ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

June 27- July 1

Virtual Online Conference (Conference Platform: Webex)

Deadline: March 27, 2022

The 27th International Conference of the International Association for Intercultural Communication Studies

Conference Hosts: The University of Toledo; Department of World Languages and Cultures

When COVID-19 pandemic struck in early 2020, it interrupted almost every aspect of life around the globe. Intercultural communication, social interaction, education, international and local travel, healthcare systems, supply chains and economy were all affected and impacted at different levels. Global lockdowns, lack of social interaction and extended “shelter in place” orders caused sharp rise in conflicts, domestic violence, stress, anxiety, mental health breakdowns and even suicide. However, the same pandemic opened new opportunities and even forced many people to communicate beyond their comfort zones as some had to learn new ways of communicating and rely on virtual communication-technology. It even offered opportunities for new and emerging businesses. As we look beyond the pandemic, what lessons did we learn? How are we moving forward? How do we re-create communities and resolve conflicts in complicated religious, linguistic, educational, and cultural contexts? What linguistic choices are emerging? And how priorities, education, healthcare systems and even life are being reformatted? The theme of this conference seeks to address these issues, among many others, in the context of Intercultural and intra-cultural communication.

The International Association for Intercultural Communication Studies (IAICS) invites scholars, educators, administrators, graduate and undergraduate students from all disciplines of cultural sciences, and related fields, to submit proposals to this conference. All submissions will be considered. All authors of accepted proposals will have the choice to submit their papers to a special issue of IAICS journal.

Conference registration: registration will be waived for all participants and attendees that have IAICS membership (The new introductory rate is $30) Click below to sign up:

https://utep.questionpro.com/a/TakeSurvey?tt=qg0IsHqxx7I%3D

About IAICS

The International Association for Intercultural Communication Studies consists of scholars from a range of the cultural sciences who are dedicated to doing research on communication across cultures. Its membership is made up of participants from over 32 countries. These participants meet annually at different locations around the world to discuss common research interests. The results of their investigations are published in the journal of the organization, Intercultural Communication Studies (ICS).

Conference Goals

• To provide scholars, educators and practitioners from different cultural communities with opportunities to interact, network and benefit from each other’s research and expertise related to intercultural communication issues
• To synthesize research perspectives and foster interdisciplinary scholarly dialogues for developing integrated approaches to complex problems of communication across cultures
• To advance the methodology for intercultural communication research and disseminate practical findings to facilitate understanding across cultures
• To foster global intercultural sensitivity and involve educators, business professionals, students and other stakeholders worldwide in discourses about diversity and transcultural communication issues.

Conference Topics

Conference topic areas are broadly defined as, but not limited to, the following:

• Communication during and post pandemics
• Intercultural communication in the healthcare systems
• Cosmopolitanism in culture
• Intercultural communication and cosmopolitanism
• Shifts in Linguistics
• Time and space in culture / literature
• Language and culture
• Intercultural communication and nationality
• Language and identity
• Comparative culture
• Cultural identity
• Interculturality in literature
• Cultural hybridity
• Diversity studies
• Intercultural communication and interculturality
• Language Teaching and Intercultural Communication
• Mediated intercultural communication
• Virtual intercultural communication
• Multi cultures and interculturality
• Intercultural communication competence
• Culture and travel
• Intercultural education
• Cross cultural encounters
• Indigenous cultures
• Comparative poetics
• Public policy
• Comparative literature
• Transnational enterprises and intercultural communication
• Social media and culture
• Cultural study theories
• Literature and religion
• Culture and diplomacy
• Literature and film
• Language planning and policy
• Translation studies
• Intercultural pragmatics
• Communication, stress and anxiety
• Communication and therapy
• Computer assisted learning and teaching

Guidelines for Submissions

• Abstract, 100-150 words in English, Please include positions, affiliations, email addresses for all authors. Please use Times New Roman 12 point font size, single spaced.
• Panel proposals reflecting the conference theme or topic areas may be submitted. Panel proposals should include title of panel, a 100-150 word abstract of each panelist’s paper (as above). Panel proposals must include positions, affiliations, email addresses for all authors. Please use Times New Roman 12 point font size, single spaced.

