*CFP* "COMUNICAR SOBRE LA CRISIS CLIMÁTICA EN LA ERA COVID-19: CONEXIONES, INNOVACIONES Y NUEVOS RETOS", VOL. 28, Nº 3, REVISTA ESTUDIOS SOBRE EL MENSAJE PERIODÍSTICO

Comunicar adecuadamente el problema climático en una sociedad inmersa en sobreinformación y desinformación presenta no pocas dificultades. Pero también es cierto que, ahora más que nunca, los periodistas cuentan con herramientas de fact checking y con posibilidades de acceso y manejo de big data que abren grandes oportunidades para informar en una época marcada por el uso de plataformas, blogs, redes sociales e interacción con el público.

Los medios de comunicación también tienen mucho que aportar en la promoción de la  Education for Environmental Citizenship (EEC), que busca desarrollar en la ciudadanía las competencias necesarias para lograr una implicación cívica activa y crítica (ENEC, 2018), especialmente por parte de las generaciones más jóvenes. Precisamente The Oslo Metropolitan University ha mostrado su preocupación por llegar mejor a este colectivo, celebrando a finales de 2020 la conferencia Improving Climate Journalism, Engaging the Youth. En ella se debatió sobre cómo debería ser un buen periodismo que informe sobre la crisis climática con rigor científico al tiempo que sea innovador y atractivo para audiencias a las que los medios tradicionales no siempre llegan.

*CFP* "COMEDY IN CRISIS", MIXED BILL: COMEDY AND GENDER RESEARCH NETWORK CONFERENCE

Comedy in Crisis Conference

Mixed Bill: Comedy and Gender Research Network

Birmingham City University, 14th and 15th January 2022

 

During the current COVID-19 pandemic, comedy (and social uses of humour) have become increasingly vital as a method of coping with adversity on both a local and global scale. Shared laughter can provide a temporary relief from the anxieties that continue to dominate a socially distanced existence, and thus bring people together whilst physically apart. In this context temporary humour communities have become increasingly significant. This conference will creatively explore how comedy (both in terms of content and industrial practices related to live and mediated forms) adapts and engages with times of crisis.

Although we anticipate a significant amount of discussion will look to recent events related to the pandemic, we also actively seek presentations engaging with wider conceptions of personal, social, political and environmental crises. We therefore invite abstracts for presentations, performances and creative responses on the following topics. Note our examples below are from a UK context, but please do not let that constrain your responses:

*CFP* LOBBYING FOR (IN)ACTION: CLIMATE EMERGENCY, INTEREST GROUPS AND DENIAL", SPECIAL ISSUE, ÁMBITOS: REVISTA INTERNACIONAL DE COMUNICACIÓN

This special issue theme is found at the intersection of climate change denial and interest groups (like lobbies, think tanks and any type of advocacy organization). The special issue aims to encourage researchers in any area of the social sciences to focus on the role of interest groups in delaying climate policies through an awareness of the complexity of climate change denial. We therefore invite papers related to this complexity promoting climate inaction and the current climate crisis pertaining, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Strategic communication, public relations and media coverage of interest groups involved in climate inaction: media representation, lobbies and think tanks’ rhetoric, discourse analysis, discursive networks, communication strategies, etc. 
• Public Affairs, interest groups theory and practice connected to climate inaction: institutional relations, profiles of key pressure groups, network coalitions, the political economy of lobbies and think tanks, etc. 
• Anthropocentrism and speciesism in climate inaction connected to interest groups: animal agriculture lobbies, dietary guidelines and lobbies, think tanks related to the industry, etc. 

*CFP* "COMMUNICATION IN DEFENSE OF NONHUMAN ANIMALS DURING AN EXTINCTION AND CLIMATE CRISIS", SPECIAL ISSUE, JOURNALISM AND MEDIA JOURNAL

As modern science and critical scholarship are recognizing nonhuman animals as fellow subjects and conscious, sentient beings with interests deserving of respect, moral dilemmas abound as humanity acknowledges the threats our activities pose to human and nonhuman animal life, including the sixth mass extinction and anthropogenic climate change. In this Special Issue, we aim to focus on the impact this environmental havoc is having on nonhuman animals living in nature (including those free roaming animals who coexist in our urban spaces) and the vital role that media and communication play in contributing to and remedying these crises. 

We invite concerned scholars to explore how issues affecting “wildlife” are constructed in media discourses or perceived and acted upon by media audiences/publics (media is broadly defined to include journalism, film and television, advertising, social media, or campaigns). Consider any of the following issues affecting animals in nature to critically interrogate from a communication and representation perspective:

*CFP* CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS, "ECO_MEDIA III: EVER-NEWER NORMALS", RMIT UNIVERSITY (MELBOURNE)

 eco_media III: ever-newer normals

eco_media 

RMIT University, Melbourne ( and online)

31 August, 2021

 

 

The eco_media project will run its third annual symposium in 2021. The symposium’s steering panel invites proposals for papers that sit at the nexus of theory, philosophy, empirical research, and creative practice. The aim of the eco_media project is to understand how environmental issues, questions, and concerns are communicated through media forms, and to play at the borders of disciplines including media and environmental studies, philosophy, and communication theory.

