ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

May 28-29, 2020

Cardiff University in Cardiff, UK

Deadline: December 15, 2019

Host: Data Justice Lab

As the generation, collection and analysis of data continues to transform key aspects of our society across economics, politics and culture, the question of participation has rarely been so pertinent. Democratic processes and traditional avenues for participation are facing challenges as state-citizen relations are increasingly shaped through data analytics and automation at the same time as alternative visions for participatory democracy and decision-making have proliferated. As citizens, we are said to be both coerced and active participants in this shift, both liberated and exploited in the use of digital tools, both more visible and more obscured in data-driven systems. How, then, should we understand civic participation in the datafied society? In what ways are we positioned as citizens in the advancement of datafication? How are decisions made, governance carried out, and systems created? What possibilities exist to intervene in, influence, create and resist power? Who gets to participate and on what terms? How might our institutions and government practices need to change? What are strategies for democratising the emergent datafied society? And what are avenues for enhancing citizen and community participation?

This two-day event explores the relationship between datafication and participation. Hosted by the Data Justice Lab at Cardiff University’s School of Journalism, Media and Culture (JOMEC), it will bring together international scholars, practitioners, activists, and community groups to discuss the possibilities and challenges of civic participation in a datafied society. Speakers include:

• Carly Kind (Ada Lovelace Institute)
• Mark Andrejevic (Monash University, Australia)
• Nanjira Sambuli (World Wide Web Foundation)
• Natalie Fenton (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)
• Rashida Richardson (AI Now)
• Tawana Petty (Detroit Digital Justice Coalition)

The conference will include both scholarly contributions and workshops with civil society, practitioners and impacted communities in order to facilitate and advance knowledge exchange. We therefore welcome alternative formats and ideas. Themes for submissions include (but are not limited to):

• Citizen juries, assemblies and audits
• Participatory data governance and oversight
• Data commons and co-operatives
• Data activism and resistance
• Participatory design and design justice
• Digital and human labour in data
• Participation, exploitation and coercion
• Geopolitics of participation

Submissions

Deadline for 500-word abstracts: 15th of December, 2019

Submit via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=datajustice2020

All submissions must include a title, author name(s), institutional affiliation(s) and full contact information (mailing address, email address). If you propose a workshop or practical demonstration, please provide a clear statement of purpose and a detailed description of activities, as well as any infrastructure requirements. Please note that time-slots for sessions are 90 minutes. If more is needed, please include an explanation.

How to get there

Cardiff is a 2-hour train journey west of London and Heathrow airport. The closest airports are Cardiff and Bristol.

Conference fee

• Full fee: £75 (early bird) / £100
• Reduced fee for students and civil society: £50 (early bird) / £75

Conference organizing committee: Lina Dencik, Arne Hintz, Joanna Redden and Emiliano Treré (Data Justice Lab, Cardiff University, UK)

For information about the Data Justice Lab, see: http://www.datajusticelab.org

Online CfP: https://datajusticelab.org/data-justice-2020/

Hashtag: #DataJustice2020

Contact for further information: https://datajusticelab.org/contact/

IASPM Canada Annual Conference 2020

June 12-14, 2020

Cape Breton University: Sydney, Nova Scotia

Submission Deadline: December 15, 2019

As we enter into a new decade it’s apt to question our place in the world. Almost sixty years ago, Marshall McLuhan notably coined the term Global Village to refer to the global spread of media content and consumption, and yet Canada still struggles with its position in the world as an imposing landmass with a relatively small population, and how that influences where and how its cultural texts are encountered. This conference seeks to address the concept of voice and sound as tied to space and place, in the broadest sense. In regards to popular music in Canada, we have established a strong identity, but one that is often defined in opposition to our more vocal neighbours to the South. As we continuously define and redefine Canadian cultural identity, and cultural outputs, this conference questions how our musical landscape has historically adapted, and will continue to adapt, to an increasingly globalized environment.

This is the first time that the IASPM Conference has been held in Cape Breton. And, as such, it opens up a great opportunity to not only address the “big sounds” that emerge out of “small places” like Cape Breton, but also wider themes of space and place in popular music, and the relationship between communities and music.

While we welcome papers on any aspects of popular music, we encourage papers that align with the conference subthemes: audiences; space & place; and populations & peripheries.

Audiences:

The digital landscape has dramatically extended the reach of niche music, local musicians, and subcultures/scenes. Potential areas of focus in this theme include, but are not limited to:

• Scenes: from “small town” roots to urban niches. The history, present, and future of local scenes.
• Digital communities/fans: the spread of Canadian pop through digitality.
• Subcultures: issues of subcultural identity in popular music
• Everyday uses of music
• Listening practices: environmental impacts; listening to music in transit
• Dance and embodied consumption

Space & Place:

Canada, as a Nation and a concept, continues to exist as both “village/settlement” and a major player on the global stage. The ways in which popular music also navigates these complicated relationships is often intimately tied how space and place is expressed in music. This can be seen not only in Canadian music, but also throughout a myriad of cultural and national identities. Potential areas of focus in this theme include, but are not limited to:

