*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* "LAS SERIES DE TELEVISIÓN COMO OBJETO DE ESTUDIO MULTIDISCIPLINAR", VOL. 14 Nº 1, REVISTA MEDITERRÁNEA DE COMUNICACIÓN

Con fecha 28 de diciembre de 2020, Teseo, la base de datos del Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte, que recoge las tesis doctorales defendidas en España desde el año 1976, identifica un total de 600 trabajos de alumnado de Doctorado que incluyen el término de búsqueda series de televisión; en su título y/o resumen. Esa misma búsqueda documental, llevada a cabo en la base de datos Dialnet (tipología Tesis), recoge 363 registros que aluden al concepto series de televisión, de los cuales, el 78% fueron defendidos entre los años 2010 y 2019. Estamos, pues, ante un objeto de estudio relevante y latente que sigue suscitando a día de hoy el interés no solo de la audiencia televisiva y social, sino también el de la comunidad investigadora, científica, académica y profesional a nivel internacional.

Las series de televisión han sido, son y serán estudiadas desde diferentes perspectivas: audiovisual, educativa, social, profesional, artística, lingüística, técnica, transmedial y comercial-publicitaria, entre otras.

Se trata de un objeto de estudio altamente consumido por los principales destinatarios de los contenidos formativos que se enseñan en las aulas, independientemente del nivel educativo -primaria, secundaria, grado y postgrado- y que por tanto reúne gran variedad de aspectos sobre los que se forma al alumnado. Por ello, el profesorado debe conocer, al menos de forma general, los contenidos de ficción audiovisual más consumidos por la juventud, para tratar de convertir su dedicación docente en contenidos relevantes que capaciten al alumnado a través de contenidos, herramientas, estrategias y técnicas que susciten su interés, motivación e implicación.

*CFP* "GEORGE A. ROMERO: A CANNIBALIZED BODY OF WORK?", INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

International Conference

George A. Romero: A Cannibalized Body of Work?

November 24-25, 2022, Montpellier, France

 

Dug up in 2019, The Amusement Park (1973), and released in theaters in June 2021, commissioned by the Lutherian Church, stands as a reminder that George Andrew Romero (1940-2017) was not just the director of Night of the Living Dead (1968) and creator of the modern zombie. By focusing on an old man abandoned in a theme park where he will be subjected to all sorts of humiliation and abuse, the Pittsburgh director once again fires away at US-American society and remains faithful to an aesthetics whereby the figures of Gothic horror are portrayed in a raw realist mode.

Prompted by this posthumous release, and considering the continued relevance of Romero’s stories of contamination, zombified lives, and deserted stores and streets in the light of a global pandemic, this two-day international conference aims to decenter the habitual views cast on a body of work that has been cannibalized by the living dead. From 1968 to 2009, ten out of the sixteen feature films directed by Romero have ignored the creature to focus on witches in Jack’s Wife/Season of the Witch (1972), vampires in Martin (1977), killer monkeys in Monkey Shines (1988) and faceless yuppies in Bruiser (2000).

*CFP* LLAMADA A PARTICIPACIÓN, XXI CONGRESO DE LA ASOCIACIÓN INTERNACIONAL DE HISPANISTAS

XXI Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas (AIH)

Neuchâtel, del 11 al 16 de julio de 2022

Université de Neuchâtel

 

La Université de Neuchâtel y la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas invitan a participar en este congreso que se celebra del 11 al 16 de julio de 2022 en Neuchâtel (Suiza).

Se aceptarán comunicaciones referidas a los ejes temáticos que tradicionalmente han sido tratados en los Congresos de la AIH: literaturas hispánicas (géneros, períodos, temas, autores, lectura y recepción, literatura oral, escritura femenina y estudios de género, etc.); lingüística hispánica (diacrónica y sincrónica); enseñanza del español; cultura hispánica (arte, historia, cine, etc.). En el marco de esta amplia convocatoria, se prevén ejes temáticos específicos que serán anunciados próximamente.

