European Communication Research and Education Association
April 1, 2021
The webinar Preparing your communications team to handle Social Media manipulation will be presented by Jonathon Morgan on Thursday 1 April 2021 at 13.45 GMT/UCT (14.45 British Summer Time). Jonathon is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Yonder.
What is the webinar content?
The webinar will cover the following themes with plenty of time for a Q&A.
How to join
Register here at Airmeet.
A reminder will be sent 1 hour before the event.
Background to IPRA
IPRA, the International Public Relations Association, was established in 1955, and is the leading global network for PR professionals in their personal capacity. IPRA aims to advance trusted communication and the ethical practice of public relations. We do this through networking, our code of conduct and intellectual leadership of the profession. IPRA is the organiser of public relations' annual global competition, the Golden World Awards for Excellence (GWA). IPRA's services enable PR professionals to collaborate and be recognised. Members create content via our Thought Leadership essays, social media and our consultative status with the United Nations. GWA winners demonstrate PR excellence. IPRA welcomes all those who share our aims and who wish to be part of the IPRA worldwide fellowship. For more see www.ipra.org.
Background to Jonathon
Jonathon Morgan is co-founder and chief executive officer at Yonder. Yonder is a Social Intelligence platform that uses machine learning to analyze how narratives spread across fringe and mainstream social platforms and influence public opinion. Prior to Yonder, he published research about extremist groups manipulating social media with the Brookings Institution, The Atlantic, and the Washington Post, and presented findings at NATO's Center of Excellence for Defense Against Terrorism, the United States Institute for Peace, and the African Union. Jonathon previously served as an adviser to the US State Department, developing strategies for digital counter-terrorism. For more see https://www.yonder-ai.com
Contact
International Public Relations Association Secretariat
United Kingdom
secgen@ipra.org
Telephone +44 1634 818308
October 22-23, 2021
Online conference
Deadline: March 30, 2021
We invite abstracts of papers and panel proposals for the 13th Central and East European Communication and Media Conference (CEECOM) to be held in Cracow, Poland, October 22 and 23, 2021. The theme of the conference is the new communication revolution – a timely and rich topic due to many ongoing changes in the field of media and communication. The conference will address a diverse set of issues and will cover a wide spectrum of ideas related to the concept of communication revolution and ongoing communication and social changes. The new communication revolution may refer to various aspects of people’s social, political, economic or technological activities. We are inviting conceptual, empirical, and methodological proposals reflecting on changes related to communication itself, but also on relations between the media and mediatized communication, and the new ways of thinking, working and spending leisure time. The contributions considering the advantages and drawbacks of current trends in communication will be of special value.
The new communication revolution can be pondered at different levels. It can be explored at the macro-level, where the changes in the modes of communication impact the relationships between media institutions and political institutions. The comparative studies within the CEE region are particularly valuable in this respect. The latest works comparing media systems in Central, East and Southeast Europe may serve as a reference point here. The relations between media and politics in this region have been widely analyzed to date, and many attempts have been made to map the most characteristic features of CEE media systems, journalist autonomy, and the state of media freedom.
Still, the conference contributions may be a good opportunity to revisit these questions with regard to the issue of hybridization, digitalization, automation, algorithmisation, of the information ecosystems where the tech giants play a particular role, and contemporary trends such as dis- and misinformation, leading to the audiences’ exposure to contradictory, ideologically-charged, emotion-influenced, manipulative or highly polarizing messages, or dissemination of various kinds of deception.
The new communication revolution can be also observed at the institutional level. In the past, we used to deal mainly with public and mass communication featuring organized actors. Today's mediasphere is characterized by a mix of broadcast and narrowcast, interactive media, and established and non-established communicators, which results in the co-existence of public and personalized messages therein. This situation, in many ways, challenges the traditional institutional approach. Last but not least, the micro-level can be considered. Constant use of social networking sites and instant messaging platforms changed our lives in an unprecedented manner. The particularly relevant aspect of the new communication revolution seems to be the rise of participatory culture, enabling citizens to actively co-create media content in ways that have not been seen before. It is, therefore, important to assess and analyze the individual user experience.
