*CFP* "TOWARDS NEW PARADIGMS AND THEORETICAL SHIFTS IN POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES IN SOUTH ASIA: FILM, MEDIA, AND CULTURE", CHAPTER BOOK

Postcolonial Studies, Film Studies, and Cultural Studies have come a long way since classic texts, paradigms, and theories such as those introduced in Orientalism (Edward Said 1978); Towards a Third Cinema (Getino and Solanas 1969); The Wretched of the Earth (Frantz Fanon 1961); Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Freire 1968); Unthinking Eurocentrism (Shohat and Stam 1994), Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism; When the Moon Waxes Red: Representation, Gender, and Cultural Politics (Trinh T. Minh-ha 1989; 1991); Nation and Narration; The Location of Culture; (Homi K. Bhabha 1990, 1994); Can the Subaltern Speak? (Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 1988), among others.

As a new millennium gets underway, this interdisciplinary volume aims to focus on revisiting existing postcolonial approaches, critiques, and arguments, to identify the shifts, emerging trends, and developments in specific relation to respective South Asian countries, and the region as a whole, taking into account each country’s colonial history, independence struggle, and emergent identity as it stands today.

8TH GRADUATE SPRING SCHOOL & RESEARCH CONFERENCE ON COMPARATIVE MEDIA SYSTEMS, INTER UNIVERSITY CENTER

8th Graduate Spring School & Research conference on Comparative Media Systems

100 Years of Media Systems in Southeast Europe – the legacy of Yugoslavia

Inter University Center, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 15-20 April 2019

In cooperation with the ECREA CEE Network and EU COST Action New Exploratory Phase in Research on East European Cultures of Dissent (NEP4DISSENT)

In October/December 2018 a 100 year anniversary of the first Yugoslavia passed with hardly any examination of its impact in its successor countries. In this research conference and graduate spring school we wish to examine the legacy of Yugoslavia in the present day media systems in the countries of the region. How can we explain their divergent media systems trajectories in the countries which spent 70-ish years in a shared state? Why is it that the freedom of expression, independence and autonomy of the media in the countries in the region exhibit consistently lower scores then in the countries of Central Europe, almost 30 years after the beginning of post-communist democratic transition? How do these post-communist media systems compare to media systems in western democracies, and can commonalities be found in sufficient degree so that they might be included in the same typology? Or, are these media systems so marked by their communist antecedents that they merit the special type of “post-communist media system”?

*CFP* "THE IMAGE IN THE PLURAL: DISCOURSE THEORY AND VISUAL CULTURE STUDIES", PANEL CONFERENCE ON IDEOLOGY AND DISCOURSE ANALYSIS 2019

“The Image in the Plural: Discourse Theory and Visual Culture Studies” Panel at the

International Conference on Ideology and Discourse Analysis 2019

“Logics, Critical Explanation and the Future of Critical Political Theory: Applying Discourse Analysis in Multiple Contexts”

University of Essex, May 31 - June 1, 2019

A particular logic of showing and seducing is inherent in images: they showcase and bring to mind, they possess the force to produce evidence and they are inclusive and integrate ambivalences and connections. At the same time, they can establish new relations and thus have a particular reality-transforming effect. Images thus have a genuinely affirmative character, but they can also to tip prevailing allocations and meanings into crisis. Finally, they can act as mirrors in which subjects can gaze at themselves. This force that images contain can be measured by reconstructing the acts of perception and appropriation practices as well as the conflicts they trigger.

*CFP* I INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS FOR YOUNG RESEARCHERS ON AFRICA, NANOU KI ASSOCIATION AND UNIVERSIDAD DE VALLADOLID

I International Congress for Young Researchers on Africa

4 October 2019

University of Valladolid

Nanou Ki Association, specialized in sustainable development and human rights, in collaboration with the University of Valladolid, convenes the First Congress of Young Researchers on Africa as a meeting place for all those interested in sharing their knowledge with the academic community. After the experience of the two previous editions of the Congreso Formativo en Cooperación Internacional (currently Congreso Formativo en Desarrollo Sostenible–CoDeS–), there is now a need to organize an Academic Congress that welcomes students, academics and professionals interested in research and the dissemination of African Studies. The organization will accept contributions that examine the local, regional, national and international dimensions of issues related to this subject. This will serve as a framework for reflection in which interdisciplinary studies can be accommodated. Since this Congress is part of the III CoDeS, the theme will revolve around the national and international policies imposed on African countries and the resistance generated against those policies.

*CFP* "REPORTING SPORTS: THEORETICAL AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN A CHANGING MEDIA LANDSCAPE", MEDIA SKILLS SERIES

Journalists and the mass media play a key role in the formation of the public agenda, the sharing of information and the creation of norms within society (Bernstein, 2002; Hardy, 2008). For many years sports journalism was seen as a “poor relation” within the industry while, paradoxically, being one of its mostpopular and profitable areas. However some critics, such as Oates and Pauly, argue that “Sports coverage routinely violates the ethical norms by which the profession asks to be judged” (2007: 233). Thus, sports journalists are subject to a series of criticisms such as: that they blur the boundaries between opinion and information; the use of rumour; their coverage lacks rigour; sensationalisation; inequalities in the treatment of gender, race and disability, and; the use of low quality sources (Hardin, et al, 2009; Oates & Pauly, 2007; Rowe, 2007, and Wanta, 2013). Furthermore, this is happening at a time of considerable technological change with in the industry. As such there are considerable organisational, technological and cultural considerations for modern sports journalists yet there is little empirical consideration as to how these issues impact upon their working lives or what best practice in this area looks like. This book is not a ‘how to’ guide for budding sports journalists. Instead it seeks to interrogate the theoretical and ethical considerations for students in the field as well as those working across the broadcast, print and online media platforms within which contemporary sports journalism is produced and consumed.

*CFP* "NEW HISTORIES OF WOMEN IN THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY", BOOK PROPOSALS

New Histories of Women in the Entertainment Industry is a new series from Peter Lang Publishing focused on excavating, articulating, theorizing, and positioning new histories of women working ‘behind the screens’ in the entertainment industries from 1960 to the present.

We actively invite book proposals for monographs or edited collections—desired manuscript length of 250-300 pages—on women’s labor in the entertainment industries from 1960 on. The series conceptualizes ‘entertainment industries’ broadly, and is inclusive of film, television, support industries, gaming, streaming platforms, digital content, etc. Similarly, although the series title singles out women and women-identified workers, projects that focus on trans and non-binary labor histories are very welcome.

Please be aware that the scope of the series does not include histories of laborers who work(ed) in front of the screen, nor does it include histories whose primarily chronology is pre-1960.

