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[Commlist] cfp: Persuasion, prejudice and progress – media in the marketplace of ideas

Tue Apr 07 16:05:19 GMT 2020



Call for Papers
Persuasion, prejudice and progress – media in the marketplace of ideas
Conference of Centre for Critical Media Literacy, Technological University Dublin, October 27–28, 2020

Scholarship on the use of social platforms has added in recent years to longstanding debates about media’s capacity to reinforce or challenge discriminatory practices, to set or upset political agendas – and, this year, to disseminate or undermine public-health advice. In the midst of a global Covid-19 crisis that has highlighted the persuasive role of old and new media, and that has seen misinformation and bigotry spread almost as ubiquitously as handwashing advice, the Centre for Critical Media Literacy is seeking proposals for papers and panels at its fourth annual interdisciplinary conference. Within a broad and inclusive theme of ‘persuasion, prejudice and progress’, there will also be a more specific conference strand. We are seeking research that addresses how people with disabilities, as well as their educators and families, have used media to advocate for equality – and how those efforts have been mediated in digital and traditional public spheres. What is the interplay of authority and algorithm in understanding how today’s media persuade and deceive? This conference will take an interdisciplinary approach that puts equality, inclusion and social change firmly at the centre of the discussion. The conference will employ and encourage universal design, for maximum participation from communities often excluded from academic events. The conference is scheduled to take place on TU Dublin’s new city-centre campus and to immediately precedethe international conference of the Association of Internet Researchers <https://aoir.org/aoir2020/>on the same campus. While it is hoped that travel and gathering restrictions will be relaxed for most people by that time so that the event may proceed, we will seek to use technology to include people whose circumstances prevent them from attending.

Abstracts and panel proposals of no more than 250 words in length should be sent (toharry.browne /at/ tudublin.ie) <mailto:(harry.browne /at/ dit.ie)>by June 20th, 2019.

Website:criticalmedialiteracy.org <http://criticalmedialiteracy.org/>



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