• Issues of space and place in popular music
• Land-based epistemologies and musical embodiment; the natural environment and music spaces
• “Small” nations/artists/communities on the global stage
• Live music and venues: small/hidden/underground venues; “noise” and leaking sounds; busking; rehearsal spaces
• Music-making practices in domestic spaces

Populations & Peripheries:

How does/can music become the sound of a community? This theme explores the connection between cultural identity, community, and music. In addition, it takes up the notion of peripheries to focus on the marginalized, subaltern, and/or tokenized sounds/identities, and to disrupt hegemonic paradigms. Potential areas of focus in this theme include, but are not limited to:

• Music and cultural, community, and/or national identity
• “Small” economies in smaller populations
• Issues of music policy and practice
• Making music in jail
• The sounds of Indigenous, Immigrant, Disabled, LGBTQ, and/or Ally communities

Submission Guidelines:

Abstracts of individual papers, workshops, performances and other presentations should be no longer than 300 words. The program committee is especially interested in proposals in diverse formats. Panel submissions should include a title and abstract for the panel (300 words max.) as well as titles and abstracts for the individual papers on the panel. All abstracts for a panel should be submitted together. Abstracts will be adjudicated individually, so it is possible for a panel to be accepted but not an individual paper and vice versa. Each abstract should also include a short biography of the author (100 words max.) including the institutional affiliation, if any, and email address of each author. Each abstract should also include five keywords. Submissions in French and English are acceptable. All submissions must be submitted as a single Word document with the author's last name as the document file name. Please do not submit your proposal as a PDF. Proposals will be blind reviewed.

Email Submissions To: iaspmcanada2020@gmail.com

Presentation Logistics:

Papers will be limited to 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes of questions. Panels will be limited to a maximum of 4 papers. Other presentations (workshops, film screenings, roundtables, etc.) will generally be limited to 60 minutes, but alternatives can be discussed/proposed. All participants must be members of IASPM-Canada at the time of the conference. Membership information is available on the following website: http://iaspm.ca/membership.

For questions about the conference, please contact the Program Committee Chair, Melissa Avdeeff (melissa.avdeeff@gmail.com), or Local Organizing Chair, Chris McDonald (chris_mcdonald@cbu.ca).

Program Committee Members:

• Melissa Avdeeff (Chair), Coventry University
• Vanessa Blais-Tremblay, Université du Québec à Montréal
• Sandria P. Bouliane, Université Laval
• Matt Brennan, University of Glasgow
• Mark Campbell, University of Toronto
• Marcia Ostashewski, Cape Breton University
• Maya Stitski, Queen’s University

May 12, 2020

Palais du Pharo, Marseille, France

Deadline: January 20, 2020

Website: https://www.clarin.eu/ParlaCLARIN-II

Submission page: will be communicated by 20 December 2019

Workshop Description

Parliamentary data is a major source of socially relevant content. It is available in ever larger quantities, is multilingual, accompanied by rich metadata, and has the distinguishing characteristic that it is spoken language produced in controlled circumstances which has traditionally been transcribed but is now increasingly released also in audio and video formats. All these factors require solutions related to structuring, synchronization, visualization, querying and analysis of parliamentary corpora. Furthermore, approaches to the exploitation of parliamentary corpora to their full extent also have to take into account the needs of researchers from vastly different Humanities and Social Sciences fields, such as political sciences, sociology, history, and psychology.

A successful first edition of the ParlaCLARIN scientific workshop held at LREC 2018 (https://www.clarin.eu/ParlaCLARIN) and a follow-up developmental ParlaFormat workshop held by CLARIN ERIC in 2019 (https://www.clarin.eu/event/2019/parlaformat-workshop) resulted in a good overview of the multitude of the existing parliamentary resources worldwide as well as tangible first steps towards better harmonization, interoperability and comparability of the resources and tools relevant for the study of parliamentary discussions and decisions.

The second ParlaCLARIN workshop therefore aims to bring together developers, curators and researchers of regional, national and international parliamentary debates that are suitable for research in disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences. We invite unpublished original work focusing on the compilation, annotation, visualisation and utilisation of parliamentary records as well as linking or comparing parliamentary records with other datasets of political discourse such as party manifestos, political speeches, political campaign debates, social media posts, etc. Apart from dissemination of the results, the workshop also aims to address the identified obstacles, discuss open issues and coordinate future efforts in this increasingly trans-national and cross-disciplinary community.

Objective

Due to the Freedom of Information Acts that are supported by the United Nations and set in place in over 100 countries worldwide, parliamentary debates are being increasingly easy to obtain, and have always been of interest to researchers from a wide range fields in Humanities and Social Sciences both for the potential influence of their content, and the specificities of the formalized, often persuasive and emotional language use in this context. As a consequence, there are many initiatives, on the national and international levels, that aim at compiling and analysing parliamentary data. The recent CLARIN-PLUS survey on parliamentary data has identified over 20 corpora of parliamentary records, with over half of them being available within the CLARIN infrastructure (https://www.clarin.eu/resource-families/parliamentary-corpora).

Given the maturity, variety, and potential of this type of language data as well as the rich metadata it is complemented with, it is urgent to gather researchers both from the side of those producing parliamentary corpora and making them available, those making use of them for linguistic, historical, political, sociological etc. research as well as those linking or comparing them with other datasets of political discourse such as party manifestos, political speeches, political campaign debates, social media posts, etc. in order to share methods and approaches of compiling, annotating and exploring parliamentary and other political language data in order to achieve harmonization of the compiled resources, and to ensure current and future comparability of research on national datasets as well as promote transnational analyses.

