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[Commlist] 2021 PSA Media and Politics Conference: 'Communities, Media and Politics'

Thu Dec 02 20:05:31 GMT 2021



Ruth Sanz Sabido is pleased to share the programme for the 2021 PSA Media and Politics Conference. The conference theme this year is 'Communities, Media and Politics'. Our keynote speakers are Professor Karin Wahl-Jorgensen (Cardiff Univeristy) and Professor Claire Wallace (University of Aberdeen).

The event, which will be taking place online on 15 and 16 December, is organised by the Centre for Research on Communities and Cultures at Canterbury Christ Church University. Please see the full programme below.

If you weren’t able to submit a paper but would like to join us, there is still time to register: PSA Media and Politics Conference (canterbury.ac.uk) <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.canterbury.ac.uk%2Fevents%2FPSA-Media-and-Politics-Conference.aspx&data=04%7C01%7Cruth.sanz-sabido%40canterbury.ac.uk%7Cd6f50ce7c4d340d289b208d9a9a80983%7C0320b2da22dd4dab8c216e644ba14f13%7C0%7C0%7C637727361442295765%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=MItMp7vo8dzxQjE893ZGDWje1Tyd%2F63859WYj36CxRA%3D&reserved=0>

Fees:

£20 for both PSA members and non-members

£10 for students/precariously employed


*2021 PSA Media and Politics Group Conference*

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*Programme*

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*WEDNESDAY, 15 DECEMBER 2021*

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*Time*

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*Session*

9.00 – 9.10

	

Virtual room available / set-up

9.10 – 9.20

	

Welcome (Professor Alastair Borthwick, Head of School, School of Creative Arts and Industries)

9.20 – 10.20

	

Plenary 1

“Cultivating and informing the community: the experiences of local journalism entrepreneurs in the coronavirus pandemic”

Professor Karin Wahl-Jorgensen (Cardiff University)

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10.20 – 10.30

	

Break / Virtual room set-up

10.30 – 12.00

	

Parallel session 1A: Conflict, Solidarity and Discourse

	

Parallel session 1B: Pluralism and the Public Sphere

12.00 – 12.30

	

Lunch Break

12.30 – 14.00

	

Parallel session 2A: The Pandemic

	

Parallel session 2B: Digital Communications

14.00 – 14.10

	

Break / Virtual room set-up

14.10 – 15.40

	

Parallel session 3A: Social Inequalities (1)

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*THURSDAY, 16 DECEMBER 2021*

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*Time*

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*Session*

	

9.00 – 9.10

	

Virtual room available / set-up

9.10 – 10.20

	

Parallel session 4A: Dissent and Resistance on Social Media

	

Parallel session 4B: Political Communication

10.20 – 10.30

	

Break / Virtual room set-up

10.30 – 12.00

	

Parallel session 5A: Communities and Activism

	

Parallel session 5B: Truth, Post-Truth and Populism

12.00 – 12.30

	

Lunch Break

12.30 – 14.00

	

Parallel session 6A: Social Inequalities (2)

	

Parallel session 6B: Regulation, Democracy and Technology Companies: Case studies and theoretical discussion

14.00 – 14.10

	

Break / Virtual room set-up

14.10 – 15.10

	

Plenary 2

“Community cohesion and social media in times of COVID”

Professor Claire Wallace (University of Aberdeen)

	

	

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*Close*

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*Keynote Speakers*

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*PLENARY 1*

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*Cultivating and informing the community: the experiences of local journalism entrepreneurs in the coronavirus pandemic*

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*Professor Karin Wahl-Jorgensen*

*Cardiff University*

The coronavirus pandemic has represented a profound challenge for journalism around the world. On the one hand, the provision of trustworthy and timely information has become more important than ever. On the other hand, the pandemic brought with it major challenges to established routines of reporting and distributing the news.

Against this backdrop, my talk offers insights from research with local journalism entrepreneurs in the UK. It focuses on the experiences of community journalism startups in the pandemic. Community journalists, sometimes known as hyperlocal journalists, run small, independently owned print or online publications. They represent a specific geographic area and publish locally relevant news. My research, funded by a grant from the British Academy, included 57 in-depth interviews carried out in the summer of 2020, along with a survey of 116 practitioners completed in April 2021.

