[ecrea] IAMCR - CFP - Re-imagining Sustainability: Communication and Media Research in a Changing World

Reminder
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
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IAMCR 2018 | 20-24 June | Eugene, Oregon, USA | Call For Proposals

The International Association for Media and Communication Research 
(IAMCR) invites submissions of abstracts for papers and panel proposals 
for the IAMCR 2018 conference to be held 20-24 June at the University of 
Oregon in Eugene, Oregon, USA. The deadline to submit abstracts is 23:59 
UTC on 31 January 2018.

Proposals for consideration by IAMCR’s thematic sections and working 
groups must be submitted via the Open Conference System: 
https://iamcr-ocs.org/

Consult the individual CFPs of IAMCR's Sections and Working Groups at
http://oregon2018.iamcr.org/s-wg-cfp


Reimagining Sustainability: Communication and Media Research in a 
Changing World

IAMCR conferences address a wide diversity of topics defined by our 31 
thematic sections and working groups. We also propose a single central 
theme to be explored throughout the conference with the aim of 
generating and exploring multiple perspectives on a shared set of 
issues. This is accomplished through plenary and special sessions, and 
in the meetings of the sections and working groups. For IAMCR 2018, the 
central theme is Reimagining Sustainability: Communication and Media 
Research in a Changing World.

As part of its Sustainable Development Agenda, the United Nations 
defines sustainability as harmonizing three core elements, environmental 
protection, social inclusion, and economic growth, so as to meet the 
needs of the present without compromising the ability of future 
generations to meet their own needs. It calls for concerted efforts 
towards building an equitable and resilient future for people and planet.

There is an immediate need to promote responsible and sustainable 
management of natural resources and ecosystems that incorporate local 
and global reflection and action. This inevitably raises urgent issues 
of entrenched power, social justice, democracy, and the need to 
eradicate poverty, raise basic living standards, and address the present 
climate crisis.

This ambition is currently under attack. In spite of overwhelming 
scientific evidence, climate change denial is used to build public 
support for unsustainable environmental practices and policies while 
corporate greenwashing promotes the perception that these practices and 
policies are in fact environmentally friendly. Encouraged by the rise of 
populism and ever-smaller media bubbles, intolerance is on the upswing 
around the world. Inequality is outpacing economic growth. Wealth is 
ever more concentrated.

We find it imperative in these times that IAMCR and its members expand 
and extend our understanding of current and emerging models of 
sustainability, the struggles that surround them, and their multiple 
relationships with communication and media.

We encourage proposals that address these intersections by revising and 
remixing theories, practices, and institutions that move beyond merely 
sustaining—towards thriving societies and cultures. How are they 
contended, globally, nationally and locally, by actors that include 
governments, industry, advocacy organisations, community groups, and the 
environmental justice movement? The State of Oregon, for example, has a 
history of commitment to sustainability and the environment. When the 
Trump administration announced its intention to withdraw from the Paris 
Agreement on climate change, signed by 194 other countries, Oregon, 
along with 23 US states and territories representing more than 50% of 
the country’s population and responsible for 40% of its CO2 emissions, 
broke with the federal government and committed to supporting the 
agreement. Worldwide grassroots community groups and activists are 
coming together in an emerging environmental justice movement committed 
to sustainability, but also to social change.

The role of communication and media in both promoting and impeding 
sustainability has increasingly been the focus of commentary and 
research. Material communication systems consume energy in their 
manufacture and use, contribute to problems of pollution and waste, and 
in their dominant commercial forms, support and encourage a general 
culture of unsustainable hyperconsumption. What alternatives would 
advance the full and equal access to diverse information and 
comprehensive knowledge bases that UNESCO advocates as central to 
achieving sustainable societies?

We encourage participants to address these issues, in relation to both 
prevailing systems of communication and the systems now emerging around 
the application of artificial intelligence, the rise of automation and 
robotics, and the internet of things. We also welcome analysis that 
reassesses and reimagines sustainability in relation to openness, 
transparency, accessibility, and the recomposition of power, as we 
continue to explore the implications of media and communication in an 
interconnected world.
The conference venue

The University of Oregon in the Pacific Northwest offers an ideal 
location to discuss these issues. The university is a national leader in 
campus sustainability through the efforts of administration, faculty, 
staff, students and the larger community and is actively engaged in 
greening facility operations, innovative research, supporting and 
encouraging student initiatives, implementing environmentally and 
sustainability focused curriculum, and sponsoring public service 
initiatives.

The City of Eugene takes a comprehensive approach that places equal 
importance on advancing social equity, economic prosperity, and 
environmental health. It is home to a number of grassroots initiatives 
for sustainability.

The State of Oregon has a long history of commitment, vision, and 
innovation to sustainable lifestyles locally as well as addressing 
global climate change.

We look forward to IAMCR members engaging with these issues at the 2018 
conference hosted by the University of Oregon, in Eugene, Oregon.
Submission of Abstracts

Each Section and Working Group of IAMCR has issued its own Call for 
Papers, based on the general thematic outline above. Abstracts should be 
submitted from 9 November 2017 through 31 January 2018. Both individual 
and panel submissions are welcome and early submission is strongly 
encouraged.
Deadline

The deadline for submission of abstracts is 31 January 2018 and will not 
be extended.

Decisions on acceptance of abstracts will be communicated to applicants 
by their Section or Working Group Heads no later than 15 March 2018.
Guidelines for Abstracts

Unless otherwise stated by a Section or Working Group, abstracts should 
be between 300 and 500 words in length

All abstract submissions must be made via IAMCR's Open Conference 
System. There are to be no email submissions of abstracts addressed to 
any Section or Working Group Head.

It is expected that for the most part, only one (1) abstract will be 
submitted per person. However, under no circumstances should there be 
more than two (2) abstracts bearing the name of the same author either 
individually or as part of any group of authors. Please note also that 
the same abstract or another version with minor variations in title or 
content must not be submitted to more than one Section or Working Group. 
Such submissions will be deemed to be in breach of the conference 
guidelines and will be rejected by the OCS system, by the relevant Head 
or by the Conference Programme Reviewer. Authors submitting them risk 
being removed entirely from the conference programme.

Technical guidelines, if any, are defined by the individual Sections and 
Working Groups. If you have questions, consult the Section or Working 
Group's specific CFP or contact the head of the Section and Working 
Group that interests you.
Criteria for Evaluation

Submitted abstracts will generally be evaluated on the basis of:

-theoretical contribution
-methods
-quality of writing
-literature review
-relevance of the submission to the work of the Section or Working Group
-originality and/or significance

Sections and Working Groups may use additional criteria and may assign 
different weights to the above criteria. Consult the specific CFP or 
contact the head of the Section and Working Group you want to submit to 
if you have questions.
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