[acc-cca-l] Reminder: CFP: Communications & Cultural Policy in the Age of the Platform/May 7-8, 2020 McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

[Sara Bannerman]

*Communications & Cultural Policy in the Age of the Platform*

*May 7-8, 2020*

*McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada*

Organized by the  Communications Governance Observatory
<https://cgo.mcmaster.ca/> and the Centre for Networked Media and
Performance (CNMAP) at McMaster University

Algorithms and digital platforms play increasingly important roles in
governing how we communicate and how we discover and engage with media and
culture.  The ‘platform turn’ in dominant media systems has significant
implications for life opportunities, employment, participation in the
digital economy (whose content is distributed and prioritized?), the star
system (who is promoted and how? what counts as success?), politics (which
and whose perspective is dominant? how has political deliberation and
debate been re-mediatized?), international relations (whose view of the
world is dominant?) and social relations (how are inequities in
representation reproduced and transformed?).

This conference will draw together researchers in Canada and beyond to
explore the intersections between media/communications/cultural policy and
platforms.  All submissions related to this theme are welcome, including
research in the areas of arts policy, broadcasting policy, communication
rights, Indigenous communication and cultural policy, competition policy,
cultural industries policy, heritage policy, internet policy, media policy,
speech regulation, privacy, smart city regulation, and platform regulation.
We welcome analysis and case studies at all levels of policy-making,
including municipal, provincial and federal, and Indigenous and
international research.

Confirmed keynote speakers and presenters include Edward Greenspon (Public
Policy Forum), Jesse Wente (Indigenous Screen Office), Sharon McGowan
(Women in Film and Television-Vancouver, UBC), Laura Tribe (Open
Media), Philippe
Tousignant (CRTC), David Ogborn (McMaster), Jonathan Paquette (University
of Ottawa), Philip Savage (McMaster), Leslie Regan Shade (University of
Toronto), Tamara Shepherd (University of Calgary), Ira Wagman (Carleton),
and Dwayne Winseck (Carleton).

The conference will consider the following key questions:

·       How can Canadian media systems respond simultaneously to the
challenge of digital platforms and to calls for a greater diversity of
on-screen and off-screen voices?

·       How are platforms taking on, or failing to take on, regulatory
roles in the fields of communication and culture?

·       How does the international political economy of platforms play out
in media/communications/cultural policy?

·       How does algorithmic governance function as regulation and policy
setting in these fields?

·       How are regulatory bodies in the field of communication and culture
reconceptualizing their work in light of platforms?

·       What relationships and interactions do regulators, as well as arts,
media, and cultural organizations, have with platforms?

·       How are regulatory bodies in the field of communication and culture
incorporating platforms to conduct their work?

·       How do advocacy, activist, and social justice initiatives intercede
in the relationships between platforms and media/communications/cultural
policy?

·       How do comparative political cultures influence national regulatory
agendas? What criteria may enable new comparative research?

This conference welcomes submissions from all researchers, including
doctoral and master’s students.

Prospective participants should submit a 300-word abstract, along with a
150-word bio, including title and institutional affiliation, for a 15-20
minute presentation to
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=comcultpolicy2020#
<https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=comcultpolicy2020>  by *December
15th 2019* for peer review. *Les résumés peuvent être soumis et les
présentations peuvent être faites en français ou en anglais.*  Abstracts
may be submitted, and presentations may be made, in French or English.
Invitations
will be announced by January 15th 2020. Contributions may be invited for a
publication project after the conference.  Questions may be addressed to
Sara Bannerman at banners[at]mcmaster.ca.  Visit the conference web site at
http://comcultpolicy2020.ca.

The conference will be preserved in an online video archive. Conference
participants will have the opportunity to contribute to a white paper
outlining policy recommendations arising from the conference discussions.
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