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University of Leicester

The School of Media, Communication, and Sociology at the University of Leicester welcomes applications to its interdisciplinary Master’s programme in Media, Gender, and Social Justice. The first of its kind in the UK, this one-year programme offers students the opportunity to critically examine and practically apply theories, concepts, and approaches related to the use of media and communication for addressing inequalities and engaging in social justice work.

This MA is offered by one of the UK’s leading centres for research and teaching in media, communication, and sociology. In addition to offering the expertise of over 50 members of staff in areas related to media, inclusion, politics, and development, we collaborate with colleagues in Criminology, Business, History, Politics, and International Relations to offer students a wide range of courses related to social justice and possibilities for supervision in these complementary subject areas.

The University of Leicester is ideally located in the East Midlands, a well-networked and exciting hub of social, artistic, and political activism. Leicester is widely-known as a welcoming, diverse city, and the University is a socially inclusive institution that celebrates research-led teaching.

Entry Requirements

Students must have a 2:1 degree or equivalent professional qualification. We may consider relevant voluntary/work experience in grassroots, public, private or NGO sectors related to social justice internationally. Additional information about the programme and application procedures can be found here: https://le.ac.uk/courses/media-gender-and-social-justice-ma

Inquiries can be directed to:

Dr Alison Harvey

Programme Director, MA Media, Gender, and Social Justice

School of Media, Communication, and Sociology, University of Leicester

ah463@le.ac.uk

Thematic issue of Facta Universitatis

Deadline: June 30, 2020

We hereby invite all interested colleagues to submit research papers, review articles, discussion papers, and thematic essays for the thematic issue of the journal Facta Universitatis: Philosophy, Sociology, Psychology and History, Vol. 19, No 2, 2020.

This Call for Papers is aimed at bringing together a selected number of scholars and associates from the academic community who wish to participate in the project titled “SOCIALIST MEDIA CULTURE FROM SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE”.

In the "short” 20th century or in "era of extremes", as Hobsbawm (1994) called the century we left behind, many dramatic changes and transformations occurred in almost all areas of social, economic, political and cultural life in Europe and the world. We had two World Wars and many other inter-ethnic conflicts and confrontations. In 1989 Europe witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall and the tumultuous breakdown of communism in Eastern European and Central European countries. In many ways, this year is seen as a historical turn. During the 90s, Yugoslavia, a well-known European country ceased to exist as a state. Communism and socialism, in many ways and many spheres, have marked the 20th century. For term communism in public discourse, we often use socialism, although in the literature about Marxism we found communism as one of the types of socialism. Also, there are scientific and news articles that make differences between communist and capitalist countries. When we talk about Yugoslavia, we talk about soft socialism.

It is necessary to focus on the research field of everyday life and popular culture in the former socialist countries, as well as their influence on later cultural phenomena, audience reception and the formation of post-socialist identities. The call for papers aims to: determine the context of the emergence of socialist media culture; identify how socialist media culture, as a part of the culture, represents everyday life and social reality; explain whether the media culture that belongs to all social groups can transform different social practices; evaluate how post-socialist audiences redefine preferred social meanings.

You are kindly invited to submit the final versions of your research paper (in electronic format) by June 30, 2020.

The research papers should be submitted in English, and it should not exceed 16 pages (A4 format, max. 40.000 characters with spaces, line spacing 1.5, font Times New Roman, font size 12).

The submitted papers will be subject to double-blind peer review. In order to ensure the authenticity, relevance and legibility, the submitted papers are also subject to the process of proof-reading and copy-editing by the editors and editorial staff.

For technical details and editorial requirements on preparing the paper for publication, please refer to Author Guidelines, available HERE.

Editors of the thematic issue: Assist. prof. Natasha Simeunović Bajić (University of Niš), Assoc. prof. Vyara Angelova (Sofia University St Kliment Ohridski) and Assoc. prof. Romina Surugiu (University of Bucharest).

ISSN 1820-8495 (Print)

ISSN 1820-8509 (Online)

October 7-9, 2020

Örebro, Sweden

Deadline: March 30, 2020

Welcome to the 26th Arab US Association for Communication Educators Conference. The conference will be held in Örebro, Sweden between 7-9 October 2020. The conference is hosted by Örebro University.

