ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

Media & Jornalismo, Vol. 24 N.º 45 (2024)

Deadline: March 15, 2024

Editors: 

• Maria José Brites - Universidade Lusófona, CICANT; maria.jose.brites@ulusofona.pt
  
• Teresa Sofia Castro - Universidade Lusófona, CICANT; teresa.sofia.castro@ulusofona.pt
  
• Paloma Contreras-Pulido - Universidade Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR); paloma.contreras@unir.net
  

Topics:

• Children, youth, and news
  
• Children, youth, and contexts of digital citizenship
  

Subtopics:

• Algorithms and datafication
  
• Audiences and news
  
• Socialisation, families, and peer influence
  
• News literacies
  
• Information disorders
  
• News resistance and avoidance
  
• Theoretical reflection and future perspectives of the field
  
• Methodological discussions
  
• Participatory media
  
• Decolonization of the field
  
• Glocal news contexts
  
• Glocal digital citizenship contexts
  

In this special issue, we aim to capture theoretical and empirical reflections that shed light on how, why, and where young people follow, understand and express what is currently happening in the world in the context of digital citizenship and information disorders (Wardle & Derakhshan, 2017). The COVID-19 pandemic and recent wars accelerated a torrent of fake news and other information disorders (Galan et al., 2019, Frau-Meigs et al, 2017), in which social media platforms revealed underlying ambivalences. This is why it is so pressing to consider diverse approaches in the investigation that identifies what, how and where young people from diverse contexts and geographies propose their views and expressions of what is happening in the world. By anticipating normative and/or decolonised definitions of news, we aim to apprehend research that assesses themes related with youth voices and views of the world, their (dis)connection with news and contexts of digital citizenship.

The research continually points to a shift from the traditional journalism environments to new opportunities for consumption and production (Clark and Marchi, 2017), fostering participative processes. By proposing the concept of “connective journalism”, Clark and Marchi (2017) highlight the need for sharing, having a self-view of the news stories, and considering making their stories. They also note a disruption between young audiences' needs and news outlets.

What are the social environments where these processes are grounded? Even if the peer group influence has an impact, family, and in particular parents, are at the centre of the socialisation process for seeking news and different views of the world (Brites et al., 2017; Edgerly et al, 2018a; Lemish, 2007; Silveira, 2019), including contexts for operating digital devices (Edgerly et al, 2018a). Self-socialization is found in other studies regarding youth information consumption: incidental and leisure (Boczkowski et al, 2018) and news avoidance and resistance (Brites e Ponte, 2018; Edgerly et al, 2018b).

These sociocultural environments pose additional challenges to news brands and the production of stories that fit young people’s interests and expectations. It is thus imperative to reflect on these timely issues, namely considering how young people regard and deal with algorithms (Swart, 2021), algorithmic literacy, and what are the implications for information selection and consumption processes in their everyday lives, and even to observe how in some cases this content is used for participatory, prosocial and citizen purposes, shaping initiatives that promote social change.

This special issue [under the project Youth, News and Digital Citizenship - YouNDigital (PTDC/COM-OUT/0243/2021); https://youndigital.com] invites articles that theoretically and/or empirically tackle these and other dimensions, considering youth layers in terms of social, educational, gender, and cultural diversity, which demands to be studied and analysed within their relationship with digital media, news, platforms, and digital citizenship.

IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for submitting articles: March 15, 2024

Review process: March-June 2024

Editors' decision: July 2024

Expected publication date: October 2024

January 15, 2024

Webinar

Registration deadline: 13 January, 2024

Are you an MA/ PhD research student or Early Career Scholar in Communication & Media Studies?

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September 30 -October 2, 2024

FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Deadline (EXTENDED): February 18, 2024

Hosted by the DFG-research training group “Literature and the Public Sphere in Differentiated Contemporary Cultures” at 

Keynotes: N. Katherine Hayles and Adrian Daub

At this moment of our present time, processes of digitalization are leading to a profound transformation of social environments. Digitalization impacts the economic, cultural, and historic conditions of the lives we live and the ways we socially interact, communicate, and self-reflect. The turn towards the digital informs cultural structures and practices, it shapes forms of knowledge production and dissemination, and it alters the very fabric of the public sphere. An increasing pluralization and differentiation of public spaces of communication raises renewed questions over the loss of an imagined consensus as well as new potentialities for processes of cultural production, their changing social, political, and cultural functions, and their ethical implications.

Literature, in its extended sense of textuality, cultural production, and history of material practices, is deeply entangled in the structural shift towards digitality. As circumstances of production and reception change, a general reinterpretation of literature as such, its role and functionality, its possibilities or potential “death” ensues. At the same time, literature itself engages in reflections on the opportunities, challenges, and potential risks of the profound shift towards digitality, as digital media forge new literary forms, conventions, and aesthetic practices. Engaging with social change on the level of content, form, and models of engagement, literature actively positions itself and intervenes in the collective imagination and the shaping of processes of exchange between public spheres and new, digital frontiers.

The Research Training Group “Literature and the Public Sphere in Contemporary Differentiated Cultures,” funded by the German Research Foundation, investigates the interconnections between various literatures and various publics in multilayered and heterogenous subnational and cross-national social environments since the mid-20th century.

The international conference aims at investigating the diverse interrelations of literature, the public, and the digital through concrete case studies and readings that elucidate the medial constitution, processes of communication, social conditions, and various functions of literary phenomena. 

Papers we solicit could address but need not be limited to the following research fields:

• strategies for generating attention in the literary marketplace (economies of reaction, scandalization, forms of polarization and populism, aspects of cancel culture)

• public conditions of literary production and reception (digital spaces, platforms, and their specific forms of communication)

• mechanisms that regulate access, exclusion and canonization, form community, inform political participation, or lead towards practices of opting out 

• literary materialities (algorithms and communication, AI and human creativity; altered technologies of publication, altered practices of reading, digitality and materiality) and their function for the adoption of literary aesthetics, shifting forms and genres, and the self-reflexivity of literature on its own affordances

• literary knowledge production (fiction and non-fiction engaging with the future of the digital, posthumanism, the utopian/ dystopian imaginary)

• literary ethics and politics (negotiations of the public sphere as a place of deliberative politics; as a set of platforms providing air time under specific conditions of inclusion and exclusion)

Please submit abstracts (300 words) and short bios by February 18, 2024. (Extended deadline!)

