[Commlist] Call for papers ECREA pre-conference Advancing Digital Disconnection Research

Advancing Digital Disconnection Research

Date of pre-conference: 2 October 2020

Call deadline: 2 April 2020

Link to pre-conference website and full call for abstracts:

https://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/research/projects/digital-disconnection/events/conferences/mapping-digital-disconnection-research--.html

Over the past years, digital disconnection has attracted interest across 
media and communication studies. “Digital disconnection” as well as 
related concepts (non-use, abstention, avoidance and detox) are 
discussed in a growing number of publications. However, questions are 
also raised about what disconnection really means and how we can study 
it, about paradoxes and inherent dilemmas that affect research on 
disconnection as well as the phenomenon itself. The time has come to 
critically consider the contributions, challenges and promises of 
digital disconnection research. This preconference invites papers on 
digital disconnection as a concept and area of research, and engages 
participants in a dialogue concerning contradictions and dilemmas, as 
well as future possibilities and agendas.

ORGANIZERS:

Trine Syvertsen, University of Oslo ((trine.syvertsen /at/ media.uio.no) 
<mailto:(trine.syvertsen /at/ media.uio.no)>)

Brita Ytre-Arne, University of Bergen

Faltin Karlsen, Kristiania University College

Maria José Brites, Lusófona University of Porto

Rita Figueiras, Catholic University of Portugal

Kim Schrøder, Roskilde University

Stine Lomborg, Copenhagen University

Sections and sponsors:

The pre-conference is supported by the ECREA sections: Audience and 
Reception Studies, Digital Culture and Communication, and Mediatization. 
It is sponsored by the research project Digitox at the University of 
Oslo, funded by the Research Council of Norway, and Centre for Research 
in Applied Communication, Culture, and New Technologies (CICANT) at the 
Lusófona University of Porto.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Over the past years, digital disconnection has emerged as a research 
topic attracting interest across media and communication studies. The 
idea of “digital disconnection” as well as related concepts such as 
non-use, abstention, resistance, avoidance and detox are discussed in a 
growing number of publications, with new research endeavours emerging in 
various subfields. However, questions are also raised about what 
disconnection really means and how we can study it, about paradoxes and 
inherent dilemmas that affect research on disconnection as well as the 
phenomenon itself. The time has come to critically consider the 
contributions, challenges and promises of digital disconnection research.

This preconference invites papers on digital disconnection as a concept 
and area of research, and engages participants in a dialogue to develop 
a more systematic research agenda. By bringing together scholars from 
different theoretical and empirical traditions, the pre-conference seeks 
to consolidate digital disconnection studies as a research field, and 
build foundations for further theoretical and empirical advances.

The preconference invites reflective papers, works in progress and 
emerging ideas. We welcome conceptual, theoretical and methodological 
discussions, literature reviews, provocations and interventions, and 
empirical studies with different contexts and methodologies. We 
encourage all contributions to consider how their approaches to digital 
disconnection research intersect with other developments in media and 
communication research, related disciplines and various sub-fields.

We particularly welcome submissions on:

-       Key concepts, perspectives and frameworks in research on digital 
disconnection

-       Investigations and critiques of intensified media involvement as 
a communicative condition, and of reactions and ambivalences to it

-       Contradictions, dilemmas and opportunities in analysis of 
digital disconnection

-       Innovative methodological approaches to studying disconnection

-       Counter-cultural movements and the politics and communities of 
detoxing, or other cultural and social expressions of disconnection

-       Empirical studies of user experiences and practices of 
regulating attention, e.g. strategic configurations of media use

-       Empirical studies of industry responses, practices and policies 
in relation to disconnection.

SUBMISSION AND SELECTION PROCESS

Presentations at the conference are based on abstracts of 500 words, to 
be submitted by April 2, 2020, (totrine.syvertsen /at/ media.uio.no) 
<mailto:(trine.syvertsen /at/ media.uio.no)>

The abstracts should include main idea/argument, research questions and 
key concepts, theoretical and/ or methodological discussion and analysis 
(if relevant).

PLEASE NOTE: All submitted abstracts must be anonymous with no reference 
to author(s). Submit the abstract as an e-mail attachment and include 
name, affiliation and contact details in the e-mail message.

The abstracts will be subject to anonymous peer review. Decisions on 
acceptance will be made by May 1, 2020.

Authors of accepted abstracts are expected to attend the pre-conference 
and present in person.

A special issue on the theme of the pre-conference will be proposed with 
invited contributions and a separate selection process announced at a 
later date.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

The preconference will take place on Friday, October 2, 2020, and will 
close before the opening of the ECREA main conference that afternoon.

There will be a small fee to cover attendance, lunch and refreshments at 
the pre-conference, of approximately 35 € (30 € for ECREA members and 
PhD candidates). Details and payment procedures will be announced at a 
later date.

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