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[ecrea] New CFP and extension of deadline 2011 ECREA Symposium on the mediation of scandal and moral outrage

Thu Jul 21 10:08:08 GMT 2011



Dear All,

In the light of recent events in the UK, we are re-launching the call for papers and extend the deadline for the ECREA Symposium at the LSE on 16-17 December 2011. We added a dimension to the call to take into account the News International scandal and we would also be receptive to panel proposals relating to the current ongoing hacking scandal raising serious questions regarding the ethics of journalism, privacy concerns, collusion of politics and media owners, weak oversight, etc.

We look forward to your abstracts.

All the best,
Bart



*ECREA Symposium 2011
*Communication and Democracy - Gender and Communication - YECREA
* Call for Papers *
*The Mediation of Scandal and Moral Outrage
*16-17 December 2011 at the LSE (UK)

/The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal./ (Ovid, Fasti - IV, 311)

/The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate; For greatest scandal waits on greatest state./ (William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece - l. 1,004)

/Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality./ (Oscar Wilde)
Scandals and the moral outrage they invariably provoke are not new, but the networked synoptic viewer society that we have become, makes scandalitis more permanent, more global and above all a highly profitable business for media organisations. The advent of crowdsourcing, web 2.0, blogging, CCTV, mobile phones with video capacity and an ever more hungry media eager to produce scandal and direct moral outrage, has made that not only celebrities and politicians are the object of scandal, but ordinary people caught doing something morally condemnable are increasingly thrown into the media frenzy as well, while police brutality has become easier to expose through so-called sousveillance or 'inverse surveillance' - watching those that watch. In politics, the fostering of a culture of scandal and the mobilisation of moral outrage has very much become a core activity in political journalism and an essential part of (negative) campaigning by political parties/candidates and civil society. Unsurprisingly, sex scandals involving male or female politicians or other celebrities remain of particular interest to the media and the public at large. These are often based on a moralistic agenda advocating heteronormative monogamy whilst constructing a sense of normality. A gender divide can also be observed in moral standards being projected on women and men. This symposium aims to bring a critical perspective to the way scandals are mediated, produced, consumed, and how they increasingly feed a polyoptic society whereby everybody is watching and watched by everybody. Recent events in the UK have also shown how this phenomenon driven by commercial and ideological interests can have negative consequences for trust in politicians, the police and journalism. The eagerness with which News International was chasing scandals became a scandal in its own right and the object of widespread moral outrage.

We invite paper and panel proposals related to the central theme of the symposium, including (but not limited to) the following topics:

o Political journalism and scandal
o Mediation of political scandals through new media
o Political campaigning and scandal
o Privacy and the surveillance society
o Celebrity, scandal and moral outrage
o Violent protest and moral outrage
o Sex, morality and scandals
o Gendered scandals
o The concealment of scandal
o Peer2Peer surveillance and micro-scandals
o Individual meaning, appropriation and the audience of scandals
o The political economy of scandals
o Methods and strategies of mediated scandalisation
o Historical accounts of scandals and mediated moral outrage
o News International and the ethics of journalism

Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Prof. John B. Thompson and Dr. Jo Littler

New deadline for submission of abstracts: 15 August 2011
Abstract Submission:_ https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msmo2011
_Contact email:_ ecrea2011@hotmail.com_



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