Organized by Sabine Friedrich, Svenja Hagenhoff, Karin Hoepker

Contact: E-mail us at grk2806-conf2024@fau.de

https://www.literaturundoeffentlichkeit.phil.fau.de/international-conference-digitality-and-the-public-sphere-literature-mediality-practice/

September 26-28, 2024

Athens, Greece

Deadline: March 15, 2024

Following three successful international conferences (2016, 2018 and 2022) Hellenic American University announces the 4th International Europe in Discourse Conference. This Conference too aims at exploring Europe through all its constitutive dimensions, history, culture, geography and values. The objective is to create an international and interdisciplinary platform for discussion on how Europe is understood and constantly shaped through aspects that can be theoretically approached and empirically identified. EID IV also remains faithful to the conviction that there should be a dialogue between those who talk about Europe and analyze it and those who “do” Europe and shape it. The Conference is therefore an open call to political analysts, communication experts, diplomacy and security experts, public leaders, historians, economists and policymakers from a variety of fields to engage with the Conference themes and submit a contribution along the formats accepted.

Background

In line with the previous Conferences, Europe in Discourse IV sets to analyze Europe by looking at history, geography and values and from there reflect on Europe’s multiplicity. Addressing the issue of multiplicity in Europe cannot escape addressing European identity. European Union’s history, identity and overall orientation has been largely determined by its position, geographical, cultural, religious. Since the end of the Second World War, the dominant doxa was that the world would inexorably be led to its unification and homogenization. “The World is flat” declared Thomas Friedman; Richard O’Brien diagnosed “the end of Geography”. However, the economic and political evolution of recent years show the return of Geography and the overpowering dimension of history. Fragmentation and diversification rather than unification and homogenization are the rules. It is not clear what will be the shape of the new world which will emerge from this reversal during the coming years. In what fragment of the world will Europe belong? Could Europe take the form of a “Common European Home” as imagined by Michael Gorbachev? Or, on the contrary, will Europe be a major component of a transatlantic entity, divided by a new iron curtain from Russia? Where will the Eastern Mediterranean be situated? Will it be unified under the influence of a strong European system or divided by the competition of external powers? 

Geography holds a central role in Europe in Discourse IV; security aside, borders are key to the issue of identity: they define who we are by setting us apart from what we are not. Space can be seen and correlated with European identity in three ways: a) in the context of enlargement, space has been constantly re-negotiated and re-claimed by the European Union resulting in the inclusion of new members, b) in the context of  economic processes of globalisation, common EU policies and technological advancement, space has been reduced between nation states and c) in the relations that Europe forges with neighboring territories (Africa, Eastern Mediterranean and the Global South). During the last two years, the context of the debate about Europe has changed considerably. The return of war in Europe, which seemed unthinkable before, is now a reality. The Russian aggression not only destabilized the international system but also reintroduced the question of the European space. What is the limit of Europe to the East? Is it an issue of values or of geopolitical ambitions? What are the essential components and solidarities of the European whole? Should the German rearmament reassure or disquiet? In this renewed debate, historical and geographical discourses find a prominent place. Their extensive use by the two opponents in the new European war, Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky, shows their importance. The geographical perspective, therefore, allows us to reflect upon the interrelation and intersection of space and identity-making. At the same time, geography has been linked to identity in the sense of an indefinite extension of borders, and the concept of a ‘limitless Europe’ which triggers an identity crisis. 

Values continue to hold a key role in Europe in Discourse Conferences to understand European identity necessitates tracing those core values it draws upon. It is often these values that are invoked in institutional communications to appeal to the peoples of Europe, and it is these values that serve as an antidote to any grievances against European Union. From functional values such as transparency to more overarching ones like democracy most actors in the European sphere mobilize values in an instrumental way. However, in certain occasions, core values of the EU are referred to as “global” and belonging also to non-Europeans. At the same time, we need to look back and ask: What exactly is Europe’s true wealth? The contours of Europe have been carved out on the basis on similarities and differences, often including references to Europe’s heritage of classical Graeco-Roman civilization. Christianity, Enlightenment, and Democracy form key determinants from where the European edifice draws its legitimacy, traditions and legacy. Reason, science, humanity and progress, all of which demand a positive commitment to Enlightenment values are part of the European’s values base. Does the European Union exert normative power by drawing legitimacy from its values basis? To what extent are these values reflected in texts? Can Europe continue to hold the role of the affluent, democratic, value-resilient corner of the globe?

Conference Themes

The Conference invites contributions from a variety of fields which explore Europe across all dimensions that shape it. Contributions may be based on theoretical accounts, a variety of methodologies, ethnographical approaches, case studies and other analytical tools to discuss European identity shaping across all aspects.

