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IJFMA Vol. 7 No.1

Deadline: November 29, 2021

Guest Editors: Gesa Marten and Jyoti Mistry

For this issue IJFMA Vol. 7 No. 1, we take up the title of the GEECT conference Transversal Entanglement, which took place at the Film University Babelsberg in 3rd – 5th June 2021, to further spin the threads of artistic research in film and weave them together in this journal edition. Transversal is process-oriented, transdisciplinary and multi-perspectival and aims to question and transform existing structures. Entanglement invites examination of how relations between things effect each other and how relational processes may impact and affect particular artistic outcomes.

For this issue on artistic research, we invite contributions that give consideration to new media forms and technologies, new ways of distribution and reception that are changing the filmic arts and film language. New digital possibilities put the classic cinema space into revised perspectives. Filmic narratives and imageries shape reality in a re-orientated constellation of entangled experiences. Artistic research in the medium of film invites reflection on social, political, economic, scientific and technical transformations.

We invite contributions that are case studies, experiments with and through the medium of film, collaborative projects across disciplines using film and audio-visual media and expansive historical reflections that open towards the entangled relationships between film practices and critical enquiry.

We frame this special issue through the lens of research approaches and methods and the impact of technology is driving artistic research in film forms. Contributors are encouraged to share their experiments with form, content and knowledge from the sciences and the role of technologies which traverse other art forms. Further consideration may be given to the discourses, narratives and imageries in film that expand media forms to build on technological innovations and which impact artistic developments.

Please submit to:

anna.coutinho@ulusofona.pt or https://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/ijfma/about/submissions

Please, check the author guidelines here:

https://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/ijfma/about/submissions

Timeline for publication:

• Submission Full Paper – 29th November 2021
• 1st round feedback from reviewers – 16th February 2022
• 1st round return from authors – 14th March 2022
• 2nd round feedback from reviewers – 6th April 2022
• Final Revisions – 25th April 2022
• Publication Date – 8th June 2022

IJFMA Online Launch – 15th June 2022 11 am CET (TBD)

IJFMA Launch – GEECT Conference (TBD)

April 5-7, 2022

Antwerp (Belgium)

Deadline for paper submission: 15 November 2021

Conference website: https://nationalismand.media/

Organizers: the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) and National movements and Intermediary Structures in Europe (NISE) with the kind support of Ghent University and the University of Antwerp.

Call for papers

For as long as nationalist movements have existed, ideological pamphlets, historical novels that constructed a romantic national past to visual arts and hashtags such as #maga on Twitter have instrumentalised media. Next to disseminating explicit nationalist messages, media (printed press and visual arts included) also play a role for nationalism by making national symbols and discourses part of everyday life. By continuously providing representations of the nation and by presenting the world as a world of nations, media help to naturalise nationalism.

Since Karl Deutsch’s Nationalism and social communication (1953/1966), many studies of nationalism and national movements have pointed at the role of media. Most famously, in Imagined Communities (1983), Benedict Anderson emphasized the importance of ‘print capitalism’ in the emergence of modern nations. The growing distribution of newspapers, magazines, books and other print media facilitated language standardisation and literacy and through that to the development of a collective consciousness and the formation of an imagined community.

The so-called ‘second Gutenberg revolution’ (early 19th century) rendered printing considerably faster and cheaper, eventually putting the ‘mass’ in mass media. This was salutary for national movements, often lacking the infrastructure that modern states possessed, and facilitated their global development. Global reach and very low costs associated with social media today provide platforms not only to national movements aspiring to state-building, but also to fringe ultra-nationalist groups without access to mainstream media.

While media can contribute to the construction of nations, media are also formed by nations, since nations often determine the institutional and legal frameworks within which media operate. For the study of nationalism, the question is then whether this media dissemination coincides with a nation, or rather reaches another community.

Studies on the organization of media usually depart from a top-down approach, without taking into consideration the active roles that audiences take up in making meaning. The ‘everyday nationhood’ concept complements these studies by proposing a bottom-up approach, focusing on the place ‘ordinary’ people give to the national through their media consumption and their own production of media content. As a consequence, social media have unifying and dividing effects on nation building as through them competing definitions of modern nationhood come to the fore.

Despite the consensus about the idea that media are important for nationalism, this relationship is rarely explored in depth. How exactly can we understand the relationship between different forms of both media and nationalism? What are the common characteristics and the differences between different geographical and political contexts? How did the relationship between media and nationalism evolve? Given the enormous growth of media in late modern and contemporary history, has its importance for nationalism grown accordingly? And how did the rise of transnational (social) media and user generated content media affect nationalism?