*CFP* "BEHIND THE PAYWALL: IMPLICATIONS OF THE BUDDING MARKET FOR PAID-FOR ONLINE NEWS", NORDICOM REVIEW SPECIAL ISSUE

The past few years have seen a dramatic upsurge in paywalls being erected across the news media landscape. Online news content that was previously circulated for free is now available only to those who are willing to pay for it. The paywalls are an industry response to two interacting market forces: the gradual decline in printed newspaper sales and the increasing dominance of global networking platforms such as Google and Facebook on national and local advertising markets. In order for commercially funded news media outlets to survive, onlineaudience revenue seems to be the most viable way forward.

The implications of what appears to be a fundamental shift from “free-for-all” to “subscribers-only” access to online news, are plentiful. As a research area, it raises important questions regarding such diverse topics as digital business models and digital media policy, journalistic processes and journalistic content, news media audiences and news media use, and – indeed – the democratic function of commercial news media at large. What happens with news media products and what happens with news media audiences when paywalls are erected? Whathappens with those that chose not to pay? And how does this metamorphosis of the private news media sector affect the role and scope of public service media?

*CFP* "INFRASTRUCTURING THE COMMONS TODAY, WHEN STS MEETS ICT", ISSUE 14, JOURNAL OF PEER PRODUCTION

Peer production and collaborative forms of technological design – such as those based on commons-oriented approaches – have at their core a critical stance towards the technoscientific landscape, an approach shared with Science and Technology Studies (STS) as a theoretical archipelago that has produced a significant wealth of knowledge that points out the social constructive and performative character of technoscience.

In recent time, the increasing prominence of critical approaches – e.g. feminist and postcolonial STS – and the intersections with surrounding fields – e.g. participatory design, information science, and critical technical practice – have stressed the politically engaged character of STS, emphasizing its “activist interest” (Sismondo, 2008). Such growing interest in collaborative modes of practicing STS has suggested the emergence of a “collaborative turn” in STS (Farías, 2017). Such novel approaches allow researchers and practitioners to understand and experience STS as a “practice” as well as a theoretical perspective, an approach that can be fruitful and inspiring also to investigate, design, and advocate for commons-based and oriented forms of production and experiences.

*CFP* “SONIC FUTURES: PERFORMING IDENTITY IN THE 'GLOBAL' CITY”, LONDON COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATION

Sonic Futures: Performing Identity in the ‘Global’ City

April 25

London College of Communication

The idea for this one-day conference stems from a series of workshops, Sonic Futures: Identity and Sustainability through Music and Performance, supported by London College of Communication(Teaching and Learning Fund) in collaboration with May Project Gardens (Hip Hop Garden). Adopting a mixed-method approach, this pilot project sought to engage students from LCC in a series of workshops that explored the connections between social issues (e.g. social cohesion, participatory and sustainable practices and active citizenry, to name a few), politics and identity formations at the intersections of class, ethnicity, race, gender and the environment. 

*CFP* "CINEMA, PHILOSOPHY AND CHILDREN'S WORLD", INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

The International Conference Cinema, Philosophy and Children’s World

Ifilnova, NOVA FCSH, Lisbon,

July 9 – July 10, 2019.

We are opening a call for papers for contributions for the International Conference Cinema, Philosophy and Children’s World.

Predicted possible topics include, but are not limited to Cinema and…:

• Children’s experiences and their epistemological and political impact 
• Pedagogy and its other: approaching children from an adult’s perspective 
• Different philosophical approaches to childhood and their cinematic reflection 
• Perception, Knowledge and Recognition 
• The Meaning of Shared Values 
• Growth, Aggression and Violence 
• Strong affects: On Laughing and Crying at the Cinema 
• Transformation and mimesis 
• Other cinematic or philosophical approaches

*CFP* “FILM AND ETHICS”, SPECIAL ISSUE, CINEMA: JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY AND THE MOVING IMAGE

This issue will be dedicated to explore film as a medium of ethical experience. A special focus will be given to enquire film’s aesthetic/ethical relationship: film’s path from normative ethics to applied ethics; the extent to which aesthetic form, or style, determine ethical meaning; the way it instigates ethical understandings and cultural-political awareness and how it involves ethical/political statements.

Exploring the issue of film and ethics also provides a rich way of revisiting the legacy of film theory, especially with regard to cinema’s ideological and political dimensions, since film’s aesthetics and ethics have always enjoyed a close, if sometimes troubled, relationship. Examples can be found in such different developments such as Jean Epstein’s notion of the ‘enhanced moral value’ of photogenie; the political and moral capacities of montage by Eisenstein; Kracauer’s and André Bazin’s moral and aesthetic realism, Cinéma Verité’s concerns about the ethics of the medium and its claimed objectivity; documentary film’s ethical enquires on ‘realism’; Jean Luc-Godard’s famous statement ‘les travellings sont affaire de morale’ (‘tracking shots are a question of morality’), and Werner Herzog’s notion of Ecstatic truth. On the other hand, the films of Lars von Trier, Quentin Tarantino, Michael Haneke, or the New French Extremism, are recent examples of ethical experiences done against ethics itself.

*CFP* "THE ESSAY FILM FORM AND ANIMATION: INTERSECTIONALITY IN MOTION", CONFERENCE

The Essay Film Form and Animation: Intersectionality in Motion

12 June 2019 - 13 June 2019

London, UK

Animation has been used in film form for its ability to illustrate, clarify, intensify, and focus the expression of feelings, emotions, processes, situations. In socially engaged films, animation supports and opens the debate of complex realities, which can be external or internal, like in I was the Child of Holocaust Survivors (Fleming, 2006), An Eyeful of Sound (Moore, 2010), Waltz with Bashir (Folman, 2008), and Tower (Maitland, 2012).

Paul Arthur notes “[g]alvanized by the intersection of personal, subjective and social history, the essay [film] has emerged as the leading nonfiction form for both intellectual and artistic innovation” (2003, p. 58). In this sense, essay films are hybrid, cross boundaries and often challenge our preconceptions of how to engage an audience. 

DEFENSA DE TESIS "ANÁLISIS DE LA COMUNICACIÓN DE LAS UNIVERSIDADES ESPAÑOLAS EN TWITTER EN EL MARCO DE LA TERCERA MISIÓN"

Próxima defensa de tesis del Departamento de Periodismo y Comunicación Audiovisual de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

Información de la tesis:

"Análisis de la comunicación de las universidades españolas en Twitter en el marco de la tercera misión"

Autor/a: YUNAN WANG

*CFP* "DIGITAL MEDIA AND REPORTING THE MIDDLE EAST", VOLUME 12, ISSUE 2, JOURNAL OF ARAB & MUSLIM MEDIA RESEARCH

The Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research (JAMMR) is an international academic refereed journal published by Intellect in the UK and specializes in the study of Arab and Middle Eastern media and society. Principal Editor: Noureddine Miladi

This special issue of the JAMMR aims at enriching the debate on digital media and social change in the Arab World and the Middle East. In an age of unprecedented technological developments, the Internet and social media networks beg persistent research from multidisciplinary scholarship in order to understand their uses, impact and changes to the way the Middle East is being experienced and reported.