El evento se desarrollará en seis jornadas, que integrarán:

*CFP* "FROM CINEMA CULTURE TO CINEMA MEMORY", THREE-DAY CONFERENCE

‘From Cinema Culture to Cinema Memory’

6 - 9 April, 2022

Lancaster University, UK

 

‘From Cinema Culture to Cinema Memory’ is a three-day conference that invites speakers to discuss a range of themes relating to cinema culture and cinema memory. The conference will mark the climax of a 3-year AHRC-funded project, ‘Cinema Memory and the Digital Archive: 1930s Britain and Beyond’ (CMDA). The project gathers together a range of material relating to cinema memory in a comprehensive digital archive, a vast amount of which has been made available to view freely online for the first time. Information on this project can be found here. The relationship between cinema culture and cinema memory is explored in ‘From Cinema Culture to Cinema Memory: a Conceptual and Methodological trajectory’ (Kuhn, upcoming)

Key themes to explored at the conference are:

*CFP* "COMUNICAR SOBRE LA CRISIS CLIMÁTICA EN LA ERA COVID-19: CONEXIONES, INNOVACIONES Y NUEVOS RETOS", VOL. 28, Nº 3, REVISTA ESTUDIOS SOBRE EL MENSAJE PERIODÍSTICO

Comunicar adecuadamente el problema climático en una sociedad inmersa en sobreinformación y desinformación presenta no pocas dificultades. Pero también es cierto que, ahora más que nunca, los periodistas cuentan con herramientas de fact checking y con posibilidades de acceso y manejo de big data que abren grandes oportunidades para informar en una época marcada por el uso de plataformas, blogs, redes sociales e interacción con el público.

Los medios de comunicación también tienen mucho que aportar en la promoción de la  Education for Environmental Citizenship (EEC), que busca desarrollar en la ciudadanía las competencias necesarias para lograr una implicación cívica activa y crítica (ENEC, 2018), especialmente por parte de las generaciones más jóvenes. Precisamente The Oslo Metropolitan University ha mostrado su preocupación por llegar mejor a este colectivo, celebrando a finales de 2020 la conferencia Improving Climate Journalism, Engaging the Youth. En ella se debatió sobre cómo debería ser un buen periodismo que informe sobre la crisis climática con rigor científico al tiempo que sea innovador y atractivo para audiencias a las que los medios tradicionales no siempre llegan.

*CFP* "INVESTIGATING TRUE CRIME & THE MEDIA", JOURNALISM@NEWCASTLE CONFERENCE

"Investigating True Crime & the Media"

Journalism@Newcastle

Ethical Space, the International Journal of Communication Ethics

23 June 2022

Submissions are open to researchers, PhD students, and practitioners working in the field, and parity of esteem will be afforded to both theoretically-driven and practice-related papers.

We particularly welcome submissions from diverse voices and nations and regions beyond Western perspectives. The aims of the conference and  double issue are to explore current and emerging concepts, developments and potential future trajectories of true crime narratives and  production from a global perspective.

*CFP* "CINEMATIC BOND AT 60: NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES", A HISTORY RESEARCH GROUP SYMPOSIUM

Cinematic Bond at 60: National and International Perspectives

A History Research Group Symposium

Bournemouth University (Online), 4 March 2022

 

In 1962 the first James Bond film, Dr No (Terence Young) was released. The film was a huge financial success for EON productions, catapulted Sean Connery to lifelong stardom and started a period of Bondmania that lasted for most of the 1960s. As a cultural icon and cultural phenomenon, James Bond and the Bond film have become a globally recognised brand. 

The films have been widely analysed for their spectacle, their often problematic engagement with masculinity, gender relations and cultural appropriation as well as the ideological implications of how they engage with their backdrop of social and geopolitical change across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. With 2022 marking 60 years of the cinematic Bond and the latest instalment, No Time to Die (Cary Fukunaga), due (allegedly) for release in October 2021, critical reflections on this ongoing franchise are relevant and timely.

*CFP* "MEDIATING DIGITAL SOCIETY AND INDIVIDUALS: JOURNALISM AND COMMUNICATION IN THE TIMES OF UNCERTAINTY", MOSCOW READINGS CONFERENCE

On 18-19 November 2021, the Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University will hold its annual Moscow Readings conference. The topic is 'Mediating Digital Society and Individuals: Journalism and Communication in the Times of Uncertainty'. The conference will be organized as a virtual event, with all sessions taking place online. Moscow Readings conferences is co-sposored by the International Association for Media and Communication Research - IAMCR, and organized in partnership with IAMCR Digital Divide Working Group, IAMCR Communication in Post- and Neo-Authoritarian Societies Working Group, IAMCR Journalism Research and Education Section, UNESCO chair in communication, European Journalism Training Association, the Global Risk Journalism Hub, and National Association of Mass Media Researchers.

