*CFP* "HISTORIES OF DIGITAL JOURNALISM", CONFERENCE

Histories of Digital Journalism

A conference exploring the intersections of history, culture, digital technology and journalism

Budapest, Hungary: 24–25 June 2022

 

Although the shared past of digitization and journalism stretches back at least to a half-century, digital journalism history is a field still in formation. Building on the momentum of the recent ‘historical turn’ in digital media and internet studies, the aim of the conference is to bring together an interdisciplinary network of scholars to interrogate digital journalism histories and to start a global critical exchange on various approaches to and aspects of historicising digital journalism. As digital journalism has been re-configured by socio-historical contradictions of communication and complexities of its technological innovations, journalism scholarship should continuously strive for enhancing critical exchange to advance studies that intersect with numerous disciplines, theoretical approaches and methodological traditions. Emphasis of the conference is on the plurality of histories instead of one single digital journalism history, acknowledging diachronic as well as synchronic complexities of social relations, political contingencies, cultural traditions and power configurations between journalism and digitisation. Instead of enforcing one great master narrative, the conference aims to offer a space to embrace the co-existence of parallel, sometimes complementing, often conflicting historical investigations and narratives.

*CFP* "MEDIATING DIGITAL SOCIETY AND INDIVIDUALS: JOURNALISM AND COMMUNICATION IN THE TIMES OF UNCERTAINTY", MOSCOW READINGS CONFERENCE

On 18-19 November 2021, the Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University will hold its annual Moscow Readings conference. The topic is 'Mediating Digital Society and Individuals: Journalism and Communication in the Times of Uncertainty'. The conference will be organized as a virtual event, with all sessions taking place online. Moscow Readings conferences is co-sposored by the International Association for Media and Communication Research - IAMCR, and organized in partnership with IAMCR Digital Divide Working Group, IAMCR Communication in Post- and Neo-Authoritarian Societies Working Group, IAMCR Journalism Research and Education Section, UNESCO chair in communication, European Journalism Training Association, the Global Risk Journalism Hub, and National Association of Mass Media Researchers.

Today, historical transformations affecting media industries and production such as digitalization, consolidation, deregulation and related trends identified by scholars long ago (Hamelink, 1998) amplify and accelerate due to new disruptive processes influencing media work on a global scale. This includes the rapid growth of platform power and platform convergence, the emergence of telecommunications giants as competitors in the content market, and growing concerns about sustainability of the news industry and journalism as a profession in this context (Deuze, & Prenger, 2019; Meese, 2021).

*CFP* "DIGITAL DISCONNECTION, MEDIA DETOX, TECHNOLOGICAL DISENTAGLEMENT", ONLINE WORKSHOP

We would like to remind you that until the end of September the call for applications for the free online workshop with André Jansson, Karlstad University, Sweden is open.

Towards development of mediatization research V. Counter-mediatization, digital disconnection and other reverse trends in media use.

Online, 10.12.2021

Organized by the Institute of Social Communication and Media Studies at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, in partnership with Academia Europaea Wroclaw Knowledge Hub.

We invite all researchers who wish to discuss their research projects in a narrow and closed group of media scholars under the guidance of an expert. The aim of this year's edition is to answer questions like:

*CFP* "GENDER AND MEDIA STUDIES. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS AND DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES", SPECIAL ISSUE, SOCIOLOGY OF COMMUNICATION JOURNAL

Despite the widespread perception of an abundance of literature and opportunities for discussion about gender and media, “researching the gender-media dyad is still an important project for media scholars” (Ross, 2010, p. 3). One reason for the prominence of the topic is the richness and rapidity of the evolution of media products, technologies and actors. Indeed, the contemporary media landscape and its cultural dimension are the result of the accumulation and juxtaposition of content, media forms, production and consumption practices, and everything in between (Bolter, 2020). Rigid and stereotyped images of women, men and other subjectivities coexist with critical content, as the result of practices of remix, sharing, co-creation and contestation.

