[ecrea] cfp: MeCCSA Conference 2017 - Culture, Media, Equality and Freedom

This is a reminder that the submissions deadline for the next Annual 
MeCCSA Conference is approaching.  The conference will be held from 11 – 
13 January 2017 at the School of Media and Communication, University of 
Leeds, and we invite abstracts of 250 words to be submitted for peer 
review *by Monday 5th September 2016*. Full details are below.

*Conference contacts:*

Website: http://meccsa2017.org.uk/

E-mail: (info /at/ meccsa2017.org.uk) <mailto:(info /at/ meccsa2017.org.uk)>

Twitter: https://twitter.com/meccsa2017

*Culture, Media, Equality and Freedom*

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**MeCCSA Conference 2017*

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*11-13 January, University of Leeds*

http://meccsa2017.org.uk/

*Keynote Speakers*

Dr Shakuntala Banaji 
<http://www.lse.ac.uk/media@lse/WhosWho/AcademicStaff/ShakuntalaBanaji.aspx>, 
London School of Economics

Professor Milly Buonanno 
<http://www.didatticacoris.uniroma1.it/docenti/Milly-Buonanno>, La 
Sapienza University of Rome

Professor Paul Gilroy 
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/english/people/academic/gilroy.aspx>, 
King’s College London

Professor Andrew Ross <http://sca.as.nyu.edu/object/AndrewRoss>, New 
York University

Professor Barbie Zelizer 
<https://www.asc.upenn.edu/people/faculty/barbie-zelizer-phd>, 
University of Pennsylvania

Additional keynote speakers will be posted on the website 
http://meccsa2017.org.uk/ as they are confirmed.

*Theme*

Equality and freedom are key political aspirations of modernity, from 
the French Revolution to the Arab Spring and beyond. Culture, media and 
communication (including film, television, publishing, music, digital 
and social media) are now central to the pursuit of these goals, and to 
dynamics of power and control. This conference theme provides the 
opportunity for MeCCSA to focus on issues of political justice in the 
context of our field and we invite papers that consider the complex 
relationship between different forms of media and communication, the 
circumstances in which they are produced, distributed and consumed, and 
the consequences for the realization of different forms of equality and 
freedom at local, national, regional and global levels. Papers might 
address the following questions, among others:

·How do contemporary media and culture promote or inhibit the pursuit of 
freedoms?

·Which freedoms should be valued and why?

·In what ways do contemporary media and popular culture reflect, 
represent and re-shape inequality and constraint?

·In what ways might the pursuit of putative ‘freedoms’ (for example in 
neo-liberal media policy or environmental policy) potentially serve to 
reinforce inequalities (such as ongoing digital divides or the unequal 
impacts of environmental change)?

·How do audience interactions with different media affect the 
realization of freedoms and the contestation of inequalities?

·How do different freedoms and inequalities affect the interactions of 
media with other dimensions of culture?

·How do different cultural, geographical and political contexts 
influence the role played by media in the pursuit of different freedoms, 
as well as the outcomes of their involvement?

·Which kinds of theory might best allow us to understand contemporary 
and historical struggles over liberty and justice in the media, popular 
culture and beyond?

We also welcome scholarly papers, panels, practice contributions and 
film screenings across the full range of interests represented by MeCCSA 
and its networks, including, but not limited to:

·Film and television studies and practice

·Radio studies and practice

·Cultural and media policy

·Representation, identity, ideology

·Social movements

·Digital games studies

·Women’s media studies

·Disability studies within media studies

·Approaches to media pedagogy

·Children, young people and media

·Diasporic and ethnic minority media

·Political communication

·Methodological approaches

*Abstract submission*

The deadline for abstract submission is *Monday, 5 September.* Abstracts 
should be submitted via the submission form on the MeCCSA 2017 website, 
http://meccsa2017.org.uk/call-for-papers/. All submissions must include 
author contact details and a paper/panel title.

Individual abstracts should be up to 250 words.  Panel proposals should 
include a short description and rationale (200 words) together with 
abstracts for each of the papers (150-200 words each including details 
of the contributor), and the name and contact details of the panel 
proposer. The panel proposer should co-ordinate the submissions for that 
panel as a single proposal.

*Practice
*We actively support the presentation of practice-as-research, in 
particular when there is insufficient time to present a complete work 
during parallel sessions. We are therefore providing dedicated 
presentation spaces to display practice artefacts including screenings, 
computer-based and multi-screen work (where possible). For displaying 
practice work, please include specific technical data (e.g. duration, 
format) and a URL pointing to any support material when submitting your 
abstract.**

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*About MeCCSA*

The Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA) is 
the subject association for the field of media, communication and 
cultural studies in UK Higher Education. The field encompasses the study 
of audiovisual and print media including film and TV; journalism; radio; 
photography; creative writing; publishing; interactive media and the 
web. The field also includes higher education for media practice and 
practice research – film and TV production, journalism practice, and the 
use of new, digital information technologies in the arts, entertainment, 
social media and gaming. For further information please see: 
http://meccsa.org.uk/.

*About Leeds*

The 2017 MeCCSA Conference will be held on the city centre campus of the 
University of Leeds. The campus is within walking distance of all city 
centre amenities, including rail and bus stations as well as shopping, 
theatres and all the cultural attractions of a regional centre. The 
campus is also just a short drive away from Leeds Bradford airport and 
only 10 miles from the wonderful Yorkshire Dales National Park.

The School of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds is one 
of the top departments in the UK for the study of communication, media 
and culture. We offer degrees that emphasise choice, opportunity and the 
development of analytical and creative skills across a wide range of 
communication subjects, from popular culture to political communication, 
journalism studies to digital media. Our research is multidisciplinary, 
theoretically innovative and socially relevant; researchers at the 
School collaborate with academic institutions, the public sector and 
media industries both within the UK and across the globe.

*Conference contacts*

For more information, visit the conference website at: 
http://meccsa2017.org.uk/.

For all enquiries, please contact the organising team at: 
(info /at/ meccsa2017.org.uk) <mailto:(info /at/ meccsa2017.org.uk)>.

For updates, please follow us on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/meccsa2017.

We look forward to seeing you in Leeds!

The MeCCSA 2017 Conference Committee

Dr Lee Edwards

Associate Professor, Communication Studies and PR

School of Media and Communication

Clothworkers’ Building North

University of Leeds

Leeds LS2 9JT

Ph: 0113 343 7007

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