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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 19:28:53
From: Ourania Hatzidaki [o.hatzidaki at gmail.com]
Subject: Science denialism as grassroots resistance: Digital discourses and social networks

Full Title: Science denialism as grassroots resistance: Digital discourses and social networks 

Date: 31-Aug-2021 - 03-Sep-2021
Location: Athens, Greece 
Contact Person: Ourania Hatzidaki
Meeting Email: o.hatzidaki at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 10-Nov-2020 

Meeting Description:

EXTENDED DEADLINE: 10 November 2020

We are working on a workshop proposal to be submitted to the 54th Societas
Linguistica Europaea Annual Conference (SLE 2021, 31 August – 3 September
2021, Athens, Greece, https://societaslinguistica.eu/meetings)

Organizers: Ourania Hatzidaki*, Ioannis E. Saridakis**, Panagiotis Karampelas*
*Hellenic Air Force Academy
**National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

The purpose of this workshop is to explore the textual expression of science
denialism, with special emphasis on grassroots sources and agents in digital
spaces. 
Science denialism about issues relating to public welfare (e.g. global
warming, vaccination, harmful effects of smoking, causal relationship between
HIV and AIDS), by both elite and grassroots agents. The latter, especially,
have in the past few decades gained an unprecedentedly powerful public voice
via the digital/social media, which allow non-expert views on expert
issues/fields to be articulated freely and without filtering, and relayed on a
massive scale. This workshop aims to specifically investigate the aspect of
science denialism which can be associated with demotic resistance to
authority, be it state/government, financial, scientific/academic or other. We
invite research which privileges the link between anti-Enlightenment and
anti-establishment. We are particularly interested in projects examining the
hypothesis that different forms of grassroots science denial amount to highly
active and influential collective/mass actions and social movements which
resemble conventional/familiar types of anti-authoritarian movement such as
class struggle, fight for independence, or mobilization against
discrimination/exclusion. We wish to systematically examine whether and to
what extent science denialism has struck a radical chord with the populace,
which renders the generalized questioning or outright rejection of even hard
proven and time-honoured scientific facts a (less obviously political) proxy
for rebellious stances and activities, or an updated outlet for more general
social grievances. We wish to investigate the “anti-establishment” side of
science denialism as a possible explanation for its strong resonance with
grassroots agents. 

>From a qualitative/critical perspective, we are interested in studies
exploring the possible rhetorical affinities of demotic science denialism with
more classic forms of anti-hegemonic discourses, serving to vent, for
instance, rage against representatives of conventional political/social
institutions (politicians, the state/government, the mass media, etc.) as
agents bent on applying the tenets of science against the people’s will, or at
the expense of civil liberties and human/constitutional rights, etc.
Methodologically, we welcome studies in the context of, for instance, critical
discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, argumentation analysis, etc.

>From a quantitative/computational perspective, we are interested in studies
developing techniques which enable the identification, on a large scale, of
lexical connections between grassroots science denialism and
anti-establishment dispositions in digital texts. We are also interested in
research investigating the digital spread and force/momentum of science
denialist radicalism via social networking.  Relevant methodologies are, inter
alia, investigative data mining, social media intelligence mining, social
network analysis, radicalization information sharing and visualization,
analytical reasoning systems, etc.

Call for Papers: 

The workshop is interdisciplinary, in that it aims to bring together (also
interim) results of either quantitative/computational or qualitative/critical
analyses of digitally-communicated grassroots science denialist discourses, or
combinations thereof.

The subject matter of the science denialist discourses investigated may relate
to environmental, medical/health, etc. issues. 

Presentation proposals (abstracts)
Abstracts of ca. 500-800 words, excluding references, should be sent by 10
November 2020 in Word (doc) format to the workshop organisers, Ourania
Hatzidaki (o.hatzidaki at gmail.com) and/or Ioannis E. Saridakis
(iesaridakis at gmail.com) and/or Panagiotis Karampelas (pkarampelas at gmail.com).

*full call with references:
https://www.academia.edu/44167676/Call_for_Papers_Science_denialism_as_grassro
ots_resistance_Digital_discourses_and_social_networks

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