The relationship between gender and media also appears to be of interest due to the growth of studies about the complexity and variety of subjectivities, identities, orientations and social and sexual relations in the media universe. Indeed, in the last two decades, theoretical reflections and empirical analyses have flourished in the scientific debate, thematizing the gender-media dyad beyond the conspicuous theme of representations, beyond binary opposing and heteronormatively visions (Buonanno, Faccioli, 2020; Farris, Compton, Herrera, 2020; Kay, 2020; Scarcelli, Krijnen, Nixon, 2020; Ross, 2020). Moreover, gender and media studies have recently been enriched by wide-ranging interdisciplinary analyses that look at the topic from a prismatic, intersectional perspective, which deepens the encounter between sociology and feminist media studies (Corradi 2008; Buonanno, 2014; Byerly, 2017). In this regard, there is an increasing sensitivity to the transformations in the social discourse of feminism due (also) to its mediatisation and the re-signification of feminist terms in a neoliberal perspective (Banet-Weiser, 2018; Gill, 2016; McRobbie, 2020; Rottenberg, 2018).

*CFP* CALL FOR VIDEO-ESSAYS, ISSUE 8, TECMERIN: JOURNAL OF AUDIOVISUAL ESSAYS

Tecmerin. Journal of Audiovisual Essays launches its CFP for issue 8. It is a biannual, peer-reviewed journal, which also offers a monographic dossier each year. This journal is published by the research group Tecmerin (Television, Cinema, Memory, Representation and Industry) of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Department of Journalism and Media Studies).

The journal focuses on Spanish and Latin American cultural production, although not exclusively. Consequently, we especially invite scholars, researchers and creators to send pieces centered on the production, consumption, circulation and cultural exchange within these geographical areas.

Instructions for authors:

Researchers and creators may send their audiovisual essays to one of the following sections:

• Video-Essays:  audiovisual essays that offer a critical take on diverse aspects of cinema, television and popular culture. 
• Creators:  experimental or documentary pieces that approach a specific cultural topic.

*CFP* "MEDIA AND THE 'NEW NORMAL'", SPECIAL ISSUE, MEDIA ASIA JOURNAL

If you’re researching the "new normal," perhaps the normal thing to do is to consider Media Asia.

The peer reviewed journal is published by the Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) and Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. Established in 1974, it focuses on studies and practices in journalism, advertising, public relations, entertainment and other aspects of media in Asia.

Manuscripts should analyze issues related to the media’s role in the “new normal” in Asia. These are some topics worth exploring:

• “New normal” in the context of media studies (e.g., increasing role of the Internet, changing broadcast landscape, relevance of print) 
• Work-from-home arrangements of journalists and media workers 
• Changes in media production and distribution 
• Evolving media consumption 
• Marketing trends and the rise of e-commerce 

*CFP* "VISUALIDAD Y PODER", II COLOQUIO INTERNACIONAL (ONLINE)

“Visualidad y Poder” II Coloquio Internacional

Del 30 de noviembre al 2 de diciembre de 2021

Formato online

 

La Maestría en Comunicación, mención Visualidad y Diversidades y URU Revista de Comunicación y Cultura convocan al II Coloquio Internacional «Visualidad y Poder», el cual se desarrollará en formato online a través de internet y redes sociales, del 30 de noviembre al 2 de diciembre en consideración del fenómeno de salud que atraviesa la humanidad.

El evento es un espacio de debate sobre problemas e innovaciones actuales de los estudios de visualidad que permita el diálogo interdisciplinar entre investigadores, académicos, creadores, docentes y estudiantes que tienen como objeto de investigación aspectos estéticos, tecnológicos, políticos y culturales de las imágenes. Igualmente se constituye en un espacio de referencia de los debates contemporáneos asociados a la visualidad dentro de América Latina.

*CFP* "THE IDEA OF THE SHAKESPEARE ACTOR", EDITED COLLECTION

What comes to mind when we think about the Shakespearean actor, or Shakespearean acting? What do actors past, present, and future consider ‘Shakespearean acting’ to be? Is the idea of the Shakespearean actor helpful, or does it limit and restrict the notion of what Shakespearean performance can be?

