[Commlist] CFP: Media Breakdown and Recovery

Please see announcement for a forthcoming international symposium at 
Lund University, Sweden (March 16^th  2022).

*Call for Papers*

*Media Breakdown and Recovery*

*International Symposium at Lund University,**Sweden*

Department of Communication and Media, *March 16th 2022*

Organisers: Annette Hill, Hario Satrio Priambodho and Cheryl Fung

Break up, break down, and break away: variations on media and the 
breaking down of infrastructures, technicalities, texts, contexts and 
social relations are the basis of this international symposium Media, 
Breakdown and Recovery.  This event explores how we can understand 
media, culture and society as a site of collapse and repair, and as a 
place for theoretical and empirical analysis within media, communication 
and cultural studies.

Breakdown signifies wearing down, collapse, and catastrophe; this 
meaning of breakdown relates to media technologies and services, 
representations and themes in factual and fictional genres, or broader 
issues such as a crisis of democracy, and a thin trust between 
politicians, the media and publics. The COVID-19 crisis has brought into 
sharp relief media power and inequalities during the global pandemic. 
Breakdown also signifies taking apart something to analyse and 
understand how it works; this meaning of breaking down relates to 
deconstructing a text and its internal workings and contradictions, or 
forensically analysing media systems, political economics and power 
structures. Moments of media breakdown can reveal that which is 
otherwise hidden. And breakdown can be related to processes of fluidity 
and renewal, in the breaking down of barriers and divisions.

Originally slated for 2020 on the theme of breakdown, this international 
symposium returns in live and digital mixed mode to engage in dialogue 
on media, breakdown and recovery. We invite papers related to the 
following themes:

  * Media and crises of democracy
  * Media, COVID-19 and the global pandemic
  * Media, civility and incivility
  * Media misinformation, bias and fake news
  * Media and failure of institutions, infrastructures, and professionals
  * Media framing of catastrophe, crisis, and apocalypse
  * Media and breaking down genres and narratives
  * Media and cultural practices of collapse, repair and reconciliation
  * Media, arts and creativity on breakdown, dissolution and resolution
  * Media and cultural methods of deconstruction and reconstruction
The research questions include: 1. How can we critically examine media, 
breakdown  and recovery across news, radio and television, film, arts 
and museums, digital and social media? 2. In what ways can we understand 
breakdown and repair in our analysis of media and culture? 3. What 
methods can we apply to the study of media  breakdown and recovery? 
Different disciplinary approaches to research on the theme have 
developed in a variety of subject areas such as media, communication and 
cultural studies, political communication, sociology and anthropology, 
cultural geography, media history, film studies, art and creative 
practice, and memory studies. The symposium offers opportunities to seek 
overlaps and connections in pursuing our topic.

Confirmed speakers include Nico Carpentier (Charles University, Czech 
Republic), Simon Dawes (Université de Versailles 
Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France), Christine Geraghty (Glasgow 
University, UK), Joke Hermes (InHolland University, Netherlands), 
Annette Hill (Lund University, Sweden), and Peter Lunt (University of 
Leicester, UK).

Please submit an abstract of 300 words in English by *December 14th 
2021* to (hario.priambodho /at/ kom.lu.se) 
<mailto:(hario.priambodho /at/ kom.lu.se)>.  For further information please 
consult our website 
https://www.kom.lu.se/en/research/konferenser-och-natverkstraffar/media-and-breakdown/ 
<https://www.kom.lu.se/en/research/konferenser-och-natverkstraffar/media-and-breakdown/>. 
There is a registration fee of 850 SEK (90 Euros) that covers food and 
drink for the day and an evening buffet.


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