*CFP* "THEORETICAL CONSOLIDATION AND INNOVATION IN MEDIA PSYCHOLOGY", SPECIAL ISSUE, THE JOURNAL OF MEDIA PSYCHOLOGY

Media psychologists constantly expand the range of domains, themes, and questions that they address in their research. Technological innovations – digitalization, mediatization, and dynamics of convergence in particular – motivate scholars to carry out many empirical studies on users, their processing, their experience, and (co-)production of messages, and related psychological outcomes. It is the mission of peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Media Psychology (JMP) to serve as chronicle of this progress and as archive of the knowledge produced.

However, the strong research dynamics and persist- ing arrival of fresh empirical insights can only lead to a flourishing and effective academic field if theoretical work moves ahead as well. Much empirical work in media psychology is guided by existing general theoretical frameworks (e.g., from social psychology or cognitive psychology); other studies rest on field-specific theoretical approaches (e.g., parasocial interaction, narrative persuasion). But regardless the origin of the theoretical base that media psychologists build on, it is important for the field to accompany the empirical day-to-day research business by a reflection on where a given theoretical approach is standing.

*CFP* "REFUGEE FORMS: ESSAYS ON THE CULTURE OF FLIGHT AND REFUGE", EDITED COLLECTION

The edited collection Refugee Forms: Essays on the Culture of Flight and Refuge aims to bring together research on the genres, forms, media and histories of refugee migration. Chapters are invited from a range of disciplines, and interdisciplinary approaches are especially welcome. Contributions may focus on refugee migration through the lens of particular genres, forms, media or histories, addressing such topics as:

• Documentary, film and video 
• Visualities, media and multimodality 
• Literary genres and narrative form 
• Autobiography, testimony, truth-telling

As migration studies researchers have argued, refugee migration is a complex phenomenon involving mixed motives, multiple points of transit and arrival, and the inherent uncertainty of the asylum process (e.g., Van Hear 2009, Crawley and Skleparis 2018). Our proposition is that studying narratives of refugee migration requires an interdisciplinary approach combining migration research with the theories and methods of the arts and humanities. For example, historian Lynn Hunt (2007:35ff) has described how literary forms such as the novel have been key in the development of discourses of human rights. As Joseph Slaughter further argues in Human Rights, Inc. (2007), genres such as the Bildungsroman employ narratives of development and self-determination underlying modern human rights discourses (2007:86ff, 205ff). 

*CFP* CALL FOR PAPERS, THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOLAR JOURNAL OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH

International Scholar Journal of Arts and Social Science Research (ISJASSR) is a peer-reviewed journal that seeks to encourage extensive research in the fields of Arts and Social Science. It provides platform for academics, students, researchers, institutions and professionals to share new ideas and debate current global and national issues with a view to proffering solutions as well as contribute to existing knowledge.

The journal welcomes well researched original and insightful papers from Arts, Social Science and related fields for publication. 

ISJASSR is a quarterly publication. All received papers go through desk review and rigorous peer review.


Authors' Guidelines

*CFP* "LIFE STORIES IN COMMUNICATION: FROM STEREOTYPES TO (THE POSSIBILITY OF) HUMANIZATION", DOSSIER, THE OBSERVATORIO JOURNAL

The Observatório Journal  invites researchers to submit their papers to the dossier Life Stories in communication: from stereotypes to (the possibility of) humanization, expected to be published in the second half of 2020.

The dossier aims to gather papers, resulting from research projects that are either completed or in progress, addressing the presence of life stories in the various discursive genres of the field of Communication, with an emphasis on journalism, documentary films, corporate communication, advertising, and marketing. It will thus include studies that reflect on characters, whether or not fictional, seeking to comprehend the meanings attributed to the subjects depicted in such genres.

*CFP* "SENTIDO Y SIMULACIÓN EN LA COMUNICACIÓN MEDIÁTICA", NÚMERO 25, CIC: CUADERNOS DE INFORMACIÓN Y COMUNICACIÓN

El pasado 21 de octubre de 2018 fallecía en Madrid a los 70 años de edad Wenceslao Castañares, profesor de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Información de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid y miembro del Consejo Editorial de esta revista. Desde su tesis doctoral —la primera en España centrada en la obra de Charles S. Peirce y titulada El signo: problemas semióticos y filosóficos (1985)—, toda la vida académica del profesor Castañares estuvo atravesada por el pensamiento semiótico, hasta el punto de que su fallecimiento se produjo durante la redacción de un proyecto titánico que decidió emprender él solo y que, por desgracia, quedará inconcluso: una historia de la semiótica desde la antigüedad grecolatina hasta nuestros días. Él mismo justificaba la necesidad de esta historia de la semiótica en la introducción al primero de los tres volúmenes que planeó: “[…] en la ciencia, como en cualquier otro proceso biológico o cultural, nada ocurre sin que haya precedentes. El interés por los signos y por lo que estos son capaces de hacer es, probablemente, tan antiguo como el hombre mismo”. Y, aunque la muerte lo sorprendió mientras trabajaba en el tercer volumen, los dos que nos ha dejado —Historia del pensamiento semiótico 1. La antigüedad grecolatina (2014) e Historia del pensamiento semiótico 2. La edad media (2018)—uno de los esfuerzos más serios y rigurosos por rastrear ese interés a lo largo de los siglos, dos volúmenes que son ya lectura obligada para cualquier interesado en el mundo de los signos y en la actividad de construir e interpretar sentido. 

*CFP* "THE HISTORIES AND PHILOSOPHIES OF CARCERAL EDUCATION", EDITED COLLECTION

The rates of incarceration worldwide continue to rise, prompting important questions about the legal and social circumstances moving so many people behind bars, and also about what happens to people during a period of imprisonment. Education in prison and of prisoners has a long history, marked by key moments in transformation as education in prison has shifted from some emphasis on religion, sin and redemption to economic rationalism.

This call for papers emerges from academics whose work in delivering education programs to incarcerated people has been long-standing and has included landmark developments, including the wholly radical introduction of digital technology into prisons for educational purposes. While much educational activity has taken place, more remains to be achieved in documenting and interpreting in scholarly writing what happens when incarceration and education intersect. It would be hoped that contributions would be lively and original interpretations of the intentions behind, history of, and philosophies underpinning carceral education.

*CFP* LANGUAGES & THE MEDIA 2020: THE 13TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE TRANSFER IN AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA

Languages & the Media 2020: The 13th International Conference on Language Transfer in Audiovisual Media

Radisson Blu Hotel, Berlin, Germany

December 14–16, 2020

In the light of the rapidly escalating Covid-19 outbreak around the world and with the best interests of our community at heart, we have been advised to postpone Languages & the Media 2020.

It was a difficult step, but it was taken to ensure the safety of all our attendees and staff, and to help contain the spread of the virus in these challenging times.

We want Languages & the Media to be a safe, enjoyable and enriching environment for everyone and this could not have been possible if we had moved forward as planned.

*CFP* "PARTICIPATORY SCIENCE: DEMOCRATIC UTOPIA, INNOVATION OR SOCIAL IMPERATIVE?, 56º ISSUE, ÉTUDES DE COMMUNICATION SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL

In recent years, participatory research has expanded considerably in the context of renewed interest in forging links between science and society. While first centered on issues of research methodology, participatory science has evolved towards a comprehensive institutional approach. Today, participatory science programs, open science and crowdsourcing initiatives, action research, post-normal science and citizen science research projects are increasingly widespread. The work of John Dewey (1927), Kurt Lewin and Talcott Parsons (1965) and Paolo Freire -- through his contribution to the development of community-based participatory research -- laid the foundations of participatory science as a research paradigm characterized by significant researcher engagement, diversity of knowledge sources and a participatory framework which itself becomes a source of action.

