*CFP* “LINGUISTIC ADVANCES IN THE DIGITAL ERA", FIRST VIRTUAL CONFERENCE IN LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION AND EDUCATION

The First Virtual Conference in Language, Communication and Education 

Linguistic Advances in the Digital Era

15-17 de enero de 2020

The First Virtual Conference Language, Communication and Education (LCE2020) will be held on January 15-17, 2020 (15-22h Central European Time). The theme of LCE2020 is Linguistic Advances in the Digital Era. Seven thematic strands have been distinguished (see conference strands and topics).

Strand 1: Language in the Digital Era

Strand 2: Language Diversity and Change

Strand 3: Language in Society

Strand 4: Language, Politics and Education

Strand 5: Language Sciences

Strand 6: Applications of Linguistics

Strand 7: Other linguistic fields

*CFP* "COMICS/FANDOM: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON THE INTERSECTION OF FAN STUDIES AND COMICS STUDIES", PARTICIPATIONS: JOURNAL OF AUDIENCE & RECEPTION STUDIES

Participations is an online journal devoted to the broad field of audience and reception studies. It aims to bring works and debates from various fields concerned with media and culture into dialogue. The journal has pioneered a system of open refereeing for all contributions, designed to encourage open, critical debate among researchers. More information.

Considering how crucially comic book marketing depends on loyal customers, especially fans, and to how great an extent the ever‐expanding franchises surrounding Marvel’s or DC’s comic worlds rely on user participation and fandom, it seems striking that the connection between comics studies and fan studies has hardly been explored in any great detail so far. Is this because comics studies focus on the text and fan studies on its recipient? Depending on the respective national background, comics studies, may have stronger roots in (comparative) literary studies, art history, or philology while fan studies are predominantly grounded in media and cultural studies or in sociology (focusing on individual and mass consumption practices or group phenomena).

*CFP* "FEMALE HORROR DIRECTORS", FALL 2019 ISSUE, IN MEDIA RES JOURNAL

Linda Williams and Carol J. Clover have famously argued that the horror genre is gender fluid rather than male-oriented.  Recent years have continued to not only prove these claims true in terms of content, but also through above-the-line creators finding success in the genre.  The likes of Jennifer Kent, Coralie Fargeat, Julia Ducournau, Karyn Kusama, and others have either started or perpetuated their careers by directing critically acclaimed or cult classic works within or adjacent to the horror genre.  

These filmmakers were also preceded by the likes of Katt Shea (Streets, Poison Ivy) and the creators behind the Slumber Party Massacre franchise, who are often overlooked in popular and scholarly discourse about the horror genre.  This theme week intends to offer an opportunity to discuss these filmmakers and their works from a variety of perspectives.

*CFP* "MASCULINITY AND NATIONAL IDENTITY", MASCNET: MASCULINITY SEX AND POPULAR CULTURE NETWORK CONFERENCE

MASCNET: Masculinity Sex and Popular Culture Network

Masculinity and National Identity

Village Berlin

Friday 17th January 2020

Following on from the success of our network launch at BCU in May 2019 themed around masculinity and body image our next network event in Berlin in January 2020 takes the topic of Masculinity and National Identity as a starting point for conversation around some of the following themes:

• National/regional masculinities 
• The sexualisation of regional/ethnic masculinity 
• Masculinity and national identities and intersections of sexuality, racial, religious, ethnic, class, etc. identities 
• Intra/international constructions and articulations of masculinity and national identity 
• Politics & ideology (incl. far-left and far-right articulations), including but not limited to: extremism, populism, activism, nationalism, separatism, neoliberalism 
• On/offline representation(s) and performance(s) of masculinity and national identity 
• Media discourses of masculinity and national identity 
• Men’s (online) groups and forums

*CFP* "EXPLORING URBAN SPACES IN CINEMA", SPECIAL ISSUE, CHALCHITRA DARPAN JOURNAL

Urbanisation and urbanity have brought with them new cultures, artistic avenues and opportunities. The cultural perceptions of a city, its conception, its morality and its decline have become an arena for discussions of modernity, technology, crime, theology, nostalgia and much more.

Cities have been explored in cinema in a myriad manifestations: as a character, as a fetish, as a historical document, as a cultural monument of religiosity, as a symbol of liberalism, sexuality and decay. The politics and juxtaposition of interior/exterior, public/private, political/civil, urban/rural are themes which deserve more ink to be shed on.