The conference will feature both presentations of individual research papers and thematic panels.
Paper submissions will be grouped in sessions of 4-5 papers.
A limited number of slots will be available for specialized panels, where one topic would be addressed in four to five presentations, followed by responses. Preference will be given to panels with presenters from diverse backgrounds and affiliations.
Please, note that all proposals will undergo a peer-review process, and will be accepted or declined accordingly.
Only one proposal per first author can be accepted.
The contribution fee for the conference participants includes:
(1) on-line participation in all conference sessions
(2) presentation of the conference paper
(3) the book of abstracts (online version),
(4) review of a full paper,
(5) publication (if the text is accepted/depending on reviewers’ recommendations),
(6) certificate of participation in the conference.
Fees:
Early bird registration
Early bird registration opens on May 15th and ends on June 30th, 2021. (10 per cent discount applies to the PCA members.)
Standard registration
Standard registration opens on July 1st and ends on September 30th, 2021. (10 per cent discount applies to the PCA members.)
Online submission of paper and panel proposals starts on January 18th, 2021 and ends on March 30th, 2021
https://idmiksuj.edu.pl/ceecom2021/
Contact: ceecom@uj.edu.pl
April 9, 2021- 3pm
Online via Zoom
register here: https://yorku.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_nf57kdxuSySuOPKe2NIRdg
Please join us for a roundtable discussion about design justice and community-led initiatives engaged in practices for reshaping the future.
We are pleased to host a conversation about design justice with Sasha Costanza-Chock, Denise Shanté Brown, and Wesley Taylor, members of the steering committee of the Design Justice Network, an organization at the forefront of community-led design for social justice. The DJN is made up of designers, advocates, educators, and researchers, and is dedicated to reshaping existing practices and collaborative approaches to addressing injustices based on race, class, gender, and ability.
The roundtable will explore the work of the organization and the presenters as well as challenges and opportunities posed by designed inequalities disproportionately impacting on already marginalized communities. It will include remarks from Professor Alison Harvey and responses from York and Ryerson graduate students Mina Momeni, Brianna I. Wiens, and Dayna Jeffrey.
This event will include ASL interpretation.
This roundtable is co-presented with the Wendy Michener Memorial Lecture and Design Justice Dialogue Series, and with the generous support of the Division of the Vice-President, Research & Innovation, the Principal’s Office at Glendon College, the Institute for Research on Digital Literacies, Sensorium, Center for Feminist Research, the Digital Media program in the Department of Computational Art, the Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture at York University and Ryerson University, the Department of Design in the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design, the Department of Communication Studies at Keele campus, the Communications Program at Glendon College and the Department of Social Justice Education, OISE at the University of Toronto.
Presenter bios:
Sasha Costanza-Chock is a researcher and designer who works to support community-led processes that build shared power, move towards collective liberation, and advance ecological survival. They are known for their work on networked social movements, transformative media organizing, and design justice. Sasha is a Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Senior Research Fellow at the Algorithmic Justice League (ajlunited.org), and a Faculty Affiliate with the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Sasha is the author of two books and numerous journal articles, book chapters, and other research publications. Their new book, Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need, was published by the MIT Press in 2020. Sasha is a board member of Allied Media Projects (alliedmedia.org) and a member of the Steering Committee of the Design Justice Network (designjustice.org).
Wesley Taylor is a graphic designer, fine artist, musician and curator. He has spent many years “scene building” in the Detroit hip-hop community as both an emcee and graphic designer. He is co-founder of Emergence Media, along with Invincible. Taylor’s most recent body of work revolves around the promise of the future; he imagines that “the future” is his client and he is in charge of marketing for “the future” and branding its many possibilities. Taylor holds a graduate degree in 2-D Design from Cranbrook Academy of Art and teaches at Virginia Commonwealth University. He also manages a five-person artists’ studio collective in Detroit called Talking Dolls.