Today, historical transformations affecting media industries and production such as digitalization, consolidation, deregulation and related trends identified by scholars long ago (Hamelink, 1998) amplify and accelerate due to new disruptive processes influencing media work on a global scale. This includes the rapid growth of platform power and platform convergence, the emergence of telecommunications giants as competitors in the content market, and growing concerns about sustainability of the news industry and journalism as a profession in this context (Deuze, & Prenger, 2019; Meese, 2021).

*CFP* "HISTORIES OF DIGITAL JOURNALISM", CONFERENCE

Histories of Digital Journalism

A conference exploring the intersections of history, culture, digital technology and journalism

Budapest, Hungary: 24–25 June 2022

 

Although the shared past of digitization and journalism stretches back at least to a half-century, digital journalism history is a field still in formation. Building on the momentum of the recent ‘historical turn’ in digital media and internet studies, the aim of the conference is to bring together an interdisciplinary network of scholars to interrogate digital journalism histories and to start a global critical exchange on various approaches to and aspects of historicising digital journalism. As digital journalism has been re-configured by socio-historical contradictions of communication and complexities of its technological innovations, journalism scholarship should continuously strive for enhancing critical exchange to advance studies that intersect with numerous disciplines, theoretical approaches and methodological traditions. Emphasis of the conference is on the plurality of histories instead of one single digital journalism history, acknowledging diachronic as well as synchronic complexities of social relations, political contingencies, cultural traditions and power configurations between journalism and digitisation. Instead of enforcing one great master narrative, the conference aims to offer a space to embrace the co-existence of parallel, sometimes complementing, often conflicting historical investigations and narratives.

*CFP* "THE VITALITY OF ANCIENT RECEPTION STUDIES, NOW", INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL CONFERENCE

The Vitality of Ancient Reception Studies, Now

An international virtual conference presented by Antiquity in Media Studies (AIMS)

15-18 December 2021

 

The officers of Antiquity in Media Studies invite proposals for presentations that illuminate the ongoing vitality of antiquity in recent discourses. Despite decades of institutional disinvestment in the study of antiquity, a venerated deep past figured as a powerful shared imaginary remains a perennial, emotionally evocative, even highly lucrative concept in myriad contemporary media, around the world and across all manner of identity lines. Among antiquities, of particularly widespread interest has been the millennia of history centered on the Mediterranean and dubbed “classical” among successor societies, both self-appointed and colonized. From Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Odyssey to Luis Alfaro’s Mojada, from Hideki Takeuchi’s Thermae Romae to Pat Barker’s Silence of the Girls, to politicians' and pundits' invocations of the Persian Wars and the fall of Rome, each year produces more receptions of this antiquity. Beyond the Greco-Roman-centered past, all antiquities mobilized for such cultural work today are welcome at this ancient reception studies conference.

*CFP* "ANIMATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY. RETHINKING IMAGES AND TECHNOLOGY", 27TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF FILM STUDIES

Animation in the 21st Century. Rethinking Images and Technology

27th International Conference of Film Studies

Rome, 25-26 November 2021

Roma Tre University

Online – Microsoft Teams platform

 

The 27th International Conference of Film Studies Animation in the 21st Century. Rethinking Images and Technology aims to investigate the critical role played by animation in contemporary audio-visual culture. Animated images have a significant and crucial position in current Film and Media Studies: they are the audio-visual horizon in which some of the most decisive and stimulating technological, aesthetic, narrative, political, and cultural challenges are faced. While contemporary works retain some of the fundamental elements of the tradition of animated film, taking them to a new level of sophistication, they also continue to represent a field of absolute experimentation in their audio and visual aspects.

*CFP* "GENDER AND MEDIA STUDIES. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS AND DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES", SPECIAL ISSUE, SOCIOLOGY OF COMMUNICATION JOURNAL

Despite the widespread perception of an abundance of literature and opportunities for discussion about gender and media, “researching the gender-media dyad is still an important project for media scholars” (Ross, 2010, p. 3). One reason for the prominence of the topic is the richness and rapidity of the evolution of media products, technologies and actors. Indeed, the contemporary media landscape and its cultural dimension are the result of the accumulation and juxtaposition of content, media forms, production and consumption practices, and everything in between (Bolter, 2020). Rigid and stereotyped images of women, men and other subjectivities coexist with critical content, as the result of practices of remix, sharing, co-creation and contestation.