*CFP* LLAMADA A PARTICIPACIÓN, II CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL DE COMUNICACIÓN DEL CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO

II Congreso Internacional de Comunicación del Cambio Climático

13 y 14 de octubre (Presencial y virtual)

Facultad de Ciencias de la Información. Universidad Complutense de Madrid

 

El aumento de la información sobre cambio climático en los medios, de manera más acentuada en el último lustro, va de la mano de un creciente interés académico por analizar la comunicación sobre los que los geólogos denominan la nueva era del antropoceno.

El II Congreso Internacional de Comunicación del Cambio Climático (CCCC 2021) trata de generar un espacio académico donde los distintos agentes implicados en los procesos comunicativos sobre el cambio climático; cooperen e intercambien herramientas, investigaciones y metodologías en este área. El Congreso está coorganizado por el Departamento de Comunicación Aplicada y el Departamento de Periodismo y Nuevos Medios de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Información de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Colaboran el grupo de investigación GECA, el Instituto Universitario de Desarrollo y Cooperación, Complutenses X el Clima y CREAV.

*CFP* "VISUALIZING CLIMATE CRISIS", NEW ISSUE, VISUAL STUDIES JOURNAL

Visual Studies Journal in collaboration Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool invite thematic and illustrated essays in traditional format (6-8,000 words) that critically and conceptually examine how we come to see, understand, and respond to climate crisis. 

By foregrounding the visual as an optic to better understand and examine these pertinent and timely issues, we welcome proposals that examine:

• How artists, activists, communities, and institutions deploy the use of photography and visual culture as a way of understanding the past, present and future impacts on communities, audiences, and people around the globe.
• Specific works of art and art practices that either historically or contemporaneously explore issues of climate crisis.
• Critique the role and relationship between galleries, museums, institutions and issues of climate crisis, advocacy, and education.
• Climate migrancy, the history of land and water management, food, and agricultural processes and/or the impact of food, clothing, and electrical consumption in relation to climate crisis.
• Food, biodiversity, recycling, land and water use, climate and race justice, architecture, non-human animals, and alternative energy sources as issues related to the climate crisis, either negatively or positively.

*CFP* "RESEARCHING CLIMATE CHANGE COMMUNICATION: METHODOLOGICAL CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN THE DIGITAL ERA", 1ST INTERNATIONAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE ON SPATIAL METHODS

Researching Climate Change Communication: Methodological Challenges and 

Opportunities in the Digital Era

23rd, September- 26th September, 2021

Online

Over the years, communication scholars have used multiple methods to research and analyse climate change discourses. In the advent of new media technologies, climate change communication and discourses have spanned from the traditional modes of communication such as the radio, print and television to emerging platforms including the social media.

 

This has transformed the ways audiences encode and interpret issues revolving around climate change. In addition, the emergence of social media technologies allows researchers to analyse data on the dynamics of climate change debates with unprecedented breadth and scale. These platforms have expanded the research areas for studying changing patterns in interpersonal and institutional communication on climate change. At the same time this development has brought new methodological challenges and opportunities for studying content, context and climate change representations. This session is aimed at stimulating innovative investigations into the conceptual and methodological challenges and or opportunities of climate change communication research in the emergent new media digital technologies and directions for future researchers from an African perspective.

*CFP* "CONTEMPORARY FICTIONS OF MIGRATION AND EXILE: WRITING DIASPORA IN THE 21ST CENTURY", SPECIAL ISSUE, INTERNATIONAL TOP-TIER JOURNAL

James Procter (2007) defines 'diaspora' as both a geographical phenomenon and a theoretical concept that stands for the physical movement of people from one area to another, and for a particular way of understanding world order and cultural representations. Literature mirrors some of the most immediate challenges that contemporary society has to face as migration has turned 'glocal'. Many characteristics that shape contemporary migratory movements depend on the destination sought, the circumstances that force them, and the links maintained with the country of origin. This special issue is interested in exploring the ways in which contemporary fiction writes legal, illegal migration and the different shades between both. 

The European Union, as a comfort zone (Cafruny and Ryner 2003; Schmidt 2006; Geddes 2008) and the border between Mexico and the U.S., as a conflict zone (Anzaldúa 1987; Tokatlian 2000; Staudt 2008) are two of most productive 'diaspora spaces' (Brah 1996) for analysing the subaltern position of the migrant subject through literature, although not the only ones. Transoceanic movements of Afghan, Somali and/or Syrian refugees that seek shelter, the case of Hongkongers whose flexible citizenship has allowed them to ameliorate political risks, or the Windrush Generation being sent back to Jamaica by the UK Home Office are some of the myriads of diasporic experiences of interest for contemporary authors.

