*CFP* "AUDIO STORYTELLING" AND "DIGITAL STORYTELLING IN ACTIVISM AND SOCIAL CHANGE", NEXT ISSUES, THE WRITING PLATFORM

The Writing Platform is looking to commission articles of approx 750 to 2,000 words on aspects of innovative audio storytelling, from podcasts and interactive storytelling using smart speakers, to binaural story scapes and audio walks. We are interested in experimentation, personalisation and playfulness with form and content. The articles will be published on The Writing Platform website between January and March 2021.

Your proposed article might fit into one of the following categories;

• Resource: for example, a how-to guide on an aspect of audio storytelling. 
• Research: for example, an overview of a research project from an academic or practitioner perspective. 
• Experience: for example, an account of an audio experience that you have experienced or developed. 
• News: for example, highlighting a new project or opportunity in the field that our readers might not have heard of before. 
• Projects:  for example, a reflection on a project that you have developed or one that you have been inspired by.

*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* "DIGITAL MEDIA, PUBLIC POLICY AND THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE REVISED AVMSD", SPECIAL ISSUE, JOURNAL OF DIGITAL MEDIA AND POLICY

The Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD) is the centrepiece of media policy in the European Union. It sets the foundations of regulating broadcast media without frontiers. Over multiple revisions in the last two decades it was gradually extended, first to on-demand audiovisual services and most recently to video sharing platforms dealing in user-generated content. This policy journey was a remarkable one, characterized by the careful balancing of economic and cultural policy objectives and various policy innovations. It has resulted in an enlightenment amongst member states with media markets suffering from oppressive and politically driven regulatory regimes, but it has also taken a heavy toll on smaller markets distressed by major transnational audiovisual content providers.

The revised AVMSD adopted in late 2018 promised to create a more level playing field for European media outlets competing with US-based tech giants and fighting for shrinking sources of income and increasingly fragmented audiences. The deadline for national transposition is 19 September 2020. Whether and how all member states meet this deadline given the COVID-19 related consequences on legislative processes raises several issues. Legal and policy scholars are dealing with challenging questions about the wide-reaching impact of entering a new phase of regulation and the next level of media governance, while old problems were still dragging along without due response.

*CFP* "CRITICAL APPROACHES TO ARTS ADMINISTRATION IN THE NEW MILLENIUM", VOLUME ESSAYS

Beginning with the Great Recession, a series of economic, natural, and social catastrophes continue to affect the United States. During the past fifteen years, events and movements such as Occupy Wall Street, LGBTQIA+ rights, #MeToo, mass shootings, Black Lives Matter, and the COVID-19 pandemic, among others, have caused the arts industry to question, examine, and respond to these happenings. Specifically, the arts administration and management field is at a critical juncture. With a national push for social justice and reform, a global pandemic, and economic recession, and universal challenge to access, the arts administration and management field has the potential to change its trajectory or maintain the status quo. At a time where social life has been altered, industry and academic practitioners have had time to question existing practices as well as the opportunity to adapt to new challenges. 

A narrative centered on the fallacy of ‘before’ clouds critical assessment of current and ongoing practices within arts administration. The regular panic set off by events of the past decade and a half has created a need for the field to consider the now and next and how to make the arts industry better–financially and socially–for all. 

*CFP* "DESINFORMACIÓN Y CREDIBILIDAD EN EL ECOSISTEMA DIGITAL", XII CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL DE CIBERPERIODISMO

XII Congreso Internacional de Ciberperiodismo

Desinformación y credibilidad en el ecosistema digital

9 y 10 de noviembre de 2020

Bizkaia Aretoa, Abandoibarra, 3, Bilbao

Si bien el Periodismo siempre ha estado en continua transición y cambio, en los últimos tiempos parece estar viviendo un momento especial de transformación e incertidumbre, similar al que ya se vivió con el surgimiento de la Web y de los propios cibermedios. Junto con la actualización constante, la abundancia informativa y la innovación en formatos, géneros y dispositivos de consumo, la participación de las audiencias representa hoy uno de los principales motores de innovación, tanto a nivel profesional, como académico. La Web 2.0 contribuyó a evolucionar hacia este escenario complejo, determinado por la mayor presencia del público en el proceso comunicativo, una intervención que alcanza, incluso, a la fase productiva de los medios.

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

(Dis)Continuities

Cultures, Markets & Politics

The 2nd Communication in the Digital Age Symposium

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* "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* “WHAT PEOPLE LEAVE BEHIND: MARKS, TRACES, FOOTPRINTS AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE FOR SOCIAL SCIENCES”, 2020 CONFERENCE

What People Leave Behind: Marks, Traces, Footprints and their Significance for Social Sciences 

15-16 de Junio de 2020

Sapienza University of Rome, Rome (Italy)

It is our great pleasure to invite you to the two-day International Conference “What People Leave Behind: Marks, Traces, Footprints and their Significance for Social Sciences” that will be hosted by the Department of Communication and Social Research and the Ph.D. Program in Communication, Social Research and Marketing – Sapienza University of Rome on June 15-16, 2020. The conference focuses on a significant theme in the social sciences: the concepts of “footprint” and “trace”. Usually associated with the digital world, the very idea of footprints clearly gives the image of what one leaves behind without being aware of it. Trace-like information, i.e. information that was not meant to be informative, is much sought after, and this is particularly true in the age of digital capitalism.

