UDC-Project Censored's 2013 Conference -- Call for Papers & conference update

Hello UDC members, supporters, and friends:

Below is the call for papers for our upcoming conference, The Point is to Change It: Media Democracy and Democratic Media in Action, November 1-3, 2013 at the University of San Francisco. This year, UDC is partnering with Project Censored, so we should have a profoundly energetic, intellectual, and political conference. We are taking steps to reduce the cost of attending the conference by finding affordable accommodations.

We hope you will consider submitting your work to the 2013 conference of UDC and Project Censored.

Details for nominating candidates for the Dallas Smythe award will be circulated shortly.

Any ideas, inquiries, or comments may be directed toward our co-organizers, Brian Murphy at bmm@niagara.edu, Michelle Rodino-Colocino at michelle@psu.edu (both of UDC), or Andy Lee Roth of Project Censored, at andyleeroth@gmail.com.

Thank you to everyone who has contributed so far to organizing this conference. We will be in touch again shortly with our wonderful volunteers. If you would like to volunteer to help organize this year's conference, please contact Brian or Michelle.

To stay "in the loop" on conference updates, please consider "following" UDC using one of the methods in the right-hand sidebar of this page. These include UDC's listserv, e-mail & RSS subscriptions for UDC blog posts, and our Facebook & Twitter pages. A dedicated conference website is coming soon.

Lastly, please share this call widely with your colleagues, departments, associations, lists, and social media sites. Sharing buttons are available at the bottom of this post.

All the best,

Michelle

Michelle Rodino-Colocino, Ph.D.                               "Enjoy the process" --my mother

Assistant Professor                                                 "Mangia" --my grandmother

Film/Video, Media and Women's Studies                   "Say it" --my daughter

Chair, Steering Committee UDC (Union for Democratic Communications)

http://www.democraticcommunications.net/

http://comm.psu.edu/people/mlr31

rocofem@gmail.com (work and personal)

michelle@psu.edu (work)

The Point is to Change It:

Media Democracy and Democratic Media in Action

UDC/Project Censored Conference in San Francisco November 1-3, 2013

We invite submissions for the Union for Democratic Communication and Project Censoredconference November 1-3, 2013 at the University of San Francisco, where we have found affordable accommodations for your stay.  Submission deadline is June 1, 2013.

With increasingly precarious employment, accelerating ecological degradation, gulfs between the 1% and the 99%, as well as dramatic booms and busts, we need a global media responsive to the 99%.  We need rigorous critique of corporate media’s commodification of social life. We need critique of all forms of censorship, systematic information exclusion, and propaganda.  We need grounded ideas fordemocratizing media in all formats and genres.  We need media justice.

To revitalize and retool media democracy in today’s media landscape, the Union for Democratic Communications (UDC) and Project Censored are teaming up for our 2013 conference.  UDC, which held its first conference in 1981, has worked to overcome concentrated political-economic power in order to contribute to a world based on economic justice, equality, and peace.  Project Censored, founded in 1976, has made its mission to expose and counteract modern-day censorship.  Together, UDC and Project Censored hope to contribute to a more democratic society and world by sharing our scholarly and activist projects. 

We invite research, activist & artistic proposals from critical perspectives interrogating media institutions and technologies, political/economic structures, media practices, cultural practices & audiences; we invite studies in critical pedagogy and research on media activism.  Proposals that address pro-democratic media reform or outline efforts to expand citizen access to media are particularly welcome.  

We welcome the following proposals emailed to udcpc2013@gmail.com by June 1, 2013.

1. 500-word abstracts that describe the purpose and significance of your research and/or activist projects, especially those that address the issues outlined in the call.

2. Full papers (up to 25 pages including references) from graduate and undergraduate students.  The top student paper will be considered for the Top Student Paper Award. Student papers should be indicated as such and also contain a 500-word abstract.

3. Presentations of Media Literacy projects, including films and multimedia related to the call.

4. Finally, we welcome proposals for pre-constituted panels.  Please include 500-word abstracts for each participant (4-5 participants) and one panel rationale of 200-350 words that articulates the connections between the projects and the overall significance of the panel.