*CFP* "JOURNALISM, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND REPORTING SYNERGISTIC EFFECTS OF THE ANTHROPOCENE", SPECIAL ISSUE, JOURNALISM PRACTICE

This special issue of Journalism Practice looks at the complexities of communicating climate change and its daily outcomes often covered in the news, including widespread flooding, heat waves, brownouts, and climate migration, at a time when accelerating warming is spreading environmental change to populations across the globe. Environmental change is compounded by synergistic effects of global pandemics, evidenced by COVID-19 in 2020, and motivations of capitalism and consumption, population growth, conflict, and social contestation. Indeed, COVID-19 was an intersection of pollution, social behavior, mobility, and inequality, which journalists were forced to cover while also tracking the virus, death, and resiliency.

Transformations sweeping journalism industries and shifts in media-state relations around the world have led to tumultuous changes and challenges in how journalists are able to identify, cover, and explain the causes of climate change, the possible solutions, and predict environments of the future while dealing with a multitude of crises.

*CFP* "MOBILIZING NARRATIVES: NARRATING (IM)MOBILITY INJUSTICE", EDITED COLLECTION

I am pulling together an Edited Collection called Mobilizing Narratives: Narrating (Im)Mobility Injustice. 

I would like to invite you to consider submitting a chapter.

Edward Said's summation that "we live in a period of migration, of forced travel and forced residence, that has literally engulfed the globe” (Culture and Resistance, 2003) is an apt description of the riveting and pervasive nature of (im)mobility in contemporary times. Wars, climate change, pandemics, economic recessions, and social and cultural inequalities all contribute to coerce individuals as well as communities into forced movement or imposed immobility. This collection of articles seeks to investigate the injustices related to free circulation as represented in literary texts.

I am particularly interested in interdisciplinary approaches conjugating literary studies and mobility studies. Articles should also investigate injustices attending (im)mobility.

*CFP* "BEYOND THE 2ºC BUSINESS AND POLICY TRAJECTORIES TO CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION", EDITED BOOK

We are accepting contributions from international scholars and practitioners that work at the interface of in business and policy, as well as related fields such as economics, management, development studies, finance, and entrepreneurship. The contributions can:

• Shed new light on our understanding of climate-related vulnerabilities and risks
• Present new and emerging processes for internalizing adaptation approaches
• Identify new barriers to large scale and/or local climate change adaptation
• Explore the synergies and trade-offs in adaptation
• Investigate approaches to overcoming conflicts in business and policy adaptation trajectories

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit abstracts of no more than 500 words, a bibliography for their proposed chapter, and a CV by June 30th, 2020.

*CFP* "LITERATURE FOR CHANGE: HOW EDUCATORS CAN PREPARE THE NEXT GENERATION FOR A CLIMATE-CHALLENGED WORLD", CHAPTER BOOK

Essays or K-12 lesson/unit plans analyzing how literature frames a specific environmental concern are invited from educators around the world. Contributions will be organized in an instructional follow-up resource to Confronting Climate Crises through Education: Reading Our Way Forward (2018). Intended to support educators’ implementation of literature-based interdisciplinary climate instruction, the project is titled Literature for Change: How Educators Can Prepare the Next Generation for a Climate-Challenged World. The collection will be published by Lexington Books, a division of Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 

Essays or lesson/unit plans should analyze the ways a particular text/film (or group of works) handles an environmental concern. Submissions should explore the ways in which the literature helps frame the concern but may also be focused on patterns of human behavior that underlie or contribute to it—for example, studying the merits of scientific progress and human ambition in relation to effects on social connections and the natural environment.

*CFP* "MEDIA AND THE CLIMATE CRISIS", SPECIAL ISSUE, THE NORDIC JOURNAL OF MEDIA STUDIES

As a complex and systemic problem of collective action (in the Anthropocene), the climate crisis poses challenges on a new scale. They range from translating scientific knowledge to sustainable policy, from debating radical changes in energy supply and infrastructures to discussions of everyday consumer choices, from dialogues about identity and historical justice to the risks and scenarios of the future (which has gained ever more immediacy). 

Towards the end of the 2010s, the gap between hopeful scenarios and the real trajectories of climate change became increasingly severe. Politically, the short-lived optimism of the 2015 Paris Agreement waned under the pressure. As a result, national decision-making structures are weakened by a conjuncture of political polarisation where climate policies intersect with issues of immigration, identity, and inequality both between and within countries.The ambitious target of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius seems to be slipping away – and the predictions of concerned scientists are increasingly pessimistic. At the same time, global media is filled with signs of the crisis: unforeseen fires, devastating floods and draughts – to name the obvious, dramatic examples – but also news of widening civic protests calling for climate action.