[Commlist] Call for Abstracts: Trends in Media and Communication Conference 2023 (TiMC 2023) (Virtual Conference)

  Trends in Media and Communication Conference 2023 (TiMC 2023)

Call for Abstracts (Virtual Conference)

Theme: The African Youth and Communicative Behaviours in Digital Spaces

*Conference Dates: November 1 – 3, 2023*

Recent media and communication scholarship converges on the idea that 
media consumers, particularly young people, are moving away from the 
traditional media to digital media (Kemp, 2021; PwC Global, 2019). 
Digital media and platforms have assumed prominence in all spheres of 
life as people turn to them for news, entertainment, advertising, 
politics, education. Besides these consumption patterns, digital media 
have also become a primary avenue for networking, self-expression, 
self-presentation, the pursuit of economic and other opportunities, as 
well as civic engagement and action. As a result, the literature on 
digital media reveals exponential increase in the rate at which people 
interact in digital spaces (Kemp, 2021). Recent reports show that about 
40% of Africa’s population is frequently online (Kamer, 2022) engaged in 
behaviours and activities that are, in one breadth, unique but in 
another also share commonalities with the rest of the world. For 
instance, on TikTok, we know that patterns around content creation and 
consumption differ in some ways from those of other continents 
(Statista, 2023). In Ghana, for instance, consumption favours 
entertaining content as opposed to tutorial videos where consumers tend 
to go for music videos and comedy, meme or viral videos (Kemp, 2023). 
 As contemporary life, particularly for young people, gravitate away 
from traditional spheres of interaction and towards digital spaces, new 
questions call for scholarly contemplation. For instance, how are 
African youth using the communicative liberation that digital spaces 
provide to create economic opportunities to counter their high 
unemployment? How do African youth leverage but also counter legal and 
regulatory regimes in pursuit of their communicative endeavours online? 
What patterns are evolving around creation, consumption and moderation 
of extremist content in African digital spaces?

These questions necessitate scholarly attention and reflections for 
practice. The 2023 edition of the Trends in Media and Communication 
Conference (TiMC) will provide a forum to scholars, practitioners and 
students in Media and Communication to share ideas and evidence on the 
theme, the /African Youth and Communicative Behaviours in Digital 
Spaces/. The Conference invites abstracts of research on topics related 
but not limited to:

 1. Consumption behaviours and practices in digital spaces
 2. Online communities
 3. Online media entrepreneurship
 4. Social media influencing
 5. Education via digital platforms
 6. Regulations and engagement on digital platforms
 7. Opportunistic behaviour in digital spaces
 8. Cyber bullying
 9. Gender and digital spaces
10. Identity construction in the digital space
11. Knowledge on cyber policy amongst digital users
12. Virtual civic engagement and activism

*Abstract submission deadline*: July 31, 2023

*Acceptance notification*: August 15, 2023

*Registration*: September 15 – October 21, 2023

*Conference dates*: November 1 – 3, 2023

*Conference fees:*

GHS 200 (local participants)

$30 (International participants)

*Student participants:*

GHS100 (local participants)

$20 (International participants)

Submit a 250-word abstract: 
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd6KizOHg3JMLzToT-Zzn3tlPiqFBGVl97aLeYxicRhhQhFGw/viewform 
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For detail/clarifications, you may contact: (tawfad /at/ gmail.com)

Visit the conference site for further details: Trends in Media and 
Communication Conference 2023 (TiMC 2023) | Department of Communication 
Studies 
<https://www.ug.edu.gh/commstudies/trends-media-and-communication-conference-2023-timc-2023>

	



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