This conference is intended to cover cases from all parts of the world and welcomes papers based on different theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches, and from different disciplines and fields, such as history, media and communication studies, political science, sociology, linguistics and literature. The conference will take place in person, at the University of Antwerp. However, certain timeslots will be reserved for online sessions, in order to facilitate the participation of scholars who would otherwise be unable to travel to Antwerp, and to encourage scholars from outside Europe to participate. Requests for a place in the online sessions should be clearly indicated when submitting an abstract.

Themes

Possible themes include:

• Revisiting media and nationalism theories;
• Media and nationalist propaganda;
• Media and banal nationalism;
• Media and everyday nationalism;
• Media and national indifference;
• New media and nationalism;
• Media, nationalism and gender/sexuality/class/age/ethnicity;
• The representation of nations in media;
• The role of media in naturalizing the idea of a ‘world of nations’;
• Media as sources for nationalism research;
• Social media and nationalism as a part of civil societies and public spheres
• Competing definitions in both visual and literary media
• Media, education and nationalism

Abstracts

Abstracts may contain proposals for individual papers, entire panels and workshops. Abstracts are to be submitted before November 15th 2021 at nationalismand.media/abstract.

All abstracts will be peer reviewed before final acceptance.

We will let you know whether your abstract has been accepted in January 2022.

Conference organizers

The conference is organized by ASEN (asen.ac.uk), NISE (nise.eu), the University of Antwerp’s Departments of History, Literature, and Communications Studies (uantwerpen.be), and Ghent University’s Departments of History and Communications Studies (ugent.be).

Contact

If you have any queries, you can contact the organizing team by email at hello@nationalismand.media or by telephone and WhatsApp on +44 78 85 99 16 33.

We look forward to welcoming you to Antwerp.

Copyright © MMXXI ASEN and NISE.

UCLouvain

UCLouvain invites applications for a tenure-track or tenured full-time position in Communication studies

Teaching

The candidate will have teaching assignments in the field of organizational communication and in research methods within the Master of Communication as well as the Bachelor's degree in Information and Communication. Part of the teaching activities can take place on the Mons site and/or in evening programmes.

As such, the candidate should be able to intervene in the following teaching areas:

• Information and communication theories
• Strategy of organizations (in the business sector as well as in the non-profit sector)
• Strategic communication
• Sensitive communication and crisis communication
• Qualitative methods in information and communication studies

Research

The candidate will develop, carry out and lead a cutting-edge research program in the field of organizational communication that could be rooted in one of the following paradigms:

• Critical approaches to organizational communication
• Constructivist and/or interpretative approaches of organizational communication
• Processual approaches of organizational communication
• The candidate should master at least one of the following research methods:
• Ethnography
• Ethnomethodology
• Grounded theory
• Discourse analysis and critical discourse analysis
• Mixed methods research in communication

The candidate will contribute to the research activities carried out at the Institute for Language & Communication in collaboration with the members of the research “Laboratoire d’analyse des systèmes de communication d’organisation”. Part of the research activities can be carried out on the Mons site.

Application deadline: Monday, November 15, 2021 at noon

More info here: https://jobs.uclouvain.be/PersonnelAcademique/job/An-academic-position-in-Communication-studies-%281FTE%29/720721401/

May 2022

Deadline: November 5, 2021

ICA 2022 Paris submissions: Submission to ICA 2022 in Paris is now open for business and we would love to see your papers! Submit your work at this website: https://ica2022.abstractcentral.com/.

GSD will accept full research papers, full theory papers, research escalators (extended abstracts), poster proposals, and panel proposals this year. The full GSD CfP is available here: www.icahdq.org/mpage/GAME_CFP.

Deadline for submission is Friday, 5 November 2021, at 12:00 Noon ICA Headquarters time (EST).

GSD social event in October: GSD leadership is planning a virtual event in GATHERTOWN ( https://bit.ly/GamesMeetGreet) to share information about the division and facilitate collaborations on ICA papers and panels. RSVP form is here: https://forms.gle/xUgNqBSQQNCHfsdW8

​Special Issue of Tourism Geographies

Deadline: October 15, 2021

This special issue examines practices, meanings and impacts of emerging media technologies: digital, mobile, geo/locative and augmented reality technologies within tourism geographies. The special issue aims to situate emerging media technologies within processes of the production and transformation of space, spatial knowledge and social relations within the tourist encounter. We ask contributors to the special issue to consider: What are the configurations of different technologies involved with tourist experiences? In what ways do emerging media technologies shape tourism imaginaries and experiences? What are the particular cultural inflections in the relationship between digital and tourist practices? How do broader infrastructural and economic conditions shape the relationships between digital and tourist practices?

