*CFP* CALL FOR ARTICLES, NEXT ISSUES, NEW CINEMAS: JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY FILM

New Cinemas is seeking scholars and practitioners working in the fields below to act as peer reviewers. A vital part of academic publishing, peer review enriches the discipline and improves the work of authors and reviewers alike. We encourage reviewers from diverse backgrounds and at different stages of their career to join the peer review pool. We are particularly interested in hearing from researchers in Asian cinemas, film theory and philosophy, and genres such as horror and sci-fi.

New Cinemas is a peer-reviewed journal aiming to provide a platform for the study of new forms of cinematic practice and fresh approaches to cinemas hitherto neglected in western scholarship. It particularly welcomes scholarship that does not take existing paradigms and theoretical conceptualisations as given; rather, it anticipates submissions that are refreshing in approach and exhibit a willingness to tackle cinematic practices that are still in the process of development into something new.

We particularly welcome submissions from those close to completing their Ph.D., Early Career Researchers and practitioners, especially from outside ‘Western’ spaces, as well as work on film beyond the text (such as festivals, technology and marketing). We also seek to publish research and cutting-edge thought in shorter formats than the traditional academic article.

*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* "MEDIA AND CREATIVITY", INTERNATIONAL ONLINE CONFERENCE

“Media and Creativity” International Conference

London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (online)

2021-11-27 to 2021-11-28

 

Nowadays we live and breathe media, minute-by-minute, hour-by-hour. News, television, social media, celebrity culture, music, and more. As the media and communication sector becomes ever more diverse and dynamic, and we are going to consume it, we also need to understand it.

Today, the new bio-technical forms of life produced by mainstream digital media and by a whole range of artistic and non-artistic practices confront us with unprecedented theoretical questions, which can be dealt with by combining profound and perplexing perspectives. We need appropriate theoretical frameworks in order to understand the phenomena.

*CFP* "DEPORTE Y COMUNICACIÓN: UNA SIMBIOSIS PARA LA TRANSFORMACIÓN SOCIAL", VOL. 13, Nº2, REVISTA DE COMUNICACIÓN CIENTÍFICA COMHUMANITAS

El deporte, más allá de un pasatiempo o entretenimiento, es una herramienta de transformación social. Tiene el potencial y poder para generar cambios positivos en la vida de las personas.

Es así como el deporte para el desarrollo nace como una propuesta metodológica para promover y fortalecer valores, competencias blandas y hábitos saludables. Además, el deporte se enmarca en el derecho universal a la sana recreación y esparcimiento. Su contribución a la Agenda 2030 es fundamental al ser un catalizador y una fuente de desarrollo de actitudes, hábitos, costumbres, sueños, propósitos.

Asimismo, el deporte puede llegar a las masas y a los corazones de aficionados y ciudadanos a través de un sin número de canales de comunicación y mensajes que nos invitan a luchar por una determinada causa. Su capacidad para llegar e incidir es tal que puede cambiar la mentalidad y comportamientos tanto individuales como colectivos.

*CFP* "CIENCIA COGNITIVA Y NEUROMARKETING: INVESTIGACIÓN ACADÉMICA, NUEVAS TECNOLOGÍAS Y DESAFÍOS PROFESIONALES", PRÓXIMO NÚMERO, REVISTA ICONO14

El propósito de este monográfico es promover investigaciones que contribuyan, en el ámbito de las nuevas tecnologías, a mejorar el conocimiento de los procesos de percepción, creación de opinión, configuración de comportamientos y evolución de actitudes utilizando técnicas derivadas de la neurociencia a las Ciencias Sociales. El neuromarketing se encuentra estrechamente vinculado, entre otros aspectos, con el nuevo paradigma relacionado con la denominada economía de la experiencia, en donde las emociones juegan un papel relevante (Pine, B.J & Gilmore, J.H., 1998), y la teoría de la mente propuesta por el neurocientífico Antonio R. Damasio, que supone un encuentro entre la neurobiología y el pensamiento.