• European values: from continuity to change 

• European institutions: discourses and legitimization 

• Political and electoral dimensions in the European sphere 

• Conceptual blending, discourse and metaphors about Europe 

• European narratives of today  

• EU Enlargement 

• Borders, border regions, space in and for Europe

• Europe, globalization, fragmentation and unification 

• Europe and its role in the globe: legitimacy, soft power  

• Political discourses in and about Europe 

• Peace, Conflict through the War in Ukraine

• Relations and Alliances with the Global South

• European identity through arts and culture

• Im/migration, integration, and mobility 

• Populist movements, electoral campaigns

• Europe in the traditional media and social media

• Integration/assimilation/inclusion/homogenization as processes the EU 

• The role of religion in Europe and the EU  

• European Institutions, function, legitimacy, power

• Potential US isolationism and NATO/Ukraine repercussions 

• European Security and Defense 

• EU and the Gaza conflict

• EU and the Middle East

Special Emphasis on the Eastern Mediterranean

The manifold multilateral relationship which the EU might develop with other regional and wider neighboring blocs would prove very useful for the EU’s future. The association agreements that the EU has been establishing with Southern Mediterranean partner states since the late 90’s (Barcelona process or Euro-Mediterranean Partnership) have been a clear token of the strategic importance of the region for the EU. At the same time, we are also concerned with looking at how the EU has been looking to promote the

EU values through a process of Europeanization with countries of strategic importance in the region. These countries can be part of the umbrella of “Eastern Mediterranean” which has been defined historians and geographers and would typically refer to Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon and Syria. Although historically the region has been territorially shaped by peace treaties like the Treaty of Lausanne, yet it has been more infested with conflict rather than cooperation. The region is of critical importance for the global sphere on a number of domains, including trade, geopolitics and energy; the identification of gas reserves has made it even more critical and turned global attention to it. We invite papers to discuss the relationship of Europe with the Eastern Mediterranean in respect to discovery of gas reserves, geopolitical strategy for the EU and population flows to Europe. 

Confirmed Keynote Speakers

Michał Krzyżanowski

Federico Romero

Vivien A. Schmidt

Ruth Wodak

Presentation Formats

1. Oral Communications

Oral communications, which consist of a 20-minute presentation followed by a 10-minute discussion, should be submitted online in response to the general theme(s) of the conference mentioned below. Abstracts for oral communications should be no longer than 500 words and list five keywords. Abstracts for oral communications should be submitted online as a single document. 

Please submit your abstract for an oral communication following guidelines here. 

Deadline for oral communications: March 15th, 2024.

2. Themed Panels

Proposals for panels must be submitted online as a single document, single-spaced in 12-point type. Panel proposals should include a brief overview of the theme, a title of the panel, and 4 to 5 abstract papers, each to be delivered within 30 minutes (a 20-minute presentation followed by a 10-minute period for questions).

The names of the panel presenters should be omitted from the document to enable double-blind review. However, panel organizers should include their name.

Acceptance notifications will be sent to panel organizers.

Please submit your panel proposal through the website following the guidelines here.  

Deadline for panel submissions: March 15th, 2024.

Guidelines for Submission of Abstracts

In submitting your abstract, you will need to provide the following:

• Name, title and affiliation of the contributor(s). 

• Author’s email. For co-authored papers, only the first author’s email needs to be provided.

• Keywords: five in the case of oral communications.

• Text of abstract: a maximum of 500 words for oral communications

• You should submit your abstract through the Conference website. Navigate to the submit your abstract page where you will find a text box where you can paste the copied text of your abstract. You will receive an automated confirmation message upon submission. 

For co-authored papers notifications will be sent to the first author only.

Language of Abstract

Papers for the 4th International Conference can be presented in English.

Important Dates

Abstracts and themed panels must be submitted by March 15th, 2024. 

Acceptance Notifications will be sent by June 1st, 2024. 

Evaluation Process, Criteria and Notification 

All abstracts will be peer-reviewed and ranked by the Conference Scientific Committee. Abstracts will be assessed using the following criteria.

Scientific strength. Contributions should:

• offer significant contributions to the development of the discipline and point to future research agendas; and

• present innovative or interdisciplinary approaches, including novel collaborations or syntheses across sub-disciplines or with other related disciplines.

Other Policies

One-Presentation Rule

Proponents are entitled to submit only one abstract as a first author. Speakers agreeing to present papers in panels also follow the one presentation rule, i.e. someone who is first author or presenter cannot also be first author or presenter for another paper. 

Scientific Committee

• Professor Aleida Assmann University of Konstanz

• Professor Michel Foucher, National Public Service Institute

• Professor Evanthis Hatzivassiliou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

• Professor Juliane House, Hellenic American University

• Professor Zohar Kampf, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

• Associate Professor Themis Kaniklidou, Hellenic American University

• Dr. Theodoros Koutsogiannis, Chief Curator of the Hellenic Parliament Art Collection

• Professor Michał Krzyżanowski, Uppsala University

• Professor Evangelos Livieratos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

• Professor George Pagoulatos, Permanent Representative of Greece to the OECD 

• Professor Effie Pedaliu, London School of Economics

• Professor Mario Pezzini, OECD Development Centre

• Professor George Prevelakis, Hellenic American University, Panthéon-Sorbonne University

• Dr. Sotiris Rizas, Research Centre for the Study of Modern Greek History/Academy of Athens

• Professor Vivien A. Schmidt, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration, Boston University  

Organizing Committee

President of the Conference: Leonidas-Phoebus Koskos, Esq. President, Hellenic American University

• Vasia Frontzou, Hellenic American University

• Juliane House, Hellenic American University

• Themis Kaniklidou, Hellenic American University

• Gerasimos Kontaxis, Hellenic American University

• Evangelia Moschou, Hellenic American University

• Bertina Stambolliu, Hellenic American University

• Leonidas Tzonis, Hellenic American University

Contact Information: For any questions, please contact the organizing committee electronically at: europeindiscourse@hauniv.edu 

May 8-10, 2024

Lisbon Polytechnic Institute, Theatre and Film School, Portugal

 Deadline: February 5, 2024

Conference hosted by The Theatre and Film School of the Lisbon Polytechnic Institute in association with the academic franchise Narrative, Media and Cognition as an ode to medial and artistic impurity. We are particularly interested in case studies or theoretical rationale on art forms as media and their varied and profuse connections, beyond the dual relationships that set the minimum condition for intermediality (i.e., an interrelation between artforms). 

Conference languages: English and Portuguese

Suggested topics: (may include but are not limited to)

·       Conceptions of media, intermediality, cross-media.

·       Mediation, remediation, transmediation.

·       Hybridity, media borders, cross-pollination, media fusion.

