31 de octubre de 2019

*CFP* "CRISIS PREDICAMENT AND POTENTIAL", SPECIAL ISSUE, AIGNE JOURNAL


Crisis is a concept which often has strong negative connotations, particularly in a world experiencing a series of economic, political, and social crises within various contexts, territories, and vocations. While crisis and predicament seem to have an intuitive connection, crisis is also a catalyst for invention and innovation: for potential. Crisis encourages us to experiment with both reshaped and unprecedented paradigms, even in uncertain or turbulent scenarios which could appear transgressive at the time presented. It is important to value and understand, in the context of new emerging mind-sets, the potential of these transformations and the impact they could have for the world we live in.

Aigne is seeking creative submissions (max. 4,000 words) which engage with this issue’s theme of Crisis: Predicament and Potential. We invite creative submissions in a variety of formats, including:

  • Poetry 
  • Short Stories 
  • Flash Fiction 
  • Photography

*CFP* "HOLOCAUST MEMORY AND EDUCATION IN THE DIGITAL AGE", SPECIAL EDITION, HOLOCAUST STUDIES: CULTURE AND HISTORY



Digital media are playing an increasing role in Holocaust memory and education. These include digital mapping projects like De danske jøder i Theresienstadt, VR representations of former concentration and death camps, such as the one of Sobibór, viewable at Camp Vught in The Netherlands, interactive online archives that give researchers and learners the skills necessary to interpret documents at the Arolsen Archives (International Tracing Service), and 3-dimensional and holographic survivor talks in the US and UK. This special edition seeks to take stock of the wide range of digital projects in these fields and to consider the impact, challenges and potentials of such technologies for the future of Holocaust memory and education. 

Given the increasing presence of Neo-Nazi, alt-right and Holocaust denial rhetoric in online spaces, and debates about the corporate responsibility of organisations like Google and Facebook, and platforms such as 4Chan and 8Chan, it seems particularly timely to address the roles digital technology can play in informing cultural and collective memory of the Holocaust and educating about this past. These issues raise a multitude of questions that we invite potential contributors to explore, including but not limited to:

*CFP* “REFOCUS: THE FILMS OF SAM RAIMI”, BOOK CHAPTERS


Sam Raimi was a fan of cinema since his earliest years and before he was ten years old, he was making movies with an 8mm camera. From Within the Woods (1978), the short that led to The Evil Dead (1981) and the ongoing saga of Ash (Bruce Campbell), to such genre-bending and genre-transcending work as The Quick and the Dead (1996), A Simple Plan (1998) and For Love of the Game (1999) to the Spider-Man trilogy (2002, 2004, 2007), which predate the MCU yet set the tone for the films to come, Raimi has demonstrated himself to be a versatile and inventive director, knowledgeable in genre, style, form, and cinema history.

We are currently soliciting abstracts of approximately 100 words for essays to be included in a book-length anthology on Sam Raimi’s cinema to appear in 2021.  As this volume will be the first comprehensive study in English of all of Raimi’s work through Ash vs. Evil Dead, this collection seeks to contextualize, problematize and theorize his entire canon, with a desired focus on his underrepresented films.  Essays may focus on a single film, group of films, themes and topics that pervade his work, his television directing or influence.

30 de octubre de 2019

*CFP* “TV SUPERVILLAINS. COMICS ECOSYSTEMS ON TELEVISION: THE COGNITIVE IMPACT OF SUPERVILLAINS”, 2020 CONFERENCE

12-14 Febrero 2020

We invite you to participate in the TV Supervillains. Comics Ecosystems on Television: The Cognitive Impact of Supervillains, which will take place in the School of Communication (Av. Americo Vespucio, s/n. 41092-Sevilla) on February 12 to 14, 2020.

So we meet at last, eh? It was inevitable that we should clash!, thus spoke the Ultra- Humanite when he first came face to face with Superman eighty years ago. Possibly the earliest comic-book supervillain, Ultra was almost the exact opposite of the Man of Steel mentally, physically and morally. From mythology and folklore to literature and mass media, supervillains in the form of monsters, mad scientists, criminal masterminds, enemy commanders, and evil doppelgangers predated comic-book superheroes; but, somehow, the appearance of the supervillain came to complete the classic formula of the superhero genre.

*CFP* “GENDER AND TRANSNATIONAL MEDIA”, SPECIAL ISSUE, THE FEMINIST MEDIA STUDIES

As Michele Hilmes has recently argued, broadcasting, while being heavily controlled by nation-states from its inception in the early twentieth century, had an unprecedented cultural capacity to transgress and defy national borders. In this aspect, the legacy of broadcasting is a transnational cultural economy that continues into the present (Hilmes 2012: 2). As Hilmes goes onto describe, the role of gender in these transnational media circuits is potentially politically disruptive. Contestations over gender have not only added to growing pressures on elite cultures and established power dynamics, but have intersected with other important struggles, to the extent that popular media have become a means of acknowledging and addressing [inequalities] while uniting the citizenry not only within national boundaries but across them (Hilmes 2012: 84).

This special issue therefore extends from Hilmes’ historical focus on transnationalism’s role within the broadcasting cultures of the UK and USA. It builds on recent scholarship on transnational gendered media cultures (Sreberny 2001; Kim 2010, Mankekar 2015, Hegde 2014) and visibilities (Hegde 2011), including within Feminist Media Studies (for example, Imre et al. 2009), to bring together recent scholarship that works against the grain of national histories.

*CFP* “THE CHALLENGES OF NARRATIVE JOURNALISM”, DISERTACIONES, ANUARIO ELECTRÓNICO DE ESTUDIOS EN COMUNICACIÓN SOCIAL

"Long breath" journalism is as old as journalism itself. In Latin America it has its roots in brochures full of social and political criticism such as Periquillo Sarniento by Lizardi or Facundo by Faustino Sarmiento. In North America, literary and investigative journalism go hand in hand, with the muckrakers anticipating the New Journalism coined by Wolfe in the 60s and 70s of the 20th century. In Europe, interestingly, the development of narrative journalism is linked to colonialism, with figures such as Albert Londres, George Orwell and Ryszard Kapuścińsk acting as uncomfortable correspondents of their respective metropolises.

