*CFP* "NATIONALISM AND MEDIA", 31ST ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF ETHNICITY AND NATIONALISM

31st Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN)

5-7 April 2022 in Antwerp (Belgium)

Nationalism and media

 

For as long as nationalist movements have existed, ideological pamphlets, historical novels that constructed a romantic national past to visual arts and hashtags such as #maga on Twitter have instrumentalised media. Next to disseminating explicit nationalist messages, media (printed press and visual arts included) also play a role for nationalism by making national symbols and discourses part of everyday life. By continuously providing representations of the nation and by presenting the world as a world of nations, media help to naturalise nationalism.

Since Karl Deutsch’s Nationalism and social communication (1953/1966), many studies of nationalism and national movements have pointed at the role of media. Most famously, in Imagined Communities (1983), Benedict Anderson emphasized the importance of ‘print capitalism’ in the emergence of modern nations. The growing distribution of newspapers, magazines, books and other print media facilitated language standardisation and literacy and through that to the development of a collective consciousness and the formation of an imagined community.

*CFP* "HISTORIZING INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND THEIR COMMUNICATION - INSTITUTIONS, PRACTICES, CHANGES", THEMATIC SECTION, STUDIES IN COMMUNICATION SCIENCES JOURNAL

We are seeking contributions for a thematic section of Studies in Communication Sciences (SComS) exploring international organizations and their communication from a historical perspective. SComS is a peer-reviewed journal of communication and media research with platinum open-access (no article processing charges).

To illuminate and discuss issues, research perspectives and the thematic spectrum of the history of international organizations and their communication, the guest editors request submissions which, using concrete international organizations as examples, address one or more of the problem areas and thematic focuses outlined below:

• Communication and communication management of international organizations

*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.

*CFP* "SOCIEDAD DE LA DESINFORMACIÓN: EL IMPACTO DE LAS FAKE NEWS EN LA ESFERA PÚBLICA", NÚMERO 72, COMUNICAR: REVISTA CIENTÍFICA DE COMUNICACIÓN Y EDUCACIÓN

Los procesos de comunicación tecnológica han experimentado importantes cambios desde antaño, dando lugar a un sistema de medios amplio, diverso y abierto. Los ciclos de noticias se han acelerado, la preeminencia de los medios de comunicación se ha reducido, los comunicadores se han transformado y han emergido nuevos emisores, y la capacidad de selección del público ha aumentado significativamente. En este contexto, el concepto de desinformación ha adquirido especial relevancia, puesto que el flujo incesante de mensajes con orígenes, objetivos y recorridos tan diversos dan cabida a informaciones erróneas, sesgadas o falsas; en ocasiones, se trata de errores involuntarios (misinformation), pero  a  menudo tienen el propósito explícito (disinformation) de confundir al público receptor y transmitirle mensajes falsos −fake news− para conseguir un resultado específico, como orientar y transformar la opinión pública. 

 

Descriptores

*CFP* "PARTICIPATION IN TRANSITION: RETHINKING PARTICIPATORY CULTURE", SPECIAL ISSUE, BALTIC SCREEN MEDIA REVIEW

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly changed physical interaction among people, but it also continues to shape our relations with media and technology. Mediated and distant interaction and communication became the norm. This led to struggles for some individuals, groups, institutions, practices and services, while others blossomed and thrived. Is participatory culture, as we know it, changing as a result of the challenges of 2020?

Building on the 2020 volume of Baltic Screen Media Review, which explored the changes that the COVID-19 pandemic brought to media industries, we now call for papers on participation in the context of the pandemic and related crises.

While the pandemic has posed an incredible challenge in terms of media production, it has concurrently pushed innovation, resulting in a reinvigorated relationship between media and the audiences. Media was the window to the world for locked-down people, and via media and communication technologies people were informed, entertained and able to interact with one another. Yet, the incredible volume of data created from people’s media participation has enhanced rather than diminished the disproportionate power of already powerful platforms and corporations held over access, participation, public speech and cultural discourse.