A paucity in urban cinema research and a panel discussion on the city of Kolkata made us evaluate the nature of the urban spaces and the themes it can span to, making us understand the need for such a research.

*CFP* "CONSTRUCTING YOUNG SELVES IN A DIGITAL MEDIA ECOLOGY: YOUTH CULTURES, PRACTICES AND IDENTITY", ICS 2020 CONFERENCE

“Constructing young selves in a digital media ecology: youth cultures, practices and identity”

ICS 2020 Conference

Department of Communication and Media Studies, School of Economics and Political Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA)

Thursday 4 and Friday 5 June 2020

The development of young people’s identities and sense of selfhood is widely recognized as being a social activity undertaken through interaction and feedback with significant others. Advancing beyond earlier top-down models of socialization, whereby parents and teachers were largely seen as responsible for transmitting stable cultural norms, knowledge, political attitudes, religious beliefs and social practices to young people, contemporary understanding has instead foregrounded the active, dynamic, co-construction of young selves. Such approaches have not only drawn attention to the active engagement of young people in shaping their own identities but has also emphasized the wider social, political, economic, cultural contexts that frame the possibilities for the interactive realization of personhood. 

*CFP* CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS, SPECIAL ISSUE ON AUDIOBOOKS, JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING

The Journal of Electronic Publishing is looking for contributions to a special issue on audiobooks. I’ve included the CFP below or you can find a permanent link here.

The Journal of Electronic Publishing (JEP) invites submissions to a special issue on audiobooks. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Production: audiobooks in publishing workflows, the rise of audiobook-only publishers, rights management.
• Consumption: demographic analysis, usage patterns, divergence between ebook and audiobook consumption.
• The economics of audiobooks: subscription services, infrastructure costs, pricing models.
• Materiality: formats, standard bodies (e.g. W3C/DAISY), media choices (CD/cassette/MP3).
• History: precursors to audiobooks, forgotten/alternate histories and media archaeologies.
• Geography: variation of uptake across nations, licensing/rights, audiobooks in non-Anglophone contexts
• Accessibility and inclusivity: text-to-speech engines as audiobooks, libraries for print-disabled users, representation through narration.
• Genre: adoption of audiobooks by genre, born-audio publications, interactive audiobook publishing.

*CFP* "CULTURE, COMMERCE, AND IDEOLOGY OF THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS FILMS", EDITED COLLECTION

With its ninth instalment set to arrive in cinemas this summer, and two more films slated for release by 2021, The Fast and the Furious is one of the most popular and prolific movie franchises of the twenty-first century. Indeed, the eight films in the series to date have earned a combined total of $5.1 billion at the box office, placing it ninth in the list of the highest-grossing movie franchises of all time. However, despite its immense commercial success, little has been written about The Fast and the Furious from an academic perspective (exceptions include Beltrán 2005, 2013). This lack of scholarly attention is surprising given just how representative the series is of recent cinematic trends. Few franchises better capture the excesses of the contemporary action genre than The Fast and the Furious, for example, with its outrageous set pieces, growing cast of global megastars, and increasing reliance on overseas markets.

When Universal released the first film in the series in 2001 – a mid-budget crime/action movie featuring a relatively unknown cast of actors - few could have predicted just how big the brand would become, to the point where The Fast and the Furious now has its own theme park ride, live stage show, and animated TV programme. Often dismissed as dumb or mindless entertainment by critics, this collection will argue that The Fast and the Furious warrants serious attention for more than just its longevity; and that close scrutiny of the series provides a valuable platform for exploring key forces and currents within the contemporary film industry: from franchise culture and global box office trends, to crossover stardom and debates around on- and off-screen diversity.

*CFP* "CLIMATES OF COLONIALISM", ASSOCIATION FOR ART HISTORY ANNUAL CONFERENCE

We invite proposals from a wide range of scholars examining climates and colonialism in the (former) British Empire for the forthcoming annual conference of the Association for Art History in Newcastle, UK from April 1-3, 2020.

This session investigates how art and cultural production in the (former) British Empire has long charted the interdependent and co-constitutive logics of climate and colonialism. It welcomes scholarly analyses of historic and contemporary art and visual culture – from historic maps, topographical sketches, built environments and landscape painting, to 20th-century touristic views, earth art installations, film and video art – that consider how artistic treatments of environmental change can be located within broader histories of dispossession, extraction, and genocide. Not only was climate central to anthropological representations of racial differences in imperial ideologies – such as suppositions about which populations were ‘naturally suited’ to particular weather events, temperature ranges and climatic conditions – but colonial practices of extraction and commodification radically altered ecologies under colonial rule. 