Topics of interest

Topics include but are not limited to:

• Creation and annotation of parliamentary data in textual, spoken and video format
• Annotation standards and best practices for parliamentary corpora
• Accessibility, querying and visualisation of parliamentary data
• Text analytics, semantic processing and linking of parliamentary and other datasets of political language data
• Parliamentary corpora and multilinguality
• Studies based on parliamentary corpora
• Studies comparing parliamentary corpora with other types of political discourse

Submission & Publication

We accept submission of long papers (up to 8 pages), short papers (up to 4 pages) and demo papers (up to 4 pages) to be presented as a long or short oral presentation at the workshop. The papers of the workshop will be published in online proceedings.

When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones). For contact data, stylesheets, up-to-date details on submission and the workshop itself, please consult the workshop website.

Submission page: will be communicated by 20 December 2019

Important Dates

• Paper submission deadline: 14 February 2020
• Notification of acceptance: 13 March 2020
• Camera-ready paper: 2 April 2020
• Workshop date: 12 May 2020

Organizing Committee

• Darja Fišer, University of Ljubljana and Jožef Stefan Institute
• Franciska de Jong, CLARIN ERIC
• Maria Eskevich, CLARIN ERIC

The workshop is supported by the CLARIN research infrastructure.

To contact the organizers, please mail clarin@clarin.eu (Subject: [ParlaCLARIN@LREC2020]).

Programme Committee (in alphabetical order)

• Bente Maegaard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Francesca Frontini, Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier, France
• Henk van den Heuvel, Radboud University, The Netherlands
• Jan Odijk, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
• Kaspar Beelen, The Alan Turing Institute, UK
• Klaus Illmayer, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
• Laura Morales, Sciences Po, France
• Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
• Maria Gavriilidou, ILSP/Athena RC, Greece
• Maria Pontiki, ILSP/Athena RC, Greece
• Monica Monachini, National Research Council of Italy, Italy
• Petya Osenova, IICT-BAS and Sofia University "St. Kl. Ohridski", Bulgaria
• Sara Tonelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
• Simone Paolo Ponzetto, University of Mannheim, Germany
• Stelios Piperidis, ILSP/Athena RC, Greece
• Tamás Váradi, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
• Tanja Wissik, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
• Tomaž Erjavec, Jožef Stefan Institute

Identify, Describe and Share your LRs!

Describing your LRs in the LRE Map is now standard practice in the submission procedure of LREC (introduced in 2010 and adopted by other conferences). To continue the efforts initiated at LREC 2014 about “Sharing LRs” (data, tools, web-services, etc.), authors will have the possibility, when submitting a paper, to upload LRs in a special LREC repository. This effort of sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their description, may become a new “regular” feature for conferences in our field, thus contributing to creating a common repository where everyone can deposit and share data.

As scientific work requires accurate citations of referenced work so as to allow the community to understand the whole context and also replicate the experiments conducted by other researchers, LREC 2020 endorses the need to uniquely Identify LRs through the use of the International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN, www.islrn.org), a Persistent Unique Identifier to be assigned to each Language Resource. The assignment of ISLRNs to LRs cited in LREC papers will be offered at submission time.

May 15-16, 2020

Goldsmiths, University of London

Keynote speakers: Gary Younge (former editor-at-large of the Guardian and author of Another Day in the Death of America), Ghada Karmi (author of Return: A Palestinian Memoir), Alan Rusbridger (author of Breaking News and former editor-in-chief of the Guardian) and Mark Curtis (author of Secret Affairs and Dirty Wars)

Opening panel: Friday, 15 May with Gary Younge, Bev Skeggs and Richard Seymour

Main conference: Saturday, 16 May. Sessions include the Guardian's relationship to: empire and history; liberalism; Brexit and populism; foreign coverage; bias and balance; feminism; regulation and the state; and philanthropy and funding.

Full programme coming soon.

For more information, email goldsmithsleverhulmecentre@gmail.com or contact the conference organisers Des Freedman (d.freedman@gold.ac.uk) and Becky Gardiner (b.gardiner@gold.ac.uk)

In May 2021, the Guardian turns 200. From its inception in Manchester in 1821 as a response to the murder of ordinary people by soldiers in the 1819 Peterloo Massacre to its historic identification with centre-left politics, the Guardian has long been a key institution in the definition and development of liberalism. The stereotype of the ‘Guardianista’, an environmentally conscious, Labour-voting, progressively minded public sector worker remains part of the popular mythology of British press history.

Yet the title has a complex lineage.

The Guardian advocated the abolition of slavery in the US, criticised the Boer War, backed women’s suffrage and supported the Republican cause in the Spanish civil war; it has published some of the most celebrated examples of investigative journalism – from the breaking of the phone hacking scandal to Edward Snowden’s revelations of US and UK surveillance programmes.