Over the past twenty years, such research methodologies have posited the principle of knowledge symmetry and have sought to foster dialogue between so-called "scholarly," scientific or academic knowledge, so-called "expert" or analogical knowledge and "experiential" knowledge (Gardien, 2017, Amaré, Valran, 2017). This movement, which originated in late 19th-century environmental science research (botany, zoology, geography) for which citizen-collected data proved to be highly valuable, has now become a global phenomenon.

*CFP* "THE (ROARING) TWENTIES", VOL. X, SPECIAL ISSUE, CULTURAL INTERTEXTS

Cultural Intertexts started in 2014, as a result of a yes, we can kind of attitude. The name of the journal was meant to reflect the multi-layered textuality of the world embedded in cultures and embedding cultures in its turn. The first two issues came out at Casa Cărții de Știință Press in a single volume (1-2/ 2014) of 373 pages, with 23 papers on Literature and Cultural Studies, and 11 dealing with Linguistics and Translation Studies. They had all been presented during the 2014 edition of the annual Doctoral Conference of “Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, Romania. Six years have passed, and seven more issues have been added to the collection. As the tenth issue of the journal is to be published in 2020, we feel that it’s high time for statistics.

• 6 years;
• 9 issues, both in print and electronic OA edition;
• 1573 pages;
• 133 peer-reviewed scientific articles and reviews;
• Contributors from: the Czech Republic, Greece, Georgia, Italy, India, Israel, Kuwait, Moldova, Nigeria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Tunisia, Ukraine, the UK and USA;
• Indexing: presence in the following international databases: ERIH+, Ebsco, DOAJ, ProQuest, Index Copernicus, CEEOL; under evaluation by Clarivate Analytics.

*CFP* "TRASGENDER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY", EDITED BOOK

Chapter proposals are invited for the edited book Transgender Science and Technology. Ben Barres The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist provides insights into the lived experience of a prominent scientist who was transgender. This new book extends that work by fostering novel insights into science and technology by viewing them through specifically transgender perspectives. 

This volume is modeled after Dr. Vakoch’s earlier book Transecology: Transgender Perspectives on Environment and Nature. Contributors to that book used major concepts from both ecology and gender studies to examine intimacy, connection, exclusion, identity, and emplacement. For example, these chapters examined Susan Stryker’s notion of trans identity as “ontologically inescapable,” Timothy Morton’s concept of “mesh” to explore the interconnectedness of all beings, Stacy Alaimo’s notion of “trans-corporeality” as a “contact zone” between humans and the environment, Judith Butler’s analysis of gender as “performative,” with those who are not “properly gendered” being seen as “abjects”—and Julia Serano’s contrasting rejection of gender as performance.

*CFP* "HANDBOOK ON DIGITAL BUSINESS ECOSYSTEMS: TECHNOLOGIES, MARKETS, BUSINESS MODELS, MANAGEMENT, AND SOCIETAL CHALLENGES", CHAPTER BOOK

A Digital Business Ecosystem is a network of organizations such as manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, customers, competitors, government agencies, etc. that together create and deliver a specific product or service in a partially of fully digital environment. In analogy to biological ecosystems the term business ecosystem conveys that the actors in the business ecosystem are interdependent and that the system constantly evolves as actors join or depart. Actors also affect each other as they both cooperate to achieve common objectives while competing for scarce resources.

This Handbook provides a comprehensive and detailed exploration of the evolution and current state of Digital Business Ecosystems. The Handbook brings together scholars from various disciplines (business administration and management, economics, computer science, engineering, communication and humanities) and investigates different perspectives (technologies, markets, management, business models, and societal challenges) on Digital Business Ecosystems. This interdisciplinary approach is vital to capture the scope of social, economic and technological factors that interact in the emergence and evolution of Digital Business Ecosystems in order to understand the underlying processes. The Handbook not only provides guidance for researchers unfamiliar with the topic, but also for managers who have to develop and navigate increasingly complex Digital Business Ecosystems for their companies to remain competitive.

*CFP* "WEIRD SCIENCES AND THE SCIENCES OF THE WEIRD", PULSE: THE JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND CULTURE

Recent scientific discoveries in climatology, animal cognition and microbiology have radically altered our conceptions of ourselves and the environment we live in, both on micro and macroscales. Zooming in on the human microbiome and out to the planetary ecosystem, or even further into infinite cosmic spaces, the sciences are revealing strange dynamics of human-nonhuman interconnectedness, doing away with the established anthropocentrism and the idea of human exceptionalism. Current theoretical discussions revolving around the human-environment relation have shifted their interests from discourse to matter, shedding new light on strange bodily assemblages composed of anaerobic bacteria which live in symbiotic relationships with the human body (Jane Bennett, Stacy Alaimo), other types of cognition and intelligent life apart from our own (Steven Shaviro) and, especially, the mechanisms by which human action, no matter how abstract or invisible, contributes to the global ecological transformations (Donna Haraway, Timothy Morton). The ultimate effect of these conceptual transformations is a certain sense of estrangement that is often, but not necessarily, tied to feelings of unease, horror and/or fascination. This specific affect is commonly referred to as the weird because it operates through disrupting our ordinary perception and experience, creating confusion and a sense of disorientation.

*CFP* "THE NEO-VICTORIAN AND LATE-VICTORIAN: TEXTS, MEDIA, POLITICS", CONFERENCE

The Neo-Victorian and the Late-Victorian: Texts, Media, Politics

University of Brighton

3-4 September 2020

The last few decades have witnessed an increasing interest in revisiting, reproducing or rewriting various aspects of nineteenth-century culture, particularly that of the late Victorian period, whether in the form of neo-Victorian literature, steampunk, media archaeology, fashion, documentaries and period dramas, among others. This trend has received various different interpretations, either as part of the recycling of past periods, styles and texts characteristic of postmodernism of the 1980s, of the ‘memory boom’ of the 1990s and the ensuing culture of commemoration, anniversaries and memorialisation, or the most recent signs of a widespread imperial nostalgia, evident not just in various media texts, such as film or television, but also in contemporary political realities like Brexit.

These are only some of the symptoms of this widespread trend and only some instances of the critical approaches that they have received, and this two-day conference seeks to explore this trend from a diverse range of disciplinary, theoretical and methodological perspectives. The specific focus of the conference is on papers that address the dialectic relationship between the two historical periods. We are particularly interested in the ways in which the late-Victorian is re-envisioned and reconceptualised within the neo-Victorian. 

*CFP* "VIOLENCE AND ORDERS", FIRST ISSUE, THE JOURNAL FOR CRITICAL THOUGHT AND RADICAL POLITICS

Since 2015 over 2 million Venezuelans have been forced to flee their country and are now refugees. In 2017 US States passed 129 anti-LGBTQ+ laws. In 2018 half of all women murdered in the UK were killed by their partners. Today Kurdish people are imprisoned as low-ranking members of a non-violent political organisation. Turkish academics are exiled or imprisoned for signing a letter calling for peace. In the US 60% of the prison population are people of colour, despite constituting only a quarter of the population. In Syria 11 million people have been displaced through conflict while 5 million have sought asylum abroad. In the Philippines, President Rodrigo Duterte has urged citizens to murder suspected criminals and drug addicts.

This inaugural issue of Interfere examines orders that systematically produce economic and political violence. It invites contributions that analyse the violence of neo-liberal and neo-conservative logics; the aftermaths of colonialism; forced displacements and immigration politics; technologies of surveillance; and the rise of exclusionary discourses worldwide. We also welcome contributions that analyse resistance to these forms of violence.