*CFP* CALL FOR ARTICLES, ISSUE #1 (APRIL 2020), ZINES JOURNAL

ZINES is an international peer journal dedicated to studies of amateur and do-it-yourself media of any kind, from fanzines to webzines, perzines to science zines, artzines to poezines, etc.

ZINES is multi-disciplinary and opened to all scientific disciplines, from social sciences to medical sciences, art and design, media studies, etc. The first aim of the journal is to study the involvement of amateurs in the production of mediascapes, from printing form to cybermedia. It also addresses the impact of zine making for personal or collective sociabilization, especially in closed environments such as carceral or medical centres. The second aim is to examine the production of new form of communication by amateurs leading to the publication of media with a strong DIY ethos, including scholars who invent new forms of dissemination of scientific knowledge.

ZINES accepts original contribution from academics, zine librarians and non-academic zinesters who want to share personal experiences or react to published papers. Articles published in ZINES are peer reviewed by scholars. The ZINES reviewers are assigned to articles based on their academic interests and scholarly expertise.

*CFP* "GOVERNING THE ALGORITHMIC DISTRIBUTION OF NEWS", CHAPTER BOOK

In January 2018, Facebook declared that it would no longer prioritise news content in its NewsFeed. Instead, it would surface posts from ‘friends and family’, with the goal of bringing ‘people closer together’ (Mosseri, 2018). Facebook had stopped promoting particular forms of news before (like clickbait headlines) but they had always retained a broad commitment to distributing news content. However, the change in 2018 represented a major pivot for a platform that had increasingly become a central intermediary for online news distribution. In response, digital-first publications, who had staked their business model on Facebook’s ability to surface news to audiences, started to lay off staff in significant numbers. These new disruptive news enterprises (like Buzzfeed and Mic) were supposed to usher in a new future for news. However, it appeared that their business models were as unstable as those of their print predecessors.

These recent developments have not gone unnoticed by governments. Policymakers and politicians across the world are starting to examine the role that platforms and algorithms play in the distribution of news. Inquiries in Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada and elsewhere have explored the consequences of the algorithmic distribution of news. Alongside these national inquiries, a broader international discussion has focused on the apparent rise in disinformation and the increasingly partisan nature of political discourse. This discussion has intensified recently, leading to the formation of an International Grand Committee on Big Data, Privacy and Democracy composed of elected officials from governments around the world.

*CFP* “ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS AND MIGRATIONS”, THIRD ISSUE OF JAM IT!

The third issue of JAm It! (Journal of American Studies in Italy) will explore the relations between environmental transformations and migrations in the North American context from a multi-disciplinary perspective. While scholarship in American Studies has produced relevant contributions analyzing the historical and present contingencies of both endogenous and exogenous migratory flows, the complex relations between migrations and ecological change require further inquiry within the field.

Since the United Nations Environment Programme’s recognition of environmental refugees as an official category in 1985, scholars from several disciplines have begun to look at the meaningful interconnections among climatic disruptions, ecological transformations, and migratory phenomena. As an example, a discipline that has contributed to the global debate is the growing subfield of Environmental History of Migration (EHM). Equally important is the proliferation of geographical and geopolitical studies addressing the relationship between contemporary migratory issues and political upheavals as a reaction to pressing environmental issues, such as in the cases of the Arab Spring and the Central American Farmers. Finally, both literary ecocriticism and ecolinguistics are pursuing original avenues of research that explore  popular narratives problematizing migrations in a changing eco-biosphere.

*CFP* “HOW SHOULD WE LIVE IN CULTURAL DIVERSITY? BUILDING SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES IN TIMES OF FEAR”, 26th NORDIC NETWORK FOR INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION 2019 CONFERENCE

The 26th Nordic Network for Intercultural Communication 

How should we live in cultural diversity? Building sustainable communities in times of fear 

28-30 de Noviembre de 2019

Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences 

Valmiera, Latvia 

Along with the extension of submission deadline till October 7, the NIC2019 Organizing team has an honour to announce the conference's first key-note speaker Prof. Dr. Dominic Busch -- a Professor of Intercultural Communication and Conflict Research at Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany. The title of his keynote at the NIC 2019 will be Intercultural Sustainability: In Search for Ethical Foundations in Intercultural Communication Research.

