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

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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