Although narrative journalism has been considered the epitome of good journalism, revealing hidden realities through expressive precision and the aesthetic joy of good writing, its closeness to literature has led some authors to engage in pure invention, breaking the pact of truthfulness with the reader through credible fiction. The cases abound, from the recent Claas Relotius scandal in Der Spiegel, to the falsehoods and plagiarism of Jason Blair for the New York Times at the beginning of this century, by way of the historical farces of Janet Cooke (who had to return a Pulitzer Prize because of a story invented for the Washington Post in 1980), the fictitious interviews of Nahuel Maciel for El Cronista in the early 90s, or the fakes of Stephen Glass for The New Republic in the late 1990s, which were turned into a Hollywood film in 2003.

29 de octubre de 2019

*CFP* “RESISTANCE AND ACTIVISM”, INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON MEDIA & THE MIDDLE EAST 2020

Resistance and Activism
International Symposium on Media & The Middle East
6-7 de Marzo de 2020

University of East Anglia invites proposals for An International Symposium on Media and the Middle East. The symposium aims to bring together scholars, and filmmakers from around the world interested in exploring ideas of Resistance and Activism in the Middle East in relation to a range of media including film, television, radio, video, and digital media. Papers may be historical or contemporary in scope.

The event will begin with a film screening of For Sama (Waad Al-Kateab, 2019) at Cinema City Norwich on Friday March 6, 2020. A symposium filled with panel discussions, short film screenings and a keynote by Dr Saeed Talajooy (University of St Andrews) will follow the next day on Saturday March 7, 2020. 

*CFP* “TRAUMA AND CONSUMPTION”, CHAPTER BOOK

This volume aims at opening new theoretical vistas in conceptualizing how the notion of trauma may be fruitfully applied to consumer research, as well as offering fresh perspectives on how traumatism may modify, moderate, re-orient and re-evaluate consumption experiences. The increasing emphasis in consumer research that has been laid over the past few years on the unconscious in an attempt to identify and account for psychological processes that pass under the radar of a homeostatic ego that is driven by the pleasure principle calls for an extensive and multi-faceted scrutiny of the notion of trauma.

The concept of traumatic neurosis that was originally popularized by Freud in his seminal treatise Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920) marked a critical turning point in psychoanalytic theorizing. It laid the foundations for one of the most heavily researched topics in contemporary psychologically oriented research, namely PTSD, while it has been instrumental in the consolidation of cultural trauma theories which constitute common conceptual currency in cultural studies and cultural sociology, among other disciplines. To a lesser extent and at a less speculative level, traumatic experiences have been scrutinized in consumer research, largely in the context of psychologically inflected experimental studies.

*CFP* "LA COMUNICACIÓN POLÍTICA EN LAS REDES SOCIALES DURANTE LAS CAMPAÑAS ELECTORALES", REVISTA PERSPECTIVAS DE LA COMUNICACIÓN


La revista Perspectivas de la Comunicación (ISSN 0718-4867)  indizada en Emerging Sources de Clarivate Analytics, en Erih Plus, y ahora también en Scielo Chile, acaba de ampliar el plazo para enviar manuscritos a un número temático dedicado a:

La comunicación política en las redes sociales durante las campañas electorales

A continuación se presentan más detalles.

El punto de partida de tal auge de las redes sociales en la comunicación política, se debió al impacto que las mismas tuvieron en la campaña electoral del presidente de Estados Unidos (Barack Obama) en el año 2008.

Desde esta fecha la comunicación política se ha reescrito y ha evolucionado, dicha evolución está consiguiendo que los medios, que años atrás eran los más eficaces, hayan perdido capacidad de comunicación en detrimento de los nuevos que se han incorporado. Son por tanto las redes sociales un elemento nuevo de las estrategias de comunicación política.

*CFP* “FELLINI, THE BOOK OF DREAMS BETWEEN ART AND CINEMA”, FELLINI 100 INTERNACIONAL 2020 CONFERENCE

Fellini 100 International Conference
Fellini, the "Book of Dreams" between Art and Cinema
1-2 de abril de 2020
Bolonia, Itania

With the publication of the new edition of Federico Fellini's Book of Dreams (edited by Mondadori  Electa), a two-day conference is organized on the occasion of the centenary of the Maestro's birth (1920/2020). The volume itself and its innumerable suggestions act as the subject of possible papers.
The Book, in fact, will not only be analyzed and discussed within specific interventions, but will provide ideas for the definition of Fellini's poetics, or for the examination of figures, themes, icons, references, places of Fellini's cinema.

Oneirism, unconscious, psychoanalysis, graphics, sexuality, popular culture, diary, caricature, deformed mirror, self-portrait, and more: so many are the definitions of Federico Fellini's Book of Dreams. The purpose of the conference is to understand whether - thanks to the anniversary and the imminence of the opening of the new Federico Fellini International Museum - the book of Fellini's cinema can be metaphorically and literally "re-opened", with the confirmation of some streams of research and the opening of new perspectives.

*CFP* "CROSSROADS IN CULTURAL STUDIES", 13TH BIENNAL CONFERENCE


Hosted by the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, and the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (CEAUL/ULICES), the 13th biennial “Crossroads in Cultural Studies” Conference will bring scholars together in Lisbon, Portugal to engage with the past, present and future of Cultural Studies scholarship. The conference will take place from 28 to 31 July 2020 in Lisbon, a unique city that will offer a vibrant cultural backdrop for the scholarly programme.
The Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference has played an important role in the creation of a global discussion on Cultural Studies. It has become a major international conference where scholars from all five continents gather regularly to exchange views and insights on current research. Co-organised by the CEAUL/ULICES and the Association for Cultural Studies (ACS) in 2020, the Crossroads conference is held every other year in different parts of the world. Previous conferences have taken place in Birmingham (United Kingdom), Urbana-Champaign (USA), Istanbul (Turkey), Kingston (Jamaica), Hong Kong (China), Paris (France), Tampere (Finland), Sydney (Australia) and Shanghai (China).

