Dear Madame or Sir, We hope this message finds you well. Northwestern University and Universidad de San Andrés (Argentina) are co-organizing a Conference on Media and Society on August 27 and 28, 2019, at University of San Andrés, in Buenos Aires. We would like to ask you if we could please forward or post the call for papers to members of your organization, considering that the deadline for submission of abstracts is April 30, 2018. Please let us know if you need further information on the subject or if there is another person to whom we should address. Thank you very much in advance for any help you can provide. Regards, With apologies for cross-posting * Contemporary Developments on Media, Culture and Society: Argentina and Latin America * We invite submissions to the conference “Contemporary Developments on Media, Culture and Society: Argentina and Latin America.” The conference, organized by The Center for the Study of Media and Society in Argentina (MESO), will take place on August 27 and 28, 2019, at Universidad de San Andrés in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This will be the fifth annual conference organized by MESO on the interactions between media, culture and society. For more information about previous events, please visithttp://meso.com.ar/en/events This fifth annual conference is sponsored by the Center for Global Culture and Communication at Northwestern University. Submissions should contribute to ongoing conversations about media, culture, and society in empirical, theoretical or methodological ways. They might also broaden our knowledge about the relationship between media, culture, and society at the national and regional level. Articles may refer to different aspects of communication, media, and cultural goods and services in the areas of journalism, entertainment -cinema, theater, television, music, etc. - advertising and marketing, public relations, social media, and video games, among others. Topics to be addressed include the following, among others: ● Transformations in content production. ● Change in the use of media. ● Innovation and technological change. ● Media sustainability and funding. ● Gender, race, ethnicity, and identity. ● State, government and civil society. ● Regulation and public policies. ● Political communication and electoral campaigns. ● Production, distribution and consumption of information on social media. To make a submission: ● Send an extended abstract of the article, with a maximum length of 500 words (excluding title and references). The document should also include the contact information and brief (no more than 75 words) biography of each author. ● Abstracts should be sent without exception as an attached file, in word format (.doc, .docx), and entitled "Last Name, Name - Medios y Sociedad 2018". ● The deadline for submission is April 30, 2019. Abstracts should be sent by email to mediosysociedad@udesa.edu.ar . The subject of the mail should be "Last Name, Name - Medios y Sociedad 2019". A selection committee will evaluate the abstracts and the results will be notified to the authors on May 31, 2019. Please write to mediosysociedad@udesa.edu.ar if you have any questions and/or need any further information MESO Argentina [image: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW8it-n6WajLOOcPi_mIxlg] <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW8it-n6WajLOOcPi_mIxlg>[image: www.facebook.com/MesoArg] <http://www.facebook.com/MesoArg> [image: https://twitter.com/MesoArgentina] <https://twitter.com/MesoArgentina> <http:///meso.com.ar> www.meso.com.ar