Banking on the above, this special issue of JAMMR seeks to critically address this ever growing area of enquiry and revisit the field from various theoretical and empirical multi-disciplinary dimensions. It welcomes original contributions based on empirical studies regarding (and not necessarily limited to) the following themes:

*CFP* "GENDER, RELIGIONS AND MEDIA: EMERGING THEMES AND PERSPECTIVES", 2(24) ESSACHESS JOURNAL

Throughout the history of humanity, social groups have built ways of life and cultures, which determined specific roles for men and women. With the creation of such roles, a new ideology of patriarchy emerged in diverse cultures, which established that the basis for social organization and social order rests in the power of man as the leader, as the provider for the family, and even as the preserver of the species. As history demonstrates, this ideology was constructed, replicated and dispersed further through education, religion, law, and the media. At the same time, it is important to emphasize that the aim of an ideology is to change the perception of reality and make things ostensibly natural so that men and women would embrace the new ideas and attitudes, reproduce them, and disseminate them further. Recalling the reflections of a Brazilian educator, Paulo Freire, along with a new ideology comes always a culture of silence and domestication, which helps embed the new ideology into the social fabric to the point that when people are called to reflect on alternative paths, they would object to it by saying, “no, it has always been like this.”

*CFP* "PLATAFORMAS DIGITALES DE LA COMUNICACIÓN Y LA CULTURA", POST-CONFERENCIA IAMCR 2019

El grupo de investigación Diversidad Audiovisual de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M, España) – junto a la Sección Economía Política de la Asociación Internacional de Estudios en Comunicación Social (AIECS) y el Laboratorio de Excelencia en Industrias culturales y creación artística (LabEx ICCA, Francia) – organiza el seminario internacional:  

PLATAFORMAS DIGITALES DE LA COMUNICACIÓN Y LA CULTURA

El seminario busca reunir contribuciones que discutan cómo operan las plataformas en línea en nuestras sociedades, intentando dar respuestas a interrogantes como: ¿cuáles son las especificidades de la organización en plataformas en comparación con otras formas de organización de las industrias culturales?, ¿las plataformas en línea contribuyen a la diversidad de las expresiones culturales que circulan por las redes?, ¿son la expresión de un mercado internacional de la comunicación y la cultura más concentrado?, ¿cómo se enfrentan a las políticas culturales existentes (sobre todo las que regulan el ámbito de las industrias culturales), o cómo se apoyan precisamente en estas políticas para afianzarse?

*CFP* IAMCR PRECONFERENCE/SPECIAL ISSUE INFORMATION, COMMUNICATION AND SOCIETY

Era or Error of Transformation? Assessing Afrocentric Attributes of Digitalisation

6 July 2019

IAMCR Preconference. 

Special Issue Information, Communication and Society. 

Editor in Chief: Brian Loader. Guest Editors: Bruce Mutsvairo (University of Technology Sydney), Massimo Ragnedda (Northumbria University) and Kristin Skare Orgeret (Oslo Metropolitan University)

While the continent of Africa has long been depicted as economically and socially underdeveloped compared with other parts of the world, the potential of its peoples, natural resources and nations has always been recognised. In recent years however, it is the transformative capacity of digital communications media, particularly mobile phones, for young urbanised populations that is seen as heralding sustainable socio-economic growth and political stability. 

*CFP* "PUBLICITY AND TRANSPARENCY", SPECIAL ISSUE

In the contemporary era of “disrupted” public spheres (Bennett & Pfetsch 2018), “fractured” democracies (Entman & Usher 2018), and “networked” disinformation (Ong & Cabañes 2018), it is time to rethink some basic precepts of public communication. This special issue takes up the challenge posed by these critics and others to rework concepts and develop methods of research that can adequately account for the habits and systems of contemporary politics. We focus here on the nexus of publicity and transparency, two foundational concepts regarding the proper structure of democratic communication, and solicit work addressing how these concepts are being reshaped in our moment.

Rather than presuming a necessary symbiosis between transparency and publicity, we invite proposals for papers that will investigate the tensions between these concepts as they manifest within actually existing democracies and through actually existing acts of promotion. What happens when transparency is appropriated as a promotional tactic? Are there situations in which transparency and publicity are present and vigorous, yet together politically ineffectual? How do digital platforms or interfaces affect the nexus of transparency and publicity in productive or problematic ways? What types of transparency make publicity powerful, and vice versa? 

*CFP* CALL FOR PAPERS, VOLUME 8, GRADUATE HISTORY REVIEW JOURNAL

The Graduate History Review is a peer-reviewed academic journal managed by, and for, graduate history students. We are currently seeking submissions that explore different aspects of narrative and storytelling in the writing of history. Narrative, like anything, can be both problematic and beneficial in history writing, and we welcome articles and research notes that touch upon the roles narrative and storytelling play in the histories we read, write, and live. 

Potential topics include:

• Oral histories and the use of oral traditions in history 
• Competing narratives and revisionist histories 
• Histories involving or expressed through New Media, digital, and non-traditional mediums 
• Issues around objectivity and subjectivity in history writing 
• Popular incarnations of history, such as novels, film, and video games 
• Storytelling in the practice of public history

*CFP* “THE ESSAY FILM FORM AND ANIMATION: INTERSECTIONALITY IN MOTION”, DEREK JARMAN LAB, LONDON

The Essay Film Form and Animation: Intersectionality in Motion

12-13 June 2019

Derek Jarman Lab

London

The conference explores the ways in which animated form mobilises or challenges ideas of the essay film. We, therefore, encourage submissions that engage with how animation represents complex and intersecting social issues and power relations. Major axes of social division in a given society at a given time operate not “as discrete and mutually exclusive entities, but build on each other and work together” (Collings and Bilge, 2016, p. 4). It is very challenging to convincingly visualise and configure these phenomena and how they intersect. But animation seems perfectly placed to rise to this challenge, due to its hybrid, metamorphic and pervasive tendencies.

*CFP* "VISUAL, DIGITAL AND MEDIA CULTURE: IMAGES AMONG GENERATIONS", SPECIAL ISSUE, VISTA-VISUAL CULTURE JOURNAL

Social context determined by the culture of media convergence, together with the proliferation of digital devices connected to the Internet and their penetration among citizens, has given relevance, more than ever, to the media and visual culture. Digital media and images have conducted visual field towards the study of consumer´s practices and producer´s image, in accordance with the social aspects and the cultural contexts that characterize them.