*CFP* “NEWS AND ITS AUDIENCES IN THE ERA OF THE NEW MEDIA: PERCEPTIONS AND DYNAMICS ON ONLINE CONSUMPTION”, NO. 28, COMUNICAÇAO PÚBLICA JOURNAL

Issues inherent to the dynamics of production, distributionand consumption of news content have in recent years been the subject of numerous academic studies. It is, however, of significant import that we should have, today, more scientific production in those fields of research that specialise in examining and understanding the new digital-born media and information scenes. These scenes co-existalongside analogical outlets, with clear implications both for the typical operating mode of media and newspaper organisations and the ways we access information and for the uses and perceptions that inform the concept of ‘news’. It is within this context that the proposal for our Special Dossier is set.

In the current communication ecosystem, the media have been generalizing the assumption of informed audiences. Several issues have been examined in the newsmaking field whichexplores the apparent potential of the new media to promote a larger public debate and to foster a more informed political engagement, while at the same time questioning the permanence of the media as privileged managersof the information public sphere.

*CFP* “DIGITAL VISIBILITIES OF THE RELIGIOUS”, ISSUE, THE RESERCHES EN COMMUNICATION SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL

The religious process uses any material form to communicate the presence of absent or transcendent entities and to enable a relationship to be established with them, and to organize the regime of action that results from this relationship. With the computerization of society and the development of exchanges by digital means, it also mobilizes signs of its own dynamics on the networks. The present issue therefore aims to investigate the forms of digital expression and visibility of the religious and the reasons for their digital expansion.

These forms of visibility can be carried out by devotees (Favret-Saada, 2017), activists or set up by religious institutions and movements of different types. We will look at the speeches, images, digital devices and ergonomics that develop the proposed religious service, as well as the economic and socio-political contexts that can motivate, explain or underpin these communications, always within the framework of a vision focused on information and communication. Finally, we will also look at the practices (Jonveaux, Duteil-Ogata, forthcoming) of production and mobilization of these devices, as well as their theorizations.

*CFP* “MATERIALIZING DIGITAL FUTURES: TOUCH, MOVEMENT, SOUND AND VISION”, CHAPTER BOOK

As the technological climate continually evolves, the implications for society and individuals are being drawn in stark relief. Globally, personal and industrial data collection, data sharing and increased self-tracking practices using social media applications on mobile screen devices that are linked to wearable devices or recorded data from ingestible sensors are becoming more prevalent. Today, small mobile screens together with computer networks and various networked digital technologies (such as smartphones and tablets or ‘phablets’) make it possible for individuals, corporations and governments to accumulate, curate and distribute data and information on an unprecedented scale. Algorithms and big data are increasingly shaping our socio-cultural and technical relations and our everyday experiences. Important questions are arising that concern the human impacts of emerging digital technologies as the advent of ‘big data’ (and small data) technologies and social media have inexorably altered the boundaries between private and public life, and profoundly altered our sense of self.

*CFP* “MATERIALIZING DIGITAL FUTURES: TOUCH, MOVEMENT, SOUND AND VISION”, EDITED COLLECTION

As the technological climate continually evolves, the implications for society and individuals are being drawn in stark relief. Globally, personal and industrial data collection, data sharing and increased self-tracking practices using social media applications on mobile screen devices that are linked to wearable devices or recorded data from ingestible sensors are becoming more prevalent. Today, small mobile screens together with computer networks and various networked digital technologies (such as smartphones and tablets or ‘phablets’) make it possible for individuals, corporations and governments to accumulate, curate and distribute data and information on an unprecedented scale. 

Algorithms and big data are increasingly shaping our socio-cultural and technical relations and our everyday experiences. Important questions are arising that concern the human impacts of emerging digital technologies as the advent of ‘big data’ (and small data) technologies and social media have inexorably altered the boundaries between private and public life, and profoundly altered our sense of self.

*CFP* INTERNATIONAL VAKKI SYMPOSIUM ON WORKPLACE COMMUNICATION

International VAKKI Symposium on Workplace Communication

6-7 de Febrero de 2020

Vaasa, Finlandia

The Symposium’s keynote speakers are:

Prof. Crispin Thurlow (University of Bern, Switzerland)

Prof. Dorien van de Mieroop (University of Leuven, Belgium)

Welcome to the 40-year anniversary symposium of VAKKI ry on February 6-7, 2020!

The symposium is arranged under the theme of Workplace Communication.

Workplace communication comprises many different forms, such as texts, service encounters in different professional fields, face-to-face meetings as well as digital interaction. The common nominator to these settings is that they are connected with professional roles and identities and interwoven with institutional practices.