*CFP* "SCREENING CONTROVERSY" EDITED COLLECTION, ROUTLEDGE SCREENING FILM SERIES OF BOOKS

You are invited to submit an abstract for the upcoming edited collection Screening Controversy, part of the Routledge Screening Film series of books that aim to support the use of individual film screenings as a core aspect of film studies pedagogy. Books devoted to individual films are often difficult to assign as set readings due to their length and approach which is not conceptualized for screening-based support. Screening Film is positioned to fill this gap in teaching film where screenings are a core activity. Each volume of Screening Film includes fifty key readings on individual films specifically designed with the aim of supporting film screenings. Contributions should be short, focused, contextual and analytical readings that address an individual film of your choice, and, as the title of this volume suggests, this volume is specifically interested in films whose reception has been marred by controversy. 

We invite established and emerging scholars specializing in film studies and cognate disciplines, to contribute chapters of a maximum of 4000 words on an individual film that responds to the theme of the collection. It is expected that each chapter includes any key historical, political, stylistic, industrial contexts which are necessary for understanding the film more broadly, especially in relation to the canon, movements, and debates which circulate around the text and that this is in advance of, or alongside, any new insights, research, and arguments brought to the analysis.

*CFP* "PARTICIPACIÓN CIUDADANA EN LA ESFERA DIGITAL", MONOGRÁFICO 2021-4, REVISTA COMUNICAR

Una de las cuestiones principales que se han asumido sobre el impacto de Internet y las redes sociales apuntan a la proliferación de canales de participación ciudadana, más o menos visibles, a través de la llamada esfera digital. En este sentido, la literatura ofrece una multiplicidad de visiones enfrentadas sobre la naturaleza, dinámica y perfil de este nuevo espacio. En contra de la propuesta de la creciente desconfianza en las instituciones y procesos políticos de las democracias modernas, las tecnologías digitales se han configurado repetidamente como esperanzas para el fomento y la profundización en el compromiso y la participación de los ciudadanos a través de un amplio catálogo de innovaciones democráticas. 

En esta línea, las redes sociales podrían tener un impacto directo en la movilización y el empoderamiento, capacitando a los ciudadanos para interactuar entre ellos, o con los representantes públicos, ejerciendo a veces de bypass de otros canales de comunicación más institucionalizados como los capitalizados por periodistas y su función de filtros (gatekeepers). En el mejor de los casos, estos procesos podrían conducir hacia una participación más inclusiva y significativa, y profundizar en la deliberación pública.

*CFP* "COMMUNICATING WHAT IS ESSENTIAL IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE: ETHICS AND DEONTOLOGY AS A GUARANTEE OF THE SOCIAL FUNCTION OF THE MEDIA AND ITS PROFESSIONALS", VI INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON COMMUNICATION ETHICS

VI International Congress on Communication Ethics

May 18th, 19th and 20th, 2021

Faculty of Information-Communication Sciences of the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Spain

 

The Organising and Scientific Committees of the VI International Congress on Communication Ethics invites you to participate in theCongress that will be held in a semi-presential way on May 18th, 19th and 20th, 2021, at the Faculty of Information-Communication Sciences of the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), under the title "Communicating what is essential in the public sphere: Ethics and Deontology as a guarantee of the social function of the Media and its professionals".

The preferred language will be Spanish, but communications in Portuguese or English will also be accepted. The full communication may be sent until June 6th 2021. All accepted communications, delivered in time and following the Structure Rules and style indications, will be edited in an e-book, with ISBN and legal deposit, to be published in Fragua publishing house, recognized with the SPI quality seal for publications specialized in Humanities and Social Sciences.

*CFP* "GENDER AND MEDIA: CHALLENGES OF BEIJING", ONLINE 2020 CONFERENCES

Gender and Media: Challenges of Beijing + 25

2nd and 3rd, December 2020

Online Conference

In 2020 we commemorate the 25th anniversary of The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. Several developments in the promotion of equality and peace for women in the world are attributed to this document approved in 1995 at the IV World Conference on Women which remains a reference for the international community.

