*CFP* LOBBYING FOR (IN)ACTION: CLIMATE EMERGENCY, INTEREST GROUPS AND DENIAL", SPECIAL ISSUE, ÁMBITOS: REVISTA INTERNACIONAL DE COMUNICACIÓN

This special issue theme is found at the intersection of climate change denial and interest groups (like lobbies, think tanks and any type of advocacy organization). The special issue aims to encourage researchers in any area of the social sciences to focus on the role of interest groups in delaying climate policies through an awareness of the complexity of climate change denial. We therefore invite papers related to this complexity promoting climate inaction and the current climate crisis pertaining, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Strategic communication, public relations and media coverage of interest groups involved in climate inaction: media representation, lobbies and think tanks’ rhetoric, discourse analysis, discursive networks, communication strategies, etc. 
• Public Affairs, interest groups theory and practice connected to climate inaction: institutional relations, profiles of key pressure groups, network coalitions, the political economy of lobbies and think tanks, etc. 
• Anthropocentrism and speciesism in climate inaction connected to interest groups: animal agriculture lobbies, dietary guidelines and lobbies, think tanks related to the industry, etc. 

*CFP* CALL FOR ARTICLES, VOL. 14, Nº 1, JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA RESEARCH

The Journal of Communication and Media Research is a research-based and peer-reviewed journal published twice-yearly in the months of April and October by the Association of Media and Communication Researchers of Nigeria (CAC/IT/NO 111018). The journal is addressed to the African and international academic community and it accepts articles from all scholars, irrespective of country or institution of affiliation.

The focus of the Journal of Communication and Media Research is research, with a bias for quantitative and qualitative studies that use any or a combination of the acceptable methods of research. These include Surveys, Content Analysis, and Experiments for quantitative studies; and Observation, Interviews/Focus Groups, and Documentary Analysis for qualitative studies. The journal seeks to contribute to the body of knowledge in the field of communication and media studies and welcomes articles in all areas of communication and the media including, but not limited to, mass communication, mass media channels, traditional communication, organizational communication, interpersonal communication, development communication, public relations, advertising, information communication technologies, the Internet and computer-mediated communication.

*CFP* “DIPLOMACIA PÚBLICA: NARRATIVAS ESTRATÉGICAS PARA UN MUNDO EN CAMBIO", NÚMERO ESPECIAL, COMMUNICATION & SOCIETY JOURNAL

El estudio de la diplomacia pública es resultado de la inexorable vinculación que existe entre las relaciones internacionales y la comunicación global. Estados Unidos, Rusia, China, Turquía, Brasil o la propia Unión Europea compiten por posicionarse en el orden mundial, la proyección de valores y la legitimidad de la acción exterior. Tras una edad dorada de la diplomacia pública (1990-2010), la propaganda, la injerencia en los procesos electorales y la desinstitucionalización de la práctica diplomática han afectado el modo de conducir la acción exterior. La sobreexposición presidencial, los tuits (en nuestra opinión, el tuit es la unidad de medida, pero podemos escribir “las redes sociales”, que es más amplio) y el lenguaje de las emociones son argumentos de peso en la construcción de la agenda de relaciones internacionales por encima de los acuerdos multilaterales. La comunicación de los gobiernos, el saber diplomático, la reconstrucción del proyecto político europeo, los valores del liderazgo chino o el legado del trumpismo han modificado el manejo de la diplomacia. De origen norteamericano y con eco europeo, la diplomacia pública hoy aparece entre las prioridades de gobiernos, ciudades, instituciones internacionales y actores privados, que aspiran a vertebrar la comunicación, la representación ciudadana y el reconocimiento internacional. Por este motivo, es pertinente revisar los avances en la disciplina de modo que se construya un mejor corpus teórico acorde con la realidad de la globalización post-covid. El cambio climático, las migraciones, la salud pública global, la perspectiva de género o la gestión de la memoria constituyen nuevas fuentes de valor para la comunicación internacional de los países y los actores globales.