*CFP* "COMUNICACIÓN Y EDUCACIÓN EN UN MUNDO DIGITAL Y CONECTADO", PRÓXIMO NÚMERO, REVISTA ICONO14

La sociedad digital se construye sobre lógicas participativas y conectadas donde los usuarios en red participan en igualdad de condiciones desde dispositivos móviles. La penetración de estos dispositivos hace que esta participación alcance cada día mayores nichos poblacionales, acortando la brecha digital de acceso tanto en poblaciones infantiles como adultas. La cuestión que emerge ante un panorama de inexorable penetración tecnológica y conectividad es si la alfabetización mediática y digital resulta realmente adecuada para que esa participación resulte crítica y democrática. Se plantea así la duda de una posible manipulación tácita por el determinismo tecnológico impuesto por los grandes emporios tecnológicos y mediáticos.

La multiplicación de pantallas, plataformas y herramientas de comunicación y creación dotan a la ciudadanía de una libertad de expresión ilimitada, pero también de peligros desconocidos ante la inabarcabilidad de los cauces que brindan las redes. En este contexto se hace necesario analizar con pensamiento crítico dónde estamos, hacia dónde vamos, quiénes nos dirigen y cómo queremos encauzar la situación, reflexionando sobre acciones concretas.

*CFP* "NETWORK OF EXCELLENCE IN DIGITAL JOURNALISM AND MEDIA CONVERGENCE", IAMCR 2019 PRE-CONFERENCE

IAMCR 2019 Pre-conference

Network of excellence in digital journalism and media convergence: 

Misinformation and political processes: media strategies and audience attitudes

Valencia, July 5, 2019. Spain

Confirmed key-note speaker: Dr. Gianpietro Mazzoleni (Università degli Studi di Milano).

The AIMCR 2019 pre-conference Misinformation and political processes: media strategies and audience attitudes aims to reflect on the concept of misinformation and its multiple dimensions, as well as the strategies and practices developed around them, particularly those linked to political contexts and electoral processes.

*CFP* "RETHINKING THE PRESS IN THE DIGITAL ECOSYSTEM", CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF PORTUGAL

Rethinking the press in the digital ecosystem

International Congress

Braga, July 3 to 5, 2019

Catholic University of Portugal

Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences

After confronting the competition of radio and television, the written press has been debating the challenges of the digital paradigm since the end of the 20th century.

Due to the emergence of a new media ecosystem, the traditional model of production, diffusion and reception of printed journalism is currently undergoing a complex reconfiguration. This is still framed by blurry boundaries, from a professional, sociopolitical, cultural, economic, technical, ethical and legal point of view.

*CFP* "MIGRATION STUDIES IN THE DIGITAL ERA", ANTWERP 2019

Migration studies in the digital era. A workshop on qualitative digital research methodologies and the study of mobilities 

Antwerp 2019 

Thursday, Feb. 14th to Friday, Feb.15th, 2018

Organisers: Fiona Seiger and Christiane Timmerman

The digital is intertwined with most aspects of social life today and bears consequences for researching the social regardless of whether it is the researcher’s central topic of study or not. While questions pertaining to the importance and effects of technological innovations in social science research date back to at least the late 1990s, the speed at which new technologies and their practices develop, demands regular updates. This international workshop seeks to address how the digital features in our conception of questions about the social world with a particular focus on migration studies.

*CFP* "MEDIOS MÓVILES EMERGENTES. CONVERGENCIA COMUNICATIVA EN EL NUEVO ESCENARIO MEDIÁTICO", REVISTA COMUNICAR

En los últimos cinco años, el número de usuarios que acceden a internet desde el móvil ha crecido de forma espectacular. Aunque los datos de cada país dependen de la historia de la implantación de internet, lo cierto es que cada vez son más los países en los que el porcentaje de usuarios que utilizan algún dispositivo móvil para informarse es superior a los que acceden desde un ordenador fijo. La revolución tecnológica en marcha camina ahora de la mano de estos dispositivos, que se han convertido en herramientas básicas en los procesos comunicativos y en la apropiación de conocimiento.

Los ciudadanos de la segunda década del tercer milenio emplean los dispositivos móviles como la principal vía de acceso a internet, lo que no solo está provocando que todos los que elaboran contenidos lo hagan pensando en estas plataformas, sino que la hiperconectividad alimenta una mayor participación e intervención ciudadana en la construcción de mensajes. El resultado es una reconfiguración acelerada del ecosistema comunicativo que camina de la mano de una innovación tecnológica que, en vísperas de la llegada del 5G, prevista para el año 2020 tras su reciente salida de los laboratorios, avanza por el camino de la interacción multisensorial, con renovadas formas de lenguaje y comunicación interactivos. Además de velocidades de vértigo, la generación de móviles 5G alimentará la era de la automatización, que algunos ya han denominado como la cuarta revolución industrial.