Histories of Shakespearean acting have often provided catalogues of names weighted in favour of white cisgender actors including David Garrick, John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier, Derek Jacobi, Kenneth Branagh, and Mark Rylance, in favour of cerebral or declamatory performance styles, and in favour of performing in an English accent. This collection will read against the grain of theatre history to confront the idea of the Shakespearean actor.

As performance trends have changed over the last thirty or forty years, and as landmark works in Shakespeare and early modern performance studies have shown, the limits and definition of ‘the Shakespearean’ have expanded.[1] New approaches address the limits of a teleological, British-centric approach to the histories of Shakespearean acting and acting practices: there have been interesting challenges to the limits of 'Shakespearean acting' from earlier periods, from figures such as Ira Aldridge, Paul Robeson, Asta Nielsen, Ellen Terry, Sarah Bernhardt, Fanny Furnival, Sarah Siddons, and even Edward Kynaston.

*CFP* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, MEDIA LAW & POLICY MLPSC SCHOLARS CONFERENCE

Media Law & Policy

MLPSC Scholars Conference

13-14 January 2022 (online)

 

We invite you to submit an abstract for the Media Law & Policy Scholars Conference (MLPSC 2021), which will take place online on January 13 & 14, 2022.

MLPSC is not like other big conferences you may normally attend. It is an interdisciplinary, paper workshop. The goal is to provide advice and support for works-in-progress – to deepen their intellectual and theoretical impact. We interpret media law and policy broadly, welcoming scholars from around the world who study free speech, free press, access to information, intellectual property, data privacy, emerging technologies and other related law and policy issues from a variety of theoretical perspectives and methodologies. Our goal is to include scholars and practitioners from law, journalism & communication, philosophy, political science, information systems, sociology, history, business and myriad other disciplines.

*CFP* "COSTUME AND FAIRY TALES", SPECIAL ISSUE, STUDIES IN COSTUME & PERFORMANCE JOURNAL

Costume plays an important part both in traditional fairy tales and in their adaptations in diverse media forms, especially in performing arts such as theatre, ballet, opera, and musical, but also in other media such as film, visual art, manga, theme parks, video games, and digital and social media. Clothes worn by characters in fairy tales function according to the internal narrative logic that constitutes and organizes the story-world, defining and transforming the wearers’ identities and social contexts. In this sense, fairy-tale clothes can be regarded as costume, defined as the kind of clothes that bear significance, within a staged, performed moment for an audience, ranging from traditional theatre to live art, through spoken, movement based, or sung performance. The ubiquitous persistence of fairy tales in popular cultures across the globe renders them a means to express social, cultural and psychological anxieties, evoking ethical dimensions of individual and collective struggles. As such, the way characters are embodied through their clothes bears significant narrative and performative potential in layering of meanings in performance making.

Equally, iconic fairy tale characters may float away from their narrative roles and be found to be expressing key themes in contemporary performance-based artistic practices. For example, Korean-born photographer Chan-Hyo Bae in his Existing in Costume series (2006-) casts himself in the roles of princesses in European fairy tales such as Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty by wearing authentic dresses worn by ruling-class women in eighteenth-century England, thereby foregrounding the physical and metaphorical tension between the male Asian body and those kinds of historical costumes which evidence the Eurocentric colonial norms still dominant in today’s globalized culture.

*CFP* "WASTE", VOL. 42.2 (FALL 2022), SPECTATOR JOURNAL

Look around and all the eyes can see is waste. From piles of face masks used during the COVID-19 pandemic to heaps of fake lifejackets left behind by migrants along Europe’s shores, we seem to be surrounded by discarded objects—used, abused, and left behind. As climate change accelerates and racial capitalism continues its relentless agenda of extraction and consumption, human and nonhuman life grows increasingly disposable as well. Despite—or perhaps because of—ongoing calls for better “management,” governments seem more than willing to sacrifice the elderly, disabled, and poor in order to “save” the economy. Over the past few years, we have watched states detain migrant children in cages and abandon refugees stranded at sea. We have witnessed communities around the world endure increasingly extreme weather events while environmental regulations are dismantled by autocrats and democrats alike.

