ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

May 2021

Online event

Deadline for Submission: February 15, 2021

As part of our online activities throughout the first half of 2021, we would like to invite all young scholars to apply for our YECREA PhD Workshop jointly held by ECREA’s Crisis Communication Section and Young Scholars Network (YECREA). The participation in the workshop is free of charge.

The aim of the workshop is to provide an online forum with individual feedback by senior scholars for doctoral students whose Ph.D. and research interest is related to the wide and interdisciplinary field of Risk and Crisis Communication.

The PhD Workshop will take place in May 2021. The exact date and time depend on the countries of origin/time zones of the individual participants. Further information on the date as well as on the respondents (senior scholars) will be announced later in time.

To apply for the workshop, please prepare and submit the following two documents:

• an extended abstract of up to 500 words outlining your project (literature excluded): Please think of key elements such as your research problem, theoretical foundation, research question(s), methodology and (preliminary) findings
• a short letter of motivation stating why you would like to participate and which questions you want to see addressed; it should also mention your doctoral advisor as well as a rough time schedule for your project.

The documents must be submitted to Janina Klingelhöfer (Janina.Klingelhoefer@ifkw.lmu.de) until February 15, 2021. Please do not hesitate to ask questions beforehand.

A jury will select the applications according to standards of academic quality like theoretical foundation, stringency, and originality. You will receive their decision by mid-March 2021. There is no need to be a member of the Crisis Communication Section to apply, but please note that the capacity of the workshop is limited.

February - June, 2021

Online event

The ICOG theme group Arts, Medium and Moving Images at the University of Groningen concentrates on the production, aesthetics, reception and impact of film and other contemporary audiovisual screen media. Our focus is on the philosophical, cognitive and phenomenological relation between audiovisual art and its audience; social, technological and artistic developments in the field; historiographical, epistemological and ontological questions regarding media objects and practices; and the mediality and materiality of artworks. The theme group organizes multiple lectures every semester for the academic community in Groningen and beyond. Lecturers include both local and international scholars from the field of Film and Media Studies.

Spring 2021 lineup (all times in CET):

• Thursday, February 18, 18–20h

Justin Remes (Iowa State University)

Nothing to See Here: Antiretinal Aesthetics in Louise Lawler’s A Movie Will Be Shown Without the Picture

• Thursday, March 11, 17–19h

Jaap Verheul (King's College London/University of Groningen)

The Cultural Life of James Bond: Specters of 007

• Tuesday, April 20, 19–21h

Vivian Sobchack (University of California, Los Angeles)

TBA

• Monday, May 10, 17–19h

Kevin B. Lee (Merz Akademie)

The Future of Videographic Criticism

• Monday, June 7, 17–19h

Julian Hanich (University of Groningen)

On Varieties of Beauty in Film

The research colloquium will take place online via Zoom. For more information on the lectures and registration, please visit:

rug.nl/research/icog/

facebook.com/groningenfilm

twitter.com/groningenfilm

May 7-8, 2021

Istanbul Bilgi University/online

Deadline: March 1, 2021

Interdisciplinary PhD communication conference

Collaborative Research Methodologies

• Co-Construction of Knowledge
• Power, Knowledge and Politics of Collaboration
• Collaboration as a Communication Technique
• Participatory Action Research

Challenging Dichotomies and Bridging Gaps

• Theory and Practice
• Academic and Everyday Knowledge
• Agents of Knowledge Production
• Inter/Multi/Trans/Counterdisciplinarity

Researcher as Collaborator

• The Collaborating Self
• Self-Reflexivity through Collaboration
• Ethical Implications
• Taking Affect into Consideration

Doing and Being Together

• Dialogue and Solidarity
• Collaborative Decision-Making
• Forming Communities
• Collaborative Action
• Feminist, Critical and Collaborative Pedagogies
• Intersubjectivities

Collaborative Communication Technologies

• Affordances and Limitations
• Distance and Proximity
• Public and Private Intertwined

Critical Perspectives on Collaboration

• Dissemination, Accessibility and Transferability of Knowledge
• Public Value of Research
• Forced Collaboration

The 2021 edition of IPCC – Interdisciplinary PhD Communication Conference, realised by a group of young scholars within the PhD in Communication Program at Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey, will be held online on 7-8 May 2021 under the theme “Collaborations“. Participants will be expected to provide 15-minute presentations, followed by roundtable discussions, which encourage further inquiry into the related topics of discussion, with the audience and fellow presenters. In line with the mission of the PhD in Communication Program of Istanbul Bilgi University, IPCC prioritises solidarity. Thus, the conference promotes a platform for the co-creation of knowledge, facilitated by free-form discussion sessions.

