[Commlist] call for abstracts for the workshop "Communicating the wealth inequality challenge in hybrid media systems"

call for abstracts: workshop on "Communicating the wealth inequality 
challenge in hybrid media systems"

The International Inequalities Institute invites scholars to submit 
abstracts for a workshop on 'Communicating the wealth inequality 
challenge in hybrid media systems' from 5 - 6 October 2023.

Deadline for abstract submission: 27 May 2023

More information below and at:

https://www.lse.ac.uk/International-Inequalities/Research/Wealth-Elites-and-Tax-Justice/Communicating-the-wealth-inequality-challenge 



+++

Workshop call for abstracts - "Communicating the wealth inequality 
challenge in hybrid media systems"
The International Inequalities Institute invites scholars to submit 
abstracts for a workshop on 'Communicating the wealth inequality 
challenge in hybrid media systems' from 5 - 6 October 2023.

Increasing wealth inequality is a core challenge for democracies, 
shaping the life trajectories of individual citizens as well as the 
cohesion of the political communities they inhabit (Savage, 2021). The 
growing concentration of wealth has been identified as a key factor 
contributing to the increasing polarization of society across the globe, 
giving rise to substantial societal and political problems. For 
instance, growing scholarly literature focuses on the super-rich as a 
global, transnational class with their own, distinct lifestyles and 
consumption habits and possibilities to avoid the tax code (Muzio, 2015; 
Pow, 2011). Others have documented that the high concentration of wealth 
and income is closely related to the ability to influence processes of 
democratic decision-making (Bartels, 2016; Rehm & Schnetzer, 2015). 
Recently, research has also pointed to the link between economic 
inequality and the climate crisis (Barros & Wilk, 2021; K. S. Nielsen et 
al., 2021).

Communication is critical to the possibility for politicising wealth 
inequality, not just by shaping individual-level information and 
attitudes, but also by enabling meso-level coordination by political 
organisations and structuring macro-level public sphere dynamics. There 
is a growing literature about the role of legacy news media in debates 
about wealth inequality (Grisold & Theine, 2017; Shifferes and Knowles 
2022; Theine & Grisold, 2022; Waitkus & Wallaschek, 2022). Yet there is 
also an extensive literature on the ways in which media systems are 
undergoing profound transformations which disrupt the traditional 
centrality of legacy news, such as hybridisation, fragmentation, and the 
increasing role of platform intermediaries (Chadwick, 2017; Mancini, 
2013; R. K. Nielsen & Ganter, 2022).

This workshop asks how contemporary media systems shape the politics of 
wealth inequality:

    How are contemporary transformations in media systems like 
hybridisation, fragmentation and digitalisation affected by and 
affecting the politics of wealth inequality?
    How are discourses of wealth inequality, wealthy people and their 
practises (lifestyles, tax evasion, etc) and associated reforms (e.g., 
wealth taxation) framed and communicated in different types of media?
    How do changes to media industries, such as patterns of ownership, 
influence communication around wealth inequality?
    What is the role of social movements and contentious politics in 
these changing media-inequality dynamics?
    What methodological innovations can expand our understanding of the 
mediated politics of wealth inequality?

Timeline:

    27 May 2023: 300 word abstracts due
    13 June 2023: selection notifications

Abstracts can be sent to (M.K.Vaughan /at/ lse.ac.uk) and will be reviewed by 
the workshop organisers - Michael Vaughan (International Inequalities 
Institute, LSE), Hendrik Theine (Vienna University of Economics and 
Business), David Schieferdecker (Freie Universität Berlin) and Nora 
Waitkus (International Inequalities Institute, LSE and Tilburg University).

The workshop will be conducted primarily in-person with the option of 
hybrid participation. We welcome abstracts from researchers at any 
career stage including doctoral students.

This workshop is co-hosted by the “Wealth, Elites and Tax Justice” and 
“Politics of Inequality” programmes at the International Inequalities 
Institute, and co-sponsored by the Department of Media and 
Communications at LSE.
---------------
The COMMLIST
---------------
This mailing list is a free service offered by Nico Carpentier. Please use it responsibly and wisely.
--
To subscribe or unsubscribe, please visit http://commlist.org/
--
Before sending a posting request, please always read the guidelines at http://commlist.org/
--
To contact the mailing list manager:
Email: (nico.carpentier /at/ commlist.org)
URL: http://nicocarpentier.net
---------------