Yet it owes its existence to a cotton merchant determined to head off more radical ideas at the start of the Industrial Revolution; it opposed direct action by the suffragette movement; has at various times called for a vote for the Conservatives, Social Democrats and Liberal Democrats; supported the First Gulf War and the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia; and has been accused more recently of consistently denigrating Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party. It has both fiercely defended the need for fearless, independent journalism and handed over documents and hard drives to the authorities; it has carved out a niche for itself in the UK press market as a progressive voice but has also consistently diminished more radical projects to the left.

Its business model is equally distinctive. It has been owned by the Scott Trust since 1936 and has been partially protected from the proprietorial interference that its counterparts have always faced; it has led the way in innovative design and formats and it now champions a membership model with some one million people signed up to the scheme.

Its forthcoming anniversary provides an opportunity for academics, researchers, historians and journalists to assess the contribution of the Guardian to British politics, society and culture through a major conference. We are looking for a range of contributions from more theoretical reflections on its foundational principles to empirical assessments of specific features of its coverage. In particular, we are looking for papers on:

• Historical and theoretical accounts of liberalism
• Issues of balance, bias and sourcing in Guardian journalism
• Press power, partisanship and propaganda
• The history of the Guardian with an emphasis on its founding in 1821
• Its party political affiliations and election endorsements
• Its reporting of women’s liberation and gender issues
• Its coverage of race and empire
• Foreign reporting with a particular interest in its coverage of UK military interventions
• Its reporting of Israel and Palestine
• Its business model: critiques of Trust ownership, Guardian membership and international expansion
• Its commitment to investigative journalism
• Newsroom culture and internal democracy
• The shift from ‘hard news’ to comment and opinion
• Philanthropic funding and branded content
• The Guardian, surveillance and national security

Selected papers will be invited to submit to an edited collection to be published in 2021 ahead of the Guardian’s anniversary.

The conference is organised by the Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre and will be held in the Professor Stuart Hall building at Goldsmiths, University of London in New Cross, South East London on Saturday 9 May 2020.

University of the West of England

Deadline: January 27, 2020

The University of the West of England are delighted to announce the availability of fully-funded Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded PhD studentships as part of the South, West & Wales 2 Doctoral Training Partnership (SWW2)*.

UWE Bristol invites applications to undertake doctoral research that focuses on any area of:

• Digital culture
• Film and media
• Design
• Heritage
• The creative economy

As well as welcoming proposals relating to individual supervisors’ specialist expertise, we also encourage applications within these focus areas that relate to the research of one of the following four research centres:

• Centre for Fine Print Research (CFPR)
• Digital Cultures Research Centre (DCRC)
• Regional History Centre (DHC)
• Bristol Centre for Linguistics (BCL)

Each research centre has a track record of supervising interdisciplinary research projects and, in particular, practice-led research.

*The South West and Wales 2 Doctoral Training Partnership is made up of ten institutions (Aberystwyth University, Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales, Bath Spa University, University of Bristol, Cardiff University, Cranfield University, University of Exeter, University of Reading, University of Southampton, and UWE Bristol), and funded by those institutions and by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the South, West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership [https://www.sww-ahdtp.ac.uk/] offers opportunities to Arts and Humanities PhD students for cross-institutional supervision in both disciplinary and cross-disciplinary projects. Together with our multiple arts, heritage, cultural, and creative economy partners [https://www.sww-ahdtp.ac.uk/about/our-partners/non-hei-partners/], the SWW DTP2 aims to develop researchers who will be equipped for a wide range of careers through the acquisition of research-based, employability, entrepreneurial, and interpersonal skills that are vital to the 21st-century knowledge economy.

The deadline for SWW2 applications is 27 January 2020.

For full details of eligibility, funding and research supervision areas please visit the SWW DTP 2 webpage or the UWE SWW2 webpage

Simon Fraser University

The School of Communication at Simon Fraser University invites applications from candidates for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the area of Critical Algorithm Studies.

Areas of research and teaching may include, but are not limited to, critical data studies; machine learning; socio-cultural informatics; social implications of data systems and infrastructures; algorithmic bias; content moderation; and/or platform studies. The successful candidate will foreground critical approaches, such as critical race studies; intersectional feminism; queer theory; trans studies; disability studies; post/colonial studies; Indigenous studies; science and technology studies; critical information studies; and/or socio-legal studies. We welcome candidates who use qualitative, quantitative, computational, digital methods, applied practices or a combination of approaches.

Situated in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology, the School of Communication's research and teaching is internationally recognized. Grounded in a critical tradition of the study of communication we are developing new and diverse research and teaching strengths to reflect contemporary and emergent issues of media and communication. For further details, see: http://www.sfu.ca/communication.html

The successful candidate will demonstrate potential for research funding and publication, for collaborative initiatives, and for working with students from diverse backgrounds. The candidate will be expected to teach and supervise students at all levels. Candidates are expected to have a completed Ph.D. (or near completion) in Communication, Media Studies, or a related discipline.

All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadian citizens and permanent residents will be given priority.

SFU is an equity employer and encourages applications from all qualified individuals including women, persons with disabilities, visible minorities, Indigenous Peoples, people of all sexual orientations and gender identities, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of the university.

Candidates should submit:

• A cover letter with indication of citizenship and/or residency status
• A curriculum vitae
• Research statement
• Teaching dossier (examples of applied pedagogy are welcome)
• One (1) sample of published work
• Contact information for three referees. (Letters of reference may be requested at a later date.)

