[Commlist] IAMCR 2023 call for proposals

IAMCR 2023 call for proposals


    Inhabiting the planet:
    Challenges for media, communication and beyond

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The*International Association for Media and Communication Research 
(IAMCR)* invites proposals for IAMCR 2023, to be held in Lyon, France, 
from 9 to 13 July (Lyon23) with an Online Conference Papers (OCP23) 
component from 26 June to 5 July.


      Conference themes

IAMCR conferences have a main conference theme that is explored from 
multiple perspectives throughout the conference in plenaries and other 
moments, including the programmes of the thematic sections and working 
groups. Additionally, each section and working group also defines some 
of its own themes, which are described in their individual calls for 
proposals. Proposals for contributions to the conference are submitted 
to the sections and working groups and may focus on an aspect of the 
main conference theme as it relates to the concerns of the section or 
working group, or address a theme identified by the section or working 
group.

*See the calls for proposals of IAMCR's 33 thematic sections and working 
groups and Flow34 > <https://iamcr.org/lyon2023/swg-cfp>*


      Main theme – Inhabiting the planet: Challenges for media,
      communication and beyond

Read the complete description of the theme here 
<https://iamcr.org/lyon2023/theme>

Our times are marked by the epochal changes that societies have 
experienced since the end of the /grand narratives/ and the 
/disenchantment of the world/. Many intellectual frameworks have been 
proposed to explain (with more or less critical distance) the rapid and 
deep transformations and evolutions of recent decades. The concepts of 
/radical modernity/, /risk society/, /hypermodernity/, and /social 
acceleration/, among others, reflect different perspectives on these 
transformations. They ultimately address the fundamental questions at 
the core of IAMCR 2023: What does it mean to be human in a digital 
world? What does it mean to build a common future?

Over the past decade, alternative media, militant communities, opinion 
leaders, philosophers and scholars have warned of the irreversible 
effects of climate change which could make the planet uninhabitable. 
Others have drawn attention to the rise of stark geopolitical, 
sociocultural and religious tensions. These prophetic and pessimistic 
views often refer to structural problems related to things such as 
access to essential natural resources like water, massive deforestation 
in South America or Southeast Asia, the proliferation of viruses 
potentially causing hard-to-control pandemics (Ebola, Covid-19), and 
local but recurrent conflicts, violent oppression and even genocide. 
Other voices express strong confidence in the collective capacity to 
build a path to the future based on virtuous technologies.

Whatever the interpretations might be, the digitalization of society and 
the technological transformation of nature are key problematics that 
require socio-political debate and governance (Feenberg, 1999, 2002). 
These are the issues that stand at the heart of IAMCR 2023, which seeks 
to provide a forum where the international community of media and 
communication scholars and researchers can reflect on and debate 
challenges related to five interconnected topics. Keywords associated 
with each topic are listed below and a more complete discussion of them 
is included in the theme description <https://iamcr.org/lyon2023/theme>.

 1. /Humanity and progress/ | Keywords: Commons - Paradigm of
    cooperation - Big social data - Inclusive creativity - Digital
    health - Progress vs innovation - Technology and society - Ethics of
    technology and progress - Privacy, online sociability, digital self
    - Trends, fashion and social networks - Future, Imaginaries,
    Representations.
 2. /Democracy/ | Keywords: Public action - Citizen action - Digital
    populism - Digital Activism - Digital citizenship and social
    movement - Citizen participation/consultation.
 3. /Media, information and communication/ | Keywords: Media and
    cultural industries, platforms - Data journalism, fact-checking,
    automated journalism - Regime of truth, post-truth - Audience,
    public, reception practices – Professional and amateur practices -
    Advertising, PR, data-marketing - Ethics of algorithms.
 4. /Cities and territories/ | Keywords: Smart and sustainable cities -
    Urban regeneration and urbanization - Open data - Local territories
    and communities - Short cycle - Urban re-vegetation - Mobilities.
 5. /Environmental accountability/ | Keywords: Digital and energy
    sobriety - Social practices and low-tech - Smart/connected objects
    and everyday life - Public discourses and ecological transition.


      Contributing to the conference: OCP23 and Lyon23

There will be two ways of joining IAMCR2023:

 1. If you are not able to or don’t want to join the face-to-face
    conference in Lyon but do want to submit an online-only paper,
    submit your abstract to *OCP23 only*. If accepted, you’ll later
    submit your full paper to the online platform, which will be open
    for discussion from 26 June to 5 July.
 2. If you do want to join the face-to-face event, submit your abstract
    to *Lyon23 /and/ OCP23*. If accepted you’ll submit your paper to the
    online platform *and* present it at the face-to-face conference.


      Guidelines for abstracts

Abstracts of contributions must be submitted to one of IAMCR’s thematic 
sections and working groups or to Flow34. Before submitting, please 
consult the specific CfP of the section or working group 
<https://iamcr.org/lyon2023/swg-cfp>. See the IAMCR website 
<https://iamcr.org/s-wg> for additional information about the various 
sections and working groups.

Abstracts should have between 300 and 500 words and must be submitted 
online here <https://iamcr.org/submit2023> between 1 December 2022 and 9 
February 2023.

Technical guidelines, if any, are defined by the individual sections and 
working groups, or Flow34. If you have questions, consult the section or 
working group’s specific CfP.


      Languages

Each section and working group adopts its own policies regarding 
languages. Some accept abstracts and programme sessions in English, 
French and Spanish while others conduct their programmes in only one or 
two languages. Consult the CfP of your section or working group for 
details of its language policy.

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