*CFP* "AUDIOVISUAL AND CREATIVE INDUSTRIES - PRESENT AND FUTURE", VOL.7 Nº2, THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FILM AND MEDIA ARTS

The present issue of the International Journal of Film and Media Arts invites full papers that deal in particular with:


• Audiovisual ecosystems in local, regional, national and international level

• New formats and languages in audiovisual media and on the internet

• Transmedia narratives

• Second Screen and the impact of the multitasking viewer

• Analysis and semiotics of audiovisual and multimedia discourses

• New theories, new concepts, new paradigms and new approaches in audiovisual communication

• New audiovisual research methods and techniques

 

All submission will be select by double-blind peer review. The author must provide separate files:
a) The title pageshould include the title, author’s name and affiliations, email address, acknowledgements (optional) and conflict of interest statement (if necessary).

*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* "SINGING OUT: THE MUSICAL VOICE IN AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA", EDITED COLLECTION

From the musical numbers of The Jazz Singer and the reality drama of BBC 2’s The Choir, through to the playback stars of commercial Hindi cinema and the competitive performance of karaoke video games, singing has and continues to play a central and special role in multimedia. The act of singing emphasises the gendered, raced, aged, and classed body, and the identifying markers of the voice itself. It draws attention to vocal production in a way that is not only sonically compelling, but also often emotionally acute. It can heighten communication, act as an aid to memory and product placement, and invite judgement from both professional and armchair critics – something the TV talent show has commodified as entertainment in itself. Singing both demarcates and breaks down textual and conceptual boundaries: between narrative and number; professional and amateur; transparency and manipulation; authenticity and the performative; and pathos and camp. As Laing (2000) argues, song ‘transfigures’ speech: it offers both performers and listeners an intensity of experience, of emotion, of being that gives it a special status both on the soundtrack and in the circulation of musical texts outside it.

The collection will explore a broad range of singing voices and sung moments, from lavish musical sequences to the ‘artless’ singing discussed by Gorbman (2011), and from television and cinema through to videogames, online and mobile platforms, advertising, and multimedia installation work.

*CFP* "NEW NARRATIVES, RACIALIZATION, GLOBAL CRISES, AND SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT", INTERACTIVE FILM AND MEDIA CONFERENCE 2021

IFM Conf 2021, Interactive Film and Media Conference 2021

New Narratives, Racialization, Global Crises, and Social Engagement

Ryerson University (Canada), The Glasgow School of Art (Scotland), University of Sao Paulo (Brazil), The University of Texas at Dallas (USA)

(virtual) August 5-7, 2021

 

This virtual edition of the Interactive Film and Media conference on ‘new narratives, racialization, global crises, and social engagement’ is dedicated to the development, analysis, and research processing of the digital experience that is transforming our contemporary world vision through the immense range of storytelling practices, including visual arts, cinema, digital/graphic/interactive narratives, virtual reality, games, etc. The purpose of this conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners working in diverse disciplinary areas to establish an interdisciplinary framework for research on contemporary narratives, including case studies of the multimodal narratives across media and cultures.

*CFP* "NEW FICTIONAL FORMATS AND AGE-OLD NARRATIVES: UNDERSTANDING CREATIVE MODES OF POPULAR CULTURE IN THE DIGITAL AGE", POPMEC RESEARCH BLOG

Constant transformation has been the norm in the new digital media environment since its inception. During the 2020 health crisis, the impact of this ever-changing digital world in our daily lives has been especially notable. Due to quarantine measures, the only opportunity to interact with friends and to consume culture was to rely on social networks, streaming services and video conferencing softwares. Web-based cultural activities have affected people’s relationships with cyberspace: many have visited museums, seen award ceremonies, and even been to concerts online. In other words, we are never disconnected from the Internet (DeNardis 2020). 

