*CFP* "AUDIENCIAS Y NUEVAS FORMAS DE EMISIÓN: LINEAL, BAJO DEMANDA, STREAMING Y/O SOCIAL", VOL. 14 Nº 1, REVISTA MEDITERRÁNEA DE COMUNICACIÓN

La multiplicación de las pantallas donde se pueden consumir todo tipo de contenidos ha complicado la forma para medir el éxito y el impacto de cualquier tipo de obra audiovisual o campaña de comunicación estratégica (publicidad, RR.PP.). Este call for paper está abierto a cualquier investigación que intente medir, cuantificar o comparar la medición de la nueva era digital ante la que nos enfrentamos. ¿Volverá a recuperar la televisión del salón la hegemonía? ¿Se quedará el teléfono móvil con la mayoría de cuota de consumo audiovisual como ya ha hecho con la navegación web frente a otros dispositivos? ¿Cómo están afectando las nuevas ventajas de distribución a los consumos y el comportamiento de los públicos? Nos encontramos ante un contexto cambiante donde se agradecen investigaciones que abran nuevas líneas que ayuden a esclarecer el futuro de las audiencias en el mundo de las campañas y el entretenimiento.

 

Tématicas de investigación:

• El nuevo concepto de audiencia. ¿Qué constituye una audiencia hoy? ¿Cuáles son sus características e intereses?

*CFP* "NATIONHOOD, IDENTITY, AND SPECULATIVE FICTION", BOOKS BEYOND BOUNDARIES CONFERENCE

Books Beyond Boundaries Conference: Nationhood, Identity, and Speculative Fiction

15th-16th January 2021,

Ulster University, Belfast Campus

 

'Culture is the context within which we need to situate the self, for it is only by virtue of the interpretations, orientations and values provided by culture that we can formulate our identities, say ‘who we are’, and ‘where we are coming from’ (Benhabib, 2000:18)

From C.S. Lewis to James Shaw, Northern Irish and Irish fiction is best known for its imagined histories, futures, and alternate realities. However, speculative fiction from writers of colour and ethnic minorities have been notably absent from the literary canon. While the island of Ireland has continued to grow more culturally diverse in the twenty-first century, there has been little engagement with how the cultural identity of Northern Ireland and Ireland has been transformed through immigration.

*CFP* "GROOVES AND MOVEMENTS", IASPM-US 2022 CONFERENCE

Grooves and Movements

IASPM-US 2022 Conference

University of Michigan

Ann Arbor/Detroit Michigan: May 26-28, 2022

 

The International Association for the Study of Popular Music-United States chapter (IASPM-US) invites proposals for its annual conference, which will take place in Ann Arbor at the University of Michigan on May 26-28, 2022. We welcome abstracts for individual papers, organized panels, roundtable discussions, and alternative (non-paper) presentations on all aspects of popular music, broadly defined, from any discipline or profession. We especially encourage submissions on the many rich popular music histories of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Detroit. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to normalize virtual connections in local and global settings and to reconfigure physical spaces for social distancing, the present moment calls for an examination of the virtual and physical modalities of music-making. The theme for this year’s conference “Grooves and Movements” intersects with Detroit and its storied place in rhythm and blues, rock, punk, hip-hop, and electronic dance music, and is intended to connect the histories, philosophies, and practices of urban spaces to other historical and global popular music communities.

*CFP* "INCLUSIVE MEDIA EDUCATION FOR DIVERSE SOCIETIES", HYBRID WORKSHOP

 Inclusive Media Education for Diverse Societies

University of Groningen (Netherlands)

11 & 12 November 2021

 

 

This hybrid workshop aims to bring together papers that develop a critical perspective and focus on issues related to media literacy education, differences and diversity. We aim to include conceptual papers as well as empirical studies from different contexts that provide a critical reflection of existing media education practices.

The papers can focus on the following topics among others:

• Media literacy education for intercultural dialogue;

*CFP* "INDIGENOUS AFRICAN LANGUAGE MEDIA: PAST, PRESENT AND THE FUTURE", BOOK CHAPTER

Indigenous African language media, also referred to as ethnic or minority language media in some contexts, encompass tools of communication, socialisation and community that Africans used during pre-colonial periods and are still in existence despite the advent of Western-styled media.