Papers in this special issue will explore the unfolding contexts of media, digital and emerging technologies in tourism geographies across breadth and depth and may include the following topics:

• Culturally and geographically situated explorations of digital practices in tourist sites (including empirical investigations into travel photography, virtual reality headsets, online travel writing, and travel vlogs)
• The role of emerging media technologies for wayfinding and placemaking
• Digital practices and infrastructures in relationship to tourism work and livelihoods
• Specific studies of social and digital media platforms and apps and tourist practices (eg. Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp)
• Specific studies of geo/locative and augmented reality technologies and tourist practices (eg. GoPro, WallaMe)
• Non-use and non-digital environments such as sacred and religious sites
• In-depth qualitative or ethnographic studies of emerging media technologies in literary tourism, film tourism, theme parks, fan tourism, music tourism, food tourism, heritage tourism, or roots tourism in comparative contexts (we particularly welcome studies situated in countries in the Global South)
• Tourism locations and technologies and of visual cultures

Guest Editors:

Jolynna Sinanan, University of Manchester

Christian Ritter, Erasmus University Rotterdam

Contact email: emergingmediatourism@gmail.com

Abstract submission: 15 Oct 2021

Full publication timeline: https://www.tgjournal.com/emerging-media-technologies.html

We are looking forward to receiving your contributions.

October 15-16, 2021

Sapienza University of Rome and online on Zoom

The Conference has the objectives of advancing discussion about gender and media studies and exchange among scholars from different countries, providing an overview of the most recent and original studies on gender and the media, and giving prominence to research strands that are not always visible in the international arena.

There will be two keynote lectures, three round tables and fifteen parallel panels. The opening lecture will be given by Rosalind Gill (City, University of London). The closing lecture will be a dialogue between Milly Buonanno (Sapienza University of Rome) and Paola Bonifazio (University of Texas at Austin).

Free registration: https://tinyurl.com/yeknskre

Full programme: https://www.gemmaconference.com/wp-content/uploads/Conference-Programme-1.pdf

Contacts:

info@gemmaconference.com

https://www.gemmaconference.com/

November 4-5, 2021

Online conference

The European Conference on Health Communication (ECHC2021) will take place online on 4 and 5 November 2021 on “Health communication dynamics in turbulent times”. Our two keynote speakers, dr. Wyke Stommel (Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands) and Koen Wauters (science journalist at VRT, Belgium) will provide exciting insights in their research and journalistic practice in turbulent times.

The academic programme furthermore features over 70 traditional presentations, almost 20 work-in-progress presentations and 3 panels. In addition, we organize a number of themed sessions specifically aimed at PhDs and early career researchers. EACH, ICA and ECREA will present themselves in a dedicated ‘meet the associations’-session.

Registration for the ECHC 2021 conference is now open. Please register here https://www.echc2021.eu/registration/

More information on the program here: https://www.echc2021.eu/programme/

June 10-16, 2022

Barcelona, Spain

https://isea2022.isea-international.org/submit-your.../

We are excited to announce that the International Symposium on Electronic Art will be held in-person from 10 to 16 June 2022 in Barcelona, Spain.

We invite artists, designers, scholars, researchers, educators, innovators, and creators to contribute to this growing discussion about our world of “possibles” and the following sub-themes:

• Humans and Non-humans
• Natures and Worlds
• Futures and Heritages
• Educations and Societies

October 20

— Full and short papers

— Posters

— Panel discussions

October 22

— Artist Talks

— Institutional presentations

— Workshops

— Tutorials

October 30

— Artworks’ Proposals

July 18-19, 2022

Online

Deadline: January 31, 2022

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the 2022 International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety)! #SMSociety will be held virtually on July 18th & 19th, 2022. The conference’s two-day program will feature live panels and paper presentations, tutorials, and networking events.

In keeping with the conference’s inter- and transdisciplinary focus, we welcome both quantitative and qualitative scholarly and original submissions that crosses disciplinary boundaries and expands our understanding of current and future trends in social media research across many fields including (but not limited to): Communication, Computer Science, Education, Journalism, Information Science, Law, Management, Political Science, Psychology and Sociology.