All documents should be combined into a single PDF file with bookmarks.

Please send applications directly to Brenda Baldwin, Director's Assistant, at cmnsdsec@ sfu.ca, addressed to:

Dr. J. Marontate, Director School of Communication Simon Fraser University 8888 University Drive Burnaby, BC

V5A 1S6

Review of applications will begin on January 29, 2020 and continue until the position is filled. The start date for the successful candidate is expected to be July 1, 2020.

Under the authority of the University Act, personal information that is required by the University for academic appointment competitions will be collected. For further details, please see: http://www.sfu.ca/vpacademic/faculty_openings/collection_notice.html

Simon Fraser University

The School of Communication at Simon Fraser University invites applications from outstanding candidates for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the area of Media, Communication, and Public Engagement.

Specific areas may include, but are not limited to: social media; activism and social movements; popular culture; political communication and public opinion; advocacy; civic engagement; environmental and risk communication; global communication and social change; theories and philosophies of publics; visual communication; popular music; media storytelling; documentary and community media production and research.

We welcome approaches that include but are not limited to intersectional feminisms, transcultural studies, decolonization and postcolonial studies, critical race, governance and policy, and indigenous studies. We are searching for candidates who address these or other issues using qualitative, quantitative, computational, digital methods as well as applied practices, or a combination of approaches.

Situated in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology, the School of Communication is a national and global leader in the discipline. The School is a dynamic site of research and teaching. Our critical tradition to the study of communication includes approaches such as media and culture, technology studies, global communication, culture industries and policy, history of communication, and applied media production, among others. This position will build on the School's history of critical engagement while developing new directions to reflect contemporary and emergent issues of media and communication. We seek an innovative colleague who will challenge traditional distinctions between critical analysis and applied approaches.

The successful candidate will have interdisciplinary and transnational/global links in their research program, demonstrated potential for research funding and publication, a track record for collaborative initiatives and experience working with students from diverse backgrounds. The candidate will be expected to teach and supervise students at all undergraduate and graduate levels and to work with partners inside and outside the University. Candidates are expected to have a completed Ph.D. (or Ph.D. near completion) in Communication, Media Studies, or a cognate discipline.

All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadian citizens and permanent residents will be given priority.

SFU is an equity employer and encourages applications from all qualified individuals including women, persons with disabilities, visible minorities, Indigenous Peoples, people of all sexual orientations and gender identities, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of the university.

Candidates should submit:

• A cover letter with indication of citizenship and/or residency status
• A curriculum vitae
• Research statement
• Teaching dossier (examples of applied pedagogy are welcome)
• One (1) sample of published work
• Contact information for three referees. (Letters of reference may be requested at a later date.)

All documents should be combined into a single PDF file with bookmarks.

Please send applications directly to Brenda Baldwin, Director's Assistant, at cmnsdsec@sfu.ca, addressed to:

Dr. J. Marontate, Director School of Communication Simon Fraser University 8888 University Drive Burnaby, BC

V5A 1S6

Review of applications will begin on January 29, 2020 and continue until the position is filled. The start date for the successful candidate is expected to be July 1, 2020.

Under the authority of the University Act, personal information that is required by the University for academic appointment competitions will be collected.

For further details, please see: http://www.sfu.ca/vpacademic/Faculty%20Openings/Collection%20Notice.html

Communicar Journal

Deadline: December 30, 2019

Thematic Editors

• Dr. Antonio García-Jiménez, Rey Juan Carlos University (Spain)
• Dr. Cristina Ponte, Nova University of Lisboa (Portugal)
• Dr. Félix Ortega-Mohedano, University of Salamanca (Spain)

Main Focus

Children and adolescents are increasingly turning to mobile media devices and smart displays, the smartphone in particular –at home, at school or on the move– to stay connected with family and friends, for schooling activities and to access a variety of digital media contents and services, including social media, music, videos, and games. The everytime-and-everywhere-access to mobile media has changed children’s and adolescents’ everyday life with potential implications on their socialization, consumer patterns, schooling orientated behaviour, teaching and learning… among others. This monograph wants to address these issues both from a theoretical and methodological perspective.

We welcome original articles and research results with strong theoretical and methodological approach on the following issues:

• Role of mobile media in children and adolescents at school, and in everyday life.
• Methodological challenges of research on mobile media and smart-screens
• Teacher and parental mediation and monitoring of mobile media use.
• Impact of mobile media on children’s and adolescents’ social development and consumer behaviour.
• Mobile media and children’s and adolescents’ risks, threats and opportunities.
• Mobile media contents and activities, cultural and educational consumption: games, video, music consumption, education, democracy, social interaction, marketing-publicity…, new phenomena or old habits in new screens.
• Uses and consumption of mobile media at "school" at "home" or "on the move", filling the gap between children use of smartphones and tablets at school, is there one?
• Regulation and protection of children in mobile media devices, apps, social networks, and gaming activities, marketing… and others.
• Children´s approaches to opportunities, risks, safety, literacy, entertainment in smartscreens and other devices.

This monograph aims to contribute to the analysis and discussion of the theoretical and practical aspects related to children-adolescent audiovisual consumption and its impact on education, teaching, media and socialisation in smart-screens and other devices.