The aim of this year’s conference is to explore and critically discuss how journalism is redefining its identity against the economic, cultural and technological challenges especially with the rise of fake news era.

Studies showed fake news and false rumours spread six times faster on Twitter than any attempts to correct or clarify. Many more people are only seeing the first version of a story, not the following ones with updates, making it even more imperative journalists get the facts right on the first go. Incidents of racism, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia have risen past their previous peak levels following the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the 2010 Arab spring.

Misinformation and hateful rhetoric and discourses about the motives and citizenship status of these groups has led to harassment, graffiti, and mass shootings. From fake news to the deepfake, the digital eraʼs expanded possibilities for fabrication and falsehood are endangering the fourth estate, especially as many people are turning their mind to the future of journalism. How, in the future, are we to know the difference between truth, myth and lies?

There is a new concern for the virtues of the traditional newsroom, and what good journalists do. That is, find things out, verify the facts and publish them in outlets which, despite famous stuff-up, can generally be relied upon to provide the best available version of the truth.

We invite proposals that address this multifaceted phenomenon focusing on topics that include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Professional identities and organizational cultures
• Local and hyper-local media
• Social and civil functions of local journalism and impact on the public sphere
• Participatory/citizen journalism, community media
• Audience
• Emerging trends in digital storytelling, immersive journalism, data visualization
• New forms of journalism activism including but not limited to migrant journalism, political activism, etc.
• How the public and journalists contribute to, perceive, and deal with misinformation, disinformation, and fake new

Information in Arabic here

Successful abstracts will be considered for inclusion in a Special Issue proposal to be submitted to Nordic Journal of Media Studies.

Working language for the conference is both Arabic and English.

• Abstract (250 words maximum), submission deadline: 30 March 2020
• Authors notified of acceptance: 15 April 15 2020
• Full papers due: 20 August 2020

Please send:

English abstracts to: Ahmed El Gody: ahmed.elgody@oru.se

Arabic abstracts to: Abdulrahman Al-Shami: aalshami8@gmail.com

De Montfort University

De Montfort University (DMU) is offering fully-funded 3-year PhD scholarships (pro rata for part-time study), for Home and International students with a stipend of £15,009 per annum. The scholarships take effect from 1 October 2020. DEADLINE for applications: 9 March 2020.

Initial applications should be made via this link: https://www.findaphd.com/phds/program/de-montfort-university-phd-scholarships/?p4826.

and must include:

1. A CV attachment.

2. Details of the proposed research project and how it maps onto DMU areas of research excellence (see below).

3. Name of a potential De Montfort University supervisor (please indicate if contact has been made).

https://www.dmu.ac.uk/research/centres-institutes/cathi/members.aspx

DMU’s Cinema and Television History Research Institute (CATHI) is a centre of excellence in archival screen heritage. It specialises in evidence-based and oral history methods to inform ground-breaking interdisciplinary research and RCUK-funded international collaborations  CATHI is home to the cross-faculty Centre for Adaptations (with the Andrew Davies Archive ) and houses a growing number of other unique collections including the*Hammer Films Archive, the Sir Norman Wisdom Collection, the Palace Pictures and Scala Productions Archive, the Cinema Museum’s Indian Cinemas Archive,**the Zee TV (UK) Collection and the Peter Whitehead Archive . We host the annual UK Asian Film Festival, the BFI British Silent Film Festival and the post-graduate conference CATHICon, and promote practice-based research via the DocHub@DMU. CATHI invites applications from well-qualified students whose research interests connect with our expertise in:

• Women’s film and television history
• British Cinema and Film Culture
• Italian Cinema
• Transnational Cinema
• Silent Cinema
• Cult Cinema
• Bollywood and Independent Indian Cinema
• Transmedia Adaptations
• Heritage Cinema Culture and Period Television Drama
• Film Ephemera and Material Culture
• Audiences, Reception Studies and Memories of Cinemagoing
• Film Fandom, Fanworks and Social Media
• Film exhibition and Cinema History
• Film Festivals
• Documentary theory and practice
• Screen performance and star studies
• 1960s and the counterculture

We especially welcome proposals on the following archival projects:

1. Leicester’s Phoenix Art Centre: regional arts provision since the 1960s. An interdisciplinary PhD embracing theatre, music, performance, film and community arts.

