<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252">
<style type="text/css" style="display:none"><!--P{margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} --></style>
</head>
<body dir="ltr" style="font-size:12pt;color:#000000;background-color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<p>CFP: Media Justice - Race, borders, disability, data'<br>
</p>
<p><span style="font-size:small;"><br>
International Communications Association Preconference, 25 May 2017<br>
Sherman Heights Community Centre, San Diego<br>
</span></p>
<p><br>
<span style="font-size:small;"></span></p>
<p><strong>CALL FOR PAPERS<br>
</strong></p>
<p><br>
<strong></strong></p>
<p>Call for the ICA 2017 Pre-Conference “Media Justice: Race, borders,<br>
disability and data,” Sponsored by the Philosophy, Theory and Critique<br>
Division and Communication and Technology Division of the International<br>
Communication Association</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p>Summary: This is a call for abstracts and session proposals for the Media Justice<br>
pre-conference at the 2017 International Communications Association<br>
meeting in San Diego. The Media Justice pre-conference, to be held on<br>
May 25th, 2017, at the Sherman Heights Community Center in San Diego,<br>
will bring together activists, advocates, and researchers to advance the<br>
shared theory and practice of media justice.</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p>We welcome proposals for academic papers, more informal presentations and panels.</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p><strong>Deadline for proposals: 15 February, 2017 (200 words abstract)<br>
</strong></p>
<p><br>
<strong></strong></p>
<p>Organisers: Prof Gerard Goggin (University of Sydney), Dr Sasha<br>
Costanza-Chock (MIT), Dr Tanja Dreher (University of Wollongong), Prof<br>
Ricardo Dominguez (UCSD), Maegan Ortiz (Institute of Popular Education<br>
of Southern California)</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p>In the United States, there is an active media justice movement, yet the<br>
concept is rarely used in international academic, activist or advocacy<br>
work. Media justice organizing is based in the realization that social,<br>
racial, gender, disability, cultural, economic, and other forms of<br>
justice require changes in the distribution and control over media and<br>
communications technology (Gregg 2011; Cyril 2005). The Center for Media<br>
Justice explains: “we organize under-represented constituencies for<br>
media rights, access and representation to win social and economic<br>
justice” (<a href="http://centerformediajustice.org/about/our-story/our-vision" target="_blank">http://centerformediajustice.org/about/our-story/our-vision</a>).<br>
</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p>Media justice campaigns have focused on media representation, network<br>
neutrality, phone and broadband access, the communication rights of<br>
incarcerated people, policing and surveillance technology, community<br>
media, and public interest cable franchising agreements, among other<br>
areas. Media justice advocates emphasise the struggle against the<br>
broader matrix of domination (Hill Collins, 1990) and links with social<br>
justice movements outside the media field. Given the location of ICA<br>
2017 in San Diego, and the role of the media in the stunning victory for<br>
the Trump campaign’s open appeal to racism, misogyny, homophobia and<br>
transphobia, xenophobia, islamophobia, ableism, and anti-Blackness, this<br>
is the ideal time and place for a preconference on Media Justice.</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p>Hackett describes media activism as ‘the movement of movements,’ and<br>
argues that all social justice movements have an interest in the<br>
transformation of media representations, production processes,<br>
platforms, and policies. Media are addressed as a site of intervention,<br>
rather than merely providing publicity for social justice movements. In<br>
contrast to liberal media reformers, media justice advocates call for<br>
significant structural and institutional changes beyond the tightly<br>
focused field of media policy (Hackett 2011). Media justice advocates<br>
further stress the importance of power redistribution in order to<br>
address past injustices:</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p>Media justice is more than an oppositional framework or simple effort at<br>
political contrast. It is a multi-layered, emerging analysis that draws<br>
on civil and human rights, globalization struggles, corporate<br>
accountability and cultural studies. It starts with a structural<br>
analysis but it doesn’t stop there because media doesn’t stop there. Who<br>
owns it, what’s on it and how it makes us feel are all spheres we must<br>
address simultaneously. Where we go from here has to take into account<br>
where we’ve been and who has been advantages and who has been hurt. And<br>
