*CFP* CALL FOR PROPOSALS, 9TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON DIGITAL ETHICS

9th International Symposium on Digital Ethics, Loyola University Chicago

The Center for Digital Ethics & Policy at Loyola University Chicago will be holding its 9th annual International Symposium on Digital Ethics on November 7th and 8th 2019. This year, we are inviting research teams consisting of one senior and one junior scholar to submit a research proposal.

We are looking for papers on digital ethics. Topics might include but are not limited to privacy, hate speech, fake news, platform ethics, AI/robotics/algorithms, predictive analytics, native advertising online, influencer endorsements, predictive analytics, VR, intellectual property, hacking, scamming, surveillance, information mining, data protection, shifting norms in journalism and advertising, transparency, digital citizenship, or anything else relating to ethical questions raised by digital technology. This is an interdisciplinary symposium, we welcome all backgrounds and approaches to research.

*CFP* "REGIME-CRITICAL MEDIA AND ARAB DIASPORA: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES POST-ARAB SPRING", CONFERENCE

Regime-Critical Media and Arab Diaspora: Challenges and Opportunities post-Arab Spring

5 - 6 September 2019

University of Copenhagen

Keynote speakers:

• Professor Naomi Sakr, Westminster School of Media and Communication, UK. 
• Professor Myria Georgiou, Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.
• Associate professorTourya Guaaybess, Humanities and Social Sciences-Nancy, University of Lorraine, Franc.
• Professor CarolaRichter, Institute for Media and Communication Studies. The Free University of Berlin, Germany.

*CFP* "BUSINESS COMMUNICATION AND MARKETING", 2019 ISSUE INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF COMMUNICATION AND MARKETING MIX (IROCAMM)

You are invited to submit papers to the 2019 issue of the International Review of Communication and Marketing Mix, IROCAMM, on Business Communication and Marketing.

Companies are constantly placing efforts on correctly communicating about their products, services and activities, not only to sell, but also to function. This concern arises the need of knowledge from a variety of theoretical, empirical and applied perspectives, about a wide range of topics within the field of studies on commercial communication and its relationship with the rest of the marketing mix variables: price, product and distribution. Therefore, each of the fields of communication within a business, as a variable of the marketing mix and its respective influences or consequences, such as commercial advertising and public relations of commercial companies, become of extreme importance for the business strategy. Price and distribution variables themselves, always from the point of view of their influence on communication, are also part of this strategic branch of study.

The aim is to publish papers relevant to business and commercial communication with methodological rigor and research results. 

*CFP* “INDEPENDENT WOMEN: FROM FILM TO TELEVISION”, 19.6 FEMINIST MEDIA STUDIES

Historically, female filmmakers’ work in television has functioned as a form of invisible labour, with television being seen as definitively distinct from cinema, the site of ‘real' and hard-won work. However, as we move towards the end of the twenty-first century’s second decade, television is regularly valued as the preeminent screen art format of our age, alongside a parallel reanimation of feminist issues and discourses in the spotlight, including gender equity in the screen industries. In this environment, the work that female practitioners from the independent sector undertake in and on television has taken on a wholly different status and potential.

As part of the special issue on Independent Women: From Film to Television, this edition of Commentary and Criticism interrogates this shift in women’s television work and how it is being understood and valued globally. We invite short essays which cast a transnational perspective on the migration of female practitioners from film to television, exploring how the industrial, textual and critical logic of independence moves across formats in different contexts.

*CFP* “COM­MU­NIC­A­TION RIGHTS IN THE DIGITAL AGE” CONFERENCE AND SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUE

Com­mu­nic­a­tion Rights in the Digital Age

24–25 October 2019

University of Helsinki, Finland

Keynote speaker:

Philip M. Napoli, James R. Shepley Professor of Public Policy, the Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, United States.

International Conference organized by the Helsinki Media Policy Research Group, the University of Helsinki, the ECREA Communication Lawand Policy Section and the Euromedia Research Group, and supported by the IAMCR Communication Policy & Technology Section.

Conference presenters will be invited to submit to a special issue of the Journal of Information Policy.

*CFP* III PREMIO ALBERTO ELENA DE INVESTIGACIÓN SOBRE CINES PERIFÉRICOS

El grupo de investigación TECMERIN (Televisión y Cine: Memoria Representación e Industria) de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid y Secuencias. Revista de Historia del Cine de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid convocan el III PREMIO ALBERTO ELENA DE INVESTIGACIÓN SOBRE CINES PERIFÉRICOS. Esta tercera convocatoria continúa con la vocación de premiar el trabajo en castellano en torno al concepto de “cines periféricos” y, en general, a una hipotética periferia audiovisual, con la intención de animar así la que fuera una de las líneas principales en el trabajo como investigador del profesor Alberto Elena[1].

Si bien la convocatoria está abierta a toda propuesta de investigación relacionada con un área geopolítica periférica o del Sur (como prefirió referirse a estas áreas de producción y consumo cinematográfico Alberto Elena en sus más recientes trabajos) y cualquier tipo de propuesta audiovisual, el título de este premio pone en valor la idea de cierta producción audiovisual obviada de manera sistemática por determinadas corrientes historiográficas. Aunque superada la terminología inicial (sea cine del Tercer Mundo, sea Cine Periférico), lo cierto es que la idea de “cine periférico” rescató para la investigación audiovisual en castellano toda un área geopolítica aún pendiente de ser integrada plenamente en la historiografía mundial.

*CFP* "EL MELODRAMA EN EL CINE Y LA LITERATURA HISPÁNICA", POLIFONÍA, REVISTA ACADÉMICA DE ESTUDIOS HISPÁNICOS

El Consejo Editorial de Polifonía, Revista académica de estudios hispánicos, se complace en hacer pública la convocatoria a ensayos para su volumen IX, titulado “El melodrama en el cine y la literatura hispánica". El melodrama fue un género literario que, de acuerdo a Carlos Monsiváis, en América Latina sirvió para educar en el idioma de la educación sentimental y las pasiones. En el siglo XX, el melodrama pasó a ser un género fílmico que cumplió un rol importante al formar a nuevos ciudadanos, especialmente en el cine mexicano donde las estrellas de cine mediaban entre estado y sociedad (Dever 2003). Ciertamente, de acuerdo a Jacqueline Mouesca, en el melodrama “se exageran los aspectos sentimentales y abundan las emociones” (230). En los años 1960, el melodrama cobró importancia por su relación con temas psicosociales. Sin embargo, fue en las décadas de 1970 y 1980 cuando el melodrama tuvo nuevo auge revitalizado por teorías psicoanalíticas y feministas. En los últimos años surgieron estudios importantes sobre el melodrama en México (Dever 2003; Lahr-Vívaz 2016 ). Polifonía busca compilar artículos inéditos sobre el melodrama con un enfoque novedoso para su publicación impresa y electrónica de 2019.

