*CFP* "REFLECTIONS AND REVERSALS. SYMBIOSIS BETWEEN POLITICAL COMMUNICATION AND AUDIOVISUAL FICTION", III INTERNACIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF POLITICAL COMMUNICATION

 Reflections and reverslas. Symbiosis between political communication and audiovisual fiction

III International Symposium of Political Communication

Faculty of Philology and Communication

University of Barcelona

December 2-3, 2021

Even though audiovisual fiction is usually studied within cultural bounds (Trenzado Romero, 2000), it also presents an important political dimension taking into account that representations play a large role “when it comes to determining which social reality is to be constructed; that is, which figures and forms will prevail in the process of modelling life and social institutions” (Ryan and Kellner, 1988: 13). The spectacularisation of politics is inspired, partly, by the processes of fictionalisation and, at the same time, spheres such as the cinema or scenarios characteristic of serialised fiction are also a reflection of that reality (Rodríguez and Padilla, 2018). In turn, fiction can be a pretext of understanding so as to find the significance of knowledge and to try to bring it closer to a framework of reality (Oliveros Aya, 2010). However, beyond being a call and a reminder of certain events or political phenomena, fiction can also represent reality “by means of a different type of evidence and therefore it can offer a different and more complete approach to realism” (Whitebrook, 1991: 5). It can be said that, as a significant part of mass culture, audiovisual fiction contributes decisively to the formation, debate, inspiration and interpretation of a variety of political imaginaries.

*CFP* "PEACE, INTERSECTIONALITY AND UNCERTAINTIES", THE 6TH INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA STUDIES CONFERENCE

Peace, Intersectionality and Uncertainties

The 6th International Communication and Media Studies Conference

Eastern Mediterranean University (Cyprus)

Famagusta, North Cyprus: 25-26 November 2021

 

 

The Center of Research and Communication for Peace in the Faculty of Communication and Media Studies at Eastern Mediterranean University invites submissions addressing the general theme of Peace, Intersectionality and Uncertainties the 6th International Communication and Media Studies Conference will be held on 25-26 November 2021 in Famagusta, Northern Cyprus. The conference is dedicated to bringing together a significant number of diverse scholarly events for presentation within the conference program. Thus, academic scientists, early-stage researchers, and graduate students are invited to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of communication. It also provides a platform for researchers to present and discuss recent innovations, trends, and concerns raised with Covid-19 pandemic as well as practical challenges encountered, and solutions adopted in the Communication and Media Studies. 

*CFP* "COVID-19 NOW AND THEN: REFLECTIONS ON MOBILE COMMUNICATION AND THE PANDEMIC", SPECIAL ISSUE, MOBILE MEDIA & COMMUNICATION JOURNAL

In this special issue, Mobile Media & Communication Journal is looking for future oriented pieces that analyze how the pandemic has shaped and changed our mobile communication, sociability and networked urban mobility practices around the world. We welcome papers that might take the lessons learned during this pandemic and consider how these lessons can help us in the future. We particularly welcome contributions that analyze the impacts of the pandemic in the practices of minoritized populations, especially in the Global South.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• The future of urban networked mobility in both Global North and South
• The shift to more sustainable forms of micromobiity, particularly focusing on the integration between transportation and mobile apps
• New forms of experiencing urban and public spaces via mobile technologies that take into account active mobility and walking
• The mobile-guided gig economy for delivery of services
• The development of location-based apps that can help us prepare for the next pandemic
• The future of contact-tracing apps, and their relationship with privacy and surveillance

*CFP* CALL FOR ARTICLES, VOL. 14, Nº 1, JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA RESEARCH

The Journal of Communication and Media Research is a research-based and peer-reviewed journal published twice-yearly in the months of April and October by the Association of Media and Communication Researchers of Nigeria (CAC/IT/NO 111018). The journal is addressed to the African and international academic community and it accepts articles from all scholars, irrespective of country or institution of affiliation.

