*CFP* I EDICIÓN DEL PREMIO DE ENSAYO HISPÁNICO KLAUS D. VERVUERT

La Editorial Iberoamericana Vervuert convoca la primera edición del Premio de Ensayo Hispánico Klaus D. Vervuert, con el objeto de impulsar la reflexión de calidad en el ámbito del hispanismo. Con carácter bianual, el premio consiste en la publicación del ensayo ganador dentro de una de las colecciones de la Editorial Iberoamericana Vervuert. 

La obra presentada deberá tener un perfil humanista y reflexionar sobre alguno de los aspectos o cuestiones centrales del hispanismo y el latinoamericanismo dentro de la diversidad de disciplinas comprometidas en ello: arte y humanidades, estudios culturales, historia, lingüística, literatura, teoría e historia de la crítica, teoría e historia de la lengua, politología, sociología, etc. Además, los trabajos presentados se acompañáran de un índice, un resumen de un folio, un aparato de notas y una bibliografía de fuentes primarias y/o secundarias, como corresponde a cualquier publicación de rango académico.

*CFP* INFRASTRUCTURES AND INEQUALITIES: MEDIA INDUSTRIES, DIGITAL CULTURES AND POLITICS, ECREA, UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI

Infrastructures and Inequalities: Media industries, digital cultures and politics

ECREA Mid-Year Section Conference

21-22 October 2019

University of Helsinki, Finland

Confirmed keynote speakers:

Lisa Parks, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Kaarina Nikunen, University of Tampere

In a turn to ‘infrastructuralism’ (Peters 2015), media and communication scholars are increasingly attentive to the materialities and politics of the technological, organisational and cultural infrastructures that underpin media today. Platforms, data centres, software, but also new forms of organising cultural production and labour, shape the politics of digital cultures and transform the media industries. Digital and media infrastructures have become elemental to everyday life. They are significant in reproducing existing social and cultural inequalities, as well as creating new power struggles. As digital/media infrastructures unfold in everyday life, they bring challenges across multiple domains, from the foundations of social justice to the industrial structures underpinning our everyday interactions with media and communication systems. This conference aims to address the politics and inequalities that emerge, as technological and media industries adopt, dismantle and transform infrastructures to channel and process communication flows. Media infrastructures (broadly) operate under different and uneven conditions that configure media labour, media production, and the politics of communication and access (Starosielski and Parks 2015). This conference seeks to examine digital/media infrastructures and inequalities from an inter- and multi-disciplinary perspective, inviting papers to interrogate the significance of the ‘infrastructural turn’ in media and communication studies to our understanding of media industries, democracy and digital cultures.

*CFP* "NEW MEDIA FORMATS: TELEVISION", 14TH DUBROVNIK MEDIA DAYS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

14th Dubrovnik Media Days is international scientific conference organised by Department of Mass Communication, University of Dubrovnik (Croatia), in association with Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. It will be held in beautiful city of Dubrovnik, October 25-26, 2019. This year’s topic is New media formats: Television.

The digital age has brought a new interactive practice of media consumption. The media matrix is changing in such a way that not only the boundaries between the media are deleted, but also those between producers, distributors and consumers. The industry adapts to the new technological opportunities and needs of the audience. The proliferation of television channels and the transformation of television from mass media into the niche media are in progress. The process of proliferation not only enhances the struggle for the user, but also inevitably jeopardizes one of the basic prerequisites of the prominent influence of public service on the national community - the mass reach of a particular television channel in the national context.

*CFP* "MEDIA LITERACY FOR LIVING TOGETHER: THE FUTURE OF MEDIA AND LEARNING IN PARTICIPATION", MILT CONFERENCE

Join us in Lisbon, Portugal, on June 26-28, 2019 for the MILT conference - Media Literacy for Living Together: the future of media and learning in participation. This conference includes a Creative Game Jam (27-28 of June) co-organized with the Videogames bachelor degree at Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias.

MILT conference is the culminating event for MILT-Media Literacy for Living Together, a 12 month european pilot project, funded in 2018 by the Media Literacy for All programme of European Commission. MILT project emphasizes the key role of improving media literacy, especially among young people. A key rationale of this project is to enable participants to become agents of social change through their use of media and broader social engagement, incorporating the inclusion of minorities, marginalized groups and online interest communities as part of the general public.

*CFP* "ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA AND PUNCTUATION", SPECIAL ISSUE, THE NEUTRAL JOURNAL

The Neutral is excited to announce the call for papers for issue #2 on the theme of Period. We hope you will distribute this call to graduate students and interested faculty. Please see text below or attached PDF (French translation included). The Neutral is a new, peer-reviewed media studies journal based out of the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. The Neutral is committed to a diversity of disciplinary approaches and media objects of study. It is published online at:

A period is a temporal marker: it designates both the span of a duration and the instant of an end. In physics, a period is the recurrent temporal loop of a wave’s frequency; in history, it represents events artificially bounded by dates for narrative purposes; in gynecology, it is the colloquial expression of menstruation; in grammar, it terminates the sentence. For geologists, a period stretches to the length of a hundred million years and is subdivided into epochs. Hypothetical geologists, working a hundred million years from now, will be able to identify our epoch, now labelled the Anthropocene, thanks to traces left by climate change, extinctions, and radioactive isotopes in the paper-thin sedimentary layer that will represent our era. That the Anthropocene projects geologists into the future, far past the end of the world it simultaneously predicts, demonstrates some of the paradoxical logic bound up in its anthropocentric periodization.

*CFP* "THE DOCUMENTARY MOMENT", SPECIAL ISSUE, SOUTHERN CULTURES JOURNAL

Southern Cultures, the award-winning, peer-reviewed quarterly from UNC’s Center for the Study of the American South, encourages submissions from scholars, writers, documentarians, and visual and sound artists for our second special Documentary Issue, to be published Spring 2020. We are looking for work that examines and understands the “documentary moment,” using the idea of “moment” to refer to both the decisive instant of documentary image making and the sense of urgency we often feel to document a very present experience of political and social friction in the American South. Important stories need to be documented and shared, and yet it is equally important that we explore new ways of telling these stories, if only to break the cycle of documentary work that can be curiously neutralized by its own conventions.   

The Documentary Moment will explore fresh approaches to documentary storytelling that are informed by experimental practices and new ways of interpreting/telling the social and cultural landscape. It will not only speak to the urgency of the present social and political moment, but will also interrogate assumptions about experimental art, documentary storytelling, community engagement, and archive. To that end, we are less interested in revisiting past debates and stereotypes than we are in the interaction of peoples and cultures within the broader forces of political, social, historical, and economic change at work in the South.

*CFP* "INTIMACY AND VISUAL COMMUNICATION ON SOCIAL MEDIA", SPECIAL ISSUE MEDIEKULTUR

Sharing (intimate) photos has become an integral part of close relationships in the age of social media. Particularly young people use social media as a way to establish and maintain strong social ties rather than a way of connecting to public life. This use pattern includes the sharing of photos and videos with intimate and sexual content such as nudes, intimate situations and other types of self-disclosure. As most public and academic interests has been related to situations where the process has gone wrong and people have been hurt, they are often associated with risk, worries and, indeed, moral disdain. Yet these cases are part of a much broader social practice, which is for the most part unproblematic and mundane. 

The sharing of intimate photos can be seen as part of a more general act of (mutual) self-disclosure in order to establish trust, and it can be seen as an exploration of sexuality and social identities. In both cases the sharing of intimate photos becomes part of more general processes of intimacy and close relationships that we should be careful not to reject or problematize as a whole.