The talk examines, first of all, how these journalistic entrepreneurs worked to overcome the logistical and financial challenges of the pandemic. In addition to restrictions on movement as a result of lockdowns, key challenges included a near-total collapse of local advertising revenue, the closure of printers, and the loss of local distribution facilities. However, the majority of the journalists reported an increase in audience engagement, while some benefited from grant funding. Secondly, the talk examines how community journalists adapted their reporting in the light of the crisis. They pursued news reporting with an emphasis on providing reliable local information and holding authorities to account, while managing the emotions of their communities. Across the board, journalists saw the pandemic as a critical moment highlighting the importance of local news.

*PLENARY 2*

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*Community cohesion and social media in times of COVID*

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*Professor Claire Wallace*

*University of Aberdeen*

Increasingly community relations and social cohesion depend upon online as well as offline networking through a proliferation of platforms and affordances. Whilst these networking tendencies have been growing over recent decades, they were given an additional boost by the COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020 and 2021. Many people turned to local neighbourhoods for help, shopping, entertainment and companionship. The networked community took a new turn. This facilitated informal social capital as a form of mobilisation – but what implications does this have for politics and formal social capital? This paper draws upon research conducted in local communities before and after lockdown.

*Parallel Sessions*

*1A: Conflict, Solidarity and Discourse*

Chair: Emma Graves

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Katy Parry and Holly Steel (University of Leeds): Expressing solidarity for #Palestine on TikTok: embodying gestures of concern in short-video activism

Jenny Hayes and Paul Reilly (University of Sheffield): Mobilising affective publics against Israeli occupation through the distribution of images on social media by international Palestinian NGOs

Maryam Dharas and Lea Markidis (LSE): Complicity through coloniality: how the BBC mediated Gaza

Stuart Price (De Montfort University): ‘Collateral Benefits’ and the ‘International Community’: discursive realignment after the fall of Kabul

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*1B: Pluralism and the Public Sphere*

Chair: Agnes Gulyas

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Dalia Elsheikh and Darren Lilleker (Bournemouth University): Egyptian political conversations on Clubhouse: proto-public sphere at the age of the pandemic

Emiliana De Blasio, Donatella Selva and Michele Sorice (LUISS University): Fragmentation on LGBTQ+ rights: online communities and the political debate in the Italian post-public sphere

Nick Anstead (LSE): Monism, relativism and value pluralism: a political theory approach to the crisis in public communications

Billur Ozgul Aslan (Brunel University London), Ozge Ozduzen (University of Sheffield), Bogdan Ianosev (Glasgow Caledonian University) and Nelli Ferenczi (Brunel University London): Political organisation, community-making and social media use during anti-lockdown protests in the UK**

*2A: The Pandemic*

Chair: James Dennis

Maja Simunjak (Middlesex University London): Pride and anxiety: British journalists’ emotional labour in the COVID-19 pandemic

Yan Wu (Swansea University), Hongyan Zhao (Heilongjiang University) and Leighton Evans (Swansea University): Emotional communication during the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic: a case study of Sina Weibo online community in China

Sophia Kanaouti (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens): Arendt’s ‘vices of solitude’: right wing populism, pandemic conspiracy theories and community un-building

Chien Yang Erdem (Istinye University): #Plandemi: a discourse community in the post-pandemic context

*2B: Digital Communications*

Chair: Emily Harmer

Rosalynd Southern (University of Liverpool): Very online? Exploring hyper-digital political participation: the case of the ‘Shitpost Left’

Mona Khattab (University of Vaasa): Deconstructing layers of communities: digital performativity in Sarde After Dinner podcast

Paul Geyer (University of Leeds): Should we have representation at Facebook?