The focus of the Journal of Communication and Media Research is research, with a bias for quantitative and qualitative studies that use any or a combination of the acceptable methods of research. These include Surveys, Content Analysis, and Experiments for quantitative studies; and Observation, Interviews/Focus Groups, and Documentary Analysis for qualitative studies. The journal seeks to contribute to the body of knowledge in the field of communication and media studies and welcomes articles in all areas of communication and the media including, but not limited to, mass communication, mass media channels, traditional communication, organizational communication, interpersonal communication, development communication, public relations, advertising, information communication technologies, the Internet and computer-mediated communication.

*CFP* "AFRICA'S DIGITAL YOUTH: EXPLORING MEDIA AND INFORMATION LITERACY COMPETENCIES AND PRACTICES", TRENDS IN MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION CONFERENCE

Africa's digital youth: Exploring media and information literacy competencies and practices

Trends in Media and Communication Conference, 2021

19-20th October 2021

 

 

The conference will seek to catalogue scholarship on trends emerging around African youth’s digital media practices with a focus on their ability to access, analyze, create, share and use information from digital sources. We invite abstracts of empirical and conceptual papers relating to the theme. 

 

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• African youth’s fact checking practices
• Youth and social media activism in Africa

*CFP* CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTER, ROUTLEDGE STUDIES IN EUROPEAN COMMUNICATION RESEARCH AND EDUCATION SERIES

The Series Editors Galina Miazhevich, Christina Holtz-Bacha and Ilija Tomanic Trivundza invite the submission of book proposals for the Routledge Studies in European Communication Research and Education Series.

The Book Series aims to provide a diverse overview of the work of ECREA members and working groups, showcasing

• diversity of topics and areas within the field of contemporary media and communication research, and 
• addressing this diversity from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, and 
• promoting collaborative research of our members, either within or between ECREA Sections, Networks and Temporary Working Groups (S/N/TWGs).

 

New Series Feature – Open Access

*CFP* "NAVIGATING DIGITAL COMMUNICATION AND CHALLENGES FOR ORGANIZATIONS", BOOK CHAPTER

The dialogue between organizational communication and digital communication is a common practice in contemporary organizations. This cross working allows the development of new narratives inside and outside organizations, causing communication professionals to face a moment of change in communication management, regarding form, content and production. Digital communication is not developing a virtual world, but a real virtuality integrated with other forms of interaction in an increasingly "hybridized" everyday life. In fact, the relationship between organizations and its publics evolved into more symmetrical models - allowed by digital media -, being imperative the recognition of the inevitable involvement of citizens in organizational communication processes that give rise to new business and institutional choices. On the other hand, the relationship that audiences establish with organizational information in digital environments may also interfere with the way in which each individual experiences daily life. Thus, the impacts are conjoint and paradoxical. It is well known that public involvement has the power to promote an active circulation of media content and that this can generate economic and cultural value for organizations. The current perspectives on interactions between audiences, organizations and content production suggest a relational logic between audiences and media, through new productivity proposals. In this sense it is interesting to observe the reasoning of audience experience through the concepts of interactivity and participation. However, it can be observed a gap between the intentions of communication professionals and their organizations and the effective circulation and content retention among the audiences of interest, as well as the distinction between informing and communicating. Thus, the goal of this book Navigating Digital Communication and Challenges for Organizations is to provide an in-depth review of research related to the concepts and theories around topics such as Publics and Productivity, Interactivity and Participation in organizational communication settings, including, but not limited to conceptualizations, theoretical foundations, conceptual analysis, empirical studies, cases, applications, and interventions. We aim to contribute to an improvement in our understanding of Digital Communication in Organizations, and to present resources to better navigate this difficult times of organizational communication management.

*CFP* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, THE 20TH IFIP INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING

 "The 20th IFIP International conference on Entertainment computing"

University of Coimbra (Portugal)

November 2 – 5, 2021

The 20th International Federation for Information Processing - International Conference on Entertainment Computing (IFIP-ICEC 2021) will be held in Coimbra, Portugal, on Nov. 2-5, 2021: The conference is organized by the IFIP-ICEC TC14 - Entertainment Computing Technical Committee, and will be hosted by the University of Coimbra (Portugal), in association with the Portuguese Society for the Sciences of Videogames.

 

IFIP TC14 aims to encourage research, development and sharing of innovative ideas, models and practices, on computer applications in entertainment. To enhance computation and use studies in this field, the technical program committee invites original submissions.

