European communication reserch and education assosiation

The broad theme of this major international congress, communication policies and culture in europe, refers to the confluence that can be established between the different interpretations of culture and the media in europe nowadays. This confluence refers to the globalization effects on a diversity of spaces, nationalor local, multinational, with all its political implications.

It moreover refers to the different  interactions and mediations that configure the current european society with respect to new forms of political participation, migrations, the dialectics of identity and diversity, new cultural consumptions, etc. The broad title aims to emphasize the importance of politics and culture, even though refers to new ways of regulation and de-regulation, the technology and the management of convergence within the cultural industries the new public service remit and also the variety of communication policies that aim to guarantee cultural development and diversity in Europe.