RN18 Panel
- Sociology of Communications and Media Research
14th
Conference of the European Sociological Association
20-23
August 2019,
Manchester, UK
Major
changes in the global relations and internal character of societies have posed
major questions about how such changes are communicated and understood.
Globalisation, fiscal and economic crisis, rapidly rising inequality, changing
work conditions, large scale migration, and major changes in forms of political
mobilisation and popular support are all taking place in a period when we are
coming to terms, both politically and analytically, with the ramifications of
the expansion of digital communications and of the large corporations who
dominate their organisation. This all poses major questions for us as analysts
of these processes, whether at local, European, or global level.
RN18 calls
for contributions that may help to shape critical media sociology in the 21st
century in its task of addressing the problems outlined above. These might deal
with some of the following example topics:
General:
RN18_a -
Sociology of Communications and Media Research (Open Session)
RN18_b -
Critical media sociology, theoretical issues
RN18_c -
Political economy approaches to communications
RN18_d -
Critical media sociology and critical theory
More
specific areas:
RN18_e -
Labour and employment in 'digital capitalism'
RN18_ f -
Race, ethnicity and racism
RN18_g -
Nationalism, identity, 'euroscepticism'
RN18_h -
Patriarchy and gender
RN18_i -
Political communication and the rise of 'populism'
RN18_ j -
Communications and the cultural 'commons'
RN18_k -
Big data, AI
RN18_l -
Journalism in the age of digital communication
RN18_m -
Digital activism, the progressive potential of 'new media'
The
organisers stress that these topics are listed to illustrate the invited areas
of research and discussion, but are neither prescriptive nor exhaustive. We
welcome contributions reflecting work in progress, empirical work, and work yet
to receive public presentation.
Abstract
submission deadline: 1 February 2019
NOTES FOR
AUTHORS
Please do
not send us a full copy of your paper (neither before nor after the conference).
Abstracts sent by email cannot be accepted. Each participant can submit and
present one paper as first author. The submitting author will be considered the
presenting author. All submitting/presenting authors can be second author of
one more paper. Abstracts should not exceed 250 words. Abstracts will be
peer-reviewed and selected for presentation by the Research Network.
SEMI-PLENARY
RN18 also
organises, together with RN6 - Critical Political Economy, a semi-plenary at
the ESA 2019 Conference in Manchester. The semi-plenary will cover topics
around digital labour and capitalism, and the two confirmed speakers are Ursula
Huws (University of Hertfordshire) and Phoebe Moore (University of Leicester). Information of this semi-plenary.
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