DEFENSA DE TESIS: "EL ROL DE LA TELEVISIÓN PÚBLICA EN LA COMUNICACIÓN DE LOS MOVIMIENTOS SOCIALES"

Próxima defensa de tesis del Departamento de Comunicación de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

Información de la tesis: 


"El rol de la televisión pública en la comunicación de los movimientos sociales"

Autor/a: PAZ ANDREA CRISÓSTOMO FLORES

*CFP* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, IV INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS MOVE.NET ON TIC AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

IV International Congress Move.net on TIC and Social Movements

Faculty of Communication

(University of Seville)

11 and 12 November 2021

 

This CFP for the IV International Congress Move.net on TIC and Social Movements is structured along the following thematic lines:

• Technological Sovereignty 
• Digital Rights 
• Ciberactivism 

*CFP* "GROOVES AND MOVEMENTS", IASPM-US 2022 CONFERENCE

Grooves and Movements

IASPM-US 2022 Conference

University of Michigan

Ann Arbor/Detroit Michigan: May 26-28, 2022

 

The International Association for the Study of Popular Music-United States chapter (IASPM-US) invites proposals for its annual conference, which will take place in Ann Arbor at the University of Michigan on May 26-28, 2022. We welcome abstracts for individual papers, organized panels, roundtable discussions, and alternative (non-paper) presentations on all aspects of popular music, broadly defined, from any discipline or profession. We especially encourage submissions on the many rich popular music histories of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Detroit. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to normalize virtual connections in local and global settings and to reconfigure physical spaces for social distancing, the present moment calls for an examination of the virtual and physical modalities of music-making. The theme for this year’s conference “Grooves and Movements” intersects with Detroit and its storied place in rhythm and blues, rock, punk, hip-hop, and electronic dance music, and is intended to connect the histories, philosophies, and practices of urban spaces to other historical and global popular music communities.

*CFP* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, BLANQUERNA SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS CONFERENCE

Blanquerna School of Communications and International Relations

Ramon Llull University, Barcelona

October 7, 8, and 9, 2021

 

With a global pandemic and a world unsettled by profound transformations, we currently live a time of uncertainty, doubts, and opportunities. This conference invites to rethink the role of communication in times of disruption. Civil society, the public sector, and businesses must all face new challenges and respond to unforeseen trials.

The conference welcomes papers dealing with new narratives, communication strategies, messages, storytelling, and publics as they relate to the current and past elements of social, political, and economic disruption: the Covid-19 pandemic, the economic crisis, globalization and business challenges, domestic terrorism, the rise of authoritarianism, political polarization, and widespread protest movements, and insurrections, included the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, as well as current and historical protest/insurrection movements of the past in other parts of the world.

*CFP* "WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE IN THE UNITED STATES: LAWS, PRACTICES AND REPRESENTATIONS (19TH-21ST CENTURIES)", CONFERENCE

Women’s Suffrage in the United States: Laws, Practices and Representations (19th-21st centuries)

Université du Mans (3L.AM) / Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès (CAS)

February 3-4, 2022

 

American women were long excluded from the electoral process because societal constructions kept them confined within the domestic realm. Actual enfranchisement was obtained after long struggles to achieve not only equal access to voting, but above all representation. While the adoption of the 19th Amendment in 1920 prohibited all gender-based restrictions on access to suffrage, it did not mark the end of the long struggle for women’s right to vote. It was not until the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 that African American women were able to register to vote in the Southern states, where exclusion from the electoral process had been in place since the end of the Reconstruction era. Although the political heritage and principles of equality of the Six Nations inspired first-wave activists, Native women were marginalized not only by their fellow citizens but also by local and federal institutions. Even today, some women still do not have access to suffrage because of their social and/or ethno-racial affiliation. Activists continue to denounce and fight gerrymandering as well as voting restrictions (Sunday voting, early voting, mail-in voting).

*CFP* "JOURNALISTS AND MEDIA CONSTRUCTION OF PUBLIC PROBLEMS", SPECIAL ISSUE, SUR LE JOURNALISME

According to Gusfield (1981), a social fact only becomes an object of concern, of claim and of debate in public policies after a work of conversion has been performed by several operators (Best, 2008; Neveu, 2015). Included in these operators are journalists and, to a larger extent, the media, which contribute to the construction of public problems and present the interlocutors involved, the questions raised and any possible answers in terms of public action.

