[Commlist] CFP: Representing The Body: Contemporary Media Discourse and The Real

The Department of Media and Journalism at Glasgow Caledonian University 
will be hosting a Symposium in April 2023:

Call for Papers

*Representing The Body: Contemporary Media Discourse and The Real
*
Symposium Friday 28th April 2023

Venue: Glasgow Caledonian University

Deadline for abstracts: 16th December 2022

Please consider submitting a paper or roundtable proposal for our 
one-day symposium to be held at Glasgow Caledonian University focused 
upon ‘The Body: Contemporary Media Discourse and The Real’.

Representations of the body in mass media inevitably evoke issues and 
debates around authenticity and realism. Media offer powerful tools for 
creating images and narratives that may only be distantly or partially 
linked to lived human experience. The aim of this symposium is to 
explore the range of multimodal representational tropes related to the 
body across a wide variety of contemporary media including film, 
television, so-called ‘legacy’ media institutions, and all forms 
of digital media. We invite contributions for papers on a range 
of topics including but not limited to:

•       Representations of serious illness and disability in media and 
moving image narratives
•       Somatic metaphor in online multimedia
•       Narratives of care in broadcast and fiction
• Body image and social media in multimodal communication
•       The body/identity dynamic in patient narratives online and in print
•       Gender and somatic presence in multimedia
•       Metaphors of the body in print media
• Body framing in broadcast media
•       Conceptual metaphors of the body in journalism

Keynote Speaker: Dr Frances Pheasant-Kelly
(Reader in Film and Screen Studies, University of Wolverhampton)

This symposium will bring together scholars and researchers from all 
career stages for a cross-disciplinary discussion from across media, 
communications, arts, and journalism studies. We encourage papers and 
roundtables from a range of scholars, and particularly wish to encourage 
research students to participate in the day.

Please submit your proposal abstracts up to 250 words and a short bio by 
16 December 2022 to: (Helena.Bassil-Morozow /at/ gcu.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(Helena.Bassil-Morozow /at/ gcu.ac.uk)>

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