All PhD students or candidates, as well as early career researchers with PhDs earned in the last 5 years, who are interested in examining, expressing and exploring the current and possible implications of collaborations within their field of interest, are welcome to submit their proposal and join the discussion. Contributions may include but are not limited to the topics provided.

How are we attentive to collaborations?

In a time marked by biological, political, social and economic crises, the IPCC shifts its focus towards practices of solidarity, of labouring together and building new communities within the scope of communication and beyond.

Acknowledging that it is a period of “necessary interdependence” (Kenneth Bruffee, 1999) we are living in, IPCC 2021 calls for participation to discuss new ways to diversify research methodologies, communication techniques, co-authorship practices, shared dialogical spaces and the public value of research. As the paradigms upon which scientific knowledge and inquiry is built are constantly shifting, the conference also aims to question the implications of collaboration for the transformative process of constructing self as a researcher. Furthermore, the new opportunities that have arisen following the increased use of online communication tools sensitizes us to consider collaboration from new perspectives.

In order to reach out beyond the confines of academia and build on the legacy of the previous two IPCC conferences on rethinking methodologies and intersectionalities within the scholarly endeavour of communication, the necessity of challenging dichotomies among theory and practice, natural and social sciences, intellectuals and the public, and producers and audiences is emphasised. By offering to expand horizons towards including diverse voices and involving non-academic research agents as a means to redefine scholarship, a “community of inquiry” is favoured against a Cartesian model of science. This is a space that promotes and celebrates all forms of collaboration, be it based on distance or proximity.

How can you apply?

Kindly send your submissions to ipcc@bilgi.edu.tr with an extended abstract of 500-750 words and a bio of 100 words by Monday, 1 March 2021.

Panel submissions with 3-4 paper presentations are accepted. Panel organisers are kindly asked to submit the panel title with a 500-750 words panel rationale followed by 150 words abstract of each paper presentation and short bios of the participants. Discussants can also be identified with a short bio by Monday, 1 March 2021.

Submissions for roundtable discussions are also encouraged. You can send your topic or questions for the roundtable discussion along with a 400-500 words rationale and a 100 words short bio of yourself by Monday, 1 March 2021.

Submissions will be notified via email by April.

For detailed information: ipcc.bilgi.edu.tr

Deadline: February 15, 2021

Call for Book Chapters

We invite submission of chapters, especially case studies and campaigns analysis on Non-Profit Communication. The proposals should be in a form of an extended abstract of 1000 to 2000 words.

Why a new book?

The interest in civil society organizations present in multiple disciplines, such as sociology, political sciences, management, international law or marketing, is accompanied by different technical, hermeneutical and critical approaches. However, there is no handbook that can provide an overview of the multiple and complex approaches in the non-profit field at micro, meso and macro level. This handbook brings together multiple and multi-disciplinary perspectives and provides an outline throughout critical, structural, strategic approaches, besides debating the new challenges, case studies and recent trends on this social and communicational phenomenon.

Topics

The Routledge Handbook of Non-Profit Communication (NPC) aim is to set out a comprehensive review of research in the NPO communication field. We especially welcome chapters on:

• Metatheoretical and multidisciplinary approaches to the non-profit sector
• Intersection of the definitions of democracy, public sphere, civil society
• Distinctive forms of civil society organizations and their models of reputation, marketing and communication management.
• NPOs’ strategic communication and on the relation between these organizations and their stakeholders and publics.
• Environmental communication
• Health Communication
• Humanitarian Communication
• Development Communication
• Fundraising
• New media challenges
• Campaigns, case studies.

Editors

Gisela Gonçalves, University of Beira Interior, Portugal

Evandro Oliveira, University of Beira Interior, Portugal and University of Mannheim, Germany.

Submission:

We invite submissions before February 15, 2021 to nonprofitcom.routledge@gmail.com consisting of an extended abstract of 1000 to 2000 words clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his/ her proposed chapter. The abstracts will be double blind peer reviewed.

Authors will be notified by the end February about their status. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by the beginning of May.

This publication is anticipated to be released in 2022, by Routledge Publisher.

