[Commlist] Call for Applications | Second Lisbon Winter School for the Study of Communication | Media and Uncertainty

Jointly organized by the Faculty of Human Sciences (Universidade 
Católica Portuguesa), the Center for Media@Risk at the Annenberg School 
for Communication (University of Pennsylvania), the School of Journalism 
and Communication (Chinese University of Hong Kong), the Department of 
Media and Communications (London School of Economics and Political 
Science) and the Faculty of Social Sciences (University of Helsinki), 
the *Second Lisbon Winter School for the Study of Communication* will 
take a comparative and global approach to the study of media and 
uncertainty across time.

*Call for Applications*

The media today are troubled by uncertainty.

Externally, a growing sense of uncertainty draws from deep-seated 
questions about identity formation, increasing angst over the viability 
of familiar cultural, political and social formations and intensifying 
social and economic precarity and inequality. Ultimately, the risks and 
challenges posed by climate change expose an even deeper sense of risk, 
calling into question the usual cyclical social imaginations about risk, 
crisis and renewal.

Within media environments, uncertainty builds from the rapid unfolding 
and often unforeseen ramifications of digital technology, the collapse 
of traditional business models, new degrees of irrelevance, the 
emergence of new players and platforms, the development of new reception 
practices, changing expectations of what media are for and a shift in 
the very relationship of the media to the outside world in an era marked 
by widespread dis- and mis-information. The viability of media as we 
know them is up for grabs.

How and in what ways will the media – as institutions, as occupational 
and professional contexts, as a diverse set of practices – adapt to this 
age of uncertainty? Will the media continue to produce meaningful 
content, and if so in which ways? How will the media push back against 
political assault? Who will fund the media’s continued presence? Will 
new business models allow the media to play a central role in democratic 
societies, producing investigative journalism and relevant information 
on current affairs? How do we move forward in rebuilding public trust in 
the media, ensuring that they help sustain some kind of inclusive public 
space?How will audiences relate to and engage with different media 
platforms? How will new forms of media change and disrupt legacy media 
platforms? How will journalism report about uncertain and risky futures? 
How will political powers be held accountable?

Questions like these fuel the imaginary that uncertainty introduces into 
considerations of the media, demanding global approaches to the 
different occupational, professional, economic, political, cultural and 
environmental contexts in which the media operate. Thus, the* Second 
**Lisbon Winter School for the Study of Communication* will consider how 
uncertainty is molding the media in different geographies and how 
societies rely on the media to deal with moments of uncertainty.

*The Lisbon Winter School invites proposals by doctoral students and 
early career post-docs from all over the world that address, though may 
not be not be strictly limited to, the topic of media and uncertainty as 
it relates to:*

·Media and digital transformation
·Emergent cultural, political and social formations
·New business models
·New notions of risk and resistance to it
·Media and uncertainty throughout history
·Online harassment
·Alternative media forms and outlets
·Media activism
·Reporting uncertainty
·Authoritarian media
·Media and political accountability
·Dis- and misinformation, fake news and hate speech
·Environmental precarity


          PAPER PROPOSALS

Proposals should be sent to *(lisbonwinterschool /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(lisbonwinterschool /at/ gmail.com)>* no later than July 22, 2019 and 
include a paper title, extended abstract in English (700 words), name, 
e-mail address, institutional affiliation and a brief bio (max. 100 
words) mentioning ongoing research. Applicants will be informed of the 
result of their submissions by September 20, 2019.


          FULL PAPER SUBMISSION

Presenters will be required to send in full papers (max. 20 pages, 1.5 
spacing) by November 22, 2019.
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*For more information please visit the Winter School website: 
*https://www.lisbonwinterschool.com/
**
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