Our continuous virtual presence has had a radical aesthetic influence in our lives. Fictional narratives have been evolving hand in hand with the continuous change in digital media—from vaporwave and memes to changes in the way we write and express ourselves. These new ideas and symbols have developed thanks to online trends, both in terms of rhetoric and via the emergence of new words. Renowned writers such as Jennifer Egan and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie have not overlooked this transforming environment and have published their works on social media platforms in a serialized format (what is now known as Twitterature). Their cases are notable examples of how the possibilities to share content and combine mediums in order to create fictional narratives have grown exponentially. While the content of those stories has not been significantly altered by the format, we can look at this phenomenon from the perspective of media scholar Marshall McLuhan: the medium is the message.

*CFP* "THE FUTURE OF MOBILE COMMUNICATION RESEARCH A TRIBUTE TO RICH LING", NEW 2022 SPECIAL ISSUE, NEW MEDIA AND SOCIETY

Overview In recent decades mobile communication has become central to how people navigate and experience everyday social life. As mobile phones diffused globally in the 1990s, scholars began investigating changes in how people relate to distant and proximal others, as well as the physical surroundings. Among the first was Rich Ling, a sociologist with one foot in industry and the other in academia. Throughout his career as a researcher with Norway’s Telenor Group and a faculty member at universities around the world, Rich Ling has contributed to the foundation of the emerging field of Mobile Media and Communication.

In light of Ling’s approaching retirement as an endowed professor at Nanyang Technological University, this special issue pays tribute to his scholarly contributions as we look to the future of mobile communication research. It is no stretch to suggest that Rich Ling is one of the most prolific and influential scholars of mobile communication. He wrote the first single-authored book on the social consequences of mobile communication, The Mobile Connection (2004, Morgan Kaufmann), which remains one of the most heavily cited volumes on the subject.

*CFP* CALL FOR THE PUBLICATION OF A SPECIAL ISSUE OR MAIN THEME, CUADERNOS.INFO JOURNAL

Cuadernos.info is opening a call for the publication of a special issue or main theme on any of the communication areas covered by the journal and that are of interest to our readers, to be published in June 2022. Areas of interest include: theories, empirical evidence and methodological developments regarding media, professional practices, audiences, institutions, technologies, as well as the effects of communication on the social, political, economic and cultural aspects, in the areas of journalism, institutional communication, broadcast, film, multimedia and advertising.

A special issue will typically have five to eight articles, plus a brief editorial written by guest editors.

Those interested in participating and applying as guest editors of a special issue or theme section should consider the following guidelines.

 

Submission guidelines

*CFP* "CRITICAL AND CREATIVE ENGAGEMENTS WITH PETRO-MEDIA", SPECIAL ISSUE, IMAGINATIONS JOURNAL

This special issue of Imaginations will concentrate on media engaging with petroleum and its attendant socio-political and economic structures. Drawing on technology and media studies, energy humanities scholarship, and a range of methods in visual and cultural studies, the contributors will theorize contemporary and historical uses of media to resist and facilitate petroleum infrastructures. Building on Imaginations’ long-standing engagement with petrocultures scholarship, including their 2012 special issue “Sighting Oil” (Sheena Wilson and Andrew Pendakis, eds.), this issue will mobilize critiques of corporate petro-media with decolonial methods from a range of disciplines, focusing on the interlacing of oil, settler colonialism, Indigenous resurgence, and media production. 

The issue will consist of peer-reviewed essays from scholars and practitioners, artist interviews and contributions (including samples of multimedia work with accompanying artists statements), and a review section (including a comparative book review essay, curatorial reviews and responses to digital exhibitions in the age of COVID-19, etc.). We are particularly invested in featuring research-creation and media-rich scholarship.

*CFP* "CRITICAL AND CREATIVE ENGAGEMENTS WITH PETRO-MEDIA", SPECIAL ISSUE, IMAGINATIONS JOURNAL

This special issue of Imaginations will concentrate on media engaging with petroleum and its attendant socio-political and economic structures. Drawing on technology and media studies, energy humanities scholarship, and a range of methods in visual and cultural studies, the contributors will theorize contemporary and historical uses of media to resist and facilitate petroleum infrastructures. Building on Imaginations’ long-standing engagement with petrocultures scholarship, including their 2012 special issue “Sighting Oil” (Sheena Wilson and Andrew Pendakis, eds.), this issue will mobilize critiques of corporate petro-media with decolonial methods from a range of disciplines, focusing on the interlacing of oil, settler colonialism, Indigenous resurgence, and media production. 