28 de octubre de 2019

*CFP* “DATA ANALYTICS FOR DETECTING AND COMBATING CONLINE CRIME AND TERRORISM”, CHAPTER BOOK

Increased usage of social media led to the formation of online communities of terrorist groups for discussing many violent plans. These online communities present big data to researchers to identify hidden patterns and behaviours to generate actionable intelligence which can be useful for security agencies. Recruiting new people over online social media is an emerging trend which presents how the internet is exploited by terrorist groups


Objective

Terrorism is a global issue which is affecting many nations directly or indirectly. Online social media have given a vital platform for terrorists to form online communities and to operate remotely. Jihadist groups such as ISIS are most popular over online social media such as Twitter, YouTube or Facebook for radicalizing their agendas and sharing violent content or videos.

*CFP* "THE PRESENT AND FUTURE OF HISTORY AND GAMES", INTERDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM


The Present and Future of History and Games
Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick, UK
28th February 2020

An interdisciplinary symposium that invites academics, teachers and practitioners at all levels to explore the intersection of history and games, and to discuss methods for future research, teaching, and practice.

While major video game franchises like Battlefield, Assassin’s Creed, and Red Dead Redemption are often in the spotlight, digital and non-digital games have for decades been exploring, interrogating, reinterpreting, and representing the past, and offering gameplay experiences underpinned by deliberately historical and culturally conscious narratives and worlds. Cross-media marketing campaigns that support the release of major titles stake claims for “authenticity” and “realism”, while other kinds of games explore and attempt to represent long-“othered” historical events, periods, processes and people that are not necessarily white or male. While World Wars and the “U.S.” of America take up much space in the video game industry, how are global and regional histories and perspectives beyond this represented? What purpose do counterfactuals or alternate histories serve for designers and/or players?

*CFP* “FUTURE, A TIME OF HISTORY”, SPECIAL ISSUE, VERSUS JOURNAL

Founded in 1971 by Umberto Eco, who had been its editor-in-chief until his death in February 2016, Versus is one of the first international journals of Semiotics, Philosophy and Theory of Language. It is currently directed by Patrizia Violi (Università di Bologna). For the issue number 131 (December 2020), edited by Jorge Lozano (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) and Daniele Salerno (Universiteit Utrecht), Versus invites contributions on the semiotic and cultural construction of the future.

Although Structuralism mainly focused on the synchronic dimension of phenomena, temporality is for Semiotics and for the analysis of the historical discourse a fundamental theoretical and methodological aspect. Indeed, the major social and political changes we are experiencing nowadays ask for a reflection on how we imagine and construct possible futures. Jurij Lotman defines the future as the space of possible states. From this perspective, history and memory are to be framed within the fundamental orientation of culture toward future experience.

*CFP* “THE OLD PRESS AND THE NEW PRESS IN THE DIGITAL AGE”, MÉDIAS 19 - NUMAPRESSE CONGRESS

Médias 19 – Numapresse Congress
The old press and the new press in the digital age
8-11 de Junio de 2020
Canadia Cultural Centre and French National Library, Paris

After a first congress held in June, 2015, Médias 19 and Numapresse are organizing a second large meeting that will take place in Paris, from June 8 to 11, 2020, and that aspires to map the current state of research on the press in the age of the digitization of corpora. The joint France-Québec scientific project Médias 19, centered around the digital platform, has, since 2011, been the development framework of a reflection on the journalistic practices of the 19th century, the valorization and analysis of corpora, as well as studies of the development of the media culture in the francophone space. Since 2017, the international scientific project Numapresse, financed by the French National Agency for Research, aims to propose a new cultural and literary history of the French press from the 19th century to the present day, by mobilizing the large corpora of digitized news and new text and data mining tools.

"RESEARCHING MOBILITY AND CINEMA: THEORIES, METHODS AND OUTREACH", 1ST INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR "CINEMA AND MOBILITY", VII TECMERIN ACADEMIC MEETING


Researching Mobility and Cinema: Theories, Methods and Outreach
28-29 October 2019
1st International Seminar “Cinema and Mobility” 
VII Tecmerin Academic Meeting

A seminar organized by the Research Project “Cinematic Cartographies of Mobility in the Hispanic Atlantic” (CS2017-85290-P), financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities – Research State Agency of Spain and based in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. In collaboration with Filmoteca Española.

(*Seminar open free of change to the entire university community)

25 de octubre de 2019

*CFP* “BIG DATA AND COMMUNICATION STUDIES”, 58TH ISSUE, ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION SCIENCES

Istanbul University Journal of Communication Sciences has identified the theme of its 58th issue (June, 2020) as Big Data and Communication Studies. Today ‘Big Data’ has become increasingly effective in different subsections of daily life and academic studies. In the big data analysis studies carried out with algorithmic processes, results that intersect with the social sciences and communication fields also emerge. 

The new issue of Connectist aims to open a door to new research on big data within the context of social sciences and communication studies. Although the field of study is quite wide, the expected articles are limited to the subheadings of communication studies. We would hereby like to kindly invite you to contribute to our journal.

*CFP* "PERIODISMOS EMERGENTES: TRANSFORMACIÓN Y REVITALIZACIÓN DEL PERIODISMO EN LA ERA DIGITAL", CONGRESO ACADÉMICO INTERNACIONAL


Periodismos Emergentes: Transformación y Revitalización del Periodismo en la Era Digital
7 y 8 de mayo de 2020

El Departamento de Periodismo y Comunicación Global de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Información de la Universidad Complutense convoca un Congreso Académico Internacional bajo el título “Periodismos emergentes: transformación y revitalización del periodismo en la era digital”.