Dentro de la investigación cualitativa en comunicación y en la gestión empresarial, las técnicas de neuromarketing abren nuevas expectativas, ofrecen nuevas respuestas, que permiten aumentar el conocimiento de los públicos y en sus relaciones con las tecnologías emergentes en el campo de la comunicación. Con carácter ilustrativo, cabe mencionar, su capacidad para profundizar en los efectos de los mensajes en las audiencias -el nivel de agrado o rechazo- y sobre la toma de decisiones del consumidor, que en ocasiones resultan difíciles de verbalizar o son inconscientes. Si bien el reconocimiento de las técnicas de neuromarketing es cada vez más una realidad, continúa existiendo la necesidad de profundizar en un campo de investigación tan complejo como este con el fin de eliminar determinadas incertidumbres, generalmente asociadas, por un lado, a su utilidad práctica para medir la eficacia de las herramientas de comunicación comerciales y, por otro, con el rigor académico necesario que permita avanzar en la consolidación de su cuerpo teórico.

*CFP* "EVOLUCIÓN DE LAS NARRATIVAS DIGITALES PARA LA COMUNICACIÓN Y EL PERIODISMO", NÚMERO 39, REVISTA CONTRATEXTO

El número 39 de Contratexto abordará la temática referida a la evolución de las narrativas digitales para la comunicación y el periodismo en los últimos años. Se propone crear un marco de reflexión a partir de propuestas de investigación en torno al desarrollo de la innovación narrativa que usan particulares, medios, empresas e instituciones sobre temas de actualidad, publicidad, periodismo, comunicación audiovisual o comunicación corporativa, entre otros.

Todo esto, a partir de las intersecciones entre la teoría y la práctica que siempre resulta fundamental para el estudio de la narrativa transmedia; y en un contexto donde las audiencias se segmentan cada vez más, llegando a condicionar los canales y la estructura de los mensajes. Por lo tanto, es necesario precisar si las nuevas narrativas tienen un enfoque específico de cara a nuevas audiencias o simplemente, en muchos casos, solo obedecen a tendencias impuestas por la industria tecnológica, constituyendo así “burbujas” temporales.

Hoy se considera que las audiencias, lejos de mantener la pasividad plateada por iniciales modelos de comunicación unidireccionales, desean participar cada vez más en el mensaje de medios, empresas, instituciones y particulares; y apropiarse y construir otros tipos de espacios de comunicación (Marzal & Casero, 2017), al tiempo que se construyen nuevos espacios de diálogo y nuevas oportunidades laborales (Salaverría, 2016).

*CFP* "DISTRIBUTION IN THE STREAMING ERA", SPECIAL ISSUE, VELVET LIGHT TRAP JOURNAL

Over the past decade, the media ecology has been dramatically shifting with the advent of online “overthe-top” streaming services, the streaming wars that followed, and the platformization of the web. As the distance between big tech companies and legacy media players rapidly dwindles, rippling effects can be felt across industries, audience practices, regulatory frameworks, and more. Simultaneously, the rise of streaming services also continues to provoke further theorizations on topics that have concerned media scholars for decades regarding the asymmetrical dynamics of power and influence as it relates to globalization processes, representation, identity, politics, cultural and national mediations, and economic development.

For this issue, we welcome submissions that examine the impact that streaming services have had on the contemporary media environment. Topic areas can include, but are not limited to the shifting industrial practices, labor, audience behaviors and engagement, algorithms, content moderation, formal changes in the text, marketing, transnational/global flows, and regulation. Further, while streaming services may often prioritize rhetorics of disruption and innovation in their marketing parlance, there are also historical continuities that are equally important to emphasize. In what ways have streaming services transformed the way we understand film and television? What kinds of cultural issues continue to persist in spite of these disruptions? In what ways are disparate industries now converging/diverging and how can we understand these changes and analyze them effectively?

*CFP* "COMUNICACIÓN POLÍTICA Y TECNOLOGÍAS APLICADAS: DESINFORMACIÓN, NOTICIAS FALSAS Y VERIFICACIÓN DE HECHOS", NÚMERO 112, REVISTA RAZÓN Y PALABRA

La facilidad de propagación de las noticias falsas en la sociedad digital constituye un peligro para la salud o la economía, pero también para la democracia en su conjunto. Esta es una consecuencia más de la popularización de la computación, de la robotización o de la segmentación algorítmica. En el marco de la Comunicación Política, sus consecuencias nocivas preocupan a instituciones, medios de comunicación y ciudadanía, muy especialmente en época electoral.

