[Air-L] RIDING THE WAVES: Pre-ICA conference accepts abstracts

[Matei, Sorin Adam]

Dear colleagues,

Purdue University, Sorbonne Nouvelle, and University of Paris would like to extend an invitation to you and to any of your interested colleagues to the pre-ICA conference:

Riding or Lashing the Waves: Regulating Media for Diversity in a Time of Uncertainty
National Press Club
Washington, DC, United States, May 24, 2019
https://easychair.org/cfp/RIDING19

This will be a high-density conversation with politicians, academics, and regulators from both sides of the Atlantic about an issue that preoccupies us all: can social media maintain a diverse, yet civil and trustworthy conversation?

With the increase in technology over the past 20 years the term “mass media” has morphed to cover a chaotic maze of broad and narrowcast media, both local and global. The rise of new instruments of mass communication including instant messaging apps, blogging and vlogging, podcasting, live broadcasting using mobile phones, and screen capture videos have all broadened the definition of the term “mass media”.

With all of this change - what are the regulatory, policy, and production rules that can make future media diverse, embracing pluralism of perspectives and ideas, user-focused and civically-responsible, while remaining profitable?

In other words, what legal frameworks, organizational innovations, self-regulation ideas or technologies can be or should not be used to maintain diversity and sustainability?

Please visit https://easychair.org/cfp/RIDING19 for further information and submission guidelines. We accept both abstracts and full papers.

Feel free to distribute this widely.

For further information, please do not hesitate to contact us

Sorin Adam Matei
Conference Chair
Professor of Communication
Brian Lamb School of Communication
Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies
College of Liberal Arts, Purdue University
https://www.cla.purdue.edu/about/administration/
cla-adr at purdue.edu<mailto:cla-adr at purdue.edu>

François Moreau
Conference co-Chair
Professor of Economics
University of Paris 13
Director of Research
The Creative Industries Research Laboratory of Excellence
https://icca.univ-paris13.fr/mon-profil/moreau-francois/
francois.moreau at univ-paris13.fr<mailto:francois.moreau at univ-paris13.fr>

Franck Rebillard
co-Chair
Professor of Communication
Sorbonne Nouvelle
Director of the Institute for Media and Communication
http://www.univ-paris3.fr/m-rebillard-franck-81572.kjsp?RH=1236696349083
franck.rebillard at sorbonne-nouvelle.fr<mailto:franck.rebillard at sorbonne-nouvelle.fr>

Fabrice Rochelandet
co-Chair
Professor of Communication
Sorbonne Nouvelle
Principal Investigator “Audiovisual clusters of creativity in Paris”
fabrice.rochelandet at free.fr<mailto:fabrice.rochelandet at free.fr>
http://www.univ-paris3.fr/m-rochelandet-fabrice--170203.kjsp