To the multidisciplinary approach of media and digital literacy, intergenerational issue is added as the starting point of this issue, which seeks to delve into the fact that the media experience occurs in differentiated conditions, characterized by different cultural (media and digital) competences between generations: analogical and digital citizens, emigrants and digital natives. From the family portraits to the selfies of our smartphones, from soap opera and TV series to social networks. Images produced and consumed get increased from a diversity of experiences and memories, from a multiplicity of lifestyles and media uses, which is worth to be rethought from the idea of ​​"generations".

*CFP* “DIASPORA, MEDIA AND MIGRATION”, YOUNG SCHOLARS WORKSHOP, ECREA

Diaspora, Media and Migration

Migration & the Media young scholars’ workshop 

European Communication Research & Education Association’s (ECREA)

29 October

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

This year’s DMM young scholars’ workshop welcomes acclaimed scholars Prof. dr. Myria Georgiou (London School of Economics and Political Science) and Dr. Donya Alinejad (Utrecht University) at Vrije Universiteit Brussel as part of the Digital Fortress Europe Conference.

We all know that it is a difficult task to identify, validate and present our main findings and contribution of our research projects as young scholars in the field. Considering the interdisciplinary nature of our field as well as the continuously changing landscape of media and communication technologies, it is crucial for us young researchers to situate our doctoral projects within academic literature and research. This is the reason why this year’s young scholar workshop aims to help ten doctoral researchers who work on the intersections of diaspora, media and migration to find their own voice and make sure that it is heard.

*CFP* "GAMES FOR GOOD", DEVELOP: BRIGHTON ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2019

Develop: Research academic track at

Develop: Brighton Annual Conference 2019

Hilton Brighton Metropole Hotel

Theme: Games for Good

9 July 2019

The University of Brighton’s Connected Futures, led by Professor Karen Cham, is sponsoring the Develop: Research academic track, an applied research showcase at influential games industry conference, Develop: Brighton. The conference will be held between 9-11 July 2019 at the Hilton Brighton Metropole in Brighton and will be an opportunity to demonstrate the impactful research and enterprise of our university community and our key collaborators.

*CFP* PRIMERA CONVOCATORIA TECMERIN: REVISTA DE ENSAYOS AUDIOVISUALES

La revista Tecmerin: Revista de Ensayos Audiovisuales lanza su primera convocatoria para la publicación de vídeo ensayos. Es una publicación semestral, con revisión por pares, que intenta ocupar un espacio inexistente en los ámbitos de la Comunicación y la Cultura Popular, creando un foro de intercambio inédito para investigadores y docentes. Tecmerin: Revista de Ensayos Audiovisuales se enmarca en las actividades del grupo de investigación Tecmerin (Televisión, Cine, Memoria, Representación e Industria) de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Departamento de Periodismo y Comunicación Audiovisual).

En los últimos años los investigadores de los ámbitos de la Comunicación y la Cultura Popular están orientando su producción científica, no solo a la escritura de volúmenes críticos y ensayos académicos, sino también a la creación audiovisual con el fin de proponer un acercamiento diferente a sus objetos de estudio. En la actual coyuntura digital, parece cada vez más pertinente utilizar el lenguaje audiovisual como mecanismo de comunicación con la comunidad científica y el público más amplio. Por tanto, lanzamos esta revista audiovisual con el fin de crear un foro de intercambio analítico que responda a nuevas necesidades de investigación y creación audiovisual.

*CFP* "FEMINIST PEDAGOGIES", SPECIAL ISSUE, MAI: FEMINISM AND VISUAL CULTURE

Calling contributions to a special issue of MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture on Feminist Pedagogies

The intersectional feminist and LGBTQI journal MAI is seeking contributions to a special issue on feminist pedagogies. Across the board, feminist research and teaching in Higher Education is increasingly vulnerable to ideological attack. The recent “prank” conducted by Pluckrose, Lindsay and Boghossian to make fun at so-called “grievance studies” systematically works to undermine scholarly work in feminist, queer, critical disability and critical race studies and other fields. This context makes feminist teaching both more vital, and more vulnerable, than ever, as revealed by open letters such as that published in the second issue of MAI. This special issue aims to explore the place of feminism in the classroom, revealing pleasure and resistance, complaint and celebration.

*CFP* "THE INTERNATIONAL CIRCULATION OF NATIONAL CINEMAS AND AUDIOVISUAL CONTENT", CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF MILAN

The International Circulation of National Cinemas and Audiovisual Content: The Challenge of Convergence and Multiplatform Distribution in the European Context

Catholic University of Milan

17-18 September 2019

As one of the main outcomes of the “CInCIt: The International Circulation of Italian Cinema” research project, financed by the Italian Ministry for Universities and Higher Education (MIUR) under the auspices of the ‘PRIN 2015’ scheme, this conference aims to focus on the circulation and distribution of cinema and audiovisual content in the European contexts in a comparative way. Given the recent mutations of the film industry and distribution technology in the digital age, there are clear lines and trajectories that divide the European countries in terms of their ability to circulate their media products – and with them a specific image of a culture – across the continent.

*CFP* “BEYOND DISCIPLINES”, CMCI EMERGING VOICES CONFERENCE 2019, KING'S COLLEGE LONDON

Beyond Disciplines

CMCI Emerging Voices 2019

Thursday, 6th June 2019 – Friday, 7th June 2019

Bush House, King’s College London

WC2B 4BG, London

The PhD student community at the Department of Culture,Media and Creative Industries (CMCI), in the Faculty of Arts & Humanitiesat King’s College London (KCL) is pleased to open the call for papers for our 6th annual conference.

This year’s conference celebrates new and emerging directions in the research of culture, media and creative industries that challenge how we understand and see technological, environmental, political, institutional and aesthetic developments that are shaping our cultural landscape.

*CFP* "ANIMAL, LITERATURE, CINEMA: A CRITICAL INTERFACE", CHAPTER BOOK

Critical studies on animal culture have not received enough attention. There still remain a dearth of critical underpinnings on the human relationship with animals. While religions such as Christianity, Islam and Judaism have been instrumental and orchestrated processes in anthropocentric-human cruelty to animals, the utility of animal for experiments, animal suffering and human dominance over animals, critical dimensions and various movements in animal rights and ethics continue to emerge. These movements are geared towards initiating animal welfare, liberation from human dominance and subjugation, thereby deconstructing the notion of anthropocentrism, speaking for non-humans and creating new spaces for the advocacy for the prevention of cruelty to animals. This advocacy stems from the fact that growing body of evidence, from the Arts and the Humanities, Ethology, and Neuroscience, as well as other fields, indicating that animals can experience suffering in ways similar to humans. Literary artists and cineastes have not been left out of this intellectual debate. 

Films such as Electrocuting an Elephant (1903), Ben-Hur (1959), The Birds (1963), The Godfather (1972), The Artist (2011) and literary works such as King Solomon’s Mines, Robinson Crusoe, Animal Farm among others, not only capture the plight of animals in/and through film and literary works but some of these filmic/literary texts are an advancement on the polemic(s) between anthropocentrism and biocentric-animal liberation. 

