*CFP* "DESARROLLOS CONTEMPORÁNEOS SOBRE MEDIOS, CULTURA Y SOCIEDAD: ARGENTINA Y AMÉRICA LATINA", CONGRESO MESO 2021

MESO invita a la contribución de artículos inéditos para la conferencia “Desarrollos Contemporáneos Sobre Medios, Cultura y Sociedad: Argentina y América Latina”. La conferencia, organizada por el Centro de Estudios sobre Medios y Sociedad en Argentina, tendrá lugar los días viernes 26 y sábado 27 de noviembre de 2021. La modalidad de esta edición será híbrida.

Este será el séptimo Congreso Anual que MESO organiza con el propósito de intercambiar conocimiento de investigación sobre las interacciones entre medios, cultura y sociedad. Para ver más información sobre los Congresos anteriores puede visitar nuestro sitio web. Contamos con el auspicio del Center for Global Culture and Communication de Northwestern University y del Center for Latinx Digital Media.

Se solicitan artículos que contribuyan a la discusión sobre medios, cultura y sociedad de manera empírica, teórica o metodológica, y que amplíen el conocimiento sobre esta temática en el ámbito nacional y regional. Los artículos podrán referirse a distintos aspectos de la comunicación, los medios y los bienes y servicios culturales expresados a través del periodismo, el entretenimiento–cine, teatro, televisión, música, etc.– la publicidad y el marketing, las relaciones públicas, las redes sociales, y los videojuegos, entre otros.

*CFP* "DESIGUALDADES DE GÉNERO EN LA COMUNICACIÓN Y CULTURA DIGITALES", NÚMERO 16, RAEIC: REVISTA ESPAÑOLA DE LA ASOCIACIÓN ESPAÑOLA DE INVESTIGACIÓN DE LA COMUNICACIÓN

RAEIC, Revista Española de la Asociación Española de Investigación de la Comunicación abre su llamada a propuestas para los artículos del monográfico sobre “Audiencias críticas y activas. De consumidores a ciudadanos”.

Las propuestas recibidas serán enviadas para su evaluación a un Comité de Evaluación. A continuación, se remitirá a todos los autores/as una respuesta sobre la resolución del proceso de revisión de su original. Para proteger el anonimato, el texto remitido deberá incluir en una página separada del texto principal, el nombre del autor, la dirección electrónica y postal y el currículo abreviado (máximo cinco líneas). Todos los textos propuestos estarán escritos, con carácter preferente, en español, pero también se admiten textos en catalán, gallego, francés, inglés, italiano, portugués y euskera. Los textos deberán ser originales y no estar sometidos a procesos de evaluación por ninguna otra publicación.

Los artículos que se remitan a la revista no podrán exceder las 7.000 palabras (en el recuento deberán incluir todas las palabras que figuren en el texto propuesto por los autores:  sus nombres, títulos, resumen, bibliografía, etc.). Serán descartados en un inicio todos aquellos que no cumplan este requisito y las normas publicadas en la página web de esta revista.

*CFP* "THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AND THE DIGITALISATION OF PUBLIC DIPLOMACY", CHAPTERS BOOK

In a 2013 commentary article posted on the US Department of State’s official blog DipNote, the former US Secretary of State, John Kerry, somewhat criticised the popular tendency among diplomacy practitioners, scholars and critics to make the term “digital diplomacy” the talk of the town. He claimed that this term (“digital diplomacy”) “is almost redundant - it's just diplomacy, period”. Kerry further stressed that, although the new information and communication technologies (ICTs) do tremendously contribute to the advancement of countries’ foreign policy objectives as well as to bridging the gap between people across the globe, they (the ICTs) fulfil the same core diplomatic functions as the traditional/analogue tools of public diplomacy. For instance, they enable diplomats to create dialogue among the broadest possible audience as well as to find common ground, which, after all, are what diplomacy is all about (Kerry 2013).

For many observers, Kerry’s pronouncement came to mean that it is futile to always stress the digitalised nature of ICT-driven diplomacy given the fact that a plurality of factors or indicators suggest that, in a near future, the use of digital technologies in diplomacy will become too banal that professionals and scholars in the discipline will no longer see the need to stress the “digital nature” of digital diplomacy.

