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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)
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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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