[Commlist] MeCCSA-PGN 2022 Conference

**NEW DATE* *for Mediating Gendered Identities: Articulations, 
Representations & Contestations**(*21-22 July 2022*) **

We are pleased to also announce our *keynote speaker*: Dr Ysabel 
Gerrard, University of Sheffield.

*Dr. Ysabel Gerrard*(@ysabelgerrard) is a Lecturer in Digital Media and 
Society at the University of Sheffield. Her research aims to understand 
the extent to which young people and those with vulnerabilities (e.g., 
mental health conditions) are protected by social media companies' 
content policies. This work has been published in journals like /New 
Media and Society /and /Internet Histories/, and featured in venues like 
/WIRED, BBC News /and /Dazed/. Ysabel is the current Chair of ECREA's 
Digital Culture and Communication Section and also sits on Meta's 
Suicide and Self-Injury Advisory Board. She is currently writing her 
first manuscript, tentatively titled /Network Burnout: Why Young People 
Crave Secrecy on Social Media /(University of California Press).

**

/(Please share with your postgraduates: The Call can also be found here: 
https://www.meccsa.org.uk/uncategorized/meccsa-pgn-2022-kings-college-london-conference-call-for-papers/ 
<https://www.meccsa.org.uk/uncategorized/meccsa-pgn-2022-kings-college-london-conference-call-for-papers/>)/**

**

*Mediating Gendered Identities: Articulations, Representations & 
Contestations***

MeCCSA Postgraduate Network 2022 Conference

21-22 July 2022

King’s College London

*Call for Contributions ***

The ‘Facebook Files’, released in September 2021, highlighted the 
ongoing concerns regarding the “impact” of Instagram on teenage girls. 
Critically, the entanglements of agency and empowerment that resurfaced 
in the leaked internal research from Facebook, coupled with subsequent 
media reporting, indicate how teenage girls continue to be positioned as 
gendered subjects, drawing on old stories of moral panics about media use.

This conference seeks to engage with debates and issues concerning 
gendered forms of identities, subjectivity and representation 
circulating within media discourse, cultural products, and creative 
practices. How are expressions and articulations of gender contested and 
reinforced in mediated environments? How can contemporary media 
discourses, products and cultures be situated within historical context? 
What role does research play in this dynamic?

*Keynote speaker*: Dr Ysabel Gerrard, Lecturer in Digital Media and 
Society, University of Sheffield.

**

*Rationale***

The programme committee welcomes proposals from graduate students on a 
range of topics that address the mediation of gender in cultural 
practices, products, and settings. **

We specifically pose the question: how can examinations of creative 
practices and cultural products enable a deeper understanding of a vast 
and evolving spectrum of gendered identity? We encourage submissions 
which challenge current discourse surrounding gender studies, or those 
which discuss the ways in which we as academics shape and pursue the 
intersection of such disciplines. Submissions may address, but are not 
limited to, the following areas:

-Articulations of gender, race, class, age, ability, sexuality

-Audience engagement, reception, and participation

-Exclusion and gender inequalities

-Collaborative practices and the creation of community

-Cultural and social histories

-Digital culture and everyday life

-Forming subjectivities through media and culture

-Semiotic and discursive mediations of culture and media

-Media and culture in a neoliberal age

-Memory and cultural practices

-Online communities (including gaming, social media, etc.)

*Submission guidelines ***

We are considering proposals in a variety of formats, such as papers, 
panel submissions, and media presentations. Each contribution will be 
allocated a 30-minute window, but individual presentations can be of 
varying length (up to 20 minutes for the presentation and remaining time 
for feedback and questions). Please submit an abstract of no more than 
250 words to (meccsapgnc2022 /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(meccsapgnc2022 /at/ gmail.com)>by *May 1st, 2022*. Should you choose 
to present in a nonstandard format (e.g. media presentation or 
performance), please indicate this in your abstract. Please also 
indicate in your submission if you need any specialist equipment, other 
than a projector and podium, and please notify us of any access 
requirements.

Additionally, we would like to encourage delegates to submit full 
versions of their papers for the potential inclusion in a Special 
Conference Issue of the Postgraduate Network’s journal, Networking 
Knowledge. More details to be released after the abstract deadline.

If you have any questions please contact (meccsapgnc2022 /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(meccsapgnc2022 /at/ gmail.com)>


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