[Air-L] CALL FOR POSTERS: IAMCR online conference: The Edge of Money: Hegemony or resistance?

[Becky Lentz]

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CALL FOR POSTERS: IAMCR online conference


TITLE: The Edge of Money: Hegemony or resistance?
https://edgeofmoney.noblogs.org/
 
DEADLINE: NOW ­ upload your posters (png, gif, jpg)
 
>From July 12-16, 2015, the cutting edge of communications researchers will
converge in Montreal, Canada, at the annual meeting of International
Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR/AIECS/AIERI), the
world¹s preeminent global communications and media research association.
Rich in resonances, deft in dialog, an abundance of work on surveillance,
democracy, technology, and cultural production will be shared under the
theme Œhegemony or resistance¹.
 
However, one important hegemony ­ the edge of money ­ will be largely
unaccounted for. 
 
Due to high conference fees of hundreds of dollars per participant, vast
segments of the IAMCR community will be underrepresented. The absence of
civil society and community organizations, students, adjuncts, and other
researchers without institutional affiliations and support reduces the
richness of IAMCR¹s work.
 
The Edge of Money online conference seeks to raise important questions,
including:
 
- Whose stories remain untold?
- Which experiences will IAMCR miss?
- What research will be excluded, and what important areas of policy will
either be neglected or presented only from a privileged viewpoint?
- What research is most valued and needed by those who cannot afford to
attend?
 
We propose to raise these questions through an IAMCR online conference
featuring posters. We ask that those who cannot afford to attend IAMCR, but
have something to contribute, post photographs of your posters to the online
platform: https://edgeofmoney.noblogs.org
 
Please create a poster telling your story, you may choose to include:
 
1) Who you are or how you want to be identified?
2) What perspective you would bring to IAMCR if you could afford to attend?
3) What burning issues you feel need to be addressed to make IAMCR more
accessible?
4) A photo of your poster and, in the style of wearethe99percent.tumblr.com,
you may want to include yourself in the photo (holding the poster, for
instance).
 
These posters will be on display during the IAMCR event in Montreal.


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Becky Lentz, PhD
Associate Professor of Communication Studies
Department of Art History/Communication Studies
McGill University
853 Sherbrooke Street West, Arts Building, W-265
Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 0G5
Phone 514.398.4995
Fax 514.398.8557
Email: becky.lentz at mcgill.ca
http://www.mcgill.ca/ahcs