*CFP* "DIGITAL MEDIA, PUBLIC POLICY AND THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE REVISED AVMSD", 12.3 SPECIAL ISSUE (OCTOBER 2021), JOURNAL OF DIGITAL MEDIA & POLICY

The Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD) is the centrepiece of media policy in the European Union. It sets the foundations of regulating broadcast media without frontiers. Over multiple revisions over the last two decades it was gradually extended first to on-demand audiovisual services, and most recently to video sharing platforms dealing in user generated content. This policy journey was a remarkable one characterised by careful balancing of economic and cultural policy objectives and various policy innovations. It has been an enlightenment in Member States with media markets suffering from oppressive and politically driven regulatory regimes, but it also has taken a heavy toll on smaller markets distressed by major transnational audiovisual content providers.

The revised AVMSD adopted in late 2018 promised to create a more level playing field for European media outlets competing with US-based tech giants and fighting for shrinking sources of income and increasingly fragmented audiences. The deadline for national transposition is 19 September 2020. Whether and how all member states meet this deadline given the Covid-19 related consequences on legislative processes raises several issues. Legal and policy scholars are dealing with challenging questions about the wide-reaching impact of entering a new phase of regulation and the next level of media governance, while old problems were still dragging along without due response.

*CFP* "DIGITAL MEDIA, PUBLIC POLICY AND THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE REVISED AVMSD", SPECIAL ISSUE, JOURNAL OF DIGITAL MEDIA AND POLICY

The Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD) is the centrepiece of media policy in the European Union. It sets the foundations of regulating broadcast media without frontiers. Over multiple revisions in the last two decades it was gradually extended, first to on-demand audiovisual services and most recently to video sharing platforms dealing in user-generated content. This policy journey was a remarkable one, characterized by the careful balancing of economic and cultural policy objectives and various policy innovations. It has resulted in an enlightenment amongst member states with media markets suffering from oppressive and politically driven regulatory regimes, but it has also taken a heavy toll on smaller markets distressed by major transnational audiovisual content providers.

The revised AVMSD adopted in late 2018 promised to create a more level playing field for European media outlets competing with US-based tech giants and fighting for shrinking sources of income and increasingly fragmented audiences. The deadline for national transposition is 19 September 2020. Whether and how all member states meet this deadline given the COVID-19 related consequences on legislative processes raises several issues. Legal and policy scholars are dealing with challenging questions about the wide-reaching impact of entering a new phase of regulation and the next level of media governance, while old problems were still dragging along without due response.

*CFP* "BEYOND THE 2ºC BUSINESS AND POLICY TRAJECTORIES TO CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION", EDITED BOOK

We are accepting contributions from international scholars and practitioners that work at the interface of in business and policy, as well as related fields such as economics, management, development studies, finance, and entrepreneurship. The contributions can:

• Shed new light on our understanding of climate-related vulnerabilities and risks
• Present new and emerging processes for internalizing adaptation approaches
• Identify new barriers to large scale and/or local climate change adaptation
• Explore the synergies and trade-offs in adaptation
• Investigate approaches to overcoming conflicts in business and policy adaptation trajectories

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit abstracts of no more than 500 words, a bibliography for their proposed chapter, and a CV by June 30th, 2020.

*CFP* "DIGITAL INCLUSION OF VULNERABLE PEOPLE: FACTORS, SIGNIFICANCE, INTERSECTIONALITY, AND POLICY CHALLENGES", SPECIAL ISSUE, NEW MEDIA & SOCIETY JOURNAL

Over the last three decades, researchers have increasingly understood the existence of multiple and complex digital inequalities that vary in breadth and depth and involve evolving nuances, assigning a multi-faceted nature to digital inclusion and flagging up a complex terrain of hurdles to it (Blank and Groselj, 2014; Borg and Smith, 2018; Brandtzæg et al., 2011; Katz and Gonzalez, 2016; Mubarak, 2015; Tsatsou, 2011; 2012; 2017; van Deursen et al., 2011;  van Deursen and van Dijk, 2014; Witte and Mannon, 2010).