*CFP* "RIDICULE AND HUMOUR IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH: THE POLITICS OF LAUGHTER IN THE SOCIAL MEDIA AGE", EDITED COLLECTION

Ridicule and humour, while making people laugh and at times appreciate their conditions of existence or even push them to make alterations – as a capacitor for change – has been one of the accessible ways of coping or bringing about change in society. In some cases it has been the dictators’ ways of resisting change. Daily we encounter humorous engagements thanks to the digitized public spheres which have made these accessible on the click of a button. While humour, ridicule and comedy could be seen as lighter and pleasant forms of and to human communications, identity markers, they have the potential of engendering hatred, violence and hatred based on social, political, ethnic or racial lines. 

However, in some cases attempts at humorously depicting societal ills and perceived realities have led to debates and attitudes that may drive people apart, moreso in ethnically or racially fractious communities like South Africa where the privileged few stained with ‘whiteliness’ and white privilege insist that the world be seen, and understood to function only through the way they see and understand it. In other cases, humour has been critical at providing people with an avenue to face their fears especially during disasters and pandemics like the Coronavirus (Covi-19) and others, political crises such as coups and stolen elections and many others.

*CFP* "MITO Y CIENCIA FICCIÓN", VI CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL DE MITOCRÍTICA

VI Congreso Internacional de Mitocrítica: “Mito y ciencia ficción”

Asociación Internacional de Mitocrítica (Asteria), Universidad Francisco de Vitoria y Universidad Complutense

Universidad Complutense, Av. Séneca, 2, 28040 Madrid (España)

Del 27 al 30 de octubre de 2020

La Asociación Internacional de Mitocrítica (Asteria), la Universidad Francisco de Vitoria y la Universidad Complutense celebran este congreso del 27 al 30 de octubre de 2020. El objetivo es analizar las relaciones entre la ciencia ficción y los mitos: sus diferencias, sus convergencias y subversiones a través de los medios artísticos desde 1900 hasta la actualidad. El plazo para el envío de propuestas termina el 1 de mayo de 2020.

Ejes temáticos:

*CFP* "DIGITAL HEROISMS", PRESS START CONFERENCE

Digital Heroisms

Scotland, University of Glasgow, Sir Alwyn Williams Building

In partnership with the University of Glasgow’s Games and Gaming Lab (GGlab)

 5th June, 2020 

“The power of the fantasy increases if it offers us something genuinely new and compelling. The limitations of our own corporeality can be abolished or the ground rules changed to give us new experiences.”

Kathryn Hume, Fantasy and Mimesis

Where readers once understood heroism through a Gilgamesh, a Frodo or a Katniss, the digital subject can now figure heroism through actions, decisions and events that are in many ways their own. Video gaming has an especial talent for creating heroes that are lived-through by their users, whether this is via the experience of leading characters such as Link through the temples of Hyrule; via choice-based play utilising avatars such as Frisk of Undertale fame; or by creating entirely unique personas in role play games such as Dragon Age. 

*CFP* "TRANSFORMATIONAL POP: TRANSITIONS, BREAKS, AND CRISES IN POPULAR MUSIC (STUDIES)", 4TH BIENNIAL IASPM D-A-CH CONFERENCE

Transformational POP

Transitions, Breaks, and Crises in Popular Music (Studies)

4th Biennial IASPM D-A-CH Conference, 22–24 October 2020

Pop music cultures, in their entire breadth, are seismographs of social, political, economic, ecological, media, artistic, and technological transformations. In and through them, fields of tensions, disruptions, and lines of conflict become not only visible, audible and perceptible, but also communicable and thus, negotiable. Economic and ecological crises, social structural changes, political shifts, communicative-media discourses, atmospheric moods, and disturbances of the most diverse kind cannot be appreciated in isolation from specific sounds, performances, lyrics, images, stars, genres, etc. Therefore, these are always changing in the process: pop music cultures transform and are themselves transformed. “Pop is transformational, always. It is a dynamic movement in which cultural materials and its social environments mutually reshape each other, crossing previously fixed boundaries: class boundaries, ethnic boundaries or cultural boundaries [own translation].“ (Diedrich Diederichsen, Pop – deskriptiv, normativ, emphatisch (1996). In: Charis Goer, Stefan Greif, Christoph Jacke (Eds.): Texte zur Theorie des Pop, 2013: 188)

*CFP* "ENVIRONMENT, NATURE AND COMMUNICATION IN THE ANTHROPOCENE ERA", SPECIAL ISSUE, THE FRENCH JOURNAL OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION SCIENCES

Inscribed in the international public space since the 1970s, the environment is today the source of many communication practices in our societies. It covers a broad and matrix-like discursive perimeter, where notions such as ecology, ecological transition, sustainable development, corporate social responsibility (CSR, which includes an environmental dimension), Anthropocene, and even collapse, reflect physical, economic, political, scientific, but also cultural and symbolic realities that are related but different. These realities are largely present in the field of communication, public and private, professional, expert or lay, strategic or spontaneous. Communication practices are not only an expression but also a vector and a factor in the construction of the cultural presence of nature and the environment, and of the transformations of this presence. Our images of nature, the environment and ecology are (also) communicative and trivial "beings", caught in the constant interaction between science, art, economics, politics, spirituality, society - and personal, more or less mediatized, sensitive experience (that of "mega-fires" and extreme weather events, for example).

At a time when pressures are coordinated and overlapping, whether anthropogenic, climatic, biological, social, political, economic or moral, communication practices play a key role. They are called upon from all sides, invoked to raise awareness, and considered necessary in the emergence of participatory and co-constructed mechanisms. However, these practices - particularly in the area of organizational and strategic communication - are still the victims of suspicions of manipulation and "greenwashing" practiced in the previous decade and still latent and resurgent.

*CFP* "COMPUTATIONAL METHODS AND BIG DATA IN COMMUNICATION RESEARCH", 47 ISSUE, CUADERNOS.INFO JOURNAL

We kindly invite researchers and academics to send us their contributions for the number 47 de Cuadernos.info, titulado Computational Methods and Big Data in Communication Research. Papers referring to other topics of communications may also be submitted to the journal, and will be published in the “General topics” section. 

Guest editors: Carlos Arcila Calderón (Universidad de Salamanca), Wouter Van Atteveldt (VU University Amsterdam) y Damian Trilling (University of Amsterdam).

The increasing amount of social data and the recent incorporation of computational methods into social sciences and humanities are prompting communication research to include novel approaches to study media and communication practices. In this special issue, we invite authors to send proposals that reflect empirical and theoretical work using computational methods that surpass or complement traditional methods applied to communication research. Computational methods might be used to manage both small and big data problems with special interest in the application of machine learning approaches to structured and unstructured data. 

*CFP* “THROUGH A GLASS, DARKLY: SCREENING THE ART WORLD”, EDITED COLLECTION

Most studies of cinema and the visual arts tend to privilege questions of medium specificity and intermediality. Philip Hayward’s edited volume Picture This: Media Representations of Visual Art and Artists (1988) was one of the first scholarly attempts to illuminate the ways in which films mediate the visual arts, specifically painting, photography, sculpture, and architecture. In Art and Artists on Screen (1993) John A. Walker analyzed representations of artists in a selection of films made between the 1930s and the 1980s, focusing on artist biopics in relation to issues of historical accuracy. Angela dalle Vacche’s Cinema and Painting: How Art Is Used in Film (1996) reframed the question of cinema’s relation to art by approaching the work of filmmakers like Minnelli, Antonioni, Rohmer, Goddard, Tarkovsky, Murnau and Mizoguchi as a kind of ‘meta-cinema’ that stages an encounter between cinema and painting. 

