[Air-L] CFP ECREA 2020 pre-conference: Disinformation studies

[Inês Amaral]

*ECREA 2020 pre-conference“Disinformation studies: perspectives to an
emerging research field”*
October 2
University of Minho, Braga, Portugal



*BRIEF DESCRIPTION*The aim proposed for this ECREA 2020 pre-conference is
to promote research that helps to define policies and strategies
contributing to combat and effectively minimize the phenomena of
disinformation and manipulation in the journalistic field. Thus, we intend
to join together researchers who are interested in the topic, to develop
this field of disinformation studies.



*CALL FOR PAPERS*The main goal of the event is to develop a set of studies
and policies that allow us to identify and contribute to combat and
effectively minimize the phenomena of misinformation and manipulation in
the journalistic field.

In addition to Fake news, the study of disinformation in the journalistic
field includes theoretical paradigms and empirical approaches that go
beyond those: bias, concealment of facts, agenda building, strategic use of
sources, mobilization of emotion, empathic media and omission of data are
studied in other contexts of journalism studies helping to clarify this new
phenomenon.

There is a vast experience in the media effects theory, whose researchers
studied, in due course, a set of phenomena of information and manipulation
that today, with the necessary adaptations, constitute a corpus of examples
and inspiration for new researches in different contexts.

Finally, new research trends began to emerge which constitute a valuable
theoretical and experimental corpus for the contemporary and present times:
empathic media, recognition of patterns of reading, identification of
behavior and consumption patterns with far-reaching consequences around on
social, cultural and political life and considerable impact on democratic,
electoral and civic participation practices.

The contributions to the event should focus (among others) the following
topics:
- Identifying through case studies,  examples of media whether revealing
weaknesses or, instead, using strategies particularly directed to fight the
phenomenon;
- Discussing new manipulation and disinformation strategies, considering in
those the study of the audience from the perspective of their manipulation
through the mobilization of emotions;
- Discussing a theoretical and systematic framework for the analysis of
disinformation and manipulation phenomena;
- Identifying the use of devices and tools that help to combat the
phenomenon of disinformation;
- Identifying professional practices and professional routines that help to
combat the disinformation phenomena;
- Identifying and proposing public policies to decision-makers that helps
to minimize and fighting disinformation phenomena;
- Discussing the relevance of a subfield called Disinformation studies.

Abstracts of 400 words with 3 -5 keywords (excluding tables, figures, and
references) must be written in English and should outline the research
topic as well as the theoretical and methodological approach.
Pictures/tables/charts are allowed within the abstract but do not count
against the word count. All abstracts will be subject to a double-blind
peer review.

Submit your abstract as an e-mail attachment with no references to the
author(s). Author(s) details (name, affiliation and contact details) must
be included in the e-mail message.


More info:
https://www.ecrea2020braga.eu/disinformation-studies-perspectives-to-an-emerging-research-field/



*ORGANISERS*
João Carlos Correia, University of Beira Interior, Portugal (jcorreia at ubi.pt
)
Pedro Jerónimo, University of Beira Interior, Portugal (pj at ubi.pt)
Inês Amaral, University of Coimbra, Portugal (ines.amaral at uc.pt)


*SPONSORS*Media Veritas
Re/media.Lab
LabCom – Communication and Arts
Journalism and Society SOPCOM Working Group



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Inês Amaral
Professora Associada | Associate Professor
Diretora do 1.º Ciclo de Estudos em Jornalismo e Comunicação |
Director of the Undergraduate Program Studies in Journalism and
Communication

Universidade de Coimbra • Faculdade de Letras | University of Coimbra •
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Largo da Porta Férrea | 3004-530 • Coimbra • Portugal
Tel. | Phone: +351 239 410 090
E-mail: ines.amaral at uc.pt
www.uc.pt | www.uc.pt/fluc