Various ERN members will be blogging live from Düsseldorf in the two weeks running up to the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 final and in the aftermath of the event. This is a new direction for ERN as we seek to engage less formal and dynamic elements of research on location and from participant observers.

Any registered member of the Eurovision Research Network can post on this blog, which is moderated by a small group of ERN editors to ensure flow and continuity as well as delivering us all from mischievous commentaries that belong elsewhere on the Internet.

Comments are always welcome from all, of course!

See also:
General guidelines for the new ERN blog…

WELCOME
Arnt Maasø – Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo, Norway

INTRODUCTION: Setting the Agenda for Eurovision Studies
Toni Sant – School of Arts & New Media, University of Hull, Scarborough Campus, UK.

ERN MEMBER PRESENTATIONS

The Eurovision Song Contest and the problem of “quality”
Mari Pajala – Media Studies Department, University of Turku, Finland.

Eurovision:  It’s oh so queer
Peter Rehberg – Editor-in-chief, Männer magazine, Germany.

Eurovision and the “New” Europe
Karen Fricker – Department of Drama and Theatre, Royal Holloway, University of London & Milija Gluhovic – School of Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies, University of Warwick, UK.

Nation Branding and Image Building Through Popular Culture: A Case Study of Estonia and Ukraine
Paul Jordan – Department of Central and East European Studies, University of Glasgow, UK.

National Differences at the Eurovision Song Contest: The Seven Essential & Interconnected “Dimensions of Meaning”
Irving Wolther – HMTH Institute for Journalism and Communication Studies, Hannover, Germany.

The Global Networking of Irish Eurovision Song Contest Fans
Brian Singleton – Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

RESPONSE
Apostolos Lampropoulos – Department of French, University of Cyprus.