*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

University of South Florida

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).

*CFP* "THE PANDEMIC AND THE FUTURE OF CAPITALISM: ON THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF OUR SOCIETIES AND ECONOMIES", ONLINE CONFERENCE

The Pandemic and the Future of Capitalism: On the Political Economy of our Societies and Economies

September 12-19, 2021

Online Conference

 

Given the continuation of the COVID pandemic, this year’s IIPPE Annual Conference will be online. As we will not all be in one place we will have an issue of time zones. To address this issue and simultaneously to reduce the number of panels at any one time, we plan to have two sessions of parallel panels per day for 8 days, plus an opening and closing plenary. We will have our usual pre-conference workshop the day before the conference begins; that is, on Saturday September 11.

IIPPE calls for general submissions for the Conference, and particularly welcomes those on its core theme on the pandemic and the state and future of capitalism. Proposals for presentations will as always be considered on all aspects of political economy. New participants committed to political economy, interdisciplinarity, history of political and economic thought, critique of mainstream politics and economics, and/or their application to policy analysis and activism are especially encouraged to submit an abstract.

*CFP* "MEDIA EDUCATION IN AN UNCERTAIN AND POLARIZED WORLD", RESEARCH CONFERENCE

Research Conference on Media Education in an Uncertain and Polarized World

June 13th-14th, 2021

UIC campus in Zhuhai, Guangdong, China (possibility to attend online)

 

The advent and impact of COVID-19 has highlighted dramatic uncertainties in a more polarized world. Existing literature on the consequences of COVID-19 has confirmed the intensification of divergences of views and behaviours on various social and political issues, e.g. perceived risks associated with the novel coronavirus, concerns with the lifting of restrictions imposed by the governments and the use of news media for providing information about the pandemic (de Bruin, Saw & Goldman, 2020). 

The uncertainties which persist and characterize the COVID-19 Era have brought massive challenges to the practices of higher education as a result of deepened polarizations. Such challenges are even more pressing to media education. On the one hand, the delivery of media education, which involves both the training and use of media technologies, has to address the academic effectiveness of distant learning and its social and ethical implications in a context of instability. On the other hand, COVID-19 has put media education under magnifying lenses highlighting how lack of inclusion and diversity persists in the university sector.

*CFP* "RETHINKING SPACE BEYOND THE PANDEMIC", SPECIAL ISSUE, THE LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES JOURNAL

Since Descartes’s introduction of material space as res-extensa and Kant’s following declaration of space and time as absolute categories framing all objective experience, philosophy and literature over the centuries, especially in twentieth century, have significantly reformulated the idea of space from an absolute to a relational entity. While Enlightenment thinkers’ theorization worked as the groundswell for Modern perspectives on space, their conceptualization of objective absolute space is disputed by twentieth century as Einstein foregrounds space in relative terms. This conceptualization of space as relative covers a broad spectrum of philosophical discursive practices—Bachelard evokes space as a subjective category situated in the human psyche; Habermas formulates the concept of space as ‘public sphere’ within history that safeguards public opinion; and Foucault finds the concept of “space” itself contingent upon the vagaries of history and power structures. 

Correspondingly, works of art also pose a similar challenge to the concept of absolute space—Cezanne’s challenge to fixed notions of space in post-impressionist period; non-representative paintings of Mondrian that experiment with Cartesian grid, Cubism of Picasso and Braque; and abstract paintings of Kandinsky that dismantle spatiality of pyramidal composition with geometric figures. Extensive historical vicissitudes have introduced us to dynamic conceptions of space within different areas of thought: political sphere through Jean-Luc Nancy, gender relations through Irigaray and Butler, geographical mapping through David Harvey and Edward Soja, sociological dimensions through Benjamin, Arendt, Lefebvre, and the philosophy of ‘other’ space through Deleuze and Guattari.

*CFP* "ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE", ISSUE 117, VIEWFINDER MAGAZINE

ViewFinder Magazine Issue 117 is now open for submission from writers, academics, researchers, and video essayists. We will be exploring AI and its relationship with audiovisual media.

We’re looking for articles and essays with a focus on Artificial Intelligence plus the future of education, audiovisual and online teaching are most welcome.

• How are people using AI to study and analyse television and film? 
• What is the potential of AI in audiovisual academic research, particularly in using archive? 
• How can AI help us improve teaching with audiovisual material? 
• How is AI, Augmented Reality and Computer Vision already informing teaching visually across disciplines?
• What ethical issues are there around AI use and images online, how will computer vision look in the future, what are our responsibilities and what is exciting about AI?
• How has AI been represented on screen in the past, how might stories about AI look in the future?

*CFP* "COLLABORATIONS", BILGI IPCC: INTERDISCIPLINARY PHD COMMUNICATION CONFERENCE

Bilgi IPCC (Interdisciplinary PhD Communication Conference) 2021

Theme: Collaborations

7-8 May 2021, Online

 

The 2021 edition of IPCC – Interdisciplinary PhD Communication Conference, realised by a group of young scholars within the PhD in Communication Program at Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey, will be held online on 7-8 May 2021 under the theme "Collaborations". Participants will be expected to provide 15-minute presentations, followed by roundtable discussions, which encourage further inquiry into the related topics of discussion, with the audience and fellow presenters. In line with the mission of the PhD in Communication Program of Istanbul Bilgi University, IPCC prioritises solidarity. Thus, the conference promotes a platform for the co-creation of knowledge, facilitated by free-form discussion sessions.

*CFP* "SCIENCE FICTION IN INDIA: PARALLEL WORLDS AND POSTCOLONIAL PARADIGMS", EDITED ANTHOLOGY

In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech titled “The Solitude of Latin America”, Gabriel Garcia Marquez declared that “the interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us even more unknown, ever less free, even more solitary”. Widely regarded as one of the champions of the magic realist genre, Marquez gestures towards the dynamic between the peculiar nature of a people’s lived experiences and the narrative constructs used to represent their reality. As opposed to magic realism, which is indigenous to Latin America, science fiction is primarily a Western literary genre. 

 

Right from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1819) (often regarded as the first SF novel), to the iconic pulp magazines of SF like Hugo Gernsback’s Amazing Stories, SF developed and matured in Europe and America. Besides germinating in the West, SF has also often been understood as a genre that aligned itself with imperialist ideology. John Rieder, in his now iconic book titled Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction (2008), argues, for example, that SF rose to prominence during the precise period which witnessed the most “fervid imperialist expansion” in the late nineteenth century. Rieder contends that as a product of imperialist culture, SF represents the West’s technological will to power.