Descriptors

• Parental and teacher competence in the implementation of smart screens.
• Digital media literary in education.
• Education, children, youth and mass media.
• Media regulation and child protection-ethics.
• Cibersecurity and child protection in Smartscreens.
• Research and collaboration networks on Children Youth and Media.
• Teaching innovation in Smartcreens.
• Risks, threats, weaknesses and opportunities for children and adolescents in Internet and media.
• Research results and country-regional cases on the indicated themes within this monograph.

Questions

Questions and reflections raised in this monograph in relation to the thematic lines are among others:

• What do researchers and teachers understand by smart-screens and their point of view about the use of smartphones and tablets in their educative and communicative practice?
• How are the risks, threats and opportunities of the Internet and smart-screens currently being evaluated with the different models and theoretical approaches? What problems does this diversity of approaches pose?
• What models and how do they evaluate the digital competency of children and adolescents? Evaluating the usefulness in the current communicative and educational context? 
• What indicators, scales and methodologies can we use to measure the digital competence of students, teachers and parents, as well as risks and opportunities? What tools and methodologies are necessary for this purpose?
• What aspects not included in the traditional educational and communicative designs of the media would be necessary to incorporate and which are not present nowadays?
• What challenges and opportunities do the transformation that the smart-screen present in the current contexts of teacher training capacitation?
• What aspects are fundamental for the capacitation of teachers in education that have to do with the promotion of opportunities, but also preventing risks and fostering security and the protection of minors?
• What aspects related to children and the media should be addressed for its potential influence and consequences in the future?

Thematic Editors Profile

Dr. Antonio García-Jiménez, Rey Juan Carlos University (Spain)

Professor of Journalism at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Spain). Ph.D. in Information Sciences from the Universidad Complutense (1996).He has held the position ofDean ofthe Faculty of Communication Sciences at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos University (2008-14). Director of the Master in Communication and Sociocultural Problems (2015- 2018). His research and teaching interest are connected to “new media, society and Internet” and “information retrieval in media”. He has led and/or participated in more than 18 different competitive research projects, in particular related to cyberspace uses among adolescents and youth. Some of the recent projects are: “Social networks, adolescents and young people: media convergence and digital culture” (CSO2016-74980-C2-2-R) and “Program of Activities on Digital Vulnerability” (PROVULDIG). He has published more than 45 indexed papers, 24 contributions in the form of book or book chapters. Some of his recent research are: “An approach to the concept of a virtual border: identities and communication spaces” (2010); “Comunicación, infancia y juventud. Situación e investigación en España” (Communication, childhood and youth. Situation and research in Spain) (2012); “The influence of social networks in adolescents´ online practices” (2013); “Problematic Internet use among Spanish adolescents: The predictive role of Internet preference and family relationships” (2015); Adolescents and YouTube. Creation, participation and Consumption (2016); Teen videos on YouTube: Features and digital vulnerabilities(2018) among others.

E-mail: antonio.garcia@urjc.es ResearchGate: https://bit.ly/2TecSpP Google Scholar: https://bit.ly/2BPY9Ys

Dr. Cristina Ponte, Nova University of Lisboa (Portugal)

Associate Professor with Habilitation in Media and Journalism Studies (2011), she holds a PhD in Communication (2002). Currently she is Executive Coordinator of the Department of Communication at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (NOVA FCSH), Portugal. She has a wide experience on leading international and large teams of researchers: she was member of the Steering Group in the COST Action IS0906, Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies (2010-14), in which she coordinated the Working Group ‘Audience Transformation and Social Integration’ (40+ participants from 17 countries); she has been responsible for Dissemination and Global Cooperation in the EU Kids Online network, in which she has contributed to the Latin American Kids Online. She led two funded projects - Children and Young People in the News (2005-07) and Digital Inclusion and Participation (2009-11), the later with the University of Texas at Austin - both involving interdisciplinary teams of more than 10 senior and junior researchers. She was vice-chair of the Audience and Reception Section (2008-12) and of the Temporary Working Group of Children, Youth and Media, at ECREA. Among her main interests are media and family generations with a focus on children and media, from representations to children’s practices. She has published extensively on children and media and on training students as young researchers. Recently, she coordinated the first Portuguese representative study on screens in the life of young children, Growing up among screens, funded by the Portuguese Authority for Communication (ERC, 2017). She is member of the Editorial Board ofseveral journals, among them the Journal of Children and Media (JOCAM). Among her most recent publications is the co-edited book Digital Parenting. The Challenges for Families in the Digital Age (Nordicom, 2018) and the co-authored chapter ‘Parental Practices in the era of smartphones’, in Smartphone Cultures, edited by Jane Vincent and Leslie Haddon (Routledge, 2018).

