[ecrea] Call for Submissions: LSE Media and Communications PhD Symposium 2015

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LSE Media and Communications PhD Symposium 2015

Struggle and Resistance in Media and Communications: Structure versus 
Agency?

Date: Friday 19 June 2015, 09:00–18:00

Deadline for abstracts: Monday 30 March 2015

Struggle and resistance against established and emerging hierarchies and 
hegemonies constitute one of the central themes in contemporary media 
and communications research. On one hand, struggle and resistance 
broadly constitute newsworthy content in the framework of media 
production practices. On the other, media are themselves used as tools 
of protest and participation by individuals, groups, and movements 
actively engaged in modes of struggle and resistance against power in 
various manifestations. Further, media as discursive and material social 
forms are also subject to diverse challenges and contestations in media 
and communications studies.

Explorations of this power/resistance dialectic are often considered 
analytically by drawing upon the opposition or dualism of structure and 
agency. To what extent do structure and agency serve as a useful 
heuristic for considering the sorts of questions posed by current 
scholarship in media and communications?

This symposium seeks to provide a forum for PhD students to engage with 
questions of struggle and resistance, or structure and agency, as they 
pertain to the media and communications landscape. We invite PhD 
students to explore these issues as they relate to the following topics:

â–« News, journalism and political communication

â–« Media technologies, big data and surveillance

â–« Communications labour and forms of work

â–« Agency, resistance and forms of protest

â–« Media regulation, institutions and globalization

â–« Media, ICTs and development

â–« Research approaches in media and communications

Submissions can be works in progress, provocative ideas or engaging 
questions as well as completed research in the form of papers, posters 
or photograph displays.

The symposium is particularly geared towards PhD students in the early 
stages of their research. The emphasis will be on thoughtful discussion 
with fellow PhD students, along with feedback from leading academics 
from the Department. This year'€™s keynote speech will be given by Dr 
Bart Cammaerts.

For any submission, please send an abstract with title (150–200 words) 
to: (media.phd.symposium /at/ lse.ac.uk) by Monday 30 March. Please include 
your name, university, department, year of study, email address, and 
category of your submission (paper, poster, or photograph display). 
Those invited to present will be notified in the second week of April.



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