CONFERENCE PROGRAM 7-11 JULY 2019 MADRID, SPAIN COMMUNICATION, TECHNOLOGY & HUMAN DIGNITY: DISPUTED RIGHTS, CONTESTED TRUTHS. FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS DE LA INFORMACIÓN UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID (UCM) 1 2 INDEX 4 Welcome Messages • Janet Wasko • Jorge Clemente Mediavilla • Loreto Corredoira 7 About the Conference 9 Pre- and Post- Conferences 10 Schedule At-A-Glance 11 Opening Ceremony and Social Event Dinner and Flamenco 13 Plenary Sessions 18 Special and Partner Sessions 25 Monday, 8th of July 71 Tuesday, 9th of July 116 Wednesday, 10th of July 175 Thursday, 11th of July 214 UCM Life 215 Welcome to Madrid, Spain! • Spanish Summer Cuisine • Transport in Madrid 219 Campus Map Universidad Complutense Maps 226 Event Organisation 229 Thank You, Sponsors 3 WELCOME, BIENVENIDA, AND BIENVENUE! We are very pleased to come together in Madrid for the largest conference in IAMCR’s history. We gather to share our work and ideas, as well as to meet new colleagues and rekindle friendships. Many thanks to the 2019 Local Organizing Committee for their efforts in hosting our meetings and planning many exciting events. As usual, the work of the Section and Working Group heads has been fundamental in planning our program and is greatly appreciated. Thanks also to our many partners and supporters. We look forward to stimulating and productive discussions. The program includes a range of plenary panels and special sessions, which promise to be intriguing, thought-provoking, and provocative. We will be awarding several special awards during the conference, including the IAMCR Prize in Memory of Herbert I. Schiller, the UCF/IAMCR Urban Communication Research Grant, and the New Directions for Climate Communication Research Fellowship. Congratulations to the winners of these awards, as well as to the recipients of this year’s Travel Grants. Best wishes and enjoy Madrid! Janet Wasko, President IAMCR 4 ¡BIENVENIDOS A MADRID! The School of Communication of the Complutense University of Madrid is proud to host the IAMCR Conference, which will be held from 7 to 11 July, 2019. Our School has pioneered the teaching of communication in Spain and aspires to be a reference not only in terms of prestige and quality but also of innovation. It was created in 1971 and, since 1974, its home has been one of the landmark buildings of Madrid, an example of European brutalist architecture; facilities have been renovated and include television studios, radio stations, multimedia lecture theaters, digital cameras and host of other technical media available to students. The School teaches courses in Audio Visual Communication, Journalism and Advertising and Public Relations at both graduate and post-graduate level, many of which, according to acknowledged rankings, are among the best in Europe. Throughout its 48 years of history, over 60,000 professionals have studied in our lecture halls; today they are now cinema directors, producers, advertising experts, communications managers or occupy other relevant posts in the communication sector. Our School has the largest number of students in the area of Communication in Spain with over 6,000 students, taught by a 250 strong team of faculty. For all of us, it is with great pride that we welcome the 2019 IAMCR Conference, the core theme of which is “Communication, technology and human dignity”. The program of the conference includes over 32 thematic sections and working groups, in addition to pre- and post-conference scientific activities, and a wide range of cultural activities. I sincerely wish you a most enjoyable stay at our School and in the city of Madrid: we extend our warmest welcome to you all. ¡Bienvenidos a Madrid! Jorge Clemente Mediavilla, Decano 5 DEAR COLLEAGUES AND FRIENDS, At last, the time has come for us to open up our School to you and welcome you to Madrid from 7th thru 11th July for the IAMCR Conference. The team which has been working with me throughout this time, especially Professors Arturo Gómez, Mª José Canel, José Antonio San Román and Sabela Serrano, along with the Technical Secretariat (Angeles de Andrés, Marianna Herrera and Daniel Ackerman), the Communications Department (Elisa Brey, Ignacio Bel) and our own creative Department (with Giorgio di Marchis) is confident that the program of sessions will be most enriching; we all hope that you will enjoy both the academic program of plenary sessions and the program of cultural, leisure and culinary activities which we have prepared. We are also deeply indebted to the Deans of the School, Dr. Jorge Clemente, the current Dean, who has presided over the LOC and the former Dean, who, together with the Board of the School, gave their enthusiastic support to this project back in 2016 (under the leadership of