Along similar lines, in Art in the Cinematic Imagination (2006) art historian Susan Felleman underscored the self-reflexivity that the presence of art in cinema often gives rise to. Felleman’s later book, Real Objects in Unreal Situations: Modern Art in Fiction Films (2014), continued her preoccupation with art objects in fiction films and the ways in which their historical and political significance exceeds their narrative function. When art objects are screened, Felleman suggested, it is never as mere props. Kimberly Louagie, Jennifer Fisher, and Steven Jacobs have written short pieces on museums and art galleries in film. 

*CFP* "RACISM, NATIONALISM AND XENOPHOBIA", 3RD INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE

3rd International Interdisciplinary Conference

Racism, Nationalism and Xenophobia

8-9 de junio 2020

Gdansk, Poland

It is widely known that ideologies of racism, nationalism, and xenophobia are dangerous and spread all over the world. We want to examine these terms as much as possible, from many perspectives and variable aspects: in politics, society, psychology, culture, and many more. We also want to devote considerable attention to how the phenomena of racism, nationalism and xenophobia are represented in artistic practices: in literature, film, theatre or visual arts.

Our first conference on racism, nationalism and xenophobia took place in March 2016. The second adition was held in June 2018. We hosted over 80 scholars representing universities and research institutions from all over the world.

*CFP* "PERIODISMO CULTURAL EN EL SIGLO XXI (2). TENDENCIAS TRANSMEDIA Y PERFILES PROFESIONALES", CAPÍTULO DE LIBRO

Invitación a participar con un capítulo de libro a académicos del Periodismo y la Comunicación para el libro titulado Periodismo cultural en el siglo XXI (2). Tendencias transmedia y perfiles profesionales. Se trata de un libro centrado en las rutinas de los profesionales especializados en el ámbito cultural y la adaptación a las narrativas transmedia o la aplicación de métodos innovadores en sus rutinas de trabajo (multimedia, formatos digitales, propuestas empresariales, etc.). 

El volumen está coordinado por:

• Montserrat Jurado Martín, profesora de la Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche
• Beatriz Peña Acuña, profesora de la Universidad de Huelva.

Temática:

*CFP* "'ACCESS ALL AREAS?': EXPLORING DISABILITY AND IN/ACCESSIBILITY IN FILM, TELEVISION AND MEDIA", CATHICON 2020 POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE

CATHICon 2020

“Access All Areas?”: Exploring Disability and In/accessibility in Film, Television and Media

Postgraduate Conference hosted by the Cinema and Television History Institute (CATHI), 

De Montfort University, Leicester.

Wednesday 10th June 2020.

Phoenix Independent Cinema, 4 Midland Street, Leicester, LE1 1TG.

Some limited MA travel bursaries are available - please email cath.postgrad@gmail.com for more information.

De Montfort University’s Cinema and Television History Institute (CATHI) is pleased to invite postgraduates, early career researchers and independent scholars to its ninth annual postgraduate conference. This year, the focus of the conference is on issues of accessibility as presented within and by the film, television and media industries. This conference aims to investigate, challenge, and spotlight issues of accessibility in all forms, across all areas of film, television, and media history, culture, production, and pedagogy.

*CFP* "FAKE MEDIA/ FAKE NEWS", SPECIAL ISSUE, THE MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION JOURNAL

Media and Communication / Mediji i komunikacije is an international scientific journal for media, communication, journalism and public relations.

The journal publishes scientific, professional, reviewed, translated articles, book reviews and original research papers from the social sciences and humanities – in the field of media, communication, journalism and public relations.

Only original papers that have not been and will not be published in other publications will be accepted which will be guaranteed by the author, except by special agreement with the publisher of the journal. Publisher reserves the right on published articles, unless otherwise agreed with the author. The journal will publish the papers in Montenegrin, Serbian, Bosnian and Croatian languages, and in English, which were confirmed by two anonymous positive reviews of the international media experts. The author is responsible for the content of the paper.

*CFP* "SEEING THROUGH MACHINES: VISUAL METHODS FOR DIGITAL RESEARCH", A SYMPOSIUM BY THE DIGITAL SOCIETY NETWORK

Seeing through Machines: Visual Methods for Digital Research Symposium

17-19 de Junio de 2020

University of Sheffield, UK

Keynote speakers

Prof. Sabine Niederer, (Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences)

Dr. Tim Highfield (University of Sheffield).

The last decade has been transformational in the use, prominence and importance of images on digital platforms and the web. Image-centric social networks such as Pinterest and Instagram have become culturally influential, Twitter and Facebook have fully integrated images into user timelines, and Google Images is estimated to receive 1 billion page views per day. Iconic photos, scientific charts and memes are now shared at an unprecedented speed and scale, impacting upon public debates about migration, climate change, politics and more. The importance of the digital image in representing, witnessing and interpreting the world around us is unquestionable. Yet, visual methods for digital research remain challenging. Recent years have seen emerging approaches such as visual vernaculars, Instagrammatics, and cross-platform analysis, while the machine-learning field of computer vision presents opportunities for large-scale analysis but also challenges in understanding how images are being categorised and circulated online.

*CFP* “COMMUNICATION, DEMOCRACY AND TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGE: EXPLORING NEW INTERSECTIONS BETWEEN DIGITAL MEDIA AND POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT”, UNIVERSITY OF MINHO 2020 CONFERENCE

Communication, democracy and transformative change: Exploring new intersections between digital media and political engagement 

29-30 de Septiembre de 2020

University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, Portugal

Confirmed keynote speakers 
Natalie Fenton, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Alice Mattoni, University of Bologna

Democracies are under threat in many parts of the world. The emergence of authoritarian and illiberal political forces, and the rise of intolerance in political discourse can be linked to a variety of factors. These include mistrust in political institutions, which in turn has been exacerbated by rampant economic inequality and injustice. Also, populist and xenophobic forms of communication in digital spaces are fueling fear and hatred. Declining diversity and pluralism in mainstream journalism and debate also contribute to the fragile condition of both older and younger democracies. Further, decreasing interest in political news renders citizens less effective in dealing with the forces that shape their lives.

*CFP* "COMMUNICATING HEALTH - FUNDAMENTALS AND PRACTICES TOWARDS A BETTER HEALTH", SPECIAL DOSSIER, PUBLIC COMMUNICATION JOURNAL

The journal Public Communication is a multidisciplinary editorial project focused on the publication of research papers, theoretical essays and critical notes that, regardless of the diversity of perspectives, languages, contexts and goals that characterize them, making the forms of human communication its theme. This is an open access journal and is free of APC charges.

This journal has opened a call for papers for a special dossier. Under the title “Communicating Health – fundamentals and practices towards a better health” (“Comunicar a saúde - fundamentos e práticas para uma melhor saúde”), the current special dossier is calling for papers that bring a significant contribution on the theoretical interpretation or the empirical and applied knowledge of communication in the health context, with a main focus on the interpersonal, organisational and media contexts. Interdisciplinarity and diversity of theoretical paradigms, methodological options, geopolitical arenas and applied communication approaches in health are welcomed.

Concerning the relation ‘better communication / better health’ in interpersonal (therapeutic relation), organisational (literate organisations) and media contexts, our object is to:

*CFP* "STUDYING DIGITAL VULNERABILITIES, VIOLENCES AND RESISTANCE: METHODOLOGICAL CHALLENGES AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL DILEMMAS IN GENDER AND SEXUALITIES RESEARCH”, SYMPOSIUM

‘Studying Digital Vulnerabilities, violences and resistance: methodological challenges and epistemological dilemmas in gender and sexualities research’

2020 12th June, 2020

Centre for Transforming Sexualities and Gender and Centre for Digital Media Cultures,

University of Brighton, East Sussex, UK.

