[Commlist] Call for Abstracts: Trends in Media and Communication Conference, 2021

Call for Abstracts
Trends in Media and Communication Conference, 2021

Theme: Africa's digital youth: Exploring media and information literacy 
competencies and practices

Dates: 19-20th October 2021


Globally, and across Africa in particular, the ways young people consume 
and use information continue to evolve. As more young people shift from 
traditional to internet-based information sources, the pervasiveness of 
digital media means their role in shaping political and social lives 
cannot be ignored. African nations need well-informed, active and 
engaged populace to participate in development. Increasingly, however,  
Africa’s youth are forced to negotiate their way round a new information 
ecology where consumers, with no gate-keeping skills, double as 
producers/ disseminators of
information. Evidence from the literature on Media and Information 
Literacy scholarship suggests that improved literacy on the consumption 
and use of digital
media can make a difference in how young people navigate the current 
information
ecology in pursuit of their dreams and goals.
Such scholarship, while extensive elsewhere, is only now emerging in Africa.

  Ahead of the global media and information literacy celebrations this 
year, the Department of
Communication Studies of the University of Ghana, in partnership with DW 
Akademie
and Penplusbytes, will be hosting a virtual conference on the theme 
“Africa's digital
youth: Exploring media and information literacy competencies and practices”.

The  conference will seek to catalogue scholarship on trends emerging 
around African
youth’s digital media practices with a focus on their ability to access, 
analyze, create,
share and use information from digital sources. We invite abstracts of 
empirical and
conceptual papers relating to the theme. Topics of interest include but 
are not limited
to:
• African youth’s fact checking practices
• Youth and social media activism in Africa
• Youths, privacy and security in digital spaces
• MIL, consumer-hood and digital youth
• Digital information access and use
• Ethical issues arising in young people’s use of digital media
• Consumption practices around health risk communication


Abstracts should be up to 250 words and sent to 
http://sics.ug.edu.gh/dept-comm-conference 
<http://sics.ug.edu.gh/dept-comm-conference>

Important dates to note
Abstract submission deadline: 12 August 2021
Acceptance notification: 27th August 2021
Registration: 24th September -10th October 2021
Conference dates: 19-20th October 2021

We look forward to receiving your abstracts and welcoming you to the 
conference.
For details/clarifications, you may contact (aayisi /at/ ug.edu.gh)


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