[ecrea] Call for Papers: LSE PhD Media Symposium 2012

Last Call for Papers: PhD Media Symposium 2012

Extended deadline: 1st March 2012

Cosmopolitanism, New Media and Protests



The Call for Papers for the LSE PhD Media Symposium 2012 has been 
extended to 1st  March. Please see further information below!

The LSE Media and Communications Department invites abstracts for papers 
on 'Cosmopolitanism, New Media and Protests', to be presented at our 
fifth annual PhD Symposium on 15 June 2012. Research students from 
across disciplines in the social sciences are welcome to apply. The 
extended deadline for submission of proposals is Thursday 1st March 2012.

In the last two years, significant waves of civil protests have been 
taking place around the globe. There are many examples: the so-called 
'Arab Spring' has targeted totalitarian regimes in the Arab world; the 
'indignados' in Spain, Greece and other EU countries have been 
protesting against austerity, unemployment and corrupt governments; the 
#Occupy movement, in the USA and Europe, emerged as a response to the 
financial crisis, targeting financial elites and demanding social 
change; there have also been riots in a number of UK cities; and 
political protests in Russia.

On the one hand, these developments can be approached as local events in 
which information technologies and new media played a significant role 
in the mediation of protests. On the other, we could argue that we are 
witnessing the emergence of a new global political system, as all these 
events are interrelated and reflect the rise of a new type of 
cosmopolitan networked society. In the latter case, new media may not 
just be a tactical tool but a major factor for system change.

Conceptualising cosmopolitanism as a contested term resting on a tension 
between the local and the global, the Symposium will examine the 
mediation of protests through new media platforms as they expand within 
and beyond national borders. The key question we will address is: How 
are new media implicated in the creation of cosmopolitan dispositions 
and protest mobilisations?

The Symposium welcomes, but is not limited to, abstracts in the 
following areas of enquiry:

- Local/global media in protests
- Cosmopolitan identity and cosmopolitan publics
- Global consciousness
- Social media and political change
- Networked journalism
- Mediation of protests
- Cosmopolitan identity and engagement in protests
- Media attention
- The state-networks relationship and mediation
- Mediating violence and representation of suffering in protests.

Submission

Please submit 300-word proposal (title & abstract) for paper and 
presentation of 15 minutes by 1st March 2012 to: 
(media.symposium /at/ lse.ac.uk)|. In a separate attachment, please include 
your name, paper title, institutional affiliation, short bio and contact 
details as well as your PhD project title. Successful submissions will 
be announced by 30 March 2012. Subject to availability, research 
students wishing to attend the workshop without presenting are welcome; 
please indicate your interest by emailing the above address with details 
of your institutional affiliation and PhD project title.

Further information

For more information and updates about the Symposium, visit our website 
at  http://www2.lse.ac.uk/media@lse/events/Symposium2012.aspx | 'Like' 
our page on Facebook| and follow us on Twitter @MediaPhDSymp|

Join the Facebook group| to ask questions and get more information from 
the organizers and meet other PhD students who are interested in the topic.

We look forward to receiving your proposals!

Best wishes,

LSE PhD Media Symposium Team

Marina Gerner (M.Gerner /at/ lse.ac.uk)|
Naya Hadzipani (N.P.Hadzipani /at/ lse.ac.uk)|
Gregory Asmolov  (G.Asmolov /at/ lse.ac.uk)|







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