[Air-L] CFP: Union for Democratic Communications/Project Censored 2013 Conference (Deadline June 1)

[Kathleen Kuehn]

CFP: The Point is to Change It: Media Democracy and Democratic Media in
Action
UDC/Project Censored Conference At the University of San Francisco, November
1-3

We invite submissions for the Union for Democratic Communication and
Project Censored conference November 1-3, 2013 at the University of San
Francisco.  Submission deadline is June 1, 2013.

Sponsored in part by the Department of Media Studies at the University of
San Francisco

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. Students may apply for funding to cover
some of their travel expenses through the Jeanne Hall Memorial Fund. To be
considered for such funding, please include a one-line request for
consideration of such funding on the top of your proposal.

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.

Sponsored in part by the Department of Media Studies at the University of
San Francisco

Thanks --
Kathleen M. Kuehn, PhD
Assistant Professor
Christopher Newport University
Department of Communication

kathleen.kuehn at cnu.edu