Denise Shanté Brown is a holistic design strategist living in Baltimore whose life’s work centers the wellbeing and brilliance of Black womxn and folx who hold marginalized identities. Wholeheartedly and with no apologies. As the Founding Director of Black Womxn Flourish and creator of Design for the Wellbeing of Black Womxn, she has dedicated her holistic practice to actualizing liberating and vibrant futures through design. She believes that creative, hands-on healing experiences can shape possibility and embolden communities to develop the tools and strategies we need for collective wellbeing. Her processes and practices are grounded in design justice and healing justice principles, emergent strategy, nature, womanism, and the feminine economy. She holds a Masters of Arts degree in Social Design from the Maryland Institute College of Art and has designed unique health interventions, community engagement strategies, and listening session models, facilitated creative dialogue on self-compassion and mindful social practice, and conducted design-led research that emphasizes the lived experiences of the people behind the data.
Respondent bios:
Dayna Jeffrey is a PhD candidate in the Science & Technology Studies program at York University. Dayna received an MA in Communication and Culture from a joint program between York and Ryerson University and an Honors BA in Social Anthropology with a minor in Religious Studies from York University. Dayna’s academic passions surround techno-utopian ideology or super-intelligence. Dayna’s current work focuses on the implications of techno-utopian ideology, or transhumanist visions of the future, on the design of artificially intelligent technologies. Dayna considers how does past, present, and future inform technological design. Her theoretical approach focuses on the sociology of technological expectations and ideologies surrounding innovative technology. This builds on her MA work focusing on the controversies surrounding the development of strong AI, specifically by analysing how socio-political and economic issues are seemingly erased and yet transpire in contemporary techno-utopian discourses.
Brianna I. Wiens (she/her) is a doctoral candidate in Communication and Culture at York University and co-director of the qcollaborative (http://www.qcollaborative.com/), a feminist design lab. Her SSHRC-funded research draws on her experience as a mixed-race queer activist-scholar to analyze and apply feminist theories and practices, considering the possibilities and constraints of technologies and feminist methods for digital activisms. Wiens’s collaborative work has recently appeared in Feminist Media Studies, Digital Studies/Le Champ Numérique, and Leisure Sciences, and she is a co-editor of the forthcoming collection Networked Feminist Activisms (Lexington Press 2021).
Mina Momeni is a doctoral candidate in Communication and Culture at Ryerson University and a sessional lecturer at the Department of Media Studies at the University of Guelph-Humber. Her research focuses on digital media, visual culture, human-computer interaction, philosophy of technology, and political activism. Momeni is also an interdisciplinary artist, and her artwork explores the relationship between ancient culture, symbology, monuments and memories. Momeni's artwork, such as photographs, videos, multimedia and installation art have been shown in numerous group and individual exhibitions in North America, Europe, and the Middle East.
Call for chapters for an edited volume, “Advances in Teaching and Teacher Education” series (Brill/Sense)
Deadline: March 31, 2021
The aim of this edited volume is to provide thorough discussions on visual approaches to teaching along with examples of practical application of the discussed activities or educational interventions.
The proposed chapters can focus on activities from across disciplines, or on specific visual approaches/methods of teaching in higher education. However, instead of describing a sole teaching/learning activity or an exercise, contributors are invited to situate it in a wider theoretical and conceptual context. The chapters may focus on educational experiments or interventions, or elaborate on the projects that aim to develop students’ visual competency, or to advance the general practices in visual education in culturally or disciplinary specific contexts.
The theoretical background of each chapter should be outlined in a clear manner, providing short elaboration of the key concepts, considering the differences between the terms, such as, visual literacy, visual pedagogy, visual communication, visual competency, etc. The book is intended for an international audience, and thus, each chapter has to be situated in a particular educational context, bringing its key characteristics to the reader. Contributors are also asked to write in a manner accessible to readers outside of their respective fields.
REVIEW PROCESS
This publication project will be conducted in a collaborative manner, including two or three rounds of the rigorous review process that can result in either acceptance or rejection. By submitting your chapter manuscript for this edited volume, you agree to participate in the review process and to act as both the prospective author and a peer-reviewer.
