[Commlist] Media, new technologies and development in Latin America: political, social and economic perspectives (cfp)

          We invite extended abstracts for our following four panels:

1) /Communication for development and the role of the state in 
sustainable communications/

(chairs: Gabriel Kaplún and Amparo Cadavid);

2) /Media activism and marginalized populations/

(chairs: Andrea Medrado and João Paulo Malerba);

3) /Media, social movements and questions of gender/

(chairs: Carolina Matos and Eliana Huértano);

4) /Media, nationalisms and populisms/

(chairs: João Feres and María Soledad Segura).

Abstract submission deadline - 15^th  April 2019
Maximum word limit - 500 words
Please include names and affiliations of all authors. Please indicate 
who will be giving the paper if successful and which panel the paper is 
intended for.

About the conference

In an age of increasing media concentration and commercialisation, how 
can we envision a role for the media in development and for democracy? 
How can networked communications be better used by social movements, 
civil society and other marginalized groups who encounter difficulties 
in having a voice in the public sphere? How can ICTs (information and 
communication technologies) be used for development? How are feminist 
NGOs and women’s groups at present making use of communication tools and 
technologies to shape policy and pursue social change at a global and 
local level? What are some of the theoretical frameworks on 
communications and social change that we need to revisit? What are the 
more appropriate methodologies to study communication for social change 
(CSC) in the digital era? These are some of the many questions that 
these workshops, which will be held at UFF (Universidade Federal 
Fluminense) and at City, University of London, ahead of the 2018 IAMCR 
(International Association in Media and Communication Research) 
conference in Spain, seek to address. Our keynote speeches will be 
delivered by professors Thomas Tufte, current Director for the Institute 
for Media and Creative Industries at Loughborough University London and 
Toby Miller, former director of the Institute for Media and Creative 
Industries at Loughborough.

Our workshops invite research proposals which aim to address the role of 
the media and communications in social change, for the benefit of social 
and economic development of countries and of local contexts and inserted 
within wider debates on democratization of these societies. Our concerns 
here include the role of communications and new technologies (ICTs) for 
sustainable development, the use of participatory approaches in 
community, indigenous and social movements, the relationship between 
participation, empowerment and gender, particularly in relation to media 
and how communication tools can be used for activism and political 
engagement.

Our research also examines community radios and tvs and the use of media 
by marginalized and underrepresented groups, the development and support 
of community-based media organizations, the benefits of alternative 
forms of journalism, the role of NGOs in development and the use of 
media by international organizations and social movements. We also 
invite theoretical contributions in the field of communication and 
social change (CSC), gender, media and development, policy advocacy and 
activism through communications. The workshops are organized by Dr. 
Carolina Matos, senior lecturer in Media and Sociology, Department of 
Sociology, City, University of London, and by Adilson Cabral, associate 
professor in Social Communications at UFF.


      Keynote speakers

*Professor Thomas Tufte*

Bio: Professor Tufte is an internationally leading scholar in the field 
of communication for social change. His expertise and experience lie in 
critically exploring the interrelations between media production, 
communicative practices and processes of social and structural change. 
Tufte has worked in approximately 30 countries worldwide and has 
collaborated with a broad range of international development 
corporations including Unicef, Unesco and the Rockfeller Foundation.

*Professor Toby Miller*

Bio: Toby’s areas of expertise include cultural studies and media 
studies. He has published forty books, has written numerous articles, 
and is a guest commentator on television and radio programmes across the 
globe. In 2004, Miller became a full-time professor at University of 
California, Riverside (UCR). As of December 2008, he chairs the new 
Department of Media and Cultural Studies at the UCR. Preceding his 
professorship at UCR and Loughborough University London, Miller was a 
professor at New York University.

