[Air-L] Call for Proposals: Digital Threats to Democracy (deadline February 3)

[Cristian Vaccari]

The Media & Democracy program
<https://www.ssrc.org/programs/view/media-democracy/> at the Social Science
Research Council <https://www.ssrc.org/> is pleased to announce a call for
proposals for the “*Digital Threats to Democracy: Comparative Lessons and
Possible Remedies*” workshop. This workshop will bring together social
science and humanities scholars to present comparative research on how
countries adapt and respond to digital threats to democracy.

The workshop, organized in collaboration with Cristian Vaccari
<https://cristianvaccari.com/> (Loughborough University), will be held at
the Social Science Research Council in New York City on *June 13-14, 2019*.
Accepted participants’ travel and accommodation costs will be covered by
the organizers.

We welcome applications from both junior and senior scholars across all
disciplines. However, the focused nature of the workshop demands that we
limit participation to 10–12 authors. Thus, our selection will be
determined not only by the quality of submissions, but also by their
thematic fit and complementarity.

A selection of the papers presented at the workshop will be invited to
submit full manuscripts of up to 8,000 words for publication in a special
issue of the *International Journal of Press/Politics
<http://journals.sagepub.com/home/hijb>*, subject to peer-review.

To apply, please submit a current C.V. and an abstract of up to 500 words
to mdapplications at ssrc.org by *February 3, 2019.*

For more information, please see the SSRC website
<https://www.ssrc.org/programs/component/media-democracy/call-for-proposals-digital-threats-to-democracy/>
:
https://www.ssrc.org/programs/component/media-democracy/call-for-proposals-digital-threats-to-democracy/


Please feel free to share this announcement with anyone who may be
interested.

Cristian Vaccari
Reader in Political Communication, Loughborough University
<http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/socialsciences/staff/cristian-vaccari/>
Associate Professor in Political Science, University of Bologna
<http://www.unibo.it/SitoWebDocente/default.htm?UPN=cristian.vaccari%40unibo.it>
(on
leave)
Personal website: https://cristianvaccari.com/
Editor-in-Chief: International Journal of Press/Politics
<http://hij.sagepub.com/>
Research project: Social media and politics in comparative perspective
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Latest book: Digital Politics in Western Democracies: A Comparative Study
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