[Air-L] Proposal for an ICA panel

[Ogan, Christine L.]

Hello All:  Please check the following call for panel proposal submissions for this year's ICA in Washington, D.C.


Call for participation in a proposed panel to be submitted to the International Communication Association for its ICA 69th annual meeting in Washington, D.C.



Media, Migrants and Populism: What are the Connections?



Christine Ogan, Professor Emerita, The Media School and School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering, Indiana University



Lars Willnat, John Ben Snow Research Professor of Communications, Syracuse University





We hear a lot of talk about populist leaders around the world these days.  And many of those leaders have been pushing an anti-immigrant agenda.  That agenda has often been supported by media messages in a number of countries.



Kenneth Roth, the executive director of Human Rights Watch has observed in the World Report 2018 that the last year has witnessed pushback against populist governments. "Today, a popular reaction in a broad range of countries, bolstered in some cases by political leaders with the courage to stand up for human rights, has left the fate of many of these populist agendas more uncertain. Where the pushback is strong, populist advances have been limited. But where capitulation meets their message of hate and exclusion, the populists flourish."



When focused on the issue of immigration-both legal and illegal, both refugees and economic migrants-what has been the role of the media-both in mainstream media and in online and social media-in encouraging or discouraging the populist message?  Our proposed panel will examine the connections in the United States, Europe and elsewhere in the world.



The deadline for submission is November 1.  We ask for your proposals to be sent to us  (ogan at indiana.edu) by October 30.  We look forward to hearing from you.