*CFP* “CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS IN THE ERA OF SMARTSCREENS: RISKS, THREATS AND OPPORTUNITIES” RELOADED CONFERENCE, CYM ECREA

Children and Adolescents in the era of Smart Screens: risks, threats and opportunities reloaded Conference, CYM ECREA

19th-20th September

Salamanca, Spain

Local organizers are Prof. Dr. Félix Ortega from the Department of Sociology and Communication, University of Salamanca in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Patricia Nuñéz-Gómez, from the University Complutense Madrid.

Deadline for abstract submission: 15 May 2019. Please send abstracts via this link; 500 to 600 words max for double blind peer review.

Acceptance of abstracts will be announced on the 15th of June 2019.

Think also in participating in the Associated Monograph to this event, JCR, Q1,

*CFP* CALL FOR PAPERS, ISSUE LITINFINITE JOURNAL

Litinfinite is a journal in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and this issue focuses on English literary theory, Literature and other arts, Women’s Studies, Comparative Language and Literature, Creative Writing, Indian Writing in English, New Literature in English, Sociolinguistics, Literature and Performing Arts, Literature and Psychology, Folklores, Myth and Literature, Literature and History, Dalit Literature, ELT, Literature and Communication, Philosophy, Sociology, History, Political Science, Museology, Gothic Literature, Literature and Cultural Studies, Diaspora, Literary microfictions and other domains of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.

Litinfinite invites original and unpublished works and writers/researchers can send their research articles, poetry, short stories book reviews and literary essays for next issue (June-2019).

We publish original and unplagiarized research papers on various topics of Arts, Humanities and Social Science.

*CFP* "VISUAL CULTURES AND COMMUNICATION: IMAGES AND PRACTICES ON THE MOVE", ECREA TWG VISUAL CULTURES CONFERENCE

Visual Cultures and Communication: Images and Practices on the Move

ECREA TWG Visual Cultures Conference

September 4–6, 2019, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Keynotes: Paul Frosh (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) "Moving Images: On the Mobility and Motility of Digital Photography", Jill Walker Rettberg (University of Bergen) "Machine Images: from Vertov’s Kino-Eye to Deep Fakes and Selfie Lenses".

In visual studies, the question of how to apprehend images has been contested at least since WJT Mitchell’s call for a pictorial turn, defined ‘ex negativo’. While books on visual cultures, visual analysis and visual research abound, the kind of consideration that we should give single images is discussed from very different kinds of perspectives. While some suggest paying careful attention to visual detail, form, and motif, others call for a turn away from representations, suggesting that main attention should be given to the practices within which images become meaningful. While the latter approaches may question the usefulness of ‘representation’ per se, the former explicitly prioritize that which is made visible.

*CFP* “RESEARCH METHODS IN FILM STUDIES: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES”

Research Methods in Film Studies: Challenges and Opportunities

18-19 October 2019

Ghent University, Belgium

Keynote speakers:

Catherine Grant (Birkbeck, University of London) on digital audiovisual research methods in film and screen studies

Barbara Flueckiger (Zurich University) on digital research methods for studying film colors

Richard Dyer (King’s College London) on textual analysis and serial killing

The academic study of film has involved looking at generic conventions, authorial features, and the use and function of different aspects of film language, including mise-en-scène, narrative, editing and sound. Film Studies has also examined the relationship between film and society, by contemplating issues such as race and gender, the on- and off-screen construction of stardom, the association between cinema, ideology and propaganda, and the way in which films mirror and shape national and transnational identities. The industrial features of film, film policy and legislation, as well as matters of film reception, distribution and exhibition, venues and audiences (cf. the New Cinema History Movement) have also been extensively considered by scholars, within and beyond the discipline.

*CFP* “LOOKING BACK, STEPPING FORWARD”, JAFP, UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA

Looking back, stepping forward

Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance symposium (JAFP)

Monday 15 July 2019

Universityof East Anglia

Adaptation, a concept that may be perceived to encompass a range of reworkings across and within media, allows us to interrogate creative and critical relationships between texts of different modalities, genres and styles. The ‘media journeys’ of adaptation continue to make the field and its multifarious processes exciting, urgent and evolving.

This symposium, which is organised to celebrate the conclusion of the first decade of the Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance – and the dynamic beginning of its second decade – welcomes proposals from scholars and reflective practitioners (creative artists across all performance media as well as archivists engaged with adaptations and translations in stage, screen or otherwise mediatic performance) at all stages of a professional career (academic or extramural to academia).

*CFP* "REGIME-CRITICAL MEDIA AND ARAB DIASPORA: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES POST-ARAB SPRING", INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE

Regime-Critical Media and Arab Diaspora: Challenges and Opportunities post-Arab Spring. An interdisciplinary conference hosted by ‘Mediatized diaspora (MEDIASP): Contentious Politics among Arab Media Users in Europe’ Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 5-6 September 2019

Keynote speakers: Naomi Sakr, Myria Georgiou, Tourya Guaaybess, Carola Richter

The research project ‘Mediatized diaspora (MEDIASP): Contentious Politics among Arab Media Users in Europe’ at the University of Copenhagen is pleased to announce the call for papers for a two-day conference on regime-critical media – produced in or outside the Middle East and North Africa – and their users in diaspora.