*CFP* "NAVIGATING DIGITAL COMMUNICATION AND CHALLENGES FOR ORGANIZATIONS", BOOK CHAPTER

The dialogue between organizational communication and digital communication is a common practice in contemporary organizations. This cross working allows the development of new narratives inside and outside organizations, causing communication professionals to face a moment of change in communication management, regarding form, content and production. Digital communication is not developing a virtual world, but a real virtuality integrated with other forms of interaction in an increasingly "hybridized" everyday life. In fact, the relationship between organizations and its publics evolved into more symmetrical models - allowed by digital media -, being imperative the recognition of the inevitable involvement of citizens in organizational communication processes that give rise to new business and institutional choices. On the other hand, the relationship that audiences establish with organizational information in digital environments may also interfere with the way in which each individual experiences daily life. Thus, the impacts are conjoint and paradoxical. It is well known that public involvement has the power to promote an active circulation of media content and that this can generate economic and cultural value for organizations. The current perspectives on interactions between audiences, organizations and content production suggest a relational logic between audiences and media, through new productivity proposals. In this sense it is interesting to observe the reasoning of audience experience through the concepts of interactivity and participation. However, it can be observed a gap between the intentions of communication professionals and their organizations and the effective circulation and content retention among the audiences of interest, as well as the distinction between informing and communicating. Thus, the goal of this book Navigating Digital Communication and Challenges for Organizations is to provide an in-depth review of research related to the concepts and theories around topics such as Publics and Productivity, Interactivity and Participation in organizational communication settings, including, but not limited to conceptualizations, theoretical foundations, conceptual analysis, empirical studies, cases, applications, and interventions. We aim to contribute to an improvement in our understanding of Digital Communication in Organizations, and to present resources to better navigate this difficult times of organizational communication management.

*CFP* "DEBATING ADVERTISING: ETHICS, EFFECTIVENESS, & CREATIVITY", BOOK CHAPTER

This book seeks to showcase current academic debates and multiple disciplinary perspectives on adversiting. The contributions in this book will help create a comprehensive overview of academic discourse on contemporary advertiting. Perspectives on the ethics of advertising, the challenges to measuring advertising’s impact, and the importance of professional creativity are particularly encouraged. 

Proposed chapters might address whether advertising is purely manipulative, whether it encourages over consumption, whether it creates monopolies, or whether it serves primarily to make the rich even richer. Chapters might also argue that advertising encourages and rewards creativity, enriches people’s connections to their possessions and experiences, fills needs rather than creating them, provides society with good models for emulation, or offers genuinely aesthetic experiences. These are just some possibilities—we are seeking a range of opinions, approaches, and perspectives.

The book proposal will be submitted to the Palgrave Macmillan series “Palgrave Debates in Business and Management,” (series editor Anders Örtenblad) which looks for edited collections “taking stock of controversial and complicated topics within business and management” in refreshing and creative ways.

*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* "LOBBYING FOR (IN)ACTION: CLIMATE EMERGENCE, INTEREST GROUPS AND DENIAL", THINKCLIMA VIRTUAL CONFERENCE

THINKClima Virtual Conference

"Lobbying for (in)action: Climate Emergence, Interest Groups and Denial"

26th & 27th of May, 2021

Organized by Pompeu Fabra University, Spain

 

Despite the climate crisis emergency, humans are still not acting with the urgency events demand. Climate inaction – i.e., the absence of effective reaction to mitigate or stop contributing to global warming – is a recurrent, historical and very present reality. We are nowhere near fulfilling the Paris agreement. By some measures, Paris could be judged as a failure: emissions actually rose in 2019 compared to when the agreement was signed in 2015. And although the worldwide pandemic in 2020 produced a relevant fall in carbon output due to coronavirus lockdowns, the data also revealed an uncomfortable truth: even when transport and commerce are dramatically reduced, the majority of emissions remain intact. Far greater systemic change is needed.

