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[ecrea] call for abstracts: social media and civic engagement: contesting the mainstream

Wed Sep 05 14:54:37 GMT 2012


CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: SOCIAL MEDIA AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT: CONTESTING THE MAINSTREAM

http://nsice.org/events/

Network on Social Innovation and Civic Engagement (nSICE) will be hosting a workshop to take place in Denmark on November 15-16. The nSICE workshop will be embedded in the biannual conference of the Danish Association of Media Researchers (SMID), the theme of which this year is ‘Media and Civic Engagement’. The conference is organized around three sub themes: (1) ‘Media and Mobility’, (2) ‘Governance, Political Communication and Journalism’ and (3) ‘Social Media and Civic Engagement. Contesting the Mainstream’. The third is organized by nSICE.

Under the heading ‘Social Media and Civic Engagement: Contesting the Mainstream’ nSICE wishes to investigate civic engagement beyond the requirements of liberal citizenship. Taking dissent and protest against the establishment (government, international governance, multinational corporations, etc.) as crucial to the construction of an alternative social and political imaginary, the workshop will discuss the potential of social media for fostering, stimulating and sustaining counter-discourses as well exploring actual such practices of various forms of social actors.

We invite abstracts addressing civic engagement as protest from a range of disciplines, including communication and media studies, cultural studies, political science, development studies and organization/management studies. We welcome abstracts that address issues including, but not limited to:

* Using social media to mobilize for anti-establishment action

* Social media, political dissent and disclosure

* Social media for political consumption and consumer protest

* Social media for challenging discourses of Corporate Social Responsibility

* Protest and Agenda Setting. Interrelationships between social media and the mainstream press

* Online mobilization repertoires for dissent and resistance

As keynote speaker within our theme, as well as participant throughout our workshop, we are fortunate enough to be joined by Lance Bennett <http://www.com.washington.edu/faculty/bennett.html>, who will talk about social media and the waves of protest politics that have swept the Middle East, Spain and the US in recent years. Other invited speakers will be announced in the near future.

The conference takes place in beautiful hotel Vejle Fjord <http://www.hotelvejlefjord.dk/da/moede-og-konference>, in the center of Denmark, a three hour train ride from Copenhagen. The conference fee of 320 EUR covers a single room at the hotel as well as lunches, breakfast, dinner, coffee, etc. As members of nSICE, you are invited to apply for funding towards covering travel expenses. Funding will be competitive and based on the relevance and quality of the abstracts received (PhD students and postdocs who are members of nSICE will be prioritized).

To participate in the conference and the nSICE workshop, please

1. Submit a 300 word abstract to Anne Vestergaard at (av.ikl /at/ cbs.dk) <mailto:(av.ikl /at/ cbs.dk)> by September 15, 2012.

2. If funding is requested, please include a short bio as well as an indication of travel expenses to be covered by nSICE.

For questions of any kind, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

Best regards,

Julie Uldam (network coordinator) and Anne Vestergaard (local organizer and hub coordinator)


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