[ecrea] Conference: The Point is to Change It: Media Democracy and Democratic Media in Action, November 1-3, 2013

The Union for Democratic Communication and Project Censored invite your 
submissions to the upcoming Nov 1-3 Conference in San Francisco.  
Details are below.
Regards,
Randy Nichols

The Point is to Change It:

Media Democracy and Democratic Media in Action

UDC/Project Censored Conference in San Francisco November 1-3, 2013

We invite submissions for the Union for Democratic Communication and 
Project Censored conference November 1-3, 2013 at the University of San 
Francisco, where we have found affordable accommodations for your stay.  
Submission deadline is June 1, 2013.

With increasingly precarious employment, accelerating ecological 
degradation, gulfs between the 1% and the 99%, as well as dramatic booms 
and busts, we need a global media responsive to the 99%.  We need 
rigorous critique of corporate media’s commodification of social life. 
We need critique of all forms of censorship, systematic information 
exclusion, and propaganda.  We need grounded ideas for democratizing 
media in all formats and genres.  We need media justice.

To revitalize and retool media democracy in today’s media landscape, the 
Union for Democratic Communications (UDC) and Project Censored are 
teaming up for our 2013 conference.  UDC, which held its first 
conference in 1981, has worked to overcome concentrated 
political-economic power in order to contribute to a world based on 
economic justice, equality, and peace.  Project Censored, founded in 
1976, has made its mission to expose and counteract modern-day 
censorship.  Together, UDC and Project Censored hope to contribute to a 
more democratic society and world by sharing our scholarly and activist 
projects.

We invite research, activist & artistic proposals from critical 
perspectives interrogating media institutions and technologies, 
political/economic structures, media practices, cultural practices & 
audiences; we invite studies in critical pedagogy and research on media 
activism.  Proposals that address pro-democratic media reform or outline 
efforts to expand citizen access to media are particularly welcome.

We welcome the following proposals emailed to (udcpc2013 /at/ gmail.com) by 
June 1, 2013:

1. 500-word abstracts that describe the purpose and significance of your 
research and/or activist projects, especially those that address the 
issues outlined in the call.

2. Full papers (up to 25 pages including references) from graduate and 
undergraduate students.  The top student paper will be considered for 
the Top Student Paper Award. Student papers should be indicated as such 
and also contain a 500-word abstract. Students may apply for funding to 
cover some of their travel expenses through the Jeanne Hall Memorial 
Fund. To be considered for such funding, please include a one-line 
request for consideration of such funding on the top of your proposal.

3. Presentations of Media Literacy projects, including films and 
multimedia related to the call.

4. Finally, we welcome proposals for pre-constituted panels.  Please 
include 500-word abstracts for each participant (4-5 participants) and 
one panel rationale of 200-350 words that articulates the connections 
between the projects and the overall significance of the panel.

Sponsored in part by the Media Studies Department of the University of 
San Francisco

_______________________________

Randy Nichols
(rnichols /at/ bentley.edu)

Homepage:  http://www.randalljnichols.com/blog/
Twitter:  http://www.twitter.com/r_j_nichols

Department of English and Media Studies
Bentley University
175 Forest Street
Waltham MA 02452

PH:        (781) 891-2504
F:          (781) 891-2896



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