*CFP* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, GIGANET 2020 SYMPOSIUM

 GigaNet 2020

The Global Internet Governance Academic Network

Monday, 2 November 2020

Katowice, Poland

GigaNet – the Global Internet Governance Academic Network – is now accepting extended abstracts for papers to be presented at its annual symposium.

As of now, GigaNet 2020 is planned to be held alongside the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Katowice, Poland. We expect our symposium to take place on “Day 0” of the IGF, which is Monday, 2 November.

Papers on any Internet/data governance-related topic are welcome. Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged. There will be the possibility of a focused subset of accepted papers to be fast-tracked for publication in a relevant journal. 

*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.

*CFP* “PIRACY AND BEYOND: EXPLORING 'THREATS' IN MEDIA AND CULTURE”, HSE UNIVERSITY

Piracy and Beyond: Exploring 'Threats' in Media and Culture

International Conference

23–25 October, 2019

HSE University

Keynote speakers:

Vincent Mosco, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Queen's University (Canada)

Joe Karaganis, vice-president American Assembly, Columbia University, editor of the report “Media Piracy in Emerging Economies” (US)

Patrick Burkart, professor, Texas A&M University (US)

Tristan Mattelart, professor, French Institute of Press, University of Paris II Pantheon-Assas (France)

Göran Bolin, professor Södertorn University (Sweden)

Aleksandra Elbakyan, creator of Sci-Hub

*CFP* "MEDIA CULTURES OF THE (INTER/ANTI)IMPERIAL PACIFIC", 15 ISSUE, MEDIA FIELDS

The Media Fields Editorial Collective at the UC Santa Barbara Department of Film & Media Studies is currently accepting submissions for Media Fields Issue 15, "Media Cultures of the (Inter/Anti)Imperial Pacific," co-edited by Xiuhe Zhang and Tyler Morgenstern.

Recent controversies—from protracted battles over international tariff structures to renewed nuclear sabre rattling between the United States and North Korea, and from the brutalities of offshore migrant detention in places like Nauru to the construction of artificial islands in the South China Sea—have thrust the Pacific theater to the forefront of global geopolitical attention. But while these disputes often appear in the guise of crisis, as urgent, largely unanticipated outbreaks of acrimony, they are in many ways historically implicated. 

*CFP* “PIRATE CARE”, CENTRE FOR POSTDIGITAL CULTURES

Pirate Care

19th & 20th June 2019

Square One, Coventry University

The Centre for Postdigital Cultures (CPC), Coventry University, UK invites contributions to its second annual conference, which will explore the phenomenon of ‘Pirate Care’. Presentations and talks will be complemented by a film programme tackling the main theme of the conference.

The term Pirate Care condenses two processes that are particularly visible at present. On the one hand, basic care provisions that were previously considered cornerstones of social life are now being pushed towards illegality, as a consequence of geopolitical reordering and the marketisation of social services. At the same time new, technologically-enabled care networks are emerging in opposition to this drive toward illegality.