[Commlist] cfp: 2022 CMCL International Conference: Utopia of a Globalized Culture and Reality of Local Communication Practices

Call for papers
2022 CMCL International Conference -Lyon (France), Nov. 28th – Dec. 1st, 
2022

Utopia of a Globalized Culture vs. Reality of Local Communication Practices.
African Public Spheres trough Media, Discourses and Communication Practice

Detailed CFP available online : https://cmcl2022.sciencesconf.org/

*General presentation*
The CMCL international conference "Utopia of a Globalized Culture and 
Reality of Local Communication Practices" aims at exploring the various 
issues at stake when worldwide Information Technologies – often Western 
Centric - meet local uses in diverse territories. To address them, we 
intend to grasp the heterogeneity of uses, productions and the questions 
they ask.
In 2019, the first edition was dedicated to French speaking sub-Saharan 
Africa (https://cmcl19.sciencesconf.org/). The 2022 edition expands its 
focus on every African country. The continent can be characterised by 
its cultural and geo-political heterogeneity. These various contexts 
imply specific issues regarding media practices, discourses and the 
condition under with they reach local public spheres.
The concept of public sphere, elaborated by Jürgen Habermas as part of 
his theory on the foundations of democracy in Western Europe, raised 
intense debates as to its relevance in order to understand contemporary 
democracies. Primarily questioned from a European point of view, it is 
also mobilized, as well as criticized, by research analysing political 
transformations in other regions of the world, including African countries.
The 2022 edition of the CMCL conference intends to contribute to these 
debates by confronting the technological and cultural globalization 
phenomena with the reality of local media and discourses. This means 
going beyond the normative and political dimensions of the public 
spheres concept, and finding new ways to analyse African contemporary 
societies. Issues raised by the CMCL conference are of primary interest 
to communication and media studies. Contributions from other disciplines 
are however welcome they will enrich the discussions, including those 
outside social sciences. The conference main objective is indeed to 
address the problematic of public spheres in Africa through various 
disciplinary approaches in order to open new perspectives. On the one 
hand, we would like to link anthropology and political science (Dahou, 
2005; Banégas, Brisset-Foucault & Cutolo, 2012) stronger with 
communication issues. On the other hand, research conducted in African 
contexts might bring complementary analysis regarding European public 
spheres contemporary mutations.

*Themes*
Proposals on the following sub-themes are welcome. Contributors might 
also want to address transversal issues or even challenge themes’ 
perimeter or relevance, regarding specific contexts.

1.	Civic engagement and the construction of social problems
2.	NGOs, foreign countries and international institutions	2
3.	Critical, deconstructionists, post-colonialists and pan-Africanists 
discourses
4.	Cultural, creative and media industries; informational and cultural 
practices
5.	Epistemological issues

Detailed info on the themes : https://cmcl2022.sciencesconf.org/

*Guidelines for Submissions*
The conference main language is French, with no live translation. 
However, as the conference intends to contribute to the dialog between 
French and English-speaking research, we strongly encourage 
English-speaking contributions. Specific panels will be organized 
whenever needed.

5000 characters abstracts must be submitted online before June, 19th: 
https://cmcl2022.sciencesconf.org/submission/submit/.
Decision to authors: from July, 1st.
Registration for CMCL22 will open from September.


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