Contacts:

Gisela Gonçalves (gisela.goncalves@labcom.ubi.pt)

Evandro Oliveira (evandro.oliveira@ubi.pt)

Deadline (EXTENDED): March 31, 2021

Literary photobooks are frequently described as paradigmatic cases of intermediality. Authors have defined intermediality as “intertextuality that transgresses media borders” and “intermodal relations in media”. In literary photobooks, at least two systems are densely related – the verbal system and photography. The word seems to be linked to the photographic image through a bidirectional interaction, involving mutually modulatory influences connecting word and photographic image. They create a coupled system that can be described as a new system, or a new genre. Designed and produced since the end of the 19th century, this kind of multimodal experiment (or literary intermedia genre), has attracted writers, photographers and designers, from several literary and artistic domains. In the last decades this phenomenon has become more and more popular, as witnessed by anthologies and book series in many publishers’ catalogues. The technological development of editing processes and digital printing, with smaller and cheaper print houses, the emergence of independent publishers using new distribution channels, including online networks, contributed to the rise and consolidation of the photobook as a significant contemporary genre. The purpose of this special issue is to bring together experts from different fields of research (literary history and criticism, photography, semiotics, media studies, intermedia and multimodality studies), interested in the photobook as a specific literary genre.

Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Literary photobook: history;
• Analysis of text-photo relations;
• Forms of collaboration between writers and photographers;
• Photobook of literature and intermedia arts;
• Photopoetry: a literary genre?;
• Photobook and intermediality;
• Photobook and multimodality;
• Literary photobook: theories, methods, and models.

DEADLINE: Article submissions will be due on March 31, 2021, with notifications of acceptance by June 1, 2021. Issue editors: Ana Luiza Fernandes (PUC-Rio, Brazil), Karl Erik Schollhammer (PUC-Rio, Brazil) e João Queiroz (UFJF, Brazil).

MATLIT: Materialities of Literature is an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal published by Coimbra University Press and the Centre for Portuguese Literature at the University of Coimbra (Portugal). The journal addresses the material and technological mediations of literary practices, with a particular focus on printness, digitality, aurality, and intermediality. The research fields covered by the journal extend from literary studies to comparative media studies and to digital humanities. MATLIT uses the following working languages: Portuguese, English, and Spanish. There are no article processing charges. Adopting an interdisciplinary and transmedia perspective, the journal is organized into thematic issues. Each issue has its own Call for Papers.

Authors must register and upload their files through the journal platform here: https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/matlit/user/register

Information about submission guidelines: https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/matlit/about/submissions

February 10, 2021

Online event

Deadline: February 8, 2021

Speaker: Dr. Tamsyn Dent (Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King’s College London)

Date & Time: Wednesday 10th February 2021, 16:00-18:00 (GMT)

All welcome.

This is a virtual seminar. Joining instructions will be sent the day before the event.

Please complete registration at Eventbrite: https://kcl_place_space_culturalparticipation.eventbrite.co.uk (open until 8.2.2021)

Details:

This seminar addresses the politics and situated relevance of place in relation to everyday cultural participation and recognition of value. It builds on Jonathan Gross and Nick Wilson’s (2018) work in relation to cultural opportunity through their development of the cultural ecosystem approach to understanding the interdependencies and interconnections of multiple cultural resources but adds a spatially driven relational framework, influenced by feminist geographer Doreen Massey (1994). The seminar will discuss the methodological approach to mapping cultural participation as applied in the Horizon 2020 research project ‘DISCE’ – Developing Inclusive and Sustainable Creative Economies – by looking at the spatial arrangement of cultural activity and participation, from the position of value and orthodoxy (Miles and Gibson 2016) in two small-sized European cities; Enschede, The Netherlands and Dundee, Scotland. The use of maps in the qualitative fieldwork data has enabled an exploration of cultural activity and opportunity from a multitude of locally based participants and through these visual narratives of space we’ve been able to explore recognition of the economic hierarchy of cultural activity, the existence of spaces that enable everyday cultural participations and the relationship and interconnections between them.

Gross, J. and Wilson, N. (2018) ‘Cultural democracy: an ecological and capabilities approach’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, pp. 1–16. doi: 10.1080/10286632.2018.1538363.ass

Massey, D. (1994) Space, Place and Gender. Univ of Minnesota Press

Miles, A. and Gibson, L. (2016) ‘Everyday participation and cultural value’, Cultural Trends, 25(3), pp. 151–157. doi: 10.1080/09548963.2016.1204043.

Biography:

Dr. Tamsyn Dent is working on a collaborative EU project titled DISCE: Developing Inclusive & Sustainable Creative Economies which is looking at improving the growth of the Creative and Cultural Industries across Europe. She is interested in working structures and cultures within the growing creative economies. Her PHD explored the impact of motherhood on women’s career trajectories in the creative and media industries looking at the relationship between identity and value across different social spaces. Prior to her academic research, Tamsyn worked in documentary television production for independent companies and spent many years working in film exhibition for the UK-based women’s Film Festival, Bird Eye View.