It is widely acknowledged that barriers to digital inclusion are connected with social exclusion and associated social capital and social stratification trends (Clayton and McDonald, 2013) and that those vulnerable and at high risk of social exclusion are also those in greatest need of digital inclusion (e.g., Acharya, 2016; Alam and Imran, 2015; Chadwick, Wesson and Fullwood, 2013; Fisher et al., 2014; Helsper and Eynon, 2010; Menger, Morris and Salis, 2016, Seale et al. 2015, Tsatsou, Youngs and Watt, 2017). Vulnerability, namely the ‘susceptibility to physical or emotional injury or attack’ (Ståsett, 2007, p. 51), is not a new concept and, while we ought to acknowledge that all humans and populations are potentially subject to conditions of vulnerability, there are some groups, which persistently face conditions of vulnerability, such as ethnic minorities/refugees, elderly, people with disabilities, homeless people, one-parent households, unemployed people, Gypsy-travelers, and others. 

*CFP* "ORIENT YOURSELF IN THE SOCIETY OF UNCERTAINTY. LIFE PATHS AND TRAJECTORIES IN THE AGE OF THE NEW/NET/KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY", SPECIAL ISSUE OF THE LAB'S QUATERLY CFP

Recent developments in globalisation processes have produced an increasing precariousness in the labour market. The New/Net/Knowledge Economy requires a capacity for continuous adaptation to innovations following one another at an increasingly accelerated pace, and needs a “human capital” prepared to carry out work activities with the best possible results in rapidly changing conditions. In this scenario, competences have assumed a strategic role, meant primarily, even if not exclusively, as a set of resources that are acquired through practice and get transformed into useful devices for productive activities.

In the “Knowledge Society”, theoretical knowledge seems to be placed in the background, while skills are considered fundamental for overcoming the imbalance between job demand and supply (skills mismatch) and consequently for economic growth processes. Particularly, in the workplace, alongside “hard skills” − formal competences based on the knowledge of subjects − so-called transversal competences or “soft skills” are increasingly required. Non-formal competences, related to the social and emotional dimension, such as perseverance, flexibility, self-confidence, communication skills, the ability to work in a team, conflict management, etc. are considered decisive aspects in the workplace and more and more often school or academic certifications are of less importance because they are deemed of little utility in order to assess workers’ potential.

*CFP* "DESINFORMATION STUDIES: PERSPECTIVES TO AN EMERGING RESEARCH FIELD", ECREA 2020 PRE-CONFERENCE

Disinformation studies: perspectives to an emerging research field

ECREA 2020 pre-conference

2 October 2020

University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

The aim proposed for this ECREA 2020 pre-conference is to promote research that helps to define policies and strategies contributing to combat and effectively minimize the phenomena of disinformation and manipulation in the journalistic field. Thus, we intend to join together researchers who are interested in the topic, to develop this field of disinformation studies.

The main goal of the event is to develop a set of studies and policies that allow us to identify and contribute to combat and effectively minimize the phenomena of misinformation and manipulation in the journalistic field.

In addition to Fake news, the study of disinformation in the journalistic field includes theoretical paradigms and empirical approaches that go beyond those: bias, concealment of facts, agenda building, strategic use of sources, mobilization of emotion, empathic media and omission of data are studied in other contexts of journalism studies helping to clarify this new phenomenon.

*CFP* "COMMUNICATING HEALTH. FUNDAMENTALS AND PRACTICES TOWARDS A BETTER HEALTH", SPECIAL DOSSIER, COMUNICAÇÃO PÚBLICA JOURNAL

The special dossier ‘Communicating Health – fundamentals and practices towards a better health’ addresses communication in the health context, exploring the coding, transmission, promotion and reception of health contents aimed at reaching better health results and fostering healthier individuals and societies.