*CFP* "PRODUCERS, DISTRIBUTORS AND AUDIENCES OF EUROPEAN CRIME NARRATIVES", EURONOIR INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

EURONOIR- Producers, distributors and audiences of European crime narratives 

International conference

30 September to October 2 2019

Aalborg University

 Although a widely popular genre for over a century, crime narratives are presently experiencing an unprecedented popularity all across Europe. In the fields of literature and television, we are witnessing a deluge of episodes and series utilizing crime and violence as a central source of inspiration. Reaching into the shadows of societal construction, these narratives do more than simply fascinate readers and viewers with fantasies of extreme brutality; at best, they express a remarkable tension in social engagement worthy of a critical and scholarly response. More than any other narrative genre, the crime genre has proven able to travel across the European continent and beyond, becoming a vehicle for cultural exchange and debate (Nestingen 2008).

As a result, the generic concept noir is now common among producers, distributors and audiences of crime fiction, and increasingly noir narratives have been located in recognizable places and regions across Europe. Several labels have been coined in order to identify different strands of EURONOIR by means of geographical qualifiers such as Mediterranean, Tartan, Catalan, Nordic etc. (Hansen, Turnbull and Peacock 2018). Besides evoking transborder cultural exchange, crime narratives are today a strategic means in European place branding on local, regional, national and transnational levels of communication.

*CFP* CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS, FIRST CONFERENCE ON TRUTH AND TRUST ONLINE

First Conference on Truth and Trust Online

4th-5th October 2019, London, UK

The mission of the Conference on Truth and Trust Online (TTO) is to bring together all parties working on automated approaches to augment manual efforts on improving the truthfulness and trustworthiness of online communications.

The modern media ecosystem in which the public seeks truthful information and trustworthy sources is increasingly dominated by large-scale online social media and communication platforms (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube) as well as messaging apps, which operate alongside traditional news sources. However, online platforms are facing significant challenges in this regard, as the majority of the public mistrusts the content shared on them and only 50% trust any kind of online news (Digital News Report 2018). The quest to improve the online media ecosystem remains important and is in need of concerted research. 

*CFP* CALL FOR PAPERS, ECREA HEALTH COMMUNICATION TWG AND EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON HEALTH COMMUNICATION

Please consider submitting to this minitrack of HICSS, the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, which is hosting its 53rd annual conference in January 2020 in Maui, Hawaii.

The Mediated Conversation minitrack focuses on the study of conversations taking place on digital and social media. Conversations are at the core of human communication.  Mediated conversations can use text, audio, images or video, or any combination thereof. The minitrack welcomes research on conversations that are interpersonal, as well as those that occur in organizational or mass communication, educational or political contexts, and in any other sphere of human activity, including the emerging interplay of human-machine communication.

Submission

*CFP* "PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE PACIFIC", SPECIAL ISSUE, JOURNAL OF NEW ZEALAND AND PACIFIC STUDIES

The Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies invites contributionsthat offer new insight into early photography in the Pacific from the nineteenth century until the start of the Pacific War in 1941. Papers may consider photographs produced within this timeframe in the Pacific Islands or New Zealand, or contemporary uses and re-uses of early photographs from this region. Papers comparing early Pacific Islands or New Zealand photographs with images from other nations or areas will also be considered.

Although photography was (and in many ways remains) a tool of colonial power, Pacific people have also used photography for their own purposes, both as individual portraits and as circulated images.

Papers might address the following issues:

*CFP* “TEACHING WITH REALITY TELEVISION”, SPECIAL ISSUE, TEACHING MEDIA QUARTERLY

Teaching Media Quarterly is an open access journal dedicated to sharing approaches to media topics and concepts. Please consider submitting a lesson plan to our current call, Teaching with Reality Television. We also have an ongoing open call for lesson plans. You can access our journal. Information about the call is below. Please share with friends, colleagues, and grad students who teach media classes!

From The Real World to The Bachelor, the reality TV genre provides unique insight into how television is changing, while also drawing on familiar generic conventions and modes of address. Scholars continue to trace its effects on marketing and advertisers, above and below-the-line labor practices, multi-platform storytelling, fan labor, and questions of governmentality and surveillance, among many others. Teaching with reality television allows instructors to discuss the rise of convergence culture and the role of new media, making for a case study likely to resonate with students through their engagement with television and related social media. Teaching Media Quarterly is interested in learning and sharing how instructors teach with reality television and why.

*CFP* "THE BODY IN ALL ITS STATES: AESTHETICS OF THE BODY IN THE ARAB WORLD", NEXT ISSUE, REGARDS JOURNAL

The current issue of Regards will focus on the relations between the arts (cinema, theater, dance, visual arts…) and the body in the Arab societies and, more broadly, in the Mediterranean region. This sensitive subject suffers from prejudgment and prejudice in both audience’s and critics’ minds. Put starkly, the Arab world seems to be deprived of it.

However, the relation of art to the body, although sometimes ignored or denied, appears to be extremely operative and perennial. To be convinced of this, one need only undertake a historiography of modern and contemporary art in the Arab world.

Nevertheless, it is not this diachronic perspective Regards that will adopt in its issue. We envision rather an issue discussing the body and the relations to the body made possible by art and artists in the very heart of their societies. Which bodies and relations to bodies or corporeity can art and artists make possible in Arab societies confronted with the collapse of ideologies (panarabism, communism before it…), the hazards of post-revolutionary eras, or the incapacity of liberalism to find anchorage? With the crisis of democracy, the affirmation of authoritarian regimes, the banalization of human experience and its singularities, nationalism, fundamentalism, and the proliferation of all sorts of obscurantism?

*CFP* CALL FOR PAPERS, 24&25 ISSUE, ARTCIENCIA.COM JOURNAL

For the forthcoming issue planned for September/October 2019, the editors of artciencia.com invite essays and artwork with original approaches to the topics of Art and Education, History, Aesthetics, and/or Technology, in Cinema, Literature, Music, Video Art, Theatre, Performance, Photography, New Media, Painting, etc., as well as e-Learning, English Studies, Law and Communication Sciences.

We are especially interested in essays and artwork that address the convergence of studies in social sciences and/or cultural studies with those in art, or reconsider the encounter of art and culture with specific historical or scientific events (i.e. new discoveries, technological development, political and social change etc.).

Other possible essays might consider questions of ecology, justice and violence or the impact of critical studies and scientific studies on artistic practices today, as well as the role of theories in interpreting arts.