*Professor Jan Nederveen Pieterse*

Bio: Jan Nederveen Pieterse is Mellichamp Professor of Global Studies 
and Sociology at University of California, Santa Barbara. He specializes 
in globalization, development studies and cultural anthropology. He was 
previously at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the Institute 
of Social Studies in The Hague, the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, and 
the University of Amsterdam. He holds a part time chair at Maastricht 
University. He currently focuses on new trends in twenty-first century 
globalization and the implications of economic crisis. He has been 
visiting professor in Argentina, Brazil, China, Germany, India, 
Indonesia, Japan, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sweden, and 
Thailand. He is on the editorial board of /Clarity Press/, the /Journal 
of Global Studies/ and e-global, and is associate editor of the 
/European Journal of Social Theory/, /Ethnicities,/ /Third Text/ and the 
/Journal of Social Affairs/. He edits book series on /Emerging 
societies/ (Routledge) and /New trends in globalization/ (Palgrave 
Macmillan).


      Workshops Schedule

City, University of London

4^th  July 2019 from 9am to 8pm (submissions open until 15^th  April 2019)

9.00 - Opening - key speaker
Thomas Tufte / Carolina Matos

10.00 - Panel 1: Communication for Development and the role of the State 
for the sustainability of the communication system
guests: Gabriel Kaplún, Amparo Cadavid + 2 approved presentations with 
the call for expanded abstracts

11.30 – Panel 2: Media activism and marginalized populations
guests: Andrea Medrado and João Paulo Malerba + 2 approved presentations 
with the call for expanded abstracts

13.00 – lunch

14.00 – Panel 3: Media, social movements and questions of gender
guests: Carolina Matos, Eliana Huértano + 2 approved presentations with 
the call for expanded abstracts

16.30 - Panel 4: Media, nationalisms and populisms
guests: João Feres, Maria Soledad Segura + 2 approved presentations with 
the call for expanded abstracts

18.00 - Closure - key speaker
Toby Miller, moderator: Adilson Cabral

Cultural presentation

Loughborough University London Campus, 5^th  July 2019 (Olympic Park, 
Stratford)

9.30 – Jan Nederveen Pieterse talk - respondent Oscar Hemer

11.00 - Network event from Redecambio, with Amparo Cadavid

13.00 - Lunch and end.


Abstracts should be submitted by email to Associate Professor Dr. 
Adilson Cabral <mailto:(acabral /at/ comunicacao.pro.br)>, Social 
Communications, UFF, Brazil and Dr. Carolina Matos 
<mailto:(Carolina.Matos.1 /at/ city.ac.uk)>, Senior lecturer in Media and 
Sociology, City, University of London

This is a two-day conference. The first day takes place at City, 
University of London. The second day takes place at Loughborough 
University, London Campus.


For contact and further information, please contact:

Dr. Carolina Matos - (carolina.matos.1 /at/ city.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(carolina.matos.1 /at/ city.ac.uk)>

Dr. Carolina Matos 
<http://www.city.ac.uk/arts-social-sciences/academic-staff-profiles/dr-carolina-matos.>, 
Senior lecturer in Media and Sociology and Programme Director of the MAs 
in Media and Communications 
<https://www.city.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate/media-and-communications/2019> and 
International Communications and Development 
<https://www.city.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate/international-communications-and-development>. 
Matos work is in the field of media, gender and development. She teaches 
on the UG and PG programmes at the Department of Sociology, City, 
University of London, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB, 44020-7040-4172.

Associate Professor Dr. Adilson Cabral - (acabral /at/ comunicacao.pro.br) 
<mailto:(acabral /at/ comunicacao.pro.br)>

Adilson Cabral 
<http://www.emerge.uff.br/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2%20&Itemid=2> is 
Professor of the Social Communications course 
<http://www.comunicacao.uff.br/adilson-vaz-cabral-filho/> at UFF, Rio de 
Janeiro, Brazil, with speciality in Publicity and Propaganda, Cabral 
teaches on the Postgraduate programme in Media and Everyday Life 
(PPGMC). He has a post-doctorate in Communications from the University 
of Carlos III of Madrid, Spain, and is also coordinator of the EMERGE – 
Centre of Research and Production in Communications and Emergency and a 
researcher of COMUNI.

Conference booking details will be available shortly.
*https://www.city.ac.uk/events/2019/july/media-new-technologies-and-development-in-latin-america-political-social-and-economic-perspectives#_=_*


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