The existing literature tends to emphasize communication as a catalyst of results (Levinson, Roter & Mullooly, 1997; Ong, Haes, Hoos & Lammes, 1995, p. 903; Stewart 1995), as an effective bridge for establishing the therapeutic relation (Longnecker, 2010) and as a lever for massive and low cost dissemination of messages in the media (Wakefield, Loken & Hornik, 2014).

Communication is seen as the “need of the hour” (Ranjan, Kumari & Chakrawarty, 2015, p. 1) and as the “key to a healthier tomorrow” (Ratzan, 1994), bringing about answers for dealing with, and solving, communication problems in the health context: a) Europeans have low health literacy levels (HLS-EU, 2012). Over a third of USA adults (77 million people) will have difficulties with ordinary health tasks, such as following patient package insert instructions. 

*CFP* "DESIGUALDADES DE GÉNERO EN LA COMUNICACIÓN Y CULTURA DIGITALES", NÚMERO 14, RAEIC: REVISTA ESPAÑOLA DE LA ASOCIACIÓN ESPAÑOLA DE INVESTIGACIÓN DE LA COMUNICACIÓN

RAEIC, Revista Española de la Asociación Española de Investigación de la Comunicación abre su llamada a propuestas para los artículos del monográfico sobre “Audiencias críticas y activas. De consumidores a ciudadanos”.

Las propuestas recibidas serán enviadas para su evaluación a un Comité de Evaluación. A continuación, se remitirá a todos los autores/as una respuesta sobre la resolución del proceso de revisión de su original. Para proteger el anonimato, el texto remitido deberá incluir en una página separada del texto principal, el nombre del autor, la dirección electrónica y postal y el currículo abreviado (máximo cinco líneas). Todos los textos propuestos estarán escritos, con carácter preferente, en español, pero también se admiten textos en catalán, gallego, francés, inglés, italiano, portugués y euskera. Los textos deberán ser originales y no estar sometidos a procesos de evaluación por ninguna otra publicación.

Los artículos que se remitan a la revista no podrán exceder las 7.000 palabras (en el recuento deberán incluir todas las palabras que figuren en el texto propuesto por los autores:  sus nombres, títulos, resumen, bibliografía, etc.). Serán descartados en un inicio todos aquellos que no cumplan este requisito y las normas publicadas en la página web de esta revista.

*CFP* "PUBLIC SERVICE MEDIA'S CONTRIBUTION TO SOCIETY", 2020 CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC MEDIA

2020 Conference of the International Association of Public Media

“Public Service Media’s Contribution to Society”

Researchers / RIPE@2020

October 28-30, 2020, in Geneva (Switzerland)

2020 is an exciting year for public media research: The RIPE initiative is transforming into the International Association of Public Media Researchers and the tenth biennial conference jointly organized by the University of Fribourg’s Department of Communication and Media Research (DCM) and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) will take place on the premises of EBU’s Geneva headquarters. The conference will offer an opportunity for celebrating RIPE’s legacy and the 70th anniversary of the EBU.

Public Service Media (PSM) organizations across Europe and beyond are increasingly under pressure. Due to digitization, media use is changing rapidly, with streaming services and online platforms gaining in importance and making it harder for legacy media to hold their ground. This affects both public and private media. With users and advertising shifting to search engines and social networks, the business model of newspaper publishers is also under pressure, which, in turn, leads to disagreement about PSM’s online activities. In addition, many policy-makers are highly critical of PSM due to a belief in the efficiency of market solutions or – especially in the case of right-wing populist parties – for political reasons. As a result, both PSM’s role in a digital environment and its funding are under scrutiny. PSM seem to be constantly in the position of having to defend themselves. Following attempts at demonstrating the “public value” of PSM, the discussion is now turning towards the concept of PSM’s “contribution to society”. 

*CFP* "DIGITAL SERVICES IN CRISIS, DISASTER, AND EMERGENCY SITUATIONS", CHAPTER BOOK

The contemporary world is characterized by the massive use of digital communication platforms and services that allow people to stay in touch with each other and their organizations. On the other hand, it is also a world with great challenges in terms of crisis, disaster and emergency situations, of various kinds: humanitarian, environmental, nuclear, political, economic, etc. In this scenario there are many challenges in the communication, prototyping, evaluation and development of digital support platforms and services in crisis, disaster and emergency contexts.