*CFP* "CRISIS COMMUNICATION IN THE DIGITAL AGE", 8TH INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION DAYS

8th International Communication Days

Crisis Communication in the Digital Age

26-27-28 May 2021 via zoom

 

International Communication Days is organized by Üsküdar University Faculty of Communication annually with a different theme each year. The main title of this year’s international symposium is “Crisis Communication in the Digital Age”. The symposium will be held on 26-27-28 May 2021 via zoom / webinar with the participation of renowned keynote speakers at the national and at the international level. Simultaneous Turkish-English interpretation will be provided during the keynote speeches.

Our world has been struggling with an unprecedented global pandemic for the past year. The rapid spread of the pandemic all over the world suddenly confronted all humanity with a serious crisis situation in all dimensions of life. While the importance of communication is deeply felt in the management of the crisis that brought life to a standstill, we are also witnessing how digital communication technologies are effectively included in the process. 

*CFP* "NARRATIVES IN DISPUTE: EPISTEMOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO CONFLICT, PEACE AND SECURITY", SPECIAL ISSUE, TRIPODOS JOURNAL

The monographic is looking for contributions that offer epistemological approaches to the fields of conflict, peace, and security studies. The understanding of these phenomena is always mediated by who tells the story and the language used for it. As a result, in every context there is always a plurality of narratives that are produced by top-down analysis and bottom-up experiences. How these narratives interact, clash, accommodate and influence each other is of utmost importance to make sense of how international interventions and the deployment of security and peace policies are received or confronted at the local level, and in turn, how bottom-up narratives could be integrated and get a central position. 

This call looks for critical articles –feminist, post-colonial, and/or critical and poststructuralist analysis– that focus on the process of narration and the actors involved in defining the script, as well as on intercultural translations by looking into possibilities of coexistence and tolerance.

 

Introduction

*CFP* "GENDER AND MEDIA", SPECIAL ISSUE, TRIPODOS JOURNAL

The celebration of Tripodos’ 50th edition will take place within a greatly complex and uncertain international climate. This context is the main reason that warrants the journal’s relevance and invites optimism regarding its future. The 50th edition will cover the crucial issue of gender. In particular, the intersection of gender with communication and technology.

Papers should be sent by March 15, 2021. In order to submit original papers, authors must be registered with the journal as authors. Following this step, authors must enter their user name and password, activated in the process of registering, and begin the submission process. In step 1, they must select the section “Monograph”.

Rules and instructions regarding the submission of originals can be downloaded at Tripodos. For any queries, please contact the editorial team of the journal at tripodos@blanquerna.url.edu.

*CFP* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL CONFERENCE ON RECENT SOCIAL STUDIES AND HUMANITIES

International Conference on Recent Social Studies and Humanities

31 March, 2021 | Perth, Australia

(Virtual or Pre-recorded Video Presentation)

 

International Conference on Recent Social Studies and Humanities which will be held in Perth, Australia on March 31, 2021. The primary goal of the conference is to provide opportunities for the researchers, scientists, scholars, engineers and practitioners from all around the world to present and share ongoing research activities. This conference provides opportunities for the delegates to exchange new ideas and application experiences face to face, to establish research relations and to find global partners for future collaboration. We hope that the conference results constituted significant contribution to the knowledge in these up to date Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences fields.

*CFP* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL CONFERENCE ON LINGUISTICS, LITERATURE, ARTS, SOCIAL SCIENCE & HUMANITIES

International Conference on Linguistics, Literature, Arts, Social Science & Humanities

March 20, 2021, | Jakarta, Indonesia

(Virtual/Online Conference)

 

The world is witnessing an unprecedented advancement and innovative approaches in various fields of science that shaped our life. The goal of the conference is to bring together researchers from all parts of the world. It provides researchers ample opportunities for exposure to diverse experience in different fields; to exchange new ideas and experiences face to face; to link to global counterparts; to meet their peers; to enhance their potential and widen horizons and scope for future research.