Las nuevas tecnologías; las crisis económica, de audiencias y de credibilidad de los medios periodísticos; los nuevos hábitos de información de la ciudadanía; el auge de nuevas narrativas; el replanteamiento de las rutinas profesionales; los nuevos modelos de negocio y campos de especialidad o la reformulación del papel sociopolítico del periodista constituyen un cúmulo de retos para la práctica y la teoría del periodismo en la era digital y para la propia identidad profesional de quienes intermedian sobre la actualidad.

*CFP* CALL FOR ARTICLES, VOL. 7, ISSUE 1, ARTSPRAXIS JOURNAL


ArtsPraxis Volume 7, Issue 1 looks to engage members of the global Educational Theatre community in dialogue around current research and practice. This call for papers is released in anticipation of the publication of ArtsPraxis Volume 6, Issue 2. 

Submissions should fall under one of the following categories:
  • Drama in Education (i.e., studies in drama/theatre curriculum, special education, integrated arts, assessment and evaluation) 
  • Applied Theatre (i.e., studies in community-based theatre, theatre of the oppressed, the teaching artist, diversity and inclusion)
  • Theatre for Young Audiences and Play Production (i.e., studies in acting, directing, dramaturgy, playwriting, dramatic literature, theatre technology, arts-based research methodologies)

*CFP* "SCIENCE FICTION AND GAMES", SPECIAL ISSUE, SCIENCE FICTION FILM & TELEVISION


It only takes a cursory glance at a contemporary videogame storefront - whether physical or online - to reaffirm the predilection for science fiction themes in digital games established by Krzywinska & MacCallum-Stewart’s review of popular games in 2009. From the breathless military futurism of Apex: Legends (Respawn, 2018) to the managerialist climate change imaginary of the Gathering Storm expansion for Civilisation 6 (Firaxis, 2016) or the climate change mod for Minecraft (Mojang, 2011), the science fiction video game imagination has kept pace with the science fiction literary and cinematic movements. This affinity was perhaps best exemplified by the long strange event that is No Man’s Sky (Hello Games, 2016), which sold itself as having limitless speculative value. As their marketing so often promises, science fiction video games deliver a future, but one that is interactive, complex, and mechanically friendly to veterans and newcomers alike.

While there seem to be some fairly straightforward commonalities that make science fiction themes, imagery and settings particularly palatable to game developers - super-powered individuals, exotic worlds with bespoke scientific laws, miraculous devices - we suggest that there are more complex ways of thinking the relation between simulating, screening and writing possible worlds. This is vital because in spite of surface-level homologies, mainstream digital gaming has in fact been quite selective in its sci-fi inspirations. Golden Age fictions of vast empires and Heinleinian super soldiers fighting against grunting enemies dominate store fronts tempered by Star Trek-ian interpersonal adventure games.

*CFP* "CIVIC PARTICIPATION IN THE DATAFIED SOCIETY", TWO-DAY CONFERENCE


Civic Participation in the Datafied Society
May 28-29, 2020
Cardiff University in Cardiff, UK.

As the generation, collection and analysis of data continues to transform key aspects of our society across economics, politics and culture, the question of participation has rarely been so pertinent. Democratic processes and traditional avenues for participation are facing challenges as state-citizen relations are increasingly shaped through data analytics and automation at the same time as alternative visions for participatory democracy and decision-making have proliferated. As citizens, we are said to be both coerced and active participants in this shift, both liberated and exploited in the use of digital tools, both more visible and more obscured in data-driven systems. How, then, should we understand civic participation in the datafied society? In what ways are we positioned as citizens in the advancement of datafication? How are decisions made, governance carried out, and systems created? What possibilities exist to intervene in, influence, create and resist power? Who gets to participate and on what terms? How might our institutions and government practices need to change? What are strategies for democratising the emergent datafied society? And what are avenues for enhancing citizen and community participation?

*CFP* “ECO-COMICS: WHAT GROWS IN THE GUTTER?”, SPECIAL ISSUE OF CLOSURE

Open Section

In the fall of 2019, CLOSURE will once again offer a forum for all facets of comics studies. From literary, cultural, media, social and image research to the sciences and beyond: the seventh edition of CLOSURE continues our ongoing search for the best and most innovative articles and reviews representing the state of the art in comics research. We welcome detailed close readings as much as comics theory and pioneering approaches to the medium — our open section comprises a diverse range of interdisciplinary studies of all things ›comic‹.

Thematic Section: »Eco-Comics: What Grows in the Gutter?«

What is the ecology of comics? Is it, like Gregory Bateson’s ›ecology of mind‹, a sort of complex and living tangle that fights and collaborates, like the one that can be found in woods on the mountains? And if so: how does this relate to the tangle of words and images we call ›comics‹? Do its panels and sequences present interconnected, plural, and reversible ›images of nature‹? And if the Book of Nature can no longer contain an Ecology without Nature (Morton) — can the Eco-Comic do better?

*CFP* CONVOCATORIA PARA GKA ARTS, CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL DE ARTES Y CULTURAS


28 y 29 de noviembre de 2019

El GKA ARTS - Congreso Internacional de Artes y Culturas se celebra anualmente en diferentes lugares alrededor del mundo. Este congreso es un punto focal para las nuevas ideas y nuevas prácticas en la investigación de las artes y su influencia en las culturas. El congreso abordará una serie de temas de importancia crítica en los distintos ámbitos que conforman el arte y la cultura.

Las presentaciones plenarias contarán con algunos de los pensadores más importantes del mundo de la educación, así como la presentación de numerosas comunicaciones, talleres y pósteres de académicos e investigadores.

