[Commlist] Call ESA 2019 Conference RN18 - Sociology of Communications and Media Research

CALL: RN18 Panel - Sociology of Communications and Media Research
14th Conference of the European Sociological Association
20-23 August 2019, Manchester, UK

Abstract submission deadline: 1 February 2019
Abstract submission: 
https://www.europeansociology.org/conftool/abstract-submission

CALL TEXT: bit.ly/2UoQh7I

Major changes in the global relations and internal character of 
societies have posed major questions about how such changes are 
communicated and understood. Globalisation, fiscal and economic crisis, 
rapidly rising inequality, changing work conditions, large scale 
migration, and major changes in forms of political mobilisation and 
popular support are all taking place in a period when we are coming to 
terms, both politically and analytically, with the ramifications of the 
expansion of digital communications and of the large corporations who 
dominate their organisation. This all poses major questions for us as 
analysts of these processes, whether at local, European, or global level.

RN18 calls for contributions that may help to shape critical media 
sociology in the 21st century in its task of addressing the problems 
outlined above. These might deal with some of the following example topics:

General:

RN18_a - Sociology of Communications and Media Research (Open Session)

RN18_b - Critical media sociology, theoretical issues

RN18_c - Political economy approaches to communications

RN18_d - Critical media sociology and critical theory

More specific areas:

RN18_e - Labour and employment in 'digital capitalism'

RN18_ f - Race, ethnicity and racism

RN18_g - Nationalism, identity, 'euroscepticism'

RN18_h - Patriarchy and gender

RN18_i - Political communication and the rise of 'populism'

RN18_ j - Communications and the cultural 'commons'

RN18_k - Big data, AI

RN18_l - Journalism in the age of digital communication

RN18_m - Digital activism, the progressive potential of 'new media'

The organisers stress that these topics are listed to illustrate the 
invited areas of research and discussion, but are neither prescriptive 
nor exhaustive. We welcome contributions reflecting work in progress, 
empirical work, and work yet to receive public presentation.

NOTES FOR AUTHORS

Please do not send us a full copy of your paper (neither before nor 
after the conference). Abstracts sent by email cannot be accepted. Each 
participant can submit and present one paper as first author. The 
submitting author will be considered the presenting author. All 
submitting/presenting authors can be second author of one more paper. 
Abstracts should not exceed 250 words. Abstracts will be peer-reviewed 
and selected for presentation by the Research Network.

SEMI-PLENARY

RN18 also organises, together with RN6 - Critical Political Economy, a 
semi-plenary at the ESA 2019 Conference in Manchester. The semi-plenary 
will cover topics around digital labour and capitalism, and the two 
confirmed speakers are Ursula Huws (University of Hertfordshire) and 
Phoebe Moore (University of Leicester). Further information of this 
semi-plenary can be found here: 
https://www.europeansociology.org/about-esa-2019/programme/semi-plenaries

MAILING LIST AND FACEBOOK

You can join RN18′s media sociology mailing list: 
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=ESA-RN18 and follow RN18 
on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/esarn18

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