June 23-25, 2021

Universidade Lusófona, Lisboa - PORTUGAL

Deadline: March 1, 2021

https://congressoaudiovisual.ulusofona.pt/

The 8th International Congress of Audiovisual Researchers will be held at Lusófona University, Lisbon, from 23 to 25 June 2021. The main goal of this international congress is to develop understanding of the paradigm shift set in motion by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and the production of Digital Contents.

For the 2021 edition, the theme will be Audiovisual and Creative Industries - Present and Future”. Alongside recognizing the importance of thinking and debating the challenges the audiovisual industry is facing today, mainly in the broader context of the creative industries, we also aim to promote the construction and consolidation of links between different sectors in the creative industries.

Since 1997, this congress has brought together researchers, academics, professionals and students of Audiovisual Communication, aiming to reflect on and discuss the audiovisual sector from a holistic standpoint. Past editions took place in Salamanca (1997, 1998), Madrid (1999, 2015, 2017), Huesca (2011) and Santander (2019).

KEY DATES

• Deadline for abstract proposals: March 1, 2021
• Public notification of results: March 16, 2021
• Deadline for submission of draft of full texts (conference proceedings): April 16, 2021
• Proofreading by scientific committee: April 30, 2021
• Deadline for submission of revised full texts (conference proceedings): May 7, 2021
• Pre-congress: June 23, 2021
• Congress: June 24 & 25, 2021

the pre-congress is intended for presentation of workshops and thematic round tables that are submitted as proposals, with a maximum duration of 6 hours. The proposals for workshops and round tables will also be pending evaluation. The proposals we must detail the objectives, description of the work, necessary materials/ equipments, maximum of participants.

THEMATIC AREAS:

1. Digital content

2. Technologies

3. Cultural industries

4. Literacy and communication training

5. Digital marketing and communication strategies

6. Audio experiences

For more information, please visit: https://congressoaudiovisual.ulusofona.pt/

Proposals will be subject to peer review. The conference proceedings will be published by McGraw Hill Education* The best proposals accepted will be considered for special issues in the follwowing journals:

- International Journal of Film and Media Arts: https://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/ijfma/

- International Journal on Stereo & Immersive Media: https://revistas.ulusofona.pt/…reo

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

- David Hesmondhalgh, Professor - University of Leeds

- Lyndsay Duthie, Chief Executive Officer - The Production Guild of Great Britain

- Miguel Ángel Vivas, Realizador e Guionista "Extinction", "Tu Hijo", "La Casa de Papel".

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

President: José Bragança de Miranda

Director: Célia Quico

Co-director: Javier Sierra Sánchez

Coordinators: Luís Cláudio Ribeiro, Manuel José Damásio, José Gomes Pinto

Academic Secretary: Jorge Bruno

CONTACTS:

For more information visit: https://congressoaudiovisual.ulusofona.pt/

For questions and inquiries, please contact: ciia2021@ulusofona.pt

Host Institution: Universidade Lusófona, Campo Grande 376, Lisbon - PORTUGAL

March 24, 2021

Online event

The University of Surrey’s strategic research theme Technology and Society – is delighted to host Professor Sonia Livingstone as part of its Keywords in Technology and Society series- on 24th March at 2 pm. Sonia’s talk is titled ‘Realising Children’s Rights in a Digital World’. Sonia currently directs the Digital Futures Commission (with the 5Rights Foundation) and the Global Kids Online project (with UNICEF). She is Deputy Director of the UKRI-funded Nurture Network and leads work packages for two European H2020-funded projects: ySKILLS (Youth Skills) and CO:RE (Children Online: Research and Evidence). Founder of the EC-funded 33 country EU Kids Online research network, she is a #SaferInternet4EU Ambassador for the European Commission. The event will be chaired by Dr Emily Setty.

As Theme Champion of this strategic theme, I welcome you to join us on 24th March to hear Sonia speak. You will need to sign-up, although attendance is free – and sign-up is available on this link: Digital Rights Tickets, Wed 24 Mar 2021 at 14:00 | Eventbrite

Please do browse the Keywords series here and sign up to any of the other events.

