Е-мейл Оргкомитета: crill@unicampania.it
Организаторы: Department of Law University of Campania ‘Luigi Vanvitelli’
Internet and social media platforms dedicated to community-based input, interaction, content-sharing and collaboration are becoming one of the most prevalent means of communication in a variety of academic, professional and organizational contexts, highlighting greater opportunities for social media knowledge and development in an expanding global reality and modern society.
The influence of Web-based technologies and social media has entered the mainstream and become so pervasive in human communication today that it is difficult to imagine any aspect of academic or professional life that has not been invaded by recent developments in new media. Being a very conservative discipline within its rationalistic terms of discourses and genres, law has always been relatively slow to accept any change in its traditions, processes, practices and, of course, mindset. However, even in law, particularly in the last few years, there has been an enthusiastic acceptance of the role of new media sites and services in the way law enforcement operates in investigative activities, introducing substantial changes to communication between organizations, institutions, communities and individuals and developing comprehensive integration strategies to improve access to justice. This growing influence of media usage is also making its way into novel forms of legal discourse, and also, perhaps more critically, into specific issues arising from the use of legal discourse in its various traditional and newly-emerging (social) media contexts, and brings to the fore the social power these novel resources are now framing for problem-based inquiries in law. Alongside this, potential is mounting for the role of (social-) media as an instrument of interdiscursive and interdisciplinary procedure, exploitation, and management of public and private discursive space and practice and is already visible in current socio-legal media contexts.
It is primarily for these reasons that the 5th international conference Legal Discourse: Context, Media and Social Power invites original paper, panel and poster proposals that explore language through the broad areas alluded to, some of which are listed here:
Legal discourse in contexts
Law in broadcast media (film, radio, television), digital media (internet/web-based and mobile technologies), and print media (magazines, newspapers, books, comics)
Media in the construction, storing and dissemination of legal knowledge
Web-based media for the construction of interdiscursive/interdisciplinary issues affecting law and other fields (politics, economics, criminology, sociology, psychology, healthcare and medicine)
Social media in criminal and forensic investigations
Social media in the process of conflict resolution
Issues of harassment, defamation, privacy/publicity/government surveillance, freedom of speech, cyberbullying, trolling and intellectual property in social media environments
Disciplining and regulating social media activities
Legal and ethical challenges on social media
Role, power, identity, and ideology on social media
Multilingualism/multiculturalism, migration, race, and ethnicity on social media
Web-based media resources for higher legal education (formal and informal learning, collaborative work)
The conference committee welcomes contributions on these and other related topics using a range of scholarly approaches to theoretical and methodological debates within discourse studies where language and other semiotic modes are in focus. Such approaches include, but are not limited to: discourse (textual) and (critical) genre analyses, critical discourse analysis, conversation analysis, corpus-based discourse analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, ethnography and communication analyses, multimodal discourse analysis, mediated discourse analysis, forensic/legal linguistics, translation/interpreting, and ESP. By providing a forum that presents research from all forms of discourse theory, data and methods, the conference brings together academics, researchers, practitioners, government officials, consultants from different backgrounds to exchange new ideas as well as discuss the challenges encountered and solutions adopted.
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