Invitamos a todas aquellas personas que deseen participar a que nos envíen una propuesta para presentar su trabajo, ya sea una ponencia, taller o póster, abordando el arte y la cultura a través de una las siguientes temáticas:

24 de octubre de 2019

*CFP* "LA COMUNICACIÓN POLÍTICA EN LAS REDES SOCIALES DURANTE LAS CAMPAÑAS ELECTORALES", CONVOCATORIA REVISTA PERSPECTIVAS DE LA COMUNICACIÓN


La revista Perspectivas de la Comunicación (ISSN 0718-4867)  indizada en Emerging Sources de Clarivate Analytics, en Erih Plus, y ahora también en Scielo Chile, acaba de ampliar el plazo para enviar manuscritos a un número temático dedicado a La comunicación política en las redes sociales durante las campañas electorales

Editor invitado: Alfonso Chaves Montero, Departamento de Sociología, Trabajo Social y Salud Pública de la Universidad de Huelva

El punto de partida de tal auge de las redes sociales en la comunicación política, se debió al impacto que las mismas tuvieron en la campaña electoral del presidente de Estados Unidos (Barack Obama) en el año 2008.

Desde esta fecha la comunicación política se ha reescrito y ha evolucionado, dicha evolución está consiguiendo que los medios, que años atrás eran los más eficaces, hayan perdido capacidad de comunicación en detrimento de los nuevos que se han incorporado. Son por tanto las redes sociales un elemento nuevo de las estrategias de comunicación política.

*CFP* “CRITICAL MASS MEDIA HISTORIES IN SOUTHEAST ASIA”, VOL.2, NO.1, SOUTHEAST ASIAN MEDIA STUDIES

This first issue of the second volume of the Southeast Asian Media Studies aims to provide a collection of research articles on Critical Mass Media Histories (CMMHs) in Southeast Asia.

CMMHs refer to critical narratives about mass media’s past that are relevant to a particular audience—in our case, Southeast Asians. The goal of CMMHs is not only to explain the development of mass media across space and time but to critique such development in line with a commitment to social justice and social progress. To accomplish this objective, CMMHs make use of critical perspectives such as socialism, indigenization, postcolonialism, postmodernism, feminism, queer theory, and/or environmentalism. CMMHs also integrate history with other social sciences, including geography, anthropology, linguistics, psychology, sociology, economics, and political science in the systematic study of mass media which can be categorized, albeit arbitrarily, into print media, sound and film media, broadcast media, and new media.

*CFP* CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS, ISSUE 3, TECMERIN: JOURNAL OF AUDIOVISUAL ESSAYS


Tecmerin: Journal of Audiovisual Essays launches the CFPs its third issue. It is a biannual, peer-reviewed journal, published by the research group Tecmerin (Television, Cinema, Memory, Representation and Industry) of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Department of Journalism and Media Studies).

Tecmerin: Journal of Audiovisual Essays focuses on Spanish and Latin American cultural production, although not exclusively. Consequently, we invite scholars, researchers and creators to send pieces centered on the production, consumption, circulation and cultural exchange within these geographical areas.

In issue 3 we maintain an open CFP, with a special interest, although not exclusive, in Spanish and Latin American cultural production. Consequently, we especially invite scholars, researchers and creators to send pieces centered on the production, consumption, circulation and cultural exchange within these geographical areas.

*CFP* CALL FOR ARTICLES, IAMHIST BLOG


The IAMHIST Blog is place for analysing media history in a discursive context, and offers scholars, archivists and practitioners working within these areas a space to disseminate their findings, knowledge and research. We welcome pieces for the IAMHIST Blog on a variety of topics, including, but not limited to, individual and/or collaborative research, conference reports, film festivals, research projects, etc., in the broad area of media history.

The IAMHIST Blog also publishes a series entitled ‘A Day at the Archives…’, which aims to discuss different researchers’ experiences of using a variety of archives and/or museums from around the world, particularly those which may help to contribute to and inform our knowledge of media history.

A new series, which is to be introduced this year, titled ‘Detectives in the Archive… Researching Primary Sources’, aims to offer advice and personal experiences on analysing/using different types of primary sources relating to media history, for example budgets, call sheets, correspondence, cost reports, daily progress reports, fan magazines, interviews/oral testimony, scripts, etc.

*CFP* "LIBERTY, LEGACY, LEADERSHIP", CONFERENCE


Liberty, Legacy, Leadership is an outstanding opportunity for higher-education chaplains to develop and re-energise their practice and professionalise their delivery. Hosted in a safe and inclusive environment, the 2020 conference will foster collaboration, best-practice sharing and high-quality networking among colleagues from across the globe.

Proposals from any participant are very welcome. Liberty, Legacy, Leadership is taking a progressive approach to contributions, in terms of papers, workshops and other inputs from chaplaincy practitioners in higher education and those researching and writing about chaplaincy, religion and belief in the university.

Our call for papers is a rolling call that will conclude on 24 February 2020: we may be in a position to confirm at any time before then that your proposal is accepted, but we will confirm to all who have offered, if proposals have been accepted by 23 March 2020 at the latest.

23 de octubre de 2019

"PLATAFORMAS Y DIVERSIDAD: NETFLIX A DEBATE", SEMINARIO INTERNACIONAL UC3M


7-8/11/2019

El seminario internacional Plataformas y diversidad: Netflix a debate tendrá lugar los días 7 y 8 de noviembre de 2019 en la Facultad de Humanidades, Comunicación y Documentación (campus de Getafe), de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M).

El objetivo de este evento es reflexionar sobre el papel que juegan las plataformas en línea para la diversidad de la industria audiovisual, otorgando un protagonismo especial a discutir el caso de la empresa Netflix. Se trata de contribuir a la comprensión de la actuación e impacto de las plataformas trasnacionales en línea que comercializan contenidos audiovisuales, atendiendo a su perfil socioeconómico y a la reacción política-regulatoria que su irrupción está propiciado. Se hará hincapié en dicho impacto en mercado español, y en clave de promoción y/o protección de la diversidad de las industrias audiovisuales.