 

The outcomes of the Platform and its documents and their subsequent reviews are a legacy embodied in a set of strategic goals, which have been followed by the necessary actions to achieve them in twelve priority areas. One of these areas is “Women and the media” (Area J), which will be the core theme of the Gender and Media International Conference: Challenges of Beijing + 25.

*CFP* "NEW APPROACHES IN COMMUNICATION STUDIES", DECEMBER 2020 ISSUE, MOMENT: JOURNAL OF CULTURAL STUDIES

Communication studies indicate acts of communication produced as part of production relations within a specific historical and social context. It translates as integrity of complex and changing acts. Being a multi-disciplinary field itself, communication studies have a flexible structure composed of various epistemological and methodological approaches.

Communication studies began in the USA in the 1920s. Having an interdisciplinary nature from the beginning, the preliminary studies of the field mostly focused on political science. Examining issues of propaganda and persuasion, these studies made use of psychology and social psychology as well. The interdisciplinary nature of the field was ever more intensified thanks to the Chicago School that addressed urbanization and urban-based interactions, and fields such as sociology, anthropology, and ethnography were also considered within this realm. What changed the façade of these USA-based preliminary studies, which gradually adopted a behaviorist and empirical approach, was the establishment of the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies. Taking culture as its main concern, this approach was called the Cultural Studies and included semiotics, Marxism, feminism, and literary theories within its fields of interest.

*CFP* "COMMUNICATION HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS AND NGOS. QUESTIONS, RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES, TOPICS", ANNUAL ZEMKI CONFERENCE

Communication History of International Organisations and NGOs. Questions, Research Perspectives, Topics

Annual Conference

22nd-23rd April, 2021

ZeMKI, Bremen, 2021

Keynote speakers 

Prof. Dr. Madeleine Herren-Oesch (University of Basel) 

Dr. Torsten Kahlert (Aarhus University).

The International ZeMKI Conference 2021 will focus on a topic that has thus far received little attention from historians of communication and media: the communication history of international organizations. Since the second half of the 19th century, for numerous and diverse areas of social life, globally active international organizations of varying degrees of institutionalization and scope, both non-governmental and intergovernmental, have been founded and have dedicated themselves to the global challenges of the first modern age. The most famous of these is certainly the League of Nations, which was established in 1919 as the predecessor institution of the UN.

*CFP* "NEW APPROACHES IN COMMUNICATION STUDIES", DECEMBER 2020 ISSUE, MOMENT JOURNAL

The bilingual Moment Journal has a CFP out for the December 2020 issue, entitled “New Approaches in Communication Studies”. Ozan Cavdar and Asli Telli are editors of this issue and would be delighted if you could distribute the call in your lists and circles. 

Below is a summary of the call:

Today, the theoretical debate within the critical approach seems to have lost its former intensity, but the dynamism of the historical and social context continues to breed new discussions in the field of communication studies. Class movements, new social movements, and the relation of information technologies to these movements continue the old struggle against changing forms of capitalism and globalization in new ways and force communication studies to adopt new perspectives. Thus, we dedicate the December 2020 issue "New Approaches in Communication Studies" of Moment Journal to studies that focus on new approaches in communication studies through a self-reflexive perspective. 

*CFP* "ACTORES, CONDICIONES Y PRÁCTICAS CONTEMPORÁNEAS DE USO Y CONSUMO MASS-MEDIÁTICO DE INFORMACIÓN POLÍTICA", Nº 35, REVISTA CONTRATEXTO

La convocatoria para el número 35 de la revista Contratexto abordará el problema de la selectividad en el uso o consumo mediático de información política. Esta problemática enfoca la relación entre la comunicación masiva mediatizada, compleja en los procesos que le subyacen, y los comportamientos y actitudes de las audiencias.

La mayoría de las investigaciones sobre el uso de dispositivos siguen las tradiciones empíricas norteamericana, los estudios de recepción de los cultural studies o la sociología francesa, e indican que, desde los '80, el uso y consumo mass-mediático de información política se ha vuelto crecientemente personalizado. Ya desde mucho antes, Herbert Blumer destacaba los efectos de las experiencias individuales y sociales en la interpretación del mensaje de los medios, poniendo de relieve la reciprocidad de los procesos de producción, recepción y circulación mediática.

