[ecrea] CFP: UDC Project & Censored

> CFP: The Point is to Change it: Media Democracy and Democratic Media 
in Action
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> http://www.democraticcommunications.net/conference/udc-2013/CFP
>
> Union for Democratic Communications and Project Censored Conference 2013
>
> We invite submissions for the Union for Democratic Communication and 
Project Censored conference November 1-3, 2013 at the University of San 
Francisco.  Submission deadline is June 1, 2013.
>
> With increasingly precarious employment, accelerating ecological 
degradation, gulfs between the 1% and the 99%, as well as dramatic booms 
and busts, we need a global media responsive to the 99%.  We need 
rigorous critique of corporate media’s commodification of social life. 
We need critique of all forms of censorship, systematic information 
exclusion, and propaganda.  We need grounded ideas for democratizing 
media in all formats and genres.  We need media justice.
>
> To revitalize and retool media democracy in today’s media landscape, 
the Union for Democratic Communications (UDC) and Project Censored are 
teaming up for our 2013 conference.  UDC, which held its first 
conference in 1981, has worked to overcome concentrated 
political-economic power in order to contribute to a world based on 
economic justice, equality, and peace.  Project Censored, founded in 
1976, has made its mission to expose and counteract modern-day 
censorship.  Together, UDC and Project Censored hope to contribute to a 
more democratic society and world by sharing our scholarly and activist 
projects.
>
> We invite research, activist & artistic proposals from critical 
perspectives interrogating media institutions and technologies, 
political/economic structures, media practices, cultural practices & 
audiences; we invite studies in critical pedagogy and research on media 
activism.  Proposals that address pro-democratic media reform or outline 
efforts to expand citizen access to media are particularly welcome.
>
> We welcome the following proposals emailed to (udcpc2013 /at/ gmail.com) by 
June 1, 2013:
>
> 1. 500-word abstracts that describe the purpose and significance of 
your research and/or activist projects, especially those that address 
the issues outlined in the call.
>
> 2. Full papers (up to 25 pages including references) from graduate 
and undergraduate students.  The top student paper will be considered 
for the Top Student Paper Award. Student papers should be indicated as 
such and also contain a 500-word abstract. Students may apply for 
funding to cover some of their travel expenses through the Jeanne Hall 
Memorial Fund. To be considered for such funding, please include a 
one-line request for consideration of such funding on the top of your 
proposal.
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> 3. Presentations of Media Literacy projects, including films and 
multimedia related to the call.
>
> 4. Finally, we welcome proposals for pre-constituted panels.  Please 
include 500-word abstracts for each participant (4-5 participants) and 
one panel rationale of 200-350 words that articulates the connections 
between the projects and the overall significance of the panel.
>


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