Digital
Fortress Europe: Exploring Boundaries between Media, Migration and Technology
30 and 31
October 2019, Brussels, Belgium
The two-day
conference “Digital Fortress Europe” intends to be a forum to reflect on the
relations between media, migration, and technology. These relations demand our
fullest attention because they touch on the essence of what migration means in
societies that are undergoing democratic challenges. Research shows that media
and technologies play a vital role for people who migrate, but that the same
media and technologies serve to spread xenophobia, increase societal
polarization and enable elaborate surveillance possibilities. With its
intensifying anti-migration populist discourses, humanitarian border crises and
efforts to secure borders through technological solutions, the European context
provides a pulsating scene to examine such deepening relations.
Taking
place in the heart of Europe’s political capital, this conference aims to
critically reflect on what the much-debated notion of “Fortress Europe” means
in the digital age and how it can guide our future thinking on media and
migration. As such, scholars of media, communication, migration and technology
will be stimulated to contribute to critical discussions on border politics and
migration debates.
The
thematic focus of this conference is on media, migration and technology and all
their possible linkages and intersections. While significant attention goes to
digital technologies and social media, the organizers do aim for a broad focus
that also includes traditional media, and aspects of media production,
organization, consumption, representation and policy.
The three
confirmed keynote speakers will be:
Besides the
keynotes and parallel paper presentations the programme will also include a
public event, a PhD masterclass and a book launch (details to be confirmed in
the final programme).
The
conference takes place at the Palace of the Academies in the centre of Brussels
(Hertogstraat 1, 1000 Brussel).
The
conference is organized by the European Communication Research & Education Association’s (ECREA) Diaspora, Migration & the Media (DMM) section in
collaboration with the ECREA’s International & Intercultural Communication
(IIC) section, the Young Scholars Network of ECREA (YECREA), the
Netherlands-Flemish Communication Association (NeFCA), and has received support
from the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (KVAB).
The
organizers welcome submissions for paper presentations on the following three
broad themes:
- Borders and media technologies, particularly focusing on critical research on biometrics, algorithms, drones and cartography.
- Producing and circulating meanings and media on migration, including work on discourse and representation, journalism, popular culture and policy.
- Media uses and technologies by and for migrants and diasporas, including research on activism, identity, emotion/affect, education, well-being, language and mediated social relations.
Especially
welcome are submissions rooted in critical cultural studies, critical data
studies, postcolonial studies, feminist research and from scholars
who build bridges between academia, policy, activism, arts and public debate.
Instructions
Please
submit a 500-word abstract in an anonymized MS Word file only (other formats or
non-anonymized documents will not be considered) per e-mail to
ecreadmm@gmail.com. Please mention “Submission Brussels Conference” in your
e-mail subject.
A separate
call for the related PhD masterclass will soon be circulated.
After the
evaluation of abstracts, accepted authors will be invited to submit full papers
in order to be considered for the Best Paper Award (junior award and senior
award) and for a possible publication in a Special Issue and/or a book. We
refer to previous collaborations in the form of a special issue of the European Journal of Cultural Studies (Sage), Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture (Intellect), Communications: The European Journal for Communication Research (Mouton De Gruyter).
Timeline
22 February
2019: deadline abstract submission
15 April
2019: notification of acceptance
10 May
2019: opening of registrations
1 July
2019: publication of final programme
15
September 2019: closing of registrations
30-31
October 2019: conference
Organizing
team
Kevin
Smets, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, ECREA DMM vice-chair (local organizing
committee)
Yazan
Badran, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (local organizing committee)
Paola
Condemayta Soto, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (local organizing committee)
Koen Leurs,
Utrecht University, ECREA DMM chair
Irati
Agirreazkuenaga, University of the Basque Country, ECREA DMM vice-chair
Melis
Mevsimler, Utrecht University, ECREA DMM young scholars representative
Leen
d’Haenens, KU Leuven
Alexander
Dhoest, University of Antwerp
Stijn Joye,
Ghent University
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