Por un lado, el filtro personal de selectividad por parte de las audiencias se configura desde numerosos factores (temperamento, personalidad, género, valores, creencias, motivaciones). Al respecto, se observa una resignificación de tales factores con el aporte de estudios experienciales y contextuales que permiten situar rutinas y prácticas de apropiación específicas de determinadas audiencias desde diferentes áreas de influencia. 

*CFP* "COMMUNICATION RESEARCH ON AND FROM EUROPE", JANUARY 2021, MEDITERRANEAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION

Communication Research on and from Europe coordinated by Dr. Miguel Vicente-Mariño (University of Valladolid, Spain) and Dr. Ilija Tomanič Trivundža (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) will be published in January 2021 (V12N1). 

Europe is one of the two key cultural actors and geopolitical areas to understand the historical evolution and current status of scientific knowledge in the Social Sciences. Communication Research is a scientific field and/or discipline experiencing an undeniable expansion since the 1990s, grounding part of its growth on works arising from the Old Continent, where big changes –ranging from the collapse of the geopolitical East-West division to the long-standing institutional efforts to build up a strong European Union- stand behind the rapid growth and consolidation of a European community of Communication Research scholars.

The constitution of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), as a merging initiative between the European Consortium of Communication Research (ECCR) and the European Communication Association (ECA) in 2005 appears as an enriching initiative opening a forum for discussion and mutual recognition between and within a growing community of researchers facing similar challenges, topics of study, theoretical anchorages and methodological resources.

*CFP* "IMPROVING PUBLIC PARTICIPATION THROUGH STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION", ECREA 2020 PRE-CONFERENCE

ECREA 2020 Pre Conference

Improving public participation through strategic communication

2nd October 2020

University of Minho, Portugal

Keynote Speaker: Magda Pieczka, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh

We are facing an era of a permanent search for new answers to contemporary environmental, political and social challenges. The public, as producers, receivers or users have wide access to information and tend to be more exposed to communication, being an essential element in this equation.

Publics are at the origin of the paradigm changes, thus they have the power to influence behaviors, individually or being part of organizations and they ask for different ways of behavior from the organizations. From the other side, themselves, acting as citizens, are at the same time change agents with a strong ability to influence decision making.

*CFP* "COMMUNICATION, CAPITALISM AND CRITIQUE: CRITICAL MEDIA SOCIOLOGY IN THE 21ST CENTURY", ESA RN-18 MID-TERM CONFERENCE

Communication, Capitalism and Critique: Critical Media Sociology in the 21st Century

ESA RN-18 mid-term conference, Turin, Italy, 10-12/9/2020

We live in times of deepening economic, political, social, ideological and ecological crises that are expressed in widespread precarious labour, the commodification of (almost) everything, the rise of new nationalism, populism and authoritarian forms of capitalism, and ecological destruction. The display of power and counter-power, domination and spaces of power struggles, and the commons and the commodification of the commons characterise modern society. Contradictions and antagonisms between the haves and the have-nots shape contemporary Europe and beyond. Media and communication are fields of conflict in this power struggle: they are power structures and sites of power struggles, able to support both the expansion and the commodification of the commons.

On reflection of the conference place, Turin was the city where Gramsci lived, was politically active and where he set up the weekly newspaper ‘L’Ordine Nuovo’ and acted as editor of the newspaper ‘Il Grido del Popolo’. Gramsci exerted influence on the study of culture and communication in society. ESA RN18’s mid-term conference in Turin is an occasion for media/communication/cultural sociologists to ask: What is the relevance of Gramsci and other approaches and thinkers inspired by Marx for the study of communication and society today?

