30.3336, Calls: Applied Ling, Cog Sci, Disc Analysis, Philosophy of Lang, Pragmatics/Belgium

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Subject: 30.3336, Calls: Applied Ling, Cog Sci, Disc Analysis, Philosophy of Lang, Pragmatics/Belgium

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Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2019 07:07:02
From: Jan Zienkowski [Jan_Zienkowski at yahoo.com]
Subject: 24th DiscourseNet Conference - Discourse and Communication as Propaganda: digital and multimodal forms of activism, persuasion and disinformation across ideologies

 
Full Title: 24th DiscourseNet Conference - Discourse and Communication as Propaganda: digital and multimodal forms of activism, persuasion and disinformation across ideologies 
Short Title: DN24 

Date: 18-May-2020 - 20-May-2020
Location: Brussels, Belgium 
Contact Person: Jan Zienkowski
Meeting Email: discoursenet24 at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.discourseanalysis.net/en/DN24 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Cognitive Science; Discourse Analysis; Philosophy of Language; Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 16-Dec-2019 

Meeting Description:

This conference provides a forum for researchers who seek to analyze,
challenge, and (re)think the concept and the practice of propaganda in the
light of contemporary forms of discourse and communication across the
ideological spectrum.
     
We invite authors to examine the relationship between concepts such as
propaganda, ideology, hegemony and discourse in today’s digital environment.
Both empirical and theoretical contributions are welcome.


Call for Papers:
     
The notion of propaganda was seminal to the field of communication studies in
the beginning of the 20th century. It derives its negative connotations from
the way mass media have been intentionally used by state and corporate actors
for partisan interests. Even though the term ‘propaganda’ may have grown out
of fashion – both inside and outside of academia – its practices have not. 

Notions such as ‘public relations’, ‘advertising’, ‘political marketing’,
‘public diplomacy’, ‘political marketing’ and ‘advocacy’ have now transplanted
propaganda even though they often refer to similar discursive strategies of
persuasion or (dis)information. As the term ‘propaganda’ grew less popular new
terms emerged in order to label similar communication strategies that shape
contemporary discourse and communication until this day.
     
Many critical approaches in discourse studies have treated propagandistic
modes of communication through the lenses of ‘ideology’, ‘hegemony’,
‘discourse’ and ‘power’. However, whereas all propaganda is ideological, not
all ideology manifests itself as propaganda. Likewise, whereas all propaganda
operates through discourse and communication, not all discourse or
communication performs the function of propaganda. 
     
Different forms of critical discourse studies have paid attention to
ideological phenomena, but the term propaganda is remarkably absent from this
field of inquiry. This may be explained with reference to underlying
theoretical premises of specific discourse theoretical and discourse
analytical approaches, a hypothesis that may also be explored at this
conference.  
     
In a global context marked by ‘a return of the political’, by an
intensification of political debates across the political spectrum, and by a
(re-)articulation of old and new political fault lines crossing local,
regional, national and/or transnational contexts,  the seemingly outdated
notion of propaganda may provide a useful entry point for examining the
(partially) strategic modes of communication practiced by activists on all
sides of the ideological spectrum. 

If propaganda is no longer associated exclusively with traditional
institutional actors such as the state or corporations, the political and
communicative strategies of social and political actors such as eco-activists,
AltRight trolls, neoliberal think tanks or the peace movement may be
(re)thought in terms of propaganda. This brings us back to the old question
whether (specific forms of) propaganda hinder or facilitate democracy. It also
leads us to explore uses of digital and algorithmic propaganda in contemporary
populist projects.       
     
Regardless of the question whether and how the term propaganda is used,
‘strategies’ of white, black and grey propaganda are practiced on an everyday
basis while new ways of doing propaganda continue to be developed.  In fact,
propaganda practices are constantly being adapted to specific social,
political and technological developments. As new technologies become
available, the range of actors able to practice propaganda expands. 

We especially welcome papers that rethink the notions of propaganda and
activism in relation to key concepts in discourse studies. Such notions
include power, subjectivity, reflexivity, critique, identity, context,
language use and multimodal communication. Papers may also focus on the
ethical problems that come with propagandistic activities.

For abstract submission, visit: https://dn24.sciencesconf.org/




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