*CFP* "BEYOND THE ECHO CHAMBER – THE TACTICAL USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS", SPECIAL ISSUE, SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY

We invite proposals for essay submissions for a thematic issue of South Atlantic Quarterly focusing on the tactical and political uses of social media in struggles for radical social change. In this issue, we want to push past the well-worn tropes of the network and the echo chamber to consider how a range of social movements are making use of social media platforms in their social change efforts and with what consequences. Outside of their role as platforms for networked communication, recent scholarship has identified the important role played by social media as “discourse laboratories” and sites for collective identity construction. Social media platforms have become central tools and contested terrains not just for social justice movements but for those of the far Right as well. While much attention has been focused on the way that movements for social justice have deployed social media as a key tool for communication and mobilization, we also want to consider the ways that movements of the reactionary and radical Right make use of this digital infrastructure.

This issue will consist of contributions examining movements across the political spectrum and their use of social media in the context of their tactical repertoires and the political goals they seek to achieve. Beyond questions of communication, coordination, and mobilization, how are contemporary movements entering into these digital ecologies and how are they being affected by them? This timely collection aspires to contribute to the critical conversation about movements, social justice, free speech, and digital communicative infrastructure at a moment of surging activity across all these registers.

*CFP* "RACIALIZING MEDIA POLICY", BOOK CHAPTER

Racialization is a term used within the social sciences to highlight the ways that social interactions become racial. This is an important concept in sociological and political science research when looking at structural mechanisms that perpetuate racial inequalities. The state, and its various organizational spaces of action, is often seen as a site for race to be enacted (e.g., Bracey 2015). Public policy sectors such as housing, taxation, and immigration, to name a few, have been ripe areas of research. However, media policy research has not effectively engaged with this critical conception. Media policy research has been driven by political economy perspectives within the field of Communications and Media Studies, and can benefit from an approach that analyzes it in relation to social science perspectives that focus on processes which constitute, or are constituted by, actors, groups, and organizations.

Racializing Media Policy seeks to fill this scholarly gap by providing case studies which focus on media policy issues in the United States through the lens of racialization. It will contribute to a growing body of media policy research within the Communications and Media Studies literature, as well as anchor the role of media policy in Sociological research – where it is lacking. It would also lend itself toward a growing body of work in the Sociology of Organizations which have begun to focus on “raced organizations” (Ray 2019; Wooten 2019) to understand how racial inequalities are embedded within organizational practices. The volume is under contract with the Emerald series ‘Studies in Media and Communications.’ The series is sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association.

*CFP* "COMMUNICATION AND TRUST", 8TH EUROPEAN COMMUNICATION CONFERENCE

ECREA is happy to announce that the 8th European Communication Conference - Communication and Trust, scheduled for 6-9 September 2021, will take place as an online conference.

The conference, initially scheduled for October 2020, was postponed to September 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Given the current state of the pandemic and the rather grim outlook for being able to organise a major international physical event in September, the International Organising Committee has decided to organize the event in an online format.

Since we strongly believe that ECREA conferences are more than merely occasions for the unidirectional broadcast of research findings, the conference will take place as a live online event. We will not rely on pre-recorded presentations – all panels will be organised as live sessions, with presentations given in real time. The format of the plenary sessions will also be adjusted to the new digital reality. Only a small number of special sessions, such as poster sessions, will be pre-recorded.

*CFP* CALL FOR ARTICLES, 38TH ISSUE, TURKISH REVIEW OF COMMUNICATION STUDIES

Turkish Review of Communication Studies (TURCOM) is a peer-reviewed and open-access journal that publishes articles, commentaries, and reviews in the fields of media, communication, and cultural studies. Based in Marmara University Faculty of Communication, Istanbul, the journal is published biannually in June and December and is currently indexed by Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), DOAJ, and EBSCOhost.

We are looking forward to your contributions to TURCOM’s 38th issue to be published in December 2021. We particularly welcome contributions that will shed light on the "transformations" in media and digital communication during the times of the pandemic. However, we also welcome articles from diverse fields and methodologies within media, communication, and cultural studies, and the authors are not limited to the special topic in their submissions.

