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16 de noviembre de 2021

*CFP* "LA IGUALDAD DE GÉNERO: UNA LUCHA CONSTANTE", NÚMERO 22, COMMUNICATION PAPERS: SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH JOURNAL

“La Estrategia Europea para la Igualdad de Género presenta actuaciones y objetivos políticos para avanzar de forma sustancial hacia una Europa con mayor igualdad de género de aquí a 2025. La meta es una Unión en la que las mujeres, los hombres, los niños y las niñas, en toda su diversidad, dispongan de libertad para seguir el camino que elijan en la vida, gocen de las mismas oportunidades para prosperar y puedan conformar y dirigir por igual la sociedad europea en la que vivimos”. Esta declaración es el punto de partida del Call for papers de este Número 22 que esperemos no acabe en un brindis al sol.

Aunque la presencia cada vez mayor de las mujeres en el mercado de trabajo y sus logros educativos y de formación son tendencias alentadoras, persisten las desigualdades entre hombres y mujeres, manifiestas en la brecha salarial, en la infrarrepresentación en los puestos de responsabilidad, en los estereotipos presentes en los relatos mediàticos y, en general, en todos esos sesgos que las discriminan y las invisibilizan.

El peso de la sociedad patriarcal ha conllevado una visión androcéntrica, normalizada durante muchos años, que penetra en las rutinas de trabajo y se transmite a través de la comunicación. La incorporación de la perspectiva de género en la comunicación, y la normalización y el equilibrio de la representación que, desde los medios de comunicación, se hace de mujeres y Hombres, son elementos básicos para poder llegar a una sociedad igualitaria y libre de violencias machistas.

20 de septiembre de 2021

*CFP* "COMUNICACIÓN, PROPAGANDA Y MOVIMIENTOS REVOLUCIONARIOS EN LA HISTORIA", NÚMERO ESPECIAL, RAEIC: REVISTA ESPAÑOLA DE LA ASOCIACIÓN DE INVESTIGACIÓN DE LA COMUNICACIÓN

RAEIC, Revista Española de la Asociación Española de Investigación de la Comunicación, abre su llamada a propuestas para los artículos del número especial sobre “Comunicación, propaganda y movimientos revolucionarios en la historia”, que se publicará en mayo de 2022.

La comunicación planificada, especialmente de tipo persuasivo mediante diferentes estrategias y técnicas al servicio de emisores políticos, sociales o culturales, ha tenido un protagonismo relevante en los procesos revolucionarios a lo largo de la historia, sobre todo a partir de su difusión en los medios de comunicación de masas en períodos de crisis y/o conflictos sociales.

El uso de un periodismo militante y de los medios en la esfera pública como instrumentos de lucha política mediante la difusión de mensajes de agitación al servicio de causas que promueven el cambio de modelo político o social y sus instituciones en determinados períodos históricos, ha sido una constante en la historia contemporánea. Pero la capacidad seductora de los movimientos revolucionarios, tanto en su dimensión simbólica como en su cualidad sensacional para los medios periodísticos, ha potenciado su capacidad de impacto mediático y persuasivo.

15 de septiembre de 2021

*CFP* "QUEER VISUALS: GENDER, SEXUALITY AND INDIAN CINEMA", BOOK CHAPTER

How society represents its gender and sexual minorities, and whether the visual media should, at all, bear the responsibility of fair and equal representation, form two crucial discourses for a broader discussion in the field of gender studies at present. While ancient Indian society treated sexuality as a fluid concept, homosexuality eventually acquired the label of being a sin or crime primarily during the British Raj. However, the Indian society, as a whole, attempted to engage in constant historical, social and political struggles, the result of which was the decriminalization of the Act 377 terming it as ‘unconstitutional’ in 2018 by the Supreme Court of India. In the post-independent era, the cultural representation of gender identities had undergone a drastic transformation in various forms of visual media. Indian Cinema, one of the most common and easily accessible mediums of entertainment to the common mass, represented gender discourses not only through its stories, but also the songs that it incorporated and which served very much to forward the narrative of the plot, unlike its Western counterpart.

