[ecrea] Surveillance, Social Media, & Identity: CFP

*Call for Papers*

*Surveillance, Social Media, & Identity *

*/24th - 25th October 2018 /*

De Montfort University,ClephanBuilding, Bonners Lane, Leicester

*SUBMIT*: 250-word abstract to (mdcevent /at/ dmu.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(mdcevent /at/ dmu.ac.uk)> by 1st August 2018 with name/title/affiliation

*SEND FULL PAPERS*: 6,000-8,000 words to (mdcevent /at/ dmu.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(mdcevent /at/ dmu.ac.uk)> by 8th October 2018 (peer reviewed material 
will be considered for IJMD, see below)

*REGISTER*: Conference is free, with lunch provided, but register at 
Eventbrite link -

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/surveillance-social-media-identity-tickets-48037364049

(See below for suggested content, and confirmed panel keynotes and 
speakers from the Media Discourse Centre)

*+++ MEDIA DISCOURSE CENTRE +++*

http://www.dmu.ac.uk/research/research-faculties-and-institutes/technology/media-discourse/media-discourse-centre.aspx

*Journal Launch*: IJMD, 2019, International Journal of Media Discourse

(Editors: Ruth Sanz Sabido, CCCU; Ben Harbisher, DMU; Stuart Price, DMU)

Queries re. Journal, write to: (mdcjournal /at/ dmu.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(mdcjournal /at/ dmu.ac.uk)>

*Surveillance, Social Media, & Identity*

Attitudes to the growth and use of Social Media have evolved, from 
broadly positive conceptions of their role as instruments/sites of 
democratic exchange, to less favourable assessments that identify their 
part in the reproduction of an inequitable and fractious social order. 
In recent years, greater emphasis has been placed on the Faustian 
bargain that the ‘consumer-citizen’ (Needham, 2003; Clarke and Newman, 
2007) has been forced to strike with the ‘platform capitalists’ 
(Srnicek, 2016) who control access to this domain of sociability, and 
more attention has been devoted to the role of the state in monitoring 
online behaviour (Trottier, 2015). This observation should not suggest 
that ‘new’ media forms are solely responsible for the destruction of 
privacy, the repression of dissent, or the enlargement of individual 
egos, because technological developments throughout history can be 
subjected to the same kind of critical analysis.

One of the key questions is, therefore, the particular role of social 
media in both facilitating and regulating expressions of human agency, 
as people attempt to build networks of like-minded individuals, 
establish forms of intimacy, and intervene in political controversies. 
The promotion of the ‘self’ as a cultured, capable, autonomous and yet 
connected being, requires the careful maintenance of online profiles and 
the constant revision of ‘status’. In addition, those driven by the goal 
of professional attainment try to draw attention to their ‘marketable’ 
skills and abilities. Yet, if the price of entry to this new sphere of 
influence is self-exposure, then these selves are composed of elements 
that are, in part, specifically chosen in anticipation of the scrutiny 
that they will receive (not only from the ‘weak ties’ established 
between fair-weather Facebook friends, but from intelligence agencies 
and corporate power).

This conference examines the ways in which mediated identity is 
constructed and monitored, which can encompass the circulation of 
communal identity, the reproduction of gendered personas, and the role 
of state and corporate formations in the segmentation of individuals 
through their political allegiance and ‘lifestyle’ choices. It also 
engages with recent revelations that describe the attempted manipulation 
of opinion and electoral preferences, and the rise of forms of 
surveillance designed to pre-empt the supposed ‘radicalisation’ of 
disaffected groups.

*Papers may include, but need not be confined, to the following:*

Workplace surveillance and forms of resistance

Corporate surveillance of the consumer-citizen

Self-promotion in the digital ‘marketplace’

Histories of surveillance

Counter-surveillance and political consciousness

Protest events and policing

‘Securitisation’ and public insecurity

The contested identity of the ‘refugee’

Feminist identities and politics

Collective identities and ‘cultural’ resistance

Online rumour and state intervention

*Confirmed speakers from the Media Discourse Centre (panel keynotes in 
italics):*

/Electronic Music Collectives (Zoe Armour)/

/‘Breaking’ Cambridge Analytica (Alice Gibbs)/

/Surveillance and political identity (Ben Harbisher)/

Greece & Cyprus: Political Agency, Identity and Gender (Nayia Kamenou)

Online Feminist Identities (Claire Sedgwick)

Iraq: Gender and Online Identity (Ahmed Bahiya)

UK: Child sexual abuse, surveillance, control (Jason Lee)

Brazil: Collective identity and resistance (Fernanda Amaral)

China: Misinformation and mistrust: rumours on Chinese social media (Yu Sui)

Italy: Autonomy, Surveillance and Power (Marco Checci)

Sociopolitical digital heritage in Israel-Palestine (Gil Pasternak)

Spain: Leftism, Nationalism and Identity (Stuart Price)

Identity, Class and Intergenerational Change (Gurvinder Aujla-Sidhu)

UK R10 Studio: Surveillance, Re-appropriated Post War Technologies 
and Evotronics

(Mazzitelli, Towers, Frize and Kelly)

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