2. Andrew Davies: Adapting the Classics

3. Palace Pictures: Independence and Innovation

4. Indian Cinema’s Diaspora and Distribution

For informal enquiries and advice on developing proposals please contact: Professor Justin Smith (Justin.Smith@dmu.ac.uk).

Central European University

Application deadline: March 31, 2020

Available scholarships: 2 (one in Political Science, one in History)

The joint doctoral fellowship program Populism, Nationalism, and Authoritarianism: Mobilization Strategies and Discursive Repertoires brings together students and faculty researching nationalism from different disciplinary perspectives, with a particular focus on the complex and ramified relationship between authoritarianism and nationalism. The main objective of the interdepartmental cooperation is to integrate different disciplinary approaches in order to facilitate the regional, comparative, and global study of populist strands of nationalist politics. The study plan is designed to help students combine conceptual and methodological tools to generate conceptual and methodological tools to generate new insights into the discursive repertoires of political actors as well as the use of populist frames and topoi in everyday political interaction. The fellowship is intended to facilitate the combination of macro-institutional (top-down) and micro-political (bottom-up) perspectives on populist mobilization.

On the Political Science track we are particularly interested in project proposals that deal with the intersection of authoritarian and nationalism discourses, the interactions between dynamics of authoritarian regimes and their nation-building policies, the construction and application of nationalism ideas for authoritarian legitimation and consolidation. On the History track we deal with questions such as the historical relationship of nationalism, populism and authoritarianism, historical instances of mobilization of ?uncivil societies?, the reconstruction of ideological traditions of authoritarianism and corporatism, as well as the morphology of authoritarian nationalist regimes and movements. We are open to both quantitative and qualitative methodological approaches as well as to in-depth regional studies and/or comparative research. Candidates should have an interest in theoretical problems related to populism, nationalism and authoritarianism.

Each student will have two supervisors, one from his or her ?home? department, and the other from the Nationalism Studies Program. The Ph.D. program consists of two major phases: coursework and examination, and dissertation research and writing. Within the coursework, the PhD students will take core courses in the Nationalism Studies Program, including a Ph.D. seminar on populism and neo-nationalisms, with the aim of familiarizing themselves with various historical and normative approaches to a common field of inquiry. They will also have to satisfy the course and examination requirements of their respective doctoral programs, i.e. the Doctoral School of Political Science, International Relations, and Public Policy, and the Department of History.

Candidates must indicate their interest in the fellowship in their application submitted to the Doctoral School of Political Science, Public Policy and International Relations or the Doctoral Program in Comparative History.

Further information:

Doctoral School of Political Science, Public Policy and International Relations: https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdsps.ceu.edu%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cr.wodak%40lancaster.ac.uk%7Cc41c98d21a4a4454fc2008d7acd457d8%7C9c9bcd11977a4e9ca9a0bc734090164a%7C1%7C1%7C637167900320569840&sdata=aNMnKhjLtPG%2FPfkf558gBLcoxpIy34WwQXlJyEKyQ7k%3D&reserved=0

Doctoral Program in Comparative History: https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhistory.ceu.edu%2Fnode%2F19&data=02%7C01%7Cr.wodak%40lancaster.ac.uk%7Cc41c98d21a4a4454fc2008d7acd457d8%7C9c9bcd11977a4e9ca9a0bc734090164a%7C1%7C1%7C637167900320569840&sdata=K1HMquhK4Z9px%2F1eaoFSpH%2B3JpTqXeMP0n%2B4cJcInrM%3D&reserved=0

General information on the application procedure: https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ceu.edu%2Fapply&data=02%7C01%7Cr.wodak%40lancaster.ac.uk%7Cc41c98d21a4a4454fc2008d7acd457d8%7C9c9bcd11977a4e9ca9a0bc734090164a%7C1%7C1%7C637167900320569840&sdata=on6yspwBcYqXpXfNyVU8PEyZppuVu5vE%2BX3jMHV0Qs4%3D&reserved=0

