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

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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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