TIMELINE
MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION GUIDELINES:
You are welcome to discuss with the editor your ideas for the chapter before submitting the full manuscript. You can contact the editor, Joanna Kedra, via email: joanna.kedra@jyu.fi
About the editor:
Dr. Joanna Kędra works in the Department of Language and Communication Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Joanna is a Vice-Chair of the ECREA Visual Cultures Section, and Chair of the International Presence Committee for the International Visual Literacy Association (IVLA). Her research interest is in visual culture, photography and visual research methods as well as in visual literacy and visual pedagogy in a higher education context.
University of Antwerp
The University of Antwerp's Research Group MIOS and Research Group Government and Law are seeking to fill the following full-time (100%) vacancy for a Doctoral Grant (starting September 1st, 2021) in the framework of the project: Cyberviolence on social media: a research on hate speech and image-based sexual abuse
More information on the project, job description and requirements, can be found on: https://tinyurl.com/pymj3n2d
Deadline for online submission of the candidatures is April 18, 2021.
Technische Universität Ilmenau
The Faculty of Economic Sciences and Media offers a position at the Research Group on Public Relations and Communication of Technology to be filled by May 1, not later than June 1, 2021 (full time, for three years) as research associate (f/m/d) to fulfill research tasks within the DFG-funded project "Deciphering the 'pandemic public sphere': Government communication, (social) media discourses on and citizens' responses to Covid-19 in Europe and the USA", subject to funding approval by the funding body. The position can also be combined with pursuing a PhD.
Remuneration is in accordance with the provisions of the collective agreement for the public service of the Länder (TV-L).
Your tasks
Your profile
above-average commitment and willingness to perform, a cooperative and independent working style, didactic and organizational skills
Advantageous, but not mandatory, are
- Good to very good knowledge of the German language
- Knowledge of one or more of the following topics: Risk and crisis communication, health communication, data analysis with R or SPSS, experience with working in international teams, other foreign language skills (e.g. Spanish, Italian, Swedish, Dutch).
We offer you
About the project
This large-scale international project analyzes how governments and public health institutions in six European countries and the USA have communicated the Corona pandemic, what role (social) media have played in co-constructing discourses about Covid-19, and how citizens have responded to the respective state and media communications.
https://jobundkarriere.tu-ilmenau.de/jobposting/423f27eb6004e55c4e9be1880ee0b3285248b7cd0
NECSUS, Spring 2022
Deadline: April 30, 2021
Guest edited by Nicholas Baer (University of Groningen) and Maggie Hennefeld (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Did you hear? Rumor has it that the Spring 2022 issue of NECSUS will be devoted to the topic of gossip as a prolific yet contested form of media discourse. Spread the word!
As Mladen Dolar has recently argued, rumors are undignified in the history of philosophy, falling under the ancient Greek category of doxa (belief, opinion) rather than episteme (knowledge, logos). Concerning people who are absent or at a remove, rumors are often authorless and unfounded, and yet they can gain enormous traction, authority, and staying power. In this regard, they play a significant and highly complex role in what Erving Goffman called ‘impression management’ as part of the dramaturgy of everyday social interaction.
This special section invites consideration of the non-traditional sources of knowledge that have gained increasing currency in film and media studies, challenging the empirical standards of evidence that informed the discipline’s ‘historical turn’. We encourage topics and modes of engagement that might be deemed speculative, unsubstantiated, or otherwise unscientific, confronting elisions and erasures in the archive. Of particular interest is work in Black, feminist, queer, and trans media studies as well as scholarship on celebrity, fandom, and counterpublics.
The topic of rumors and gossip is also lent vital urgency by the #MeToo movement. Existing outside of official accounts and professional historiography, whisper networks have served as key sites for communicating stories of rape and abuse, even as their truth-claims pose a crisis of documentation and verifiability. Here we are interested in the ambivalence and political promiscuity of gossip in relation to the Foucauldian power/knowledge complex: while rumors serve as a crucial resource for the vulnerable, they can also be a means of baseless, malevolent slander, leaving power structures in place and contributing to an often-exploitative, profit-driven culture of scandal and outrage.