CEU Online application form: https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsits.ceu.edu%2Furd%2Fsits.urd%2Frun%2Fsiw_ipp_lgn.login%3Fprocess%3Dsiw_ipp_app_crs&data=02%7C01%7Cr.wodak%40lancaster.ac.uk%7Cc41c98d21a4a4454fc2008d7acd457d8%7C9c9bcd11977a4e9ca9a0bc734090164a%7C1%7C1%7C637167900320579842&sdata=qyP3AH8kkLt8MTboecFbtWR4H2eXnBK%2FNycfaOe3W8U%3D&reserved=0

For questions on organizational issues please contact the respective doctoral tracks:

Dr. Inna Melnykovska, (melnykovskai@ceu.edu), Political Science track

Monika Nagy (history@ceu.edu) History track

September 3-5, 2020

La Sorbonne, Paris

https://www.movementis.com/

From “Brain Body Cognition” at Oxford University in 2017 to “Movement and Cognition” at Harvard Medical School in 2018 and at Tel-Aviv University in 2019, our previous conferences have brought together researchers, clinicians and therapists from the fields of education, medicine, sports and rehabilitation sciences, as well as from occupational, physical therapy and psychology.

Attendees are coming from all parts of the world, and we invite you to join us in September 2020 at the World Conference on “Brain, Body, Cognition” at La Sorbonne University in Paris, France. This site will give you all the needed information for your registration, and for abstract submission, if you wish to present your work and research.

TOPICS

• Therapeutic Exercise
• Ergonomics
• Kinesiology
• Motor Learning and Behavior
• Sport and Exercise Psychology and Physiology
• Biomechanics of Movement
• Technology and Movement Sciences-Instrumentation
• Developmental Aspects of Cognitive-Movement Interaction
• Movement Disorders
• Motor Control
• Coordination and Vestibular Function Neuromodulation
• Gait
• Rehabilitation of Motor Dysfunction
• Neuroscience of Dance
• Optimizing Human Motor Performance
• Cognitive Movement Interaction
• Aging and Cognitive-Movement Interaction

ABSTRACTS

We welcome your participation in the conference on Movement and Cognition as a delegate or as a presenter.

If you have relevant new and important research to share with the scientific and clinical communities (either as an oral presentation, symposium, workshop or as a poster), we encourage you to submit an abstract forthwith.

Full papers of accepted abstracts will, pending additional review, be published in the journal Brain, Body Cognition published by Nova Scientific Publishers. While full papers are welcome, they are not mandatory. Details will follow after acceptance of the submitted conference abstracts. So first submit your abstract.

Additionally, abstracts will be printed in the book of abstracts available at the conference and separately all abstracts will be published in the text Movement and Cognition-2020 also to be published by Nova Scientific.

For general knowledge: Last years conference proceedings is available at a discount from the publisher for Movement and cognition conference attendees for $US100 (https://novapublishers.com/shop/movement-2018-brain-body-and-cognition/). Subscription to the journal Brain, Body, Cognition is also available at a discount from the publisher for conference attendees at $US100/volume.

Abstract submission:

Please, read the instructions CAREFULLY before submitting your abstract.

Instructions for abstract submissions

for Oral, Poster or Workshop presentations:

(Symposium proposal format is presented under the symposium tab on the conference webpage):

Each presenter may submit only One (1) abstract

The presenter’s name must be underlined

Submit your abstract in Microsoft Word format (.doc, docx).

Abstracts are to be written in English only. All presentations will be in the English language.

Authors’ names should be provided in the format: Hillary Clinton, Donald John Trump. Do not add Dr, Prof, Mr., Mrs., degrees

The title should have a maximum of 150 characters.

Affiliations should be included inline 1. If authors’ affiliations are different, you should indicate them filling 2, 3, and 4 lines.

The presenting author’s name and email address must be included and marked as “presenter” by underlining the name.

The abstract should have a maximum of 350 words.

Indicate at the bottom of the abstract whether the abstract is intended for oral or poster presentation or either, or as a workshop proposal.

The abstract for oral and poster presentations should be structured using the following headings: Keywords (up to five), Objective, Methods, Results and Conclusions.

