[Commlist] ECREA CYM Mid-Term Conference CfP: Children, Youth and Media in the Algorithm Conundrum of Play, Polarization and Hate

ECREA CYMMid-TermConference: Children, Youth and Media in the Algorithm 
Conundrum of Play, Polarization and Hate

October 15, 16, 17, 2025

Madrid and Salamanca (Spain)

CfP: 
https://cymecrea.wordpress.com/2025/06/16/call-for-papers-children-youth-and-media-in-the-algorithm-conundrum-of-play-polarization-and-hate/ 
<https://cymecrea.wordpress.com/2025/06/16/call-for-papers-children-youth-and-media-in-the-algorithm-conundrum-of-play-polarization-and-hate/>

This mid-term conference invites contributions that engage with these 
intertwined issues—algorithmic infrastructures, datafication, 
gamification, polarization, hate, mental health, critical literacy, and 
participatory design. We seek to foster a rich, interdisciplinary 
dialogue that advances our understanding of how play, pleasure, and 
participation are being fundamentally reconfigured under algorithmic 
conditions. We welcome submissions from scholars, educators, activists, 
designers, and practitioners working across media studies, childhood and 
youth studies, education, digital culture, AI, and ethics.

Key Topics (include but are not limited to):

  * Algorithmic influence on play, imagination, and autonomy
  * Media and information literacy in algorithmic environments:
    challenges and pedagogies
  * Artificial intelligence and data: ethical tensions, transparency and
    children’s rights
  * Platform design and children’s play behavior
  * Branded content in youth media cultures: commercial influence and
    participatory formats
  * Gamification and its educational/ethical implications
  * Surveillance and datafication of children’s leisure
  * Creative resistance: how children subvert algorithmic norms
  * Play, inclusion and marginalization in digital spaces
  * Digital well-being and psychological implications of
    algorithm-driven play
  * Educational tools to foster critical play and media literacy
  * Regulation, parental mediation and institutional responses

Deadline:July 15^th , 2025

This conference is aMid-TermConference of the Children, Youth and Media 
(CYM)Section of ECREA, supported by Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 
Universidad Villanueva and CÁTEDRA RTVE USAL (Universidad de Salamanca).
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