 

The research entity of Indigenous Language Media in Africa is inviting contributions in the form of essays and articles from interested individuals to honour his contributions to these various fields of knowledge in communication and journalism studies. These will be published in the form of a double blind peer reviewed festschrift. Possible topics to explore for submission to this book include:

• Media Representations: representations of gender, race, class and ethnicity in minority/African indigenous language news media;
• Practice-based studies: Cases studies that demonstrate the use of minority/African indigenous media of drama, songs, folklore, theatre for development communication or democratisation;
• Media texts and contents: Studies that utilise discourse analysis, thematic analysis and content analysis to analyse minority/African indigenous language media constructions of social reality in Africa;

*CFP* "AND YET IT MOVES! ON CINEMA, MEDIA, AND MOBILITY", XXVIII INTERNATIONAL FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES CONFERENCE

And Yet It Moves! On Cinema, Media, and Mobility

XXVIII International Film and Media Studies Conference

November 2nd–5th 2021

On-line/Udine – Gorizia (IT)

 

The covid pandemic has dramatically revealed the high level of mobility in our contemporary society by, paradoxically, reducing human movement to almost zero, even if images, data, news, financial flows, material goods, and the virus itself have continued to circulate at full speed around the globe. The pandemic has provoked new configurations of the media system, pushing media adaptability and pervasiveness into unexpected scenarios, and accelerating technological and socio-cultural processes already underway (Keidl, Melamed, Hediger and Somaini 2021). As we seem to slowly regain our mobility, it seems fitting to reflect at large on the role historically played by cinema and media in shaping movement and space. 

*CFP* "RETHINKING THE SPECIES DIVIDE: DISABILITY AND ANIMALITY IN LITERATURE AND CULTURE", SPECIAL ISSUE, JOURNAL OF LITERARY AND CULTURAL DISABILITY STUDIES

There is increasing interest in scholarship that looks to intersections between disability studies and critical animal studies. Publications including Sunaura Taylor’s Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation (2017), Maren Tova Linett’s Literary Bioethics: Disability, Animality, and the Human (2020), and the edited collection, Disability and Animality (Jenkins et al., 2020) have interrogated the mutual logics of ableism and anthropocentrism in the oppression of disabled-human and animal lives. Equally so, these monographs have broken new ground to propose how fundamental notions of being and community are reconfigured when questions of value and justice are allowed to cross species divides.

This special issue of the Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies invites articles that explore the myriad ways in which disability and animality are intertwined in literature and culture. A core question that the special issue poses is: How can disabled people (re)claim the animal as an inherent and vital part of their existence, rather than a category that must be denied or overcome in order to obtain the same rights as the non-disabled? This question follows on from Taylor’s provocative comment in Beasts of Burden that ‘Speciesism doesn’t necessarily keep people from wanting to identify as animal; dehumanization does’ (110). Other key questions of the special issue are: What conflicts are apparent between disability studies and critical animal studies as a result of human dependence on animals as a ‘resource’ to meet their service, nutritional, and/or medical needs? How can such conflicts be resolved with mutual benefit for both disabled people and non-disabled animals? Finally, the guest editors of the special issue welcome articles that explore how disabled animals in literature and culture may prompt humans (both disabled and non-disabled) to reassess the anthropocentric biases inherent in notions of productivity and autonomy.

*CFP* "SCIENCE FICTION: ACTIVISM AND RESISTANCE", VIRTUAL CONFERENCE

Science Fiction: Activism and Resistance

Virtual Conference

9-11 September 2021

London Science Fiction Research Community (LSFRC)

 

In an age when Me Too, Black Lives Matter, Decolonise the Curriculum, Refugees Welcome, and movements for global solidarity with oppressed populations have become part of mainstream discourse, it is vital to re-examine the relationship between activism, resistance and the mass imagination vis-a-vis science fiction. As a genre dedicated to imagining alternatives, science fiction is an inherently radical space which allows for diverse explorations of dissent. It is, also, a space that has been rightfully critiqued for its historic inequities favouring white cishet men (as recently addressed by Jeanette Ng during the 2019 Hugo Awards among others). There needs to be reckoning with how precarious bodies engage in activism and resistance in the context of their material realities and restrictions. Therefore, we must deny universalising a single experience as “radical enough” and instead acknowledge how communities in the margins – queer, trans, disabled, neurodivergent, BIPOC, immigrants and refugees, religious minorities, indigenous populations, casualised workers, the homeless and unemployed – have specific ways of subverting and undermining the system, as well as specific stakes and reasons to do so. It is imperative to not only revisit how science fiction has been a space for activism and resistance, but also resist and challenge the genre’s shortcomings.

