[Commlist] Call for abstracts: MediaTrust.Lab International Conference

“Building Trust: Platforms, Local Media and Audiences”

18th and 19th of November 2024

University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal

https://mediatrust.ubi.pt/events/conf2024/ 
<https://mediatrust.ubi.pt/events/conf2024/>

Keynote speakers:

Bella Palomo (University of Malaga, Spain)

Oscar Westlund (Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway)

The MediaTrust.Lab International Conference is one of the latest events 
in a project that has been focusing on local disinformation and media 
literacy in Portugal since August 2021. “Building Trust: Platforms, 
Local Media and Audiences” is the motto for this conference, which will 
take place on the 18th and 19th of November 2024, at the Faculty of Arts 
and Letters of the University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal. It 
will only be in person.

We want this conference to be a center for strategic debate on three 
axes: platforms, media, and audiences. Always designed around the local 
dimension. In this sense, we do not want a mass event, but a smaller and 
more fruitful one for the debate. Therefore, we invite colleagues to 
send abstracts that address the following themes, as well as others that 
are aligned with the sub-themes:

- Platforms: aggregation and distribution of local news; monetization of 
local content; financing of local resources; fact-checking partnerships 
with local media; emerging trends in platform-based approaches to 
support and strengthen local journalism; etc.

- Local media: new journalistic projects; literacies and strategies to 
combat disinformation; initiatives to combat “news deserts”; digital 
tools and fact checking with audiences; sustainability and resilience in 
local media; etc.

- Audiences: collaboration with local media and journalists in the 
production of news and/or fact-checking; collaboration in the 
dissemination of fact-checking; management, production and promotion of 
non-journalistic and/or community communication projects; initiatives to 
combat “news deserts”; engaging diverse audiences in news and 
information; etc.

Abstracts must be structured to include the topic and its relevance, 
hypothesis or argument, conceptual and methodological framework and 
expected results. They must be written in English, contain 400-500 words 
(excluding references) and 3-5 keywords.

The proposals will then be evaluated by the conference’s Scientific 
Committee, and the result must be communicated to all authors by October 
1, 2024. In cases of acceptance, guidelines will be sent for publishing 
the articles in an open access book edited by LabCom Books.

Important dates:

End of call for abstracts: September 15, 2024

Author notification: October 1, 2024

Conference: November 18-19, 2024

Organization:

MediaTrust.Lab: https://mediatrust.ubi.pt/ <https://mediatrust.ubi.pt/>

LabbCom: https://labcomca.ubi.pt/en/ <https://labcomca.ubi.pt/en/>

UBI: https://www.ubi.pt/en/ <https://www.ubi.pt/en/>

UC: https://www.uc.pt/en/ <https://www.uc.pt/en/>

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