[Commlist] CFP: SACOMM2019 - Inside | Outside

SACOMM 2019: August 28-30, University of Cape Town

Inside | Outside

Current media debates are increasingly dominated by polarities and 
conflicts. On closer inspection, these polarities are not always defined 
by antagonism or opposing ideologies, but are also informed by power 
imbalances in terms of race, class and gender, as well as technological 
access, education, age, geospatial factors, and mobility.

This year’s theme looks at the positions of media producers and users as 
being inside or outside media systems; from being inside the echo 
chamber to being shut out by censorship; from speaking as an inside 
whistleblower to being left outside the frame. Who has and who controls 
access to creative technologies and distribution? Who speaks, who is 
being followed, who is being listened to and whose voices are being 
amplified? What is heard on air, or edited out? How does one’s position 
(either inside or outside) make one vulnerable, empowered, educated or 
misinformed?

Themes may include, but are not limited to the following:

Content platforms and gatekeepers

Film, media and marginality

Media networks and ecologies

Film and media censorship

Citizen journalism, community media and media corporations

Television beyond the box

Media scholarship and inclusion

African media scholarship in the world

Media platforms and questions of access

WhatsApp and citizen witnesses

News writing and news aggregation

Threats to media freedom

Election coverage

*ABSTRACT CATEGORIES*

There will be three categories of presentation:

Category 1: Full 20-minute conference paper presentations

Category 2: Panel discussion sessions and/or roundtable/workshop proposals

Category 3: Poster presentations

*Best Paper Prizes*

There are two paper prizes: a student award and an open paper prize. To 
be eligible for the awards, full papers must be submitted by 5th of August.

*ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS*

All abstracts must be submitted to (sacomm2019 /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(sacomm2019 /at/ gmail.com)>, using the correct abstract submission 
form. Submissions not submitted on the correct form will not be 
accepted. Incomplete submissions will not be accepted.

The Abstract Submission form can be downloaded here: Abstract Submission 
Forms <http://sacomm.org.za/download/>

*Key dates: *

Abstract: 30 April 2019

Notification of acceptance: 31 May 2019

Full paper submission: 5 August 2019



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