ICLLASH2021 Conference brings together researchers, academicians as well as industrial professionals from all over the world.

*CFP* "WOMEN AND LEADERSHIP IN THE PUBLIC RELATIONS INDUSTRY: AN INTERNATIC PERSPECTIVE", CHAPTER BOOK

As part of the EUPRERA project on Women in Public Relations,, I have so far edited and released four reports and one journal article based on original empirical research we have conducted as a team, and more publications and reports are pending (for current publications, see below).

I am now editing a book on women and leadership in public relations, with EUPRERA project partners submitting chapters based on research they’ve done for the project. I have obtained a contract with Routledge and the book will be published in ‘New Directions in Public Relations and Communications Research book series. 

 

However, I am looking for more contributions, most notably from the United States, United Kingdom and the countries not represented in the project (confirmed submissions so far include Croatia, Georgia, Spain and Portugal) from Europe or elsewhere in the world.

*CFP* "MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION", FALL 2021 SPECIAL EDITION, THE JOURNAL OF ROMANIAN STUDIES

The Journal of Romanian Studies, a refereed, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary publication of the Society for Romanian Studies (in collaboration with ibidem Press) is calling on academics from throughout the world to submit scholarly articles for its Fall 2021 special edition: Media and Communication

Submission can focus on any topic that touches on Romanian and/or Moldovan

• (traditional and/or digital) media, journalism, audiences, functions, roles and effects  
• press freedom 
• domestic or international disinformation, misinformation and propaganda 
• specialized media (sports, arts, entertainment, science, military, et al.) 
• (traditional and/or digital) media economics 
• (traditional and/or digital) media ethics 
• (traditional and/or digital) media and society 
• (traditional and/or digital) media and politics 
• (traditional and/or digital) media and international relations 
• public relations 
• advertising 
• comparative studies on any of the above themes

*CFP* "FUTURE OF PR & COMMUNICATION", VOL. 14, Nº 1(27) 2021, ESSACHESS: JOURNAL FOR COMMUNICATION STUDIES

The Covid-19 pandemic has been dubbed the “golden hour for communicators”. As demand for communication services increases, questions about the role, function, ethics and loyalties of the profession become apparent.

The misinformation challenges surrounding Covid-19[1] have become an infodemic alongside the health aspects of the pandemic[2], and communicators including Public Relations practitioners are called upon to address and mitigate the problem. In a political climate of increased partisanship and polarization, this will bring to the fore issues of social responsibility for organizations and communicators.  

If Public Relations and Communications practitioners are to be trusted advisors how can they ensure their organizational independence and move away from a “service/servant” approach? Moreover, how can communicators understand and facilitate negotiation and conversation with diverse, international, multicultural stakeholder groups when their teams are non-diverse? On the same note, how can communicators facilitate discussion at societal level on issues that are divisive and divided? What are the implications, ethical and otherwise, of the values-based approach to effective communications?

*CFP* CALL FOR ARTICLES, VOL. 3, Nº 1, THE COMMUNICATION & METHODS JOURNAL

The Journal Communication & Methods is accepting submissions for its Vol. 3 num1, February 2021, about research methodologies in communication studies.

The Journal Communication & Methods requests articles and reviews on the methodologies used in the study of communication: advertising, journalism, public relations, corporate or institutional image, intangibles, cinematography, photography, radio, television, internet, graphic, industrial or corporate design, etc.

The journal is open to analysis on both quantitative and qualitative methodologies, comparative method, content analysis, semiotic, psychoanalytic, experimental, textual, cultural studies, ethnographic, historical method, iconological, anthropological, etc. Likewise, analyses focused on conventional research tools in the field of social sciences (in-depth interview, discussion groups, participant observation, SWOT analysis, semantic differential, etc.) as well as those linked to digital media (big data, data mining, etc.) will be admitted. Methodological and technical innovations will be especially valued, as well as novel objects of study either for their novelty or their uniqueness.