*CFP* "AUDIENCIAS Y NUEVAS FORMAS DE EMISIÓN: LINEAL, BAJO DEMANDA, STREAMING Y/O SOCIAL", VOL. 14 Nº 1, REVISTA MEDITERRÁNEA DE COMUNICACIÓN

Revista Mediterránea de Comunicación / Mediterranean Journal of Communication invita al envío de textos para el monográfico: Audiencias y nuevas formas de emisión: lineal, bajo demanda, streaming y/o social, coordinado por la Dra. Belén Puebla-Martínez (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, España), Dr. Jorge Gallardo-Camacho (Universidad Camilo José Cela, España) y el Dr. Cesar García (Central Washington University, EE.UU.) que se publicará en enero de 2023 (V14N1). 

Fecha tope de recepción de artículos: 1 de septiembre de 2022. 

See details in English. 

Audiencias y nuevas formas de emisión: lineal, bajo demanda, streaming y/o social

La multiplicación de las pantallas donde se pueden consumir todo tipo de contenidos ha complicado la forma para medir el éxito y el impacto de cualquier tipo de obra audiovisual o campaña de comunicación estratégica (publicidad, RR.PP.). 

*CFP* "MIGRATIONS / MEDIATIONS. PROMOTING TRANSCULTURAL DIALOGUE THROUGH MEDIA, ARTS AND CULTURE", SPECIAL ISSUE, COMUNICAZIONI SOCIALI JOURNAL

Migration has been a phenomenon throughout human history. However, as a result of economic hardship, conflict and globalization, the number of people now living outside their country of birth is higher than ever. It has also become a key focul point for the media. Even though irregular immigration constitutes only a minor part of the total immigrant population in the EU, it is the one most spectacularized by the media. This over-mediatization of the phenomenon leads to a consistent discrepancy between the perception and the reality of the issue, and this distance has favored the shift of migration issues from ‘low politics’ to ‘high politics’, fueling an emergency management and a securitarian approach.

We live in a deeply mediatized world. Media have an important role in influencing political attitudes and in framing public debates towards migration and asylum. In the last decade, the representation strategies and discursive practices enacted by a wide range of state and non-state actors have been presenting irregular migrants crossing borders as an ‘emergency’ to be managed in terms of a wider social, cultural and political ‘crisis’. These media representations have outstripped the reality of the crisis. As a consequence, the public anxiety about migration and asylum-seeking in Europe, is increasingly shaped by the political rhetoric of Europe as being besieged by people fleeing conflict or seeking a better life. Institutional and political actors have stoked public anxieties and security concerns, endorsing emergency narratives, aggressive policing and militarized border control, which in turn has generated a fertile breeding ground for xenophobic, populist reactions.

*CFP* "MEDIATIZATION, NEW FORMS OF MILITANCY AND DIGITALIZATION", 5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE COMSYMBOL

5th International Conference ComSymbol

Mediatization, New Forms of Militancy and Digitalization

Paul Valéry University Montpellier 3, Centre Universitaire du Guesclin

November 11-12, 2021, Béziers, France

 

The 5th edition of the International Conference ComSymbol remains associated to the questioning of complex symbolic socio-communicational constructions that participate in social, societal, economic, political, cultural news by focusing, this time, both on the relations of dominance of the logics of the media over the other logics of the society and on the transformations of the communicative construction of reality under the impact of digitalization concerning the contemporary militant movements engaged in the “communicational arms race” (Neveu, 2015) marked by the redeployment of collective action on the Internet and the presence of pluralistic media systems (mass media, emerging media, Internet, Artificial Intelligence-AI, etc.).

*CFP* "MULTI-PLATFORM AND CONNECTING COMMUNITIES: CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES FOR MINORITY LANGUAGE MEDIA", CONFERENCE

Multi-platform and Connecting Communities: Contemporary Challenges for Minority Language Media

14-15 October 2021

Europa Universität Flensburg (Germany)

 

The guiding idea behind the second biennial conference on minority language media is to bring together academics and professionals from this field, as well as facilitating intensive exchange of research and practical experiences. This event aims to build upon the expertise of the International Association of Minority Language Media Research (IAMLMR) established in Edinburgh in 2019.

The upcoming conference will be held at the Europa Universität Flensburg, 10 years on from when the institution co-hosted the 13th International Conference on Minority Languages in 2011. Moreover, the core organisational partners at the European Centre for Minority Issues and the University of the Basque Country bring an expanded pan-European focus alongside the regional dimension. Indeed, the Danish-German borderlands provide a unique setting for debates concerning minority language media: it features multiple national minorities (with and without a kin-state), several languages, and long-established minority language media institutions cooperating across borders. 

*CFP* "HABITUAL NEW MEDIA", ISSUE Nº 55, 2021, JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATIONS AND LANGUAGES

“What it means when the media moves from the new to the habitual—when our bodies become archives of supposedly obsolescent media, streaming, updating, sharing, saving.”