February 10, 2021

Online event

The University of Surrey’s strategic research theme Technology and Society – welcomes you to the first of its series 9 events in the series – Keywords in Technology and Society- on 10th February at 2 pm. This first event – titled Interfaces – brings together three speakers from three diverse areas of the social, physical and biological sciences – to think about societal consequences of emerging technologies. The event includes:

• Prof Adrian Hilton, Director of CVSSP and AI@Surrey – who will speak about personalised media and AI enabled storytelling experiences;
• Professor David Frohlich – Director of the Digital World Research Centre who will speak about changing sociotechnical interfaces by design – drawing upon intersections of his work with dementia care
• Dr Nicola Carey and Dr Nicola Ayers who will speak about developing an innovative healthcare system for palliative care in Ethiopia: co-design and user testing of a mobile phone based remote monitoring system (E-PC)

The event will be chaired by Dr Itziar Castello of Surrey Business School

As Theme Champion of this strategic theme, I also welcome you to look at the wider series of events in Keywords in Technology and Society – and please do join us for the kick-off event – Interfaces on 10th February. You will need to sign-up, though attendance is free – and sign-up is available on this link:

Interfaces Tickets, Wed 10 Feb 2021 at 14:00 | Eventbrite.

IGI Global

Proposals Submission Deadline: March 17, 2021

Full Chapters Due: May 30, 2021

Submission Date: May 30, 2021

Editors: Enes Abanoz, Ondokuz Mayıs University, Turkey

https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/5112

Introduction

We are living in a digital era where most of our daily activities take place both through applications and computers. This causes the big data phenomenon which is an important subject for scientific research with increasing of available tools and processing power. As a natural outcome of this trend, a growing number of social science scholars are using computational methods for analyzing social behavior. Theories of social sciences such as agenda setting, selective exposure and two-step of information flow have been using as a theoretical backbone by many computational researchers. The methods of computational social science do not mean that a method is only executed on a computer – social science scholars have been using computers in their research for a long time. Computational social science methods in research are expansion and enhancement of the existing methodological toolbox.

Objective

On this book, we will focus on the implementation of computational social science methods and touch upon the opportunities and challenges of this method in social sciences. Therefore, the objective of this book sheds light upon (1) the infrastructure which should be built to gain required skill sets, (2) the tools which have used in computational social sciences and (3) the methods which have developed and applied into computational social sciences. The studies that are related with the theoretical frameworks and empirical research findings will be in the scope of this book.

Target Audience

The target audience of this book will be made up of researchers, scholars and students who are working in various disciplines of social sciences and individuals who have interest on learning the computational methods in social sciences.

Recommended Topics

• Big data and computational social sciences 
• Computation methods and Social Sciences 
• Computation methods and applications in Anthropology Research 
• Computation methods and applications in Archaeology Research 
• Computation methods and applications in Communication Research 
• Computation methods and applications in Economics Research 
• Computation methods and applications in Geography Research 
• Computation methods and applications in History Research 
• Computation methods and applications in Law Research
• Computation methods and applications in Linguistics Research 
• Computation methods and applications in Politics Research 
• Computation methods and applications in Psychology Research 
• Computation methods and applications in Sociology Research 
• Digital public sphere and computational social science methods 
• Social sharing networks and computational social science methods

Submission Procedure

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before March 17, 2021, a chapter proposal of 1,000 to 2,000 words clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors will be notified by March 31, 2021 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines.Full chapters are expected to be submitted by May 30, 2021, and all interested authors must consult the guidelines for manuscript submissions at https://www.igi-global.com/publish/contributor-resources/before-you-write/ prior to submission. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.

Note: There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted to this book publication, Opportunities and Challenges for Computational Social Science Methods. All manuscripts are accepted based on a double-blind peer review editorial process.

All proposals should be submitted through the eEditorial Discovery® online submission manager.

Publisher

This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), an international academic publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference," "Business Science Reference," and "Engineering Science Reference" imprints. IGI Global specializes in publishing reference books, scholarly journals, and electronic databases featuring academic research on a variety of innovative topic areas including, but not limited to, education, social science, medicine and healthcare, business and management, information science and technology, engineering, public administration, library and information science, media and communication studies, and environmental science. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit https://www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2022.

Important Dates

• March 17, 2021: Proposal Submission Deadline
• March 31, 2021: Notification of Acceptance
• May 30, 2021: Full Chapter Submission
• July 13, 2021: Review Results Returned
• August 24, 2021: Final Acceptance Notification
• September 7, 2021: Final Chapter Submission

Inquiries

Enes Abanoz

Ondokuz Mayıs University

enes.abanoz@omu.edu.tr

Classifications

Social Sciences and Humanities; Government and Law; Media and Communications; Education; Business and Management