At a time when journalism is experiencing a double crisis; one of profitability and credibility (Poulet, 2011; Descôteaux, Brin, 2018; Benton, 2019), how can we understand its role in the construction of public problems? The theme of this dossier discusses the competitive exercise of fighting for the validation of problems and proposals and their “framework”. What place do journalists occupy in these processes? What changes does the new information ecology (intensive use of digital social networks and the multiplicity of information producers and sharing) (Rebillard, Smyrnaios, 2010) bring to the genesis of public problems?

Articles submitted for this edition shall focus on the following theme: the relationship between generalist information media and journalists and the construction of public problems. We recommend the articles be based on one of the three topics listed below; however, we shall not exclude other proposals that may not necessarily be based on these three topics.

*CFP* "POLITICS, PERILS AND PRIVILEGES: IMMOBILITIES IN THE TIME OF GLOBAL PANDEMICS", SPECIAL ISSUE, TRANSITIONS JOURNAL

When the COVID-19 global pandemic struck in early 2020, governments around the world reacted by closing international and national state borders, banning or restricting international and interstate travel, and resorting to enforced lockdowns and curfews. The economic and social impacts of these sudden restrictions in movements have been devastating with the lived experiences of everyone impacted. The employed became unemployed, industries whose entire business models are dependent on human interactions such as tourism, hospitality and entertainment collapsed, supply chains were disrupted, remote working and studying became the norm, families were separated from each other and professional and education opportunities were lost.

People around the world frustrated by the impact the pandemic has had on them, and by the systemic and new inequalities that emerged, voiced their anger through street protests and in the online space with the pandemic fuelling both extreme right wing and left wing fervour. The rapid move to the online space to conduct almost every kind of human activity meant a complete reliance on the digital resulting in new kinds of inequalities and challenges. The rise of the digital in the time of forced immobilities has also created completely new opportunities born out of necessity. While mobility was once the life blood for human and individual necessity, progress and advancement, immobility has shown itself to create perils and privileges never really realised. For example, workers not required to be ‘on site’ are able to set up home offices to work from home.

*CFP* "TRANSNATIONAL DIMENSIONS IN DIGITAL ACTIVISM AND PROTEST", THEMED ISSUE, REVIEW OF COMMUNICATION JOURNAL

Giuliana Sorce & Delia Dumitrica are currently seeking submissions for a themed issue on Transnational Dimensions in Digital Activism and Protest to be published in the Review of Communication, a flagship journal of the National Communication Association (NCA). There are no APCs and submission and publication is free. Please see the full CFP below. This themed issue aims to map international perspectives on transnational processes in digital activism and protest. Against wider claims that social movements and citizen activism are shifting from the logic of spatial organization to networked flows (Bennett & Segerberg, 2012; Mercea, 2020), this themed issue seeks to illuminate how the global and local come together in networked public spheres. Recent transnational movements such as #MeToo or Black Lives Matter yield the importance of interweaving digital communication, pre-existing activist collectives, and citizen activation on a seemingly global scale. The policing of physical protests during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic have intensified reliance on digital technologies among activists and grassroots collectives (Sorce & Dumitrica, 2021), further enhancing the appeal to create transnational ties and globalize movement appeals.

We ask how political causes circulate globally, what role digital technologies play, and ultimately, what “transnational” means for seemingly universal causes, global collective identity, and activist ractice. In reflecting how activists across the globe employ digital media to construct a civic imaginary of a transnational polity, attention must be paid to the dialectical nature of transnational processes that simultaneously magnify the importance of locality while normalizing hybridity (Roudometof, 2016; Kraidy, 2005; Pieterse, 2015).

*CFP* "LA NOCHE EN EL MUNDO IBÉRICO E IBEROAMERICANO", XL CONGRESO DE LA SOCIÉTÉ DES HISPANISTES FRANÇAIS

La noche en el mundo ibérico e iberoamericano

XL Congreso de la Société des Hispanistes Français - SHF

de 8 a 10 de junio de 2022

Universidad de Artois (Arras, Francia)

 

Dedicado a la temática de la noche en el mundo ibérico e iberoamericano el congreso se celebrará en la Universidad de Artois (Arras, Francia), de 8 a 10 de junio de 2022, en el marco del XL Congreso de la Sociedad de Hispanistas Franceses (SHF)

Será la ocasión de sacar a la luz percepciones diferentes y de cuestionar la evolución de las representaciones de la noche y de las realidades unidas a este espacio-tiempo a lo largo de las épocas y según las áreas culturales. Podrán contemplarse varios enfoques:

