[ecrea] cfp - Language, New Media and Alt.Realities

Call for Proposals

 BAAL Language and New Media Sig Annual Meeting

MINI-CONFERENCE

 Language, New Media and Alt.Realities

 April 21, 2017

University of Reading

Proposals are invited for 20 minute paper presentations as well as 
posters/web-based presentations addressing the theme of ‘language, new 
media and alt.realties’.

Possible areas of interest include:



·       New media epistemologies and ontologies

·       New media discourse and political polarisation

·       Algorithmic pragmatics and political debate

·       Authoritarian and populist discourses online

·       ‘Trolling’ as a form of political discourse

·       Agnotology (the cultural construction of ignorance)

·       The crisis of ‘expertise’

·       ‘Fake news’ and ‘clickbait’

·       Hacking and disinformation

·       Infotainment and spectacle

·       Conspiracy theories and memes

·       Journalism in the age of social media



Please send your proposals in the form of a 250-word abstract to Prof 
Rodney Jones, University of Reading (r.h.jones /at/ reading.ac.uk).

Deadline for Submitting Proposals: April 5, 2017

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