Contact: Please submit abstracts, panel proposals, to the following web address:

https://utep.questionpro.com/a/TakeSurvey?tt=prQmzAFMKi0%3D

Conference email: IAICS@utoledo.edu

Conference Webpage: https://www.utoledo.edu/al/world-languages-and-cultures/iaics-conference/

Conference Registration & IAICS Membership Application : https://utep.questionpro.com/a/TakeSurvey?tt=qg0IsHqxx7I%3D

Deadline: Please submit abstracts and panel proposals by March 27, 2022

Proposals acceptance: Scholars will be informed of acceptance decisions before or by May 1, 2022.

Conference program will be emailed and available online by or before May 30, 2022

Conference Working Language: Abstracts should be submitted using English. Oral presentations could be in the author’s language of choice.

For questions related to the conference contact conference chair: IAICS@utoledo.edu

For questions concerning payment of IAICS dues contact Kenneth Yang.

For general questions related to IAICS contact Keith Lloyd or Joanna Radwanska Williams

COMMUNICATIONS – The European Journal of Communication Research (special Issue)

Deadline: March 31, 2022

https://euromediapp.org

Guest editors: Josef Trappel, Tales Tomaz (University of Salzburg)

Since October 2020, the Erasmus+ Jean Monnet network “European Media and Platform Policy” (EuromediApp) addresses the ongoing fundamental transition from the post-World War II media order to a truly global communication network and platform order. Digital communication promises to bring enormous benefits to citizens and businesses and to improve the wellbeing of citizens. However, its set-up is no longer dominated by national or European players, but by global oligopolies, mostly originating in the United States. These digital platforms increasingly determine European communication at all levels, from political communication to economic, cultural, sports and everyday-life communication. This special issue therefore asks: What is the European answer?

We invite contributions to this special issue in four distinct, but interrelated topics:

1. Regulatory context: Internet governance in general and platform governance in particular can be discussed from a global, European and national perspectives. In this topic of the special issue, contributions are welcome that deal with private-commercial governance rules, as well as national and European regulatory patterns. For example, the design and effectiveness of the German Network Enforcement Act (2017), the modernisation and strengthening of antitrust abuse control, European and national competition rules in the area of digital platforms, such as the proposed Digital Markets Act (DMA), as well as the European Commission's draft Digital Services Act (DSA) are all up for discussion. Contributors can discuss the chances of success of efforts to create a safer digital space in Europe where, on the one hand, users' fundamental rights are protected and, on the other hand, a level playing field for information and communication-based platform companies is established. Keywords are: European and national regulation; platform regulation, platform governance, digital intermediaries, self-regulation, co-regulation, external regulation, government regulation, state regulation, multi-level governance, good platform governance.

2. Economic policy context: Digital platforms were initially conceived by their developers as forums for exchange between individuals, independent of the mass media. With their wide dissemination, a competitive relationship has quickly developed. Due to the economic two-sidedness, digital platforms today compete with mass media in terms of both usage time and advertising sales. In the past decade, digital platforms succeeded in gaining competitive advantages in both areas. Especially younger cohorts spend more time using digital platforms than mass media, and personalized advertising provides digital platforms additional advantages. As a result, mass media advertising revenues have eroded, affecting the financial viability of journalism. The Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated and accelerated this trend. Contributions are welcome addressing fair competition, regulatory responses to oligopolistic or monopolistic concentration of power and its abuse. Keywords are: competition, concentration of power, platform power and abuse, bequest, manipulation, propaganda; antitrust policy, protecting fundamental rights protection, privacy.

3. Corporate policy context: Mass media and digital platforms create public spheres and shape public discourse by producing or moderating content. While mass media are responsible for the top end of the relevant value chain, thus the generation of content, digital platforms delegate this step to their users in order to intervene in a moderating capacity only later - often only when necessary. In both cases, the operators socially responsible as well as accountable. Contributions should discuss the diversity of procedures in the production and dissemination of content, as well as justified variations of regulatory regimes. Who bears responsibility for algorithm-driven or algorithm-generated content? What requirements, if any, should be placed on self-regulation within the industry and on individual platform companies? Keywords are: accountability, transparency obligation, responsibility, algorithms, accountability, infrastructures

4. Journalistic and editorial context: The platformisation of democracy, the public sphere and journalism has fuelled the debate on the power of commercial technology corporations and digital platform operators such as Facebook, Google, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat. Contributions are welcome on issues of governance and regulation regarding the power and influence of private media and platform corporations on public and political democratic discourses. Keywords are hate speech, all kinds of legal or illegal mis- and disinformation, structural and situational violation of privacy, restrictions on access to content (gatekeeping), lack of labelling of advertising and propaganda, etc.

