European Communication Research and Education Association
May 7-8, 2021
Istanbul Bilgi University/online
Deadline: March 1, 2021
Interdisciplinary PhD communication conference
Collaborative Research Methodologies
Challenging Dichotomies and Bridging Gaps
Researcher as Collaborator
Doing and Being Together
Collaborative Communication Technologies
Critical Perspectives on 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:
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:
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
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
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
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.
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:
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
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
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
Medien & Zeit
Deadline: April 30, 2021
Editors: Erik Koenen (Bremen), Christina Krakovsky (Vienna), Mike Meißner (Fribourg), Bernd Semrad (Vienna)
Guest Editor: Maria Löblich (Freie Universität Berlin)
In 2021, the Open Issue invites you to contribute articles in German or English from the whole range of historical communication and media sciences. Articles can present scientific results as well as discuss methodological and theoretical questions and concepts of historical communication science. The submitted article has to be an initial publication, not published or designated to be published elsewhere. After being checked for formal criteria and an initial examination of the content, each submission to the Open Issue is put through double blind peer review process.
Submissions are invited until 30th April 2021 as extended abstracts (anonymized, 10,000 characters including spaces, without notes and literature; Open Office or MS Word documents), with a removable cover page (containing name and contact information of the author/s), formatted according to the style sheet of medien & zeit (APA-Style 7th Edition; https://medienundzeit.at/richtlinien-und-style-sheet), via e-mail to open-call@medienundzeit.at. Review results and information regarding the publication are to be expected until 31st May 2021.
July 13 – 15, 2021
PhD Workshop: July 12, 2021
Online conference, hosted by Faculty of Science, Technology and Media, Mid Sweden University, Sweden
Deadline: February 15, 2021
International Sustainable Development Research Society (ISDRS) is pleased to announce its 27th annual conference
TRACK: Communication for sustainability
The new track Communication for sustainability was created in response of the urgency to take action and interact to achieve the UN Sustainable Development goals of the UN and contribute to new solutions for large scale societal challenges that we are experiencing. Communication scholars have an important role in counteracting social and environmental crises in developing and developed countries and provide knowledge that contributes to social transformation and sustainable development.
This track invites communication scholars and scholars from other disciplines to present and discuss research focusing on the role of communication in relation to sustainable development. Communication research has an important role to play in this transformation.
Communication is critical for understanding the needs for change, to develop change initiatives and to implement change in organizations and societies. How we communicate about change is decisive for how we perceive the need for change and what actions we perform. Leadership is inextricably linked with communication, since communication enables leaders to motivate and inspire – or to rule and divide. Theory on the communicative constitution of organizing illustrates that communication processes including conversations, meetings, texts, messages, information, meaning, and media shape the creation of organizational objectives and collective action. This is important, since business as usual is inadequate and corporations are changing their mode of operations from merely philanthropic activities to changing their mode of operation in order to address complex pressing global issues and contribute to solve environmental and social problems that range from environmental pollution to work policies for employees. To contribute to sustainable development is a necessity to run a business organization effectively, and to build trustworthy relations with publics and stakeholders. By employing the knowledge on how to use strategic communication to form relations with publics and stakeholders, increase consciousness of social and environmental issues, and sustainable options, and influence behaviors.
Communication is also fundamental to increase knowledge about new innovations and sustainable solutions and research results that can be implemented in practice. With communication materials, campaigns we can inform the general public, engage with them, raise awareness on specific actions etcetera. Without communication, there will be no transformation.
We favor a broad range of subjects in this track, and welcome research from all perspectives: critical, postmodern, interpretive and post-positivist. We urge researchers studying organizational communication, strategic communication, public relations, environmental communication, health communication, media and communication, and journalism to submit abstracts to make a difference.
Length and content of the proposed abstract to the track
Each proposed abstract should be within 300 and 500 words (including all text)
Abstracts which do not outline points 3.a.) AND 3.b.) might not be given special consideration in the selection for potential publications and might be considered less relevant in the Review.
Potential publication channels
With regard to potential publications, depending on the number and quality of contributions the following publication opportunities have already been envisaged:
Submission
Please submit your abstract by visiting the abstract submission system (you will be required to setup an account first) at
https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/login?redirect=/stages/2332/submitter
Deadline for abstracts: January 15 2021
PLEASE ALSO CONSIDER A PARTICIPATION IN OUR PHD-WORKSHOP! https://2021.isdrsconferences.org/phd-workshop/
https://2021.isdrsconferences.org/communication-for-sustainability/
We accept abstracts, 300-500 words until January 15
Track chairs:
Catrin Johansson, Mid Sweden University, Sweden.
Catrin.Johansson@miun.se
Wim Elving, Hanzehogeschool Groningen, The Netherlands.
w.j.l.elving@pl.hanze.nl
Jody Jahn, University of Colorado Boulder, USA.
Jody.Jahn@colorado.edu
CONFERENCE:
This online conference covers sustainability in relation to all the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the virtue of the COVID-19 crisis and beyond. It aims to investigate the most current trends and implications for the environmental, social and economic dimensions of sustainable development in the Global North and Global South.
We would like to kindly invite you to submit abstracts in a track relevant to your research. Submission deadline is January 31, 2021.
More information about the conference, tracks, submission of abstracts and registration can be found on https://2021.isdrsconferences.org/.
Please also have a look at the PhD workshop that will be held on July 12, 2021.
More information on https://2021.isdrsconferences.org/phd-workshop/.
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