*CFP* “INDIGENOUS REPRESENTATION, MEDITATION AND VOICES IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN MEDIA”, VOL.2, NO.2, SOUTHEAST ASIAN MEDIA STUDIES

This special issue of Southeast Asian Media Studies will provide a collection of research articles on the topic of Indigenous representation, mediation, and voices in Southeast Asian media. The issue will examine the representation of Indigenous Southeast Asian people and ethnic minority groups in television, radio, film, websites, social media, news media, and popular culture. At the same time, the issue will critically consider the use of diverse media forms by Indigenous communities for purposes of activism, empowerment, identity, political voice, gender equality, heritage protection, and environmental conservation.

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*CFP* IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTING AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES INNOVATION (CDTI 2019)


IEEE International Conference on Computing and Digital Technologies Innovation (CDTI 2019)
Technically Co-sponsored by IEEE
December 09 - 11, 2019
University of Oxford, St Anne's College, United Kingdom

The International Conference on Computing and Digital Technologies Innovation (CDTI 2019) intends to address various innovative technology and computing techniques involving various applications in Management, Business, Agriculture, Medicine, Healthcare, Machine Learning and Education. This conference will address number of themes and issues. The conference will feature original research, industrial and management papers on the theory, design and implementation of various innovative technologies in computing, as well as demonstrations, tutorials, workshops and industrial presentations. This conference (CDTI 2019) will include presentations of contributed papers by invited keynote speakers.

*CFP* CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS, IAMHIST MASTER CLASS ON MEDIA AND HISTORY


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The Department of Film & Screen Media, University College Cork

IAMHIST Master Class on Media and History
Thursday, 9 January 2020 (master class)
Friday, 10 January 2020 
(symposium: Archival Appropriation: Reuse, Recycling and Remediation in the Digital Era)
University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Are you a graduate or doctoral student, post-doc, or young professional currently working on a project in which you engage issues concerning historical film, radio or television or issues in media history? Are you interested in presenting your project to a small group of experts and peers? Then this master-class of the International Association for Media and History may be just what you are looking for. The master class deliberately has a broad scope, including any research in the field of media and history. But as this is a pre-conference event for a one-day symposium on the research, appropriation and recycling of archival footage, presentations on this area are particularly welcome.

*CFP* ·BAD MOTHERS", AN INCLUSIVE INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE


As givers of life, mothers occupy an essential role in ensuring the ongoing survival of the human race. The bond between mother and child is commonly revered in societies as primal and sacred. Perhaps it is because of the importance of child-bearing and child-rearing that so much critical attention has been given to how mothers should and should not behave. Entertainment and news media outlets, parenting manuals and social media are among the main sources of role models to which mothers might aspire as well as cautionary tales of women whose conduct has earned them the label of bad mothers. But just what does it mean to be a bad mother? While mothers who kill or cause harm to their children are obvious examples, how should we regard a mother whose neglect for her child is due to having to work multiple jobs to support her family? What about the mother whose loving indulgence of her child’s every wish causes the child to develop a detrimental sense of entitlement? These grey areas signify the complexities of motherhood itself, as well as the challenges associated with evaluating a mother’s goodness or badness.

In recognition of the fundamentally interdisciplinary nature of motherhood, the Bad Mothers event seeks to provide a platform for participants to explore this multi-faceted topic with a view to forming an innovative interdisciplinary publication to engender further research and collaboration. Key questions for discussion include: What are the purposes and consequences of declaring someone a bad mother? How have the standards for being a bad mother changed over time? To what extent is the bad mother label a product of economic and racial privilege? What do stories of real and fictional bad mothers reveal about broader socio-cultural preoccupations? Are bad mothers ever justified in their behaviour, and can they be redeemed? Is there an obligation to act in relation to bad mothers?

22 de octubre de 2019

*CFP* “CINEMA AND THE CITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES”, 2019 CONFERENCE

29-30 de Noviembre, 2019

The conference aims to explore the relationships established between cinema and urban areas. We want to stress the connections woven between cities and cinema, films, fiction and documentaries – important unconventional sources for the understanding of social and cultural contexts. We intend to focus on the modalities used in films to tell stories – through images and speech – concerning cities, territories, and places, residents’ lives in relation to spaces, to buildings, to landscapes, as well as to its urban culture as a whole. The perspective we have chosen for this conference is interdisciplinary and cinema will be considered as a medium to be understood and interpreted in several, possibly comparative, ways. Actually, cinema, as a specific cultural artefact, expresses both individual and collective viewpoints mirroring cultures and hybridizations that can be explored by various disciplines and comparative perspectives. 

*CFP* "PHILOSOPHY AND HORROR IN FILM, LITERATURE AND POPULAR CULTURE: AESTHETICS, POLITICS AND HISTORIES", CHAPTER BOOK


In the first volume of his Horror of Philosophy trilogy—In the Dust of this Planet—Eugene Thacker calls the horror of philosophy “the isolation of those moments in which philosophy reveals its own limitations and constraints, moments in which thinking enigmatically confronts the horizon of its own possibility.” The wider genre of “horror” encompassing such genres as literature, cinema, and the arts exposes its viewers/readers/audience to a world of conflict between the selfsame subject and the of the ‘other’ which involves the element of horror. The genre has invariably aided in a metaphorical confrontation with the genre consumers’ systemic confrontation with a reality outside that of the perceived. Stephen King had produced a definition of “horror” as “the unnatural, spiders, the size of bears, the dead walking around, it’s when the lights go out and something with claws grabs you by the arm.” While the above statement does not present a wholesome definition of what could constitute a philosophy of horror, it establishes the groundwork for the same—a philosophy of horror is not a definitive introspection into the genre, or an intervention into it, but rather an attempt to amalgamate the multifarious roles of the genre into presenting a deeper understanding of human psychology while it enters into a transaction with a hyperreal/surreal “reality”. Whether we discuss, at this juncture, Mary Shelley’s manufacture—an in-human contraption—or that of Poe’s blend of the gothic or Lovecraft’s alienating cosmic horror, or, moving into the screen, the shadows of Nosferatu or the veiled sociopolitical satirical horror that is The Night of the Living Dead, horror as a genre has been an adherent to the notion of genre-bending and genre-warping in order to comprehend the realities beyond, or underlying the real.