Waste, materially and conceptually, is marked by a certain excess. The term ‘waste’ can signal excessive practices of extraction and production, or improper habits of consumption (wasting food, wasteful spending). It can describe an excess of the body (excrement), and the refusal or inability to make the body productive (wasted talent, waste of time, to waste away from disease or malnourishment). As a verb, ‘waste’ can also mark excessive acts of destruction (laying to waste). Across these uses, waste seems to connote a transgression, a violation of an intended order.

*CFP* CAL FOR ARTICLES, MEDIÁLNÍ STUDIA JOURNAL

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, MLA, Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL), and European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences (ERIH PLUS).

Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis. This means that your submission can be sent at any time, all year round. Manuscripts submitted by the end of November 2021 will be considered to be included in the 1/2022 issue.

Submission Guidelines.

Please submit your manuscripts via e-mail address medialnistudia@fsv.cuni.cz

*CFP* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, COMEDY IN CRISIS CONFERENCE

Comedy in Crisis Conference

Mixed Bill: Comedy and Gender Research Network

Birmingham City University, 14th and 15th January 2022

 

During the current COVID-19 pandemic, comedy (and social uses of humour) have become increasingly vital as a method of coping with adversity on both a local and global scale. Shared laughter can provide a temporary relief from the anxieties that continue to dominate a socially distanced existence, and thus bring people together whilst physically apart. In this context temporary humour communities have become increasingly significant. This conference will creatively explore how comedy (both in terms of content and industrial practices related to live and mediated forms) adapts and engages with times of crisis.

Although we anticipate a significant amount of discussion will look to recent events related to the pandemic, we also actively seek presentations engaging with wider conceptions of personal, social, political and environmental crises. We therefore invite abstracts for presentations, performances and creative responses on the following topics. 

*CFP* "COUNTER-MEDIATIZATION, DIGITAL DISCONNECTION AND OTHER REVERSE TRENDS IN MEDIA USE", TOWARDS DEVELOPMENT OF MEDIATIZATION RESEARCH V WORKSHOP

Towards development of mediatization research V

Counter-mediatization, digital disconnection and other reverse trends in media use

10.12.2021

Institute of Social Communication and Media Studies

Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland

in partnership with Academia Europaea Wroclaw Knowledge Hub

 

Continuing our research meetings focused on specific issues of mediatisation chaired by eminent experts (Göran Bolin (2017), Johan Fornäs (2018), Andreas Hepp (2019), Mark Deuze (2020)), this year the workshop will take place online on 10 December 2021 and it will be led by Professor André Jansson, director of the Geomedia Research Group at the Karlstad University, Sweden.

*CFP* "BROADCASTING IN (DE)COLONIAL SETTINGS", SPECIAL ISSUE, THE JOURNAL OF RADIO & AUDIO MEDIA

The emergence of radio introduced profound changes in public communication, changing patterns of information dissemination at local, national and international levels. In the case of the Imperial nations this role was extended overseas with radio becoming the most important medium for uniting the home countries with the expats living in the far reaches of the empires, though not unproblematically.

A growing body of literature on the history of imperial and colonial broadcasting, as well as of sound, have been contributing to the understanding of the role of radio technologies, broadcasting and music in the 20th century in forging audible and sonorous empires. However, the ways in which different imperial countries used radio to create a sense of nation and colonial identities among those living in different geographies remains an open question. On the other hand, in the last decades works dealing with the media during decolonization have called attention to the significant role played by the audio medium in promoting independence from colonial powers and giving visibility to forms of culture that would become part of national identities of the new-born countries. What research has also revealed is that much is still to be understood about the relation between radio and decolonization practices and processes. Thus, this special issue seeks to publish manuscripts dealing with how broadcasting was incorporated and appropriated within different colonial and decolonial settings.

Hence, papers dealing with the following topics will be highly appreciated (non-exhaustive list):

*CF`* CALL FOR ARTICLES, ISSUE 119, VIEWFINDER JOURNAL

ViewFinder Issue 119 is now open for submission from writers, academics, researchers, and video essayists.

