Deadline: 21-Aug-20
UNESCO Abuja Regional Office is launching a call for abstracts and papers on the theme of “Creating a Peaceful Society: Media and Information Literacy, A Way out”, for celebrating the 2020 Global Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Week (Oct 24 – 31, 2020).
The theme highlights how they can look to addressing disinformation and divides by recognizing their shared interest in improving everyone’s competencies to engage with the opportunities and risks in today’s landscape of communication, technology, and information.
This call aims to determine the role of media that influences the value, attitudes and behaviour of the society, to provide a platform for knowledge production, and experience sharing on MIL practice and explore the ways to improve and advance the literate communication landscape in the non-Sahel region of West Africa. Besides, it is about identifying and sharing good practices of MIL, appropriate review mechanism that could be useful to monitor and inspire a systemic approach for promoting MIL and combating disinformation in the local context.
This call for abstracts and papers is one of the series of activities under the regional commemoration of the Global Media and Information Week 2020, organized by UNESCO Abuja Regional Office
Sub-Themes:
- MIL in Emergency Situations: Countering Disinfodemic in Pandemic, Conflict and Emergency situations
- MIL and the Future: Innovation, Practices, Challenges and Way-out
- Combating Extremism, Hate Speech and Fake News in the era of Social Media
- MIL: Government, Society and Responsibility
- MIL and Knowledge Society: Personal Integrity and Power to Shape Opinion
Target Participants
This call is for all stakeholders from the MIL community across in the non-Sahel region of West Africa (namely Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Togo), including civil society groups, the academic community, research centres, think tanks, governments and public policy makers, United Nations and other intergovernmental organizations, MIL-relevant industries (communication and media companies, technological intermediaries, advertising, film industries, gaming sector, content industries, etc.), other relevant private sector organizations, city officials, smart cities, creative cities, knowledge networks, education institutions, youth organizations, libraries, museums, archives, other social media actors, and information and media professionals.
Submission Guidelines and Rules
Submission Guidelines of Abstracts
- Submit your abstract through link provided on the website, in the form of PDF or Word, and the file should be named as “Abstracts_Corresponding Author Nname(s)_The Institution(s)”;
- Abstracts can be written in English or French;
- Each abstract should include a cover page indicating the title of the paper, author(s) and titles, institutional affiliations, complete and available mailing address(es), email address(es) and telephones;
- The second page should include the research title, abstracts (maximum of 300 words) and a maximum of 5 keywords;
- A Scientific Committee will evaluate the abstracts based on their relevance to the sub-themes outlined, among other criteria.
Submission guidelines of full papers
- Thirty (30) selected abstracts will be informed by UNESCO Abuja Regional Office via emails, for submission of the full papers;
- Full papers should be directed to the UNESCO Abuja Regional Office via e-mail provided on the website(link sends e-mail), in the form of PDF or Word. The file should be named as “Full Paper_Corresponding Author Nname(s)_The Institution(s)”;
- Your submission can be written in English or French;
- The paper length should be less than 15 pages, excluding the cover page, references and appendices, and it should apply the 6th edition of APA format;
- Each paper should include a cover page indicating the title of the paper, author(s) and titles, institutional affiliations, complete and available mailing address(es), e-mail address(es) and telephones;
- The second page should include the research title, abstracts (maximum of 300 words) and a maximum of 5 keywords.
For more information, visit https://en.unesco.org/news/global-mil-week-2020-call-abstracts-and-papers