We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the forthcoming symposium entitled ‘Studying Digital Vulnerabilities, violences and resistance: methodological challenges and epistemological dilemmas in gender and sexualities research’.

The symposium is organized jointly by the Centre for Transforming Sexuality and Gender and the Centre for Digital Media Cultures at the University of Brighton, UK. This multidisciplinary symposium aims to bring together academics and professionals, to discuss, advance and exchange ideas on the use of Web-based methods to research social phenomena such as violence, social suffering, intimacy, activism, or inequality.

*CFP* "IMAGINING LATINIDAD: DIGITAL DIASPORAS AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT AMONG LATIN AMERICAN MIGRANTS", EDITED BOOK

This volume interrogates the intersection of digital diasporas to studies on public engagement and social activism, particularly how social platforms and mobile applications enable the creation of virtual communities of Latin American migrants living abroad. Thanks to spaces of socialization like Facebook closed groups, Bulletin Board System (BBS), and WhatsApp groups among others, Latin Americans are able to stay in contact with the culture that they left behind. Members of these groups share information related to their homeland through discussions of food, music, celebrations and other cultural elements. Of course, these groups also discuss news and data related to the political, social, and economic situations of both their host country and their home countries. This everyday interchange encourages cohesion and solidarity, and it strengthens the feelings of belonging even when people may be thousands of kilometers apart. These diasporic virtual communities are not ignorant of the struggles in their homelands; on the contrary, thanks to digital technologies, people from these groups organize public and virtual demonstrations. 

This allows them to construct transnational solidarity chains that denounce injustices and discrimination in their country(ies). The current refugee crises have seen Latin Americans migrate to different parts of their home countries, to other countries in the region, as well as to the United States and Europe. These conditions invite us to reconsider traditional concepts like identity, participation and community under a context of economic depression, social struggle, and a rising hostility toward immigrants on both sides of the Atlantic. This edited book looks for contributions on relevant cases on how Latin Americans use information technologies to build diasporic communities not only to stay in contact with their culture at a distance but to power social activism and to fight back against social and political tribulations in both contexts (homeland and the host country).

"CFP" CALL FOR ARTICLES, ACROSS JOURNAL

ACROSS is a biannual, peer-reviewed online journal which addresses mainly humanities scholars. 

An academic journal of humanities and social sciences edited by the Linguistic Centre of the Cross-border Faculty, Dunarea de Jos University of Galati, Romania. 

Exploring themes of cultural diversity from the interrelated perspectives of cultural studies and history, literary studies, media studies, linguistics and critical discourse analysis, the journal welcomes contributions with a potential for enhancing the global, multicultural dialogue in the ever-changing world of the twenty-first century.

ACROSS promotes research excellence. We are certain that your expertise will help us build a space of imparting knowledge in the field of multiculturalism and multilingualism across the world.

ISSN 2602-1463

*CFP* “PARTICIPATORY SCIENCE: DEMOCRATIC UTOPIA, INNOVATION OR SOCIAL IMPERATIVE?”, THEMATIC ISSUE Nº 56, ÉTUDES DE COMMUNICATION

Thematic issue coordinated by Céline Pascual-Espuny (IMSIC, Aix-Marseille University), Andrea Catellani (LASCO, RECOM, Université catholique de Louvain), Béatrice Jalenques Vigouroux (LERASS, INSA Toulouse).

In recent years, participatory research has expanded considerably in the context of renewed interest in forging links between science and society. While first centered on issues of research methodology, participatory science has evolved towards a comprehensive institutional approach. Today, participatory science programs, open science and crowdsourcing initiatives, action research, post-normal science and citizen science research projects are increasingly widespread. The work of John Dewey (1927), Kurt Lewin and Talcott Parsons (1965) and Paolo Freire -- through his contribution to the development of community-based participatory research -- laid the foundations of participatory science as a research paradigm characterized by significant researcher engagement, diversity of knowledge sources and a participatory framework which itself becomes a source of action.

Over the past twenty years, such research methodologies have posited the principle of knowledge symmetry and have sought to foster dialogue between so-called "scholarly," scientific or academic knowledge, so-called "expert" or analogical knowledge and "experiential" knowledge (Gardien, 2017, Amaré, Valran, 2017). This movement, which originated in late 19th-century environmental science research (botany, zoology, geography) for which citizen-collected data proved to be highly valuable, has now become a global phenomenon.

*CFP* "JOURNEY TO ITALY. STUDYING ITALIAN FILMAND MEDIA BEYOND ITALY", Nº 37, LA VALLE DELL'EDEN JOURNAL

In recent years the academic research conducted outside of Italy on Italian cinema and media has grown consistently. More generally, the field of Italian Studies has expanded significantly in Europe and beyond, and a number of researches on Italian media and cultural industries, and, specifically, on Italian film and TV production, have emerged. While the notion of Italian Studies can be traced back to the anglophone academia, the study of Italian culture and media has grown in recognition in several departments in European and non-Western universities.

This special issue aims at highlighting some of the most relevant areas in the study of Italian film, television, and media, by articulating the historical and theoretical foci, the methodological perspectives, and the most relevant case studies that inform the discipline. This comprehensive research on the state of the art of Italian Studies will include an effort towards mapping the relevant professional associations, conferences, and international journals both in the area of Italian media studies and in the wider network of interdisciplinary studies on Italian culture. Moreover, this special issue will address the relation between academic research and the critical and social discourses on Italian film and media, museums and other cultural institutions, film archives, festivals, and other actors operating in the promotion and distribution of the Italian media production.

*CFP* "MEDIA USE AND POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT: CROSS-CULTURAL APPROACHES", SPECIAL SECTION, THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION

We cordially invite empirical research articles on media use and political engagement taking up a cross-culturally comparative design!

Democracies around the world are struggling with the global decline of civic and political engagement, especially among younger generations (Bessant, Farthing, & Watts, 2016; Smith & Thompson, 2015). Recent  data from World Value Surveys and the Eurobarometer have yielded  alarming results (Whiteley, 2012), showing that young people in most  Western countries are increasingly dissatisfied with and disinterested  in liberal democracy (Foa & Mounk, 2017; Sloam, 2016). At the same  time, this overall decline is paralleled by an increase of new forms  of engagement such as lifestyle politics, Internet activism, and  political consumerism (Dalton, 2004; 2006; Theocharis & van Deth, 2018).

These developments have contributed to a new understanding of citizenship, one in which citizens are increasingly engaging through informal, creative, participatory, and digitally networked activities, thus moving political engagement into the domain of entertainment and personalized communication (Park, Kee, & Valenzuela, 2009). 

*CFP* CALL FOR ARTICLES, SPECIAL ISSUE, REVISTA EMPRESA Y HUMANISMO

The Revista Empresa y Humanismo invites the research community to submit their work for a special issue dedicated to the increase in life expectancy (longevity). Under this term we include all the changes that this increase will cause in all aspects of life:

• In the demographic structure. Greater life expectancy, fewer births
• In the labor market, which will change in line with demographic changes: fewer births, less poultry farmers, pediatricians, teachers and more geriatricians, nursing homes. New productive and service sectors
• Sustainability of the welfare state: pensions, disabilities, degenerative diseases...
• Legislative changes to adapt to these new situations
• New types of leisure. Demand for activities to fill the time of that third age still young and wanting to travel, learn, etc.
• Education: how to prepare a generation that will face so many changes: geographical mobility, adaptation to company changes New models of continuing education are necessary
• Impact of new technologies and their adaptation to all age groups
• What can companies contribute to this new scenario?

