[ecrea] CfP - Media and Governance in Latin America

*REMINDER: Call for Papers*

*Media & Governance in Latin America 2015*

*Communication, Power and Society*

*The University of Sheffield, 25-26 June 2015*

*Deadline: 6 April 2015*

Dear Colleagues,

We are glad to announce that the Department of Journalism Studies is
convening a second Media and Governance in Latin America conference, to
be held at the University of Sheffield on 25 and 26 June 2015.

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*Outline and call for papers*

Traditional and digital media have become key actors in the young
democracies of Latin America and the Caribbean over the last few
years. Media actors have influenced the configuration of
good governance across the region, not only due to their important role
as a channel between civil society and the state, but also to their
ability to shape the power structure of society.

Over the last decade or so, a new wave of left-wing governments has
prompted heated debates around the media's role in
democratic governance. Across the region, the relationship between the
state, the media and civil society faces common challenges, such as
poverty, corruption, inequality, and populism. In this context, the
region has been a rich laboratory for the introduction of innovative
regulatory frameworks, from new ways of fostering public media services
in Colombia and Chile, legal support to community-based journalism in
Ecuador or Bolivia, or the adoption of internet regulatory frameworks
such as Marco Civil in Brazil.

Academic debates on media and governance are shaped around the influence
of political elites, interest groups, and economic powers in the
performance of media outlets and journalists, but also in the importance
of investigative journalism and digital media in articulating social
mobilisation, and fostering good governance.

This conference explores these connections both in a comparative
perspective, and from an interdisciplinary perspective. The aim is to
bring together academics, practitioners and researchers from social
sciences and humanities around the following questions:

·What patterns of governance are shaping Latin American media systems?

·How are media reforms strengthening democratic governance across the
region?

·To what extent do public and private media reproduce populist and
polarising discourses?

·To what extent are digital media challenging traditional hegemonic
information flows?

·What patterns have emerged from the relationship between the state, the
private sector, civil society and the media?

·What is the role of the media in promoting democratic governance and
sustainable development?

Drawing upon these key questions, the conference aims to explore three
aspects of the relationship between media and governance in the region:

·Political communication: the mediatisation and personalisation of
politics; political and media populism; digital media and political
mobilisation.

  ·Comparative media systems: comparing public media services;

  comparing media markets; comparing journalistic cultures; and
comparing  regulatory frameworks.

  ·Media and the governance agenda: investigative
  journalism; media accountability; censorship and freedom of the press;
  state surveillance and privacy, communication and global change.

We believe the theme of media and governance is a challenging academic
crossroads in the exploration of Latin America and the Caribbean from a
social sciences and humanities perspective. Therefore, a peer-reviewed
collection of selected papers will be published with an international
publisher, whether as a journal special number or as an edited book.

*Submissions*

We are now inviting submissions of abstracts for papers. Please send an
abstract of 250 to 300 words, in English, Portuguese or Spanish, to José
Antonio Brambila (email (jabrambila-ramirez1 /at/ sheffield.ac.uk)
<mailto:(jabrambila-ramirez1 /at/ sheffield.ac.uk)?subject=Conference%20Media%20and%20Governance>), 

by 6 April 2015, with the subject "Conference Media and Governance". You
should include in the body of the email your name and title,
institutional affiliation and preferred contact email address. Please
note that abstracts that exceed the 300 word limit or arrive after the
deadline will not be accepted. Notification emails will be sent by 20
April 2015.

*More information*

You can find more details in our website:
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/journalism/events/latin-america-2015

You can also find the call for papers on www.governance.co.uk
<http://www.governance.co.uk/>

Twitter: #MediaGovLA <https://twitter.com/hashtag/MediaGovLA?src=hash>





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