While commercial Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood, has come a long way in its depiction of diversified gender identities, the stereotypes of comical relief and voyeurism still remain its dominant feature. Since songs play a crucial role in facilitating the narrative of the plot, the lyrics used also form a crucial space for critical investigation in the field of gender studies, and to understand in what ways Hindi songs uphold or subvert traditional gender roles. Though in non-Hindi Indian cinema, gender representation in commercial films and songs has often paralleled their Hindi counterparts, there has often been acclaimed efforts by Indian filmmakers who handled the subject and presented the story with a sense of ingenuity, along with sensitivity and sincerity, thus making a mark of socio-cultural significance. 

6 de septiembre de 2021

*CFP* "A LICENSE TO HATE: ANTI-ASIAN PREJUDICE IN DIGITAL COMMUNICATION", 3RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PANEL

A License to Hate: Anti-Asian Prejudice in Digital Communication


3rd International Conference: Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis (ADDA3)

St. Petersburg, FL, USA: May 13-15, 2022
 
 
As reported, racism and anti-Chinese sentiments increased significantly after the start of the pandemic and have been directly linked to it (Vachuska, 2020). Disturbingly, over ¾ of Chinese Americans polled about their experiences reported being victim of at least 1 incident of COVID-19 racial discrimination online and/or in person, and over half perceived health-related Sinophobia in America and media-perpetuated Sinophobia (Cheah et al., 2020). Verbal and physical attacks on Asian Americans have been linked to racism and xenophobia deeply entrenched in the US society, and to the “us vs. them” worldview relegating Asian Americans to the bottom of the social hierarchy (Gover, Harper & Langton, 2020). Such feelings have been at least partly caused or exacerbated by the inflammatory rhetoric by the US politicians (Wu, 2020), and there has been evidence of ex-president Trump’s tweets to cause an uptick in anti-Asian verbal aggression on Twitter (Ziems et al., 2020). Researchers have analyzed the victims’ narratives (Satoh & Hata 2021) and even identified counter-discourses employing linguistic creativity to oppose hate (Zhu, 2020).

19 de agosto de 2021

*CFP* "TRANSITIONS IN TENSION. CONTROVERSIES AND TENSIONS AROUND ECOLOGICAL TRANSITIONS", COMMUNICATION, ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE AND SOCIETY CONFERENCE

Transitions in tension. Controversies and tensions around ecological transitions


16 & 17 December, 2021
 
 
The conference will take place in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, and will also be held remotely on a digital platform, on 16 and 17 December 2021 - Conference website

This colloquium aims to question the discourses and communicational phenomena related to ecological and energy transitions - we explicitly use the plural to indicate the complexity of the object in question. The polemical dimension of the communication surrounding the transitions - controversies, polemics, discussions, debates - which mobilises verbal language and all other types of semiotic devices (notably still and moving images), is at the centre of attention. 

27 de julio de 2021

*CFP* "CHANGES IN COMMUNICATION IN, FROM, AND ABOUT HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS", THEMATIC SECTION, STUDIES IN COMMUNICATION SCIENCES JOURNAL

We are seeking contributions for a thematic section of Studies in Communication Sciences (SComS) exploring changes in communication of higher education institutions. SComS is a peer-reviewed journal of communication and media research with platinum open-access (no article processing charges).

Higher education institutions (HEIs) are pivotal organizations in modern societies (Schäfer & Fähnrich, 2020). In past decades, the higher education sector has expanded considerably in many countries, with rapid increases in research output, growing student enrollment, and newly founded colleges and universities. New public management reforms and a growing need for societal legitimation have led many HEIs to prioritize communication, i.e., to establish communication offices, pursue branding, marketing, and reputation management, and to professionalize their communication efforts on traditional channels, websites, and social media (Davies & Horst, 2016; Elken, Stensaker, & Dedze, 2018; Marcinkowski, Kohring, Fürst, & Friedrichsmeier, 2014; Raupp & Osterheider, 2019; Schwetje, Hauser, Böschen, & Leßmöllmann, 2020; Vogler & Schäfer, 2020). This has resulted in competition for public visibility, involving researchers, HEI leadership, and professional communicators at central levels, research centers, and departments (Crettaz von Roten & Entradas, 2018; Entradas et al., 2020; Friedrichsmeier & Fürst, 2012; Koivumäki & Wilkinson, 2020; McKinnon, Black, Bobillier, Hood, & Parker, 2019; Rödder, 2020; Watermeyer & Lewis, 2018). 

