*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* "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:

DEFENSA DE TESIS "PERIODISMO CIUDADANO PARA LA DEFENSA DE LOS DERECHOS HUMANOS. LA IMPORTANCIA DE LA VERIFICACIÓN. EL CASO DE WITNESS.ORG"

 Próxima defensa de tesis del Departamento de Comunicación de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

Información de la tesis: 


"Periodismo Ciudadano para la defensa de los derechos humanos. La importancia de la verificación. El caso de Witness.org"

Autor/a: ÓSCAR ESPIRITUSANTO NICOLÁS

*CFP* "MIS- AND DISINFORMATION ABOUT COVID-19: CHALLENGES FOR HEALTH COMMUNICATION", SPECIAL ISSUE, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEALTH COMMUNICATION

Millions of lives have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic (World Health Organization [WHO], 2021). However, scientific knowledge on how to effectively respond to COVID-19 outbreaks has also increased considerably in a very short time (Weiner at al., 2020). For example, several research teams have developed promising COVID-19 vaccines, and, as of April 2021, about 732 million vaccination doses have been administered worldwide (WHO, 2021). Further success in reducing the COVID-19 burden relies on the public’s awareness and acceptance of scientific knowledge. Health communication plays an essential role in the complex relationship between scientific knowledge and individuals’ beliefs and behaviours. However, attempts by health communicators to inform and educate individuals about the characteristics of the disease and effective prevention measures compete with persuasive mis- and disinformation, especially online (Lewandowsky et al., 2021). Studies reveal that misinformation about COVID-19 undermines trust in institutions (Pummerer et al., 2020), decreases willingness to undertake effective prevention measures such as vaccination (Loomba et al., 2021) and adds to the overabundance of (mis-)information that makes it difficult for individuals to find trustworthy sources – an overabundance known as an infodemic (WHO, 2020). That is, mis- and disinformation pose major challenges for health communication around the globe.

To master these challenges and prepare for future public health crises, it is vital to understand mis- and disinformation surrounding COVID-19. What kinds of mis- and disinformation do individuals encounter off- and online? What impact do these have on cognition, emotions, attitudes and behaviours? Which groups are specifically susceptible to mis- and disinformation, and how can theory-based interventions be designed to combat mis- and disinformation surrounding COVID-19?

*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* CALL FOR ARTICLES, 3/2021 ISSUE, MEDIÁLNÍ STUDIA/MEDIA STUDIES JOURNAL

Authors will need to prepare two copies of the manuscript for submission. One file will need to have all your author details included, and one will need to be anonymized. Both versions should include the title, abstract, body, and references. There are no submission and publication charges.

Mediální studia / Media Studies (ISSN 2464-4846) is a peer-reviewed, open access electronic journal, published in English, Czech and Slovak twice a year. Based in disciplines of media and communication studies, it focuses on analyses of media texts, media professionals practices and media audiences behaviour. The journal is indexed in SCOPUS, Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL), European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences (ERIH PLUS), MLA Directory of Periodicals, and MLA International Bibliography.

 

Paper types

*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, REVIEWS AND CRITICAL ESSAYS, NEXT ISSUE, ESTUDOS DE JORNALISMO JOURNAL

Estudos de Jornalismo is an open access scientific journal of the Journalism and Society section of SOPCOM (Portuguese Association of Communication Sciences) with a biannual edition. The journal considers unpublished works that present research results and / or theoretical reflection in the scope of Communication Sciences, with a special focus on Journalism. The journal accepts scientific research papers, reviews and critical essays in Portuguese, Spanish and English with no fee charge to authors.

Papers (35,000-40,000 characters) must be submitted through the email revistaestudosjornalismo@gmail.com, as well as any questions.

Publication rules and other instructions for authors can be found in the journal website in the appropriate section (in Portuguese).

 

Dates

"SÍ, HAY EXPERTAS", JORNADAS CON MOTIVO DEL DÍA INTERNACIONAL DE LA MUJER 2021

 

*CFP* CALL FOR ARTICLES, ISSUE 1 (2021), MEDIÁLNÍ STUDIA JOURNAL

Mediální studia / Media Studies (ISSN 2464-4846) is a peer-reviewed electronic journal, published in English, Czech and Slovak twice a year. Based in disciplines of media and communication studies, it focuses on analyses of media texts, media professionals practices and media audiences behaviour. We especially welcome papers covering media in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and support the emphasis on the dynamics of local-global knowledge on media and its mutual connections. The journal is indexed in these databases: Scopus, CEEOL, ERIH+.

Studies are based on original research, solving the issue raised empirically, theoretically or methodologically. The recommended length of the studies is 6000-8000 words, including footnotes and references with an abstract of up to 150 words, up to 10 keywords, and brief information about the author up to 100 words.

Essays explore upcoming or current media trends or events and discuss their relevance. Or, they ruminate upon different conceptual or methodological approaches. The recommended length of the essays is 3000-4000 words, including footnotes and references with an abstract of up to 150 words, up to 10 keywords, and brief information about the author up to 150 words.