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, in ``Updating to Remain the Same (MIT Press, 2016), argues that our media “become more important when they appear to be of no importance - when they move from the 'new' to the ‘habitual’”. Technologies such as smartphones are no longer surprising to us, they have been absorbed into our lives in such a way that “we become our machines: we transmit “live”, update, capture, share, connect, save, delete and track” (from the introduction).

Chun interprets the incorporation of social networks in our habits as a defining concept of the present. “Networks have been central to the rise of neoliberalism, replacing 'society' with groups of individuals (...) Habit is central to the inversion of privacy and advertising that drives neoliberalism and networks”. It is in this field, for example, that Natalie Bookchin's artistic work expands individual expressions that embody this paradoxical intimate exposure in the visual digital flow.

*CFP* "CORONAVIRUS, CRISIS AND CULTURE: POLICING, PROTEST AND THE MEDIATION OF DISSENT DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC", BOOK CHAPTER

Global restrictions on protest

In May 2020, the Bonavero Centre for Human Rights published an analysis of twelve nations’ response to the pandemic: the authors identified ‘a global rise in autocratic populism’ accompanied by ‘Covid 19 emergency measures’ that ‘risk becoming a foundation for greater consolidation of executive power’ (3). A month later, Amnesty International produced Policing the Pandemic, which drew attention to ‘systemic human rights concerns regarding institutional racism, discrimination in law enforcement and lack of accountability regarding allegations of unlawful use of force by law enforcement officials’ (4). In March 2021, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace identified over 230 anti-government protests in some 110 countries, with 25 significant protests aimed specifically at coronavirus restrictions.

This Call for Chapters from the Media Discourse Centre emerges in response to the worldwide limits placed on public protest during the last twelve months, and the social movements that have continued to mobilise in the face of these conditions. Contributors can discuss new manifestations of dissent, the adaptation of existing movements to political/pandemic restrictions, live and mediated events, and the online reconfiguration of the protest tradition (see below).  

*CFP* "BEING MARGINAL-PERFORMING RACED AND GENDERED LABOUR", A SYMPOSIUM BY IAMCR'S GENDER AND COMMUNICATION SECTION

"Being Marginal- Performing Raced and Gendered Labour"

A Symposium by IAMCR's Gender and Communication Section

Saturday 3 July, 2021 (online)

 

With a focus on intersectionality, simultaneity, and reflexivity about the self in context, confrontation of issues of power even within marginal groups, the symposium "Being Marginal- Performing Raced and Gendered Labour", to be held online on Saturday 3 July, 2021, sponsored by the Gender and Communication Section of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), aims to engage with the layers of being a marginal woman, asking the question of what intersectionality looks like in academia with special reference to the field of Communication. We want to turn the feminist lenses we work with back on ourselves, our practices, our contexts, our lives.

*CFP* "VOICES AT THE MARGINS. CULTURAL MEMORY THEORY AND METHODOLOGY SUMMER SCHOOL", CENTRE FOR MEMORY, NARRATIVE AND HISTORIES SUMMER SCHOOL FOR PHD RESEARCHERS

Voices at the Margins. Cultural Memory Theory and Methodology Summer School

20th to 24th September 2021

Centre for Memory, Narrative and Histories. University of Brighton

A burgeoning, cross-disciplinary “memory boom” has highlighted the significance of memories of the past for the present and future. In this context, this interdisciplinary, workshop-based summer school explores the timely, yet under-addressed themes of memories and histories ‘at the margins’ and specifically focuses on the theoretical and methodological challenges associated with research that engages with such ‘marginal’ voices. We invite PhD researchers from all disciplines working with such memories, voices and histories ‘at the margins’ to apply for the “Voices at the Margins?” summer school, which is taking place from 20 to 24 September 2021 at the University of Brighton.

‘At the margins’ is a phrase we have adopted here to refer to the multifarious forms of experiences and spaces that have traditionally remained at the periphery of public and scholarly attention. Such ‘margins’ can be the result of power dynamics that under-recognise, marginalise, exclude, silence and/or oppress specific groups or members of society.

*CFP* "MEDIA AND DIVERSITY", SPECIAL ISSUE, PROBLEMI DELL'INFORMAZIONE: ITALIAN JOURNAL OF MEDIA AND JOURNALISM STUDIES

We live in a deeply mediatized world, where public sphere and social and political dialogues are inconceivable, or better inexistent, without media. In democratic systems, the political decision-making processes are somehow tied to the collective perceptions of social issues, therefore the role played by media, in particular news media, has become strategic. Media directly participate not only to the agenda setting and current debates, but, in a deeper perspective, to the construction of social categories and the explanation of social facts. By steadily shaping, framing and giving public visibility to some social groups, media accustom citizens to perceive some distinctions as ordinary, usual, “natural”; thus, they create identities and borders. By emphasizing some distinctions in comparison with “us”, they create the Other. By lighting the fire underneath a kind of diversity and its point of view, they affect social stereotypes and promote the change of mentalities.