Contributions should not exceed 8000 words (including references, tables, footnotes, excluding appendices and supplementary material) for articles and 4000 words for Research in Brief or a Debate. The language style should be American English, quotation style (APA) should be applied. Interested scholars are invited to submit two-page abstracts by the end of March 2022. Selected abstracts are invited to submit full papers. COMMUNICATIONS is a double-blind peer reviewed journal and contributions are accepted only after this process.

Timing:

• Abstracts (2 pages including five key words): 31 March 2022
• Invitation to submit full paper: 25 April 2022
• Full paper submission: 30 September 2022
• End of review process: 31 March 2023
• Final version of articles: 30 April 2023
• Publication of the special issue: September 2023

Submission address: tales.tomaz@plus.ac.at

Please note that your text should be anonymized. Author name(s), institutional affiliation(s) and contact information should be sent on a separate file or on the body of the e-mail.

Editors: Jorge Vázquez-HerreroAlba Silva-RodríguezMaría-Cruz Negreira-ReyCarlos Toural-BranXosé López-García

This book aims to explore the diverse landscape of journalism in the third decade of the twenty-first century, constantly changing and still dealing with the consequences of a global pandemic. ‘Total journalism’ is the concept that refers to the renewed and current journalism that employs all available techniques, technologies, and platforms.

Authors discuss the innovative nature of journalism, the influence of big data and information disorders, models, professionals and audiences, as well as the challenges of artificial intelligence. The book gives an up-to-date overview of these perspectives on journalistic production and distribution. The effects of misinformation and the challenge of artificial intelligence are of specific relevance in this book.

Readers can enjoy with contributions from 50 prestigious experts and researchers who make this book an interesting resource for media professionals and researchers in media and communication studies.

Link: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-88028-6

June 20-22, 2022

Loughborough University, UK

Deadline: February 27, 2022

10th International Digital Storytelling Conference

Call For Papers and Presentation Proposals

We invite you to join us at Loughborough University, UK, in the coming Summer for an amazing gathering of digital storytelling professionals, academics, museum educators, students, community partners, and activists.

Our conference is part of a multi-institutional, multinational, three-year process and programme, started last year with our successful 24hour online marathon – organised by Loughborough University (UK), StoryCenter (US) UMBC – University of Maryland Baltimore County (US), Smithsonian Office of Educational Technology (US), Montgomery College (US), Patient Voices (UK) – that includes a face-to-face event in Loughborough in June 2022 and a series of follow-on activities in the Washington, D.C. area and in Maryland, USA, in 2023.

Our conference will host various events (both in person and online) in its structure for inclusion of diverse perspectives and voices. In addition to academic papers, workshops, and roundtable discussions, we encourage practitioners from community settings, artists and students to contribute and express their creativity through various formats (short performances, artworks, video/audio submissions, etc.).

Within the umbrella theme of Story Work for a Just Future ,explored across our three-year programme of events, and in response to the current pandemic, for DST 2022 Rise Up! we are particularly interested in proposals with a focus on how our Story Work could help us and our communities Reconnect, Rebuild, Recreate.

To frame your ideas you could also consider (but not limited to) the following Re-words and use them as lenses through which look at context, content or practice:

• Revive
• Restore
• Recover
• Rewrite

All interested conference contributors are invited to share their work through six types of contributions, but we also welcome other formats.

Conference Formats:

• Academic paper (15 minutes)
• Workshop (45 minutes)
• Roundtable discussion (45 minutes)
• Short performance (to be defined on a one-to-one basis)
• Artwork (to be defined on a one-to-one basis)
• Video/Audio submission

Other: If you think you don't fit into one of these formats, please email us with your idea!

Submission guidelines & key dates:

250-word abstract to describe your proposal (please, specify which format)

Include a title, your name, email address, and affiliation if applicable

Submit your proposal via email to Saedstorytelling@lboro.ac.uk

• Deadline for abstract submission: 27th February 2022
• Notification of acceptance: 31st March 2022
• Early bird registration opens: 15th March 2022
• General Registration opens: 15th April 2022
• Registration closes: 30th May 2022

Conference presentations, videos, materials to be sent in advance by 5th June 2022. Special arrangements will be made on a one-to-one basis for other formats.

Early bird: £180 (£80 student and practitioner rate)

Regular registration: £220 (£100 student and practitioner rate; £60 day rate)

Digital participation: It is our intention to make digital participation possible. Please write to Sally Bellman for more information.