·       Art forms as qualified media, mediums as conduits for art forms.

·       Early interart and intermediality.

·       Interartistic cases in / throughout history.

·       The medium-specificity debate within intermediality.

·       Fusional artistic case studies.

·       New artistic languages through combination of art forms.

·       Post-media and expanded artistic fields.

·       Narrative adaptation or expression among the arts.

·       Audiovisual or performative ekphrasis.

·       Sensoriality among art forms and art objects.

·       Space and time in the arts.

·       Rhythm and movement / stasis in the arts.

·       Visuality versus performativity.

·       Artistic properties.

·       Rhythm, stasis, dimensionality…

·       Immersive qualities and spectatorial adhesion.

Keynote Speakers: 

Ágnes Pethő – Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania (Romania)

Chiel Kattenbelt – Utrecht University (The Netherlands)

• Co-editor of Mapping Intermediality in Performance (2010), Intermediality in Theatre and Performance (2006).
  

[Speaker to be announced] 

We plan to publish a selection of papers based on the presentations in the form of a special issue of a journal and/or an edited volume submitted to an international publishing house. Both conference languages will be contemplated in these publishing prospects.

Submission:

We invite you to submit a proposal for a 20-minute oral presentation.

You may submit individually or in a pre-established panel of three presenters. However, if during the conference a member of a panel is unavailable, we may have to reassign the other speakers to different panels or cancel the panel altogether.  

This is essentially an in-person conference, as we are committed to foster a (pro)fusion of intermedial dialogues among researchers. A small quota of online presentations (20% of the total presentations) is, however, available for researchers affiliated with academic institutions from outside Europe. No full online panels will be accepted.

The proposal must contain an abstract (500 words max.), 5 keywords, 3 bibliographical references and a short bio of the author (250 words max.). Send to Fátima Chinita (chinita.estc@gmail.com).

Conference website: https://intermedialconnections.estc.ipl.pt

Conference fees:

(The fee includes coffee breaks, snacks, conference dinner)

Researchers: 120 €

Students: 60 €  

Online presenters: 80 €

Deadline for submissions: 5 February 2024 (Monday)

Submission results: 12 February 2024 (Monday)

(Feel free to request an earlier reply if you submit earlier than the final deadline and need it in order to apply for funding at your university.) 

Deadline for registration: 15 March 2024 (Friday)

Media International Australia (MIA). SAGE.

Deadline (EXTENDED): March 1, 2024 

Feature Topic Editor: David Ramírez Plascencia, Universidad de Guadalajara – Mexico (Editor)

davidrapla@gmail.com and davidram@udgvirtual.udg.mx

Recent edited publications. Imagining Latinidad: Digital Diasporas and Public Engagement Among Latin American Migrants (Brill, 2023), “Medios educativos como espacios subversivos en América Latina: potencialidades, inconvenientes y consideraciones en el contexto de la pandemia.” Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research (JILAR, Taylor and Francis, 2022), and The Politics of Technology in Latin America (Volume 1 and 2) (Routledge, 2020).

Brief

In Latin America during the health emergency in 2020, digitalization, despite digital infrastructure limitation, was essential not just because it allowed to continue studying and working at home and promoted the improvement of the exchange of goods and services networks using smartphones and mobile applications, but because it helped people to build solidary chains to support and provide relief in places where authorities were absent or negligent. Digitalization augmented even more the popularity of social platforms and mobile devices which have consolidated as the main places of socialization and entertainment among Latin Americans.

After three years since the outbreak, the Latin American landscape invites us to ponder, from a critical perspective, the digital economic activities that have flourished in this post-pandemic context. This special feature topic invites proposals that analyze, from an interdisciplinary and international perspective, the impact of the pandemic and digitalization in the Latin American labor market.

Prospective articles may include topics related with social media influencers (Youtubers, Tiktokers, instangramers and so on), fact-checkers, crypto miners and bitcoin traders, digital nomad workers, online gamers and videogame-items dealers, delivery-platform app workers, social media platforms sellers, among others. Propositions that address (i) the economic and cultural influence of theses economic activities in the regional and international content-consumption market, (ii) novel digital professions as a mechanism to surpass economic and social exclusion, and (iii) externalities, genre barriers and legal and ethical controversial issues, are particularly welcome.

Submission Instructions

Articles should be between 5,000-8,000 words in length (including notes, references, accompanying reference list, and all other inclusions). Papers should be submitted directly to the journal. More information in this link https://journals.sagepub.com/author-instructions/MIA  

You may send an extended abstract (500 words) to receive feedback from the Feature Topic editor, before you submit your article to the journal. 

We are very much looking forward to your submissions!

April 16, 2024

Lisbon, Portugal

Deadline: February 2, 2024

Research on journalism extends across a range of subjects from historical to contemporary, from print to online, and across different regions of the world, addressing a myriad of challenges. This symposium aims to bring together researchers, academics, professional journalists, and media organizations and, at the same time, explore how this field of study can be applicable in the everyday lives of journalists.

Researchers in journalism studies at the Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC) at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon therefore invite submissions of extended abstracts for a symposium on “Journalism Studies, Past and Present” to be held on April 16, 2024 at the Faculty of Human Sciences, Universidade Católica Portuguesa. 

The Symposium is open to researchers who wish to present their current research on subjects such as journalism as an agent of memory, its role as a producer of historical documents, and the challenges of contemporary communication, such as disinformation, media literacy, and others.

Extended abstracts (up to 750 words, not including references) should be sent to journsymposium@gmail.com by February 2, 2024. Applicants will be notified of decisions by February 23, 2024.

