Call for Papers
Media Sociology Preconference 2017

Venue: Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Date: August 11, 2017

To encourage the widest possible range of submissions, we have no pre-specified theme this year and invite both theoretical and empirical papers on any topic related to media sociology.

Submissions from graduate students and junior scholars are particularly welcome.

Media sociology has long been a highly diverse field spanning many topics, methodologies, and units of analysis. It encompasses all forms of mass-mediated communication and expression, including news media, entertainment media, as well as digital ("new") and non-digital ("old") media. Outstanding research exists within the different subfields both within and beyond the discipline of sociology. Our aim is to create dialogue among these disparate yet complementary traditions.

Papers may be on a variety of topics including, but not limited to:

• production processes and/or media workers
• political economy (including the role of the state and markets)
• media and the public sphere
• mediatization
• media content
• the Internet, social media, cellular phones, or other technology
• the digital divide
• new uses of media
• media globalization or diaspora
• media effects of media consumption
• identity, the self, and media

Submissions

Both individual abstract submissions and fully-constituted panel submissions (of 4-5 participants) will be accepted.

Individual paper submissions should include: 

• Title, name and affiliation, and email address of author(s). 
• Abstract of 150-200 words that discusses the problem, research, methods and relevance. 
• Use Microsoft Office or PDF format.

Panel proposal submissions should include:

• Title of panel and 100-word rationale.
• Titles, names and affiliations, and email addresses of panelists. 
• Abstracts of 150-200 words for each presentation that discusses the problem, research, methods and relevance. 
• Use Microsoft Office or PDF format. 

Send submissions to casey.brienza@gmail.com 
Please write “Media Sociology Preconference” in the subject line.

Abstract deadline is March 31, 2017

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