La crisis originada por la pandemia de COVID-19 ha generado un debate sobre la necesidad de establecer mecanismos de control que eviten la desinformación, así como el desarrollo de instrumentos que permitan verificar hechos. El “fact-checking”, pues, es una de las principales tareas de la comunicación, constituyéndose como pieza angular de la responsabilidad social: automatiza la corroboración de las noticias a través de la detección de la fuente, del análisis de contenido y de la dirección de los distintos flujos informativos. Y es que, en este contexto de miedo colectivo, la proliferación de datos inexactos y la utilización con fines de intoxicación de las redes sociales por parte de actores políticos erosiona la estabilidad social, la convivencia pacífica y las bases sobre las que se construyen las democracias liberales, también las iberoamericanas.

*CFP* "DREAM FACTORIES: PRINCE, SIGN O’ THE TIMES, BOX SETS & CULTURAL ARTEFACTS", SPECIAL ISSUE, INTERACTIONS JOURNAL

The essays will explore its multiple levels of musical and cultural significance, while critiquing the value of its presence as a commercial artefact and a signifier of Prince’s creative legacy in the context of previous posthumous deluxe edition reissues. Following Prince’s death in 2016, his estate embarked on a series of reissued albums and new compilations, inclusive of previously unreleased material. In its original form in 1987, Sign O’ The Times became one of Prince’s most critically acclaimed records while also being his second double album and a major commercial success. In this special journal issue, the 2020 box set with eight discs of music and a live DVD provides multiple opportunities for critical reassessment of both the album and its posthumous inclusion of rare and/or previously unreleased items.

This issue will explore the ways in which the box set has become part of a parallel Prince career which allows fans and critics to reassess his output and provides a new lens through which to understand the album as cultural artefact. With this central focus, the specific analytical angles will be left to the individual contributors, defining what they perceive as the key characteristics of this deluxe edition compilation and its comparative relationships to earlier catalogue reissues.

*CFP* "GENDER AND MEDIA MATTERS. WIDENING THE HORIZONS OF THE FIELD OF STUDY", INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Gender and Media Matters. Widening the Horizons of the Field of Study

International Conference

October 15-16, 2021 – Sapienza, University of Rome Sapienza, (online and in-person)

 

Although there appears to be an abundance of literature and opportunities available for discussion on the topic of gender and the media, «researching the gender-media dyad is still an important project for media scholars» (Ross 2010, p. 3). This topic remains significant for several reasons. First is the complex and rapidly evolving nature of media products, technology and actors. The current media landscape and its cultural dimension are constituted by the accumulation and juxtaposition of content, media forms, production and consumption practices, and everything in between. Stale and stereotyped images continue to exist, alongside more innovative and critical content created through processes of remixing, sharing, co-creation and contestation (Banet-Weiser, 2018; Bolter, 2019).

*CFP* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, SOUND SYSTEM OUTERNATIONAL #7 ONLINE

Sound System Outernational #7 online

in association with Sonic Street Technologies ERC research project: Sound Systems at the Crossroads

12-16 July 2021, 4pm to 6pm UK time (BST)

 

Sound systems are currently at a crossroads despite the unprecedented explosion of the form during the last decades. Sound system culture has gained increasing attention from cultural organisations, the music industry and researchers. But the pandemic has been accelerating trends in both positive and negative directions.

In a positive direction online formats have been encouraging a new inventiveness and creativity in formats and content. A whole new range of opportunities are in the process of opening up for both practitioners and audiences and SSO #7 is part of this process.

*CFP* "THE FROZEN PHENOMENON", EDITED ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION

The record-breaking release of Frozen in 2013 marked a shift in the American animation industry and the Walt Disney Company as a whole. The film has been elevated as a catalyst for the third “golden age” for Walt Disney Animation Studios, restoring the company’s brand identity and ushering it into a new phase. It has also been praised for its pedagogical promise of change and reform of the Disney princess franchise, marking the start of an era characterized by strong, independent female leads that evolve around “richer, more complex stories” (Harris, 2016). Popular critics have lauded the film for improving Disney’s gender role portrayal and for providing role models that are more empowering and realistic for young women – or what American educational scholar Cole Reilly has labelled “an encouraging evolution among the Disney Princesses” (2016, 60). 

The exchange of the traditional heterosexual fairy-tale romance for sisterly love was at the time unprecedented. Finally, from a business perspective, Frozen has set new standards for branding and merchandizing of the film's universe, music and popular characters. As the 10th anniversary of the film's premiere approaches, Frozen remains one of the most loved, recognizable, and marketed Disney films to date. Its enormous exposure and popularity calls for an exploration of itsinfluence on mainstream animation and on contemporary popular culture and society as a whole.