Submitted abstracts can address a number of topics within journalism studies, including, but not limited to:

- Journalism as an agent of memory

- Misinformation, disinformation, junk news

- Contemporary news audiences

- Journalism studies and media literacy

- Journalism, peace and conflict

- News deserts and local news

- Metatheoretical background of journalism studies

- News sources and journalism

- Journalism and media systems

- What journalism studies can do for journalism

- Researching journalism in a world of artificial intelligence

- Journalism studies as an agent of change

June 13-14, 2024

Vannes – France

Deadline: February 23, 2024

Monuments are often emblematic of a territory for the local population. While their primary function is a tourist destination, monuments can act as markers of a territory's identity and memory, inviting individuals to connect them to a set of shared values (Riegl, 1984 [1903]). One value is our ability to be moved by the marks of the passage of time on the stones of monuments. Situated in their larger historical context by cultural and scientific projects, monuments are sometimes exploited for their attractive value and scientific projects, and are sometimes exploited for their capacity to attract and welcome heritage buildings. They remain spaces (Foucault, (2009 [1966]) that question their external environment, their territory and our relationship with the world.

Monuments are thus the focus of a wide range of staged activities (Flon, 2012; Gellereau, 2005), designed to enhance their appeal to the public, such as interactive devices for visitors, live shows, historical re-enactments, digital mediation, video mapping (projected onto facades in summer or during public holidays), events, temporary exhibitions, immersive scenography (Ballarini and Delestage, 2023), etc. The staging of the monuments is designed to elicit particular emotions and experiences, which does not always avoid a form of heritage spectacularization.

Nevertheless, if this staging is based on cultural mediation devices, something that came to the fore in the 1980s (Davallon, 1999; Jacobi, 2012), that staging must interact with the logics of the conservation, the protection and the enhancement of these heritage sites (Davallon, 2006).

By seeking to bring monuments to life, heritage professionals seek to make visible and audible what is no longer there, and prolong the history of these places. Some of the staging is in continuity with the historical and thematic universe of the sites in question, while others are counter to their original purpose, or represent ruptures or even interferences with the past. In all these cases, these mediations affect the perception of the monument and update its cultural and social identity. So how do these staged events work? How do they bring heritage sites to life? Which methods are used to achieve this? How do they question the interwoven spaces? How do they affect, or could affect, the public's perception of monuments? From a scientific and socio-professional perspective, this symposium aims to understand how the relationship between heritage sites and their audiences is being redefined, and the social and political logic of culture at work in the mediation of monuments as built heritage.

Our aim is to explore what brings heritage monuments to life in/through their staging, their interior/exterior spaces, but also in their symbolic and imaginary spaces, and their audiences through their appropriations, representations, uses and practices of the monument or heritage site. This conference will provide an opportunity to renew and extend these questions along a number of different lines, which are not intended to be exhaustive, but to provide food for thought:

Area 1: Staging

What do monument staging consist of? This area will focus on the analysis of staging as a semiotic device with technical (audiovisual, digital, plastic), linguistic (circulation of knowledge) and symbolic (creation of values) dimensions (Jeanneret, 2005). More specifically, we might analyze the storytelling at work in the staging of the monument, combining historical and fictional frameworks. How is historical knowledge mobilized and selected in the staging, and what are their sources? How do they relate to the heritage object? Some case studies may focus on the contribution of digital technology to heritage staging (Deramond, Fraysse and de Bideran, 2022), the evaluation of immersive, participatory or experiential approaches to digital mediation devices, and their impact (Gentes and Jutant, 2012). It may also be a question of identifying the injunctions to innovate that are imperative for heritage institutions and their consequences (Appiotti and Sandri, 2020). The proposals could also focus on the design of the staging, and who are the actors who are responsible for them? Which collaborations are at work between the various players, who belong to the fields of digital technology, heritage (historians and curators), culture, tourism or the arts?

Area 2: Spaces

Monuments and heritage sites constitute unique and complex spaces with a strong symbolic charge, satisfying our need for secrets (Bachelard, 2010 [1957]). Most of the time, they have a distinct history and status, housing, for example, a history museum, a performing arts center, a contemporary art center or a performance venue. Physical traces of a bygone era, for most of them their use value has changed (Riegl, op.cit.). For historians, heritage objects, particularly when they are monuments, form part of a long history, and a history that is also that of its territory (urban or rural, industrial or agricultural, tourist or non-tourist), linked to local memories (Nora, 1997).

Our aim here is to understand how the staging of the monument questions the notion of space linked to the monument. How do the superimposed spaces of the monument cohabit: geo-historical, socio-cultural, tourist, built, imaginary? What are the spatial dimensions of the monument conjured up by these stagings: the context of the building, the architecture, the link with the surrounding landscape and/or the gardens (which in themselves stage natural heritage), the relationship between the interior and the exterior spaces, the place of the devices in the monument and the relationship to space proposed by the devices? More broadly, which specific issues have provoked debate?

Area 3: Audiences

Last but not least, staging shapes the way audiences appropriate the monument and their reception of heritage. Audiences for monuments indiscriminately referred to as "visitors" are in fact very diverse, and can include local tourists and/or foreigners. While it's easy to imagine that these audiences all express the fact that they all share a modern artistic desire that readily recognizes the beauty, and that beauty is superior to novelty (Riegl, op.cit.), reception studies demonstrate a diversity of appropriations, practices and even uses of certain mediation devices. Local people, "historical subjects concerned by their heritage" (Amirou, 2000), will not perceive the site and its staging in the same way as outsiders, raising crucial questions of heritage and space. The staging of heritage activates a "memory of connivance", in which the narrative of history is constructed by the imagination of the public (Chappé, 2010). What are audiences' lived experiences (successful and/or unsuccessful) (Vergopoulos, Jutant, forthcoming)? How do they absorb, avoid and/or adjust to the staging? How do audiences participate in the monument's patrimonialization on the basis of its staging? What representations do they create and transmit as a result of these experiences?

Key words: mediation, monument, heritage, public, staging

This symposium is part of the Dispositifs Expériences en Culture et Patrimoine in Culture and Heritage (DEXCUPAT), which brings together a multidisciplinary team that examines the mediation, devices and experiences of audiences in cultural and heritage institutions. It will take place at the Université Catholique de l'Ouest (Vannes) on June 13 and June 14, 2024.