The authors can submit articles (up to 8000 words), book reviews (max. 2000 words), or commentaries and criticisms (max. 2000 words).

*CFP* "TRIAL AND ERROR IV. RETHINKING DIGITAL NATIVE COMMUNICATORS TRAINING", ECREA JOURNALISM EDUCATION 2021 CONFERENCE

ECREA Journalism Education Conference 2021

May 13th, 2021

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

 

From the ECREA 'Journalism & Communication Education' TWG, we are happy to invite you to submit abstracts for our 6rd annual Conference titled, “Trial and Error IV. Rethinking digital native communicators training”, that will take place at the Autonomous University of Barcelona on May 13, 2021.

The unpredictable situation of the pandemic forces us to perform virtually for the first time. But we are sure that it will also be a great opportunity to exchange ideas between communication teachers at the European level.

*CFP* "THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AND THE DIGITALISATION OF PUBLIC DIPLOMACY", CHAPTERS BOOK

In a 2013 commentary article posted on the US Department of State’s official blog DipNote, the former US Secretary of State, John Kerry, somewhat criticised the popular tendency among diplomacy practitioners, scholars and critics to make the term “digital diplomacy” the talk of the town. He claimed that this term (“digital diplomacy”) “is almost redundant - it's just diplomacy, period”. Kerry further stressed that, although the new information and communication technologies (ICTs) do tremendously contribute to the advancement of countries’ foreign policy objectives as well as to bridging the gap between people across the globe, they (the ICTs) fulfil the same core diplomatic functions as the traditional/analogue tools of public diplomacy. For instance, they enable diplomats to create dialogue among the broadest possible audience as well as to find common ground, which, after all, are what diplomacy is all about (Kerry 2013).

For many observers, Kerry’s pronouncement came to mean that it is futile to always stress the digitalised nature of ICT-driven diplomacy given the fact that a plurality of factors or indicators suggest that, in a near future, the use of digital technologies in diplomacy will become too banal that professionals and scholars in the discipline will no longer see the need to stress the “digital nature” of digital diplomacy.

*CFP* "MEDIA EVENTS IN THE AGE OF GLOBAL, DIGITAL NETWORKS", 2022 VOLUME, SPECIAL ISSUE, THE NORDIC JOURNAL OF MEDIA STUDIES 2022

In today’s media saturated environment, the battle for attention is more intensive than ever. Still, some events stand out and gather attention and momentum on a greater scale, for example large-scale sports events, presidential inaugurations, state funerals, the Eurovision Song Contest, major terrorist attacks, and natural disasters.

Media events is a recurring concept that points to both continuities and changes in our media landscape. Revisiting this concept constitutes a focal point for analysis of the complex role of media in a highly globalised and networked society. Dayan and Katz’s seminal study Media Events: The Live Broadcasting of History (1992) provided a first, important framework for understanding the media’s construction of key historical events. This book concerned the ability of broadcast media to create ritual events that break with the routines of everyday life, unite audiences, and form shared frames of reference. Dayan and Katz foregrounded the integrative function of the media and focused primarily on celebratory events.

*CFP* "MULTILINGÜISMO Y MIGRACIÓN EN LA ERA DE LAS HUMANIDADES DIGITALES", XXIII CONGRESO DE LA ASOCIACIÓN ALEMANA DE HISPANISTAS

XXIII Congreso de la Asociación Alemana de Hispanistas

Sesión monográfica: multilingüismo y migración en la era de las humanidades digitales

24-27th February, 2021

Universitat Graz, Austria

La Universitat Graz invita a participar en esta sesión monográfica del congreso de la Asociación Alemana de Hispanistas que se celebrar del 24 al 27 de febrero de 2021. El objetivo de la sesión es explorar el valor y los límites de la digitalización en el campo de la lingüística migratoria y del multilingüismo en el mundo hispanohablante de una forma tanto teórica como metodológica con el fin de ampliar el paradigma de métodos establecidos en la investigación de la lingüística migratoría y del multilingüismo. El plazo para el envío de propuestas permanece abierto y en las próximas circulares, se dará más información al respecto.