22 de junio de 2021

*CFP* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, 8TH NEW ZEALAND DISCOURSE CONFERENCE AND COOMUNICATION RESEARCH AND PRACTICE JOURNAL (SPECIAL ISSUE)

8th New Zealand Discourse Conference (NZDC8)

University of Canterbury, Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand and virtually via Zoom

10-11 December 2021

 

The New Zealand Discourse Conference is a biennial event which brings together scholars working in a range of fields who study some form of discourse or use discourse analysis to understand other phenomena. The conference welcomes contributions that consider discourse and interaction in a variety of contexts, including interpersonal talk, institutional settings, organisational communication, mediated communication, as well as policy, political and cultural lenses on discourse. The conference welcomes diversity in theoretical and analytical approaches. 

Suggested areas of interest include:

  • Political discourse 
  • Communication in bicultural and multicultural contexts 

17 de junio de 2021

*CFP* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, VIRTUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRESS/POLITICS

 "Virtual Conference of the International Journal of Press/Politics"


13 - 16 September 2021



On 13-16 September 2021, the seventh conference of the International Journal of Press/Politics, focused on academic research on the relationship between media and political processes around the world, will be held virtually. Professor Young Mie Kim from the University of Wisconsin will deliver a keynote lecture.

The deadline for submission of abstracts is 5 July 2021. Attendees will be notified of acceptance by 12 July 2021. Full papers based on accepted abstracts will be due 1 September 2021. A selection of the best full papers presented at the conference will be published in the journal after peer review.

16 de junio de 2021

*CFP* "THE AESTHETICS OF TRAVEL", VOLUME 65 (02/2022), THE POLISH JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS

This upcoming issue of The Polish Journal of Aesthetics calls for submissions focused on the associations between traveling and aesthetics, both understood broadly. There is a necessity for interdisciplinary dialogue between Aesthetics and different fields of research related to traveling. Aesthetics is the study of perceptions, experiences, and speculative developments. The practice of traveling reaches from the importance of nomadism for forming human culture up to the idea of Bildung (moral, intellectual, cultural, and artistic formation). Narratives about travel may come from Western written and oral tradition, such as Homer’s Odyssey, and film genres such as Westerns, Sci-fi, or Road trip cinema. Various types of travel literature could include logbooks and texts that support learning about living in a way that necessarily encompasses alterity. 

Traveling invokes a type of self-knowledge that is dislodged from a homeland and is connected to ritualistic reunions sustained through an oral tradition, the extraordinary adventures of a people. Travel transmits knowledge about the world for future generations. Through the experience of distance and strangeness, traveling creates an authentic space for cosmological and philosophical investigations, exploration, nostalgia, and personal, collective, scientific, or territorial discoveries, above all. In the category of space, fictional and narrative aspects find imaginary projections and territorial explorations from which knowledge emerges, individuating itself by an investigative perspective and observation. A new personality—a new Self and new Selves—appears from unknown space and time. The essential and precise subject matter for this issue is to deal with the representation of traveling and the imaginary, even if trips are objective and documented. Papers should include studies about the bond between the objective and the subjective, the individual and the collective, united with memory, time, and space.

15 de junio de 2021

*CFP* "DISSENT AND COMMUNICATION: VOICES AND DISCOURSES IN THE ERA OF ALTERNATIVE FACTS", MEDIAFLOWS CONFERENCE 2021

 

"Dissent and communication: voices and discourses in the era of alternative facts"



27, 28 & 29 October 2021
 

In order to present a paper at the Mediaflows Conference 2021 ‘Dissent and communication: voices and discourses in the era of alternative facts’, a 250-word proposal should be sent through the specific form available at this link until 15 July 2021. The conference accepts papers in Spanish and English.