*CFP* "RE-FUTURING CREATIVE ECONOMIES", 3RD ANNUAL CONFERENCE

CAMEo Research Institute for Cultural and Media Economies at University of Leicester is delighted to announce our call for papers for our 3rd annual conference:

Re-Futuring Creative Economies

Thursday 5 - Friday 6 September 2019

Leicester, UK

CAMEo is an interdisciplinary research institute exploring the changing dynamics of production and consumption in the cultural and creative industries, creative economy, media and arts – with a particular emphasis on participation, sustainability and social justice. We now invite submissions for our forthcoming conference Re-Futuring Creative Economies.

*CFP* "DATAFICATION, MEDIATIZATION, AND THE MACHINE AGE", ECREA MIDTERM CONFERENCE

ECREA Midterm Conference

Mediatization and Philosophy of Communication Sections

Organized by the ECREA Mediatization and Philosophy of Communication Sections

“Datafication, Mediatization, and the Machine Age”

University of Bonn, Germany (Department of Media Studies)

November 1st – 2nd, 2019

The rapid development of technologies in the last decades has undeniable impacts on the social, cultural and political processes in contemporary societies and on the everyday lives of their members. Digital platforms became the new spaces of social action, and data has turned into a value system of its own. These transformations, which in the framework of mediatization theory have been described as a ‘metaprocess’ of social change, may promise the increase of efficiency of human performance, but they might as well mean a loss of control or a new landscape for work, privacy or democracy, just to name some of the man contexts involved. No doubt, these processes are in need of critical reflections on the changing relationships between humans and technology.

*CFP* “VISUAL CULTURES AND COMMUNICATION: IMAGES AND PRACTICES ON THE MOVE”, ECREA TWG VISUAL CULTURES CONFERENCE

Visual Cultures and Communication: Images and Practices on the Move

ECREA TWG Visual Cultures Conference.

September 4–6, 2019

Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Keynotes: Paul Frosh (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Jill Walker Rettberg (University of Bergen).

In visual studies, the question of how to apprehend images has been contested at least since WJT Mitchell’s call for a pictorial turn, defined ‘ex negativo’. While books on visual cultures, visual analysis and visual research abound, the kind of consideration that we should give single images is discussed from very different kinds of perspectives. While some suggest paying careful attention to visual detail, form, and motif, others call for a turn away from representations, suggesting that main attention should be given to the practices within which images become meaningful. While the latter approaches may question the usefulness of ‘representation’ per se, the former explicitly prioritize that which is made visible.

While the positions of how to approach images diverge, images as phenomena to be studied are themselves increasingly ‘on the move’.

*CFP* "(B)ORDER AND (B)ORDERING: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY COMPANION", EDITED VOLUME

(B)Order and (B)Ordering: An Interdisciplinary Companion, the intended edited volume, will be published from Edwin Mellen Press.

It will focus on the idea of border and its various geopolitical, sociocultural and cognitive incarnations. In recent times, border has emerged as a common trope in contemporary language with phenomena such as ‘bordering’, ‘borderless’, ‘building borders’, ‘breaking borders’, ‘crossing borders’, ‘porous borders’ and ‘shifting borders’. Whether concrete or shadow, borders are omnipresent. They have been frequently erected and decimated in history and will be in future depending upon the need of the hour. Such ‘needs’, as this series will highlight, are always generated from the above. It seems social sciences and humanities are obsessed with borders and the latter have been invoked intermittently to prove a point and also its flip-side: to negate a point. Even in the daily humdrum of life, we never fail to feel the eerie presence or rather absent-presence of border. At times, it is WE who knowingly or unknowingly create these building blocks: brick after brick piled upon each other and cemented together, so that we can keep the ‘other’, the ‘stranger’, the ‘foreigner’ at bay. Borders are important in keeping “us” safe and feel secure from “them”. Borders are in the air we breathe.

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

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, online audience 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? What happens 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* "WHAT'S WORKING", PRAGUE MEDIA POINT CONFERENCE

Prague Media Point Conference - What's Working

December 5-7, 2019

Prague, Czech Republic

It is our pleasure to announce that this year's Prague Media Point Conference under the title What's Working will take place on December 5-7, 2019 in Prague, Czech Republic. Scholars from all disciplines and interdisciplinary fields are kindly invited to submit their abstracts.

Volumes have been written and numerous events have been held over the past decade lamenting the plight of the media in the modern world. Much less attention has been paid to what's actually working. That is why the 2019 edition of the Prague Media Point will highlight inspiring examples that have managed to overcome the challenges the media are facing these days.

*CFP* “THE VISUAL COMMUNICATION OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR”, SPECIAL ISSUE, THE POSTER

For this issue, The Poster seeks contributions in the form of papers, visual essays and reviews that interrogate the visual culture of the Second World War. Given the multiplicity of potential themes represented, we are open to an equally rich variety of approaches that contemplate the visual forms of communication in this period: images of war, propaganda, activism, authoritarianism, manifestos and manifestations, conflicts, dissident images, national and international cooperativism. The journal is not restricting the call to combatant nations; we welcome research that reflects neutral and non-aligned nation’s responses to the global conflict.

While this issue welcomes research into the formal mass media of the conflict (movies, posters, artworks, publishing and the like), we also welcome research into less overt propaganda. Uniforms, caricature, badges, architecture, unit signs, pornographic black propaganda, fake currency and stamps, movies and more were all pressed into service. At times, even the media of neutral states was conscripted to promote partial positions in their home nations. The Poster wants to see your research in these subjects.

7ª SESIÓN SEMINARIO DOIMECO, "TRES MIL COPRODUCCIONES, CINCO AÑOS Y UNA TESIS"

*CFP* "DOCUMENTARY FILM MUTATIONS", INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

Documentary Film Mutations: International Symposium at the School of Fine Arts (Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain) on 4-5 July 2019.

Throughout the first two decades of this century, and thanks to the potentialities of emerging digital technologies, the documentary film genre has experimented relevant changes in its aim of filming the reality and its communication to the society. New forms of representation, strategies of communication, participation, mobilization, and methodologies for the evaluation of its social impact have emerged over this period. Therefore, nowadays it seems necessary to read the documentary film in relation with its synergies with (i) emerging fields related to digital media, such as social media and big data; and (ii) complementary forms of representation like animation, immersive experiences or interactive platforms. In this vein, this symposium invites contributions that examine the interaction between documentary films and digital media focusing on those cases in which the documentary process seeks to report human rights violations and social injustices. 