The issue will consist of peer-reviewed essays from scholars and practitioners, artist interviews and contributions (including samples of multimedia work with accompanying artists statements), and a review section (including a comparative book review essay, curatorial reviews and responses to digital exhibitions in the age of COVID-19, etc.). We are particularly invested in featuring research-creation and media-rich scholarship.

*CFP* NINETEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE HUMANITIES

Nineteenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities

Complutense University of Madrid

Organization: Common Ground Research Networks

New Directions in the Humanities Research Network: a conference and journal collection founded in 2003, exploring established traditions in the humanities as well as innovative practices that set a renewed agenda for their future.

The Nineteenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities 2021 will be held in Madrid, Spain on 30 June - 2 July 2021 at Complutense University of Madrid.

Nineteenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities 2021 covers topics such as:

*CFP* "LA COMUNICACIÓN QUE VIENE: VÍAS Y TENDENCIAS DE FUTURO", NÚMERO 20, ADCOMUNICA: REVISTA CIENTÍFICA DE ESTRATEGIAS, TENDENCIAS E INNOVACIÓN EN COMUNICACIÓN

adComunica. Revista científica de estrategias, tendencias e innovación en comunicación convoca una llamada de artículos para las secciones Informe y Tribuna: investigación y profesión de su número 20, previsto para julio de 2020, que abordará los caminos de futuro para la Comunicación en un marco de grandes desafíos sociales y tecnológicos. El plazo para el envío de los textos definitivos termina el 15 de abril de 2020. Los autores recibirán una respuesta con la valoración positiva, negativa o con petición de modificaciones. Los artículos serán evaluados siguiendo un proceso de revisión por pares ciegos.

Los textos propuestos deben seguir las normas de publicación reflejadas en esta revista.

adComunica es una revista científica, de carácter internacional, cuyo objetivo es el estudio y análisis del panorama actual de la comunicación, en un sentido amplio, poniendo el foco en cada número en un tema monográfico, concretamente en la sección Informe. Actualmente cuenta con el sello de calidad de revistas científicas españolas de FECYT y está incluida en los índices y catálogos ESCI (Emerging Sources Citation Index, Thomson Reuters), al que ha sido incorporado en 2016, así como en ERIH PLUS, ISOC (SCI/CINDOC), ICE, RESH, Latindex o Dulcinea.

*CFP* "COSMOPOLITAN ASPIRATIONS IN ENGLISH-SPEAKING CINEMA AND TELEVISION", 26TH ANNUAL SERCIA CONFERENCE

Cosmopolitan Aspirations in English-Speaking Cinema and Television

26th Annual SERCIA Conference

Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain

September 2-4, 2020

It has become almost mandatory to start any piece on cosmopolitanism with a reference to Diogenes the Cynic (412-323 BC) and his famous claim “I am a citizen of the world”. Alluring as the phrase may sound to our 21st century ears, when uttered by Diogenes, it was an invitation to be a social outsider: the allegiance to humanity as a whole implied becoming an exile from the comforts of one’s place of birth and social group (Nussbaum 1994). Two thousand years later, Immanuel Kant considered that the achievement of a cosmopolitan order was a must “if the human race was not to consume itself in wars between nations and if the power of nation-states was not to overwhelm the freedom of individual” (Fine and Cohen 2002). Kant’s ideals about a cosmopolitan world order, cosmopolitan law and cosmopolitan hospitality became the foundation on which moral cosmopolitanism, understood as a philosophical and political project aimed at the creation of cosmopolitan political institutions and the development of a cosmopolitan civil society, started to be theorised. This cosmopolitan tradition became especially appealing in the 1990s, a decade that witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of apartheid, among other epochal changes, as well as the widespread use of the Internet and the emergence of the so-called network society. Cosmopolitanism became then a framework (or a “methodology” in Ulrich Beck’s words) to try to understand and deal with some of the challenges of globalization: the increased mobilities of people and goods, the proliferation of global risks, the redefinition of borders and the proliferation of global media and virtual communities, among others (Beck 2000).