E-mail: cristina.ponte@fcsh.unl.pt ResearchGate: Google Scholar: ttps://bit.ly/2Xm0hAh

Dr. Félix Ortega-Mohedano, University of Salamanca (Spain)

Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and Communication at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain. Director of the Master in Communication: Research and Innovation, since 2017 to present, mucaii.usal.es, Academic Secretary of the IUCE, University Institute for Research in Educational Sciences from 2008 to the present (http://iuce.usal.es). He holds a Phd. in Communication, Culture and Education, (2006), member of the Observatory of Audiovisual Content (OCA), Research Group of Excellence (GIE-GR319) (www.ocausal.es). He has participated in 17 competitive research projects internationally, nationally and regionally. He has been principal investigator at COST Action IS1004 Individuals, Societies, Cultures and Health Web-based data-collection - methodological challenges, solutions and implementations (Webdatanet). He has published more than 25 indexed papers, 20 contributions in the form of book or book chapters. Some of his recent works are: “Audiences in revolution. Use and consumption of mass media groups´ for tablets and smartphones” (2015, RLCS). “Communication studiesresearchwithinSpanishuniversitiesspanning the years 2007 to 2014” (2017, EPI), “Cultural industries and character composition in children´s animated television series broadcast in Spain” (2018, RLCS) “Communication research in Spain: Weaknesses, threats, strengths and oppotunities” (2018, Comunicar); “The Invisibility of Latin American Scholarship in European Media and Communication Studies: Challenges and Opportunities of De-Westernization and Academic Cosmolitanism” (2019, International Journal of Communication) among others.

E-mail: fortega@usal.es ResearchGate: https://bit.ly/2tBtwRT Google Scholar: https://bit.ly/2GMNKki

Instructions and proposals

Editorial Guidelines: http://www.revistacomunicar.com/index.php?contenido=normas&idioma

Contributions to the Special Issue should be submitted through the OJS platform: https://revistacomunicar.com/ojs

Deadlines

Starting date for proposal articles: 2019-06-01

Deadline for proposal articles: 2019-12-30

Publishing dates:

Preprint version: 2020-05-15 / Print version: 2020-07-01

Journal website: http://www.revistacomunicar.com

The AHRC-funded Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership (M4C) in England brings together eight leading universities across the Midlands to support the professional and personal development of the next generation of arts and humanities doctoral researchers. M4C is a collaboration between the University of Birmingham, Birmingham City University, University of Warwick, Coventry University, University of Leicester, De Montfort University, Nottingham Trent University and The University of Nottingham.

M4C is awarding up to 94 doctoral studentships for UK/EU applicants for 2020 through an open competition and 15 Collaborative Doctoral Awards (CDA) through a linked competition with a range of partner organisations in the cultural, creative and heritage sector.

The Birmingham School of Media at Birmingham City University in collaboration with the University of Nottingham and the Media Archive for Central England is inviting applications to a CDA titled The Political Economy of Screen Archives: Innovation, Sustainability and the Value of Screen Heritage.

This research project is concerned with the archival institution and questions of cultural value and sustainability. It is grounded in theoretical, historical and practical interest in the film and television archive – a subject rarely touched upon in contemporary accounts of policy (e.g. Doyle,2015). The researcher will aim to identify meaningful solutions in policy and practice for preservation and sustainability in the sector. Based at MACE yet outside of the everyday determinants and demands on the space of its personnel, the doctoral student will pursue lines of enquiry and provide a model of reflexive research and development in order to produce impactful insights for policymakers, intermediaries as well as those who make use of film and television repositories.

The doctoral researcher will thus devise a project that addresses, extends and adapts the following indicative research questions that seek to direct the research:

• What is the cultural value and purpose of a publicly funded film archive?
• What is the role of the archivist in meeting contemporary policy expectations, securing funding and managing the business of the archive?
• How might the proposed research understand tensions and trade-offs between the ideals and ambitions of professional cultural workers and the pressures of economic expediency in order to assess and model new opportunities for institutional identities and sustainability in the screen archive?

The research will examine the nature of past and current film archive policy, of its promises, expectations and obligations for the sector, paying particular attention to the relationship between national and regional priorities. It will explore financing for the sector – of the rationale and mechanics in how funding is apportioned and income generated – and will explore specific case studies at MACE that enable an examination of business models and ideas for innovation. It will also work with concepts of cultural labour, expertise and value in assessing the role of the archivist and indeed, the constitution of user-audiences.

The doctoral researcher will engage with archivists and practices across the sector. The research project will be empirically focussed on the role of MACE as a regional screen archive, and engage with its partners as part of a wider landscape through its relationship with BFI and national policy objectives alongside the role of MACE’s Director as Chair of the national representative organisation for the sector, Film Archives UK. Research will commence in September 2020. It is envisaged that the researcher will be on site at MACE for up to 50% of the four years of study with the opportunity for activity articulated in blocks as month-long work placements and/or on a day/week basis. Research methods will include policy analysis, organisational ethnography, interviews with cultural workers and audiences. There is potential for practice-based work and innovation will take place in the approach to secondary research in scoping out and synthesising grey literature, archival theory and current work across several disciplinary fields that is concerned with cultural organisations, policy and economics.

To find out more:

Go to the Midlands4Cities website.