*CFP* "INNOVATIVE TEACHING PEDAGOGIES INTERCULTURALITY AND TRANSVERSAL SKILLS", 4TH INTERNATIONAL TEACHING FORUM

International Conference 4th International Teaching Forum

"Innovative teaching pedagogies interculturality and transversal skills”

Université Clermont Auvergne (France)

Communication et Sociétés (EA 4647) & Clermont Recherche en Management (CleRMa, EA 3849)

In association with Shanghai Normal University (China), Utah Valley University (United States)

Thursday 14th and Friday 15th November, 2019, Clermont-Ferrand (France)

According to the OECD, the internationalization of higher education has accelerated over the p past fifteen years. With nearly 4.6 million international students in 2015, higher education institutions place the mobility of students at the centre of their methodologies. Most often student mobility takes the form of semesters and internships abroad as immersion in intercultural environments appears to facilitate the development of academic and non-academic skills. Numerous studies have shown the relevance of this type of educational experience (Ballatore 2006, Teichler and Janson 2007, Brandenburg 2014, Tarrant et al 2014, Potts 2015). 

*CFP* "CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS IN THE ERA OF SMARTSCREENS: RISKS, THREATS AND OPPORTUNITIES RELOADED", INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS

"Children and Adolescents in the era of SmartScreens: Risks, threats and opportunities reloaded"

International Off-year Congress ECREA-CYM-TWG-2019,

Thursday 19th of September to Friday 20th of September 2019,

Salamanca (near Madrid), Spain

ECREA, CHILDREN-YOUTH-MEDIA (CYM)

Temporary Working Group (TWG)

Children and adolescents increasingly turn to mobile media devices and SmartScreen’s, the Smartphone in particular - at home, at school or on the move-, to stay connected with family and friends, for schooling activities and to access a variety of digital media contents and services including social media, music, videos, and games. The everytime-and-everywhere-access to mobile media has changed children’s and adolescents’ everyday life with potential implications on their -from a broad perspective- socialization, consumer patterns, schooling orientated behaviour among others. This conference wants to address these issues both from a theoretical and methodological perspective. We welcome Case Studies and research in the conference topics. (pdf)

*CFP* "COMMUNICATION RIGHTS IN THE DIGITAL AGE", INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Communication Rights in the Digital Age

International Conference Organized by the Helsinki Media Policy Research Group, the University of Helsinki, the ECREA Communication Law and Policy Section and the Euromedia Research Group

24–25 October 2019, Helsinki, Finland

The rights-based perspective on ethical and political questions presented by the new digital media has recently regained attention in academic and political debates. The formulation of human rights in general is based on a communication right – freedom of expression – as well as a right to take part and be heard in a dialogue. In the digital era, the role of communication has been magnified.

Calls for the protection of citizens’ “digital rights,” for example, have resulted in countless reports and declarations by governments, international bodies and activist organizations over the past two decades. In addition to debates on the consequences of digital transformations for established rights, such as freedom of expression, new rights have been envisioned, such as “the right to be forgotten” and the right to internet access.

"MURALISMO EN TEHERÁN: DESDE LOS INICIOS DE LA REVOLUCIÓN HASTA EL PRESENTE", UC3M

El Profesor Raffaele Mauriello de la Universidad Allameh Tabataba'i de Teherán visita nuestra facultad esta semana en una estancia Erasmus+. El miércoles, 24 de abril a las 12h:30 en la sala 17.02.75 impartirá una breve conferencia sobre pinturas murales de la capital iraní titulada:

"Muralismo en Teherán: desde los inicios de la Revolución hasta el presente".

Invitamos a todos los alumnos de postgrado y doctorand@s a participar en este evento, que a nuestro parecer es una oportunidad única de conversar con el profesor Mauriello sobre el tema de su investigación.

¡Ahí os esperamos!

Un fuerte abrazo

Farshad

*CFP* "FAN STUDIES: METHODS, ETHICS, RESEARCH FOR THE FANDOM AND CULTURE", EDITED COLLECTION

Despite the increasing visibility of fan studies as a discipline, there remains scant work that turns its focus specifically to methodological issues. This relative neglect may be due to its status as a somewhat unruly or ‘undisciplined discipline’ (Ford 2014), which takes its theoretical cues from others including sociology, media and cultural studies, psychology, and literary studies. However, as its presence begins to grow and more scholars discover the work being undertaken, it is timely and appropriate for those working within the field to turn their attention more decisively to issues of methods.  

We are therefore developing the edited collection Fan Studies: Methods, Ethics, Research for the Fandom and Culture series at the University of Iowa Press as the first fan studies primer for classroom use that focuses not on the history of the field, but on the distinctive methodologies, discipline-specific ethical questions, and research foci of fan studies. To this end, and because fan studies is both “fast-moving” (Hellekson 2018) and “multi-disciplinary (Turk 2018), we are hoping for an immensely varied collection that doesn’t posit just one avenue for fan studies research, but rather unveils a diverse bounty of approaches that overlap, contradict, complement, and complicate each other. 

*CFP* "SOCIAL ORDER AND AUTHORITY IN DISNEY/PIXAR FILMS", BOOK CHAPTER

Much has been written about Disney’s stereotypical representations of gender, race, sexuality, and ethnicity.  Here, we are interested in exploring how Disney portrays authority and social order in its animated feature length theatrical films. 

We welcome chapters exploring these questions from a broader scope, as well as in-depth examinations of particular films.  Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

1. Social Order and Authority in a single Disney Era 
2. Comparison of Social Order and Authority in different eras 
3. Analysis of one subgenre (i.e. princess films) 
4. Analysis of manifestations of social order in soundtracks, either over the course of one film or an entire subgenre.