How to submit

Proposals may come from one of the following disciplines: history/art history, information and communication sciences, sociology, computer science, art/design, geography (non-exhaustive, contributions from other disciplines will be accepted for evaluation on the basis of their relevance to the issues addressed). Papers from an international perspective are welcome.

Paper proposals are due by February 23, 2024. The paper should include: last name/first name, e-mail address, current status, institutional affiliations of the author, short biography (5 lines), title and keywords. The paper proposal should not exceed 2000 characters and should present the disciplinary and theoretical framework and be based on results linked to a field study and include as well a short indicative bibliography. Evaluation feedback will be sent no later than March 11, 2024, with, if appropriate, proposals for collaboration to be discussed.

A multi-disciplinary approach is sought, and depending on the papers selected, thematic journal issues are planned.

Proposals should be sent to: fairevivrelemonument@uco.fr

Registration fees: 60€ researchers / 30€ PhD students. These fees include access to all conference sessions, breaks and lunches.

Organizing committee:

Manuelle Aquilina (MCF Histoire, UCO-BS) Caroline Creton (MCF SIC, UCO Nantes)

Julie Pasquer-Jeanne (MCF SIC, UCO-BS)

Olivier Hû (MCF Informatique, Université d’Angers)

Scientific committee:

Sébastien Appiotti (MCF SIC, CELSA - Sorbonne Université) Mickaël Augeron (MCF Histoire Université de La Rochelle) Cristina Badulescu (MCF SIC, Université de Poitiers)

Marie Ballarini (MCF SIC, Université Paris Dauphine)

Laurent Bourdeau (PR Géographie Université Laval, Québec) Gaëlle Crenn, (MCF SIC Université Lorraine)

Jean Davallon (Professeur émérite SIC, Avignon Université) Philippe Duhamel (PU - Géographie - Université Angers)

Diane Dufort (MCF SIC, UCO Nantes)

Jessica De Bideran (MCF SIC, Université Bordeaux Montaigne Mica) Patrick Fraysse (PU – SIC - Université Toulouse III)

Viviana Gobbato (Docteure en muséologie et chercheuse associée au Cerlis - Université de Paris/Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)

Camille Jutant (Université Lyon II)

Patrick Kernevez (MCF Histoire, Université Bretagne Occidentale)

Jean-René Ladurée (MCF Histoire, UCO Laval)

Nicolas Navarro (MCF SIC Université de Liège, Belgique) Nicolas Meynen (MCF Histoire de l’art, Université Toulouse II) Benoist Pierre (PU Histoire, Université Tours, CNRS)

Lise Renaud (MCF SIC, Université Avignon)

Thomas Renard (MCF Histoire de l’art, Université de Nantes) Johan Vincent (MCF Histoire, Université d’Angers)

Bibliography

Appiotti Sébastien, Sandri Éva (2020), « ”Innovez ! Participez !” Interroger la relation entre musée et numérique au travers des injonctions adressées aux professionnels », in Musées et mondes numériques, Culture et Musées n°35, pp.25-48

Amirou Rachid (2000), Imaginaire du tourisme culturel, Paris, Presses universitaires de France.

Ballarini, Marie et Delestage Charles-Alexandre (à paraître), « Dissonance des objectifs dans la chaîne de production des œuvres patrimoniales en réalité virtuelle : trouver le compromis entre transmission des savoirs et expériences émotionnelles », Réseaux.

Bachelard Gaston (2010 [1957]), La poétique de l’espace, PUF, Quadrige Grands textes, Paris. Chappé François (2010), Histoire, mémoire, patrimoine - Du discours idéologique à l'éthique humaniste, PUR, coll. Arts et Sociétés.

Davallon Jean, (2006), Le don du patrimoine. Une approche communicationnelle de la patrimonialisation, Éditions Lavoisier, Paris.

Davallon Jean (1999), L’exposition à l’œuvre, Stratégies de communicaton et médiation symbolique, Éditions L’Harmattan communication, Paris. 6

Deramond Julie ; Fraysse Patrick ; de Bideran Jessica (2022), Scénographies numériques du patrimoine : Expérimentations, recherches et médiations, Avignon : Éditions Universitaires d’Avignon (collection « En-Jeux »), Avignon.

Flon Émilie (2012), Les mises en scène du patrimoine, savoir, fiction et médiation, Éditions Hermès-Lavoisier, Paris. Foucault Michel (2009 [1966]), Les Hétérotopies - Le Corps Utopique, Éditions Lignes, Paris.

Gentes Annie, Jutant Camille, (2012), « Nouveaux médias au musée : le visiteur équipé », Culture & Musées, 2012, no 19, p. 67-91.

Gellereau Michèle (2005), Les mises en scène de la visite guidée. Communication et Médiation, Éditions L’Harmattan, Paris.

Georgescu Paquin Alexandra (2014), Actualiser le patrimoine par l’architecture contemporaine Collection « Nouveaux Patrimoines » Presses de l’Université du Québec, 282 p.

Jacobi Daniel (2012), « Les équipements patrimoniaux sensibles entre mémoire de témoins et objets de collectionneurs » TEMUSE 14-45. Valoriser la mémoire des témoins et des collectionneurs d'objets des deux Guerres mondiales. Médiation, communication et interprétation muséales en Nord- Pas de Calais et Flandre occidentale, France.

Jeanneret Yves (2005), « Dispositif » in : La « société de l’information » : glossaire critique. Commission française pour l’Unesco, La Documentation française, 164 p., Paris.

Nora Pierre (dir.) (1997), « Entre mémoire et histoire. La problématique des lieux », Les lieux de mémoire, tome 1 : La République, Gallimard, coll. « Quarto », p 23-43, Paris.

Riegl Aloïs, (1984 [1903]), Le culte moderne des monuments. Son essence et sa genèse [Traduit de l'allemand par Daniel Wieczorek, Éditions Du Seuil, Espacements, Paris.