*CFP* "MUSIC FESTIVALS", VOL 3 ISSUE 2, RIFFS

The fiesta was really started. It kept up day and night for seven days. The dancing kept up, the drinking kept up, the noise went on. The things that happened could only have happened during a fiesta. Everything became quite unreal finally and it seemed as though nothing could have any consequences. It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta. All during the fiesta you had the feeling, even when it was quiet, that you had to shout any remark to make it heard. It was the same feeling about any action. It was a fiesta and it went on for seven days.

The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway.

We invite you to consider music festivals through this quote from The Sun Also Rises and in relation to notions of liminality, of repetition, the real and the unreal, festival and noise, time and perception.

*CFP* "QUEER VISIBILITY, ONLINE DISCOURSE AND POLITICAL CHANGE FROM 'RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE' TO DRAG IN THE GLOBAL DIGITAL PUBLIC SPHERE", CHAPTER BOOK

On both popular and academic levels, interest in drag culture has exploded since the reality-competition television series RuPaul’s Drag Race first aired in 2009 on Logo TV in the US. With the migration of the series to VH1 and global availability through streaming services such as Netflix, drag has become even more ensconced in mainstream popular culture, thus moving even further from earlier understandings of drag as a subculture of queer protest and/or limited to the gay club environment. For the most part, however, recent academic work on drag has focused on  RuPaul’s Drag Race itself for its textual and production qualities, contestant representation of LGBTQ identities, and physical viewers or fan communities, leaving unaddressed the implications of how  RuPaul’s Drag Race has generated interest and participation in a particular drag perspective within the global digital public sphere. Concern for drag in a global digital public sphere should also consider the ways in which online discourse is shaping prospects of visibility and political change for LGBTQ individuals and communities around the world, particularly in increasingly isolated and politically regressive areas of the world.

*CFP* "LIMITLESS", 2019 CHILDREN'S MEDIA CONFERENCE

The CMC Research Sub-Committee is delighted to announce this year’s call for papers to be presented at the 2019 Children’s Media Conference in Sheffield on both the 3rd and 4th July.

The Research Strand of the Children’s Media Conference (CMC) is a crucially important and popular part of this annual event, which attracts over 1200 children’s media professionals to Sheffield every year. The conference will take place from the 2nd to the 4th July in 2019. The Research Sessions will be held on both the 3rd and 4th July.

The content shared in the research sessions is eagerly anticipated by delegates and the research strand’s role is to provide valuable insights and thought-provoking research to the children’s media community.  The research presented may also be incorporated into other related conference sessions, to disseminate it more widely.

The wide variety of topics discussed at the conference can be seen in last year’s programme.

*CFP* “CREATIVE COMMUNICATION IN THE EMERGING CONSTELLATIONS”, 5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE VISUALITY 2019, VILNIUS GEDIMINAS TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY

Creative communication in the emerging constellations

5th International Conference Visuality 2019

April 25-26th , 2019

Faculty of Creative Industries

Vilnius Gediminas Technical University

Vilnius, Lithuania

The Organizing Committee invites researchers and practitioners to submit papers for our international conference.  Please go to our conference website.

*CFP* “COMMUNICATING RARE DISEASES AND DISORDERS IN THE DIGITAL AGE”, BOOK CHAPTER

A primary concern of rare diseases diagnosis is the lack of accurate information that, consequently, may lead to its delays, inaccurate treatments or rehabilitation interventions and social consequences. Although attention has been drawn to rare diseases with the Orphan Drug Act of 1983 in order to encourage pharmacology to develop new drugs, there is still lack of patients’ tracking and information about the diseases’ causes and incidence. 

Health communication continues to be one-way and rely heavily on the expertise from the health professional/practitioner and in such a broad spectrum of rare diseases, patients may find it hard to obtain timely information, accurate diagnosis, appropriate treatments and surgeries, medication or/and psychological counseling in their own countries. The use of Information and Communication Technologies open up avenues for future research on health communication, pathophysiology, innovative provider-patient mediated interactions, rare diseases initiatives, media and health campaigns, biostatistics and health monitoring.

*CFP* FAN STUDIES NETWORK CONFERENCE 2019, UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH

Fan Studies Network Conference 2019

28th & 29th June 2019

School of Film, Media and Communication, University of Portsmouth, UK

Keynote Speakers:

Dr Nicolle Lamerichs, HU University of Applied Sciences, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Dr Lori Morimoto, Independent Researcher, USA

In 2019 the Fan Studies Network will be travelling to the UK’s south coast and the historic naval city of Portsmouth. We are delighted to announce that the seventh annual Conference is taking place in the School of Film, Media and Communication at the University of Portsmouth. Offering a diverse two-day programme our conference will sit alongside historic sites such as the Dockyards, HMS Victory and the Mary Rose while also attracting presenters to explore our cult fan trail which includes comic book, collectibles and record stores, video and board game lounges, and museum exhibits. Fans of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes can see a permanent collection of artefacts and fans of Charles Dickens can visit his birthplace. 

*CFP* "DIGITIZED GLOBAL MOBILITIES: THE ROLE OF NEW MEDIA AND DIGITIZATION IN THE SECURITY APPROACHES OF THE REFUGEE CRISIS", UTRECHT UNIVERSITY

Digitized global mobilities

The role of new media and digitization in the security approaches of the refugee crisis

3- 4 Juni, 2019, Utrecht University

Digitization and the use of social media has dramatically changed most aspects of our everyday practices, perceptions and cause severe changes in Human Mobility (Innes, 2016, Gray, 2018). While the importance and effects of technological innovations in social science research has been increasingly recognized, the role of new technologies and how these shapes the security of people on the move is still limited in scope.

This international event of UGlobe seeks to address questions on the digital features of forced mobility, how technology shapes the approaches of migrant’ security, particularly the unintended effects of digitization and social media use.

*CFP* "MEDIA, NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND DEVELOPMENT IN LATIN AMERICA: POLITICAL, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES", TWO-DAY CONFERENCE

In an age of increasing media concentration and commercialisation, how can we envision a role for the media in development and for democracy? How can networked communications be better used by social movements, civil society and other marginalized groups who encounter difficulties in having a voice in the public sphere? How can ICTs (information and communication technologies) be used for development? How are feminist NGOs and women’s groups at present making use of communication tools and technologies to shape policy and pursue social change at a global and local level? What are some of the theoretical frameworks on communications and social change that we need to revisit? What are the more appropriate methodologies to study communication for social change (CSC) in the digital era? These are some of the many questions that these workshops, which will be held at UFF (Universidade Federal Fluminense) and at City, University of London, ahead of the 2018 IAMCR (International Association in Media and Communication Research) conference in Spain, seek to address. Our keynote speeches will be delivered by professors Thomas Tufte, current Director for the Institute for Media and Creative Industries at Loughborough University London and Toby Miller, former director of the Institute for Media and Creative Industries at Loughborough.

