[ecrea] cfp Communication rights and focred mobilities

*CALL FOR PAPERS: COMMUNICATION RIGHTS AND FORCED MOBILITY *

*12-15 July 2016, University of Vienna, Austria *

Submissions are invited for the special session(s) on Communication
Rights and Forced Mobility. The Turkish Migration Conference 2016 is
hosted by the University of Vienna from Tuesday 12 July to Friday 15
July 2016.

Organized by Regent's Centre for Transnational Studies, London and the
*Media Governance and Industries Research Lab* at the University of
Vienna, http://mediagovernance.univie.ac.at/home/, this section(s) aims
to bring together a variety of approaches to help us better understand
the dis/connections of communication rights of the world citizens
experiencing forced mobility.

While the so called "refugee crisis" became a ‘code’ for European media
and politicians to describe the extraordinary movement of people toward
the continent, people on the move have inadvertently caused ‘Europe’ to
come face to face with its strength to uphold Human Rights and
Communication Rights for protecting the vulnerable and its weakness to
act in such a way. Potent images have raised old ethical questions of
journalistic practices, but at the same time have exposed the concrete
impact of policies on people’s lives – and deaths. While the media and
journalists are finding themselves challenged to report on human tragedy
and human agency, ‘staying neutral’ has become an impossible and
possibly ethically questionable task. On the one hand, people on the
move are being reported on in terms of natural catastrophe metaphors; on
the other personal stories of survival and death aim to humanise the
numbers of people seeking refuge.

We are interested in papers that document, analyse, speculate and
interrogate the “journey”, destination and experience of migration
forced mobility, as a matter of communication from all possible
perspectives that is connected with people’s rights to be granted
protection and their human rights to be respected.

Papers on the following topics, but not limited to them, are sought:

- To what extent citizens' communication rights are
respected/challenged/violated within the discursive construction of
“refugee crisis”?

-What place do the communication rights have in the geographies of flows
and networks of late modernity?

- How the notions of global, local and transnational are articulated in
the study of forced mobility?

- What is the impact of media, information and communication
technologies on the journey towards refuge?

- How do audiences understand this crisis? What is its coverage and
relevance for audiences?

- Has “the refugee crisis” had a bearing on freedom of expression and
social media?

- How does civil society at large respond to the needs for communication
and interlocution?

- Is there a communication rights crisis connected with forced mobility?

Please send your abstract of 350 words by *February 5, 2016*. Please add
your affiliation and contact details to Katharine Sarikakis,
(Katharine.Sarikakis /at/ univie.ac.at)
<file://localhost/javascript/linkTo_UnCryptMailto('ocknvq,Mcvjctkpg0UctkmcmkuBwpkxkg0ce0cv')%3B>andDeniz 

Özalpman, (ozalpman /at/ gmail.com).

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