*CFP* LLAMADA DE CONVOCATORIA PERMANENTE, REVISTA COMUNICACIÓN

La revista Comunicación es la publicación académica de la facultad de Comunicación Social-Periodismo, adscrita a la Escuela de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Medellín-Colombia. Se publica con una periodicidad semestral. Fue creada en 1975 y su objetivo es presentar los resultados de investigaciones y de algunas reflexiones en torno al campo de la Comunicación y a partir de ello aportar a la discusión y el debate académico entre sus lectores y las comunidades académicas locales, nacionales e internacionales.

 

Convocatoria permanente

Comunicación recibe dos tipos de artículos que refieran al campo de la Comunicación: artículos de investigación, que evidencien hallazgos investigativos y artículos de reflexión, que den cuenta de las reflexiones académicas (en donde caben ensayos, crónicas, reseñas críticas o reflexiones en general).

*CFP* "CRITICAL AND CREATIVE ENGAGEMENTS WITH PETRO-MEDIA", SPECIAL ISSUE, IMAGINATIONS JOURNAL

This special issue of Imaginations will concentrate on media engaging with petroleum and its attendant socio-political and economic structures. Drawing on technology and media studies, energy humanities scholarship, and a range of methods in visual and cultural studies, the contributors will theorize contemporary and historical uses of media to resist and facilitate petroleum infrastructures. Building on Imaginations’ long-standing engagement with petrocultures scholarship, including their 2012 special issue “Sighting Oil” (Sheena Wilson and Andrew Pendakis, eds.), this issue will mobilize critiques of corporate petro-media with decolonial methods from a range of disciplines, focusing on the interlacing of oil, settler colonialism, Indigenous resurgence, and media production. 

The issue will consist of peer-reviewed essays from scholars and practitioners, artist interviews and contributions (including samples of multimedia work with accompanying artists statements), and a review section (including a comparative book review essay, curatorial reviews and responses to digital exhibitions in the age of COVID-19, etc.). We are particularly invested in featuring research-creation and media-rich scholarship.

*CFP* "MASS MEDIA POLITICAL INFORMATION USES AND CONSUMPTION: ACTORS, CONDITIONS AND CONTEMPORARY PRACTICES", VOL 35, CONTRATEXTO JOURNAL

The 35th edition of Contratexto will address the issue of selectivity in the media use or consumption of political information as a persistently paradigmatic issue on the study of audiences’ behaviors and attitudes. The large majority of studies on the uses of devices follow on the empirical North American tradition, the reception cultural studies or French sociology, indicating that, since the eighties, media use and consumption has become a matter of increasing personalization. Long before that, Herbert Blumer highlighted the effects of individual and social experiences of interpreting media messages. 

On one hand, the analysis of the audiences’ personal selectivity filter shows its multivariate configuration based on several dispositional factors (temperament, personality, gender, values, beliefs or motivations). However, it is also noticed a resignificance of those factors with the contribution of experiential and contextual studies that allow the location of specific appropriation routines and practices of specific audiences coming from different influence areas. On the other hand, the accelerated technological changes of the last decades reveal a power shift in the audiences’ position, as a result of their higher level of control and preference for a mainly self-referent exposition.

*CFP* "(IN)VISIBILITY IN GLOBAL COMMUNICATION: CONNECTIONS AND INEQUITIES", GLOBAL FUSION 2020 (VIRTUAL) CONFERENCE

(In)visibility in Global Communication: Connections & Inequities

Global Fusion 2020 (Virtual) Conference

October 9-11, 2020

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Global Fusion conference, held annually by an innovative consortium of mass communication programs from institutions of higher education in the United States. This will be our  first-ever virtual gathering, in order to avoid the risks of in-person gatherings in the age of the novel coronavirus pandemic. We are committed to having a 2020 conference given the need for serious discussion of vital global communication issues in the face of planetary challenges, in particular the current pandemic, the impacts of global climate change and a seeming collapse of democratic structures.

We invite original, non-published research submissions on any aspect of global media and international aspects of mediated communication. We encourage special attention be paid to issues of scale and accessibility, class, and notions of “resilience” during this global pandemic and the increasingly frequent climate-driven disasters befalling populations worldwide. Given these circumstances, how should we study contemporary global discourses and the varied mass communication systems which deliver them?

*CFP* CALL FOR ARTICLES, MEDIATIZATION STUDIES JOURNAL

“Mediatization Studies” is the first international journal devoted entirely to the mediatization concept, which is one of the most influential topics in the field of media and communication studies. 

The (meta)process of mediatization tend to be perceived and analysed as a multidimensional phenomenon, which includes various forms of media-related transformations. Our goal is to contribute to the understanding of this process and make the mediatization theory more accessible to non-media scholars, as well as to promote the innovative research ideas committed to new manifestations of mediatization, that take place in different national and technological conditions.

For Volume 4 we are expecting theoretical and empirical papers that apply mediatization perspective in its multiple dimensions.

The deadline for full paper submissions is September the 30th 2020.