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

#SMSociety is a gathering of leading social media researchers from around the world. It is the premier venue for sharing and discovering new peer-reviewed interdisciplinary research on how social media affects society. Organized by the Social Media Lab at Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University, #SMSociety provides participants with opportunities to exchange ideas, present original research, learn about recent and ongoing studies, and network with peers.

NEW FOR 2022

#SMSociety will switch from being an annual conference to a biennial conference. After 2022, the next iteration of #SMSociety will be in the summer of 2024 (exact date, location and format TBD).

The Program Committee for #SMSociety will be authors who have submitted their papers to the conference for consideration. For a submission to be considered, one author from each submission is required to peer review (double blind) three other conference submissions.

Instead of Full and WIP paper submissions, #SMSociety will now be inviting authors to submit extended abstracts with a 1k-1.5K word limit.

The program will be organized in a way to support attendance across multiple time zones and will allow our authors to safely connect. All presentations will also be recorded and made available to registered attendees for a limited time after the conference.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

• Cyberbullying, Trolling and Antisocial Behavior
• Digital Methods
• Discourse and Public Opinion
• Health and Wellbeing
• Marketing and Outreach
• Misinformation and Disinformation
• Online and Offline Communities
• Platform Governance and Regulation
• Politics and Policy
• Privacy, Security and Trust
• Use and Users

IMPORTANT DATES

Conference Date: July 18-19, 2022

Papers (Extended Abstracts) Due: Jan. 31, 2022

Workshops & Tutorials Due: Mar. 14, 2022

Panels Due: Mar. 14, 2022

Notification Due: Mar. 31, 2022

SUBMISSION DETAILS

https://socialmediaandsociety.org/submit/

PUBLICATIONS:

Publication of Pre-prints and Datasets: To promote your work during and after the conference, authors of accepted papers (extended abstracts) are encouraged to share their work as a pre-print via EasyChair Preprint. Preprint will be accessible via the conference online program and other channels. If you have a dataset to share, you can also upload it to one of many data repositories such as Dataverse or figshare. Authors of accepted papers will then have an opportunity to provide a link to their pre-print and/or dataset for inclusion in the conference program.

Journal Publications: We will circulate CFP to relevant journal special issues as they become available in 2022. (We hope that feedback received from other scholars during the review process and the Q&A part of your presentation will help you refine your ideas and develop your work into a full paper after the conference. Once ready, you are encouraged to submit your full paper to a journal of your choice.)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Anatoliy Gruzd, Ryerson University

Philip Mai, Ryerson University

James Cook, University of Maine at Augusta

Zoetanya Sujon, London College of Communication

Chei Sian Lee, Nanyang Technological University

Jenna Drenten, Loyola University Chicago

Céline Yunya Song, Hong Kong Baptist University

Katrin Weller, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences

Felipe Soares, Ryerson University

University of Bern

At the Institute of Communication and Media Studies (ikmb) of the University of Bern, a position is available as a PhD student

The position will be available from December 1st, 2021 (or by appointment) for an initial period of three years. It is intended to serve the purpose of scientific qualification (doctorate).

Tasks:

- conducting research and writing of publications (the possibility exists to get involved into an ongoing research project that combines panel surveys, web-tracking and automated text analysis; fields: media usage, media impact, media content)

- teaching of courses in the BA Social Sciences

- contribution to the general tasks of the Institute

Requirements:

- above-average degree in communication science, a related social science discipline and /or in computational social science

- strong interest in online and political communication

- very good skills in the methods of empirical social science

- a plus: affinity for computational methods

- ability to work in a team

We offer:

An attractive working environment awaits you at the Institute for Communication and Media Science

at the University of Bern: a collegial team, cooperation and exchange, as well as the freedom to develop your own ideas. Employment adheres to the regulations of the Canton of Bern.

The University of Bern strives to increase the proportion of women in research and teaching and therefore urges qualified female candidates to apply.

Applications (letter of motivation including a description of your future research interests / ideas; CV

(if available incl. list of publications), certificates, a central chapter of the master thesis / another publication; one letter of reference) should be mailed as pdf file by October 17, 2021 to Prof. Dr. Silke

Adam (silke.adam@unibe.ch). For further information, please contact Prof. Dr. Silke Adam. Job interviews will take place at October 26/27th.