*CFP* "ETHNOGRAPHIC APPROACHES TO ALTERNATIVE CRYPTOCURRENCY FUNCTION AND DEVELOPMENT", THE SOCIAL LIVES OF ALTCOINS

There is an increasing number of studies on cryptocurrencies. Although many studies are substantive and vital as Holub and Johnson (2018:119) suggest most works focus on similar topics and there is a need to widen the scope of research areas (Hileman& Rauchus, 2017). Our book aims to enlarge the scope of the field with our specific emphasis and intends to focus on a topic that is understudied: Particular stories/ histories of alt-coins. The number of cryptocurrencies is rapidly increasing although bitcoin remains to be the most popular one in media and among lay citizens. Miners, traders, blockchain-based project startups, financial journalists, amateur investors, financiers, official discourses and other actors all contribute to an emerging industry of cryptocurrencies. A practical materiality (Maurer et al., 2013) emerges out these sets of actors that make up a particular cryptocurrency (and its community). Moreover, cryptocurrencies do have value propositions and initiate new mediators and social ties despite the initial claims in the emergence of Bitcoin.

*CFP* "IDENTITY IN TIMES OF CHANGE", UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER CONFERENCE

Identity in Times of Change

7.6.2019, University of Manchester, UK

This conference calls for papers on the subject “identity in times of change”. The crisis of 2008 has unleashed a wave of social changes over the last decade, as well as exacerbating existing problems. The economic crash precipitated a wave of social crises, protest movements and political instability. The ephemeral hope of the Arab Spring in the Middle East turned to sectarianism and unforeseen wars. The rise of refugee mobility has engendered new political discourse. The last ten years have seen the impact of austerity and displacement; Occupy, Yellow Vests and Me Too; the rise of populism and the decline of neoliberal economics. Alongside this, escalating climate change and ominous predictions of future disaster have created a sense of constant crisis.

Amid the chaos, we are interested in how these macro level phenomena have impacted on the way people see themselves and each other. We want to take this opportunity to understand how identities are shaped, negotiated and perceived within new social realities. We also want to explore how new identities and identity claims can be used to create new social realities, or alter existing social relations.

*CFP* "MUSICAL DISRUPTIONS IN VIDEO GAMES", SPECIAL ISSUE, THE SOUNDTRACK JOURNAL

While music in many video games is often designed to seamlessly embed into the player’s experience, thus contributing to immersion, in some games music functions instead as a disruption, interrupting the gameplay experience.

For example, in rhythm games such as Guitar Hero, these disruptions function as cues to the player about their progress through a level game; a failed level means that the audio is cut (literally disrupted).  But in subtler cases, musical disruptions may function as anachronisms, or as dramatic contrast meant to emotionally engage the player. For example, in Assassin’s Creed, electronically-distorted music and sounds are a reminder to the player that their character is a modern-day victim transported virtually to the past through memory.

In Battlefield 1’s ‘Flight of the Pigeon’, a shift of orchestration from percussion-heavy, low-register brass and strings to a higher-register piano is a dramatic contrast that highlights the shift from human to bird perspective, disengaging the player from the heavy emotional impact of battle to a spacious, uplifting moment of freedom.

*CFP* "TROUBLE ON SCREEN", 25TH ANNUAL SERCIA CONFERENCE

25th Annual Sercia Conference

Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France

September 4, 5, 6, 2019

Keynote Speakers:

Timothy Corrigan (University of Pennsylvania)

Janet Staiger (University of Texas at Austin)

It is a truth universally acknowledged that cinema and television are popular means of entertainment that can allow people to escape their everyday troubles. And yet from their inception, films have been seen as a source of trouble, at times cashing in on sensationalism through visual and aural — consider for instance the cinema of attractions that characterized early films, or the disturbing advent of sound in Hitchcock’s 1929 Blackmail and Hawks’s 1932 Scarface — sometimes featuring disturbing storylines which soon led to the implementation of codes of production, classification and rating systems.

5ª SESIÓN SEMINARIO DOIMECO, "LAS IMÁGENES PROYECTADAS POR LAS CIUDADES HISTÓRICAS Y SU INFLUENCIA EN EL ÁMBITO TURÍSTICO. ESTUDIO DE CASOS"

*CFP* "RETHINKING THE PRESS IN THE DIGITAL ECOSYSTEM", CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF PORTUGAL

Rethinking the press in the digital ecosystem

International Congress

Braga, July 3 to 5, 2019

Catholic University of Portugal

Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences

After confronting the competition of radio and television, the written press has been debating the challenges of the digital paradigm since the end of the 20th century.

Due to the emergence of a new media ecosystem, the traditional model of production, diffusion and reception of printed journalism is currently undergoing a complex reconfiguration. This is still framed by blurry boundaries, from a professional, sociopolitical, cultural, economic, technical, ethical and legal point of view.

*CFP* "CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON LYRICAL MUSIC OF THE 20TH AND 21ST CENTURIES", CHAPTER PROPOSALS

Chapter proposals are requested for a proposed collection of critical essays on lyrical artists working across musical genres in the 20th and 21st centuries.

2017 saw the reception of the Nobel Prize in Literature by the American singer and songwriter Bob Dylan. The news of the Swedish Academy’s decision immediately polarized the public: on one end were the ‘Dylanphiles’ who concurred with the Academy’s ruling that the songwriter had “created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”; on the other were many who did not deny the lyrical merit of Dylan’s work, but who could not find sufficient justification for his reception of the Nobel Prize when many others working in literature remain unrecognized. Hip-hop artist Kendrick Lamar similarly made waves when he received the Pulitzer Prize in Music—an award that had previously been given exclusively to classical and jazz musicians—for his album DAMN. the following year.

It will probably remain a controversial move by the Swedish Academy to award Dylan the Nobel Prize, and it is doubtful that another musician like him shall receive it again any time soon, but perhaps it is time to think seriously about, as well as encourage and produce, critical work on artists like Dylan and Lamar. Universities around the world already offer courses on artists like Beyoncé, Radiohead, and Bob Marley, as well as genres like Glam Rock and Electronic Dance Music. Serious analysis of popular musical production in the 21st century is occurring across the United States and abroad; but is there a place for serious critical work like this to be shared outside of the classroom?

*CFP* "MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO CROWDFUNDING PLATFORMS", IGI GLOBAL, CHAPTER BOOK

During recent years, the number of crowdfunding platforms has increased in worldwide. In order to discuss ideas, problems, challenges, and solutions for changes in society and organizations to improve crowdfunding platforms, we prepare this book. This book has an important role to play in providing knowledge for researchers, experts, and practitioners of crowdfunding platforms in the global digital economy. It also intends to provide guidelines for economists, managers, entrepreneurs, consultants, policy makers, and technology developers.