In his studies, Dominic Busch explores how ethical orientations of society are reflected in the academic research of intercultural communication. Following a discourse approach, notions of intercultural communication in research and practice is seen as discursive constructions. Building on these insights, Dominic Busch argues for a stronger reflection of differing ethical orientations, which influence intercultural research. 

The 26th Nordic Intercultural Communication conference will be held in Valmiera - a more than 700 years old Hanseatic town located about 100km North-East of the capital Rīga. The conference language is English.

This time the overarching theme of the conference is centred on exploring cultural diversity and intercultural sustainability. The conference predominantly but not exclusively addresses the intercultural communication challenges and opportunities as illuminated, for instance, by international migration and diversity. Unfortunate by-products of these processes often are anger, fear, and societal division. The conference seeks to foreground the understanding of ways in which communities could be both diverse and integrated. The specific emphasis is on the notion of joint living in instead of merely with diversity in a variety of realms, including the practices of everyday interaction, education, policymaking, language and communication training, media, and so forth. Contributions from seasoned scholars as well as from students and practitioners interested in the various aspects of culture and communication are encouraged.

The potential forms of participation include individual presentations of either fully developed papers or work in progress, as well as panels and workshops. The participants are encouraged to submit their conference papers to the Journal of Intercultural Communication. This peer-reviewed publication is an outgrowth of the activities of the NIC.

This call for papers is addressed to scholars and practitioners focusing on but not limited to the following themes:

• Culture, communication and civic participation
• Building trust in societies
• Methods and practices of communicating, cultivating, and negotiating cultural diversity
• Cultural diversity in relation to education and pedagogy, training and management
• Intercultural aspects of migration and diasporic life
• Language training and cultural diversity
• Personal relationships across culturally diverse contexts
• Media, cultural diversity, and sustainable communities
• Social policy responses to the turbulence of the modern world - values, action, and communication

During the conference, the 3rd ESPAnet Baltics annual meeting will take place. More about the organization itself can be found at this site.

Individual paper proposals should follow the abstract format of approximately 500 words (including the title and reference information). Panel proposals should also be approximately 500 words, including rationale, a list of proposed participants as well as their individual contribution.

The submission system is available here. Submission deadline is extended till October 7, 2019. We look forward to seeing you in Valmiera!

The 26th NIC conference is organized by the Faculty of Society and Science at the Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences in cooperation with Valmiera City Municipality and the Latvian Platform for Development Cooperation (LAPAS). For further inquiry, you are welcome to contact the chair of the organizing committee Liene Ločmele at liene.locmele[at]va.lv.  

*CFP* “BLOCKCHAIN FOR GOOD” SERIES, FRONTIERS IN BLOCKCHAIN

For a special issue published in the ‘Blockchain for Good’ series of the peer-reviewed journal Frontiers in Blockchain, we are inviting research articles, case studies, critical commentary, and other forms of original research contributions that resonate with the topic overview outlined below.

The aim of this special issue is to explore the emergence of more progressive implementations of blockchain technology, focusing in particular on applications and platforms that facilitate new, alternative, co-operative ownership structures, rather than perpetuating existing models.

Swartz (2017, p. 86) has identifies identified two ways of adopting blockchain technology: incorporative efforts to innovate within the existing system, and radical attempts to bring about a new techno-economic order. Much of the excitement surrounding blockchain technologies relates to incorporative applications: large corporations benefitting from increased efficiency related to transactions, value capture, or data storage. This special issue hopes to explore alternatives The aim of this special issue is to explore the emergence of more progressive implementations of blockchain technology, focusing in particular on applications and platforms that facilitate new, alternative, co-operative ownership structures, rather than perpetuating existing models.that follow the second approach outlined be Swartz.

*CFP* "ON THE SAME PAGE? THE THEORY-PRACTICE DIVIDE AND GENDERED MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS OF SPORT", CONFERENCE

On the same page? The theory-practice divide and gendered media representations of sport

Northumbria University, London Campus

17th January, 2020

Keynote speaker: Professor Toni Bruce, Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Keynote panel: to be announced in October 2019

The quality and influence of research produced by sports Media scholars from a range of disciplines is improved by both an interdisciplinary approach and the direct, active involvement of stakeholders. As such, the aim of this one-day conference is to provide a platform for the knowledge exchange between scholars (from a range of disciplines), stakeholders, and practitioners who are united by a focus on sports media.