*CFP* "RETHINKING RELATIONS: MICHEL SERRES AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES", 2020 CONFERENCE

Rethinking Relations: Michel Serres and the Environmental Humanities

11-13 November, 2021

University of Konstanz, Germany

Few contemporary thinkers have explored the passages between the sciences and the humanities as poetically and vigorously as Michel Serres. Spanning from 1968 to 2019, his work presents an evocative cartography of the interstitial spaces that connect mathematics, philosophy, physics, myth, history, religion, literature, technology, media, ecology, and art. The baseline of his thinking is an appreciation of complexity, of the ways in which contingency generates newness and form emerges as a function of unforeseen translations, ruptures, and linkages.

With a penchant for the poietic processes of the natural world, he derives epistemological insight from the dynamics of oceans, mountains, clouds, storms, whirlpools, and tectonic plates—objects that are “multiple in space and mobile in time, unstable and fluctuating” (Genesis). Bridging the two cultures for him entails a ceaseless journey from “us to the world” (Hermes V), from the human to an environment that is never reified as an ontological outside. He recognizes that the production of knowledge is “always linked to an observer submerged in a system or in its proximity,” an observer who “is structured exactly like what he observes” (Hermes). 

*CFP* "COMMUNICATION OUTBREAK", VOL. 3, Nº 2 (2021), SOUTHEAST ASIAN MEDIA STUDIES JOURNAL

The World Health Organization has characterized COVID – 19 as pandemic based on its “spread and severity”. Many reports say that COVID-19 can be transmitted through human contact demonstrating the capacity of individuals to move from one place to another. As part of mitigating the spread of this virus, “social distancing’ is now being implemented. In Southeast Asia, most countries are implementing a wide range of policies: from variations of quarantine, area-specific lockdown to that of the “business as usual” mode of operation consequential to varied, and sometimes, unpredictable human actions.

Interesting thoughts can be derived from this current event that underscores the importance of communication as part of survival. In the implementation of the practice on “social distance,” more people are utilizing alter forms of communication to maintain relationships. The field of communication becomes more relevant as people demand more information and knowledge on the pandemic and other issues that pertain to it. Alongside the establishment of communication as a need for maintaining human relationships and for gaining knowledge are inquiries on rights: Are we getting all the information that we need to survive this pandemic? Do we all have access to internet? Can we say that maintaining relationships can be temporarily replaced by online or remote forms of communication? Evident in this event as well are numerous forms of human actions that emerge problems on power relations and bold displays of social differences.

*CFP* "MULTIDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES OF COMMUNICATION IN A PANDEMIC CONTEXT", BOOK CHAPTER

The coronavirus crisis has led to individual reflections, sometimes presented in cChronicles, Oopinion Aarticles or Iinterviews, about the foundations of contemporary society, humanistic, mostly democratic and defender of Individual Human Rights.

The COVID-19 appears to have suspended all alleged certainties, freedoms, and guarantees. The first viral episode in Wuhan, China, in early December 2019, and which was only reported by the Chinese authorities just 30 days later, quickly replicated in other countries with overwhelming numbers of infected people and deaths, which would lead the World Health Organization to consider that the outbreak had reached pandemic status on 11 March 11. The pandemic has been making taking victims in 193 countries (RTP, 13/04/2020) and it is estimated that about 1/3 of the world’s population is estimated to be in isolation (Observador, 26/3/2020).

In this context, it is open a call for book chapters that integrate the perspectives of the communication sciences and that of social and human sciences on this phenomenon is opened, namely:

*CFP* “STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION & CIVIC DYNAMICS”, SPECIAL ISSUE, THE PUBLIC SCIENCES AND POLICIES JOURNAL

In the perspective of many sociologists, including Bauman (2000), contemporary society - also called postmodern - is seen as more dynamic and volatile, where human relations are less permanent and no longer guided by ethical standards of modernity. The contingency of today's society fosters the emergence of new organizational networks and social movements based on increasing citizen participation.

In this context, dominant and marginalized groups use strategic communication in order to gain voice and legitimacy in public spheres. Sustaining civic engagement, strategic communication can be used by activist movements to gain power balance and challenge dominant groups.

*CFP* “TRUMP, TELEVISION AND THE MEDIA: FROM DRAMA TO 'FAKE NEWS' TO TWEETSTORMS”, ONE-DAY CONFERENCE 2020

Trump, Television and the Media: From Drama to “Fake News” to Tweetstorms

12 de Junio de 2020

London Metropolitan University, UK

The election of Donald Trump in November 2016 initiated a presidency that has become the most media-driven and media-critiqued in American history. Trump’s constructed identity as a media celebrity has been a central element of his political style, as he exploits a variety of media for political messaging. At the same time, television and the media more broadly has quickly become attuned to the extraordinary climate and fast-paced news environment of a presidency that constantly challenges administrative and political norms. As television addresses the contemporary era in genres from drama to satire, the boundaries between fact and fiction, realism and excess seem increasingly difficult to locate. All of this has occurred within a national experience that includes the unleashing of massive divisions within American culture, and the televised impeachment hearings of a president for only the third time in U.S. history.