*CFP* “JOURNALISM UNDER THE SIEGE OF ECONOMIC UNCERTAINTY AND ALGORITHMS”, CHAPTER BOOK

Our book project focuses on both the transformation of journalism profession with algorithms and new business models in journalism. Thus, we want to question the technologies and new economic opportunities that influence contemporary journalistic practices.

There is no one who doesn't watch science-fiction movies or read some books about how robots will take on a great deal of people's work one day. Previously, we thought that robots would only undertake the jobs what was called “blue-collar” that based on body strength. We believed that the more sophisticated and “White-collar” jobs that would require intellectual effort would not be affected by automation. Today, however, many professions that require skills and expertise are automated as well. One of the automated business branches is journalism. The use of algorithms to gather, write, distribute, and publish the content of news is increasing day by day. Therefore, the first focus of this book is the transformation created by automation in journalistic practices.

*CFP* I CONGRESO C.INN.E. CINE E INNOVACIÓN EDUCATIVA


El I Congreso C.INN.E. Cine e Innovación Educativa es una reflexión sobre el cine y el lenguaje audiovisual en el contexto de la educación. 

Su objetivo es promover el debate sobre sus dos vertientes más comunes: el cine entendido como herramienta pedagógica y de transmisión de valores y conceptos; y el cine en su dimensión de expresión artística. 

El programa contemplará esta dualidad, con propuestas de comunicaciones y talleres que desarrollen cada una de estas perspectivas. 

Tendrá lugar en Oviedo, el 23, 24 y 25 de abril de 2020.

Además del programa oficial, el Congreso contará con EXPOCINNE, una sección en la que los centros educativos presentarán su trabajo en el aula, aplicando el cine en la práctica diaria. 

*CFP* “RE-VISIONS AND RE-IMAGINATIONS IN ASIAN SPECULATIVE FICTION”, VOL. 57, NO.1, SARE JOURNAL

Speculative fiction of all kinds has long been seen as something of a niche market, the purview of nerds and small fandom communities. More recently, however, there has been an upsurge of interest in the genre, as well as an increase in the number of subgenres within speculative fiction. Apart from the more traditional epic fantasy, sci-fi and horror, we now see dystopia, paranormal romance, urban fantasy, zombies, steampunk, magic realism, gothic, horror and so on as subgenres within this growing field of research and academic interest.

Part of this increasing popularity and diversity has to do with society’s fears, hopes, desires, dreams, nightmares. As Bruce Sterling points out, A genre arises out of some deeper social need; a genre is not some independent floating construct (2011). Much as these works represent vast leaps of the imagination and, often, wholesale invention, they are grounded in some “deeper social need”, and are therefore in some way expressive of the conditions of society. This idea is emphasized by Margaret Atwood, who contends that her own speculative fiction invents nothing we haven’t already invented or started to invent (2005).

*CFP* CALL FOR ARTICLES, ISSUE 36, LA VALLE DELL'EDEN, EAST OF EDEN: JOURNAL OF CINEMA, PHOTOGRAPHY AND MEDIA


The issue #36 of La Valle dell’Eden, East of Eden – Journal of Cinema, Photography and Media is in preparation. It is a miscellaneous issue open to a wide range of researches and methodologies. In particular, it will be interested to the following topics:

  • Acting, stardom, celebrities. 
  • Archives, restoration, memory. 
  • Avant-garde, experimental films, videoart. 
  • Fashion. 
  • Gender, identity. 
  • Graphic novel, game, web. 
  • Narrative, writing, genres. 
  • Industry, production, professions. 
  • Intermediality. 
  • Reception, critical discourse. 
  • Screen, technologies, apparatus. 
  • Series, broadcasting, formats.
  • Sound, music, audiovision. 
  • Spectators, audience, consumption. 
  • Style, modes of representation. 
  • Visual culture, image aesthetic.

21 de octubre de 2019

*CFP* "(RE)FOCUS ON LANDSCAPE AND TRAVELOGUE FORMS IN AVANT-GARDE AND EXPERIMENTAL FILM", SPECIAL ISSUE, LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE JOURNAL


As evident in academic literature, the study of often marginalized avant-garde and experimental works, seen as a peripheral yet distinctive mode of film and art practice, is likely to facilitate contemporary film, visual arts and visual culture studies. Many post-war productions, including those directed by such artists and filmmakers as Vertov, Bolotowsky, Kubelka, Winkler, Lehman, Welsby, Snow, Fischinger, Dutta, Rashidi, Takahiko, Frampton, Brakhage and others, seem to have received little attention from researchers despite being successfully preserved by international centers dedicated to the conservation, study and exhibition of independent, experimental and avant-garde cinema. 

Moreover, both landscape and travelogue forms, although central for the history and aesthetics of many national literatures, art movements and cinemas, remain another underexposed aspect of 20th century experimental film imagery, which should be investigated in terms of periodization, production and meaning-making processes pertaining to the artist’s construction and rendering of the surrounding reality. Hence, given the paucity of material offering a number of in-depth scholarly analyses of works of individual artists, it seems that there is a growing need for publications in the field other than wide-ranging anthologies and interview books.

*CFP* “GLOBAL HORROR: LOCAL PERSPECTIVES”, PROGRESSIVE CONNEXIONS 2020 CONFERENCE

4-5 de abril de 2020
Lisboa, Portugal

Horror pervades human experience. It affects us both as individuals and as members of social communities, it is recurrent in pop culture and arguably present in all fields of human knowledge and realms of storytelling, from Cronus eating his own children, to Freddy Krueger’s sadistic murders in A Nightmare on Elm Street to media coverage of war. As a fundamentally paradoxical concept, horror simultaneously repels and fascinates us: we naturally dread it, yet we are drawn to it. We are taught to avoid that which is horrifying, but the appeal of horror, whether in the form of fiction or sensational news, is irresistible. Indeed, we simultaneously narrate, describe, imagine, consume, dread and crave horror in all of its dimensions, and with the most varied goals.

