SPM 2018: Society for Phenomenology and Media 20th Annual Conference: "Global Media Literacy in the Digital Age" University of Akureyri Akureyri, Iceland, March 14-16, 2018 |
Conference website | http://societyphenmedia.wix.com/socphenmedia#!info |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=spm2018 |
Submission deadline | January 15, 2018 |
The Society for Phenomenology and Media is a non-profit international society.
SPM encourages interdisciplinary approaches and theoretical diversity. Individual papers and panels need not be limited to phenomenological approaches. Participants have come from a wide range of disciplines: philosophy, media studies, communications, psychology, history, political science, sociology, rhetoric, literary theory, cognitive science, cultural studies, and other fields.
Accepatance to an SPM conference is by a peer-review of the host committee.
Submission Guidelines
All submissions must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following categories are welcome:
- Papers abstracts (250 words maximum)
- Proposals for 3-person panels
Topic
The overarching theme of the 20th Annual Conference of the Society for Phenomenology and Media will be ‘Global Media Literacy in the Digital Age.’ We encourage submissions that speak to this theme in a broad sense, or to other pertinent topics.
It has been claimed that we stand on the brink of a third digital revolution, which has been labelled as Web 3.0. This new era adds artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things to our present, mobile social media (Web 2.0).
The advent of social media, with global reach, has arguably increased the requirements of media literacy. Controversies such as the ‘fake news´ and Twitter debates around the present U.S. President can be interpreted as revealing insufficient media literacy. How should we read traditional newspaper reports in contrast to presidential tweets?
As members of the public, we may need work on our media literacy. As media scholars, however, we certainly need to enhance and deepen our understanding of media literacy. The aim of this conference is to explore various dimensions of media literacy in the global and local media landscapes, cultural constraints, educational practices, theoretical distinctions, philosophical dilemmas etc.
Publication
Papers accepted and presented are published in the SPM Annual Conference Proceedings; selected papers are also published in Glimpse, the annual publication of SPM.
Venue
The conference will be held at the University of Akureyri,
Akureyri, Iceland
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to
Dr. Francesca Dell'Orto
SPM Secretary
socphenmedia@yahoo.com