*CFP* "DISIDENCIA Y COMUNICACIÓN: VOCES Y DISCURSOS EN LA ERA DE LOS HECHOS ALTERNATIVOS", CONGRESO MEDIAFLOWS 2021

Congreso Mediaflows 2021

Disidencia y Comunicación: Voces y discursos en la era de los hechos alternativos

27, 28 y 29 de octubre 2021. UIMP Valencia

 

La vocación de este congreso es acoger un debate académico en torno al rol que la comunicación está jugando actualmente en las sociedades modernas como herramienta con la que desafiar los discursos oficiales y plantear lecturas alternativas a las voces del poder, pero también como instrumento con el que construir versiones de la realidad que poco o nada tienen que ver con las verdades fácticas, dando resultado a un sinfín de bulos y teorías conspiratorias. La relación entre comunicación y disidencia se revela, por tanto, como un objeto de discusión y reflexión académica de máxima importancia dado que, como han demostrado estos últimos meses, constituye un fenómeno que impacta sobre todo tipo de áreas, desde la política a la ciencia, pasando por la religión y la cultura.

*CFP* "DISSENT AND COMMUNICATION: VOICES AND DISCOURSES IN THE ERA OF ALTERNATIVE FACTS", MEDIAFLOWS CONFERENCE 2021

 

"Dissent and communication: voices and discourses in the era of alternative facts"

Mediaflows Conference 2021

Universidad de Valencia

27, 28 & 29 October 2021

 

In order to present a paper at the Mediaflows Conference 2021 ‘Dissent and communication: voices and discourses in the era of alternative facts’, a 250-word proposal should be sent through the specific form available at this link until 15 July 2021. The conference accepts papers in Spanish and English.

The conference accepts papers in face-to-face mode (health circumstances permitting) or virtual mode (by sending a video or participating online).

*CFP* "BEYOND CALIFORNIAN IDEOLOGY? TECH COMMUNITIES AND ALTERNATIVE IMAGINARIES OF DEEP MEDIATIZATION", SPECIAL ISSUE, THE INTERNATIONAL JOOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION

In their 1996 publication of the same name, Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron characterized what they called the “Californian ideology” as a combination of “the free-wheeling spirit of the hippies and the entrepreneurial zeal of the yuppies” (Barbrook & Cameron 1996: 44). At its core, this Californian ideology is defined by the notion of a society characterized simultaneously by libertarian markets, alternative ideas of community and individual freedom—shaped by technology more than other social forces. Such notions were driven by networks such as those that emerged around the Whole Earth Catalog, and later, Wired magazine (Turner 2006), which communicated these ideas far beyond the American West Coast. Many of today’s platforms and digital infrastructures, which drive the current “deep mediatization” (Hepp 2020) of society, were created in the spirit of such an ideology, supported by ideas of “global scalability” of once found "technical solutions”.

At the same time, there were groups early on that seem to be opposed to such ideas. Examples of this are the Hacker, Open Source, or Civic Hacking movements, which are interested in critically questioning tendencies of commercialization. Such groups exert their influence by developing alternative “sociotechnical imaginaries” (Jasanoff & Sang-Hyun 2015) about possible futures – thus creating a space of possibility. However, if one also looks at emerging communities today such as the Maker, Quantified Self, or Biohacking movements, it becomes evident that many “alternative” imaginaries are closely interwoven with the Californian ideology. On closer inspection, the boundaries do not appear to be so easily drawn; there are manifold connections, fractures, affinities, and differences in the various communities.

*CFP* "SCIENCE FICTION: ACTIVISM AND RESISTANCE", VIRTUAL CONFERENCE

Science Fiction: Activism and Resistance

Virtual Conference

9-11 September 2021

London Science Fiction Research Community (LSFRC)

 

In an age when Me Too, Black Lives Matter, Decolonise the Curriculum, Refugees Welcome, and movements for global solidarity with oppressed populations have become part of mainstream discourse, it is vital to re-examine the relationship between activism, resistance and the mass imagination vis-a-vis science fiction. As a genre dedicated to imagining alternatives, science fiction is an inherently radical space which allows for diverse explorations of dissent. It is, also, a space that has been rightfully critiqued for its historic inequities favouring white cishet men (as recently addressed by Jeanette Ng during the 2019 Hugo Awards among others). There needs to be reckoning with how precarious bodies engage in activism and resistance in the context of their material realities and restrictions. Therefore, we must deny universalising a single experience as “radical enough” and instead acknowledge how communities in the margins – queer, trans, disabled, neurodivergent, BIPOC, immigrants and refugees, religious minorities, indigenous populations, casualised workers, the homeless and unemployed – have specific ways of subverting and undermining the system, as well as specific stakes and reasons to do so. It is imperative to not only revisit how science fiction has been a space for activism and resistance, but also resist and challenge the genre’s shortcomings.