The relationship between gender and media also appears to be of interest due to the growth of studies about the complexity and variety of subjectivities, identities, orientations and social and sexual relations in the media universe. Indeed, in the last two decades, theoretical reflections and empirical analyses have flourished in the scientific debate, thematizing the gender-media dyad beyond the conspicuous theme of representations, beyond binary opposing and heteronormatively visions (Buonanno, Faccioli, 2020; Farris, Compton, Herrera, 2020; Kay, 2020; Scarcelli, Krijnen, Nixon, 2020; Ross, 2020). Moreover, gender and media studies have recently been enriched by wide-ranging interdisciplinary analyses that look at the topic from a prismatic, intersectional perspective, which deepens the encounter between sociology and feminist media studies (Corradi 2008; Buonanno, 2014; Byerly, 2017). In this regard, there is an increasing sensitivity to the transformations in the social discourse of feminism due (also) to its mediatisation and the re-signification of feminist terms in a neoliberal perspective (Banet-Weiser, 2018; Gill, 2016; McRobbie, 2020; Rottenberg, 2018).

*CFP* "COMMUNICATION AND DISSENT: COMPETING VOICES IN A POST-TRUTH WORLD", ISSUE 14.2 (FALL 2022), CATALAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION & CULTURAL STUDIES

Traditional media were for a long time seen as institutions that had to avoid challenges to the system in order to guarantee the maintenance of the social structure, which was dependant on broad consensus around certain issues. Making news was key to the social construction of reality in a complex world (Tuchman, 1983). The impact of the media on public opinion, approached at first as a desirable influence for the functioning of society (Lippmann, 2011), was later identified as an instrument of control and propaganda (Herman & Chomsky, 2013). However, the media have also proven to be essential in questioning discourses of power. Alternative journalism has offered a discordant as well as rigorous proposal of framing reality (Couldry & Curran, 2003; Barranquero Carretero & Sánchez Mocanda, 2018). And, occasionally, media outlets have also been responsible for the generation of dissent in the public sphere, promoting social protests (Milne, 2005). The expression of dissent has been strengthened thanks to the digital media (Loader, 2018), which have given rise to connective actions (Bennett & Segerberg, 2012); this is, online mobilizations that coexist with collective action in offline world, as the anti-racial protests in the US or the new impetus of the feminist movement have recently shown.

But dissent expressed on the Internet often establishes problematic relationships with factual truths, as COVID-19 denialism has demonstrated in the first pandemic of the post-truth era (Parmet & Paul, 2020). Digital sphere has emerged as a perfect ally for the dissemination of hoaxes and misinformation (Magallón, 2020; Salaverría et al., 2020), conspiracies that tune in with messages delivered by celebrities and politicians such as Bolsonaro (Ricard & Medeiros, 2020) and Trump, who first talked about “alternative facts” to deny data provided by journalists, discredited as fake news. 

*CFP* "VISUALIDAD Y PODER", II COLOQUIO INTERNACIONAL (ONLINE)

“Visualidad y Poder” II Coloquio Internacional

Del 30 de noviembre al 2 de diciembre de 2021

Formato online

 

La Maestría en Comunicación, mención Visualidad y Diversidades y URU Revista de Comunicación y Cultura convocan al II Coloquio Internacional «Visualidad y Poder», el cual se desarrollará en formato online a través de internet y redes sociales, del 30 de noviembre al 2 de diciembre en consideración del fenómeno de salud que atraviesa la humanidad.

El evento es un espacio de debate sobre problemas e innovaciones actuales de los estudios de visualidad que permita el diálogo interdisciplinar entre investigadores, académicos, creadores, docentes y estudiantes que tienen como objeto de investigación aspectos estéticos, tecnológicos, políticos y culturales de las imágenes. Igualmente se constituye en un espacio de referencia de los debates contemporáneos asociados a la visualidad dentro de América Latina.

*CFP* "LGBTQIA+ FANTASTIKA GRAPHICS", A DIGITAL SYMPOSIUM

“Fantastika” – a term appropriated from a range of Slavonic languages by John Clute – embraces the genres of Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror, but can also include Alternate History, Gothic, Steampunk, Young Adult Dystopic Fiction, or any other radically imaginative narrative space. Our goal is to bring together academics, independent researchers, creators, and audiences who share an interest in this diverse range of fields with the aim of opening up new dialogues, productive controversies, and critical collaborations.

