[acc-cca-l] Fwd: Call for Papers: Beyond the “Wall(s)” Workshop

Monica Henderson monica.henderson at mail.utoronto.ca
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Subject: Call for Papers: Beyond the “Wall(s)” Workshop

Submit by January 9, 2022 to Beyond the “Wall(s)”: Chinese Mediascapes as Methods International Workshop
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CALL FOR PAPERS

BEYOND THE "WALL(S)": CHINESE MEDIASCAPE AS METHODS

Beyond the “Wall(s)”: Chinese Mediascape as Methods is a multidisciplinary international workshop organized by our Media Through China/China Through Media <https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmcluhancentre.us12.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3D511f1308e0d56827cd4e43200%26id%3De6beb686bc%26e%3Daf3703718b&data=04%7C01%7Cmonica.henderson%40mail.utoronto.ca%7Cfed3556816124aba552208d9b69a4979%7C78aac2262f034b4d9037b46d56c55210%7C0%7C0%7C637741596034681991%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=XcJTbKTz24wSGU57WieHy0rpaUfkrvoP6iXVj2Tkb6k%3D&reserved=0> working group for April 2022.

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Today, China is a subject that often provokes debates, imaginations, speculations, and otherness, because of the rise of nationalism, populism, surveillance and platform capitalism. The fetishization of data and AI reinforce the imaginary of authoritarianism, and vice versa. China’s mediascapes operate with rules that are often summed up through a reference to “the Great Firewall.” The Wall metaphor, however, leads to an easy dismissal of the digital China as a Chinese exceptionalism, as the Other that has little applicability, practically and theoretically, to the rest of the world.

The Wall is porous, full of contradictions, and with multi-layers of buffer zones. Most importantly, the daily life and cultural expressions inside and through the Wall often fall through the cracks in the current global regime of knowledge production about China and media experiences. Multiplicity, complexity, and contradictions in daily life and cultural expressions are emblematic of both the pitfalls and possibilities of our global and networked society, which calls for nuanced and intersectional approaches toward studying China through media and media through China.

The organizing committee for Beyond the “Wall(s)” workshop is composed of Julie Yujie Chen, Yi Gu, Ruoyun Bai, Sibo Chen, Lianrui Jia, Tong Lam.


WORKSHOP FORMAT

Considering the current global health situation, we are planning to organize a hybrid workshop both in person and online. (Note: the in-person event is subject to change depending on the local public health guideline). The workshop will be held on April 8 (EST), 2022. Unlike conventional academic conferences, the workshop focuses on reading and offering constructive feedback and comments on each draft paper. Accepted participants will receive feedback and comments from other authors, the workshop organizers, and other invited non-author participants. The authors of the accepted papers are expected to submit a 10-page working paper by March 25, 2022, and be prepared to comment on one to two papers by other authors. After the workshop, participants are encouraged to revise their drafts. Revised papers will be submitted to an academic journal to be considered for publication as a special issue.


SUBMISSION DETAILS

We invite participants from diverse academic backgrounds to advance interdisciplinary conversations on the studies of China and media. We are interested in both empirical and theoretical contributions that confront the thorny questions surrounding China, capitalism, media, and technology and methodological reconceptualizations. Work in progress and submissions from emerging scholars are particularly welcome. Relevant topics for the workshop include, but are not limited to:

  *   Aesthetic politics of technology (e.g. platforms)
  *   Big data and computational culture
  *   Comparative studies
  *   Digital labour
  *   Disinformation and misinformation
  *   Gender studies and feminism
  *   Materiality of digital China
  *   Methodological innovations
  *   Media industry
  *   Media infrastructure
  *   Racism and media
  *   Rural China and media
  *   Subcultures
  *   Technological imaginaries

Please send an extended abstract in English (400-500 words) and a short biography (max 200 words) to mediastudieschina at gmail.com<mailto:mediastudieschina at gmail.com>. We will provide honorariums to all accepted participants to the workshop to acknowledge their participation and contributions.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: January 9, 2022
Successful applicants notified: mid-February 2022
Festival date: April 8, 2022

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