The conference accepts papers in face-to-face mode (health circumstances permitting) or virtual mode (by sending a video or participating online).

11 de junio de 2021

*CFP* "MEDIA AND POPULISM", SPECIAL ISSUE, REVISTA MEDIA & JORNALISMO

The scholarly journal Revista Media & Jornalismo (ICNOVA, Nova University, Lisbon) invite researchers to submit articles that discuss the contemporary populisms for a special issue on “Media and Populism” (Number to be published in 2022).

The “populist” label is almost always used to describe a wide range of individuals, parties, and movements, from left to right, who structure their political strategy around a dualistic and simplifying conception of reality. Concept of multiple semantic variations, depending on historical and political context in which it is employed, populism has been identified as a low-density ideology, quite sophisticated in terms of electoral effectiveness, which considers – in a Manichean perspective -society divided in two antagonistic groups: “the pure people” and “the corrupt elite” postulating the people’s unrestricted sovereignty. The populist assumes strategies of communication and rhetoric that value the perception of the existence of a monolithic people, whose identity would be threatened by the action of enemy groups -what some leaders call “Homeland enemies”. In this sense, populism is defined as discourse based on simplistic judgments and easy dichotomies, where the people (the crowd) are told what they hope to hear, polarizing society and dividing citizens between good and bad people.

10 de junio de 2021

*CFP* "BEYOND CALIFORNIAN IDEOLOGY? TECH COMMUNITIES AND ALTERNATIVE IMAGINARIES OF DEEP MEDIATIZATION", SPECIAL ISSUE, THE INTERNATIONAL JOOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION

In their 1996 publication of the same name, Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron characterized what they called the “Californian ideology” as a combination of “the free-wheeling spirit of the hippies and the entrepreneurial zeal of the yuppies” (Barbrook & Cameron 1996: 44). At its core, this Californian ideology is defined by the notion of a society characterized simultaneously by libertarian markets, alternative ideas of community and individual freedom—shaped by technology more than other social forces. Such notions were driven by networks such as those that emerged around the Whole Earth Catalog, and later, Wired magazine (Turner 2006), which communicated these ideas far beyond the American West Coast. Many of today’s platforms and digital infrastructures, which drive the current “deep mediatization” (Hepp 2020) of society, were created in the spirit of such an ideology, supported by ideas of “global scalability” of once found "technical solutions”.

At the same time, there were groups early on that seem to be opposed to such ideas. Examples of this are the Hacker, Open Source, or Civic Hacking movements, which are interested in critically questioning tendencies of commercialization. Such groups exert their influence by developing alternative “sociotechnical imaginaries” (Jasanoff & Sang-Hyun 2015) about possible futures – thus creating a space of possibility. However, if one also looks at emerging communities today such as the Maker, Quantified Self, or Biohacking movements, it becomes evident that many “alternative” imaginaries are closely interwoven with the Californian ideology. On closer inspection, the boundaries do not appear to be so easily drawn; there are manifold connections, fractures, affinities, and differences in the various communities.

2 de junio de 2021

*CFP* "POLÍTICA, MEDIOS Y REDES SOCIALES. ENTRE LA CONVERGENCIA Y LA DIVERGENCIA", VOLUMEN 17, Nº 1, REVISTA INMEDIACIONES DE LA COMUNICACIÓN

La influencia mediática convencional ya no tiene asidero en el nuevo ecosistema, donde el surgimiento de plataformas interactivas convive con las dificultades económicas y financieras que atraviesan los medios tradicionales, vulnerados en su capacidad de demarcar la opinión del público de manera generalizada y homogénea. En este interregno, la pregunta que subyace es: ¿las redes sociales son un desafío real para los estándares tradicionales del periodismo o, en cambio, una herramienta de normalización? Depende.

