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

cfp
Media, new technologies and development in Latin America: political, 
social and economic perspectives - 4th and 5th July City/Loughborough

*   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.*


      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 2019 IAMCR 
(International Association in Media and Communication Research) 
conference in Spain, seek to address. Our keynote speeches will be 
delivered by professors Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Mellichamp professor of 
Global Studies and Sociology at University of California Santa Barbara; 
Thomas Tufte, current Director for the Institute for Media and Creative 
Industries at Loughborough University London; Toby Miller, professor in 
Media and Creative Industries at Loughborough University; Ana Carolina 
Escosteguy, professor of gender and media at the Federal University of 
Santa Maria (Brazil); senior lecturer in Latin America Studies, Thea 
Pitman, of the University of Leeds and professor of Communications Jair 
Vega Casanova, Universidad del Norte in Colombia.

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.


      Call for extended abstracts

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 Herrera Huerfano);

4) /Media, nationalisms and populisms/

(chairs: João Feres and María Soledad Segura).

Extended Abstract submission deadline - *3rd June 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.

*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


      Keynote speakers

*Professor Thomas Tufte*

*Abstract title*:/Continuity and change in the Latin American experience 
of communication for social change: From Radios Mineras to Midia Ninja 
(with Jair Vega Casanova)/

This presentation will review the legacy of communication for social 
change in Latin America, identifying recurrent features and considering 
emerging challenges in the context of the current societal challenges. 
First, the review will unpack the core milestones of the communication 
for social change debate as seen in conferences, publications and 
meetings that have had a key influence on the research and practice of 
the field. Secondly, it will review key references that have informed 
the Latin American research and practice and discuss how they have 
established themselves as a paradigmatic alternative to the dominant 
Anglo-Saxon approaches. Finally, the presentation will address how the 
Latin American legacy connects with global research and practice into 
communication for social change.

*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 both local, national and 
international development organizations. Current projects focus on civil 
society development and participatory communication in Brazil, and 
storytelling and community development in post-peace agreement Colombia.

*Jair Vega Casanova*

*Bio*: Sociologist, Vega Casanova has a Master’s Degree in/Politics – 
Economic Studies/, and currently is a graduate PhD student in 
Communications at Universidad del Norte. He is also a professor at the 
Department of Social Communications and researcher at PBX: 
Communication, Culture and Social Change Research Group, from the 
Universidad del Norte. Issues of research, consultancy and publications 
are inscribed in the relationship between communications, culture and 
social change, and are emphasized in the research lines: 1) 
Communication, participation and social construction of health and 2) 
Studies of gender, diversity and citizenship. Publications are found in: 
http://uninorte.academia.edu/JairVega. Vega Casanova has been involved 
in consultancies with C-CHANGE-FHI, PAHO, UNICEF, UNDP, UNFPA, 
Population Communication International, Fundación Bernard van 
Leer, Fundación Friederich Ebert, CHECCHI and Company Consulting 
Colombia, Communication for Social Change Consortium, Fundación 
Imaginario and/The Communication Initiative/(www.comminit.com/la 
<http://www.comminit.com/la>). He has also been editor of 
the journal/Investigación & Desarrollo/.

*Professor Toby Miller*

*Abstract: Title “*Against Communication for Development”- Seven decades 
of rhetoric and finance in the field of communication and development or 
social change—choose your era and language for the propaganda term of 
the day—have done little other than reinforce existing oligarchies, 
oligopolies, inequalities, and international ‘security' priorities 
across much of Latin America. This paper will unpack some of the 
theoretical and political problems of that language, locating them in 
the first efforts of the Social Science Research Council and connecting 
them to the work of third-sector, corporate, and military priorities.

**

*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*

*Abstract:*Populism is a governance crisis. Its character differs in 
different market economies. It refers to temporary control of executive 
state power with partial support of social and market forces. Support is 
performance conditional. Scenarios include plutocracy (pluto-populism), 
New Deal, continuing instability. Rebalancing processes depend on 
rapport de forces, including the role of media. The governance crisis is 
part of longer cycles than populism itself. As to populism rhetoric and 
policy, the soup is not eaten as hot as it is served. Rightwing populism 
promotes nostalgic nationalism, but growing connectivity is a longer 
wave than populist agitation.

*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).

*Professor Ana Carolina Escosteguy*

*Abstract: *The topic of my lecture is about the linkages between media 
studies and gender issues in Brazil. The perspective assumed is 
historical, stressing the singularities of the theoretical debates 
associated with Brazilian feminism and their impact on  media studies 
research. I do not take into account the current metaphor of the "waves" 
of feminism since it erases the uniqueness of our historical, 
sociopolitical and cultural context. In this way, I identify the changes 
that the research and its categories were going through in the period of 
1970 to 2015. A possible new strand may then be building and is still in 
progress. In the opening strand (1970/1980), the systematic use 
of  woman category stands out; in the second (1990), although the term 
gender is triggered in media studies, it functions more as a label 
without theoretical density; in the third (2000-2015), it is the 
critique of post-feminism that emerges, evidencing the first convergence 
between South and North, in terms of media studies and feminist 
scholarship. Finally, the last one is drawn from the feminist spring 
(2015) and the horizon opened by the explosion of feminisms driven by 
the new digital media. However its development is still uncertain given 
the growth of conservatism and even the persecution of feminists and 
LGBTs activists.

*Bio:*Ana Carolina D. Escosteguy is a national leading scholar in the 
field of media and cultural studies. She has studied at University of 
São Paulo and is currently Professor in Federal University of Santa 
Maria. She is also a  Researcher of CNPq (National Council for 
Scientific and Technological Development) since 2002. Author of 
Cartografias dos estudos culturais: Uma versão latino-americana, 
published by Editora Autêntica in 2002, among many other articles.

*Dr. Thea Pitman*

*Abstract:*There has been much academic debate about the relationship of 
indigenous communities to new media technologies, specifically with 
respect to the way that the former might appropriate the latter and the 
terms in which they might do so, with a significant number of critics 
arguing that the concepts and lexicon of the traditional practice of 
weaving may offer the most appropriate trope. However, such arguments 
typically remain at the level of theory, providing little or no evidence 
of the way in which real indigenous communities speak of the way they 
appropriate new technologies and what might motivate their choices. This 
paper explores the poetics and underlying politics of indigenous 
appropriations of new media technologies by contrasting the online 
presence of two highly prominent, prize-winning projects of indigenous 
internet appropriation: the web portal Índios Online, run by a group of 
different indigenous communities in north-eastern Brazil, and the 
homonymous website of the Asociación de Cabildos Indígenas del Norte del 
Cauca (ACIN) of the Nasa community in south-western Colombia.

*Bio:*Thea Pitman is Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies at the 
University of Leeds, UK. She works in the field of Latin American 
digital cultural production, and digital cultures more broadly 
conceived, with a particular interest in questions of race, ethnicity 
and gender. Her major publications in the field include Latin American 
Cyberculture and Cyberliterature (Liverpool University Press, 2007) and 
Latin American Identity in Online Cultural Production (Routledge, 2013), 
and she has chapters on digital culture in The Cambridge Companion to 
Latina/o Literature (2016), The Cambridge Companion to Latin American 
Poetry (2018), and Online Activism in Latin America (2018), amongst others.


      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 and Jair Vega Casanova, moderated by 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

*Keynote speaker*: Thea Pitman

13.00 – lunch

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

*Keynote speaker*: Ana Carolina Escosteguy

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.


      *Contact and further information*

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.


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