In recent years, some relevant studies have provided original and unexpected perspectives useful to understand the power of media in societies by investigating their role in building the categories of minorities, vulnerability and social empathy. In particular, Lynn Hunt has reconstructed the way in which popular media have contributed to the “invention” of the idea of human rights in the passage from the modern age to the contemporary one. According to this author, media stimulated the audience to assume the points of views of the different characters of drama, primarily of the weakest ones, and, consequently, to take in account the human pains of torture and social injustices and to imagine more equal opportunities for all human beings. Another milestone of the literature on this topic is the last work of Roger Silverstone, where is reflect on the role played by media in the formation of the social, civic and moral space. The knowledge of the Other and the relationship with the same increasingly happen inside the mediapolis, the space where people coming from differing places can make a reciprocal appearance.

*CFP* "NEW MEDIA AND NATIONAL IDENTITY", SPECIAL ISSUE, THE ARAB AND MUSLIM MEDIA RESEARCH JOURNAL

The advent of satellite TV and social media networks have transformed the long assumed approaches of identity construction and production. Global TV and virtual media spaces have allowed audiences to become more active in the realisation of their identity as an existential foundation. Amidst this sophisticated development, mediascapes have proven effective tools in the formation of the self via a self-gratification process.

Furthermore, the articulation of a common national identity has nowadays assumed diverse sources. National identity as suggested by severalscholars is becoming a fluid and changing concept. In the core of its formationare expressions of language, culture, ideology, history and memory. The internet is probably becoming the most influential platform for such expression. Contrary to previous generations who used to be brought up through family values, education systems and religious teachings, nowadays satellite TV and online environmentsarguably seem the most influential spaces of interactions about identity and opinion formation.

*CFP* "JEWISH SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY CRITICISM", CHAPTER BOOK

Hello, everyone. I'm editing a series with Rowman & Littlefield/Lexington on a line of academic books critically analyzing elements of Jewish science fiction and fantasy (that's the series title). As such, I’d love some authors with concepts to write about.

At this stage, a paragraph-long proposal emailed to valerie@calithwain.com with a subject of JEWISH SPEC-FIC would be great. Here are some examples:

• The Secret Jewish Roots of Star Wars (or some other top franchise) 
• Batwoman to Felicity: Jewish Characters in the Arrowverse 
• Rewriting the Narrative: Jewish Fairytale Novels 
• Jewish Alt-History 
• Kabbalah in Pop Culture 
• Israeli Dystopian Cinema 
• The Jewish Outsider as Vampire 
• Jewish-Flavored Filk 
• Halacha in Space 
• Pop Culture Haggadahs 
• Revising the Big Franchises through Jewish Fanfic 
• The Works of _______.

*CFP* LLAMADA A ARTÍCULOS, VOL. 15, Nº 1, DISERTACIONES: ANUARIO ELECTRÓNICO DE ESTUDIOS EN COMUNICACIÓN SOCIAL

Las personas con diversidad funcional, LGBT+, racializadas o migrantes, las minorías religiosas, culturales, nacionales o étnicas carecen de los privilegios de los grupos sociales dominantes con respecto a su acceso y control de los contenidos de los medios de comunicación. El artículo 2.2 de la “Declaración sobre los derechos de las personas pertenecientes a minorías nacionales o étnicas, religiosas y lingüísticas” de la Organización de Naciones Unidas dispone que “las personas pertenecientes a minorías tendrán el derecho de participar efectivamente en la vida cultural, religiosa, social, económica y pública”. Tal y como señala Hartley (2012) los grupos minoritarios señalan las dificultades de acceso a los medios de comunicación que sufren y que, como resultado, son incapaces de establecer su punto de vista en la opinión pública, incluso cuando se consigue el acceso suelen decepcionarse por la cobertura que reciben[1]. No se debe olvidar el papel que los medios de comunicación tienen no solo como informadores sino también como creadores de marcos interpretativos, de modelizadores de conciencia. El análisis de estos marcos, además de pertinente, es necesario y fundamental para comprender la representación que se está haciendo de los grupos minoritarios en ellos, pero también para demandar la representación que estos grupos pueden hacer de sí mismos y de su entorno a través de una práctica mediática autónoma.