*CFP* "ARTES/RESISTENCIA(S), COLOQUIO UNIVERSITÉS DU MANS ET D'ANGERS

Art(iste)s en résistance

Universités du Mans et d'Angers

6-7-8 novembre 2019

Desde la literatura abolicionista hasta la pintura antibélica, de la fotografía documental al cine comprometido, las artes pueden considearse como herramientas de resistencia a la ideologías dominantes. Las prácticas artísticas permiten a los ciudadanos expresar su oposición en sociedades democráticas y/o autoritarias. Al amparo de la metáfora visual o poética, los artistas imaginan realidades alternativas que pueden interpretarse como artes de resistencia. Desde la segunda mitad del siglo XX, la proliferación de corrientes artísticas, la diversidad de objetos considerados como arte, la multiplicidad de experimentos y exploraciones, así como la variedad de los medios utilizados, llevan a cuestionar la naturaleza de las obras del arte contemporáneo, las experiencias estéticas que proporcionan y las implicaciones políticas que pueden tener. Una forma histórica de "resistencia" fomenta la producción de obras de las cuales se supone que transforman el mundo o que se oponen a las industrias culturales y publicitarias (especialmente las piezas prefabricadas, que resisten a las clasificaciones artísticas tradicionales bajo la apariencia banal de un objeto común).

*CFP* 13TH CINEMA, HUMAN RIGHTS AND ADVOCACY SUMMER SCHOOOL

13th Cinema, Human Rights and Advocacy Summer School

27 August – 5 September 2018

EIUC, Monastery of San Nicolò | Venice Lido (Italy)

The 13th Cinema, Human Rights and Advocacy Summer School is on its way! This year’s school will take place in the picturesque Lido island of Venice, Italy! The Summer School offers an exciting programme of lectures, film screenings, discussions and working groups that combine human rights expertise, media studies and video advocacy strategies! In collaboration with EIUC, CHRA will offer a one in a life-time experience, through an inter-disciplinary training on human rights film advocacy. Anyone with an interest in human rights, cinema and advocacy is invited to apply!

*CFP* "MÁS ALLÁ DE LAS FRONTERAS: UNIFICACIÓN Y DIVISIÓN EN LA LENGUA Y LA LITERATURA", XXXV SIMPOSIO LEVY-WASTENEYS

XXXV Simposio Levy-Wasteneys 

“Más allá de las fronteras: unificación y división en la lengua y la literatura” 

Conferencias Magistrales: 

Armin Schwegler (Universidad de California, Irvine)

Oswaldo Zavala (Universidad City de Nueva York)

La Asociación de Estudiantes de Postgrado del Departamento de Español y Portugués (SPGSA) de la Universidad de Toronto invita al envío de propuestas de ponencias académicas de todas las disciplinas para el 35avo Simposio Levy-Wasteneys, “Más allá de las fronteras: unificación y división en la lengua y la literatura” a realizarse el 20 de septiembre de 2019 en la ciudad de Toronto. En un mundo cada día más dividido por límites artificiales, la lengua y la literatura pueden ser fuerzas de unidad y también separación, tendiendo puentes entre pueblos y culturas y al mismo tiempo fomentando aislacionismos a través de la erección de paredes retóricas. El simposio recibirá reflexiones acerca de esta problemática en los ámbitos sociales, estéticos y teóricos en juego dentro del mundo luso-hispánico. 

*CFP* “’TI HO SENTITO GRIDARE FRANCESCO…' ANNA MAGNANI. ATTRICE, DIVA, ICONA", UNIVERSITÀ DI TORINO

“Ti ho sentito gridare Francesco…”Anna Magnani. Attrice, diva, icona

June 5-6-7 2019

Università di Torino

This conference aims at tackling through a variety of perspective the study of an Italian actress and star, whose iconic work has had a peculiar influence on the history of Italian and international cinema, and on the historical and social imaginary in general.

Her career in areas such as theater, music, and film, has spanned several crucial decades of the XX Century, from the 1930s to the early 1970s, molding the persona of an actress and star whose presencewas instrumental in shaping any context she inhabited, not only through the exceptional quality of her performances, but also through her ability to embody historically and socially situated subjectivities, as in the case of Italian neorealism, of which Anna Magnani is the most recognizable icon.

*CFP* "ANIMATING LGBTQ+ REPRESENTATIONS: QUEERING THE PRODUCT OF MOVEMENT", SPECIAL ISSUE, SYNOPTIQUE JOURNAL

At the heart of animation is movement, and the expression of movement is negotiated differently across media. How then do LGBTQ+ communities reappropriate the specificities of animation, comics, videogames, and other forms of visual representations that rely on putting bodies into motion? How does animation support the emergence of social and political movements from within, between, and outside media production spaces? 

Since 2010, studies of LGBTQ+ representation in animation have steadily increased in number. From queer readings (Halberstram 2011), to media histories (McLelland, Nagaike, Suganuma, Welker 2015), to queer media makers (such as bisexual, non-binary creator Rebecca Sugar and other queer animators like Noelle Stevenson and Chris Nee), animation production has become a vital site for the study, performance, and persistence of queer media practices. Although much conversation has been devoted to queer readings of texts in transmedia movements, the people, circuits, and institutions of queer animated media production have attracted significantly less attention.

*CFP* "FILMIC AND MEDIA NARRATIVES OF THE CRISIS: CONTEMPORARY REPRESENTATIONS", CONFERENCE

Filmic and Media Narratives of the Crisis: Contemporary Representations

November 7 – 8, 2019, Athens

The crisis narrated by the cinema and the media-stories (fictional and «informative») is an ideal topic reflecting thoughts, doubts, and fears of our societies. Beginning with the cinema (its allegories and transcriptions of the social and political actions) and continuing with any imaginal narration of the contemporary social issues (the crisis being a major one) this conference invites analysis research of the contemporary narrations of the media in order to finally «capture» the dominant myths sustaining our everyday life.

The “success stories” usually describe issues concerning the struggle for power and control (including cases of the formed zones of security and insecurity, of the role and mobilization of technological issues, of the elites chosen to affront the crisis etc.). In filmic stories individual heroes become the protagonists of “world salvation” (reductionist pedagogy as far as it concerns the crisis, giving nevertheless a dominant perception concerning the nowadays division of the world into security and insecurity zones where regions like Mediterranean Sea become “frontier lands”). We need to mention here the different war representations (including the economic war) given that the absolute crisis in history is «war» (including periods of Law exceptions, of social radicalizations, where societies play for their survival, the dissolution and the re-arrangement of a certain relation to the world and of new definitions of the “social link”). 