*CFP* "BEYOND THE ECHO CHAMBER – THE TACTICAL USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS", SPECIAL ISSUE, SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY

We invite proposals for essay submissions for a thematic issue of South Atlantic Quarterly focusing on the tactical and political uses of social media in struggles for radical social change. In this issue, we want to push past the well-worn tropes of the network and the echo chamber to consider how a range of social movements are making use of social media platforms in their social change efforts and with what consequences. Outside of their role as platforms for networked communication, recent scholarship has identified the important role played by social media as “discourse laboratories” and sites for collective identity construction. Social media platforms have become central tools and contested terrains not just for social justice movements but for those of the far Right as well. While much attention has been focused on the way that movements for social justice have deployed social media as a key tool for communication and mobilization, we also want to consider the ways that movements of the reactionary and radical Right make use of this digital infrastructure.

This issue will consist of contributions examining movements across the political spectrum and their use of social media in the context of their tactical repertoires and the political goals they seek to achieve. Beyond questions of communication, coordination, and mobilization, how are contemporary movements entering into these digital ecologies and how are they being affected by them? This timely collection aspires to contribute to the critical conversation about movements, social justice, free speech, and digital communicative infrastructure at a moment of surging activity across all these registers.

*CFP* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, VIRTUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRESS/POLITICS

Virtual Conference of the International Journal of Press/Politics

Zoom, 13-16 September 2021

 

On 13-16 September 2021, the seventh conference of the International Journal of Press/Politics, focused on academic research on the relationship between media and political processes around the world, will be held virtually. Professor Young Mie Kim from the University of Wisconsin will deliver a keynote lecture.

The deadline for submission of abstracts is 5 July 2021. Attendees will be notified of acceptance by 12 July 2021. Full papers based on accepted abstracts will be due 1 September 2021. A selection of the best full papers presented at the conference will be published in the journal after peer review.

*CFP* "STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT FOR DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL CHANGE: GOVERNANCE, SUSTAINABILITY AND PARTICIPATORY PERSPECTIVES IN AFRICA", BOOK CHAPTER

In a post-colonial landscape, governments from across the African continent are experiencing a myriad of disparate challenges related to development and social change (cf. Chambua, 1994; Raheem, Anamuah-Mensah & Dei, 2014). At the heart of these challenges, is the need to bring about development, rapid urbanisation, as well as the improvement in the quality of life for all citizens. However, several stumbling blocks stand in the way of this, namely:

• Corruption 
• Challenges with management and sustainable use of natural resources 
• Conflict 
• The debt-crisis and underdevelopment 
• Contestation around legitimacy in the democratisation processes (including protests, violence and resistance, extremism, extreme poverty and famine) 
• Pandemics (i.e. Ebola, Malaria and Covid-19)

These issues have adversely affected the achievement of goals related to humanitarian upliftment, development and social change for all African nations. Consequently, citizen participation lies at the heart of these challenges when considering the question of sustainable governance and policy development for social change in an African context. To this end, various case studies exist where local citizens do not inform sustainable development programmes; while the promotion of bottom-up development and social change is largely replaced by top-down instrumental action approaches and hemispheric communication (cf. Williams, 2006; Molale, 2019; Mwesigwa, 2021). 

*CFP* "POSTCOLONIAL PUBLICS: ART AND CITIZEN MEDIA IN EUROPE", CONFERENCE AND EDITED VOLUME

We are delighted to invite contributions to a conference paper on the topic of postcolonial publics expressed and engaged through “citizen media” (Rodriguez 2001; Baker & Blaagaard 2016) and art, in a postcolonial Europe. The conference papers will also serve as chapters for an edited volume which will be published soon after.

We want to interrogate the proliferation of digital media and global culture, and the changes happening in public intellectual engagements. From the adoration of the single (often male, often white) genius to the anonymity of diverse, affective publics, a postcolonial perspective invites contemporary public engagement to have many faces and multiple voices, and addressing new issues such as the environmental crisis and the resurgence of racism. Creativity and art can play a significant role in this development. Performance and visual expressions in the European space interpellate the situated public, but also produce transnational political dialogue and travel across digital space. Embodied performances challenge the cerebral stereotype and classical conception of what public engagement is and should be. Moreover, digital platforms have made available space for expressions that break the form and formulas of public and political speech. However, despite the expansion of public participation, social divisions based on race, gender, sexuality and able-bodiedness still hold sway and begs the question of positionality in relations to institutions, in the different fields of art and media, when it comes to political and social change.

