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[ecrea] UDC 2015 Conference call for papers
Mon Sep 15 15:21:18 GMT 2014
CALL FOR PAPERS: Circuits of Struggle
Union for Democratic Communications 2015 conference
May 1-3, 2015, University of Toronto
Hosted by the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information, and
Technology
Deadline for submissions: December 1, 2014
The Union for Democratic Communications is dedicated to the critical
study of ascendant, emergent, oppositional, democratic, and experimental
forms of media, their production and distribution, and the development
of local, regional and international systems of democratic
communication. In this spirit, the organizers of the 2015 Toronto
conference propose that participants engage with the theme of circuits
of struggle.
Contemporary communication practices are marked by struggle. On the one
hand, we live amid neoliberalism and austerity and the challenges these
structures impose on democratic life, including precarity, debt, and
enclosure. Capitalism has integrated communicative activity and digital
technologies into a logic of accumulation that exploits all forms of the
commons: the environment, languages, affects, information, and
knowledge. Technological innovation makes possible new forms of
surveillance and corporate control over these resources. On the other
hand, this integration is incomplete. Individuals, organizations, and
collectives are using these same technologies to fight back. Struggles
for higher wages, less work, social justice, and a better quality of
life are occurring worldwide. Those who struggle against domination are
communicating across new channels in innovative and creative ways.
In this context, the 2015 conference organizers ask participants to
engage in conversation about the nature of contemporary media,
communication, and technological struggle, and the possibilities for
transforming the contemporary neoliberal order.
We welcome proposals from emerging and established scholars, graduate
students, activists, media makers, workers, and artists for
presentations that speak to the theme or related issues in democratic
communications, including new media and technologies, media and tech
activism, policy, histories, gender and race, work and labour, social
justice, and organizing and resistance. We welcome proposals for paper
presentations, workshops, theme panels, film screenings, artistic
interventions, and other formats.
Submission guidelines: Please submit a 300-500 word abstract or
presentation description to http://udc2015.wordpress.com/cfp/ For theme
panels, please submit a short description of the panel and 300-500 word
abstract for each presentation.
Graduate students who want to be considered for the Brian Murphy Student
Paper Award should submit a full paper along with their abstract.
Deadline: December 1, 2014.
We look forward to seeing you in Toronto in 2015!
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