Las nuevas tecnologías digitales desempeñan un papel clave en el contexto de la migración y del multilingüismo. El smartphone puede ser mencionado como un ejemplo que ha llevado a una profunda transformación en el ámbito de la movilidad.

*CFP* "BOLD VISIONS AND PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE IN THE POST-COVID WORLD", CHAPTER BOOK

COVID-19 is a global crisis that has affected everyone. As we recover from the pandemic, there is an opportunity to ensure that justice, sustainability and care are rebuilt into the fabric of our societies. Articulating bold visions and sharing practical knowledge can help catalyse meaningful and lasting change. Tools and Transformations, a new series from HammerOn Press, will publish books to further this agenda. We welcome proposals for single authored or edited collections exploring, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Building caring economies
• Centring Black Lives
• Environmental and multi-species justice
• Regenerative finance and business
• Queer and Trans World Making
• Social enterprise and co-operation
• Health and Disability politics
• Histories of radical organisations
• Pedagogy and social transformation
• Listening and community building
• Anti-carceral feminism and restorative practices
• Storytelling and new political imaginaries
• Digital literacy and data activism
• Building alternative institutions

*CFP* "ACTION RESEARCH FOR MEDIA DEVELOPMENT: INTERSECTIONS AND BOUNDARIES OF SOCIAL CHANGE, INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP", SPECIAL ISSUE, NORDICOM REVIEW

Media development as an academic field focuses on research questions spanning from technical, economic, and political issues to the social and the cultural spheres. Media development has implications for society in many ways. Since all media today are more or less digital, research has approached digital media by exploring “new” methods, like digital methods (Rogers, 2019) but also as action research methods (Deuze & Witschge, 2020; Wagemans & Witschge, 2019). Action research in, as well as for, media development is part of a transformation where media research is more and more considered to solve societal problems. 

Often, action research is practiced in local settings, interacting with stakeholders within a shared place and space and who have a shared concern for issues related to this. Both the local and the digital seem to have stimulated the application and appropriation of more normative projects characterised by the methods and sometimes also ideological foundations that action research utilises. In this realm, several applied projects touch upon research and development and innovation projects, innovation themes in the creative industries, and social innovation and social entrepreneurship. 

*CFP* "MAINSTREAM VS MARGINAL CONTENT IN WEB HISTORY ADN WEB ARCHIVES", 4TH RESAW CONFERENCE 2021

4th RESAW Conference 

Mainstream vs marginal content in Web history and Web archives

17-18th June 2021

University's Belval Campus, Luxembourg

 

 

“Pathetic. There’s no other word for it. The website for the Fête de l’Internet has statistics that are desperately low, to say the least. Do they reflect the state of the Net? They certainly give rise, once again, to that worrying question: if no one in cyberspace knows that you are a dog, is the reason not simply because there is no one in cyberspace?” 

Kitetoa.com, March 2001, retrieved from Internet Archive (archived on 25 June 2003)

While at the end of the 1990s some were complaining that there was no one on the Internet, others were already experiencing success, like the “I kiss you” Web page (1999) – a personal page created by a Turkish man which attracted 12 million visits over five years: “His picture-laden personal homepage, which exclaimed in broken English his love of the accordion, travel, and women was visited by millions and spawned numerous fansites and parodies.” 

*CFP* "CHALLENGES OF JOURNALISM IN 21ST CENTURY: AUTOMATED JOURNALISM AND AI JOURNALISM", INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATION STUDIES AND JOURNALISM CONFERENCE

Challenges of Journalism in 21st Century: Automated Journalism and AI Journalism

24th September, 2020

Faculty of Social Scciences, Charles University, Praga

Keynote speaker
Professor Charlie Beckett (LSE Media and Communications, POLIS)

During the last decade we were witnessing the rise of automated journalism and application of artificial intelligence tools in the newsrooms. From simple use of templates to highly sophisticated automated content production, omnipresent algorithms, news on social networks, fake news production and its detection became our everyday media practice. AI has slowly but unstoppably entered the media landscape. The rise of AI brought wide scale of problems and questions. Organizers call for proposal addressing, but not limited, to following themes.