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E-book Dialogues between Media

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I introduce this volume with distinct pleasure, since it marks the final step in a journey that started seven years ago, at the ICLA 2013 at the Sorbonne. The deci-sion to host the ICLA 2016 at the University of Vienna meant that, from 2013 to 2016, I had to face the biggest organizational challenge of my career, since I had the honour to support Achim Hölter, the chair of the organizing team, both as senior assistant and as ICLA 2016 program coordinator and editor. The realization of the congress, strenuous as it was, has since then filled me with a very satisfying sense of achievement, and not just a little pride. I would like to take this oppor-tunity to sincerely thank my senior assistant colleague, Constanze Prasek, whose contribution to the success of this event cannot be overstated. The same applies to our numerous student volunteers.As program coordinator, it was my responsibility to arrange slots and venues for 1,895 presentations and meetings. On Friday, July 22nd 2016, we started the general program at 9 A.M. in 44 parallel sessions. Another part of my job was com-municating the program of the congress via a database, online documents, and a printed program. Weighing a total of 1681 kilograms, the printed programs mer-cifully arrived in time to be distributed to the individual welcome bags our guests received on arrival. This print program, however diligently prepared, ceased to provide a 100 % correct outline of the envisaged event the moment it was sent out to the printers. Cancellations, due to illness or political unrest, were of course bound to keep the program in constant flux, and although the organizing team did its best to keep the online program up to date, and to communicate the changes to the congress participants via displays on various screens on the premises, it was impossible to keep track of all changes, comings and goings. During my prepara-tions for this introduction, I looked at the various artifacts that document the ICLA 2016. It is quite an astonishing array of media: minutiae of meetings, protocols, calls for papers, e-mail negotiations with authorities, caterers, printers, publish-ing houses, abstracts from scholars around the globe, peer review reports, the program database, the print file of the programs, the printed program, accounts of conference fees paid, photographs, video and sound recordings of round tables and other events, social media coverage, and so on. The vision of the congress and the building of its infrastructure are well documented, the accounting has been settled and cleared, but the event per se, all these hundreds of presentations, the bustle of the two thousand people who congregated in the University of Vienna for a summer week, remains wonderfully intangible. The organizing team tried to represent and document the action on various media, and the course of the event at least implies that we succeeded in providing a structure to facilitate its execution. Whether a certain presentation definitely took place, however, only those know for sure who actually participated in it. Before the congress, I had read every participant’s name and the title of every presentation on the program several times, and had allocated a room and a time slot to each event, meaning I was quite well acquainted with the program; but when it was all over I realized that, since behind-the-scenes duties had kept me busy, I had only attended two panels in person, and these only because I had been present because of on-site responsibilities anyway.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

302.23 BUC d

Penerbit

Berlin : De Gruyter., 2021

Deskripsi Fisik

677 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9783110642056

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302.23

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

Media of Communication, Mass Media

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