<div dir="ltr"><div id="gmail-m_1744606320374117480gmail-:57" class="gmail-m_1744606320374117480gmail-ii gmail-m_1744606320374117480gmail-gt gmail-m_1744606320374117480gmail-adP gmail-m_1744606320374117480gmail-adO" style="font-size:12.8px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-bottom:5px"><div id="gmail-m_1744606320374117480gmail-:31" class="gmail-m_1744606320374117480gmail-a3s gmail-m_1744606320374117480gmail-aXjCH gmail-m_1744606320374117480gmail-m15efad0d762db6f8"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Dear colleagues, some of us who work in areas of digital media, representation, queer studies, migration studies, sociology and Indigenous studies may be interested in the below small, intimate symposium being held in December in Perth. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Short, informal proposals needed <span class="gmail-m_1744606320374117480gmail-aBn" style="border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(204,204,204)"><span class="gmail-m_1744606320374117480gmail-aQJ"><b>Friday 3 November</b> (extended deadline)</span></span>; we're particularly interested in any areas of visual representation, minorities, media practices and anything from which 'stereotypes' provides an intersecting point-of-critique. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">We envisage a very relaxed, end-of-year event, an exchange of ideas, with some publication opportunities following. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">More info, see below or download the CFP as a PDF from: <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/q8txwcoie4cblbl/CFP%20-%20Digital%20Stereotypes%20Symposium%204-5%20December%20%28EXTENDED%29.pdf?dl=0">https://www.dropbox.com/s/q8txwcoie4cblbl/CFP%20-%20Digital%20Stereotypes%20Symposium%204-5%20December%20%28EXTENDED%29.pdf?dl=0</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Cheers,</span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Rob :)</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">==============</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:25pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif">Symposium Invitation: </span></b><br></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:23pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif">Minority Stereotypes in Digital Culture</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif">The University of Western Australia; <span class="gmail-m_1744606320374117480gmail-aBn" style="border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(204,204,204)"><span class="gmail-m_1744606320374117480gmail-aQJ">4-5 December 2017</span></span>.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><br></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Stereotypes</b> have been—and continue to be—the most common and recognised form of visual representation of minorities (especially Indigenous, gender and sexually-diverse persons, and ethnic/migrant minorities) in film, television, advertising and online media. Stereotypes are a common ‘byte’ of visual communication that link a visual representation of an identity group with a set of—usually narrow and non-representative—attributes, behaviours, tastes and expectations into an easily-recognisable package. Although stereotypes develop and change over time, their restrictive identity information remain in circulation and are very difficult to get rid of; indeed, critiquing them often puts them into further circulation. </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Vulnerability and Wellbeing: </b>Minorities in general are particularly vulnerable to stereotyping which can impact by affecting the ability of members of minority groups to participate as genuine, complex and diverse subjects in social, labour, community, neighbourhood of family relations; they create pressures on younger persons to conform to narrow stereotypes in order to participate as coherent subjects, adding stresses that have negative physiological and mental health consequences; and they reduce the capabilities of minority groups to seek positive inclusion and full acceptance. Stereotypes can also be a weapon of harassment and cyberbullying and are often deployed as an impediment to progressive political change. Indeed, the contemporary inequitable distribution of vulnerability rests significantly on the continued circulation and believability of minority visual stereotypes. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Digital stereotypes today: </b>Although since the 1990s digital, online, networked and mobile media has often been celebrated as a site of potential diversity in representation, much online activity arguably reproduces and re-circulates stereotypes. <b>Search engines</b> depend on algorithms which, in the case of minorities, can produce stereotyped <i>commonality</i> rather than <i>diversity of image</i>; <b>Public relations and marketing</b> rely on easily-recognisable images, often pulled from stock image databases using searchable tags which link an identity with a ‘visual expectation’; <b>Minority media and health communication</b> rely on recognisability, which can sometimes be stereotypical rather than outreaching; <b>Self-<wbr>representation</b> such as in social networking can sometimes also encourage the reliance on visual stereotypes to communicate quickly, rather than the slower activity of demonstrating complexity and diversity. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(83,129,53)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(83,129,53)">Symposium December 2017</span><span style="color:rgb(83,129,53)"> </span></i></b><i><span style="color:rgb(83,129,53)">– The Digital Stereotypes Collaboration team <b>invite proposals for presentations</b> which address any aspect of Minorities, Media and Stereotypes. We are particularly interested in interdisciplinary postgraduate and early-career research where questions around stereotypes, visual or digital images might intersect with that work in productive ways. Some </span><b><span style="color:rgb(168,208,141)">intersections</span></b><span style="color:rgb(83,129,53)"> might include:</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(196,89,17)">- Gender- and sexually-diverse representations, lgbtiq+ communities</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(196,89,17)">- Indigenous persons and communities</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(196,89,17)">- Migrants, temporary migrants, international students, refugees and asylum seekers</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(196,89,17)">- Political, social, health and educational implications of stereotypes</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(196,89,17)">- Digital practices, media practitioners </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(196,89,17)">- …Any other areas that are of some relevant to stereotypes, visual images, vulnerabilities.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:rgb(112,48,160)">Media practitioners, service providers, public relations professionals, digital media experts and community advocates are very welcome to participate. </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i>About the symposium</i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal">- Will be held on the University of Western Australia campus, 4-5 December.</p><p class="MsoNormal">- For those attending TASA in Perth, the symposium is held the week following the TASA conference. </p><p class="MsoNormal">- Lunch will be provided at no cost on both days.</p><p class="MsoNormal">- Selected papers may be invited for publication in an anthology or special issue.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:6pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(196,89,17)">How to submit a proposal</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(196,89,17)"></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(196,89,17)">P</span></i><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(196,89,17)">lease send a 150-300 word abstract plus a short 20-50 word bio to the Digital Stereotypes Collaboration team at </span><a href="mailto:digital.stereotypes@gmail.com" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(3,73,144)">digital.stereotypes@gmail.<wbr>com</span></b></a><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(196,89,17)"> by <b><u><span class="gmail-m_1744606320374117480gmail-aBn" style="border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(204,204,204)"><span class="gmail-m_1744606320374117480gmail-aQJ">Friday 3 November</span></span></u></b>. (Rob or Kirsty will respond by Friday 10 November).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail-m_1744606320374117480gmail-m_7210653471620899799gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>______________________________<wbr>______________</div><div><br></div><div>Rob Cover</div><div>Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences<br></div><div><br></div><div>The University of Western Australia</div><div>Crawley WA 6009</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.7273px"><a href="tel:+61%208%206488%204305" value="+61864884305" target="_blank">+61 8 6488 4305</a> wk</span><br></div><div>0437 902 967 sms</div><div><br></div><div><a href="mailto:robcover@gmail.com" target="_blank">r</a><a href="mailto:ob.cover@uwa.edu.au" target="_blank">ob.cover@uwa.edu.au</a></div><div>Profile: <a href="http://www.uwa.edu.au/people/rob.cover" target="_blank">http://www.uwa.edu.au/people/<wbr>rob.cover</a></div><div>______________________________<wbr>______________</div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-m_1744606320374117480gmail-yj6qo"></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-m_1744606320374117480gmail-hq gmail-m_1744606320374117480gmail-gt gmail-m_1744606320374117480gmail-a10" style="font-size:12.8px"></div><div><div class="gmail-m_1744606320374117480gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div>
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