The 3rd annual conference of the ECREA’s Journalism & Communication Education temporary working group is looking for contributions. The conference is entitled “Trial and Error: media education in a changing media world” and it will take place on the 18th and 19th of May 2017 in Tilburg, Netherlands.
The event organisers “invite contributions in various formats, e.g. workshops, panels and conference presentations”. Among the several suggested themes are:
- the changing nature of media work
- the increasing role of the audience in media production
- profound automation of media production and distribution, e.g. automated newsrooms, robot art, algorithm advertising
- aspects of media literacy, public interest, national security or freedom of speech in media development
Abstracts for the contribution proposals must be sent by February 20th 2017. Acceptees will be notified by March 20th.
Further information of the event is available on the temporary working group’s website. The full call for papers is available through this direct link (PDF file).