We will be exploring the present and future of audiovisual education.

We’re looking for articles and essays with a focus on the future of education, the current use of audiovisual and the new dynamics of online teaching.

Teaching is still going through seismic changes since the Covid-19 pandemic began. How important a factor has using audiovisual tools been? What has been the impact of using Zoom and MS Tools in teaching? To what extent have education streaming services such as BoB and Kanopy, as well as YouTube, played a more important role in teaching and learning since Spring 2020 and how might their role change going forward?

What systems are being designed to optimise accessibility in education? What has been the impact on inclusivity in the last 18 months? What licensing and copyright issues have had to be addressed? ViewFinder is designed to be accessible across academic disciplines and for public readership as well as academia. It is a chance to synthesise and summarise your project work and to offer think pieces and provocations that enrich the public conversation.

*CFP* "COMEDY IN CRISIS", MIXED BILL: COMEDY AND GENDER RESEARCH NETWORK CONFERENCE

Comedy in Crisis Conference

Mixed Bill: Comedy and Gender Research Network

Birmingham City University, 14th and 15th January 2022

 

During the current COVID-19 pandemic, comedy (and social uses of humour) have become increasingly vital as a method of coping with adversity on both a local and global scale. Shared laughter can provide a temporary relief from the anxieties that continue to dominate a socially distanced existence, and thus bring people together whilst physically apart. In this context temporary humour communities have become increasingly significant. This conference will creatively explore how comedy (both in terms of content and industrial practices related to live and mediated forms) adapts and engages with times of crisis.

Although we anticipate a significant amount of discussion will look to recent events related to the pandemic, we also actively seek presentations engaging with wider conceptions of personal, social, political and environmental crises. We therefore invite abstracts for presentations, performances and creative responses on the following topics. Note our examples below are from a UK context, but please do not let that constrain your responses:

*CFP* LOBBYING FOR (IN)ACTION: CLIMATE EMERGENCY, INTEREST GROUPS AND DENIAL", SPECIAL ISSUE, ÁMBITOS: REVISTA INTERNACIONAL DE COMUNICACIÓN

This special issue theme is found at the intersection of climate change denial and interest groups (like lobbies, think tanks and any type of advocacy organization). The special issue aims to encourage researchers in any area of the social sciences to focus on the role of interest groups in delaying climate policies through an awareness of the complexity of climate change denial. We therefore invite papers related to this complexity promoting climate inaction and the current climate crisis pertaining, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Strategic communication, public relations and media coverage of interest groups involved in climate inaction: media representation, lobbies and think tanks’ rhetoric, discourse analysis, discursive networks, communication strategies, etc. 
• Public Affairs, interest groups theory and practice connected to climate inaction: institutional relations, profiles of key pressure groups, network coalitions, the political economy of lobbies and think tanks, etc. 
• Anthropocentrism and speciesism in climate inaction connected to interest groups: animal agriculture lobbies, dietary guidelines and lobbies, think tanks related to the industry, etc. 

*CFP* "HISTORY OF DIGITAL MEDIA AND DIGITAL MEDIA HISTORIOGRAPHY", ECREA COMMUNICATION HISTORY SECTION WORKSHOP

History of Digital Media and Digital Media Historiography

A ECREA Communication History Section Workshop 

co-sponsored by the ICA Communication History Division

Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH), University of Luxembourg

Luxembourg, 2-4 February 2022

 

The digital turn has had a transformative effect on all media, and it has also influenced the way in which media and communication history is shaped, written and disseminated. First, it has had an impact in terms of devices, distribution, production and content, as well as access and participation. Looking at these changes with the lenses of history is beneficial, because it helps contextualizing “revolutions” and continuities with the past. Consequently, the history of digital media can be seen as a new label for media histories related to digital politics, economics, technologies and cultures shaped by digitalisation. But it also deals with analogue media which have been digitised or have resisted digitisation is a new and relevant field.

*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).