*CFP* "FEMALE SCREENWRITERS", SPECIAL ISSUE 2020, JOURNAL OF SCREENWRITING

The Journal of Screenwriting is calling for articles for a special issue with a focus on female screenwriters, to be published in August/September 2020.

The Journal of Screenwriting wants to emphasize the importance of female screenwriters across eras, genres, mediums. This importance may arise from an analysis of bodies of work, from individual scripts written by women, or from case studies where female screenwriters have worked collaboratively to express screen stories. 

Articles may also include women’s work behind the scenes in advocating for/promoting greater gender equality within screenwriting milieux. Articles on female screenwriters from diverse cultural backgrounds are encouraged.

Articles may include (but are not limited to) the following topics:

*CFP* “TAKING STOCK: THIRTY YEARS OF TRANSFORMATION OF JOURNALISTIC LABOUR”, NORDIC WORKING LIFE 2020 CONFERENCE

2020 Nordic Working Life Conference 

Taking Stock: Thirty Years of Transformation of Journalistic Labour

10-12 de junio de 2020

Aalborg University, Denmark

The journalistic profession and journalists' labour have undergone significant changes in the past three decades. These are linked to technological developments as well as broader socio-political and economic changes. Apart from the most widely studied influences – the impact of new technologies and economic pressures – the past thirty years also involved the transformation of the journalistic profession and labour as a result of the fall of communism in East Central Europe, the re-unification of Germany or the break-up of Yugoslavia. Studies on the working lives of journalists continue to be scarce. We reviewed all the volumes of three key academic journals devoted to the study of journalism, namely Journalism Studies, Digital Journalism and Journalism Practice and found a limited number of studies that deal with journalists' working lives and these tend to focus on the impact of technological change and economic pressures. The studies also tend to focus on the US and UK, with occasional research on Nordic countries.

*CFP* "FAN STUDIES PEDAGOGIES", SPECIAL ISSUE TRANSFORMATIVE WORKS AND CULTURE JOURNAL

The expansion of fan studies as an academic field, and the growing visibility of fandom and fan activities in popular culture, have led to more instructors using fannish activities and engagement in the classroom, and teaching fan studies as a disciplinary focus. Teaching fandom and fan studies means drawing from a multidisciplinary spectrum of methodologies and foci. Yet, as fan studies itself is often a “moving target” -- refusing, in many instances, of becoming “disciplined” enough to match traditional academic units -- it becomes imperative to discuss the various contributions, methodologies, ethics, and lacunae of the field in a classroom setting. The specific pedagogical needs of the fan studies classroom require sustained interrogation because of the changing field of fan studies itself.

This special issue seeks submissions that specifically address the pedagogical methods, styles, contributions, and concerns of the fan studies course, classroom, and online space(s). We are particularly interested in pedagogical methods drawn from fan studies, fan studies’ application to the academic environment, engagement with students’ fannish affect for pedagogical purposes, and explorations of how fan studies itself is taught. We also seek papers that directly address the epistemological and ethical stakes of operationalizing fans’ approaches to their media texts for use in academic contexts, and best practices for securing permissions for student contact with fan texts themselves. In addition, we seek pieces that explore how teaching fandom/fan studies engages (or doesn’t) the demands of the university institution itself.

*CFP* CALL FOR ARTICLES, NEW ISSUE, FULL BLEED JOURNAL

Full Bleed, an annual print and online journal of art and design, seeks submissions for its fourth issue, forthcoming in Spring 2020. We publish criticism, belle lettres, artwork, design, illustration, fiction, poetry, and graphic essays. All contributors will receive modest honoraria for their work.

For Issue Four, we are especially interested in submissions that critique, investigate, or rely on archives of various kinds. We seek new writing about artists working with, playing with, re-contextualizing, or elevating archival materials; art or design projects responsive to historical documents; and essays, fictions, and poetry related to the work of archiving.

We would be excited to see submissions that critique the construction of narrative through objects and historical documents, or that concern private collecting, hoarding, simplifying, tidying, and the distinction between these activities. When does archiving become obsessive and pathological? What drives people to collect and organize certain objects? We would also welcome work that takes up digital archiving as a subject for rumination, that introduces us to intriguing new archives under development, or that dwells on the ethics and politics of archival practices. Are archives inherently conservative, limited, or futile? Are they treasure troves, haunted houses, or primers in the mistakes we don’t want to make again? What use are they in particular to artists and designers now? 

