The conference will provide a platform for scholars to explore how diversity is represented and accommodated in publicly available information about sexual health. We use ‘diversity’ to refer to a wide array of factors including age, gender, culture, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, disability, socioeconomic status, and geographic location (e.g. rural/urban population groups and global diversity). ‘Communication’ emphasises multimodality, that is, the use of multiple meaning-making resources (language, images, sound, colours, typography, and more). While doctor-patient interactions are extensively covered in other contexts, this conference seeks instead to illuminate the wider societal implications of health communication and thus focuses on a wide array of publicly available information including materials like leaflets, webpages, and self-help books; mainstream and social media; and influencer communication.
The DN34 International Conference on Discourse, Identity and Polarisation
This hybrid conference provides an interdisciplinary space for examining how individual and group identities are discursively constructed in today's increasingly polarised societies, and how discourse both reflects and shapes emerging social divisions.