Included in the Registration fee are coffee and tea breaks, lunch, access to all conference sessions, social activity (true-life storytelling club) during the opening evening, publication of the abstract in online conference proceedings.

Additional and optional social activity will be booked separately by each participant.

For further submission requirements and information on accommodation, please write to the Storytelling Research Team at Loughborough University: Saedstorytelling@lboro.ac.uk

Conference Chairs: Antonia Liguori and Michael Wilson (Loughborough University, UK)

Conference Committee Members: Lyndsey Bakewell (DeMontfort University, UK), Jessica Berman (University of Maryland, Baltimore County UMBC, US), Bev Bickel (UMBC, US), Matthew Decker (Montgomery College, US), Patrick Desloge (Hong Kong University), Lindsay DiCuirci (UMBC, US), Sara Bachman Ducey (Montgomery College, US), Mark Dunford (University of Westminster/DigiTales, UK), Daniela Gachago (Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa), Jamie Gillan (Montgomery College, US), Pip Hardy (Patient Voices, UK), Grete Jamissen (OsloMet, Norway), Tricia Jenkins (DigiTales, UK), Charlotte Keniston (UMBC, US), Joe Lambert (StoryCenter, US), Michalis Meimaris (University of Athens, Greece), Daniel Onyango (HopeRaisers, Kenya), Ngozi Oparah (Loughborough University, UK / StoryCenter, US), Philippa Rappoport (Smithsonian Office of Educational Technology, US), Bill Shewbridge (UMBC, US), Burcu Simsek (Hacettepe University, Turkey), Tony Sumner (Patient Voices, UK), Pam Sykes (University of the Western Cape, South Africa), Chris Thomson (Jisc, UK).

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Story Work for a Just Future

Exploring Diverse Experiences and Methods within an International Community of Practice

Storytelling has been defined as 'the artform of social interaction' (Wilson, 1998), not only for its inner dynamics, but also for its power to unlock grass-roots knowledge, explore dilemmas, develop community resilience, engender change.

Stories can generate empathy and trust in the audience and at the same time demonstrate their usefulness because they have the power to give meaning to human behaviors and to trigger emotions (Bourbonnais and Michaud, 2018). 'This happens because stories are perceived as vectors of truth. They also challenge the meaning of truth itself and suggest a deeper reflection on how various perspectives embedded in personal narratives about contested themes and events can generate multiple truths' (Liguori, 2020).

Yet we acknowledge the existence of multiple truths when we recognise, as the Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie observes, 'the danger of a single story' (2009). As she describes, 'because our lives and our cultures are composed of a series of overlapping stories, if we hear only a single story about another person, culture, or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding'. In a time of worrying 'critical misunderstandings' worldwide, we want to explore with you the value of Applied Storytelling as a tool to co/re-develop 'A Just Future'.

Conference website: dst2022.org

The main contact for the DST Conference 2022 in Loughborough is Antonia Liguori.

October 10, 2022

Online conference

Deadline: June 10, 2022

Joint event of ECREA Central and Eastern European Network and IPSA RC 22 – Political Communication

Co-organisers:

• Department of Political Science, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, University of Szeged, Hungary
• Faculty of Political Science and Journalism, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland
• Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
• Institute of Journalism, Media and Social Communication, Faculty of Management and Social Communication, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland

In the post-socialist Central and Eastern European region the first democratic election campaigns took place more than 30 years ago. In parallel with this, political communication as a field of research emerged in the region’s scientific community. Since then, phenomena such as the changes in voters’ levels of volatility (Blumler 2016; Blumler and Kavanagh 1999; Swanson 2004), the shift of communication and in news consumption (Thomassen 2005), the appearance of ‘modern’ political marketing (Maarek 2011), and long-term relationship between political actors and electorate as a strategy (Wring 1996) shaped the directions of research in political communication. Although these symptoms are widely studied in Western democracies, the situation is different in the CEE region. However, the processes mentioned above have also conquered political campaigns in the region (Eibl and Gregor 2019). Seeing that their voters live their everyday lives on social media, political actors have ‘moved up’ to the leading platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and nowadays Instagram and TikTok. This process has to be reflected in research on political communication. The new platforms demand different communication techniques. The significance of personalized politics has increased too (Bennett 2012). The basics of political communication have not changed in response to new platforms. However, the density of communication means of interaction and a constant race for attention have resulted in a significant turnaround. Populist-illiberal parties, the decline in media freedom in the region, and – inevitably – the heightened public opposition to the governmental decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic, which is sometimes interspersed with fake news and conspiracy theories caused by the epidemic and vaccinations have further contributed to the changes in political communication.