Horror taps into primal emotions of fear and disgust that are universal to the human condition, and finds expression across cultures and historical periods. Yet the texts that shape the ways in which horror is broadly understood historically reflect predominantly Anglo-European and American cultural, social, historical and geographical contexts.

*CFP* “RE-INVENTING EASTERN EUROPE. 30 YEARS FROM THE REVOLUTIONS IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE”, THE 7TH EUROACADEMIA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Re-Inventing Eastern Europe. 30 Years From The Revolutions In Central And Eastern Europe
13-14 de Diciembre 2019
Anglo American University, Praga, República Checa

Not a very long time ago, a British lady was considered bigoted by Gordon Brown upon asking ‘all these Eastern Europeans what are coming in, where are they flocking from?’ (1). The zoological word is not a novelty in the cultural invention of Eastern Europe. Maybe, despite her concern with the dangers of immigration for Britain, the lady was right in showing that such a question still awaits for answers in Europe. The ironic aspect however is that a first answer to such a question would point to the fact that the Eastern Europeans come from the Western European imaginary. As Iver Neumann puts it, ‘regions are invented by political actors as a political program, they are not simply waiting to be discovered’ (2). And, as Larry Wolff skillfully showed, Eastern Europe is an invention emanated initially from the intellectual agendas of the elites of Enlightenment that later found its peak of imaginary separation during the Cold War (3).

*CFP* “THE PALGRAVE HANDBOOK OF EUROPEAN CRIME NARRATIVES”, CHAPTER BOOK

Although a widely popular genre for over a century, crime narratives are experiencing an unprecedented popularity all across Europe and across different media at the moment. In literature, film and television, crime and violence are a central source of inspiration for narratives about national/regional societies and cultures as well as inspiration for stories and creative processes that transcend the borders between countries and media. 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.

Besides evoking transborder cultural exchange, crime narratives are today a strategic means in European place-branding on local, national, regional and transnational levels of communication. As a result, the generic concept “noir” now resonates among producers, distributors and audiences of crime fiction, and increasingly EURONOIR narratives have been located in recognizable places and regions across Europe, resulting in e.g. Mediterranean, Tartan, Catalan, Nordic Noir.

*CFP* CONVOCATORIA SECCIÓN PUNTOS DE FUGA, Nº 30 Y 31 (2020-2021), REVISTA L'ATALANTE


Se abre la convocatoria de artículos para la sección Puntos de Fuga de los números 30 y 31, que se publicarán en julio de 2020 y enero de 2021, respectivamente. La edición será exclusivamente electrónica.

Aceptación de propuestas para la sección Puntos de Fuga: del 20 de octubre de 2019 al 20 de noviembre de 2019.

Los textos publicados en L'Atalante. Revista de estudios cinematográficos serán ensayos inéditos sobre temas relacionados con la teoría y/o praxis cinematográfica y tendrán, como interés principal, aportar aproximaciones al hecho cinematográfico que se realicen preferentemente desde la historiografía o el análisis audiovisual. Se valorarán aquellos textos que se aproximen a objetos de estudio novedosos con metodologías rigurosas y bien evidenciadas. Se privilegiarán aquellos textos que tomen como referencia principal los procesos de significación mediante el análisis de la forma audiovisual y/o de los elementos narratológicos específicos de nuestro campo, centrándose en las metodologías específicamente vinculadas con el tratamiento de la imagen. 

*CFP* "SPACES AND PLACES", 2ND INCLUSIVE INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE


Lisbon, Portugal
April 04-05, 2020

Every day we move through spaces that have been constructed or delineated somehow to be significant. We recognise and —consciously or unconsciously — react to this significance on a daily or hourly basis, and we draw from a cultural well of knowledge in order to do so.

While we may not be aware of this process, our lives are lived in constant negotiation with these meanings; it is therefore important to examine how we shape the space around us, and what the meanings are that we attach to inside and outside, here and there, mine and yours, and even function and form. Understanding that these meanings are time- and culturally-based broadens these questions, allowing for not only an examination of how they are understood today, but how they were perceived and deployed in the past—and how they might be in the future.

18 de octubre de 2019

*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 CJC. Reviewers must have a Ph.D., or at least be advanced graduate students already writing their doctoral dissertations. They must have sufficient expertise in the field of the book they propose to review. Good writing skills are required.

If interested in reviewing one of these books, please provide the following details in this order, and send them to CJC’s book review editor Dr. Lin Zhang (lin.zhang@unh.edu)

Proposals to review books not listed are also considered, provided that they are relevant to CJC’s mission. Proposals to review books not available in English are also welcomed.

*CFP* CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS, FORUM SECTION, PORN STUDIES JOURNAL


Our Forum section is a space for pieces that are shorter than the usual academic article, usually somewhere between 1,500 and 3,000 words, and they can take a variety of forms, including short articles, reports, interviews, commentaries and roundtable discussions. Forum pieces are peer reviewed. Previous Forum topics have included porn panics and public health; Ireland, porn and sex education; feminist porn; fashion and porn; porn and music; porn in the classroom, and surveillance and porn.

We are currently seeking Forum contributions on the following topics: 

Pornography and Virtual and Augmented Realities

  • hardware, design, techniques and aesthetics of VR/AR porn 
  • the possibilities and limitations of porn technology 
  • histories and theories of media immersion and and interactivity 
  • issues of realism, affect and space 
  • new performers, producers, studios 
  • the implications of VR and AR for audience studies 
  • reporting on VR and AR and predictions about ‘the future of sex’