[Commlist] MeCCSA 2020 Call For Papers

*MeCCSA 2020, University of Brighton, UK*

*Conference Theme – Media Interactions and Environments*

*8-10 January 2020***

*Keynote Speakers:*

Professor Trine Syvertsen, University of Oslo 
<https://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/trinesy/>

Professor Sarah Kember, Goldsmiths University of London 
<https://www.gold.ac.uk/media-communications/staff/kember/>

The Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association are pleased 
to invite the submission of abstracts, panel proposals and 
practice-based contributions for the MeCCSA 2020 Conference, to be held 
from 8-10 January 2020 at the University of Brighton. The theme of the 
conference is*Media Interactions and Environments.*

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/Interactions /with media are increasingly woven into the textures and 
cultural politics of our everyday lives. When the spaces of our homes, 
shops, schools, offices and cities are so intensively mediatised, media 
become our /environment/, brought to life through our mundane, personal, 
professional, creative, commercial and political interactions. What 
might be the wider implications of these media and cultural experiences 
and encounters? Whose voices and perspectives are included or excluded, 
and how are power and agency reconfigured, realigned and reproduced in 
this complex media landscape? The theme *Media Interactions and 
Environments *is designed**to address this critical moment in 
contemporary media culture, and appeal to a broad range of media, 
communication and cultural studies topics, interests and approaches.

The conference theme is deliberately expansive, so as to include, 
amongst others, analysis of media texts, technologies, practices, 
audiences, institutions and experiences. Media interactions might be 
digital, cultural, political, emotional and imaginative. Environments 
could be spatial, political, representational, urban, local, physical, 
virtual and ecological. Our aim is to enable the MeCCSA community to 
question how we should live responsibly and ethically in a politically 
and ecologically changing world, through an exploration of the central 
role of media cultures and creative practices in addressing social, 
political and climate-based challenges.

We invite proposals for scholarly papers, themed panels, posters, film 
screenings and other practice-based contributions. Proposals might 
engage with the various social, political, economic, artistic, 
individual, collective, institutional, representational and 
technological dimensions of media interactions and environments. 
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

·Media, communication and inequality: exploring race, gender, sexuality, 
class, generation and (dis)ability

·Datafication, agency and power

·Ecologies of media industries

·Social movements, activism and civic engagement

·Transformative learning environments and pedagogy

·Participatory media and collective engagement

·Popular culture, media and representations of the environment


·Media archaeology, sustainability and archives

·Digital cultures and immersive technologies, practices, audiences and 
experiences 


·Communicating and envisioning futures

·Critical and creative responses to the anthropocene

·Visual cultures, representations and experiences

We welcome contributions across the full range of interests represented 
by MeCCSA and its networks, including, but not limited to:

  * Race, ethnicity and postcolonial studies
  * Representation, identity, ideology
  * Film and television studies and practice
  * Radio studies and practice
  * Cultural and media policy
  * Social movements and activism
  * Climate change, sustainability and environment
  * Digital culture and games studies
  * Gender and sexuality studies
  * Disability studies within media studies
  * Media pedagogy
  * BAME experiences of media and culture industries
  * Children, young people and media
  * Diasporic and ethnic minority media
  * Political communication
  * Methodological approaches
  * Media practice research and teaching
  * Community media

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*Submitting a proposal*

Individual abstracts should be up to 250 words, accompanied by an author 
bio of no more than 200 words. Panel proposals should include a short 
description and rationale (200 words) together with abstracts for each 
of the 3-4 papers, and the name and contact details of the panel 
proposer. The panel proposer should coordinate the submissions for that 
panel as a single proposal.

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*Practice-based work*

We actively support the presentation of practice-as-research and have a 
flexible approach to practice papers and presentations. This may include 
opportunities to present papers and screenings in the same sessions or 
as part of a separate screening strand. We also welcome shorter papers 
in association with short screenings. We also have dedicated 
presentation spaces to display practice artefacts including screenings, 
posters and computer-based work. For displaying practice work, please 
include specific technical data (e.g. duration, format) and a URL 
pointing to any support material when submitting your abstract. We 
expect delegates who are showing screenings to be present at the conference.

Please note that all proposals (abstracts and practice-based work) will 
be peer reviewed. PGRs are welcome to submit.

*Timeline of submissions and reviews*

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*Submission deadline:*15 July 2019

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*Review decision: *September**2019

*Submit proposals to*: (meccsa2020 /at/ brighton.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(meccsa2020 /at/ brighton.ac.uk)>

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*Website*: http://www.meccsabrighton2020.co.uk 
<http://www.meccsabrighton2020.co.uk/>

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*Twitter: *@MeCCSA2020 <https://twitter.com/meccsa2020?lang=en-gb>

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