Scott Downham (Royal Holloway, University of London): How only some UK citizens are socialised into echo chambers and filter bubbles, and the implications for democracy

*3A: Social Inequalities (1)*

Chair: Kasia Lech

Emily Harmer and Rosalynd Southern (University of Liverpool): Politics, Platforms and Patriarchy: Comparing abuse and discrimination towards women politicians on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook

James Morrison (Robert Gordon University): Reasserting community: legacy, resilience and counter-narratives as correctives to the discourse of ‘the left behind’

Callum Baldwin (University of Leeds): Charities and the media: a content and framing analysis of newspaper reporting of Universal Credit

Ellen Watts (LSE): ‘Levelling the playing field’: community, class, and meritocracy in Marcus Rashford’s child poverty campaigning

James Dennis (University of Portsmouth): ‘I was completely engulfed in it. There was no escape’: the changing news routines of young people from areas of social inequality during COVID-19

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*4A: Dissent and Resistance on Social Media*

Chair: Ruth Sanz Sabido

Uygar Baspehlivan (University of Bristol): The Memescape v. The International: Internet memes, space and politics of resistance and reaction in world politics

Vincent Obia (Birmingham City University): Resisting social media regulation: understanding the Nigerian Twittersphere as a community for activism and dissent

Namit Vikram Singh (University of Delhi) and Surbhi Tandon (GGSIP University): Deconstructing farmer protests in Delhi (2021): counter-narratives and misinformation on social media


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*4B: Political Communication*

Chair: Shane Blackman

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Anastasia Veneti and Darren G. Lilleker (Bournemouth University): Proposing a three-dimensional normative model for political communication

Norah Alzahrani (University of Sussex): Investigating role perceptions of journalists in Saudi Arabia

Tristan Poyser (Leeds Trinity University): The Invisible In-between: An Englishman’s Search For The Irish Border

*5A: Communities and Activism*

Chair: Emma Graves

Abi Rhodes (University of Nottingham): Media, community activism and challenges to policy

Sarah A. Okour (University of Petra): Jordanian teachers’ syndicate voice: an antecedent to public engagement?

Boitshwarelo Rantsudu (University of Botswana): An act of defiance or solidarity with one another? Press representations of healthcare workers’ participation in strikes

Zac Chiliswa (University of Leeds & Leeds Trinity University): Citizens’ everyday media practices and peace activism in volatile situations

*5B: Truth, Post-Truth and Populism*

Chair: Katy Parry

Natalie-Anne Hall (Loughborough University): Reconsidering ‘post-truth’: contested knowledge in political engagement on social media around Brexit

Elizabeth McMullan (University of East London): Cult survivor communities: solidarity, truth-telling and power

Paul Rowinski (University of Bedfordshire): Fanning the flames further still: post-truth emotive eurosceptic rhetoric in the mainstream media and the failure to hold populists to account

Paul Reilly (University of Sheffield): Disinformation in a divided society: contextualising the current ‘information crisis’ in Northern Ireland

*6A: Social Inequalities (2)*

Chair: James Dennis

Alex Balch, Ekaterina Balabanova and Lennon Mhishi (University of Liverpool): Libya, CNN and the story of modern slavery in Africa

Michalis Moutselos and Theodora A. Maniou (University of Cyprus): Editorial coverage of the European migration crisis in different media systems: a comparative study in the UK, German and Greek traditional press

Dorottya Fejes-Jancsó (Eötvös Loránd University): Conservatism and beyond: the case of /A Suitable Boy///

Maria João Silveirinha (Universidade de Coimbra), Dr Susana Sampaio-Dias (University of Portsmouth) and Dr João Miranda (Universidade de Coimbra): Identifying and dealing with hate speech: a case study of Portuguese women journalists

*6B: Regulation, Democracy and Technology Companies: Case studies and theoretical discussion*

Chair: Declan McDowell-Naylor

Kate Dommett (University of Sheffield): Regulating online political advertising in the UK: approaches and challenges

Declan McDowell-Naylor (Cardiff University): We have never been datafied: the dualisms of big tech and democracy

Scott Rodgers (Birkbeck University), Liam McLoughlin (Birkbeck University), Andrea Ballatore (King’s College) and Susan Moore (University College London): Content moderation in local Facebook groups: The tensions of localised moderation on a global platform

Amber Macintyre (Tactical Tech): The true value of data (and the alternatives: deliberation, intuition and expertise)

Alexi Drew (RAND Europe), Claire Wilmot (LSE) and Ellen Tveteraas (Oxford): The war over influence: information degradation and online activism in the midst of conflict


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