*CFP* “AFFECT AND VIOLENCE: GENDERING THE MIDDLE EAST”, WORKSHOP, UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI

Affect and Violence: Gendering the Middle East

Gender Studies 2019 Conference: On Violence

24-26 October

University of Helsinki

For any queries, please don’t hesitate to contact s.tafakori@lse.ac.uk and/or sa130@soas.ac.uk.

Affect and Violence: Gendering the Middle East:

The aim of the proposed workshop is to explore the role of emotions and affect in (re)presenting, normalizing and shaping the contours of gender and violence in reference to the Middle East and North Africa in particular and the global south more broadly. There has been a good deal of scholarly attention in recent years to affects around conflict, disaster, vulnerability and trauma, but largely in relation to Euro-American perspectives and theorisations. 

This workshop aims instead to engage with the ways in which emotional framings of violence and gender in the MENA region are shaped by the co-constitution of local and global, West and non-West, and the historical and the everyday within transnational contexts.  We encourage submissions which examine in what ways the geopolitics of nationalism, (in)security, conflict and crisis in the region reinforce or complicate gendered and racialised discourses, and how the tasks of solidarity are rendered more complex and layered as a result.  These concerns may be shaped by attention to the broader context of the role of epistemic violence in constructions of the region, in the biopolitics and necropolitics of managing the life and death of populations.

*CFP* “PRACTICES, POLICIES AND REGULATION IN AFRICAN JOURNALISM”, AFRICAN JOURNALISM STUDIES, SPECIAL ISSUE

Guest Editors:

Idil Osman, SOAS University of London, UK

Susana Sampaio-Dias, University of Portsmouth, UK

Judith Townend, University of Sussex, UK

Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara, University of Glasgow, UK

This special issue seeks to provide an update on research about contemporary journalism practices and the evolving nature of journalism and media regulation in Africa. There has been a growing interest in studying journalism and media on the continent and the varying political landscapes in democratic and non-democratic or conflict-torn African countries highlight the need to critically analyse how the processes of media regulation and media policies are evolving in each particular context.

*CFP* "COMMUNICATION AND STYGMATIZATION: THEORY, RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS", SYMPOSIUM

"Communication and Stygmatization: Theory, Research and Applications"

International Symposium on Anti-Stygma Communication

September 19-20, 2019

TU Dortmund University, in Dortmund (Germany)

Stigmas are created, spread, and reduced through communication. Many people are affected by structural, public, or self-stigmatization because of their gender, race, age, disability, health status, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, etc. Substantial differences exist in the literature regarding theoretical conceptualizations, measurement approaches, and communication-based intervention strategies. Likewise, attempts to erase stigmatization through interpersonal, mediated, or mass communication remain challenging and yield inconsistent results.

*CFP* "TRENDS IN PHOTOGRAPHY", ISSUE PICTURES SCIENCE JOURNAL

Pictures Science is a peer-reviewed journal. We publish research articles and articles about art projects.

Photography is ever changing. In this issue we would like to look at photographic trends from the perspective of social science, asking the question, why certain trends emerge.

One example is instant photography, which underwent a revival during the last years, thus in a time, in which heavy retouching is accessible even for amateurs, who can use numerous cell phone apps to “improve” their pictures. Another, very recent trend is the focus on body positivity expressed by pictures focusing on the body’s weaknesses or on imperfect bodies. A more technical trend, which yet has vast sociological / anthropological implications, is the trend to use cell phone cameras even for ambitious projects, which on the one hand limit artistic possibilities, on the other create a new dynamic and enables hidden photography.

*CFP* "PODCASTING POETICS", JOHANNES GUTENBERG-UNIVERSITÄT MAINZ CONFERENCE

Podcasting Poetics

11-12 October 2019

Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

Alyn Euritt (Leipzig)

Patrick Gill (Mainz)

The past fifteen years have seen podcasting emerge as a form increasingly confident of its own virtues and the constructive affordances it can bring to bear on storytelling. As Dario Llinares, Neil Fox, and Richard Berry suggest in Podcasting: New Aural Cultures and Digital Media, “podcasting has transitioned into a new phase, a ‘new aural culture’, with its applications and effects requiring wider interdisciplinary conceptual approaches” (4). To this end, our conference sets out to investigate the history of this new medium’s development as well as the present state of podcasting poetics. 

*CFP* “PREGNANCY AND THE MEDIA”, FEMINIST MEDIA STUDIES, 19.5 ISSUE

The broad expansion of the post-feminist media landscape of the past couple of decades brought about an increased visibility of spectacularised and idealised ideas of pregnancy – a romanticised “new momism” (Douglas and Michaels, 2004). Alongside these romanticised discourses, though, exist numerous examples of mediated pregnancies that sit outside of such glamorised and perfect representations of pregnancy. 

This context has also opened up new networked spaces for people to seek and offer support online in relation to pregnancy, as well as spaces to search for or share (self-)representations of pregnancy. 

The editors of Commentary and Criticism invite short essays that critically consider pregnancy and contemporary media.

*CFP* "THE AUTHORITARIAN THREAT TO EUROPE'S LIBERAL DEMOCRACIES", EUROLAB AUTHORS' CONFERENCE

“The Authoritarian Threat to Europe’s Liberal Democracies”

EUROLAB Authors’ Conference, 21 - 22 November 2019, Cologne/Germany

In recent years, European liberal democracies have increasingly come under strain. The rise of anti-establishment and sometimes openly anti-democratic politicians and parties (Pappas, 2016) and other trends have sparked concerns about the progress of societies: An increasing polarization and radicalization of publics and political discourse (Benkler, Faris, & Roberts, 2018), the advent of alternative, hyperpartisan media hosting disinformation campaigns, fostering antagonism, and propagating authoritarian ideas (Arif, Stewart, & Starbird, 2018; Sanovich, 2018) as well as an apparent shift towards authoritarian values among citizens (Foa & Mounk, 2016, 2017) have left observers and publics across Europe alike worrying about how Europe’s liberal democracies can cope with the threat these developments may pose to liberal democracy.

