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[Commlist] IAMCR Pre-Conference on Climate Mis/Disinformation

Thu Apr 20 09:27:56 GMT 2023






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*Climate Mis/Disinformation in a Post-Factual Era: An IAMCR pre-conference*

Climate change mis/disinformation is fed through well-funded, transnational interest groups, as well as conservative politicians and social media algorithms. These campaigns are currently changing the contours of political communication and blocking effective action. There is a growing body of literature establishing a connection between the global rise of right-wing populism and climate mis/disinformation (Fraune and Knodt, 2018; Gottenhuber and Mulholland, 2019; Hameleers, 2020). Right-wing leaders around the world have joined vested interests and co-opted climate debates as part of their culture wars. Denialist claims go from logical fallacies, fake experts, and conspiracy theories (Cook, Ellerton and Kinkead, 2018) to the fabrication of fake controversies and asking for unrealistic scientific proof (Hansson, 2017). However, in a context of overwhelming scientific evidence about the climate crisis, clear-cut disinformation and denialism are being combined with mere “inactivism” (Mann, 2021), recurring to more sophisticated techniques that send deterring and misleading messages (Forchtner and Lubarda, 2022). Big-tech firms play a role in this cycle, functioning without proper climate misinformation policies and amplifying climate mis/disinformation on social media. This pre-conference welcomes theoretical and methodological papers that explore the intertwining between climate change mis/disinformation, populism, and vested interests in a post-factual world.

*Call for Papers *

Download the Climate Mis/Disinformation in a Post-Factual Era CfP <https://iamcr.org/lyon2023/climate-information> for more information.

*Date and time***

Saturday, 8 July 2023 | 09h00 – 18h30

*Location***

SciencesPo Lyon, France

*Participation and Registration***

The pre-conference welcomes original and state-of-the-art contributions that broaden the theoretical and/or empirical understanding of climate change mis/disinformation, populism, and vested interests in a post-factual world as well as a variety of methodological approaches.

The conference will have a registration cost of €30.

*Keynote Speakers
*• *Anabela Carvalho*, Universidade do Minho (Portugal)
• *James Painter*, Reuters Institute, University of Oxford (UK)

*Submission guidelines***

  * Authors should send a 500-word abstract (excluding references) in
    English to Sara García Santamaría, (sgarciasanta /at/ uoc.edu)
    <mailto:(sgarciasanta /at/ uoc.edu)>
  * Abstract submission deadline: *5 May 2023*
  * All abstracts must include the title, full name, affiliation, and
    contact information.
  * Decisions on acceptance will be communicated by *15 May 2023.*

*Contact email ***

Sara García Santamaría, (sgarciasanta /at/ uoc.edu) <mailto:(sgarciasanta /at/ uoc.edu)>

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