[ecrea] CFP Media Freedom

*Call for Papers*

*Media Freedom*

*International Symposium at Lund University,**Sweden*

Department of Communication and Media, *March 15th 2018*

Organisers: Annette Hill, Michael Rübsamen and Zaki Habibi

Freedom is embedded within the values of media and democracy. Seemingly 
self evident freedom is hard won and comes at a cost in media, culture 
and society. Media freedom evokes our right to communicate, where access 
to media and public spheres holds the promise of freedom of expression, 
diversity of representation, and media accountability. The constraints 
on media freedom occur in the form of state control, a lack of public 
accountability and restricted access to technological infrastructures 
and content across geographical and economic borders. Constraints also 
appearwhere the market freedoms of media institutions eclipse the civic 
freedoms of audiences and users. In the current climate of the rise of 
populism, fake news and filter bubbles within the social network media 
economy, neo liberal politics and commercial logics threaten to narrow 
civic liberties within the populist divide, This international symposium 
critically examines media freedom and stricture, addressing both the 
values of creative freedom and communicative rights and the ways in 
which these may be compromised.

We invite contributions to this symposium on media freedom that address 
the theme from political, social-cultural and personal perspectives. The 
symposium seeks to debate both the political economic and policy 
contexts to media freedom and the aspects of freedom related to creative 
labour, representation and cultural practices. Contributions ought to 
address the following areas of enquiry: media and democracy, political 
engagement and social activism, technological infrastructures and the 
material aspects of freedom, freedom of expression and creative freedom, 
media independence and media work, cultural citizenship, popular 
culture, media audiences, media censorship and media ethics, amongst 
other areas of inquiry. The research questions include: 1. How can we 
critically examine media freedom in news, radio and television, film, 
digital and social media? 2. In what ways can we understand freedom in 
the context of contemporary media ecologies? 3. What are the power 
dynamics of freedom in media, society and culture? Different approaches 
to research on media and freedom can include media, communication and 
cultural studies, political communication, sociology and anthropology, 
cultural geography, media history, film studies, memory studies, amongst 
others.

Confirmed speakers include John Corner (Leeds University), Rita 
Figueiras (Catholic University Lisbon) Des Freedman (Goldsmith’s 
College, London), Joke Hermes (InHolland University, Netherlands), 
Annette Hill (Lund University), Viola C Milton (University of South 
Africa), Winston Mano (University of Westminster, UK), and Jane Roscoe 
(University of West of England, UK),

Please submit an abstract of 300 words in English by *December 12th 
2017* to the conference email: (mediafreedom /at/ kom.lu.se). For further 
information please consult our website http://www.kom.lu.se/mf2018_. 
_There is a registration fee of 800 SEK (85 Euros) that covers food and 
drink for the day and an evening buffet.



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