*CFP* "LANGUAGE GAMES: CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN HUMAN AND MACHINE LANGUAGES", LEONARDO ELECTRONIC ALMANAC

Language Games is the title of a forthcoming issue with LEA edited by Lanfranco Aceti, Sheena Calvert, and Hannah Lammin. We invite a range of submissions initially in the form of abstract. The description of the issue is below with all the related information for submission.

Language is a technology, as theorists including Martin Heidegger and Marshall McLuhan have argued, and yet its manifestation in both speech and writing is fundamentally human-centred: anthropological. However, speech and writing are rapidly becoming an interface not just between humans and the ‘out there’, as traditional philosophies of language assert, but between humans and machines, and machines and other machines. As a result, the usual presuppositions we might make about language as a technology which is predicated on human utterance and man-made material transcription is rapidly shifting, and in the process the line between human and machine is becoming less clear.

*CFP* CALL FOR PAPERS, MEDIA STUDIES AND APPLIED EHITCS ACADEMIC JOURNAL

Department of Communicology and Journalism (Faculty of Philosophy Niš, Serbia) is announcing call for papers for the first issue of peer-reviewed journal “Media Studies and Applied Ethics” (MSAE). 

• MSAE encourages contributions from MA and PhD students, media professionals as well as researchers in the field of media studies and applied ethics. 
• MSAE accepts original research, review article, critical essays, perspective pieces and book reviews related to communication throughout the world.

MSAE welcomes papers on topics such as: Media and society; Media and culture; Media history; Media and entertainment; Media and religion; Media and violence; Media and advertising; Media effects; Audience and reception studies; New media; Journalism; Communication; Media philosophy; Media aesthetics; Visual Communications; Media Law; Applied Ethics (Journalism ethics, Media Ethics, Marketing ethics, Business Ethics).

*CFP* "HYBRID MEDIA FORMS IN AMERICAN LITERATURE, FILM, AND VISUAL CULTURE", PASE 2019 SEMINAR

Hybrid media forms in American literature, film, and visual culture 

PASE 2019 seminar

With the proliferation and synergy of new visual technologies, critics have long anticipated the demise of the traditional media. Some have even mourned the impending death of literature (Kernan), cinema (Cheshire) and serious art (Krauss), proclaiming the emergence of post-media aesthetics (Manovich) marked by media convergence (Jenkins) and diachronic and synchronic hybridization (Kim). Indeed, the transition from the analogue to the digital has resulted in an ongoing re-evaluation, re-contextualization, and re-mobilization of the current media practices. Whether they celebrate or counteract the “abandonment of the specific medium” and its “aesthetic meaninglessness” (Krauss, Perpetual xiii), theorists call for the deterritorialization and reterritorialization of the medium in the post-media conditions in order to continuously challenge and re-locate its standardized apparatus, parameters, and ontological features.

*CFP* "RADICAL IMMERSIONS: NAVIGATING BETWEEN VIRTUAL/PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS AND INFORMATION BUBBLES", CONFERENCE

Radical Immersions: Navigating between virtual/physical environments and information bubbles 

8 – 10 September 2019 Watermans Centre, London, UK

Over the past years, immersive technologies have been hyped as consumer gadgets, entertainment media and the future of exhibition practices. The free distribution of VR headsets with smartphones and the increasing interest of museums, festivals and other cultural organisers towards ‘immersive digital content’ have quickly turned VR and AR devices and applications into widely recognized cultural artefacts. The promotion of ‘full immersion’ in the physical spaces of exhibitions and museums has led to some venues relying solely on interactive projections and audience interaction. However, just like many earlier ‘new media’ before them, the hyperbolic promises attached to these technologies’ supposed capacity to deliver immediacy and trigger a paradigm shift in media culture have thus far hardly become reality.

*CFP* "MEDIA CULTURES OF THE (INTER/ANTI)IMPERIAL PACIFIC", 15 ISSUE, MEDIA FIELDS

The Media Fields Editorial Collective at the UC Santa Barbara Department of Film & Media Studies is currently accepting submissions for Media Fields Issue 15, "Media Cultures of the (Inter/Anti)Imperial Pacific," co-edited by Xiuhe Zhang and Tyler Morgenstern.

Recent controversies—from protracted battles over international tariff structures to renewed nuclear sabre rattling between the United States and North Korea, and from the brutalities of offshore migrant detention in places like Nauru to the construction of artificial islands in the South China Sea—have thrust the Pacific theater to the forefront of global geopolitical attention. But while these disputes often appear in the guise of crisis, as urgent, largely unanticipated outbreaks of acrimony, they are in many ways historically implicated. 

*CFP* "INVESTIGATING THE QUEEN OF CRIME", AGATHA CHRISTIE CONFERENCE

The call for papers for the Agatha Christie conference 'Investigating the Queen of Crime' has been extended to 26 April. We are interested to hear from academics with an interest in Christie's fiction, life and influences as well as adaptations of her work. Please find details below and send any queries or proposals to agathachristieconference@gmail.com

I am also pleased to be able to confirm Dr Rebecca Mills and Dr Jamie Bernthal-Hooker as the conference's keynotes. Both have made great contributions to the study of Agatha Christie, and their keynote address will touch on their work on the forthcoming edited collection, Agatha Christie Goes to War.

The conference will be held at Solent University in Southampton from 5-6 September this year and, as ever, we hope to include some special events as part of the programme.

*CFP* “MEDIA & COMMUNICATION: THE STATE OF THE ART”, DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY

Media & Communication: The State of the Art

27-28 June 2019

De Montfort University, Leicester

Keynotes:

Professor Natalie Fenton (Goldsmiths, University of London)

Professor Matthew Fuller (Goldsmiths, University of London)

Professor Helen Wood (Lancaster University)

We see in the classroom, our students are concerned not with the BBC or newspapers, but with Instagram, Pinterest and other forms of networked digital media. This raises questions about the ways in which media theory is responsive to new technological developments: are traditional media theories sufficient to explain changes in technology, society and audiences? The central aim of this conference is to explore the extent to which existing theories of media and communication are adequate for the analysis of our contemporary media landscape.