*CFP* "JOURNALISM AND COMMUNICATION EDUCATION TWG", 6TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF ECREA

6th Annual Conference of ECREA

Journalism and Communication Education TWG

May 14 and 15, 2020

Autonomous University of Barcelona

The educational environment has undergone deep transformations in the last decades: specifically offering undergraduate and graduate courses in the communication area are facing new and quickly evolving challenges.

On the one hand, the training of future professionals in the field of communication and journalism has been directly impacted by the technological changes introduced by cyberspace and the successive developments of the Network: web 2.0 or social web, web 3.0 or semantic web and web 4.0 or the internet of things.

On the other, Twentieth-century teaching methods and 21st-century technology represent a generation gap like no other. Gen Zers are “digital natives”: our students grew up not only with computers and internet access, but also with smartphones, social media, and mobile devices, and thus are not interested in traditional passive learning.

*CFP* "MULTIMEDIA ALTERNATE REALITIES: ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES, MEDIATED INTERACTIONS AND EXPERIENCES", SPECIAL ISSUE, SPRINGER, MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS JOURNAL

Springer, Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP) international journal. Novel multimedia technologies enable us to experience other realities, to live other people's stories, or to interact in remote scenarios. Different spaces, times, situations or contexts can be entered thanks to multimedia contents and systems, which coexist with our current reality, and are sometimes so vivid and engaging that we feel we are immersed in them. These experiences may feel like an alternate reality.

Recent advancements in multimedia and related technologies together with increased computational capabilities facilitate the creation of hypermedia content with higher quality using multiple sensory channels, including audio, visual, haptic, olfactory, and taste.

Following three inspiring editions of the Multimedia Alternate Realities workshop at the ACM Multimedia conference, this MTAP Special Issue brings new opportunities to share ideas and results. Research contributions may explore how the synergy between multimedia technologies and its perceptual/cognitive effects can foster the creation of alternate realities and make their access an enriching and valuable experience. This call is open for everyone working on the broader theme of Alternate Multimedia realities, including previous workshop participants as well as new contributors. In line with this conceptual theme, we seek contributions that present multimedia technologies, methods and evaluation approaches from the perspective of "enabling other realities". 

*CFP* CALL FOR PROPOSALS, INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MUSIC AND SOUNDS

International Conference on Music and Sounds

13 June 2020

St Anne's College, University of Oxford

organised by London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research

“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.”

Plato

The abilities of music to influence and effect human beings are felt every day from the music we listen to for motivation, music played when we work, while we dine, when we shop or while entertaining. Imagine the sensation we get when listening to a skilful singer hit a passionate array of notes, or a crescendo in a piece of symphonic music, a touching lyric uttered with a beautiful melody. Listening to music is the only activity we engage in that uses the entire brain. The right kind of music, a type that is not disruptive or one that breaks your concentration has many beneficial effects including positively influencing intelligence, even stimulating pain reduction responses and is very healing. More than just the music itself it is in the sound we hear, sound that is driven by a desire for quality and created by technology. Thanks to technological advances, there have been great advances in our means to hear the music in a manner that bathes the listener in sound that is transportative and immersive.

*CFP* CALL FOR CRITICAL ESSAYS, VOL.10, ISSUE 2020, TECHNOCULTURE TENTH ANNIVERSARY

For our tenth year anniversary issue, Technoculture is seeking critical essays and creative works from a broad range of academic disciplines that focus on cultural studies of technology, and especially on the future of the study of technology and culture.

Essays and creative works we publish examine the topic technology and society, or, perhaps, technologies and societies. This call is ongoing and open topic, and we encourage a broad definition of technology. Topics could include depictions of technologies that treat a wide range of subjects related to the social sciences and humanities.

As a journal, we are interested in a conception of technology and the humanist impulse that pushes beyond contemporary American culture and its fascination with computers; we seek papers that deal with any technology or technologies in any number of historical periods from any relevant theoretical perspective.