it is this analysis that separates media justice from the fight for<br>
media democracy, because without a vision that seeks to repair the<br>
impact of the past and the privilege, we’ll have the same old oppression<br>
with better, high-speed resolution. (Makani Themba-Nixon, n.d., cited in<br>
Cyril, 2005: 97).</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p>While some notion of media justice has always been implicit within media<br>
and cultural studies (e.g. the tradition of work on alternative,<br>
citizens,’ and community media), and grassroots organizers have been<br>
developing a praxis of media justice for more than a decade, relatively<br>
little has been published on media justice in either academic or popular<br>
venues.</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p>This pre-conference considers the ways in which recent attention to<br>
race, borders, disability, and data might offer productive resources for<br>
research and practice aimed at media justice. The program brings<br>
together researchers, scholars, activists, and advocates in media<br>
justice organizing in order to advance shared development of theory and<br>
practice. We will discuss questions of justice in regards to media and<br>
communications practices, infrastructures, and representation, as well<br>
as the many ways in which media are vital to wider processes of social<br>
justice and transformation.</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p><strong>We welcome contributions on the following topics (for example):</strong></p>
<p><strong>* Media justice in the time of Trump, Brexit, and resurgent</strong><br>
<strong>authoritarian power</strong></p>
<p><strong>* What have we learned from media justice organizing around race and</strong><br>
<strong>borders?</strong></p>
<p><strong>* How does thinking from disability challenge and transform ideas of</strong><br>
<strong>media justice, communication rights, voice, and listening?</strong></p>
<p><strong>* What are the key challenges for media justice in the age of ‘Big Data?’</strong></p>
<p><strong>* What are the implications of current developments in the</strong><br>
<strong>communications infrastructure (especially the internet, including</strong><br>
<strong>‘privatised’ networks, the ever expanding surveillance apparatus, the</strong><br>
<strong>likely end of net neutrality, etc) – for the above issues?</strong></p>
<p><strong>* How can we further develop a research and advocacy agenda around media</strong><br>
<strong>justice?<br>
</strong></p>
<p><br>
<strong></strong></p>
<p>In order to encourage productive dialogues between communication rights<br>
researchers and practitioners, the program will include invited speakers<br>
from a range of advocacy and activist organisations, and researchers<br>
working on media justice. The program will be facilitated to identify<br>
points of connection, possibilities for ongoing collaborations, and<br>
further development of engaged research and practice.</p>
<p>Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15 February 2017</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p><strong>To submit a proposal, please prepare a title and</strong><strong> 200 word abstract; submit your proposal via this form:</strong><br>
<strong><a href="http://bit.ly/mj-ica2017-submitabstract" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/mj-ica2017-submitabstract</a>.<br>
</strong></p>
<p><br>
<strong></strong></p>
<p>Please direct any questions to: Prof. Gerard Goggin (University of<br>
Sydney) gerard.goggin@sydney.edu.au, Dr. Tanja Dreher (University of<br>
Wollongong) tanjad@uow.edu.au, or Dr. Sasha Costanza-Chock (MIT)<br>
schock@mit.edu</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p>The Sherman Heights Community Centre is approximately 1.5 miles from the<br>
San Diego Hilton. Participants will have the option of taking a local<br>
bus, a short taxi ride, or walking (approx. 30 mins); we will also<br>
organize transportation at attendee request.</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<div id="Signature">
<div name="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:; margin:0">
<div class="BodyFragment"><font size="2">
<div class="PlainText">Dr Tanja Dreher<br>
ARC Future Fellow<br>
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts<br>
University of Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia<br>
<br>
<b>w: tanjadreher.net | t: @TanjaDreher | fb: Listening for Media Justice</b><br>
<br>
<b><span style="background-color:white"><font color="#202020" size="2"><span style="font-size:15px"><font color="#202020" size="2"><span style="font-size:15px"><a id="NoLP" target="_blank" href="http://napuaustralia.us9.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=e9b79bbcca9fa489e32012110&id=f624e78d12&e=7badcadde7" tabindex="0"><span style="font-weight:normal"></span></a></span></font></span></font></span><br>
</b><br>
<br>
</div>
</font></div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>