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

Wed May 29 13:49:18 GMT 2019



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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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