[ecrea] Call for Papers: LSE Media and Communications PhD Symposium 2016

Call for Papers: LSE Media and Communications PhD Symposium 2016

"Everyday politics and media and communications:
New approaches for theories and methods in the 21st century"

Abstracts deadline: Friday, 22 April 2016  |  Symposium date: Thursday, 
30 June 2016, 9.00-18.00

The Department of Media and Communications at the London School of 
Economics and Political Science invites submissions of abstracts for the 
2016 PhD Symposium. This year's theme seeks to explore the multifarious 
forms of politics in everyday life, and to address questions of theory 
and method that current scholarship in media and communications confronts.

While 'politics' has long constituted one of the central themes in media 
and communications research, it has now assumed a renewed meaning that 
goes beyond partisan politics and ideological debates. With increasingly 
habitual political use of media, we are witnessing a broad range of 
practices: from community-building to mobilizing social movements, and 
from online collaboration and participatory culture, to the widespread 
visual forms of representations and narratives in global crises and 
struggles.

Roles of media in these diverse kinds of politics have been construed 
under varying frameworks and developed through a myriad of theories and 
methods from different disciplines of social science. However, in the 
21st century when the definition of what we customarily call 'media' may 
have undergone a radical change with the advent of online digital media 
platforms, explorations of those roles encounter a key question: have 
current theoretical and methodological foundations in media and 
communications research captured the full range of both possibilities 
and challenges made available by the diverse developments in the field 
of information and communications technologies?

This one-day symposium seeks to provide a forum for PhD students to 
engage with questions of multiple forms of politics, theories, and 
methods in the field of media and communications. We cordially invite 
PhD students who critically reflect upon and explore these issues, as 
related to the topics that include (but are not limited to):

- News, journalism, and political communication

- Civic engagement, digital citizenship, and community-building

- Agency, resistance and forms of protest

- Digital collaboration and participatory culture

- Big Data, algorithms, surveillance, computational politics, and networks

- Media governance, regulation, and ethics

- Shifting forms of media production and consumption

- Representation of gender and identity

- ICTs and development

- Theoretical and/or methodological approaches in media and communications

Submissions can be works in progress, provocative ideas, or engaging 
questions, as well as completed research in the form of papers. The 
symposium is particularly geared towards PhD students in the early 
stages of their research. The emphasis will be on thoughtful discussion 
with fellow PhD students, along with feedback from leading academics 
from the Department. This year's keynote speech will be given by 
Professor Nick Couldry, the opening address will be given by Dr. Bart 
Cammaerts.

Please email an abstract with title (200-300 words) to: 
(Media.PhD.Symposium /at/ lse.ac.uk)<mailto:(Media.PhD.Symposium /at/ lse.ac.uk)> by 
Friday, 22 April 2016, with your name, university, department, year of 
study, and your email address. Those invited to present will be notified 
by the third week of May.



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