Sign up for the FREE ICA preconference, "Invisible Labor: Recentering the Future of Journalism from the Global Periphery." This preconference will span most of the day Thursday, June 12. It will be structured as an un-conference as a form of decolonial practice to emphasize networking across south-north divides and across diverse disciplines and backgrounds with a goal of conversation and group participation. We will provide participants with discussion prompts ahead of time to foster high-quality discussions and ask you to set aside some time to prepare if you plan to attend. The day will include a keynote panel as well as brainstorming sessions in working groups, and participants will leave with access to shared resources to facilitate future collaborative research.
This "pre-unconference" brings together scholars from the Global South and North in a series of discussions around ways to re-center peripheral perspectives in the ongoing scholarly discussion about the future of journalism. Participants will address theoretical foundations and epistemological power relations along with the practices of knowledge production as well as knowledge transfer to consider how to center work from and about peripheral countries, fully integrating it into evolving understandings of journalism practices ranging from traditional to transitioning media platforms of global, transnational, and cross-border journalism. Our goal is to de-westernize and de-colonize assumptions about cross-border collaborations to demonstrate how journalism scholarship from and about the majority world is not just informing, but pioneering the future of journalism research and practice that has the potential to aid citizens in making better informed decisions.
The goal is for participants to leave with access to shared knowledge repositories (e.g., Google Docs) for funding resources, collaboration models, theoretical approaches, publication venues, and other practical tools aimed at increasing the diversity of perspectives represented in scholarship on the future of journalism in Global South or non-Western contexts.
This preconference is free, but space is limited, and you must RSVP to Summer or Ruth (email addresses below) by March 1, 2025. When you write to RSVP, please share a few sentences about your personal and/or professional background, your interest in this topic, and how you could contribute to our gathering.
To RVSP, ask questions, volunteer to serve on the keynote panel, or volunteer to lead a discussion group, reach out to Summer Harlow at summer.harlow@austin.utexas.edu or Ruth Moon at rmoonmari1@lsu.edu by March 1.
We hope you can join us in Denver!
Global Journalism Preconference Steering Committee
Tanja Bosch
Summer Harlow
Lea Hellmueller
Ruth Moon
Victor Perdomo-Garcìa
Moniza Waheed
Wendy Zhou