*CFP* "CONTEMPORARY STORYTELLING METHODS ACROSS NEW MEDIA AND DISCIPLINES", CHAPTER BOOK

Stories are everywhere around us, from the ads on TV or music video clips, to the more sophisticated stories told by books or movies. Everything comes wrapped in a story and the means employed to weave the narrative thread are just as important as the story itself. In this context, there is a need to understand the role storytelling plays in our contemporary society, which has changed drastically in recent decades. The global society we belong to is no longer exclusively dominated by the time-tested narrative media such as literature or films, because new media such as videogames or social platforms have changed the way we understand, create and replicate stories.

Objective

The chief aim of this book is to provide the relevant theoretical framework which concerns storytelling in modern society, as well as the newest and most varied analyses and case studies in the field. In this sense, the chapters of this volume will follow the construction and interpretation of stories across a plethora of contemporary media and disciplines. By bringing together radical forms of storytelling in traditional disciplines and methods of telling stories across newer media, which are seldom the object of academic inquiry, this book will give a unique and kaleidoscopic picture of stories in today’s world.

*CFP* CALL FOR ARTICLES, VOL. 3, Nº 1 (MAY 2020), HUMANITIES BULLETIN

Humanities Bulletin is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed Journal which features original studies and reviews in the various branches of Humanities, including History, Literature, Philosophy, Arts.

This journal is not allied with any specific school of thinking or cultural tradition; instead, it encourages dialogue between ideas and people with different points of view. Our aim is to bring together different international scholars, in order to promote the dialogue between cultures, ideas and new academic researches.

The Journal is hosted by London Academic Publishing, London, UK.

Frequency: two issues per year.

No publication fee will be charged.

Contact Email: humanities_bulletin@journals.lapub.co.uk

*CFP* "(DIS)CONTINUITIES CULTURES, MARKETS & POLITICS", 2ND COMMUNICATION IN THE DIGITAL AGE SYMPOSIUM

The 2nd Communication in the Digital Age Symposium

(Dis)Continuities Cultures, Markets & Politics

26-28 October 2020

İzmir University of Economics

It was during the early 1900s when processes of communication were for the first time acknowledged as constituent components of social relations in modern societies. Since then, communication studies have flourished and become one of the most active fields of scholarly research mainly due to its interdisciplinarity and its inherent association with everyday life. The past century has been marked by momentous discontinuities and changes – in societal structures, in political organizations, in markets and industries, in everyday technologies and in human thought and interaction in all its forms. All these discontinuities and changes have had an impact on the field, contributing in productive ways to the vibrant flux in communication research and creating ruptures, cleavages, offshoots, camps, and approaches within the discipline. So much so that today some areas of the field are all but unrecognisable. The rise of new forms of ICTs just over the last few decades, for instance, are forcing communication scholars to embrace enormous challenges. 

*CFP* "NON-NORMATIVE SEXUALITY AND POPULAR CULTURE", 2020 ISSUE, PANIC AT THE DISCOURSE: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL

We invite submissions for the 2020 issue of Panic at the Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Journal, an online publication associated with Queen’s University. Papers spanning any discipline are welcome, and in particular, we support new and innovative ways of theorizing that do not necessarily fit within traditional frameworks. 

Sexuality is shaped by social structures, cultural values and discourses that determine normative and acceptable behaviours and practices. We welcome work that examines representations and interactions of non-normative sexuality and popular culture. This happens through multiple mediums, including film, television, and other media in terms of portrayal, audience, and reception. Submissions may include, but are not limited to, topics related to:

• BDSM and kink
• Disability and sexuality
• Indigenous sexuality
• Polyamory and non-monogamy 
• Gender variance (including GNC and enby) and sexuality
• LGBTQ2S

*CFP* "GAMES AND PERSONA", SPECIAL ISSUE, PERSONA STUDIES JOURNAL

Games have provided players with many opportunities to experiment with identity in ways that have fundamentally shaped social media platforms. As Apperley and Clemens (2017) have argued, networked digital media have embraced the avatar as the predominant form for the presentation of the public self online. Games also have a vibrant role in the performance of the self that is affectively charged. Because of this, games and persona interconnect beyond the virtual self of the avatar, through esports, cosplay, wikis, criticism and review and many other mediated forms of expression. 

The interaction between games and persona represent agency in the negotiation of complex personal, public and intimate selves which collapse the remnant distinctions between the online and off. Game developers, for example, from mainstream legends to ‘indie’ heroes and aspiring innovators, like most workers in the creative industries, must maintain online personas as part of their professional lives. The demand for such personas results in complex interactions and micro-publics between peers, colleagues, fans and consumers that are now routine to the firmament of participatory culture, with serious potential for success and controversy.

*CFP* "PERIODISMO AMBIENTAL EN LA ERA DEL ANTROPOCENO. REPRESENTACIONES CULTURALES DEL CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO EN LOS SIGLOS XX Y XXI", REVISTA HALAC: HISTORIA AMBIENTAL LATINOAMERICANA Y CARIBEÑA

El principal atributo que transforma la historia ambiental en un campo multidisciplinario capaz de integrar con éxito la naturaleza en la historia humana es su variedad de enfoques. Este atributo permite una nueva lectura de los desequilibrios ambientales bajo una luz histórica. La investigación ambiental como objeto de estudio histórico todavía está en desarrollo, y las transformaciones producidas con el tiempo a través de las interacciones del hombre con la naturaleza determinan, en parte, los crecientes conflictos socioambientales vinculados a la explotación de los recursos naturales.

Por otro lado, hoy el mundo enfrenta grandes problemas ambientales como resultado de factores sociales, demográficos, políticos y económicos. El cambio climático, la falta de agua segura y la contaminación del aire se encuentran entre los principales problemas ambientales. Debido al gran progreso tecnológico y al mayor uso de los recursos ecológicos, la población humana es responsable de las generaciones presentes y futuras en términos de desarrollo sostenible. En Este sentido, las crisis ambientales son ciertamente consecuencias de una gestión inadecuada del medio ambiente.

*CFP* "SILVER SCREENS: AGEING MASCULINITIES IN FILM AND VISUAL CULTURE", CONFERENCE

Silver Screens: Ageing Masculinities in Film and Visual Culture

hosted by Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI Galway

Sept 4-5 2020

Film and Visual Cultures [TV; advertising; photography; media] are instrumental not only in reflecting but in constructing and reinforcing popular images and narratives of ageing. In recent years such narratives have gained special pertinence with the demographic shift to older populations across European and western nations.

As cinema audiences, too, are “greying”, it is to be expected that explorations of the theme of ageing and representations of mature characters are becoming more popular and diverse.

This is confirmed by the success of recent European films such as The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011), Amour (2012), 45 Years (2015), Toni Erdmann (2016), Youth (2016) or A Man Called Ove (2018), among others. However, despite this evident rise of older film characters, critical studies on ageing to date have been largely limited to selected examples in the context of Hollywood, while analyses of gendered ageing have primarily focused on images of older women as actors and characters. Through this conference and resulting publication we aim to redress this lacuna.

*CFP* "THE ANALOGUE IDYLL: DISCONNECTION, DETOX AND DEPARTURE FROM THE DIGITAL WORLD", CONFERENCE

The Analogue Idyll: Disconnection, Detox and Departure from the Digital World

7 July 2020

University of Winchester

Life’s better connected. So say today’s global media and telecommunications conglomerates. Yet, while government policy papers, development discourses, pop science articles and big tech advertising campaigns recurrently extol the virtues of digital connectivity, the last decade has seen a rising tide of digital discontent in the global north. Amidst proliferating public fears about dataveillance, social media addiction and vanishing forms of pre-digital sociality, a mounting sense of unease has surfaced around the material practices and cultural imperatives of constant connectivity.