Objective

This book will aim to provide relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in the area. It will be written for professionals who want to improve their understanding of crowdfunding at different levels of the knowledge.

*CFP* "PARTIES, FESTIVALS AND CELEBRATIONS", INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE LONDON CENTRE FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH

“Parties, Festivals and Celebrations” International Conference

20 July 2019 – London, UK

organised by

London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research

Traditional celebrations are a key part of any culture: whether it is a wedding, a harvest festival, a religious holiday, or a national observance, celebrations are woven tightly into cultural identity. Whether it is the Mad Hatter's tea party in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland or the Meryton ball in Pride and Prejudice, parties can be pivotal points in the dramatic structure of a literary work. Moreover, special days and celebrations are largely incorporated in art (Giovanni Bellini's The Feast of the Gods or Édouard Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe), music (Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro or Requiem), film (Home Alone or Saturday Night Fever) or popular culture (La Tomatina or Oktoberfest). They can be different in size – from a private birthday party to Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, they can celebrate life or death, knowledge or creative achievement and they can be an occasion for merrymaking or mourning.

*CFP* "DISSOLVING BOUNDARIES OF HYBRID JOURNALISM", THEMATIC SECTION - SCOMS

Studies in Communication Sciences (SComS). Call for Papers for the Thematic Section 1/2020. "The Dissolving Boundaries of Hybrid Journalism: Rethinking News Work Between Datafication, Hacking and Activism" .- Guest editors: Dr. Colin Porlezza (City, University of London) & Dr. Philip Di Salvo (Università della Svizzera italiana)

As journalism becomes increasingly networked and datafied – produced by different actors with different backgrounds, intentions and norms – new types of hybrid journalism arise. These hybrid forms of journalism often transcend traditional conceptions as journalists increasingly engage in activism or in collaborations with whistleblowers, hackers algorithms and artificial intelligence or machine learning. While this trend challenges the binary thinking of what journalism is and what it is not, it also enables new forms of journalistic truth-telling (Baym, 2017). This call wants to explore, discuss and shed light on the different types and forms of hybrid journalism, what hybridity actually means and what consequences it entails for news work.

*CFP* "DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN COMMUNICATION", 6TH INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION DAYS

6th International Communication Days: Digital Transformation

2-3 May 2019

Istanbul, TURKEY

Üsküdar University Communication Faculty is hosting the sixth International Communication Days on 02 - 03 May 2019. This year’s symposium title is “Digital Transformation”. Since 2014, International Communication Days is being held annually with invited guests. In the previous symposiums, scholars discussed topics as “Digital Addiction” and “Digital Culture” and its effects on public opinion was noteworthy. This year, as invited papers, poster presentations will take place at the symposium.

In addition to the digital communication technologies that marked the era, the media sector and communication sciences have undergone significant changes and transformations. On the one hand, media professionals have been trying to adapt to the new era in which production, distribution and administration are surrounded by digital technologies. On the other hand, academicians have been searching new theories and methodologies in order to analyze and interpret the changing era. In Digital Transformation Symposium, the era of digitization will be discussed in several dimensions with the participation of academicians and media professionals. Thus, while developing a new vision for scientific field, it is aimed to display the requirements of the era in communication education by probing the experiences, education, job opportunities and processes in the digital world.

*CFP* CALL FOR PAPERS, THE METAPHOR FESTIVAL CONFERENCE

The Metaphor Lab Amsterdam is delighted to announce that the next Metaphor Festival will take place in Amsterdam from 28 - 31 August 2019.

The Metaphor Festival is an annual conference on the use of figurative language and other modes of figurative expression, such as multimodal or non-verbal communication. It offers an opportunity to present and learn about research findings concerning the structures, functions, and effects of figurative language in different types of human communication. Contributions to the Festival can address tropes such as metaphor, metonymy, hyperbole and irony.

*CFP* "POLARIZATION AND RADICALIZATION", 3RD EUROPEAN SYMPOSIUM ON SOCIETAL CHALLENGES IN COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE

3rd European Symposium on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science (#eurocss)

Polarization and Radicalization

September 2-4, 2019

ETH Zurich

Switzerland

Organizaters

Symposium Chairs

David Garcia (Complexity Science Hub Vienna and Medical University of Vienna)

Frank Schweitzer (ETH Zurich)

DEFENSA DE TESIS "LA REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA NUEVA IMAGEN DE LA CASA REAL ESPAÑOLA: DE JUAN CARLOS I A FELIPE VI"

Próxima defensa de tesis del Departamento de Periodismo y Comunicación Audiovisual de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

Información de la tesis:

"La representación de la nueva imagen de la Casa Real Española: de Juan Carlos I a Felipe VI"

Autor/a: NAFTALI PAULA VELOZ

*CFP* "SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND PARTIES IN A FRACTURED MEDIA LANDSCAPE", TWO-DAY SYMPOSIUM

Cosmos (The Centre for Social Movement Studies), 

Scuola Normale Superiore, 

Florence, Italy, 

1-2 July 2019

This two-day symposium held under the auspices of the journal 'Information, Communication & Society' (iCS) considers the shifting terrain of contemporary democratic politics. Over the course of this decade, a wave of popular discontent swept across much of the world, stoked by the financial crisis, the ensuing austerity and deep disenchantment with political institutions in both liberal democracies and autocracies. Social movements channelled and articulated aspirations for greater democratic accountability and participation, more equitable economic policies, greater concern for social welfare and climate change. Against a secular decline in party membership, voter turnout and institutional trust, movements have rekindled a participatory imaginary challenging the status quo of many democratic countries.

*CFP* "ALTER/NATIVE SPACES", EASA CONFERENCE FRANCE

Alter/Native Spaces

EASA (European Association for Studies of Australia)

 Biennial Conference

18-20th September 2019

Université de Toulon, France

Recent events in Australia remind us that Australia is still caught in discourses on “nation”, “belonging” and “identity” in an environment that fails to produce new alternatives inthisso-called “postcolonial”, “multicultural” country. By proposing Alter/Native Spaces the 2019 EASA conference intends to go beyond the postcolonial to examine how the prefix “alter” is linked both to the notion of an alternative and to the notion of multiplicity, and how Indigenous and non-Indigenous knowledges may interact and form new spacesto reframe the relationship between settler nation and Indigenous peoples by instating their presence in place of their absence.