Following the 2020-pandemic hiatus, we are pleased to re-launch our annual conferences this year as a digital symposium. LGBTQIA+ Fantastika Graphics focuses on graphics and illustrations in its widest possible remit (comic books, manga, animes, cartoons, picture books, video games, and other such productions.) [This is an updated remit from ‘graphic novels’; please disregard previous CFPs.] We are interested in works that contain representations of the LGBTQIA+ community, relationships, and full spectrum of identities. We welcome abstracts for 15-minute papers or panels of 2-4 people on LGBTQIA+ Fantastika as they occur in the graphic form. Some suggested topics are:

*CFP* CAL FOR ARTICLES, MEDIÁLNÍ STUDIA JOURNAL

Mediální studia / Media Studies (ISSN 2464-4846) is a peer-reviewed, open access electronic journal, published in English, Czech and Slovak twice a year. Based in disciplines of media and communication studies, it focuses on analyses of media texts, media professionals practices and media audiences behaviour.

The journal is indexed in SCOPUS, MLA, Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL), and European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences (ERIH PLUS).

Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis. This means that your submission can be sent at any time, all year round. Manuscripts submitted by the end of November 2021 will be considered to be included in the 1/2022 issue.

Submission Guidelines.

Please submit your manuscripts via e-mail address medialnistudia@fsv.cuni.cz

*CFP* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, COMEDY IN CRISIS CONFERENCE

Comedy in Crisis Conference

Mixed Bill: Comedy and Gender Research Network

Birmingham City University, 14th and 15th January 2022

 

During the current COVID-19 pandemic, comedy (and social uses of humour) have become increasingly vital as a method of coping with adversity on both a local and global scale. Shared laughter can provide a temporary relief from the anxieties that continue to dominate a socially distanced existence, and thus bring people together whilst physically apart. In this context temporary humour communities have become increasingly significant. This conference will creatively explore how comedy (both in terms of content and industrial practices related to live and mediated forms) adapts and engages with times of crisis.

Although we anticipate a significant amount of discussion will look to recent events related to the pandemic, we also actively seek presentations engaging with wider conceptions of personal, social, political and environmental crises. We therefore invite abstracts for presentations, performances and creative responses on the following topics. 

*CFP* "CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS OF THE SECOND WIFE", BOOK CHAPTER

This slightly revised call is for abstracts for a scholarly, international edited collection entitled, Cultural Representations of the Second Wife: Literature, Stage, and Screen.

Currently I am seeking a number of academics and professionals in the field who might like to send me an abstract for consideration for inclusion in the book.

Due to effects of the covid-19 pandemic 2020-21, and the strain this has placed on people and businesses (including academics and universities world-wide), the deadline for abstracts for this project has been extended.

The aim of this scholarly edited collection is to reveal how the personal expectations and actual experiences of the second wife may differ from the social and cultural expectations and realities of the role of the second wife; and how the second wife may be perceived in the popular and social culture of various cultures, in screen, stage, and literary productions and pop culture narratives.

In any culture, religious and cultural beliefs are inseparable, and intrinsic one to the other, and are important to the marriage customs and laws of that particular culture or society.

*CFP* "BROADCASTING IN (DE)COLONIAL SETTINGS", SPECIAL ISSUE, THE JOURNAL OF RADIO & AUDIO MEDIA

The emergence of radio introduced profound changes in public communication, changing patterns of information dissemination at local, national and international levels. In the case of the Imperial nations this role was extended overseas with radio becoming the most important medium for uniting the home countries with the expats living in the far reaches of the empires, though not unproblematically.

A growing body of literature on the history of imperial and colonial broadcasting, as well as of sound, have been contributing to the understanding of the role of radio technologies, broadcasting and music in the 20th century in forging audible and sonorous empires. However, the ways in which different imperial countries used radio to create a sense of nation and colonial identities among those living in different geographies remains an open question. On the other hand, in the last decades works dealing with the media during decolonization have called attention to the significant role played by the audio medium in promoting independence from colonial powers and giving visibility to forms of culture that would become part of national identities of the new-born countries. What research has also revealed is that much is still to be understood about the relation between radio and decolonization practices and processes. Thus, this special issue seeks to publish manuscripts dealing with how broadcasting was incorporated and appropriated within different colonial and decolonial settings.

Hence, papers dealing with the following topics will be highly appreciated (non-exhaustive list):