The Analogue Idyll is a one-day symposium (7 July 2020) hosted by the Culture-Media-Text Research Centre at the University of Winchester. The symposium will investigate narratives, representations, practices and imaginaries of digital disconnection and offlinism in contemporary social life. This event will bring together scholars from across the social sciences, arts and humanities who are working on topics that broadly engage or intersect with the theme of ‘the analogue idyll’. 

*CFP* "GENDER IN ACTION FILMS (1980-NOW)", CHAPTER BOOK

Rationale: 2022 sees the fortieth anniversary of cinematic action icon, John Rambo. From his first outing as an embittered, lonely, scarred relic of the Vietnam War to his latest gung-ho, all-guns blazing, machete-chopping, dynamiting Trump-value supporting outing, Rambo remains an important part of the action film.

But in those forty years, not only has Rambo’s political outlook changed, so has the action film. More expansive, expensive, and certainly as divisive than ever, films such as the Die Hard franchise and The Expendables trilogy offer nostalgia-laden views of their action commanders, whilst the films of Jason Statham offer a new type of male action hero, where vulnerability remains key. Yet, the rise in popularity of the female action hero since the turn of the millennium, shows that with films such as Salt, In the Blood and Atomic Blonde, characters like Hanna, Katniss Everdeen and Diana Prince, and actors Angelina Jolie, Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez and Michelle Yeoh that the genre and all its offshoots are worthy of further gender investigation.

*CFP* "FICTIONAL REPRESENTATIONS OF NERDS AND LONELINESS ACROSS VARIOUS MEDIA AND CULTURES", SPECIAL ISSUE, THE INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH JOURNAL

Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal, in association with SOAS and the University of Oxford, is delighted to announce the latest opportunity to contribute to a special issue, on the theme of Fictional representations of nerds and loneliness across various media and cultures.

We are looking for contributions which explore fictional representations of nerds and loneliness across various media and cultures. Traditionally associated with a particular niche culture, nerds entered the mainstream through popular formats such as the highly successful TV show The Big Bang Theory (2007-2019) in the early 21st Century. Besides, the pervasiveness of the popular image of nerds has crossed linguistic borders and depictions of nerds are frequent beyond the Anglo-American context, as attested by the term nerd being widely used in languages such as Italian or German.

Full details on the call, along with how to submit are available online.

*CFP* “IMAGES SECONDES: POST-CINEMA PRACTICES OF RESEARCH AND CREATION”, SPECIAL ISSUE, THE IMAGES SECONDES JOURNAL

The third issue of the French journal Images secondes questions the heuristic and critical potential of the notion of "post-cinema" in the context of a general reflection on the "reconfigurations" (de Rosa and Hediger, 2016) of the cinematic medium in the age of networked digital media. We agree with Shane Denson and Julia Leyda that if post-cinematic media "concern the emergence of a new 'structure of feeling' or 'episteme', new forms of affect or sensibility", then "traditional scholarly forms and methods for investigating these issues are unlikely to provide adequate answers" (Denson & Leyda, 2016: 6).

For this reason, this issue of Images secondes will give priority to contributions that depart from the traditional forms of academic publishing to develop formats which explore the unique potentialities of online dissemination. As the goal of this issue is to investigate the complex and polyhedral relationships between cinema and online new media, we see this as an ideal opportunity to explore the epistemological potential of practice- based research, artistic research, research-creation and "performative" research (Haseman, 2006). We therefore invite contributors to propose written articles, but also video formats, hypertexts, visual, sound, interactive, hypermedia works...

*CFP* "CORONAVIRUS IN THE MEDIA: EARLY RESPONSES TO COVID-19 IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE", CHAPTER BOOK

Chapter proposals are invited for an edited book examining portrayals of the coronavirus in diverse print, broadcast, and online media, including but not limited to newspapers, magazines, social media, television, podcasts, and popular culture.

The book will be published in December 2020. Interested authors should send a 300-word abstract, 200-word biography, and sample of a previously published chapter or article to Douglas Vakoch, PhD, at dvakoch@ciis.edu by April 3, 2020. Authors whose proposals have been accepted will be notified by April 6, 2020, and full chapters are due by June 1, 2020. The book targets an academic and professional audience, and all chapters should include scholarly references. Preference will be given to authors who have completed their doctorates. Only previously unpublished works will be considered. This book will appear in the series Environment and Society, which includes such works as Environment, Social Justice, and the Media in the Age of the Anthropocene. 

Though the book will focus on media portrayals of the coronavirus, proposals for introductory chapters that provide broader scientific and cultural context for understanding the coronavirus and COVID-19 are also invited. In addition to chapters written from the perspective of such disciplines as communication, media studies, and popular culture, contributions from other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences are also encouraged. 

*CFP* "FILMMAKERS' THEORY AND POETICS – AN (A NEW) APPROACH TO FILM THEORY?", CHAPTER BOOK

Filmmakers’ reflection about their own artwork or about cinema has been constant in the history of the seventh art. The main goal of this book is to help bridge the gap between film theory and the filmmakers’ thought and poetics, therefore creating a new theoretical framework. Filmmakers have had an understanding of both their own artwork and cinema that the more traditional, academic theory cannot put aside. On the one hand, we consider that the most important sources to develop and expand film theory are direct ones, namely the films, interviews, books, texts, manifestos written by the filmmakers themselves. On the other hand, "filmmaker" is a concept that covers not only the director but also everyone involved in the filmmaking process with original and stimulating reflections on cinema, that is, with pertinent and valuable contributions to the cinematic art, like actors, screenwriters, cinematographers, producers, etc. Furthermore, we intend to find a balance in bibliographic references that should include scientific scopus references as much as interviews, statements or any written texts by the filmmakers. Likewise, filmography is intended to bring a fundamental support to the rethinking of film theory in the sense that a filmmaker’s filmography should include unfinished films.

*CFP* "PROVOKING PRACTICE: NEW FORMS OF IMPACT, REACH AND SIGNIFICANCE. RETHINKING THE CULTURAL VALUE OF CREATIVE PRACTICE IMPACT, REACH AND SIGNIFICANCE", MPE/MECCSA PRACTICE NETWORK 2020 SYMPOSIUM

MPE/MeCCSA Practice Network Symposium

25th June 2020

School of Media Arts and Technology, Solent University Southampton (UK)

This Practice Network Symposium aims to frame practice-led, practice-based, practice as research and research for creative practice through the lens of research impact as we run up to 2021 REF. We especially invite responses from practitioners engaged in any research related activities across the range of media represented by MeCCSA, whose practice presentations can respond to questions, themes and ideas that include, but are not limited to:

*CFP* "COMUNICACIONES LIBRES E INTERCAMBIO DE EXPERIENCIAS", MESA DE JÓVENES INVESTIGADORES, CINCOMA I CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL DE INNOVACIÓN EN COMUNICACIÓN Y MEDIOS AUDIOVISUALES

Cincoma, I Congreso Internacional de Innovación en Comunicación y Medios Audiovisuales

21, 22 y 23 de octubre de 2020

Hospedería del Colegio Arzobispo Fonseca de la Universidad de Salamanca

Este Congreso de carácter internacional nace como espacio de reflexión en las disciplinas de Comunicación, Periodismo, Publicidad y Relaciones Públicas. Pretende ser un espacio abierto en el que docentes, comunidad investigadora, profesionales y alumnado de post-grado puedan dar difusión a los resultados de sus trabajos. La primera edición se celebrará en Salamanca durante los días 21, 22 y 23 de octubre de 2020.

