[Air-L] Call for Papers: UDC/Project Censored Conference in San Francisco November 1-3, 2013

[Matt Crain]

Call for Papers:

The Point is to Change It: Media Democracy and Democratic Media in Action:
UDC/Project Censored Conference in San Francisco November 1-3, 2013.

We invite submissions for the Union for Democratic Communication and
Project Censored conference November 1-3, 2013 at the University of San
Francisco, where we have found affordable accommodations for your stay.
Submission deadline is June 1, 2013.

With increasingly precarious employment, accelerating ecological
degradation, gulfs between the 1% and the 99%, as well as dramatic booms
and busts, we need a global media responsive to the 99%. We need rigorous
critique of corporate media’s commodification of social life. We need
critique of all forms of censorship, systematic information exclusion, and
propaganda. We need grounded ideas for democratizing media in all formats
and genres. We need media justice.

To revitalize and retool media democracy in today’s media landscape, the
Union for Democratic Communications (UDC) and Project Censored are teaming
up for our 2013 conference. UDC, which held its first conference in 1981,
has worked to overcome concentrated political-economic power in order to
contribute to a world based on economic justice, equality, and peace.
Project Censored, founded in 1976, has made its mission to expose and
counteract modern-day censorship. Together, UDC and Project Censored hope
to contribute to a more democratic society and world by sharing our
scholarly and activist projects.

We invite research, activist & artistic proposals from critical
perspectives interrogating media institutions and technologies,
political/economic structures, media practices, cultural practices &
audiences; we invite studies in critical pedagogy and research on media
activism. Proposals that address pro-democratic media reform or outline
efforts to expand citizen access to media are particularly welcome.

We welcome the following proposals emailed to udcpc2013 at gmail.com by June
1, 2013:
1. 500-word abstracts that describe the purpose and significance of your
research and/or activist projects, especially those that address the issues
outlined in the call.
2. Full papers (up to 25 pages including references) from graduate and
undergraduate students. The top student paper will be considered for the
Top Student Paper Award. Student papers should be indicated as such and
also contain a 500-word abstract.
3. Presentations of Media Literacy projects, including films and multimedia
related to the call.
4. Finally, we welcome proposals for pre-constituted panels. Please include
500-word abstracts for each participant (4-5 participants) and one panel
rationale of 200-350 words that articulates the connections between the
projects and the overall significance of the panel.

For more information:
http://www.democraticcommunications.net/conference/udc-2013

Best regards,

Matthew Crain
Ph.D. Candidate
Institute of Communications Research
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
matthewcrain.info