Invitation, rationale and goals
The international congress #comunicambio 2015 [#com4change] seeks to identify, analyze and recover success factors in the communication for social change, understood as a process of empowerment for global social justice. Particularly relevant are the communicative trends of social movements that have been springing in recent years in several countries worldwide, including Spain (15M and others).
The international scientific committee of the Congress and the several research, communication and activist networks that participate in the organization are illustrative of the actors that converge around communication based on empowerment and the search, from civil society, for alternatives to transform social injustices and inequalities: NGOs, social movements, researchers and scholars in the field of Communication, Civil Society and Social Change… In this communicative field, gender and culture of peace are fundamental and cross-cutting elements.
In the framework of this general program, we encourage you to send proposals for communications that address the following interests and goals:
- Epistemologies, theories and approaches to communication for social change
- Eco-social empowerment and other communicative proposals of social justice
- Organizational structures, “smart mobs”, networks
- Best practices: case studies and comparative studies
- Criteria and indicators of success for planning and assessing transformative communication
Topics
More specifically, proposals on Communication, Civil Society and Social Change will be organized around the following topics:
T1. Communication and social change: epistemologies and indicators
Possible sub-topics: culture of peace, theories of social change, theories of transformative communication, indicators of peace and communication
Hashtags: #PeaceCulture, #SocialChange, #Com4change, #globalchange, #buenconocer, #procomún, #15mp2p, #buenvivir #perunavidavivible
T2. From victims to indignants: discourses, representations and empowerment
Possible sub-topics: the condition of the victim in the media, representations of protests
Hashtags: #EmpowerVictims, #Indignants, #MediaDiscourse, MediaRepresentations, #IamAMigrant #ForoMigrante #ForoFeminista #cineMigrante
T3. Journalism, media and social change
Possible sub-topics: traditional, digital and local media, experiences in journalism
Hashtags: #Media, #CitizenJournalism, #AlternativeMedia, #Media4Change, #Mediadev, #devreporter, #migrantfiles
T4. Commercial communication, organizations and social change
Possible sub-topics: advertising, consumer behavior, the role of organizations, solidarity 2.0
Hashtags: #comunicambio, #mediadev, #conigualdad, #laayudaimporta, #comunicaciónsocial, #Fscat2014, #crowdfunding, #funding
T5. Social mobilization and emotions
Possible sub-topics: social movements, forms and attitudes in the protests, violence/nonviolence, moral sensitivity, global awareness
Hashtags: #SocialMovements, #Nonviolence, #CivilResistance, #MoralSensitivity, #SocialEngagement, #Globalrev, #movilizacción, #Occupy, #15M, #ciudadaníaalpoder
T6. Cyberactivism, social change and social movements
Possible sub-topics: Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, N-1, streaming, online collaborative work
Hashtags: #ICT4socialchange, #SocialMedia4Change, #hacktivism, #redvolucionate, #Datactic, #SocialTIC, #tacticalmedia, #OccupyEP2014, #europe4the99, #TTIPnogracias, #novotisinjustícia, #bigdata
T7. Education, civil society and social change
Possible sub-topics: Critical pedagogy, Education for citizenship, Community education, Participatory methodologies in education, Service Learning, Popular education, Intercultural inclusive schooling, Critical citizenship, Transformative education, lifelong learning
Hashtags: #TransformativeEducation, #educacionsocial, #redvolucionate
T8. Transmedia narratives, artivism and social change
Possible sub-topics: artistic and creative initiatives, audiovisual culture, videogames, newsgames, webdocumentary, videogames documentary, Border Games
Hashtags: #art4change, #video4change, #artivism, #transmedia, #viñetasdevida, #16zemos98, #music4change
Characteristics and dates for the submissions
Communications can be submitted in Spanish, English or Valencian, the languages of the congress.
Proposals (abstracts) will be between 400 and 500 words and will be submitted online through Easy Chair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=comunicambio2015
IMPORTANT FOR ABSTRACTS SUBMISSION: please copy your text in the corresponding box set up in Easy Chair and do not attach any file in this submission phase.
The deadline for abstract submissions is October 12th 2014.
New deadline for abstracts: October 26th 2014 (23:55 GMT)
Please check all the detailed information on participation, presentation formats, registration and important dates.
Characteristics and dates for accepted complete submissions
Given the previous extension of the deadline for proposals, we have extended as well the deadline for full texts until FEBRUARY 3rd, 2015.
Papers will follow the APA Style.
The new submission process will also take place through Easy Chair before the end of the new deadline (FEBRUARY 3rd, 2015; 23:55 GTM). The papers (of a maximum length of 3.500 words) have to be uploaded chosing at Easy Chair “My submission” and “Upload a new version” (right upper corner).
Publication of papers and accepted proposals
All accepted communications, after double-blind peer reviewing, will be published in a book of conference proceeding, edited by the groups of collaborators, with ISBN and under a Creative Commons license (3.0 Unported). Additionally, in order to achieve high impact and debate around the congress themes, the best valued communications in the reviewing process will be proposed for publication to the scientific and reviewing committees of the journals and books interested in the results of this research endeavor (for further details on options for publishing the results of the congress please check the section “Publications”).