CINCOMA nace con la idea de que esta sea la primera de muchas ediciones y con la intención de que la sede sea itinerante. En un mundo casi virtual, CINCOMA pretende ser un Congreso preferentemente presencial pues creemos que este tipo de eventos pueden fomentar en mayor medida el intercambio de experiencias y desarrollar con mayor facilidad redes personales, a la vez que encontrar oportunidades para generar nuevos proyectos; no obstante, también habrá una línea virtual.

*CFP* "SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN POPULAR CULTURE", EDITED COLLECTION

Since the explosion of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements in late 2017, gendered and sexual violence have never been more visible, discussed, and debated in Western culture. While a survey of recent television and film texts might demonstrate a related shift in how some stories of sexual violence are told, these texts do not necessarily represent a shift in the power structures of media production, the demographics of those telling such stories, or even a more nuanced understanding of rape and rape culture (Byrne & Toddeo, 2019; Jermyn, 2017; Pinedo, 2019).

As Sarah Projansky so powerfully argued in her classic text Watching Rape (2001), the media is a site in which ideas about sexual violence are not only reflected but, also, socially and culturally constructed. The recent growth in feminist scholarship on sexual and gendered violence in the media (Boyle, 2019; Clarke, 2014; Horeck, 2018; Joy, 2019; Magestro, 2015; Oliver, 2016; Phillips, 2016) points to a growing understanding of the relationship between rape culture and culture more broadly. However, such an understanding seems to have little effect on the amount of dead or raped girls showing up on our screens. In fact, the trope of the victimized young woman is more popular than ever, mobilized in a range of contemporary, “post-television” texts spanning a variety of genres, including shows such as Game of Thrones, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, You, The Fall, Thirteen Reasons Why, Unbelievable, Outlander, and The Handmaid’s Tale. 

*CFP* "RYAN MUPRHY: GENRE, GENDER AND AUTHORSHIP", EDITED COLLECTION

In his 20 years in the US television industry Ryan Murphy has amassed a large and diverse body of television work. Murphy exemplifies the modern TV mogul, operating as an executive producer, creator, showrunner, writer and director on a wide range of series. Murphy is well-known for creating or co-creating Nip/Tuck (FX 2003-2010), Glee (FOX 2009-2015), American Horror Story (FX 2011-), Scream Queens (FOX 2015-2016), American Crime Story (FX 2016-), Feud (FX 2017), Pose (FX 2018-), 9-1-1 (FOX 2018-) and The Politician (Netflix 2019-), among others. 

In 2018, Murphy signed an unprecedented $300 million deal with streaming giant Netflix to create content for the platform for the next five years. Murphy’s television series and made-for-TV movies have been distributed across broadcast, cable and streaming, and they have a distinct recognizable style and aesthetic. Murphy has re-popularised the television anthology format and is known for his camp aesthetics and experiments with genre, form and style. Murphy’s television series often champion underdogs and non-traditional lead characters, such as people of colour, minoritized women, trans* and non-binary characters and people who are diverse in their sexuality, gender, and/or sex characteristics. While these characters may be marginalized in other television series, in Murphy’s series they are rendered in complex and dynamic ways, challenging and subverting gender and genre expectations.

*CFP* "CITIZEN PARTICIPATION AND COMMUNICATION”, ISSUE 46, JULY 2020, QUADERNS DEL CAC

The emergence of the platforms and applications supported by the network has brought attention again on citizen participation in communication. It has gone from Cloutier's transmitter-receiver idea to Tofler, Tapscott and Jenkins' prosumer to Bruns' produser. From the passive audience to the active audience that generates engagement. Everything leads in the second decade of the 21st century to the formulation of the paradigm of participation in audience research (Livingstone).

In terms of practices, there are two dominant manifestations: 1) citizens' demands to participate in the public media (right of access, governance); 2) the demand to exercise their rights to freedom of expression and information, and direct access to technology, which gives rise to alternative communication movements (free, community, proximity and third sector radios).

*CFP* "DIASPORIC POLITICAL COMMUNICATION: THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL PERSPECTIVES", CHAPTERS BOOK

The pace of immigration from the Middle East has accelerated over the past decade, and for many reasons. The most notable of these is the political instability triggered by the failure of the 2011 Arab uprisings. The region has also seen significant political transformations in addition to these pivotal uprisings, such as the 2009 Iranian Green revolution, the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt, and the continuing Kurdish and Palestinian struggles for independence.

2019 presents the rebirth of Arab uprisings in some other countries (Sudan, Algeria, Lebanon and Iraq), and the acceleration of political and economic oppression in others. There are many Iranian towns which are experiencing new waves of demonstrations, and, in Turkey, new laws have been passed to stabilise the regime after the coup d'état attempt. The possibility of yet another rise in immigration to Western countries and elsewhere has therefore increased, adding to the importance of diasporic communities. Based on this premise, we invite researchers to examine the role and influence of Middle Eastern diasporic communities on the political developments in their countries of heritage and of residence.

*CFP* “YOUNG PEOPLE ENCOUNTERING MEDIATED DEATH: TRAUMATIC TEXTS, EMOTIONAL RESONATION AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF DEATH”, SPECIAL EDITION, MORTALITY JOURNAL

Emotionally charged depictions of death play an important role in much contemporary media directed toward teen and young adult audiences. Across creative works as diverse as interactive digital games, graphic novels, short form serial narratives, television and films, young people gain opportunities to engage with representations of death that position the deceased as a multi-dimensional person whose loss is tragic and demands to be mourned. In some cases, such as the Netflix show 13 Reasons Why, and the major motion picture Me Before You, representations of death, dying, and the decision to end one’s own life have been subject to public outcry and criticism. Such responses relate not only to the content of the work, but also to its perceived potential impact on impressionable audiences. Death in/as entertainment is often fleeting, commonplace and recurrent making it trivial, or illusory when it is shown to be reversible or transformational, particularly in the context of games culture, where the death of a playable character is ubiquitous, illusory, and often carries little consequence.

While such depictions are commonplace, the popularity of young adult fiction which engages with terminal illness, murder, suicide, and the deaths of siblings, parents, and friends suggests that there is market, both economically and socially, for deeper stories and representations of mortality and grief. Measured portrayals of the social and psychological impact of dying and loss are potentially highly influential for younger audiences preoccupied with self and identity, acquiring interpersonal maturity and formulating their relationship with the external world. 

*CFP* "FORESEEING RACE: THE TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE OF RISK PREDICTION AFTER DATALOGICAL TURN", SPECIAL ISSUE, JOURNAL OF AMERICAN STUDIES

Journal of American Studies. The current crisis of legitimacy in Big Tech and AI provides an opening for forceful scholarly criticism of predictive and surveillant technologies’ impacts on social life. The erosion of the supposed trustworthiness and beneficence of the industry as a whole, and the Big Four (Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon) in particular, has precipitated a discursive disillusionment with tech. And, while this has raised questions of technological racism in certain segments, the broader role that race plays in driving the bad actions of the tech industry remains underreported and undertheorized. Perhaps more importantly, there is a real opportunity here to imagine forms of struggle and liberation that /may/ arise through tech, but certainly will not do so by themselves. In other words, by focusing on racialized technology in an American context, we hope to intervene in assumptions that the answer to these forms of racism is merely “better” technology, or instead depends on a rethinking of the terms of the discussion.

To name one controversial example: Big Data surveillance and risk prediction have recently gained prominence within public safety and law enforcement circles. Algorithmic decision-aids, which encode criminological theories about crime rates and process vast amounts of data into patterns and trends, have applications that range across several fields from sentencing and the anticipation of recidivism to predictive policing. Even though it remains unclear to what extent predictive crime analytics systems absorb human biases, the technology is already widespread in the US, UK, and continental Europe.