*CFP* "COMMUNICATION, CAPITALISM AND CRITIQUE: CRITICAL MEDIA SOCIOLOGY IN THE 21ST CENTURY", ESA RN18 MID-TERM CONFERENCE 2020

Communication, Capitalism and Critique: Critical Media Sociology in the 21st Century

ESA RN18 Mid-Term Conference 2020

Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy

10-12 September 2020

European Sociological Association (ESA) ‐ Research Network 18: Sociology of Communications and Media Research in cooperation with the:

• Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning 
• (DIST) of the Polytechnic University of Turin and the University of Turin 
• Italian National Sociological Association (AIS) – Section: Cultural 
• Processes and Institutions 
• Italian Scientific Society of Sociology, Culture, Communication (SISCC) 
• Antonio Gramsci Piedmont Institute Foundation

*CFP* "NEW PERSPECTIVES ON NEWS: THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL CHALLENGES TO CONTEMPORARY NEWS RESEARCH", CONFERENCE

New Perspectives on News: Theoretical and Empirical Challenges to Contemporary News Research Conference,

28-29 May

Södertörn University, Stockholm

News, for a long time considered a distinct commodity produced by journalists and established media organisations, is currently often considered a concept in flux. This is prompted by changes in news production, including altering practices of journalists and the opportunities for media users to produce and share their own content, but it is equally a result of novel forms of news distribution, where social media platforms, micro-celebrities and alternative and viral news sites have gained a prominent role in news dissemination.

Alongside transformations in the production and distribution of news have followed changing use patterns, leading to renewed questions about participation, trust and civic engagement in the public sphere. It is arguable, furthermore, that the altered context for news consumption interlinks not only with new behaviours around news, but also with more varied understandings of the concept itself – with a range of different sources of information competing for what is to be considered ‘news’.

*CFP* "EMOCIONES Y DISCURSOS EN LAS CONTROVERSIAS PÚBLICAS", JULIO 2020, REVISTA MEDITERRÁNEA DE COMUNICACIÓN

Revista Mediterránea de Comunicación / Mediterranean Journal of Communication invita al envío de textos para el monográfico: Emociones y discursos en las controversias públicas, coordinado por la Dra. Vanesa Saiz-Echezarreta, (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Cuenca, España) y la Dra. Paulina Gómez-Lorenzini (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile) que se publicará en julio de 2020 (V11N2).

Este monográfico solicita contribuciones que revisen y reflexionen sobre la manera en que el área de la Comunicación se ha adaptado al “giro afectivo” de las Ciencias Sociales. A partir del carácter intrínsecamente interdisciplinar de esta disciplina se busca dar visibilidad a investigaciones que incorporan al estudio de los discursos mediáticos los planteamientos contemporáneos sobre afectos, emociones y sentimientos en su relación con la construcción de la esfera pública, las identidades colectivas y las propuestas socioculturales y políticas.

El objetivo es poner en diálogo propuestas teóricas, herramientas metodológicas y resultados derivados de investigaciones aplicadas, que permitan, desde una orientación comunicacional, avanzar en la consolidación de los estudios de las emociones en el espacio público.

*CFP* "CONFLICT AND DEMOCRATIC PARTICIPATION IN THE DIGITAL SOCIETY", VOL. 5(2), CULTURE E STUDI DEL SOCIALE JOURNAL

The concept of participation requires a careful and thorough revision. In the different ideals of representative democracy, political participation is declined as an institutionalised practice, considered as compulsory for the exercise of representation and necessary for increasing the civil attention to the common good; in the experiences of direct democracy (or rather in the various and sometimes trivializing theories of it) participation overlaps with the idea of personal involvement and it is exercised (usually) through the rejection of delegation. It is no coincidence that representation and participation were very often placed in an antithetical and mutually exclusive position. In the concrete practices of democracy, however, things are certainly more complex, to the point that the concept of participation itself has variously intertwined with that of representation, has been variously declined and even its operationalization appears at least problematic. 

The topic of conflict – traditional in the social sciences but at the same time declined in various dimensions – inevitably intertwines with the concept of participation and the practices of civic engagement. Alongside the forms of participation “by  invitation” – typical, for example, of many experiments of democratic innovation or of some practices, more or less depoliticised, of collaborative governance – new trends of participation “by irruption” have developed, where social actors have become protagonists in the institutional re-shaping of procedures and organisation of social spaces.