*CFP* "DIGITAL ECOLOGIES II: FICTION MACHINES", ONE-DAY INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

Digital Ecologies II: Fiction Machines

One-Day International Symposium: Tuesday July 16th 2019

The Centre for Media Research, Bath Spa University

Newton Park, Newton St Loe, Bath, BA2 9BN

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

Professor Simon O’Sullivan, Professor of art, theory and practice, Goldsmiths College, London

Dr Tony David-Sampson, Reader in Digital Media Culture and Communication, University of East London

The Centre for Media Research at Bath Spa University is proud to host the second Digital Ecologies/symposium: Fiction Machines and it will take place on Tuesday July 16th 2019. We are interested in submissions from interdisciplinary researchers including artists, filmmakers, writers, geographers, scientists and theorists whose work connects with the themes of the symposium.

*CFP* "QUIET REVOLUTION? ALTERNATIVE SEXUALITIES IN EUROPE AND THE POST-SOVIET REGION", AUTUMN SYMPOSIUM

We are please to announce the Call for Papers for our autumn symposium in Cardiff:  "Quiet Revolution? Alternative sexualities in Europe and the post-Soviet region", 19 September 2019.

In light of the rising rhetoric of ‘traditional values’ in parts of Western and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, this one-day event calls for an examination of what this conservative turn and the rise of illiberal political regimes imply for the voices of marginalised and alternative sexualities and their representations in the former Eastern bloc and beyond.  The symposium asks how analyses of historical legacies, cultural trends and geographical location might help us to understand and re/conceptualise alternative sexualities in the post-Soviet region and Europe at present, that is, how the way that queerness is coded responds to shifting sociopolitical, cultural and legal landscapes.  The goal of the event is to bring together different strands of interdisciplinary research on sexuality and contribute to a dialogue between communities that have developed around them across the post-Soviet region and Europe.

*CFP* CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS, VOL. 8.1 (MAYO 2019), REVISTA CARACTERES, ESTUDIOS CULTURALES Y CRÍTICOS DE LA ESFERA DIGITAL

Caracteres. Estudios culturales y críticos de la esfera digital es una publicación académica independiente en torno a las Humanidades Digitales con un reconocido consejo editorial, especialistas internacionales en múltiples disciplinas como consejo científico y un sistema de selección de artículos de doble ciego basado en informes de revisores externos de contrastada trayectoria académica y profesional. El próximo número (vol. 8 n. 1, mayo 2019) está abierto a la recepción de colaboraciones.

Los temas generales de la revista comprenden las disciplinas de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales en su mediación con la tecnología y con las Humanidades Digitales. La revista está abierta a recibir contribuciones misceláneas dentro de todos los temas de interés para la publicación.

La revista está abierta a la recepción de artículos todo el año, pero hace especial hincapié en los tiempos máximos para garantizar la publicación en el número más próximo. Puede consultar las normas de publicación y la hoja de estilo a través de la sección específica de la web. Para saber más sobre nuestros objetivos, puede leer nuestra declaración de intenciones. 

*CFP* "MUSIC & SPORT: KNOWING THE SCORE", A CONFERENCE TO EXPLORE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MUSIC AND SPORT

Fields of Vision

Music Leeds

Leeds Arts Research Centre

Hosted by the School of Film, Music & Performing Arts, Leeds Beckett University

Music & Sport: Knowing the Score

A conference to explore the relationship between music and sport

26th June 2019, Leeds UK

From team songs sung after a match to Arthur Honegger’s 1928 ‘Rugby’ symphonic movement; from terrace chants to Neil Hannon’s ‘Duckworth-Lewis Method’ concept album, sport and music have always been inextricably linked. Both produce moments of community, transcendence, and emotional resonance - and both are vital components of the past, present and future of modern culture.

*CFP* "SARTORIAL FANDOM: FASHION, BEAUTY CULTURE, AND IDENTITY", CHAPTER PROPOSALS FOR ANTHOLOGY

In recent years, geeks have become chic and the fashion and beauty industries have responded to this trend with a plethora of fashion-forward merchandise aimed at this audience.  This cultural ascendence can be seen in the glut of pop culture t-shirts lining the aisles of big box retailers as well as the proliferation of geek culture lifestyle brands and digital retailers over the past decade. While fashion and beauty have long been integrated into the media industry with tie-in lines, franchise products, and other forms of merchandise, there has been limited study of fans’ relationship to these industries.  Fashion and beauty cultures are significant areas for study due to their role as markers of identity and position as industries that prop up forms of hegemony along the lines of race, gender, age, ability, size, and so on. We are particularly interested in how fan fashion and beauty cultures reflect larger socio-cultural trends related to normative values, consumer culture, capitalism, and identity performance.

This collection seeks to think about fashion and beauty as related to fandom across a range of modes of practice including retailers, branded products, fan-made objects, and fandom of these. Fan fashion and fan-oriented beauty products also offer a space to productively expand what we consider to be a “fan object,” as media texts, musicians, sports teams, celebrities, and retail lines all involve distinct forms of sartorial fan expression. These forms of expression range from purchasing and collecting to wearing and sharing (often via social media) and frequently convey messages about imagined or desirable fan identities, bodies, and demographics. 

*CFP* "2019 EUROPEAN ELECTIONS - BANALIZATION OR CREATIVITY OF POLITICAL COMMUNICATION?" CONFERENCE IN COMPARATIVE POLITICAL COMMUNICATION

2019 conference in comparative political communication

2019 European Elections - Banalization or creativity of political communication?

Nice, France, July 1st & 2nd

Elections to the European Parliament have long been considered "second class" elections (Reif & Schmitt, 1980). Two main factors have been put forward in order to justify this assessment: the persistent low level of participation in this election in most of the European Union countries and the weakness of the European Parliament in regard to the capabilities and powers of the different national parliaments. As a result, mainstream political parties - in office locally sooner or later - have somewhat neglected these elections, often perceived by the public at large as a "sideline" for politicians having lost momentum or at the end of their careers. However, marginal political parties, or those representing the extremes of the political spectrum, have benefited from the weak investment of mainstream parties, making their voices heard and advancing their ideas.

*CFP* "EDUCACIÓN MEDIÁTICA EN IBEROAMÉRICA: DESARROLLO Y DESAFÍOS", REVISTA CONTRATEXTO

La edición 32 de Contratexto abordará el presente y futuro de la educación mediática en Iberoamérica, su estado de desarrollo y los desafíos que presenta. La educación mediática atañe al papel de los medios de comunicación --tradicionales o nuevos, analógicos o digitales-- como objeto de estudio; no se limita al papel de las TIC como herramientas didácticas (el educar con medios) sino a la formación sobre ellos.

En una sociedad atravesada por tecnologías de comunicación, es creciente la demanda por capacidades que permitan a los ciudadanos interactuar con estas tecnologías de forma crítica y creativa. Sin embargo, a pesar del llamado de organizaciones globales como la UNESCO para que las autoridades se comprometan con la formación de competencias mediáticas, la mayoría de los países iberoamericanos no han implementado políticas públicas en esta materia, lo que ha significado una barrera para su reconocimiento y evolución.