Más allá de las promesas democratizadoras, las redes sociales son entidades jerárquicas, caracterizadas por asimetrías entre los usuarios y por una alta concentración de la información. Los mayoristas de la información siguen siendo los mismos: Twitter y Facebook comunican masiva y desproporcionadamente la información creada por autoridades de la red o influenciadores virtuales. En esa arena, donde las voces reconocidas por el público no son muchas ni diversas, las batallas culturales las gana la mayor difusión y no el mejor argumento. No todas las noticias tienen un lector. En los medios tradicionales existen brechas entre la instancia de producción y la instancia del consumo de la información, aun cuando los cuadros de mando dan señales a los periodistas y editores acerca del comportamiento de los usuarios en tiempo real, distinguiendo las noticias que tienen alta demanda o las etiquetas que marcan tendencia.

*CFP* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, VIRTUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRESS/POLITICS

Virtual Conference of the International Journal of Press/Politics

Zoom, 13-16 September 2021

 

On 13-16 September 2021, the seventh conference of the International Journal of Press/Politics, focused on academic research on the relationship between media and political processes around the world, will be held virtually. Professor Young Mie Kim from the University of Wisconsin will deliver a keynote lecture.

The deadline for submission of abstracts is 5 July 2021. Attendees will be notified of acceptance by 12 July 2021. Full papers based on accepted abstracts will be due 1 September 2021. A selection of the best full papers presented at the conference will be published in the journal after peer review.

7 de mayo de 2021

*CFP* "DISCURSOS DE ODIO EN COMUNICACIÓN: INVESTIGACIONES Y PROPUESTAS", MONOGRÁFICO 2022-2, REVISTA COMUNICAR

Se entiende por discursos del odio la expresión pública consciente e intencional de contenidos de hostilidad y rechazo hacia individuos, grupos o colectivos, ya sea en función de criterios raciales, étnicos, religiosos o de nacionalidad, por motivos de género, identidad y orientación sexual o por cualquier otro criterio, que fomentan la intolerancia, discriminación, estigmatización, violencia, agresión o, en su vertiente más grave, el exterminio físico. Estos discursos, tradicionalmente reflejados en los medios de masas y circuitos alternativos, hoy centran su canal de difusión en medios online, comunidades digitales, y redes sociales. 

Por consiguiente, la presente convocatoria está abierta a investigaciones que ayuden a comprender el fenómeno, tanto desde una perspectiva centrada en el análisis de los mensajes, como en los antecedentes y efectos de este tipo de discursos, así como en la prevención e intervención para amortiguar la resonancia de dichos mensajes.

 

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30 de abril de 2021

*CFP* "DISCOURSE AND DISCORD IN CSR INITIATIVES", CONFERENCE

Discourse and Discord in CSR initiatives Conference

Université Paris-Nanterre, France,

26 November 2021

 

Striking the right balance between the moral(istic) discourse of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) on the one hand, and how this same discourse translates into concrete CSR initiatives on the other, remains a conundrum that many organizations grapple with. Informed by specific discursive practices (mission statements, websites, press releases, etc.), “CSR discourse” has recently become a discursive category in its own right, which reflects the development of contemporary society and how companies adapt and are perceived by it.

How a company acts within and interacts with society has evolved from one generation to the next. Often cited as the father of CSR, Howard Bowen highlights the debate between “social responsibilities and laissez-faire” stating: “social institutions and organisations which are desirable in one environment or in one stage of man’s development may be utterly inappropriate in another”. 

27 de abril de 2021

*CFP* "COMMENTS, HATE SPEECH, DISINFORMATION, AND PUBLIC COMMUNICATION REGULATION", INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE

International scientific conference

Comments, hate speech, disinformation, and public communication regulation

(Zagreb, Croatia, Sheraton hotel, 16 and 17 September 2021)

 

In case of an unfavorable epidemiological situation, the conference will be held online.

We invite you to contribute with your scientific papers to theoretical discussions on issues of freedom of speech and censorship of public speech, comments on news portals and social networks, hate speech, disinformation as well as questions about media freedom, right to information, internet neutrality. At the conference, we would like to discuss, among other topics, issues such as how to contribute to the fight against disinformation and hate speech in the age of digital communication, which strategies are acceptable, which stakeholders should be involved and which place belongs to self-regulation and which to the regulatory system? How should legislation participate in this? What are the experiences of different national legal regulations? Information about the conference and how to apply for participation is available via this link.

