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Dear colleagues,
Many thanks to those who have already submitted abstracts and panel proposals. Due to requests and the busy time of year we’ve decided to extend the deadline for a week. The new deadline is
Monday, 12 September, up to midnight. Please see below, or visit the
MECCSA 2017 conference website for more details (although please note that the website might not immediately display the new deadline date but will accept abstracts).
Culture, Media, Equality and Freedom
MeCCSA Conference 2017
11-13 January, University of Leeds
Keynote Speakers
[log in to unmask]">Dr Shakuntala Banaji, London School of Economics
Professor Milly Buonanno, La Sapienza University of Rome
Professor Paul Gilroy, King’s College London
Professor Andrew Ross, New York University
Professor Barbie Zelizer, University of Pennsylvania
Additional keynote speakers will be posted on the website
http://meccsa2017.org.uk/ as they are confirmed.
Theme
Equality and freedom are key political aspirations of modernity, from the French Revolution to the Arab Spring and beyond. Culture, media and communication (including film, television, publishing, music, digital and social media) are now
central to the pursuit of these goals, and to dynamics of power and control. This conference theme provides the opportunity for MeCCSA to focus on issues of political justice in the context of our field and we invite papers that consider the complex relationship
between different forms of media and communication, the circumstances in which they are produced, distributed and consumed, and the consequences for the realization of different forms of equality and freedom at local, national, regional and global levels.
Papers might address the following questions, among others:
· How do contemporary media and culture promote or inhibit the pursuit of freedoms?
· Which freedoms should be valued and why?
· In what ways do contemporary media and popular culture reflect, represent and re-shape inequality and constraint?
· In what ways might the pursuit of putative ‘freedoms’ (for example in neo-liberal media policy or environmental policy) potentially serve to reinforce inequalities (such as ongoing digital divides or the unequal impacts of environmental
change)?
· How do audience interactions with different media affect the realization of freedoms and the contestation of inequalities?
· How do different freedoms and inequalities affect the interactions of media with other dimensions of culture?
· How do different cultural, geographical and political contexts influence the role played by media in the pursuit of different freedoms, as well as the outcomes of their involvement?
· Which kinds of theory might best allow us to understand contemporary and historical struggles over liberty and justice in the media, popular culture and beyond?
We also welcome scholarly papers, panels, practice contributions and film screenings across the full range of interests represented by MeCCSA and its networks, including, but not limited to:
· Film and television studies and practice
· Radio studies and practice
· Cultural and media policy
· Representation, identity, ideology
· Social movements
· Digital games studies
· Women’s media studies
· Disability studies within media studies
· Approaches to media pedagogy
· Children, young people and media
· Diasporic and ethnic minority media
· Political communication
· Methodological approaches
Abstract submission
The extended deadline for abstract submission is Monday, 12 September. Abstracts should be submitted via the submission form on the MeCCSA 2017 website,
http://meccsa2017.org.uk/call-for-papers/. All submissions must include author contact details and a paper/panel title.
Individual abstracts should be up to 250 words. Panel proposals should include a short description and rationale (200 words) together with abstracts for each of the papers (150-200 words each including details of the contributor), and
the name and contact details of the panel proposer. The panel proposer should co-ordinate the submissions for that panel as a single proposal.
Practice
We actively support the presentation of practice-as-research, in particular when there is insufficient time to present a complete work during parallel sessions. We are therefore providing dedicated presentation spaces to display practice artefacts including
screenings, computer-based and multi-screen work (where possible). For displaying practice work, please include specific technical data (e.g. duration, format) and a URL pointing to any support material when submitting your abstract.
About MeCCSA
The Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA) is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. The field encompasses the study of audiovisual and print media
including film and TV; journalism; radio; photography; creative writing; publishing; interactive media and the web. The field also includes higher education for media practice and practice research – film and TV production, journalism practice, and the use
of new, digital information technologies in the arts, entertainment, social media and gaming. For further information please see: http://meccsa.org.uk/.
About Leeds
The 2017 MeCCSA Conference will be held on the city centre campus of the University of Leeds. The campus is within walking distance of all city centre amenities, including rail and bus stations as well as shopping, theatres and all the
cultural attractions of a regional centre. The campus is also just a short drive away from Leeds Bradford airport and only 10 miles from the wonderful Yorkshire Dales National Park.
The School of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds is one of the top departments in the UK for the study of communication, media and culture. We offer degrees that emphasise choice, opportunity and the development of analytical
and creative skills across a wide range of communication subjects, from popular culture to political communication, journalism studies to digital media. Our research is multidisciplinary, theoretically innovative and socially relevant; researchers at the School
collaborate with academic institutions, the public sector and media industries both within the UK and across the globe.
Conference contacts
For more information, visit the conference website at:
http://meccsa2017.org.uk/.
For all enquiries, please contact the organising team at: [log in to unmask].
For updates, please follow us on Twitter at:
https://twitter.com/meccsa2017.
We look forward to seeing you in Leeds!
The MeCCSA 2017 Conference Committee
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Dr Katy Parry,
Lecturer in Media and Communication; Deputy Director of Student Education
http://media.leeds.ac.uk/people/katy-parry/
Room 2.05
School of Media and Communication
Clothworkers' Building North
University of Leeds
Tel:
0113 343 4586