*CFP* "COMUNICACIÓN Y MODA: TENDENCIA, ESTILOS DE VIDA Y DISEÑO", VOL. 12, Nº 1, COMHUMANITAS: REVISTA DE COMUNICACIÓN CIENTÍFICA

La moda es arte, cultura, es una forma de expresión. Como fenómeno social, ha sido estudiada desde diversos enfoques: la filosofía, la estética, la sociología, su relación con la sociedad de consumo, los bienes de lujo, los sistemas de clases, el arte y los cánones de belleza, etc. La moda funciona como generadora simbólica y creadora de cultura, rige las relaciones personales y colectivas, crea historias, funciona como manifestación de modo de reacción ante determinadas circunstancias sociales y da un impulso significativo a la economía mundial. En su desarrollo como industria y en el impulso de su importante papel en la sociedad actual, la comunicación ha tenido un papel esencial.

En este contexto de evolución, desde el inicio de los medios tradicionales hasta la actualidad, destaca la necesidad de entender las estrategias comunicativas que se implementan en el campo de la moda y que distinguen a esta industria de las demás. Resulta importante preguntarnos sobre cómo las labores de comunicación contribuyan al desarrollo social y económico del sector de la moda, cómo apoyan su profesionalización e impulsan la gestión de la creatividad con sentido de responsabilidad social e inteligencia crítica. Nos interesa indagar sobre el papel de las redes sociales y los medios de comunicación en estos procesos, así como observar los cambios sufridos en los últimos años en el mundo de la moda y las tendencias, y las proyecciones o necesidades que debe cubrir la comunicación para subsanar sus crisis.

*CFP* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, 8TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF AUDIOVISUAL RESEARCHERS

8th International Congress of Audiovisual Researchers

June 23 to 25, 2021

Universidade Lusófona, Lisboa – Portugal

 

The 8th International Congress of Audiovisual Researchers will be held at Lusófona University, Lisbon, from 23 to 25 June 2021. The main goal of this international congress is to develop understanding of the paradigm shift set in motion by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and the production of Digital Contents.

For the 2021 edition, the theme will be “Audiovisual and Creative Industries - Present and Future”. Alongside recognizing the importance of thinking and debating the challenges the audiovisual industry is facing today, mainly in the broader context of the creative industries, we also aim to promote the construction and consolidation of links between different sectors in the creative industries.

*CFP* "GLOBAL JAMES BOND", CHAPTER BOOK

According to David Bordwell in Planet Hong Kong (2000), “a truly global cinema is one that claims significant space” in film markets around the world (82) beyond a film series (e.g. IP Man), cycle (e.g. kung fu craze of the 1970s), or era (e.g. “golden age” of Hong Kong cinema in the 1980s and 1990s). While Hollywood is the only industry that meets this narrow definition, we question if a partial exception or even expanded demarcation could be made for the James Bond franchise given its long-term popularity, widespread cinematic influence, revenue generation, and cultural viability for nearly 6 decades or half of cinematic history.

As the Bond films have been released in more and more markets, the franchise has increasingly relied on audiences outside of the UK and US (such as China) for the majority of its box-office revenue. This was most evident when MGM contemplated releasing No Time To Die in November 2020 even as the cinemas of the UK and US were closing in response to the coronavirus pandemic. When additional countries began imposing restrictions that would impact cinema attendance, the release date for the film was pushed to April 2021.

*CFP* "CULTURES OF AUTHENTICITY", EDITED BOOK

Following the successful webinar series, hosted by Loughborough University this autumn, we are now seeking contribution for an edited collection on the topic of 'authenticity'. A widespread fascination with the authentic is said to have emerged as a response to the processes of homogenisation, rationalisation and standardisation at the heart of modernity. The concept of authenticity arose historically at a time of rapid social change and has again come to the fore where social, political, cultural and technological upheavals give rise to feelings of distrust, detachment and alienation against which supposedly authentic people, places and things are sought out for their reassuring certainty and value. Yet, there are huge contradictions and inequalities in who can make claim to authenticity and its construction and communication invariably involves competing narratives and oppositional assertions about what is authentic and how and why the authentic gains its value.

