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.
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
Deadline : December 12th 2019
More info : https://www.kom.lu.se/en/research/conferences-and-events/media-and-breakdown-2020