Carmen Pérez de Armiñán), to the Management Office (Marina Sanz), to the personnel of Administration and Services and to an untold number of doctoral and other students who will be always ready to help you during the coming days. We consider it a privilege to be able to host in our centuries-old Complutense University, in one of the most attractive parkland areas of Madrid, this edition of IAMCR, which will have a prestigious attendance of members from 80 countries. We hope that our preparations are up to the challenge. With very best wishes. Loreto Corredoira, Director 6 ABOUT THE CONFERENCE IAMCR conferences address a wide diversity of topics defined by our 29 thematic sections and working groups. We also propose a single central theme to be explored throughout the conference with the aim of generating and exploring multiple perspectives on a shared set of issues. This is ac- complished through plenaries and special sessions, and in the meetings of the sections and working groups. For IAMCR 2019, the central theme is Communication, Technology, and Human Dignity: Disputed Rights, Contested Truths. The 2019 IAMCR Conference focuses around Also, the Conference will examine how new the role of communication in fulfilling the communication methods and technologies Preamble of the Paris Declaration (UN, 1948), are diminishing the influence of objective which states that “recognition of the inhe- facts in shaping public opinion and are rent dignity and of the equal and inalienable increasing the appeal to emotions. If rights of all members of the human family “everything becomes true on the Internet” is the foundation of freedom, justice and (John Diamond), fake news becomes the peace in the world”. This congress will fea- norm, and messages and the media may ture analysis of the impact of the latest become disconnected from the reality of communication technologies on culture, people’s lives. human rights and social issues in the con- text of the so-called Post-truth era. During 2019 IAMCR Conference, we will ex- plore the geopolitical and socio-economic The Conference will examine the increa- effects of the changes in the structure of singly rapid advances in communication communication. The pre-eminence of the technology and the impact of these ad- nation-state as the basic organizational vances on the improvement of human and unit in politics is coming under increasing social quality of life. We will discuss issues pressure across the globe because of in- such as the use of algorithms in the deci- ternal divisions and conflicts, increased sion-making process in multiple fields of fluxes of migrants, refugees and displaced activity, the automation of professional, persons, and widening income and wealth political and even judicial processes to the inequalities. detriment of human input; data-mining and Big Data analysis of our on- and offline Bearing in mind their pivotal role in the activities; the Internet of Things which, while organization of contemporary economic, opening new horizons for corporations, political and social life, the digital media also permits greater government surveilla- are undergoing profound organizational nce of private individuals; the development changes that lie at the heart of contem- of intelligent machines poses new questions porary struggles between technologies and about what makes us human. territories. The digital media are emerging 7 as the central cultural scenario in which the increasingly technological nature of the the battles over freedom of expression and media and the turbulence of geopolitical other contested rights are waged. systems? How can we define and reflect on our personal and social identities at In summary, conflicts are intensifying a time when emerging technologies and around the rights of minorities, guarantees other factors are challenging the establi- of personal freedom and full access to the shed notion of “belonging to a nation”? entitlements of citizenship. At the same time, struggles are growing over the ow- We are facing, then, clear threats to the nership and control of personal digital data, quality of communication and to the qua- the circulation of ‘fake’ news, and the impli- lity of human life and dignity, which may cations of robotics. be analyzed using the broad array of theoretical, technical and methodological These trends raise urgent questions in res- approaches represented by the Sections pect of individual and social rights. How and Working Groups of the IAMCR. can communication remain human despite 8 PRE-CONFERENCE EVENTS • Actualizing Section J through Transnational Collaborations: Making Gender Equality in the Media and ICT Visible in the 2030 Agenda. • Ciudadanía y Derechos Digitales • Communicating China with the World: New Dynamics in International Communication