[Commlist] cfp: Moscow Readings conference

This is a reminder that on 18-19 November 2021, the Faculty of 
Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University will hold its annual 
Moscow Readings conference. The topic is *'Mediating Digital Society and 
Individuals: Journalism and Communication in the Times of Uncertainty'. 
*The conference will be organized as a virtual event, with all sessions 
taking place online.
Moscow Readings conferences is co-sposored by the International 
Association for Media and Communication Research - IAMCR, and organized 
in partnership with IAMCR Digital Divide Working Group, IAMCR 
Communication in Post- and Neo-Authoritarian Societies Working Group, 
IAMCR Journalism Research and Education Section, UNESCO chair in 
communication, European Journalism Training Association, the Global Risk 
Journalism Hub, and National Association of Mass Media Researchers.
/Keynote speakers:/

Victor Pickard, Annenberg School for Communication
Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, Cardiff University
Mark Deuze, University of Amsterdam
Claudia Mellado, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso

Elena Vartanova, Lomonosov Moscow State University

/Call for papers:/
Today, historical transformations affecting media industries and 
production such as digitalization, consolidation, deregulation and 
related trends identified by scholars long ago (Hamelink, 1998) amplify 
and accelerate due to new disruptive processes

influencing media work on a global scale. This includes the rapid growth 
of platform power and platform convergence, the emergence of 
telecommunications giants as competitors in the content market, and 
growing concerns about sustainability of the news industry and 
journalism as a profession in this context (Deuze, & Prenger, 2019; 
Meese, 2021).

It is not just media practitioners who are facing a rapidly and 
profoundly changing context: people’s lives around the world have become 
agitated by the compounding effects of digital shifts and social 
upheaval, especially considering deepening digital inequalities and 
algorithmic divides (Ragnedda, 2020). An increasing dependence on 
Internet and computing technologies became evident during the global 
coronavirus crisis and triggered a discussion about the stability of the 
world around us.

At this year’s conference we welcome discussions about uncertainty as a 
new challenge for journalism and the society, and the new opportunities 
uncertain/liquid modernity can offer to people, media, institutions, and 
industries. We will discuss the impact Covid-19 pandemic had upon all 
spheres of our life – social, economic, cultural, political, academic 
and others, looking at how journalism in different countries reacted and 
adapted to these new challenges and risks. We will also discuss new 
digital gaps and inequalities that arose in the pandemic and 
post-pandemic world in terms of journalism education, unequal access to 
information, digital/social inclusion, information security, among other 
things. Theoretical and empirical papers are both welcome, with 
preference during selection process being given to papers with solid 
methodological base and original approach.

/Questions for discussion:/

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    Communication in the times of uncertainty: practices and tendencies

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    Journalism and the Covid-19 pandemic: new challenges and risks

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    Digital individuals, groups and organizations

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    The rise of new digital cultures

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    New players and actors in digital communication

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    New journalistic roles in the times of uncertainty and change

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    Media and communication policies in the digital age

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    Liquid journalism and liquid modernity

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    Risk journalism in the times of the global crises

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    Digital inclusion / social inclusion: correlations and 
interdependencies

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    Digital journalism: new practices, forms, methods, audiences

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    Information security in the digital age

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    Mediating conflicts: the role of mass media

Abstracts (between 300 and 500 words) in .doc or .docx in English or 
Russian, including author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s) should be sent 
to (moscow.readings /at/ mail.ru) *before 18 October 2021*.

More details available at http://www.moscowreadings.com/ 
<http://www.moscowreadings.com/>

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