The abstract should be as informative as possible, including statistical evaluation.

Statements such as “results will be discussed” or “data will be presented” are not acceptable.

Standard abbreviations such as: PVS, MCS, EEG, MEEG, MRI, etc., may be used. Others should be described in full when first mentioned followed by the abbreviation in parenthesis.

Do not include tables, photographs, figures or references in your abstracts.

Include a one-paragraph bio of yourself with the abstract submission on a separate page.

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL SELF-PROMOTING METHOD DESCRIPTIONS BE ACCEPTED.

While you can submit multiple abstracts, only one presentation per presenter will be allowed, as there is significant pressure on time.

Incomplete Submissions without the required materials will not be processed.

SUBMISSION:

Submission of abstracts: Abstracts for the conference should be submitted directly to professor Joav Merrick responsible for all abstracts for this conference, at email jmerrick@zahav.net.il

Submission of full papers: Full papers should be submitted directly to professor Gerry Leisman, chair of the conference scientific committee, at email g.leisman@edu.haifa.ac.il

CONFIRMATION OF ABSTRACTS RECEIVED:

You will be notified via e-mail to confirm that your abstract has been received with a number that you must use in further correspondence with the conference secretariat or committee.

If you do not receive a confirmation within two weeks please contact the Conference Secretariat.

The Scientific Committee will assign referees to review abstracts.

Within 5 weeks you will be notify if your abstract was accepted for presentation in the conference and in which format. If you didn’t receive the notification please check with our office.

Some very high-quality abstracts offered for oral presentation might be included in satellite symposium or courses. Symposia proposal instructions are provided elsewhere on the website.

A competition will be held for the best poster presentations.

ABSTRACT FORMAT:

Title: XXXXXXXXXXX

Jon Smith1 and Peter Stubble 2

1Department of Applied Science, Auburn University, Boston, Massachusetts and 2Department of Psychology. Augustus University, Pembroke, Alabama, UnitedStates of America

Email: js@au.edu

Keywords (up to five):XXXXXXXXXXXXX

Objective: XXXXXXX XXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX XXXX XXXXXX XXXX XXX XXXX XXXXX XXXX XXXXX XXX

Methods: XXXXX XXXX XXXXX XXXX XXXX XXXXX XXXX XXXX XXXXX XXXXX X XXXXX XX XXXXXXX XX XXXXXXXX XX XXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Results: XXXX XXXXX XXXXXX XX XXXXX X X X X X XXXXXXX XXXXXXX XXXXX XXX XXXXXX XX XXXXXX XXXXX XXXX

XXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXX XXXX XXXXXXXX XX

Conclusion: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Choose one of the following presentations format: Oral or Poster or Workshop

Bio: Please add a short bio (few lines) of the presenter

Posters: You can see the instructions for poster preparation. Go to: POSTER

Symposiums: Instructions for symposiums. Go to: SYMPOSIA

October 2-4, 2020

Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA)

Deadline: April 30, 2020

2020 Midwest Popular Culture Association / Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference, especially for the Wrestling Studies Area. This conference will occur Friday-Sunday, 2-4 October 2020, at the Westin Minneapolis in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Minnesota is famous for its impact on professional wrestling. Minnesota has produced many classic superstars like the Road Warriors, Larry Hennig, the Andersons, Bob Backlund, and Molly Holly, as well as new stars like Curtis Axel, the Daivaris, Chad Gable, and Erick Rowan. In many ways, Verne Gagne and the American Wrestling Association (AWA), both based out of Minneapolis, helped establish modern professional wrestling. After wrestling for AWA and WWF, Jesse Ventura made headlines when he became Minnesota’s 38th governor. Minnesota matters in professional wrestling.

For this year’s conference, along with regular proposals related to professional wrestling, we’re interested in any that focus on the relationship between Minnesota and professional wrestling. We’re especially interested in proposals that consider the “places” of professional wrestling: from physical places like event halls and wrestling schools or cities, states and territories, to digital places like social media and websites. Minnesota is an important place in professional wrestling, so let’s talk more about why “place” matters as a concept in pro-wrestling studies.