KEY QUESTIONS

The event’s focal point is the conceptual and practical overview of political communication scholarship in Central and Eastern Europe. The organizers look forward to presentations in (but not limited to) the following areas of interest:

- patterns of political communication research in the region,

- features of the communication patterns,

- digital communication,

- personalisation of the content,

- challenges to political marketing in the region

- illiberal/anti-liberal tendencies in the user-generated content

- polarization of public discourses in the region

- future of political communication in the CEE region.

Abstracts (with maximum length of 350 words) will be evaluated by members of the Scientific

Committee. Please include the name, affiliation and email address of author(s).

Upload your abstract here: https://shorturl.at/ceFOX

Deadline: June 10, 2022

Organizing Committee:

• Norbert Merkovity (University of Szeged, Hungary)
• Magdalena Musiał-Karg (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland)
• Lenka Vochocová (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)
• Małgorzata Winiarska-Brodowska (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland)

May 4-6, 2022

University of Minho (Braga, Portugal)

Deadline (EXTENDED): February 22, 2022

As part of the research project Festivity - Festival, Cultural Heritage and Community Sustainability, we are organizing the International Congress Festivals, Cultures and Communities: Heritage and Sustainability, which will take place at the University of Minho (Braga, Portugal), on the 4th, 5th and 6h May, 2022. This scientific meeting aims to disseminate and discuss the research carried out on traditional festivities, namely their revitalization and re-signification associated with the transformation of festive cultures and the policies of patrimonialization of the festivities, among other topics.

https://www.festivity.pt/congresso/

7-8 April 2022

University of Seville, Spain

Deadline: 8 March 2022

VII GENDERCOM (Spanish/Italian/English)

Welcome to the GENDERCOM 2022 (Gender & Communication) congress that will be held on 7 and 8 April 2022 in hybrid mode (online and in person), at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Seville. Paper proposals (abstracts) in English, Spanish and Italian can be submitted until 8th March 2022. The selected papers will be published in the Scientific Journal and by prestigious Spanish publishing houses.

For more information and to see all eight thematic axes, visit the congress website https://gendercom.org/

To submit your paper proposal for the congress, visit https://gendercom.org/propuestas/

Cyprus University of Technology

The Department of Communication and Internet Studies (CIS), at the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT), in Limassol, Cyprus, is inviting applications for One (1) position at the rank of Assistant Professor or Lecturer in the specialization "Digital Humanities” (Deadline: May 3, 2022)

The languages of instruction at CUT are Greek and/or Turkish. However, knowledge of either language is not required at the time of the application. If a candidate is selected they will be required to achieve a good level of the Greek language within three years.

Citizenship of the Republic of Cyprus is not a requirement.

The Department of Communication and Internet Studies promotes teaching and research that examine the coupling of Society and the Internet. The Department is highly interdisciplinary; candidates who take an interdisciplinary and critical approach to their research, while maintaining rigorous standards of research are especially invited to apply.

The University, despite its young age, ranks among the top 301-350 universities worldwide and holds the 59th position among the top new universities in the world.

CUT is situated in Limassol, which is classified among the top 100 best cities in the world to live in. With its year-round Mediterranean climate, Limassol’s coastal living offers great quality of life (see this video for more information).

Information on the job vacancies and guidelines on how to apply can be found at:  https://www.cut.ac.cy/faculties/comm/cis/job-vacancies/?languageId=1.

You can direct any questions to chairperson.cis@cut.ac.cy

June 30-July 1, 2022

Bologna, Italy

Deadline: March 13, 2022

Annual conference of the Italian Association of Political Communication

All information about the conference are available here: https://www.compol.it/eventi/convegno/convegno-2022/

As early as the 1990s, leading figures in the discipline contended that political communication has entered a prolonged phase of crisis. Jay Blumler (1997) defined this crisis as the awareness that practices of political communication had to change radically in order to maintain the fundamental function of "communication for citizenship".

