Dear all,

Just a reminder about the following event, for which abstracts are due
31 May.

Paul.


> CALL FOR PAPERS:
> 
> Youth, Media and Communication
> 
> A Joint Youth Study Group and Media Study Group Seminar
> 
> Liverpool John Moores University, 3 September 2009.
> 
> The relationship between young people and media has been the subject
of
> extensive and ongoing academic research and debate. While Stan Cohen
> set the
> tone for an ever-growing body of work on media stigmatisation of
groups
> of
> young people, the CCCS sparked off debate about the extent to which
> youth
> could reject, escape or even parody dominant media messages - and
> conversely
> about the potential for media to co-opt youth styles, practices and
> identities. In addition to furthering debates such as these in a
> variety of
> ways, more recent theorists have focused upon the nature and role of
> different forms of representation within specialist youth-oriented
> media,
> while others have examined the apparently increasing range of
> possibilities
> for young people to produce and distribute their own forms of content,
> whether online or elsewhere. Other researchers, meanwhile, have
> explored the
> connections between young audiences and more traditional media forms,
> such
> as news programming, for example.
> 
> This event, co-organised by the BSA Youth and Media Study Groups seeks
> to
> bring together scholars with a range of interests in the relationship
> between young people and media. We welcome paper proposals relating to
> both
> 'new' and more traditional forms of media. Submissions may focus on a
> variety of areas, including questions on media representation, on
youth
> consumption of different forms of media, on youth as media producers
> and on
> the significance of online or mobile forms of social interaction.
> 
> We encourage papers from PhD students and other new scholars as well
as
> from
> established academics and would also value contributions from
> practitioners.
> The organisers will be exploring the options for publishing selected
> contributions.
> 
> Please submit abstracts of no more than 200 words, complete with full
> contact details, to Paul Hodkinson, at [log in to unmask] , by
31
> May
> 2009 at the latest.
> 
> If you need further information, please contact the organisers:
> 
> Sian Lincoln - [log in to unmask]
> 
> Julian Matthews - [log in to unmask]
> 
> Paul Hodkinson - [log in to unmask]