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***DEADLINE APPROACHING: 16 SEPTEMBER 2011*** ECREA@LSE_2011 Media and Communications International Symposium London School of Economics, 16 - 17 December 2011 Organised by: ECREA Communication & Democracy section – ECREA Gender and Communication section – YECREA (Young Scholars Network – ECREA) with the collaboration of the Department of Media and Communications of the LSE Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Professor John B. Thompson and Dr Jo Littler Extended deadline for submissions: 16th September 2011 Decisions will be communicated by 30th September 2011. PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSALS THROUGH: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msmo2011 Contact email: [log in to unmask] ///––-/// We would like to invite the submission of abstracts and panels for the ECREA Media and Communications symposium 2011 that will take place next December at the London School of Economics. The symposium will welcome proposals from scholars working in the broad fields of politics and/or gender in relation with the media or culture. Proposals from the fields of journalism, communication, (new) media, tv, film, radio, social movements, citizenship, internet and cultural studies are therefore encouraged. Submissions from young scholars and PhD students are also welcome. ///––-/// THEME: The Mediation of Scandal and Moral Outrage In the light of recent events and phenomena, the organising committee proposes the following theme for the symposium: The Mediation of Scandal and Moral Outrage (see below). We invite the submission of paper and panel proposals related to the central theme of the conference, including (but not limited to) the following topics: . Political journalism and scandal Mediation of political scandals through new media . Political campaigning and scandal .- Privacy and the surveillance society .- Celebrity, scandal and moral outrage .- Violent protest and moral outrage .- Sex, morality and scandals .- Gendered scandals .- The concealment of scandal .- Peer2Peer surveillance and micro-scandals .- Individual meaning, appropriation and the audience of scandals .- The political economy of scandals .- Methods and strategies of mediated scandalisation .- Historical accounts of scandals and mediated moral outrage .- News International and the ethics of journalism The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal. (Ovid, Fasti - IV, 311) The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate; For greatest scandal waits on greatest state. (William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece - l. 1,004) Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. (Oscar Wilde) Scandals and the moral outrage they invariably provoke are not new, but the networked synoptic viewer society that we have become, makes scandalitis more permanent, more global and above all a highly profitable business for media organisations. The advent of crowdsourcing, web 2.0, blogging, CCTV, mobile phones with video capacity and an ever more hungry media eager to produce scandal and direct moral outrage, has made that not only celebrities and politicians are the object of scandal, but ordinary people caught doing something morally condemnable are increasingly thrown into the media frenzy as well, while police brutality has become easier to expose through so-called sousveillance or 'inverse surveillance' - watching those that watch. In politics, the fostering of a culture of scandal and the mobilisation of moral outrage has very much become a core activity in political journalism and an essential part of (negative) campaigning by political parties/candidates and civil society. Unsurprisingly, sex scandals involving male or female politicians or other celebrities remain of particular interest to the media and the public at large. These are often based on a moralistic agenda advocating heteronormative monogamy whilst constructing a sense of normality. A gender divide can also be observed in moral standards being projected on women and men. This symposium aims to bring a critical perspective to the way scandals are mediated, produced, consumed, and how they increasingly feed a polyoptic society whereby everybody is watching and watched by everybody. Recent events in the UK have also shown how this phenomenon driven by commercial and ideological interests can have negative consequences for trust in politicians, the police and journalism. The eagerness with which News International was chasing scandals became a scandal in its own right and the object of widespread moral outrage. Extended deadline for submissions: 16th September 2011. Decisions will be communicated by 30th September 2011. 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