[Air-L] Deadline approaching ECREA's Contested Visibilities **15 May** | abstract submission

[Ana Marta M. Flores]

*****Contested Visibilities: Everyday politics and online imaginaries of
the body* deadline approaching***

*CALL FOR PAPERS*
Contested Visibilities: Everyday politics and online imaginaries of the body
6-8 September 2023, Lusófona University, Lisbon, Portugal

The conference will include different formats for presentation on topics
related to contested visibilities, everyday politics and online imaginaries
of the body. We welcome individual submissions for oral presentations,
which will be arranged in thematic sessions by the organising team. We also
welcome submissions in alternative and creative formats, proposals may
include video, audio, images, text, hyperlinks and multimedia that
illustrate your reflections in the proposal.

We are interested in abstracts that address the complexity of online
representations of bodies and/or related visual practices (e.g., producing,
perceiving, curating, circulating) through case studies, theoretical,
empirical or methodological approaches. We strongly encourage submissions
that take an intersectional approach and address embodiment in relation to
social factors such as gender, sexuality, age, class, race/ethnicity,
disability, and nationality.

We are open to contributions from scholars at all career stages
(early-career scholars are especially invited to participate), artists,
activists, and media producers.

We look forward to submissions on (but not limited to) the following topics:

·        The use of digital media for feminist, queer, anti-racist,
anti-ageist, anti-ableist, anti-classist, neurodiversity, or illness
related activism and the returning critique of the normative body;

·        Reactionary visualities to the above activism and hate
speech/imaginaries "against the woke";

·        The intertwinement of socio-cultural imaginaries with platform
cultures;

·        Chances and limits of hybridisation of commercial culture,
strategies of self-branding and body activism;

·        Practical experiments with methods attuned to the
'online-groundedness' of social body images (e.g., body-image dominated
platforms such as TikTok or Instagram);

·        Impact of online representation of bodies in various fields such
as sports, memory cultures, advertising, fan/pop cultures, etc;

·        Augmented technologies of filtering, avatars and their
significance for identity and meaning-making;

·        Images shared without consent, images that reproduce stereotypes
and resistance by minority communities;

·        Images produced by media and news organisations as part of their
work, which are ultimately criticised for 'othering'/stereotyping
communities, and the activism involved;

·        Online communities as sites of political pedagogy and critique of
mainstream/traditional media's stereotyping of the body;

·        Dialectical dialogues about the body in the online sphere:
metadiscourses, beefs, videos about videos, Tiktok reframings;

·        Gendered and sexua(lised) digital/online representations of
embodied diversity, difference and intersectionality;

·        Critical analysis of the relationships between digital spheres and
gendered and sexual(ised) performativity, resistance and defiance;

·        Representations of bodies in relation to technology and artificial
intelligence;

Please *submit your proposal (300- 500 words) until 15 May, 23:59 (CET) *using
this link ***<https://bit.ly/ContestedVisibilities>*** and highlight how
your work relates to the conference topic, methods used, and perspectives
you would like to bring to the discussion. In addition to the thematic
sessions, the conference will facilitate practical tutorials dedicated to
creative/situated/ethical approaches to digital platforms and visual data.

In addition, our YECREA team offers an online pre-conference workshop for
early-career scholars focusing on research challenges (ethics, data access,
collection, analysis etc.) via Zoom on Monday, 4 September 2023. This event
will offer ECRs the opportunity to present their work in progress. If you
wish to participate in the ECR pre-conference event, please submit an
abstract of 200-300 words, briefly describing your current project and
research challenges, e.g. in regard to research ethics, data collection,
access, or analysis. The accepted participants will engage in facilitated
peer discussions based on their submissions. Participation in the
pre-conference YECREA workshop can be independent of participation in the
conference. Please indicate how you would like to participate using this
link ***<https://bit.ly/workshopContestedVisibilities>*** by 15 May, 23:59
(CET). Participation in the online workshop is free of charge.

***Invited speakers***
Daniela Jaramillo-Dent | University of Zurich
Daniela Jaramillo-Dent is an internet scholar with research and teaching
expertise on migration, digital media, and social justice. Her research has
explored algorithmic (in)visibility, minority representation and inequality
in digital platforms. She has contributed to and held leadership roles in
research projects at the local, national and European levels. She has
international teaching experience in fields related to digital inequality,
research methods and media literacy and has led teaching innovation
projects and training workshops for innovative teaching in Higher Education.

Marloes Geboers | University of Amsterdam
Marloes Geboers’ work revolves around the visuality of warfare as produced
within and through platforms and their fast-evolving participatory
modalities. Her dissertation focused on platform affective affordances and
their role in constructing regimes of visibility relating to the Syrian
war. Alongside these topics, she authored work on platform-afforded digital
violence aimed at journalists. She blends digital methods and automated
image analyses in order to study performative expressions that replicate,
imitate or subvert propaganda narratives in more or less tactical ways.
These user practices shape and are shaped by platform vernaculars that have
a profound impact on the way we see and experience war within contemporary
media ecologies. Marloes has a background in political science (MA) and
journalism (BA), and she has teaching experience in digital methods and the
ethics of AI.

Katrin Tiinberg | Tallinn University
Katrin Tiidenberg works at the Baltic Film, Media and Arts School of
Tallinn University as a Professor of Participatory Culture. Her research
focuses on the hows and whys of people's social media practices, with a
particular emphasis on visuality, sex and political participation. The
overarching questions she tends to ask are about identity, community, norms
and power. She is currently wrapping up a research project on the
platformization of sexuality (Rethinking Sexuality) and the role of the
internet in young people’s political participation (DigiGen) and has just
started a project on visual digital trust (TRAVIS).


***Fees***
The fee includes buffet lunches and tea/coffee breaks during the three-day
conference.
non-members | 100€
ECREA members and Lusófona students | 80€
Early career Researchers | 60€
Registration opens in early July and will be processed via the Eventbrite
platform.


***Organisation***
This ECREA conference is co-organised by the Digital Culture and
Communication, Gender, Sexuality and Communication and Visual Cultures
sections and their YECREA representatives. Hosted and sponsored by Lusófona
University.
The conference is partially supported by funding from the European Union’s
Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under the Marie
Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement Nº 101059460.
For questions, please send an email to <ContestedVisibilities2023 at gmail.com>


***Timeline***
·       The deadline for submissions is Monday 15 May 2023, 23:59 (CET)
·       We will notify all contributors if their proposal has been accepted
or not by the end of June
·       Registration for the conference will be open in early July
·       The event will take place on the 6-8 September 2023, at Lusófona
University Lisbon.



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