 

*CFP* CALL FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLES, FONAMENTS SECTION, TRÍPODOS JOURNAL

Trípodos accepts original articles of any topic for Fonaments section. The journal publishes two issues per year: June and December.

Trípodos also accepts proposals for monographs. The proposal must include a title, a summary of the objectives and topical content, the name of the coordinator’s (or coordinators’) institution, as well as a justification of the interest of the proposed monograph and of possible groups interested in participating. As a general rule, the monographs must contain a minimum of five articles and a maximum of seven.

The Editing Board of Trípodos will evaluate the proposals for monographic publications.

Proposals for monographs must be sent to the following e-mail address: tripodos@blanquerna.url.edu.

*CFP* "FUTURE OF COMMUNICATIONS AND PUBLIC RELATIONS(PR): (RE)IMAGINING THE ROLE, FUNCTION AND PURPOSE OF THE COMMUNICATION PROFESSION", VOLUME 14, ESSACHESS: JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION STUDIES

The Covid-19 pandemic has been dubbed the “golden hour for communicators”. As demand for communication services increases, questions about the role, function, ethics and loyalties of the profession become apparent.

The misinformation challenges surrounding Covid-19, and communicators including Public Relations practitioners are called upon to address and mitigate the problem. In a political climate of increased partisanship and polarization, this will bring to the fore issues of social responsibility for organizations and communicators.

If Public Relations and Communications practitioners are to be trusted advisors how can they ensure their organizational independence and move away from a “service/servant” approach? Moreover, how can communicatorsunderstand and facilitate negotiation and conversation with diverse, international, multicultural stakeholder groups when their teams are non-diverse? On the same note, how can communicators facilitate discussion at societal level on issues that are divisive and divided? What are the implications, ethical and otherwise, of the values-based approach to effective communications?

*CFP* "PUBLIC DIPLOMACY", SPECIAL ISSUE, ILLETI-S-IM: GALATASARAY UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION

Public diplomacy, which is the intersection field of international relations and communication disciplines, is an important concept that has been included in the political communication literature of the 21st century. The basis of public diplomacy, which is defined as the strategic communication management of a state for foreign peoples, is based on Joseph Nye's “soft power” concept mainly. Historically, cultural diplomacy activities started with the establishment of Alliance Française in 1883, and many communication activities carried out in the First and Second World Wars had the characteristics of public diplomacy activities, although not called as public diplomacy. The transformation of the propagandist communication form of the Cold War era with the new communication technologies of the 90s also has changed the concept of public diplomacy.

The one-way communication form of traditional public diplomacy has become a research-based, planned, and proactive communication method according to the results of the research in today's new public diplomacy. The actors and application areas of New public diplomacy, in which targeted messages are delivered to specific audiences, have diversified. “New public diplomacy is about building relationships with civil societies of other countries and facilitating networks with non-governmental parties inside and outside” (Melissen, 2007: 22). Civil society is one of the most important actors of this new public diplomacy and is an efficient tool for transmitting soft power.

*CFP* "PR, SOCIETY AND THE GENERATIVE POWER OF HISTORY", SPECIAL ISSUE, PUBLIC RELATIONS REVIEW

The starting point for the special section is the original meaning of history, which has its roots in the Greek word ἱστορία, translated by the Romans as historia meaning ‘an inquiry’ or ‘knowledge acquired by investigation’. We use this as a springboard for engaging with interdisciplinary, critical and complex issues in the present and future, that public relations scholarship needs to address. In this sense, history has a place in contemporary experience and historical excursions are necessary whenever the present is being investigated. As James Baldwin notes:

‘[T]he great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do. It could scarcely be otherwise, since it is to history that we owe our frames of reference, our identities, and our aspirations’ 

(James Baldwin, The Price of the Ticket, 1965).

The papers in the special section of Public Relations Review will open up questions of how histories are put to use by people in different ways in order to explore how the past is constructed from the present; how the present is always historical, and how both past and present power imagined futures.