Vergopoulos Hécate, Jutant Camille (dir.) (à paraître), Le ratage : quand l’expérience culturelle est contrariée, Culture et musées n°44.

Media & Jornalismo (Vol. 24 N.º 45, 2024) 

Deadline: March 15, 2024

Editors: 

Maria José Brites - Universidade Lusófona, CICANT; maria.jose.brites@ulusofona.pt

Teresa Sofia Castro - Universidade Lusófona, CICANT; teresa.sofia.castro@ulusofona.pt

Paloma Contreras-Pulido - Universidade Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR); paloma.contreras@unir.net

Topics:

• Children, youth, and news
  
• Children, youth, and contexts of digital citizenship
  

Subtopics:

• Algorithms and datafication
  
• Audiences and news
  
• Socialisation, families, and peer influence
  
• News literacies
  
• Information disorders
  
• News resistance and avoidance
  
• Theoretical reflection and future perspectives of the field
  
• Methodological discussions
  
• Participatory media
  
• Decolonization of the field
  
• Glocal news contexts
  
• Glocal digital citizenship contexts
  

In this special issue, we aim to capture theoretical and empirical reflections that shed light on how, why, and where young people follow, understand and express what is currently happening in the world in the context of digital citizenship and information disorders (Wardle & Derakhshan, 2017). The COVID-19 pandemic and recent wars accelerated a torrent of fake news and other information disorders (Galan et al., 2019, Frau-Meigs et al, 2017), in which social media platforms revealed underlying ambivalences. This is why it is so pressing to consider diverse approaches in the investigation that identifies what, how and where young people from diverse contexts and geographies propose their views and expressions of what is happening in the world. By anticipating normative and/or decolonised definitions of news, we aim to apprehend research that assesses themes related with youth voices and views of the world, their (dis)connection with news and contexts of digital citizenship.

The research continually points to a shift from the traditional journalism environments to new opportunities for consumption and production (Clark and Marchi, 2017), fostering participative processes. By proposing the concept of “connective journalism”, Clark and Marchi (2017) highlight the need for sharing, having a self-view of the news stories, and considering making their stories. They also note a disruption between young audiences' needs and news outlets.

What are the social environments where these processes are grounded? Even if the peer group influence has an impact, family, and in particular parents, are at the centre of the socialisation process for seeking news and different views of the world (Brites et al., 2017; Edgerly et al, 2018a; Lemish, 2007; Silveira, 2019), including contexts for operating digital devices (Edgerly et al, 2018a). Self-socialization is found in other studies regarding youth information consumption: incidental and leisure (Boczkowski et al, 2018) and news avoidance and resistance (Brites e Ponte, 2018; Edgerly et al, 2018b).

These sociocultural environments pose additional challenges to news brands and the production of stories that fit young people’s interests and expectations. It is thus imperative to reflect on these timely issues, namely considering how young people regard and deal with algorithms (Swart, 2021), algorithmic literacy, and what are the implications for information selection and consumption processes in their everyday lives, and even to observe how in some cases this content is used for participatory, prosocial and citizen purposes, shaping initiatives that promote social change.

This special issue [under the project Youth, News and Digital Citizenship - YouNDigital (PTDC/COM-OUT/0243/2021); https://youndigital.com] invites articles that theoretically and/or empirically tackle these and other dimensions, considering youth layers in terms of social, educational, gender, and cultural diversity, which demands to be studied and analysed within their relationship with digital media, news, platforms, and digital citizenship.

IMPORTANT DATES

• Deadline for submitting articles: March 15, 2024
  
• Review process: March-June 2024
  
• Editors' decision: July 2024
  
• Expected publication date: October 2024

Authors must indicate the special issue to which they are submitting the article.

Revista Media & Jornalismo (RMJ) is an open-access peer-reviewed scientific journal that operates in a double-blind review process and is indexed in Scopus. Each submitted work will be distributed to two reviewers previously invited to evaluate it, according to academic quality, originality, and relevance to the objectives and scope of the theme of this edition of the journal.

Articles can be submitted in English, Spanish, or Portuguese.

Manuscripts must be submitted through the journal's website (https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/mj). When accessing RMJ for the first time, you must register to be able to submit your article and accompany it throughout the editorial process. Consult the Instructions for Authors and Conditions for Submission.

For more information, contact: patriciacontreiras@fcsh.unl.pt

Journalism Practice

Deadline: January 5, 2025

Guest Editors:

• Allen Munoriyarwa
  

Department of Media Studies, University of Botswana

Department of Communication and Media, University of Johannesburg  

•  Mathias-Felipe de-Lima-Santos
  

Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam

Digital Media and Society Observatory (DMSO), Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp)

 Deadlines: 

Abstract Submission: January 5th , 2024

Paper Submission: June 30th, 2024

Expected Publication Date: Q4 2024 – Q1/2025

 In recent years, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in journalism and media production has sparked a global transformation in the way information is gathered, produced, and disseminated (de-Lima-Santos & Ceron, 2021). The term AI broadly refers to a field of computer science methods “dedicated to replicating human intelligence" (Broussard et al., 2019, p. 673). These technologies offer new possibilities for enhancing news gathering, content generation, audience engagement, and data analysis. Furthermore, they possess immense capabilities and offer incredible promises of transformation to media and journalism. Moreover, the AI-driven journalism landscape has witnessed a remarkable boom in the development and utilization of generative AI technologies, such as ChatGPT and DALL-E (Gondwe, 2023). The surge of generative AI has had a profound impact on news production, where AI algorithms can generate articles, summaries, and even assist in investigative reporting. These technologies have provided easy to use tools for media organizations in creating content at scale, automating repetitive tasks, and enhancing data analysis. While AI-driven journalism has garnered substantial attention and analysis in different media landscapes, there is a growing recognition of the unique implications, challenges, and opportunities posed by AI in the news industry worldwide (Broussard et al., 2019). This special issue aims to fill this knowledge gap by exploring the appropriation of AI technologies in news production across different media contexts.

