[Commlist] CfA_conference Women in the digital world

CfP for a conference */Women in the digital world/* organized by 
Columbia University and Audencia Business School.

New York, April 16-17, 2020

Deadline December 1, 2019
<http://www.audencia.com/women-in-digital-world>

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The aim of the conference is to bring together a diversified public of 
scholars and practitioners interested in the relationship between women 
and digital media.

In recent years, awareness has grown about the place of women in the 
digital world. While social media has created spaces for women to find 
each other and unite against harassment and gender-based violence, it is 
also a contested site, with women being the victims of trolling and 
bullying.

We invite submissions covering (but not limited to) these topics:

    Diversity online: gender differences in the use of digital media by 
women, differences and characteristics of online participation as well 
as how women are empowered or disempowered by the use of digital tools 
and social media;
    The role of journalists within online and offline media outlets 
covering the situation of women;
    Discrimination online: e.g. how women are treated online, 
particular traits associated with the treatment of women online, the 
role of trolling, misogyny and threats of violence;
    The lived experience of being a woman and/or person of color on 
social media platforms;
    The role of international and national organizations, NGOs in 
fighting gender inequality;
    Research on intimate partner relationships and how platforms are or 
are not protecting women from abuse and stalking online (e.g. cyber 
bullying, uncivil behavior as well as extreme cases (suicides);
    Ethics and the use of photography and images online;
    Policies that can be implemented by government, platforms and users 
to improve the situation of women online.

Keynote Speaker
Emily Bell

Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Columbia Journalism School

Emily Bell is founding director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism 
at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism and a leading thinker, 
commentator and strategist on digital journalism. Established in 2010, 
the Tow Center has rapidly built an international reputation for 
research into the intersection of technology and journalism. The 
majority of Bell’s professional career was spent at Guardian News and 
Media in London working as an award winning writer and editor both in 
print and online. As editor-in-chief across Guardian websites and 
director of digital content for Guardian News and Media, Bell led the 
web team in pioneering live blogging, podcasting, multimedia formats, 
data and social media, making the Guardian an internationally awarded 
beacon of digital transformation. Emily continues to write a regular 
column for the Guardian and Columbia Journalism Review, and is a 
contributor to the New York Times, CNN, the BBC, and numerous other 
outlets. She lives in New York City with her husband and three sons.

Keynote Speaker
Rana Foroohar

Rana Foroohar is Global Business Columnist and an Associate Editor at 
the Financial Times, based in New York. She is also CNN’s global 
economic analyst. Her book, “Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and 
the Fall of American Business” (Crown), about why the capital markets no 
longer support business, was shortlisted for the Financial Times 
McKinsey Book of the Year award in 2016. Her new book, “Don’t Be Evil: 
How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles – And All of Us,” about 
the 20 year rise of platform technology and how it has reshaped 
economics, politics, and society, is out November 5th, 2019.

Prior to joining the FT and CNN, Foroohar spent 6 years at TIME, as an 
assistant managing editor and economic columnist. She previously spent 
13 years at Newsweek, as an economic and foreign affairs editor and a 
foreign correspondent covering Europe and the Middle East. During that 
time, she was awarded the German Marshall Fund’s Peter Weitz Prize for 
transatlantic reporting. She has also received awards and fellowships 
from institutions such as the Johns Hopkins School of International 
Affairs and the East West Center.  She is a life member of the Council 
on Foreign Relations.

Foroohar graduated in 1992 from Barnard College, Columbia University. 
She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, the author John Sedgwick, and 
her two children.
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