conceived as a place of exchange, closer to a working seminar than to a mega event. For this reason, we expect the conference not to be an overcrowded space. In the selection of papers, priority will be given to researchers and mediactivists who work, specifically, in the field of evaluation, monitoring or systematization of experiences, or, </span><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7820" color="#000000"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7821" lang="en-GB">failing </span></font><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7822" lang="en-GB">this, to researchers who have been working in C4D for </span><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7823" color="#000000"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7824" lang="en-GB">the last few years.</span></font></div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin-bottom: 0cm;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7825"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7826"> </div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin-bottom: 0cm;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7827"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7828" lang="en-GB">So far, the following international experts have confirmed their participation:</span></div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin-bottom: 0cm;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7829"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7830"> </div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin-bottom: 0cm;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7831">Jo Tacchi (RMIT University, Australia)</div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin-bottom: 0cm;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7832">Florencia Enghel (Stockholm University, Sweden).</div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin-bottom: 0cm;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7833">Thomas Tufte (University of Leicester, United Kingdom).</div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin-bottom: 0cm;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7834">Benjamin Ferron (UPEC, Paris, France)</div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin-bottom: 0cm;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7835">Enrique Bustamante (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain).</div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin-bottom: 0cm;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7836">Manuel Chaparro (University of Malaga, Spain).</div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin-bottom: 0cm;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7837">Manuel Martínez Nicolás (King Juan Carlos University, Spain).</div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin-bottom: 0cm;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7838"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7839"> </div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin-bottom: 0cm;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7840"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7841" lang="en-GB">Call for abstracts (450-500 words maximum) ends on the 31st October 2016.</span></div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin-bottom: 0cm;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7842"><br></div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin-bottom: 0cm;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7846">Sections</div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin-bottom: 0cm;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7847"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7848"> </div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin-bottom: 0cm;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7849"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7850" color="#000000"><b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7851">L1. To measure communication and social change: research, indicators, debates, trends.</b></font></div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin-bottom: 0cm;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7852"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7853" color="#212121">Coord.: Víctor Manuel Marí Sáez (UCA) (Chair) and Jesús Rengel, (UCA).</font></div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin-bottom: 0cm;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7854"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7855" color="#000000">How to measure the CDSC? What are the theoretical, methodological and political challenges in this field? In this section those communications that reflect around these issues (trends, debates and instruments) will be included. Additionally, those communications that address the question of the most appropriate and useful indicators to measure the CDCS will be taken into account.</font></div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin-bottom: 0cm;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7856"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7857"> </div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin-bottom: 0cm;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7858"><b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7859"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7860" color="#212121">L2. </font><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7861" color="#000000">Communication and Social Change from the organizations of the Third Sector of Communication and social movements.</font></b></div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin-bottom: 0cm;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7862"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7863" color="#000000">Coord.: Javier Erro (UPNA) (Chair) and Gonzalo Ceballos (UCA).</font></div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin-bottom: 0cm;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7864"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7865" color="#000000">In this section we accept communications led from the Third Sector of Communication and the social movements based on case studies or their own communicative experiences.</font></div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin-bottom: 0cm;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7866"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7867" color="#000000">We are looking for papers based around communication strategies, plans and actions put into practice with the active participation of citizens and the promotion of socio-political transformation of reality.</font></div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin-bottom: 0cm;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7868"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7869"> </div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin-bottom: 0cm;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7870"><b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7871"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7872" color="#212121">L3. Transmedia and social change.</font></b></div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin-bottom: 0cm;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7873"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7874" color="#000000">Coord: Juan Pagola (Deusto) (Chair) and Marta Sánchez-Saus (UCA)</font></div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin-bottom: 0cm;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7875"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7876" color="#000000">From this section we propose a reflection on the connections between narratives, the discourses and the social change. Faced with the discourses and representations that promote a spectacularization of the reality, without driving structural changes, we intend to explore new avenues from which the NGOs and social movements propose new narratives connected to new emancipatory practices.</font></div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin-bottom: 0cm;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7877"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7878"> </div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin-bottom: 0cm;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7879"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7880" color="#212121"><b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7881">L4.The Political Economy of the Development and Communication.</b></font></div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin-bottom: 0cm;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7882"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7883" color="#212121">Coord: Joaquín Arriola (UPV) and Mercedes Jiménez (UCA)</font></div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin-bottom: 0cm;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7884"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7885" color="#000000"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7886" lang="en">How is development conceived from the CDSC point of view? How is the communicative dimension integrated into the new political economy of development? We seek reflections that bring up new perspectives to advance the theoretical and practical understanding of the cognitive or nformational revolution in the creation of new territorial and social development dynamics.</span></font></div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin-bottom: 0cm;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7887"><br></div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin-bottom: 0cm;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7891">More information can be found at the Conference <font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7892" color="#000000">Website:</font></div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin-bottom: 0cm;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7893"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7895" color="#000000" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://conferencias.uca.es/index.php/EvalComDev/IEvalComDev/index" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">http://conferencias.uca.es/ind ex.php/<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475658442982_7896">EvalComDev</span>/IEvalComDev/ index</a></font></div></div><div class="signature"> </div> </div> </body></html>