Submit paper, abstract, or panel proposals (including the title of the presentation) to the appropriate Area on the Submissions website (submissions.mpcaaca.org). Individuals may only submit one paper, and please do not submit the same paper to more than one Area.

Deadline for receipt of proposals is April 30, 2020.

For more details, visit: https://mpcaaca.org/minn-2020.

April 4, 2020

Worldwide

The Professional Wrestling Studies Association (PWSA) invites anyone interested in professional wrestling to attend their first annual online symposium, WrestlePosium I. This symposium will occur on Saturday, April 4th, from 8am to 4pm Central Time and will be completely online so that anyone around the world can attend. Registration is necessary to access the online meeting space, but registration is free.

The symposium will consist of academic presentations, an Academic Keynote from Eero Laine, and a Professional Keynote from professional wrestler Terrance “Spider Baby” Griep.

Anyone interested in attending can visit this link to register: https://dom.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5wpcuiurzkuL41Nani5ZPR1wRcqJpnlyw. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

More information, including the schedule of talks, is available at PWSA’s website https://prowrestlingstudies.org.

July 8-9, 2020

Sheffield, UK

Deadline: March 13, 2020

www.thechildrensmediaconference.com

The CMC Research Sub-Committee is delighted to announce this year’s call for papers to be presented at the 2020 Children’s Media Conference in Sheffield on both the 8th and 9th July.

The Research Strand of the Children’s Media Conference (CMC) is a crucially important and popular part of this annual event, which attracts over 1,200 children’s media professionals to Sheffield every year. The conference will take place from the 7th to the 9th July in 2020. The Research Sessions will be held on both the 8th and 9th July.

The content shared in the research sessions is eagerly anticipated by delegates and the research strand’s role is to provide valuable insights and thought-provoking research to the children’s media community. The research presented may also be incorporated into other related conference sessions, to disseminate it more widely.

The wide variety of topics discussed at the conference can be seen in last year’s programme: https://www.thechildrensmediaconference.com/events/cmc-2019/sessions/

2020 Conference Theme: Right Here Right Now

The conference theme for 2020 is Right Here Right Now. The theme is a response to challenges set by the Changemakers at CMC last July - not only on climate change, but also diversity, inclusion and empowerment of new and young voices. It reflects the speed of change in the kids' content business landscape. New platforms, new funding, new approaches to IP, new tech, new regulatory issues, new business consolidation and continuing audience fragmentation - it's all Right Here, Right Now, and CMC will address it, not as future forecasting but "in the moment" right there, in Sheffield.

We’re especially interested in research that will help delegates achieve their creative and commercial goals. Insight into children’s behaviours and perspectives as well as data that helps to inform decision-making and strategy will be particularly useful. Our aim is to present a varied menu of research sessions, appealing to delegates from all corners of the industry and so welcome submissions from academic, institutional and commercial sources. We are keen to hear your thoughts of suitable, relevant and thought-provoking content that can be shared.

Submission Criteria

Over the years we have been able to identify the types of sessions that achieve the most success with the audience at the conference. Below is an outline of the submissions considerations we ask of our research agencies and academics and where possible your submissions should reflect the following:

• Relevance to the audience (please look at the delegate guide from last year to give you an impression of the wide range of delegates who attend CMC): https://www.thechildrensmediaconference.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Final-Website-Delegate-List-2019-.pdf
• An emphasis on findings, not methodology (this is the key to a successful presentation). Each research session lasts only 30 minutes, presentations need to move directly to “value added” outcomes

• Clear and concise action points for the audience to take away and be able to use from the research
• Long-term research which enables us to understand the past better and explore and project the future better
• Wide research which brings good statistical evidence to bear and provides a good basis for market understanding
• Fresh insights which are relevant to today’s children’s media landscape
• A unique angle/area which has not yet been explored
• Academic research that will have completed [at least data collection] by May/June 2019, at the latest, in time to be integrated for the conference
• We are open to submissions relating to children aged 0-16 years of age

For the purposes of contrast you can also compare the sessions headed “Research” in the 2018 and 2019 programmes (audio and in some cases video versions of the sessions are available on these pages):

http://www.thechildrensmediaconference.com/events/cmc-2018/downloads/

https://www.thechildrensmediaconference.com/events/cmc-2019/downloads/

Research sessions from Wednesday 8th July will be repeated on Thursday 9th July and so you must be available to present on both days.