*CFP* CALL FOR BOOK REVIEWS, THE CHINESE JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION

The Chinese Journal of Communication has the following book titles available for review for publication consideration in CJoC. If interested in reviewing one of these books, please provide the following details in this order, and send them to lin.zhang@unh.edu 

1. Your full name, title (e.g., professor, associate professor, etc.) and affiliation. 
2. Email and Mailing addresses (home address preferred). 
3. Author name and title of the book you're interested in reviewing.

This is on a first-come, first-served basis and we apologize in advance if the book you’ve requested is not available at the time you respond. A standard review is about 1,500 English words in length, due two months after the reviewer receives the book (Print or digital). Please refer to our recently published reviews as samples for formatting.

*CFP* "COMUNICACIÓN Y DIVERSIDAD", VII CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL DE LA AE-IC

"Comunicación y Diversidad"

VII Congreso Internacional de la AE-IC

7 al 10 de julio de 2020

Edificio La NAU y Facultad de Filología, Traducción y Comunicación

Universidad de Valencia

La Asociación Española de Investigación de la Comunicación convoca su VII Congreso Internacional a celebrar en la Facultad de Filología, Traducción y Comunicación de la Universidad de Valencia, del 7 al 10 de Julio de 2020, con el lema “Comunicación y Diversidad”. Este congreso contará además con la participación y el apoyo de las restantes Universidades públicas de la Comunidad Valenciana (Universidad Jaume I de Castelló, Universidad de Alicante, Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, Universidad Politécnica-Gandía), así como con la colaboración de TVMorfosis.

El Congreso se propone convocar a expertos internacionales, especialmente de los ámbitos académicos español, europeo y latinoamericano, para intercambiar conocimientos sobre las relaciones entre Comunicación y Diversidad en la realidad española y europea y en la cooperación internacional, especialmente iberoamericana y mediterránea, con el objetivo de establecer diagnósticos sobre la situación actual y presentar propuestas de articulación de políticas públicas en este importante sector.

*CFP* “MEDIA ETHICS AND THE CHALLENGES OF THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT”, SPECIAL ISSUE, THE 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. 

The speedy developments in online media, satellite TV and social media platforms have brought up significant ethical challenges around the world. The unprecedented widespread use of social networks as tools for communication and reporting news have also raised serious issues relating to the boundaries between free speech and social responsibility. Media coverage of crises, war and conflicts is a case in point.

This special issue of JAMMR aims at enriching the debate on media ethics especially in relation the digital environment. It also aims to address media ethics from a global perspective and discuss how we can understand journalism practice in its cultural contexts. Are there ways to develop a common understanding of global ethics and how they should be perceived and implemented?

*CFP* "COMUNICACIÓN PARA IMAGINAR FUTUROS DESEABLES EN AMÉRICA LATINA", EDICIÓN 33, REVISTA CONTRATEXTO

La edición 33 de Contratexto abordará las preguntas y los retos en el campo de la investigación en comunicación a corto, mediano y largo plazo desde América Latina.

En palabras del investigador venezolano Antonio Pasquali, en su intervención en el pasado Congreso Bianual de la Asociación Latinoamericana de Investigadores (ALAIC), y a propósito del campo de la comunicación, consideró que su devenir pasa por comunicar en sociedades diversas con inclusión, equidad y democracia, porque “sólo la diversidad es fecunda”. Una diversidad que caracteriza a nuestro continente y que, en términos de Jesús Martín Barbero, representa el lugar desde el cual pensar a la comunicación, “con la propia cabeza la experiencia del mundo de hoy”. El argentino Gustavo Cimadevilla, actual presidente de ALAIC, sostuvo acerca de los procesos para construir el mundo que “la comunicación puede estar en el medio, antes o después, dentro o afuera, pero nunca ajena a las tensiones que esas luchas implican y que las tensiones humanas sostienen”. Finalmente, otra de las conferencistas, la brasilera Cicilia Maria Krohling Peruzzo, tradujo el desafío a través de un interrogante: La comunicación, ¿ayuda a construir escenarios de igualdad o bien a reproducir desigualdades?