16 de abril de 2021

*CFP* "DIGITAL MEMORY AND POPULISM", SPECIAL ISSUE, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION

For a special section on Digital Memory and Populism in the International Journal of Communication (IJoC), we invite contributions addressing the use of digital memory by populists, their supporters, and their opponents online. Not only did populists evoke and exploit the past to fuel the Trump presidency and Brexit campaign, but it has also become a common populist tool to employ collective memory from local to global politics across the world. With the possibility to bypass traditional media and reach networked audiences, populist actors are increasingly active in digital publics to negotiate the role of the past and their versions of it with their supporters and defend it against their opponents. In this process, personal and collective memories become a contested field in discourses on identity, belonging, and political ideology used to mobilize for or against populist agendas online.

We welcome submissions shedding light on how digital memory is shared, represented, constructed, and instrumentalized online to promote or tackle populist agendas all over the world. We aim at compiling international research that investigates, for example, how memory-related populist communication strategies and their appeal online have become particularly relevant today, how digital memory is integrated in political imaginaries of the future, and how populists' messages thrive on collective memory discourses salient in contemporary digital culture. We also invite research studying the potential of digital memory to challenge populist narratives, and that examines the creative uses of the past to mobilize and organize bottom-up political engagement by the means of digital media, networked communication, and memory.

8 de abril de 2021

*CFP* "CONSPIRACY THEORIES IN DIGITAL ENVIRONMENTS", SPECIAL ISSUE, CONVERGENCE: THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH INTO NEW MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES

“Conspiracy theories”, once perceived as harmless phenomena that are “silly and without merit” (Keelley, 1999, p.109), have garnered increased attention among scholars, in news media and public discourse. Factors contributing to the current prevalence of conspiracy theories are manifold. From the rise of populist politics (Bergmann & Butter, 2020) and science-related populism (Mede & Schäfer, 2020) to the current pandemic, societal and political upheaval are associated with an increase in conspiracy theories. For researchers of new media technologies, one factor rendering conspiracy theories particularly worthy of interrogation is their close interplay with information and communication technologies. These technologies can amplify the visibility of conspiracy theory-related content and its promulgators (Bessi et al., 2015; Hellinger, 2018). 

Digital platforms are also congregation points for conspiracy theorists, risking polarisation of these “epistemologically isolated networks” (Sunstein & Vermeule, 2009, p. 204). Digital platform logics (Van Dijck & Poell, 2013) may exacerbate the problem of conspiracy theories, which has led to the recent trend of the deplatformisation (Rogers, 2020) of conspiracy theorists. As a result, many conspiracy theorists and their followers have migrated to fringe platforms such as Gab, Parler, and BitChute.

31 de marzo de 2021

*CFP* "THE MEDIATION OF SUSTAINABILITY: THE UNITED NATIONS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND PUBLIC DISCOURSE", BOOK CHAPTER

This CFC emerges from recent conferences held by the MDC in 2019 and 2020, in Jakarta and the UK. In 2015 the United Nations set out an audacious plan - under UN Resolution 70/1 - to promote health, life, equality, and the environment. In order to achieve this ambition, it created seventeen separate development goals, to be met over a fifteen-year period.

The Sustainable Development Goals include: ending Poverty and Hunger; promoting Health and Well-being; providing Quality Education; the pursuit of Gender and Racial Equality; Clean Water and Sanitation; Affordable and Clean Energy; Decent Work and Economic Growth; Developing Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure; Responsible Consumption and Production; creating Sustainable Cities; protecting Life Below Water and on Land; and the pursuit of Peace and Justice through forming Strong Institutions. In response to the UN’s SDG programme, this edited volume explores the way in which Sustainability narratives are disseminated in public discourse. The project examines how the UN SDGs are envisaged, articulated and then enacted by state and non-state actors, and how the outcomes are communicated to audiences throughout the world. The volume welcomes contributions that investigate unique or novel responses to the UN’s ambitions by NGOs, charitable organisations, and by grass roots campaigners, and seeks to document the substantial work being done by numerous public agencies.