At the dawn of the new millennium, the increasing centrality of digital platforms in the "ecosystems of political communication" (Esser and Pfetsch 2020) gave further impetus to the perception of a mounting crisis hitting the field and discipline; and such crisis was understood in term of instability, heterogeneity, and "chaos" (McNair 2006). This idea can be found also in Andrew Chadwick's theory (2013) concerning "hybrid" reconfigurations of media systems. In fact, Chadwick, while highlighting some dysfunctionalities of the hybrid media system, rejected an exclusively negative understanding of the “permanent crisis” characterizing political communication.

The second half of the 2010s was instead characterized by a new phase of pessimism, which led researchers to search tools and frameworks to study political communication in "times of crisis" (Davis 2019). Indeed, these years saw a final collapse of trust in political and media elites, a new rise of nationalism and populism, mounting information overloads for citizens, and a multiplication in existing “regimes of truth” (Waisbord 2018).

Finally, the Covid-19 pandemic hit the world. The health crisis turned political, economic, and social, providing a new framework to the idea of crisis. The emergence of an unprecedented overlap between political and crisis communication produced a generalized shock that has directly affected our field of study. All actors in political and institutional communication had to face and directly manage the structural uncertainty characterizing the second modernity (Beck 1986).

Therefore, the global experience of the pandemic forces scholars and practitioners in political communication to deal with a renewed concept of crisis. In this historical moment it is even more important to resist the temptation to simply choose between optimism and pessimism. On the contrary, addressing responsibly the crisis of political communication means interpreting it as a challenge and trying to provide new theoretical lenses, to develop new methods for research, and to elaborate new and renovated knowledge. The pandemic has highlighted a widespread difficulty in elaborating solid theories and concepts based on empirical evidence. At the same time, it has shown the urgency of sound research contributing to our understanding of contemporary political and social phenomena without relying exclusively on the quantity of data collected, but also on their capacity to answer relevant questions.

Starting from these premises, we encourage the submission of papers that engage with the idea of crisis to address challenges faced by political communication research in the pandemic age. We are interested both in theoretical essays and empirical studies and we welcome different methodological approaches and research designs (quantitative, qualitative and mixed-methods). Issues of interest include (but are not limited to):

* the nature of attention economies and dynamics of agenda building in contemporary media ecosystems, with particular reference to the pandemic period;

* the organization of election campaigns in moments of exceptionality for democratic norms and practices (e.g. lockdowns, physical distancing);

* trends in communication and political leadership styles during the pandemic and their implications in the relationship with other actors in the public sphere;

* new forms of extra-institutional political communication related to protests, social movements, and civil society actors during the pandemic

* politicization of science, health and of their communication in the public sphere, with particular reference to the relationship between democracy, freedom of expression, collective interest and public health;

* transformations and degenerations of public debate in different media arenas with particular reference to incivility and polarization;

* the role of data, platforms, algorithms in processes of political communication and journalism by institutional and extra-institutional actors;

* transformations in political journalism, with particular attention to the boundaries between journalism and other forms of information;

* the impact of AI on the transformations of political communication and journalism;

* methodological and theoretical proposals dealing with the transformations of political communication emerged as a result of the pandemic experience, also in comparative perspective.

Although the conference focuses on the multiple interpretations of the "crisis" in political communication, papers addressing other aspects of the relationship between media and politics are also welcome. Papers by PhD students and young researchers are warmly encouraged.

Paper proposals should include name, affiliation and email address, a title, an extended abstract (600/800 words excluding references), and bibliographical references. Authors should also explicitly indicate whether they request the paper to be considered for publication (after the conference) in “Comunicazione Politica”, the flagship journal of the Italian Association of Political Communication. In the case of ex equo in the evaluations provided by referees, priority will be given to authors who have expressed interest for publication on Comunicazione Politica.

Deadlines:

- The deadline for submitting proposals is 13 March 2022.

- Notification of acceptances will take place by 1 May 2022.

- Contributions will be uploaded to the conference paper room by 13 June 2022.

Jesper Tække and Michael Paulsen

Drawing together action-based research with sociology of education, medium theory and the Bildung-tradition, the authors offer a new perspective on education in the digital age, exploring emancipation, edification, self-formation and democratic education.

The authors draw on 15 years of action-based research and weave this with the theory to show how teachers and students might use new media for learning about interaction, searching, visualizing, constructing, storing, and retrieving. The authors show that education needs to be rethought, resituated and developed anew in the digital age. New norms and new ways of teaching need to be established. Building on the theory and case studies, they analyze and discuss different strategies, ideas and understandings, offering four promising ways to develop a new vision for education.

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