Submission Process and Deadlines:

Please submit a 600-word abstract detailing your proposed research topic including where appropriate objectives, methods and potential outcomes.

Submit your entry to Shazia Ali/Btisam Belola, the CMC Research Strand Producers, at the following email address research@thechildrensmediaconference.com by Friday 13th March.

Submissions will be reviewed by the CMC Research Advisory Sub-Committee. The committee members are from a variety of backgrounds; Research, industry, academia, client-side and agencies. Successful applicants will be notified by Friday 27th March.

If you are selected, your session producer will need a summary of the key findings and insights from your presentation by Tuesday 26th May.

Your final presentation will be required by Friday 18th June. This is to allow the producers to identify any other sessions that the research content may be further utilised. This will increase the coverage your research session will have across the conference.

All organisations offering research for this strand are offered an in-kind sponsor status at CMC. The presenter of the research is provided with one free pass to the whole conference, plus one further pass in recognition of the sponsorship status. The CMC Operations Manager will email you with an in-kind sponsorship agreement. By Tuesday 26th May you need to send Lauren Bartles lauren@thechildrensmediaconference.com one jpeg company logo and one eps company logo for use in print and on the CMC website.

Research sessions will take place on Wednesday 8th July and will all be repeated to maximise their potential audience, on Thursday 9th July.

Key Dates – 2020

• Proposals to be received by Friday 13th March
• Successful Applicants notified by Friday 27th March
• Top-line Findings and key insights Tuesday 26th May
• Logos submitted Tuesday 26th May
• Final Presentations submitted Friday 18th June
• Presentations at Conference Wednesday 8th and Thursday 9th July

NB.

We will publish all the presentations and associated audio recordings on the CMC website immediately after the conference. Please tell us if any elements of your planned presentation will not be suitable for this. We can accept a redacted version of your presentation to remove images or video of children, for example, but if you are unable to share the bulk of your presentation on the CMC website, we will not be able to accept your submission.

The CMC research sessions will benefit from full technical support. This means that all presentations will be stored centrally and so you will not be able to present from your own PC or Mac. The deadline for submission of final presentations is Friday 18th June to allow the conference organisers to upload and check the presentations.

The CMC PR agency DDA Blueprint will be seeking new research, which stimulates press interest in the run-up to the conference. Again it is important for us to know if your research is embargoed or should not be featured in this way.

It is your responsibility to clear with research subjects and partners your right to present the research at the conference (and if possible online) and to clear all content in your presentation for display at the conference to a live audience.

Please ensure you are able to present on both Wednesday 8th and Thursday 9th July. If you have any issues with availability then please let us know when you submit your abstract.

For further clarification please email:

Shazia Ali (Producer, CMC Research Strand) and Btisam Belola (Producer, CMC Research Strand)

research@thechildrensmediaconference.com

SUBMISSIONS: to research@thechildrensmediaconference.com

By Friday 13th March 2020

Carmit Wiesslitz

This book examines to what extent the democratic potential ascribed to the Internet is realized in practice, and how civil society organizations exploit the unique features of the Internet to attain their goals. This is the story of the organization members’ outlooks and impressions of digital platforms’ role as tools for social change; a story that debunks a common myth about the Internet and collective action. In a time when social media are credited with immense power in generating social change, this book serves as an important reminder that reality for activists and social change organizations is more complicated. Thus, the book sheds light on the back stage of social change organizations’ operations as they struggle to gain visibility in the infinite sea of civil groups competing for attention in the online public sphere. While many studies focus on the performative dimension of collective action (such as protests), this book highlights the challenges of these organizations’ mundane routines. Using a unique analytical perspective based on a structural-organizational approach, and a longitudinal study that utilizes a decade worth of data related to the specific case of Israel and its highly conflicted and turbulent society, the book makes a significant contribution to study of new media and to theories of Internet, democracy, and social change.

More here: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498539791/Internet-Democracy-and-Social-Change-The-Case-of-Israel