[ecrea] CFP: NCA PreConference / Media & Class in the 21st Century

CALL FOR PAPERS / NCA PreConference: Media and Class in the 21st Century
9:00a.m. – 5:00p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016, Philadelphia, PA
Submission deadline: September 9, 2016
Notification of acceptance: October 1, 2016

The NCA preconference seminar on Media & Class in the 21st Century will 
bring together scholars from many communication subfields working at the 
intersection of media and class, with specific focus on how 
understandings of class are changing in contemporary media contexts. 
This preconference will engage the conference theme, Communication’s 
Civic Callings, deepening the theme’s relationship to issues of economic 
disparities and considering the role of media in relation to issues of 
economic justice. This daylong seminar will consist of two plenary 
sessions, brief presentations of position papers by participants, small 
group interactions and an interactive lunch that encourages scholars to 
meet others who share their interests.

We invite prospective participants to submit a 2-5 page position paper* 
that draws upon empirical or critical approaches in an exploration of 
contemporary and/or historical issues at the intersection of media and 
class that may include but are not limited to:

- Intersections of race, gender, and class in technological uses and 
developments
- Technologies in lower income households
- Media as social and cultural capital for middle class / privileged 
mobility
- Class and media in electoral campaigns
- Digital labor and global digital economies
- Mobile technologies and globally dispersed labor forces
- Digital financialization
- Micro-work and micro-transactions
- Practices of prosumerism and produsing
- Technologies in rural and developing world settings
- Digital representations and computer-mediated communications of identity
- Intersections of class and religious, political, ethnic, cultural, 
national, regional, sexual, gender, and social identities and 
relationships with comm technologies
- Construction of socioeconomic and demographic labels in representation 
and their consequences

* NOTE: 1 to 2-page drafts are acceptable at the time of submission, but 
full 2 to 5 page papers must be submitted within two weeks of acceptance.

Position papers should be submitted as email attachments in MS Word to 
Erika Polson and Lynn Schofield Clark at: (Media.and.Class /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(Media.and.Class /at/ gmail.com)> . The deadline for submissions is 
September 9, 2016. Acceptance decisions will be made by October 1, 2010. 
  Additional information about the seminar can be found at: 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AGf-LayMAH5EIJPTJdozZD9omUWanCeiJoF-l8fi98w/edit?usp=sharing 
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AGf-LayMAH5EIJPTJdozZD9omUWanCeiJoF-l8fi98w/edit?usp=sharing>


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