Conference description: This IAMCR pre-conference seeks to unpack the ways digital media intersect – both positively and negatively – with children’s rights today and to reflect on how children’s rights might provide a meaningful counterpoint from which to consider the role of ‘the digital’ in advancing human rights more broadly. To catalyse the debates, we now call for short paper proposals analysing key dilemmas or tensions shaping children’s rights in the digital age. We welcome empirical and/or practitioner pieces.
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Location: London School of Economics and Political Science
Date and time: 26-27 July, 2016
Convenors: Sonia Livingstone, Amanda Third and Mariya Stoilova
Contacts: Alexandra Chernyavskaya - A.Chernyavskaya (at) lse.ac.uk and Mariya Stoilova - M.Stoilova(at) lse.ac.uk
Proposal requirements: Proposals can be made for single papers or panels. Abstracts for single papers must be no more than 250 words.
The pre-conference is associated with the project Global Kids Online: Children’s rights in the digital age
26 July. The preconference will commence at midday on 26 July with parallel sessions of papers selected for presentation. There will be an evening plenary entitled ‘Global Kids Online’, followed by a reception to which delegates, policy-makers and practitioners are invited.
27 July. There will be parallel sessions of papers selected for presentation on the morning of 27 July. The pre-conference will officially close at midday on 27 July to enable delegates to make the journey to Leicester for the opening of IAMCR 2016 (approximately one-hour train journey).
There will be a modest preconference fee to cover basic catering costs.
Proposals must be submitted via the form below before midnight GMT, 15 February 2016.