*CFP* "AFRICA'S DIGITAL YOUTH: EXPLORING MEDIA AND INFORMATION LITERACY COMPETENCIES AND PRACTICES", TRENDS IN MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION CONFERENCE

Africa's digital youth: Exploring media and information literacy competencies and practices

Trends in Media and Communication Conference, 2021

19-20th October 2021

 

 

The conference will seek to catalogue scholarship on trends emerging around African youth’s digital media practices with a focus on their ability to access, analyze, create, share and use information from digital sources. We invite abstracts of empirical and conceptual papers relating to the theme. 

 

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• African youth’s fact checking practices
• Youth and social media activism in Africa
• Youths, privacy and security in digital spaces
• MIL, consumer-hood and digital youth
• Digital information access and use
• Ethical issues arising in young people’s use of digital media
• Consumption practices around health risk communication

Abstracts should be up to 250 words and sent here

Abstract submission deadline: 12 August 2021
Acceptance notification: 27th August 2021
Registration: 24th September -10th October 2021
Conference dates: 19-20th October 2021