Thus, while the concept of authenticity has a long history, in recent years it has emerged as a prominent theme in many of the most pressing debates about contemporary communication and culture. In political communication there are ongoing concerns about misinformation and fake news, while the success of populist parties is often tied to their claims to be a more authentic representative of ‘the people’ than a detached and dispassionate elite. 

*CFP* CALL FOR ARTICLES, NEXT ISSUES, ECONOMÍA CREATIVA JOURNAL

The editors of Economía Creativa, an academic journal of CENTRO Advanced Design and Communication Institute, are pleased to invite you to participate in the next issues, according to the following guidelines:

 

Editorial Guidelines (Approaches and Scope)

The purpose of this publication is to contribute to the effective dissemination of new knowledge related to the field of Creative Economies, (Architecture, Marketing, Textile and Fashion Design, Communication, Film and Television, Fashion Design, Publishing Industries, Advertising, etc.), Social Innovation, and Prospective, in any of these modalities:

• New and original research reports 
• Case Studies. 
• Articles of dissemination and reviews of books on recent multimedia work, linked to the topics of specialization of the publication.

*CFP* "MUJER Y COMUNICACIÓN", MONOGRÁFICO Nº XXII, REVISTA ADRESEARCH ESIC

La revista aDResearch ESIC Revista Internacional De Investigación En Comunicación invita a la comunidad académica, nacional e internacional, a presentar propuestas de artículos para un monográfico especial, correspondiente al número XXII, que será publicado de marzo de 2020.

ADresearch ESIC, a punto de cumplir los diez años de trayectoria, está llevando a cabo un ambicioso proceso de mejora de su posicionamiento y visibilidad a nivel internacional, estando ya presente en diferentes repositorios y bases de datos de prestigio.

Hace unas semanas, y por primera vez en la historia, ha sido elegida una mujer como Presidenta de la Comisión Europea, Úrsula Von der Leyen. Ha nombrado al equipo más paritario de la historia de Europa, 14 hombres y 13 mujeres. Si se analizan estos nombramientos como centro de decisiones futuras, supone toda una declaración de intenciones al servicio de la Comunicación: Europa no puede ser igual a hace años porque la sociedad tampoco lo es. Algo está cambiando…, la Mujer está transformando su estructura de participación y reivindica estar presente en la toma de decisiones.

*CFP* "VIRTUOUS VIEWING", SPECIAL ISSUE, FILM CRITICISM NOVEMBER 2020

Over the past few months, numerous streaming services, media conglomerates, film critics and journals, as well as academic departments, have published lists of anti-racist films and television shows to watch, or promoted Black Lives Matter watchlists and viewing queues. This phenomenon has altered what it means to watch, particularly in a time of quarantine, when cinematic spectatorship in the US largely a small group and private affair. Likewise, by connecting spectatorship to a political position, these lists present watching as an explicitly politically-aware act. 

Watching films and television shows has always been political. But because many of these lists also make educative claims (to watch these films is to become informed), such lists assume viewers are well-intentioned but ignorant. Of course, the curation of moving images is not new and presents genuine opportunities for awareness, consciousness raising, and political change. And yet, these practices may also be cynical attempts to capitalize on a specific moment of work from home quarantine and political uprisings on the streets. Moreover, viewers themselves may attempt to signal their political awareness through social media posts and various other public markers in order to claim moral excellence.

*CFP* LLAMADA A CONTRIBUCIONES, X CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL DE COMUNICACIÓN Y TECNOLOGÍA

La ciencia y la investigación en el campo de la comunicación y la tecnología se dan de nuevo la mano en la 10ª edición del Congreso Comunica2, que se celebrará en el Campus de Gandia (Universitat Politècnica de València) los días 12 y 13 de noviembre de 2020. El marketing online, estrategias social media, escribir en Internet, Instagram… han sido algunos de los temas que hemos compartido en ediciones anteriores. La temática y, sobre todo, los ponentes que nos han acompañado nos han convertido en un congreso de referencia sobre comunicación y tecnología. Además, repetimos con la comunicación sobre experiencias profesionales donde tiene cabida una presentación más práctica.

Información relevante COVID-19

Debido a la situación derivada por la COVID-19, las comunicaciones se realizarían en modalidad telemática a través de la plataforma Teams. Se habilitarían diferentes salas de Teams en función de la temática de las comunicaciones. En dichas salas tendrían lugar las comunicaciones, así como las preguntas y debates que estas pudiesen suscitar entre los asistentes.