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[ecrea] CFP: NCA PreConference / Media & Class in the 21st Century

Mon Aug 15 17:54:31 GMT 2016






CALL FOR PAPERS / NCA PreConference: Media and Class in the 21st Century
9:00a.m. – 5:00p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016, Philadelphia, PA
Submission deadline: September 9, 2016
Notification of acceptance: October 1, 2016

The NCA preconference seminar on Media & Class in the 21st Century will bring together scholars from many communication subfields working at the intersection of media and class, with specific focus on how understandings of class are changing in contemporary media contexts. This preconference will engage the conference theme, Communication’s Civic Callings, deepening the theme’s relationship to issues of economic disparities and considering the role of media in relation to issues of economic justice. This daylong seminar will consist of two plenary sessions, brief presentations of position papers by participants, small group interactions and an interactive lunch that encourages scholars to meet others who share their interests.

We invite prospective participants to submit a 2-5 page position paper* that draws upon empirical or critical approaches in an exploration of contemporary and/or historical issues at the intersection of media and class that may include but are not limited to:

- Intersections of race, gender, and class in technological uses and developments
- Technologies in lower income households
- Media as social and cultural capital for middle class / privileged mobility
- Class and media in electoral campaigns
- Digital labor and global digital economies
- Mobile technologies and globally dispersed labor forces
- Digital financialization
- Micro-work and micro-transactions
- Practices of prosumerism and produsing
- Technologies in rural and developing world settings
- Digital representations and computer-mediated communications of identity
- Intersections of class and religious, political, ethnic, cultural, national, regional, sexual, gender, and social identities and relationships with comm technologies - Construction of socioeconomic and demographic labels in representation and their consequences

* NOTE: 1 to 2-page drafts are acceptable at the time of submission, but full 2 to 5 page papers must be submitted within two weeks of acceptance.

Position papers should be submitted as email attachments in MS Word to Erika Polson and Lynn Schofield Clark at: (Media.and.Class /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(Media.and.Class /at/ gmail.com)> . The deadline for submissions is September 9, 2016. Acceptance decisions will be made by October 1, 2010. Additional information about the seminar can be found at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AGf-LayMAH5EIJPTJdozZD9omUWanCeiJoF-l8fi98w/edit?usp=sharing <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AGf-LayMAH5EIJPTJdozZD9omUWanCeiJoF-l8fi98w/edit?usp=sharing>


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