*CFP* "DOCUMENTING THE HOLIDAYS", SPECIAL ISSUE, PROCEEDINGS OF THE DOCUMENT ACADEMY

Holidays are central components of culture. They can be celebratory or commemorative. They can be festive, merry, and joyous in their celebrations, or (also simultaneously) sombre, solemn, and reflective in their commemorations. They help us mark the calendar, highlight important sociocultural milestones, measure the passage of time, follow the turning of the seasons, and, in so doing, organize life and society.

The kinds of holidays are as rich and varied as their contextual diversity. They cover different kinds of seasonal, civic, cultural, and religious concerns, events, and themes. Christmas, for example, is arguably the major and most highly anticipated holiday of the year in most Western countries, combining both sacred and secular ideals and traditions. Chinese New Year (also referred to as Lunar New Year), as another example, is arguably the most significant holiday in the world’s most populous country, fusing ancient customs, myths, and folk religion. Some holidays, moreover, are co-constituted by each of the holiday kinds. Thanksgiving, for instance, is in many respects a seasonal, cultural, religious, and civic holiday. There are also holidays that are formally mandated by the government, such as Christmas Day, New Year’s Day, and Easter (Good Friday/Easter Monday), whilst others are conventionally recognized by society, including Halloween, Valentine’s Day, and St. Patrick’s Day.

*CFP* “TEACHING NON-THEATRICAL AND USEFUL MEDIA”, SPECIAL ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL OF CINEMA AND MEDIA STUDIES

We invite submissions for an upcoming proposal for consideration by the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies Teaching Dossier editorial board. The JCMS Teaching Dossier is an online feature. The site offers media scholars a venue to share pedagogical resources and discuss undergraduate teaching on a wide range of topics. In recent decades, an increasing number of scholars have turned their attention to the study of so-called useful media – educational and training films, industrials, newsreels, travelogues, home movies, and more. As Charles Acland and Haidee Wasson point out, these media are characterized less by their artistic and entertainment goals than by their ability to transform unlikely spaces, convey ideas, convince individuals, and produce subjects in the service of public and private aims (Useful Cinema, 2011).

The scholarship on these media forms and their frequently non-theatrical viewing spaces charts alternative geographies of film experience, mapping an expansive and diverse network of production practices, exhibition contexts, and reception sites. By complicating the narrative of cinema as a single institution and repositioning film, video, and television at the intersection of a multiplicity of everyday uses and institutional functions, the study of non-theatrical film and useful media also poses new challenges and opportunities for research and pedagogy.

*CFP* “PRACTICE-BASED RESEARCH PROPOSALS IN MEDIA INTERACTIONS AND ENVIRONMENTS”, MECCSA 2020 CONFERENCE

MeCCSA 2020
Media Interactions and environments
8-10 de enero de 2020
University of Brighton, UK

The Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association are pleased to invite the submission of practice-based contributions for the MeCCSA 2020 Conference, to be held from 8-10 January 2020 at the University of Brighton. The theme of the conference is Media Interactions and Environments. We actively support the presentation of practice-as-research and have a flexible approach to practice papers, presentations and the exhibition of work.

To complement the MeCCSA presentations, panels, roundtables and screenings, a dedicated exhibition space has been set up in the School of Media’s foyer gallery, to exhibit film and video, photography, sound and other media-based work. This is a light space with ample daylight, which has flexible walls for hanging of works, which can also accommodate moving image work. We also have a cinema-style screening room which can be used for short films, videos and digital work. 

*CFP* “HISTORICIZING MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION CONCEPTS OF THE DIGITAL AGE”, BOOK CHAPTERS

ECREA Communication History Section is launching a call for chapters for a new book project tentatively entitled Historicizing media and communication concepts of the digital age. The book aims to historicize some of the most relevant ideas and concepts in contemporary digital media studies, and will appear in the series “Studies in digital history and hermeneutics” directed by Andreas Fickers (DeGruyter Editor). 

The volume will be both online with free access and printed thanks to the support of C2DH at the University ofLuxembourg, and will be edited by Gabriele Balbi, Nelson Ribeiro, Valérie Schafer and Christian Schwarzenegger – the former and current management team.