[Linganth] last-minute AAA roundtable -- Professional Divides 2018: News Reporting, Incarceration, and Social Inequity

[Colleen Cotter]

Thanks for your responses thus far re this roundtable (E. Moore Quinn's "state and containment" angle in Ireland is extremely relevant -- thanks, Moore). Which makes me suggest thinking past the words "incarceration" and "journalism" and more about narrative, (fractal) recursivity, memory, emotion, repatriation, justice, power, etc.


The journalist/advocate participants in the roundtable will provide the ethnographic context from their lived perspectives (San Quentin and beyond); we can provide ways of thinking and critiquing from our perspectives -- about individual, other, community, remedy, etc. A conversation will ensue.


NB: You DON'T have to write an abstract for a roundtable! Just tell me you are interested or have something to say and I'll take it from there.


Here is an LA Times article I use to teach about genre, reframing, identity, context, and markedness (and the role of culture and folkloric expression in obits more generally). Bill Drummond will be on the roundtable.


Best,

Colleen


http://graphics.latimes.com/prison-obits/

[https://www.bing.com/th?id=OVP.luxFih9ZGuB3qbvsC-qDAwHgE_&pid=Api]<http://graphics.latimes.com/prison-obits/>

Inmates writing their own obits reveal regrets, failed dreams<http://graphics.latimes.com/prison-obits/>
graphics.latimes.com
Inmates at San Quentin were asked to write an obituary about their own death. The resulting obituaries were reflective and candid. Above all, they revealed the ways ...





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From: Colleen Cotter
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Subject: last-minute AAA roundtable -- Professional Divides 2018: News Reporting, Incarceration, and Social Inequity


Hi all,

I'm emailing -- late, I know -- to see if anyone would like to participate in this year's "Professional Divides" roundtable, the one I've been running regularly with journalists and linguists/anthropologists to discuss issues of language, media, representation, public discourse, social responsibility, and critique.


The topic for 2018 pertains to incarceration and justice system reform, with a focus on the long-running inmate-led San Quentin News; public discourse about prisons and issues of race, class and gender; and the role that academics can play. Besides us, this roundtable will include the Bay Area journalism professor/reporter involved with the SQN staff, a former San Quentin News reporter-mentor, and (very likely) a community/policy advocate.


If your research pertains to any aspect of the criminal justice system (US or elsewhere), incarceration, youth intervention, courtroom processes, law enforcement, confirmation bias, media representations (e.g., shows like Orange is the New Black as well as news stories, Twitter), racial profiling, translation services, etc., please let me know soonest -- by midnight Sunday EDT. I will finesse from there.


In the roundtable format, you can be included as a presenter (= a paper), discussant or "chair" if you're already committed to another panel.


Looking forward to hearing from you!

Best,

Colleen


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Dr. Colleen Cotter

Reader in Media Linguistics

Linguistics Department

Queen Mary University of London

Mile End Road

London E1 4NS

UK

email: c.m.cotter at qmul.ac.uk


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