*CFP* "DIGITAL DISSENT: USES OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN CONTROVERSIAL PROJECTS RAISING SOCIAL ACCEPTABILITY ISSUES", INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION

International Political Science Association

Lisbon (Portugal), July 2020

RC-22 - Political Communication

Digital Dissent: Uses of Social Media in Controversial Projects Raising Social Acceptability Issues

Chair: Mireille Lalancette, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Discussant: Alessandro Nai, University of Amsterdam and Vincent Raynauld, Emerson College Boston

Over the past 15 years, digital media have redefined the repertories of political action and engagement. Formal political actors, companies, interest groups and citizens are now turning to digital platforms to inform, disseminate messages, mobilize and protest in the public space. These new political practices, facilitated by the Internet, seem particularly helpful in order to debate social acceptability issues. The notion of social acceptability has become essential when it comes to the development of projects with economic, social or environmental impacts; several controversial infrastructure or development projects (e. g. LNG ports or pipelines) have given rise to fierce political and social clashes in North America and Europe. 

*CFP* "COMUNICACIÓN Y EDUCACIÓN EN UN MUNDO DIGITAL Y CONECTADO", PRÓXIMO NÚMERO, REVISTA ICONO14

La sociedad digital se construye sobre lógicas participativas y conectadas donde los usuarios en red participan en igualdad de condiciones desde dispositivos móviles. La penetración de estos dispositivos hace que esta participación alcance cada día mayores nichos poblacionales, acortando la brecha digital de acceso tanto en poblaciones infantiles como adultas. La cuestión que emerge ante un panorama de inexorable penetración tecnológica y conectividad es si la alfabetización mediática y digital resulta realmente adecuada para que esa participación resulte crítica y democrática. Se plantea así la duda de una posible manipulación tácita por el determinismo tecnológico impuesto por los grandes emporios tecnológicos y mediáticos.

La multiplicación de pantallas, plataformas y herramientas de comunicación y creación dotan a la ciudadanía de una libertad de expresión ilimitada, pero también de peligros desconocidos ante la inabarcabilidad de los cauces que brindan las redes. En este contexto se hace necesario analizar con pensamiento crítico dónde estamos, hacia dónde vamos, quiénes nos dirigen y cómo queremos encauzar la situación, reflexionando sobre acciones concretas.

*CFP* "PSA AT 70: RE-IMAGINING POLITICS", 70TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE POLITICAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION

Political Studies Association, 70th Annual International Conference

6 - 8 April 2020, Edinburgh International Convention Centre and Sheraton

Grand Hotel & Spa, Edinburgh, #PSA20

The PSA Media and Politics Group invites members to submit paper abstracts or panel proposals for the PSA Media and Politics stream at the PSA Annual International Conference 2020.

Papers may be related to the conference theme, Re-imagining Politics, but other topics from across the disciplinary and methodological traditions are also welcomed.

Please submit abstracts (max. 300 words) and panel proposals by email to James Dennis: James.Dennis@port.ac.uk by Monday 7 October (please note that this is an earlier deadline than the direct individual submission to the PSA). We also welcome emails earlier than this date to ask for our advice on potential panel proposals.

*CFP* “ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO RADIO STUDIES”, CHAPTER BOOK OF THE ROUTLEDGE MEDIA COMPANION SERIES

Dear colleagues, we are calling for abstracts for the new Routledge Companion to Radio Studies, to be published in 2021.

This Routledge Companion to Radio Studies will be a valuable reference source for the expanding field of radio, audio and podcast study. It will bring together 40-50 original essays to conceptualise the multidisciplinary field of radio studies. We welcome entries from early career researchers to emeriti scholars using theories and methods from media studies, historical studies, politics, communication, journalism, sociology and anthropology. We are looking for work that spans national boundaries and historical periods to present a coherent argument for understanding radio as a synecdoche for and a key agent in the creation of the last hundred years of technological, psychological, and cultural innovation and experience.

*CFP* 4TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL GAMIFIN CONFERENCE 2020

4th Annual International GamiFIN Conference 2020

April 1-3, 2020, 

Levi, Lapland, Finland

Welcome to the gathering of international gamification research community in the Finnish Lapland, Levi. Levi is a ski resort located in Finnish Lapland, above the Arctic Circle and features incredible Finnish scenery, nature and winter activities. We hope all of our guests take the time to enjoy the surroundings and activities provided by this unique and exotic location. Organized winter activities before and/or after the main conference days will be announced later.

GamiFIN is a leading international conference for gamification research. The conference is chaired by the professor of gamification Juho Hamari and gamification scholar Jonna Koivisto. The conference is organized by the Gamification Group and past keynotes have included notable scholars from the field of Gamification such as Lennart Nacke, Frans Mäyrä, Sebastian Deterding, Richard Landers and T.L. Taylor. Keynotes of GamiFIN  2020 will be announced later.