The application of AI in different regions brings with it a set of complexities that necessitate in-depth investigation. For example, previous research has indicated that media professionals’ inclination toward AI skepticism in Africa is influenced by concerns about potential job cuts, the expenses associated with such deployment, inadequate training, ethical dilemmas surrounding these emerging technologies, and doubts regarding its effectiveness in the democratic process (Munoriyarwa et al., 2021). Conversely, Latin American practitioners hold mixed feelings, with both optimistic and pessimistic views about the application of AI in journalism. However, they mostly perceive such tools as an opportunity rather than as a threat (Soto-Sanfiel et al., 2022). Within this rich tapestry, media and journalism play vital roles in shaping societies, enabling civic engagement, and reflecting the voices of marginalized communities across the world. The significant influence of AI deployment, as shaped by the dynamics among platforms, governments, and media, is also noteworthy worldwide. This power dynamics could lead to more influential actors gaining control over media production and information dissemination, consequently impacting the media ecosystem (de-Lima-Santos et al., 2023; Kuai et al., 2022).

Understanding the nuanced landscape of AI-enabled journalism requires considering a range of crucial factors. These include the vast linguistic diversity, with hundreds of languages spoken, making language processing and content personalization a unique challenge (Gondwe, 2023). Cultural sensitivity is paramount, as news and information production must respect the values and norms of diverse societies, often vastly different across the world (Kothari & Cruikshank, 2022). Furthermore, each region faces specific challenges related to media sustainability, including economic constraints, political pressures, and issues of representation. While AI has the potential to address some of these challenges, its application is far from uniform (de-Lima-Santos et al., 2021). Local news ecosystems, for instance, play a vital role in their communities, and understanding how AI can strengthen local journalism while maintaining cultural relevance is of utmost importance.

This special issue seeks to shed light on these intricacies, explore the impact of AI on journalism and media moving beyond “North” and “South” dichotomy, and delve into the challenges and opportunities that arise of AI in news context. While countries in the Global North can actively experiment with AI solutions in their newsrooms (Jones & Jones, 2021; Pashevich, 2018; Stray 2021;), those in the Global South are often either playing catch-up or simply acting as recipients of the experiments conducted by these Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic (WEIRD) nations. Thus, this special issue also aims to address the pressing concern of the “AI divide” across these regions, discussing the unequal access to AI technologies and knowledge, which can exacerbate existing (news production) inequalities within countries and across geographies. This can impose additional constraints on the global expansion of emerging technologies within the news media  (Jamil, 2020). Understanding and mitigating this divide is a central concern, and this special issue will be a platform for scholarly inquiry and debates into these critical areas from a global perspective.

With an eye on bridging gaps, promoting inclusivity, and narrowing the AI divide, this special issue seeks to gather research and insights that can inform the future of AI-enabled journalism within the “North” or the “South” in socioeconomic and political terms. We invite contributions that address but are not limited to the following themes in the context of the AI and journalism:

• AI deployment: Comparing the development of AI technologies in newsrooms worldwide.
  
• Generative AI: Leveraging this technology across the entire news value chain, transforming traditional processes and enhancing various aspects of news production, distribution, and consumption, while also necessitating careful consideration of ethical, human, and editorial implications
  
• AI tools for news production: Exploring the use of AI technologies in newsrooms, including automated content generation, sentiment analysis, and fact-checking.
  
• Ethical and societal implications: Examining the ethical considerations and societal impacts of AI-driven journalism in culturally and politically diverse regions.
  
• AI for media sustainability: Examining innovative AI applications that promote sustainability in media organizations, revenue models, and content creation.
  
• AI and indigenous knowledge: Investigating how AI technologies can promote or affect indigenous knowledge and cultural heritage in media coverage.
  
• AI for disaster reporting: Analyzing the use of AI tools in disaster reporting, early warning systems, and response efforts in disaster-prone regions.
  
• Audience engagement and personalization: Investigating AI-driven strategies for audience engagement, content personalization, and the role of AI in addressing language diversity.
  
• Media capture and democratization: Analyzing the influence of AI on media capture, control, and the democratization of information in the Global North and South.
  
• Platforms dependence: Analyzing the influence of platforms on AI deployment in the news industry.
  
• AI, censorship, and freedom of expression: Assessing the impact of AI on freedom of expression, censorship, and surveillance in politically sensitive environments.
  
• AI and local news ecosystems: Understanding the potential of AI in strengthening local journalism and addressing issues of representation.
  
• AI in investigative reporting: Exploring the application of AI in investigative journalism, data mining, and open-source intelligence.
  
• AI in fact-checking: Exploring the application of AI in fact-checking practices.
  
• AI and data-driven storytelling: Investigating how data journalism is advancing worldwide and the role of AI in helping these practices, such as extracting, analyzing, and visualizing data.
  
• AI and health communication: Exploring the use of AI applications in health journalism, pandemic coverage, and the dissemination of public health information.
  
• AI and environmental and humanitarian communication: Exploring the use of AI applications in environmental journalism, climate crises, and humanitarian action.
  
• AI literacy: Investigating the role of AI literacy in the context of technological innovations and its impact on newsrooms.
  
• AI and inclusivity: Exploring how AI technologies can enhance or suppress media inclusivity and accessibility for underserved communities, including issues of language, accessibility, and representation.
  
• AI divide: Addressing disparities in AI access, knowledge, and impact in the Global South in comparison to Global North/Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic (WEIRD) countries.
  
• AI and power: AI and power dynamics in newsrooms
  
• AI and journalistic role: Global perceptions of journalistic roles in the age of AI
  
• AI and representations: Exploring how AI represents North-South newsrooms, journalism, and media.
  

We look forward to receiving your contributions and exploring the dynamic intersection of artificial intelligence and journalism.

Follow the link here for more details: https://bit.ly/GenerativeAIAgeJournalism. 

Please feel free to reach out in case of any questions.