Call for papers: Trust in expertise in a changing media Landscape
As part of the PEriTiA project, Utrecht 木瓜福利影视 (NL) in collaboration with ALLEA, the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities, organizes a conference on the topic of 鈥淭rust in expertise in a changing media landscape.鈥 The conference is organized by Prof Jos茅 van Dijck, Dr Donya Alinejad (Utrecht 木瓜福利影视) and Daniel Kaiser (ALLEA) and will take place on March 18-19, 2021 at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW), Berlin, Germany.
(Policy, Expertise and Trust in Action) is an international research project exploring the conditions under which people trust expertise used for shaping public policy. It receives funding from the EU鈥檚 Horizon 2020 research programme.
Conference theme
In democratic societies, trust in the provenance and justification of policy measures are essential for their implementation. Trust in scientific expertise鈥攂oth in experts and in scientific institutions鈥攈as become a contested subject in the wake of recent political and social developments, particularly the emergence of populist sentiments. At the same time, newspapers and journalists have always played an important part in the shaping of public trust in public debates. However, the recent contestations also draw attention to questions of trust in media organizations. Are they fulfilling their role as watchdogs of democracy and mediators of informed public debate? Can they be considered 鈥榩illars of institutional trust鈥 themselves?
Call for papers
This call solicits presentations and papers from a number of (inter)disciplinary fields, bringing together perspectives from media and communication studies, information science, public policy, philosophy, social and political sciences, and more. Papers will be selected on the basis of quality of content and suitability to the theme. The two day conference will feature up to 60 presentations in various panels and keynotes. Selected papers will be considered for publication in a special issue or edited volume.
We invite abstracts of up to 300 words and a short bio of up to 100 words by 1 September, 2020.