[Commlist] CFP: Media and Fakery one day Symposium

*CFP Media and Fakery Symposium*

*October 25 2019, University of Nottingham Ningbo China*

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 From fake news to the deepfake, the digital era’sexpanded 
possibilities for fabrication and falsehood are bedevilling the fourth 
estate as its parameters expand to include a host of new and often 
concealed sources, spreading via manipulable social media algorithms. 
Media scholars have called on us all to reject the pejorative term 
“fake,” which is used to conduct mistrust and accusations toward 
institutions that we have traditionally relied upon to shine a light on 
powerful interests. However, we are at the same time being ushered into 
a more generalised media-critical thought, as unreliable reportage 
proliferates in many of the places we turn to for trustworthy 
information. How do we balance acknowledgement of media fakery with our 
need for reasonable information that we can trust?


This one-day symposium aims to address some of the more urgent 
philosophical issues arising in an era marked by proliferating resources 
for media fakery.


Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

  * fake news
  * the deepfake
  * post-truth politics
  * public trust in journalism and politics
  * social media and journalism
  * Facebook and Twitter bots
  * emotions, cognitive biases and media psychology
  * satirical news websites
  * hoaxes and literary fraud
  * identity theft, catfishing and online identities
  * “truthiness,” pseudoscience and pseudo-communications
  * astroturfing and front organisations
  * advertorial
  * public relations and propaganda
  * authenticity
  * data mining and targeted content
  * algorithmic aggregators and generators of news

Confirmed keynote speaker: Professor Terry Flew, Queensland University 
of Technology


Please send the following to the symposium organisers Drs Filippo 
Gilardi ((Filippo.gilardi /at/ nottingham.edu.cn)) 
<mailto:(Filippo.gilardi /at/ nottingham.edu.cn))>, Celia Lam 
((celia.lam /at/ nottingham.edu.cn)) <mailto:(celia.lam /at/ nottingham.edu.cn))>and 
Wyatt Moss-Wellington ((wyatt.moss-wellington /at/ nottingham.edu.cn)) 
<mailto:(wyatt.moss-wellington /at/ nottingham.edu.cn))>by Friday *20 September 
2019.*

  * 250 word abstract
  * 50-100 word biography
  * Contact email address
Successful abstracts will be considered for inclusion in a Special Issue 
proposal to be submitted to /C//ontinuum Journal of Media and Cultural 
Studies/<https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ccon20/current>(TBC)

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*Key dates:*

Abstract submission: *20 September 2019*

Notifications: 30 September 2019

Registrations open: 15 October 2019

Submission of extended abstracts: 30 November 2019

Submission to Continuum: Early/mid 2020

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