[ecrea] CFP: PhD/ECR conference, Saturday, July 2nd 2016, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

The Media Discourse Group, Leicester Media School, De Montfort 
University, is pleased to announce a CFP for our (free of charge) 
PhD/ECRconference ... (keynotes, Professor Andy Bennett, Professor of 
Cultural Sociology at Griffith University in Queensland,Australia and 
David Hayward, Coventry University and Hayward Black Media)

(Deadline for Receipt of Abstracts is 30th May 2016
reply to (mediadiscoursegroup /at/ hotmail.com) and cc (sprice /at/ dmu.ac.uk)
- abstracts already received will not need to re-submitted)

/Please disseminate to your doctoral candidates and early career 
researchers .../

'Researching Social Media Use: Identity, Community and Political Dissent'

Date: Saturday, July 2nd 2016
Venue: De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

Keynotes: Andy Bennett, Professor of Cultural Sociology at Griffith 
University in Queensland, Australia, /and/
David Hayward, founder of Hayward Black Media, Lecturer at Coventry 
University, UK, and journalist, writer, and media consultant

Andy Bennett, Professor of Cultural Sociology at Griffith University in 
Queensland, Australia
'Youth culture and the internet: a subcultural or post-subcultural 
phenomena?'
Twenty years after the so-called digital revolution, debate regarding 
the impact of social media on young people and their collective cultural 
practices continues to be a significant aspect of the youth research. 
Topics explored range from the ways in which social media have reframed 
communication among young people, to questions about youth identity and 
the extent to which this has been reshaped by social media. Underpinning 
this is the larger question of how social media have altered the nature 
of youth culture itself.  If youth researchers have long courted 
critical debates concerning how to frame the concept of youth culture as 
both theoretical and methodological fields of enquiry, the internet and 
related social media forms have brought new questions to bear on this 
debate. Thus, for some youth researchers, the internet serves to 
accentuate some of the pivotal qualities that have traditionally enabled 
particular youth groups to set themselves apart from mainstream norms 
and values in a socio-cultural space that has often been referred to as 
‘subcultural’. For others, the internet presents as the ultimate foil to 
such subcultural categorisations of youth.  In this context, the 
internet is regarded as a medium for new forms of connection between 
young people in which associations of style and taste become more fluid 
and are diluted by other forms of lifestyle preference and aesthetic 
sensibility. The purpose of this paper will be to critically analyse 
these debates and to consider whether youth culture’s interaction with 
the internet is best understood as a subcultural or post-subcultural 
phenomena.

David Hayward, founder of Hayward Black Media
'Online news video, social networks and the disruption of the media 
industry'
Online and digital news video is revolutionising the journalism and 
media industry. More than 330 billion videos are watched every month on 
the big four social media platforms. On Facebook alone, more than 9 
billion videos are viewed everyday. With such huge audiences, online 
social video has become the key battleground for an industry, struggling 
with failing and out of date cultures and business models. For the first 
time, start-ups and digital native news organisations are challenging 
the traditional press, media and publishing houses and broadcasters. We 
will explore the role video and social media networks are playing in 
disrupting the business of journalism and news, looking at what the 
future holds at a local, national and international level.


The submission of abstracts will be peer reviewed for this One-Day 
Conference and is open to PhD Candidates, Early Career Researchers, and 
Specialists working in the field.

Themes

The conference organising committee welcomes abstracts including – but 
not limited to - the following topics:

- identity, diversity, liminality,
- othering, representation, marginalisation
- refugees, asylum seekers, immigration
- riots, conflict, protest, state power
- citizenship, moral campaigns, community
- anti-systemic and progressive protest movements
- consent, surveillance, data mining
- on/offline in/visibility
- public/ private space,
- autonomous zones, urbanisation, gentrification, critical cartography
- space/spaces, place/places, borders, zones
- geographies, remediation, interactivities
- austerity, occupation, technology, debt
- trade unions, solidarity, class, race
- globalisation, neoliberalism, myth, post-capitalism, nationalism
- localisation, glocalisation, post-colonialism, diasporas, 
de/territorialisation
- gender, feminism, post-feminism, patriarchy, sexual politics, queer theory
- far right movements, left wing groups
- Marxism, post-Marxism, ideology, anarchism, activism
- political discourse, cultural events
- music, subcultures, tribes/neo-tribes
- subversive DiY practices
- social theory, methodology and media forms
- audiences, fandom, media theory
- performativity, spectacle, embodiment
- pedagogies, philosophies, popular culture
- memory, perception, subjectivities
- propaganda, memes, cartoons
- film, television, art, illustrations

Abstract Submission:

All proposal submissions should be a maximum of 250 words and include:
- Full Title of the Paper
- Full Name, Contact Details and Institutional Affiliation
- A Short Bio (max 100 words)
- Any Requirements (projector, CD/DVD player, etc.)
Presentations will be no more than 20 minutes long. It is recommended 
that all video clips should be embedded into a PowerPoint as MP4's prior 
to the day and that you also bring a USB with the clips and presentation.

*Deadline for Receipt of Abstracts is 30th May 2016.*
(reply to (mediadiscoursegroup /at/ hotmail.com) and cc (sprice /at/ dmu.ac.uk))

Proposals should be sent as an email attachment with a short bio (max 
100 words) to: Media Discourse Group Conference 
[mailto:(mediadiscoursegroup /at/ hotmail.com) 
<mailto:(mediadiscoursegroup /at/ hotmail.com)>]

*You will be notified of acceptance to this one-day conference by 3rd 
June 2016.*

Stuart Price, on behalf of the PGR Media Discourse Committee

Stuart Price
Professor of Media and Political Discourse

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