[ecrea] IAMCR Political Economy Section: Call for Papers 2018

*Political Economy Section - CFP 2018*

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Dear Colleagues,

The /Political Economy Section/ of the International Association for 
Media and Communication Research looks forward to the next IAMCR 
Conference and invites submissions (both individual proposals and 
collective panels) for the 2018 conference to be held in *Eugene, Oregon 
from 20-24, June 2018.*

All abstract submissions *must *be made via *IAMCR's Open Conference 
System at **https://iamcr-ocs.org <https://iamcr-ocs.org/>*.All 
abstracts should be between 300 and 500 words in length. Both individual 
and panel submissions are welcome and early submission is strongly 
encouraged. *The deadline to submit abstracts is 23:59 GMT on 31 January 
2018. *

The conference will be held under the general theme, */Reimagining 
Sustainability: Communication and Media Research in a Changing World/.*

As part of its Sustainable Development Agenda, the United Nations 
defines sustainability as harmonizing three core elements, environmental 
protection, social inclusion, and economic growth, so as to meet the 
needs of the present without compromising the ability of future 
generations to meet their own needs. It calls for concerted efforts 
towards building an equitable and resilient future for people and planet.


There is an immediate need to promote responsible and sustainable 
management of natural resources and ecosystems that incorporate local 
and global reflection and action. This inevitably raises urgent issues 
of entrenched power, social justice, democracy, and the need to 
eradicate poverty, raise basic living standards, and address the present 
climate crisis.

This ambition is currently under attack. In spite of overwhelming 
scientific evidence, climate change denial is used to build public 
support for unsustainable environmental practices. Encouraged by the 
rise of populism and ever-smaller media bubbles, intolerance is on the 
upswing around the world. Inequality is outpacing economic growth. 
Wealth is ever more concentrated.

We find it imperative in these times that IAMCR and its members expand 
and extend our understanding of current and emerging models of 
sustainability, the struggles that surround them, and their multiple 
relationships with communication and media.

Given the epochal environmental crisis, the /Political Economy 
Section/ invites papers and panels proposals to address these 
intersections by revising and remixing theories, practices, and 
institutions that move beyond merely /sustaining/—towards /thriving 
/societies and cultures. The role of communication and media in both 
promoting and impeding sustainability has increasingly been the focus of 
commentary and research. Material communication systems consume energy 
in their manufacture and use, contribute to problems of pollution and 
waste, and in their dominant commercial forms, support and encourage a 
general culture of unsustainable hyperconsumption.  What alternatives 
would advance the full and equal access to diverse information and 
comprehensive knowledge bases that UNESCO advocates as central to 
achieving sustainable societies?

We encourage participants to address these issues, in relation to both 
prevailing systems of communication and the systems now emerging around 
the application of artificial intelligence, the rise of automation and 
robotics, and the internet of things. We also welcome analysis that 
reassesses and reimagines sustainability in relation to openness, 
transparency, accessibility, and the recomposition of power, as we 
continue to explore the implications of media and communication in an 
interconnected world.

In addition to and /or in articulation with the conference sub-themes, 
the Political Economy Section also welcomes submissions on:

     • Political economy of digital broadcasting, telecommunications, 
live streaming and mobile communications,
     • Political economy of audiences,
     • Political economy of journalism,
     • Political economy of gender and feminism,
     • Political economy of big data and surveillance,
     • Political economy and climate change,
     • Moral economies, gift economies and free culture/free economy,
     • Media capital and financialization of corporate media,
     • Civil society, public goods and media activism
     • Communication/mediation of markets and finance.
     • Power, media policy and regulation,
     • Media, citizenship, cultural right and democracy,
     • De-commodification, de-marketization or de-convergence in 
communications
     • Cultural industries, cultural economy and diversity,
     • Cultural and creative labor in the context of digitization and 
global capitalism,
     • Continuing crisis (financial, moral, others),
     • Communication experiences of the social media activism around 
the world (Brazil, Hong Kong, Colombia, Malaysia, Greece, Indonesia, 
Thailand, Mexico, Taiwan, Spain, Turkey etc.) as counter hegemonic 
social agents
     • Global capital and media power spatialization
     • Free trade agreements, copyright and communication and cultural 
policies.

*Deadline*

*The deadline for submission of abstracts is 31 January 2018 and will 
not be extended.*

Decisions on acceptance of abstracts will be communicated to applicants 
by their Section or Working Group Heads no later than 15 March 2018.

*Guidelines for Abstracts*

All abstract submissions *must *be made via IAMCR's Open Conference 
System at https://iamcr-ocs.org <https://iamcr-ocs.org/>. There are to 
be no email submissions of abstracts addressed to Section Head. All 
abstracts should be between 300 and 500 words in length.

*Languages*

The Political Economy section will review abstracts in the IAMCR 
official languages (English, French, Spanish), but encourages the 
membership and participants to submit and present their papers in English.

Normally, only one (1) abstract per person will be considered, and under 
no circumstances should there be more than two (2) abstracts bearing the 
name of the same author either individually or as part of any group of 
authors. Please note also that the same abstract or another version with 
minor variations in title or content must not be submitted to more than 
one Section or Working Group. Such submissions will be deemed to be in 
breach of the conference guidelines and will be rejected by the Online 
Conference System, by the relevant Head or by the Conference Programme 
Reviewer. Authors submitting them risk being removed entirely from the 
conference programme.

*Criteria for Evaluation*

**

Submitted abstracts will generally be evaluated on the basis of:
     • General coherence and relevance to the political economy section
     • Evidence of theoretical/ methodological rigor
     • Empirical or conceptual originality which extends/provokes 
debate about the field of political economy
     • Gives voice to subaltern/under-represented groups/countries, or 
facilitates resistance/praxis


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