September 30-October 1, 2021

Online conference (Zoom)

Deadline: June 30, 2021

Conference by the Methods Division of the German Communication Association (DGPuK)

Description

The pandemic has generated enormous research endeavors from all scientific disciplines including the social sciences. In the field of communication, researchers studied, for instance, the diverse effects of the crisis with respect to social media and smartphone use (e.g., Huckins et al., 2020; Ellis et al., 2020), online misinformation (e.g., van der Linden et al., 2020), media exposure and psychological effects of the pandemic (e.g., Garfin et al., 2020), or communication strategies and health behaviors (e.g., Muselli et al., 2021). Besides influencing the topics of communication research, the pandemic has also led to significant changes in how we do research, as for instance, regarding our research settings as well as methods (Gruber et al., 2021), our research environments, our standards and procedures, or the interaction between researchers. Against this background, the overall question of this call is “How does COVID-19 affect communication research?”. The online conference aims to address this question in all its possible facets and dimensions. More specifically, the call for papers is open to diverse perspectives regarding how the pandemic has affected research designs, settings, instruments, standards, logics, or productivity. This involves, but is not limited to, the development of new data collection procedures, measures, or analysis techniques as well as the various ways in which research has been conducted during the pandemic covering issues such as gender diversity, research ethics, participant health, research productivity, quality and rigor, lab designs, or issues related to replicability, open science, and meta-science. We also welcome submissions focusing on methodological questions relating to research on communication and COVID-19. The call is open to all epistemological perspectives. In addition to the conference topic, there is also an “Open Call”. Detailed Call: https://methods-conference.univie.ac.at/

Guidelines

Extended Abstracts in English (max. 1.200 words including references and tables) should be submitted as an anonymized pdf-file including the topic designation (“Thematic Call” or “Open Call”). The submission site will open on June 1, 2021 at https://methods-conference.univie.ac.at/. Submissions will be administered with ConfTool.

Contact

Alice Binder (alice.binder@univie.ac.at) and Jörg Matthes (joerg.matthes@univie.ac.at), for the organizing Department

Marko Bachl (marko.bachl@uni-hohenheim.de) and Emese Domahidi (emese.domahidi@tu-ilmenau.de), for the Methods Division of the German Communication Association