Thus, it is crucial to understand the role of digital platforms/services in the context of crisis, disaster and emergency situations. This can be done through a technological perspective, namely, through the design of digital service specifically designed for use in crisis, disaster and emergency situations. But also, through a communicational perspective, by understanding people's communication wishes and needs in these risky scenarios, as well as understanding the use of digital services/platforms such as online social networks (Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, etc.), in crisis, disaster and emergency situations.

*CFP* “THEATRE ECOLOGIES: ENVIRONMENT, SUSTAINABILITY AND POLITICS”, INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION FOR THEATRE RESEARCH CONFERENCE

Translation, Adaptation, Dramaturgy Working Group 

International Federation for Theatre Research Conference

13-17 de Julio de 2020

NUI Galway, Ireland

The constantly shifting eco-system that constitutes theatre is the central theme of IFTR 2020 as we come together to consider ecologies of theatre and performance globally, and to ask how we, as an interdependent network of scholars and artists, can reflect and respond to our interconnections with the environment and with each other through performative and critical interventions.

Ecology is the study of the relationship between living organisms and their environments (whether cultural, political, social or biological). Naming theatre’s aesthetic and working practices as ecologies permits scholars to locate theatrical performances within not only social, political and cultural networks, but also interrelated biological systems. Inherently political, embodied and performative, theatre ecologies are constructed by – and responsive to – wider social, political, cultural, and physical environments.

*CFP* "PUBLIC POLICY: EXPERIENCES AND POLICY TRANSFER AMONG VARIOUS CULTURAL BACKGROUNDS", SPECIAL ISSUE, JOURNAL OF PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES

The Journal of Public Policy Studies published by the Warsaw School of Economics, Poland, is proud to announce the Call for Papers to a forthcoming Special Issue entitled: “Public Policy: Experiences and Policy Transfers among Various Cultural Backgrounds”.

The scope of this Call for Papers:

We start from a basic assumption that the policy sciences within many regions are under intensive development in various policy domains. For the academic community, it is crucial to analyze the key processes which intersect with the ongoing political and socio-economic developments and challenges around the world in many vertical (sectoral) and horizontal policies. We appreciate every manuscript whose author makes a successful attempt to deal with the crucial elements of the complex nature of the public policy. 

*CFP* “MEDIA LITERACY THROUGHOUT LIFE: NEW PEDAGOGICAL CHALLENGES TO THE ACCOMPANIMENT OF THE CITIZEN”, TICEMED 2020 CONFERENCE

International Conference TICEMED 12 

Media literacy throughout life: new pedagogical challenges to the accompaniment of the citizen

7-9 de abril de 2020

Panteion University

Atenas, Grecia

By the end of the 1980s, Media Literacy was presented as a necessary aspect of strengthening citizenship. This is reflected on the Council of Europe's Resolution on the Information Society, which in 1989 emphasized on the "liberating and reassuring role" of Media Literacy for both civic and political awareness. Two decades later, the "European Charter for Education" (EuroMediaLiteracy, 2009) defines the skills and knowledge that all learners are expected to have. Then the objectives that have been presented in this charter reflect a broad spectrum of concerns regarding the media and their actions, (Landry, Basque, 2015: 11) aiming at developing critical thinking.

The changes caused by the Information Society have strongly reinforced the need for Media Literacy. The development of new technologies and the convergence of formats raise new challenges and require new skills. Cognitive or metacognitive skills alone are not enough. Technical skills must now be combined with both analytical and ethical skills. These skills arise concurrently witha participatory culture which allows individual expression, civic engagement, creation of contents and its sharing (Jenkins et al., 2009).

