cfp: Media and Breakdown International Symposium

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Call for Papers
Media and Breakdown
International Symposium at Lund University, Sweden
Department of Communication and Media, March 19th 2020
Organisers: Annette Hill and Hario Satrio Priambodho

Break up, break down, and break away: variations on media and the 
breaking down of infrastructures, technicalities, texts, contexts and 
social relations are the basis of this international symposium Media and 
Breakdown.  This event focuses on the play off between deconstruction 
and reconstruction work in media, communication and cultural studies.

Breakdown signifies wearing down, collapse, and catastrophe; this 
meaning of breakdown relates to media technologies and services, 
representations and themes in factual and fictional genres, or broader 
issues such as a crisis of democracy, and a thin trust between 
politicians, the media and publics. Breakdown also signifies taking 
apart something to analyse and understand how it works; this meaning of 
breaking down relates to deconstructing a text and its internal workings 
and contradictions, or forensically analysing media systems, political 
economics and power structures. Moments of media breakdown can reveal 
that which is otherwise hidden. And breakdown can be related to 
processes of fluidity and renewal, in the breaking down of barriers and 
divisions. The theme of breakdown offers a multidimensional approach to 
how we can understand media, culture and society as a site of collapse 
and repair, and as a place for theoretical and empirical analysis within 
media, communication and cultural studies.

The international symposium offers a platform for dialogue on media and 
breakdown that addresses the theme from empirical and theoretical 
perspectives. We invite papers related to the following themes:

•Media and crises of democracy
•Media, civility and incivility
•Media misinformation, bias and fake news
•Media and failure of institutions, infrastructures, and professionals
•Media framing of catastrophe, crisis, and apocalypse
•Media and breaking down genres and narratives
•Media and cultural practices of collapse, repair and reconciliation
•Media, arts and creativity on breakdown, dissolution and resolution
•Media and cultural methods of deconstruction and reconstruction

The research questions include: 1. How can we critically examine media 
and breakdown across news, radio and television, film, arts and museums, 
digital and social media? 2. In what ways can we understand breakdown 
and repair in our analysis of media and culture? 3. What methods can we 
apply to the study of media and breakdown? Different disciplinary 
approaches to research on media and breakdown have developed in a 
variety of subject areas such as media, communication and cultural 
studies, political communication, sociology and anthropology, cultural 
geography, media history, film studies, art and creative practice, and 
memory studies. The symposium offers opportunities to seek overlaps and 
connections in pursuing our topic.

Confirmed speakers include Nico Carpentier (Charles University, Czech 
Republic), Simon Dawes (Université de Versailles 
Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France), Christine Geraghty (Glasgow 
University, UK), Joke Hermes (InHolland University, Netherlands), 
Annette Hill (Lund University, Sweden), and Peter Lunt (University of 
Leicester, UK).

Please submit an abstract of 300 words in English by December 12th 2019 
to [email protected].  For further information please consult 
our website 
https://www.kom.lu.se/en/research/konferenser-och-natverkstraffar/media-and-breakdown/. 
There is a registration fee of 850 SEK (90 Euros) that covers food and 
drink for the day and an evening buffet.





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Nico Carpentier
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Charles University in Prague
Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism
Smetanovo nábřeží 6, 110 01 Praha 1, Czech Republic
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) - Free University of Brussels
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Participatory Communication Research Section
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E-mail (CharlesU): [email protected]
E-mail (UUppsala): [email protected]
E-mail (VUBrussels): [email protected]
Room (CharlesU): Hollar building Room 105
Phone (CharlesU): +420 222 112 134
Web: http://nicocarpentier.net/
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