This meeting has been postponed due to COVID-19, date TBD. Here is a link to the preliminary agenda. The group met via Zoom on May 7, 2020, to discuss potential collaborations that would steam from the workshop, including an edited book volume and a network of scholars researching this topic.
The Minnesota Journalism Center at the University of Minnesota’s Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communications invites abstract submissions for its May 2020 workshop titled, “Programming Inequality Interrogating Media, Inequality and Power.”
The workshop will be held at the University of Minnesota’s McNamara Center on May 7-8, 2020.
Abstracts must be submitted by Jan. 15, 2020, to Nicholas Mathews at [email protected]. Acceptances will be announced on Jan. 30, 2020, and the program will be announced publicly on March 1, 2020. Stipends of $1,500 (U.S.-based scholars) and $2,500 (international scholars) will be provided to cover travel costs, hotel and meals (those not provided during the workshop). Presenters, included those who have been invited, will be asked to present their paper for 10 minutes. This will be followed by a group discussion.
Power and social inequalities reproduction in digital media production have a serious impact on how we come to understand the world in which we live and what we are able to do with it. By focusing on power and social inequalities in the context of media work, this workshop addresses questions of how power works in the development of media work broadly including journalism, entertainment, advertising, public relations, innovation and its deployment, what concepts and practices are helpful in understanding social inequality and power. Questions include and are not exclusive to research at the intersection of media work and race, gender, socioeconomic status, ability, citizenship, and other axises of marginalization.
All abstracts relevant to these topics are welcome for submission.
Any questions about abstract submissions or the workshop can be sent to Valerie Belair-Gagnon at [email protected].