*CFP* "DOING WOMEN'S FILM & TELEVISION HISTORY", CONFERENCE

We are inviting submissions for individual papers or panels at the Doing Women's Film & Television History conference taking place on 20th-22nd May, 2020, Maynooth University, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland.

Keynote speakers:  

• Kasandra O’Connell: Head of the Irish Film Archive at the Irish Film Institute in Dublin City Centre. The Irish Film Archive holds a collection that includes over one hundred years of Irish film as well as other audiovisual material.
• Kate Murphy (Bournemouth University) and Jeannine Baker (Macquarie University) will speak about their collaboration with the BBC on the 100 Voices that Made the BBC: Pioneering Women which was launched in 2018 and features a curation of the contributions of women to  BBC broadcasting. 

We'll also have a roundtable discussion about women in the film and television industry.

*CFP* “DISAPPEARING DISABILITY”, CHAPTER BOOK

This is a Call for chapters for a collection of essays, between 2000 and 5000 words each, as well as creative works that show how disability appears and disappears in our midst. This collection will serve to introduce readers to disability studies.

Through a relational orientation to disability, the work collected here represents a critical return to how disability appears, including its appearance in the field of disability studies. DisAppearing DisAbility will provide a resource to Canadian colleges, universities and beyond. Engaging political, artistic, and philosophical provocations of the (dis)appearing act of disability in our lives, the diversity of topics in this collection represents the singular aim of revealing what disability means while potentially remaking these meanings in more life-affirming ways.

There are many ways that disability appears in everyday life, often as calamity, loss, danger, and dysfunction. This collection is dedicated to revealing the cultural values and assumptions that make these appearances possible while making other appearances of disability seem impossible. Can we imagine, for example, disability appearing as /not /a problem, as necessary, or even as desirable? This collection explores these imaginaries by orienting to disability as a set of cultural interpretations reflective of the worlds from which they spring and into which disability appears and disappears, again and again.

*CFP* CALL FOR ARTICLES, ISSUE 5.1 (SPRING 2020), MISE-EN-SCÈNE: THE JOURNAL OF FILM & VISUAL NARRATION

Situating itself in film's visual narrative, Mise-en-scène: The Journal of Film & Visual Narration (ISSN 2369-5056) is the first of its kind: an international, peer-reviewed journal focused exclusively on the artistry of frame composition as a storytelling technique. With its open-access, open-review publishing model, MSJ strives to be a synergistic, community-oriented hub for discourse that begins at the level of the frame. Scholarly analysis of lighting, set design, costuming, camera angles, camera proximities, depth of field, and character placement are just some of the topics that the journal covers. 

While primarily concerned with discourse in and around the film frame, MSJ also includes narratological analysis at the scene and sequence level of related media (television and online) within its scope. Particularly welcome are articles that dovetail current debates, research, and theories as they deepen the understanding of filmic storytelling. The journal's contributing writers are an eclectic, interdisciplinary mixture of graduate students, academics, filmmakers, film scholars, and cineastes, a demographic that also reflects the journal's readership. Published twice a year by Simon Fraser University, MSJ is the official film studies journal of Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Vancouver, Canada. It is included in EBSCO’s Film and Television Literature Index.

For its forthcoming issue, Mise-en-scène: The Journal of Film &Visual Narration (MSJ) currently seeks submissions that encompass the latest research in film and media studies. Submission categories include feature articles (6,000-7,000 words); mise-en-scène featurettes (1,000-1,500 words); reviews of films, DVDs, Blu-rays or conferences (1,500-2,500 words); M.A. or Ph.D. abstracts (250-300 words); interviews (4,000-5,000 words); undergraduate scholarship (2,000-2,500 words) or video essays (8-10 minute range). All submissions must include a selection of supporting images from the film(s) under analysis and be formatted according to MLA guidelines, 8th edition. 

Topic areas may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Cinematic aestheticism 
• Film spectatorship 
• Frame narratology 
• Auteur theory 
• Mise-en-scène across the disciplines 
• Pedagogical approaches to film and media studies 
• Film/video as a branch of digital humanities research 
• Adaptation studies 
• Genre studies 
• Transmedia 
• Fandom studies 
• Seriality 
• Documentary studies

The deadline for submissions is January 5, 2020. Please sign up as an author through the registration portal to begin the 5-step submission process.