*CFP* "PLATAFORMAS Y DIVERSIDAD: NETFLIX A DEBATE", SEMINARIO INTERNACIONAL UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID (UC3M)

Seminario internacional “Plataformas y diversidad: Netflix a debate”

Madrid, 7 – 8 de noviembre de 2019

 Facultad de Humanidades, Comunicación y Documentación

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M)

Se abre la convocatoria para presentar trabajos que formarán parte del Seminario internacional “Plataformas y diversidad: Netflix a debate” que tendrá lugar los días 7 y 8 de noviembre de 2016 en la Facultad de Humanidades, Comunicación y Documentación, de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M). El evento se enmarca en las actividades que desarrolla el proyecto “Diversidad audiovisual y plataformas en línea: el caso Netflix”, el cual se interesa especialmente por el papel que juegan las plataformas en línea para la diversidad de las industrias audiovisuales. Se propone comprender la actuación e impacto de las plataformas trasnacionales en línea que comercializan contenidos audiovisuales a través de la Internet pública abierta, conocidas como over the top (OTT), atendiendo a su perfil socioeconómico y a la reacción política-regulatoria que su irrupción ha propiciado. Dicho impacto se analiza aludiendo a España en particular, ofreciendo información en profundidad de un caso de estudio singular: el de la empresa Netflix.

*CFP* "ALTERNATIVE METRICS AND OPEN SCIENCE IN LATIN AMERICA", TRANSINFORMAÇÃO JOURNAL

We are facing strong transformations towards scientific communication and the geography of science. Social media and other digital environments have been each day more used by researchers and institutions to promote their researches to society, modifying the way through which the social impact of the scientific production is measured. New opportunities and a series of challenges impose to peripheral countries, considering that the coverage and data quality of the alternative metrics don´t use to be compatible with the dynamics of scientific communication developed in this region. At the same time, Open Science grows in Latin America, as an answer to balance the inequalities in the circulation of science. Important institutions have been decisive in the spreading of a kind of a Latin-American science more open, transparent, reproducible and responsible to the region. 

Scielo, Redalyc, Doaj, Latindex are examples of institutions that, along with several initiatives to the region, as the Declaration of Panama, are in the front line of the development of the science on the continent. Towards this panorama of great transformations to the Latin-American science, the call to the special issue of Transinformação journal (Q2 SJR) oriented to researchers of Latin America and the Caribbean, seeking to explore topics related to the improvements of researches about altmetrics and Open Science in the Latin-American context.

*CFP* "TELE(VISUALISING) HEALTH: TV, PUBLIC HEALTH, ITS ENTHUSIASTS AND ITS PUBLICS", INSTITUTE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH, LONDON

ERC Healthy Self as BodyCapital & Centre for History in Public Health London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine International Conference

Tele(visualising) Health: TV, Public Health, its Enthusiasts and its Publics

27 February- 1 March 2019

Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet St, Bloomsbury,

London WC1E 7HU, UK

Televisions began to appear in the homes of large numbers of the public in Europe and North America after World War II. This coincided with a period in which ideas about the public’s health, the problems that it faced and the solutions that could be offered, were changing. The threat posed by infectious diseases was receding, to be replaced by chronic conditions linked to lifestyle and individual behaviour.

Public health professionals were enthusiastic about how this new technology and mass advertising could reach out to individuals in the population with the new message about lifestyle and risk. TV offered a way to reach large numbers of people with public health messages; it symbolised the post war optimism about new directions in public health.

*CFP* GLOBAL HANDBOOK OF COMMUNICATIONS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, BOOK CHAPTERS

In 2015 several member states of the United Nations agreed on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) or what is known as the 2030 Agenda. The SDGs are expected to address major global challenges such as poverty alleviation, access to education, addressing inequality, climate change, improving access to quality healthcare, eradicating hunger, ensuring environmental sustainability, promoting innovation and infrastructural development among others.

To what extent are the intended beneficiaries of this ambitious plan aware of the 2030 agenda? What is the role of the media in communicating for sustainable development? Are the efforts to communicate the global goals reaching the target beneficiaries or do they end up as gathering of elites in major capitals with little to show for in terms of impact for the ordinary people? How can communication be utilized to address the challenges of achieving sustainable development? How is the digital media being utilized in communicating for sustainable development? How can communication serve as a tool for community empowerment in achieving sustainable development?