Contact Dr Oliver Carter: oliver.carter@bcu.ac.uk

HALAC

Deadline: May 30, 2020

Editors:

• Ayelen Dichdji (CONICET/CEAR-UNQ, Argentina)
• Nataša Simeunović Bajić (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Niš, Serbia)
• Rosalind Donald (Columbia University, United States)
• Márcia Franz Amaral (UFSM - Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brasil)

Submit here: https://www.halacsolcha.org/index.php/halac/announcement/view/14

Proposal

The main attribute that transforms environmental history into a multidisciplinary field capable of successfully integrating nature into human history is its variety of approaches. This attribute enables a re-reading of environmental imbalances in a historic light. Environmental research as an object of historical study is still in development, and the transformations produced over time through man’s interactions with nature determine, in part, the growing socio-environmental conflicts linked to the exploitation of the natural resources.

On the other hand, today the world faces major environmental problems as the result of social, demographic, political and economic factors. Climate change, lack of safe water, and air pollution are among major environmental problems. Due to the great technological progress and increased use of ecological resources, the human population is responsible for both present and future generations in terms of sustainable development. Environmental crises are certainly consequences of inadequate management of the environment. However, its deepest root could be seen in the anthropocentrism that in the long historical period fully objectified nature. Very correctly and at the beginning of the new millennium, Plumwood states that a "radical discontinuity" was made between the active subject, human being, and passive object, i.e. nature (Plumwood, 2002). This particularly applies to Western culture and its technological progress, which is moving towards growing nature destruction. The consequences are evident in the unevenresource exploitation in developed and underdeveloped countries. When taking into account the ecological footprint, there are many countries with biocapacity deficit like Singapore, Barbados, Israel, UAE etc. (Global Footprint Network, 2019) Ecological footprint reports indicate that the human population on Earth is living above the capacity of its planet. According to the WWF Living Planet Report of 2018, humanity's ecological footprint has increased by about 190% over the past 50 years (WWF, 2018).

The current ecological situation at the global level shows the non-harmonized interaction between man and nature. One of the most important measures for establishing a more humane interaction with nature is the raising of environmental awareness. Sustainable development is not possible without the existence of environmental awareness among all subjects concerning nature-society-culture ties. And this can not be achieved without adequate environmental communication. Environmental awareness implies knowledge of the preservation of the natural environment, values ​​that affirm the healthy natural environment and citizens' right to a healthy life. However, the development of this kind of awareness depends on many factors and we should take into account the specificities of a particular social context and the achievements of environmental journalism. In the modern world, if we exclude environmental experts, citizens' knowledge of climate change and the protection of the environment is most often based on personal experience and information provided by media. But in this area, we also can perceivemedia hegemony that is not recognized in the statement what to think about, but rather in articulation what not to think about (Katz, 1987). Therefore, it often happens that it is impossible to establish a public debate on issues that are not presented in the media because we do not have to think about them. The importance of some other issues (about which we have the illusion of choosing what is important and what is irrelevant) is emphasized permanently.

The media constitute an inexorable reference in establishing a public agenda in which citizens make political, economic and environmental decisions based on the information they receive. As a consequence, the media’s behavior is not just a minor detailing the creation of environmental awareness. The media have a great social responsibility in selecting which topics to cover and how to cover them. In this sense, the social perception of environmental problems comes into play, a perception that, for Garcia (2011), is comprised of three dimensions: concern, which is understood as the degree of consideration that society gives to environmental problems; willingness to act, which involves the determined attitudes that citizens take based upon the information they have about environmental issues; and meaning, which is the association of environmental protection with other values ​​(p.276). These three dimensions must be taken into account when developing an analysis of environmental problems or conflicts, especially when studying how they have been addressed by the media. Consequently, these dimensions will be present in society to greater or lesser degrees, depending on the amount of information a given society has received, the issue’s media presence, the direct or indirect impact that it has on citizens’ daily lives, the level of uncertainty it brings, etc. (García, 2011). There is no doubt that environmental emergencies, disasters, problems and conflicts are newsworthy, and, therefore, have their place in the media. Consequently, media outlets have the responsibility to do reporting that is serious, ethical and scientific in order to transcend the sensation of alarm, and that is also in-depth in order to give account of the context and background of each particular case, without omitting the obligations of the social actors involved.

If we look at the global social context, environmental awareness can not be fully developed unless environmental topics are largely represented in media reporting and if environmental communication is not at an enviable level. It is the basis for forming the public and directing its attention to the most important environmental problems. Therefore, it is very important to investigate the complex and contemporary media conditions, whether there are similarities between countries and how much environmental communication promotes public debate about the consequences of climate change.

Taking this into account, our proposed for this special number are sought to contribute to the study of cultural representations of the environment. Our proposed considers media outlets to be bearers of symbolic power and sources of historical information about social and environmental dynamics, as well as the cultural repercussions that these dynamics have had in the recent past. Thus, our research proposal is based on a holistic and multidisciplinary approach that interconnects several disciplines, such as: environmental history and environmental communications.

Reference:

García, E. (2011). Medio ambiente y sociedad: la civilización industrial y los límites del planeta. Madrid: Alianza Ensayo

Global Footprint Network(2019), available at https://data.footprintnetwork.org/#/

Katz, E. (1987). Communication research since Lazarsfeld. Public Opinion Quarterly, 51, 525–545.

Plumwood, V. (2002). Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason. New York: Routledge.

WWF. (2018). Living Planet Report - 2018: Aiming Higher.

Grooten, M. and Almond, R.E.A.(Eds). WWF, Gland, Switzerland.