Finally, this special section will examine rumors and gossip as linguistic utterances and modes of address that are transmitted and often amplified through historically variable media forms. Gossip has repeatedly been ignored or dismissed by linguists and philosophers, reduced to what Martin Heidegger deemed Gerede (idle talk). Yet various thinkers have argued that it serves an essential function in social interaction, involving group membership, moral judgment, and relations of trust and confidentiality. Building on existing scholarship, this section hopes to reassess rumors and gossip in relation to current issues in film and media studies, including digital networks, the viral spread of (mis)information, and renegotiations of the distinction between publicity and privacy.
Contributions may focus on but are not limited to the following topics:
# Conceptual clarifications: What are the relations and differences between terms such as rumors, gossip, hearsay, slander, calumny, and scandal?
# Historiographical challenges: How does one research and write the history of film and media in the face of informal networks, material gaps, irreducible ambiguities, and unverified or unauthorised information?
# Theories and methods: Which theoretical and methodological approaches are especially generative for the epistemology of rumors and gossip?
# Stardom and reception studies: What role does the rumor mill play in celebrity and fan communities as well as in the formation of alternative histories, identities, and public spheres?
# MeToo: How do rumors and gossip serve as sites for sharing stories of sexual violence and abuse, and what are their potentialities, limitations, and dangers as means of resistance to hegemonic narratives and institutional power structures?
# Media figurations: How have film and other media visualised, thematised, and participated in the production and circulation of knowledge and (mis)information?
# Democracy and civil society: What insights can film and media scholars contribute to ongoing debates about social media, the viral spread of falsehoods and conspiracy theories, and other challenges to democracy and civil society?
Please send abstracts of 300 words, 3-5 bibliographic references, and a short biography of 100 words to g.decuir@aup.nl by 30 April 2021. On the basis of selected abstracts, writers will be invited to submit full manuscripts (6,000-8,000 words, revised abstract, 4-5 keywords) by 1 February 2022. Manuscripts will subsequently go through a double-blind peer review process before final acceptance for publication.
March 26-27, 2021
Online
We are excited to announce that the program of ECREA's Political Communication Section Interim Conference on “Communicating crisis: Political communication in the age of uncertainty” is out!
It is organized by Prof. Nicoleta Corbu and her team at the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration in Bucharest and takes place digitally from March 26th-27th, 2021.
The Keynote lecture will be provided by Prof. Darren Lilleker (Bournemouth University, UK) on Friday March 26th, 10:30-11:30 and is entitled "Understanding crises and the role of political communication". The (online) Business Meeting will be open for all section members, regardless if you participate in the conference or not, and will take place on Saturday March 27th, 10:00-11:00.
Please find the program attached. The conference fee is 40 EUR. For more information please check the conference website: http://comunicare.ro/en/index.php?page=ecrea-2021
October 14-16, 2021
Online conference (Zoom)
Deadline: April 12, 2021
Zoom Conference Narrative, Media and Cognition
The 6th edition of the conference Narrative, Media and Cognition aims to combine narrative, as an artistic and social phenomenon, with the artistic and technical media that convey it and with the cognition that produces it and gives it meaning. The 2021 edition of the conference is hosted by the Theatre and Film School of the Lisbon Polytechnic Institute, in Portugal, in association with the WG of the Audiovisual Narratives of AIM - The Moving Image Association in Portugal. It will take place on 14th, 15th and 16th of October 2021, via Zoom.
Upon entering a new decade of the twenty first century the artistic landscape is increasingly hybrid and veering from the norms; a growing blend of forms, contents and genres is taking place. Therefore, it is imperative to reflect on the interrelation of the three main topics of the conference – narrative, media/arts, and cognition – and to contribute with academic theorization that allows for a broadening of reflection upon the nature and role of narrative as the binding element of a new audiovisual praxis. In this sense, the current edition of the conference focuses on the multiple challenges of artistic contemporaneity, seeking to foster a multidisciplinary dialogue.
There will be a publication with selected, peer-reviewed articles issuing from this conference.
Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:
Keynote speakers:
Author of the book Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative (2019).
Author of the book Cinema of Choice: Optional Thinking and Narrative Movies (2012).