*CFP* "INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE MEDIA AND DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATION", BOOK PROJECT

Since the 1970s, the active role and involvement of marginalized citizens in development and social change programmes at local, national, and in some instances, international levels, has sparked much interests from scholars around the globe (cf. Waisbord, 2008). At the heart of this scholarship is the need to coordinate active citizen participation in different aspects of development, which is a breakaway from the earlier top-down development agenda of the 1940s- which placed emphasis on the Marshall plan of economic growth (i.e. Modernisation), where beneficiaries of development played little or no role in decision-making processes involving them (cf. Melkote & Steeves, 2015; Manyozo, 2008). Through participatory communication- which was influenced by Paulo Freire’s work on dialogical praxis, liberation pedagogy, and conscientisation as part of his classical treatise: /“Pedagogy of the oppressed” /(cf. Molale, 2021), scholars around the global south, largely from Latin America, began exploring ways in which different theories, frameworks and models can be established to facilitate and enhance meaningful and sustainable transformation in the quality of life for local citizens through their active involvement in development processes (cf. Manyozo, 2012).

The alternative paradigm that emerged was geared toward the popularisation of the development and design of campaign messages, that are supposed to be culturally sensitive, */language specific/* (emphasis intended) and in tune with the social realities of the people of the developing world (cf. Salawu, 2015; Nwuneli, 1993; Uribe-Jongbloed, 2013). The language in which a development message is disseminated is a very important aspect of the massage treatment. It is posited that the indigenous language of any community is best suited for the purpose of conveying any message, whatsoever, to the said community (cf. Salawu, 2015; Nwuneli, 1985: 203). 

*CFP* "NEW DIRECTIONS IN SHAKESPEARE'S MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING", EDITED COLLECTION

Over the past three decades, Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing has risen from beloved comedy to cultural and scholarly sensation. This rise results in part from the collective discovery that the skirmish of wit between Benedick and Beatrice and the intrigue surrounding Hero and Claudio create their own issues distinct from those in the cross-dressing The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, and As You Like It; the magical A Midsummer Night’s Dream; the virtuosic Love’s Labour’s Lost; and, finally, the more commedia dell’arte-like The Taming of the Shrew. But Much Ado owes the greater part of its rise to the popularity and success of Kenneth Branagh’s 1993 film adaptation and to the play’s relevance to our current moment in gender relations. Vis-à-vis its new importance, Much Ado about Nothing deserves fresh attention, both as a literary and historical artefact and as a recent cultural phenomenon. 

This proposed collection invites essays that address the play and its “moment,” broadly interpreted to include culture both then and now. These essays may cover recent stage and film versions that demonstrate the play’s more problematic aspects, from Branagh’s version with its opening tableau of nude male bodies to Josh Whedon’s contemporary black-and-white version and its intersections with the pressing movements of our time. How and why do these and other directorial alterations redirect our focus and attention, and what purpose do they serve? 

*CFP* "GLOBAL DIGITAL MEDIA FROM INTERSECTIONAL, QUEERFEMINIST AND POSTAND DECOLONIAL PERSPECTIVES", SPECIAL ISSUE, GLOBAL MEDIA JOURNAL-GERMAN EDITION

This special issue aims at strengthening critical perspectives in Global Media Studies as well as international communication in order to expand and challenge the hegemonic canon of media studies. These include marginalized positions such as post- and neocolonial, intersectional and queer perspectives. Such perspectives can draw attention to blind spots in communication studies, question global norms and standards, and productively use ambiguities in analyses of media and communication processes. In this way, critical approaches to media and communication can engage with current complexities of media societies and offer important perspectives with regards to global dynamics, caused by the rapid changes and dynamics in our global communication infrastructures and reveal their production of and inscription in socio-economic, cultural, and political power relations. This includes the analysis of international regulatory systems and dynamics of global communication infrastructures, especially with regard to their changes through digital media.

Epistemological and methodological reflections will also be considered in this special issue: with a global perspective, the researchers' own privileges and positioning as well as processes of inclusion and exclusion in existing knowledge production can be analysed. Furthermore, the description and analysis of socio-technological systems require inter- and transdisciplinary approaches to describe and assess current developments and understand reproductions of sexist, racist and classist power relations. The global pandemic does not only pinpoint our dependence on digital infrastructures but also sheds light on increasing inequalities.