Co-editor of Image Operations. Visual Media and Political Conflict (2017) and Characters in Fictional Worlds: Understanding Imaginary Beings in Literature, Film, and Other Media (2010).
Co-author of The Gesamtkunstwerk as a Synergy of the Arts (Peter Lang, 2020); co-editor of Narrative Complexity: Cognition, Embodiment, Evolution (2019) and Intermediality and Storytelling (2010).
Co-author of the book Impossible Puzzle Films: A Cognitive Approach to Contemporary Complex Cinema (2018).
Author of the book Complex TV: The Poetics of Contemporary Television Storytelling. (2015).
Conference languages: English and Portuguese.
The conference is free of charge for selected participants, but registration is required to be able to access the sessions.
Timetable: (2021)
Submission:
We invite each of you to submit a proposal for a 20-minute presentation. Each participant is limited to one talk. Both theoretical and analytical-theoretical approaches are accepted.
The proposal must contain an abstract (500 words max.), 5 keywords, 3 bibliographical references and a short bio of the author (250 words max.). Send to Fátima Chinita (chinita.estc@gmail.com) and Abel Júpiter (estc.conferencia.2021@gmail.com).
Suggested bibliography: available on the conference website: https://reconfiguracoes.estc.ipl.pt
Organizers:
Fátima Chinita,
PhD. - Lisbon Polytechnic Institute, Theatre and Film School
Guilhermina Castro, PhD.
Catholic University, School of the Arts, CITAR
Jorge Palinhos, PhD.
Lisbon Polytechnic Institute, Theatre and Film School
May 25 - 27th 2021
Unversitat Pompeu Fabra (ONLINE EDITION)
Deadline: March 27, 2021
The I International Congress "The cinematographic stardom in Spain": Actresses under Francoism intends to open a way of thinking upon the cinematographic star-system in Spain, and, particularly, upon the actresses' role during Franco's dictatorship. This initiative is part of the research project REPRESENTATIONS OF FEMALE DESIRE IN SPANISH CINEMA DURING FRANCOISM: THE GESTURAL EVOLUTION OF THE ACTRESS UNDER CENSORSHIP (Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness, REF: CSO2017-83083-P).
To this extent, the aim is to gather specialists in Spanish cinema history and the Star Studies methodologies to think about the role of the female stars during Francoism concerning the behaviours that the regime had established for women. We are interested in the normative models, as much as possible contradictions, transgressions, and alternatives inside the industry itself generated by the actresses on and off the screen. Moreover, we are interested, mainly, in the possible elements of creative subjectivity that actresses played in the configuration of their roles as stars and constructing the characters they played.
Paper Submission Guidelines
There will be accepted, after being evaluated and selected, the proposals which address some of the following research lines, always within the framework of Spanish cinema during Franco's dictatorship and the actresses as an object of study:
1. Building of the cinematographic star in Spain. Industrial and advertising strategies in the consolidation of female stars.
2. Creative subjectivity of the actress in her Star Image or Screen Image.
3. Comparatives between stardom in Francoist Spain and other models of international star system.
4. Comparatives between stardom in Francoist Spain and other periods of Spanish cinema history.
5. From the theatre scene to the cinematographic screen.
6. Actresses and models.
7. Voice, body and gesture as a statement of the interpretative personality.
8. Actresses and censorship.
9. Actresses against the regime.
10. The actress as a channel of female desire.
11. Actresses and female archetypes.
12. Actresses and gallants: the role of female stars in the consolidation of recurring couples.
13. Female star's reception.
14. Foreign female stars in Francoist cinema.
15. Interpretive schools and cinematographic stardom.
16. Supporting actresses.
The abstract should be no longer than 300 words (minimum 150). Please include a short biography and follow the application rules. Make your submission here.
Deadline for abstracts: March 27, 2021
Publication
Applicants are invited to submit their communications for publishing to the Congress before September 1, 2021.
https://eventum.upf.edu/61056/detail/l-international-congress-the-cinematographic-stardom-in-spain_-actresses-under-francoism.html
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