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  • 03.10.2019 11:53 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    October 23, 2019

    Brighton Digital Festival, UK

    Three exciting speakers will discuss and demonstrate the cutting-edge opportunities and challenges that digital data tools and technologies present for health and wellbeing. What is the role of art and creativity in public engagement with health data? How is the digitization of health records changing public attitudes and medical practices? And how can virtual/augmented reality help us experience our bodies in a different way?

    Date: Wednesday 23rd October, 6.30-8pm

    Where: Phoenix Art Space (Green Room, ground floor), 10-14 Waterloo Place, Brighton, BN2 9NB, UK. The venue is fully wheelchair-accessible, with accessible toilets.

    Who is it for: Everyone, especially people interested in digital health, health data, arts and health, immersive technologies, and data for the social good.

    Register for free at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/data-health-and-the-arts-creating-space-bridging-boundaries-tickets-72226791277

    Programme:

    1. ‘Immersive art as therapy’

    Sarah Ticho, specialist in arts, health and immersive technology. Sarah has extensive experience working across the interdisciplinary arts, academia, healthcare and virtual reality as a producer, curator, artist and researcher. She is the founder of Hatsumi (https://www.hatsumivr.com/), producer at Deep VR (http://www.exploredeep.com/) and Healthcare Lead at Immerse UK.

    2. ‘My healthcare data: What does it look like and what can it be used for?’

    Dr Liz Ford, Senior Lecturer in Primary Care Research, Brighton and Sussex Medical School. Liz’s research focuses on mental health and dementia in primary care and community settings, with a particular focus on novel methods for using electronic health data such as patient records.

    3. ‘Enhancing public engagement with health data through art practice’

    Dr Aristea Fotopoulou, Principal Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Media and Communications in the School of Media, University of Brighton. Aristea is a UKRI Innovation Fellow/AHRC Leadership Fellow whose research focuses on social transformations that relate to digital media and data-driven technologies (e.g. self-tracking, wearables, big data, AI).

    Moderator: Rifa Thorpe-Tracey (@rifa), an events organiser, coach, producer and advocate for inclusivity in tech. Rifa launched SheSays Brighton, curates Spring Forward Festival, runs Refigure Ltd, co-hosts a weekly arts podcast and is also a yoga and meditation teacher.

    This event is hosted by ART/DATA/HEALTH (artdatahealth.org), an academic research project that offers members of the community new skills in data science and art practice to improve health and wellbeing. The aim of the project is to develop a participatory interface that involves creativity and use of data for the social good, in order to tackle health inequalities and digital inclusion.

    ‘ART/ DATA/HEALTH: data as creative material for health and wellbeing’ (AH/S004564/1 2019-2021) is funded by the UKRI-AHRC Innovation Leadership Fellowship, led by Principal Investigator Dr Aristea Fotopoulou, and hosted by the University of Brighton.

  • 03.10.2019 11:47 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    January 11, 2020

    The Queens Hotel, Leeds, United Kingdom

    Deadline for abstracts: October 15, 2019

    It is an unobjectionable fact that media participate in the formation of our daily lives by creating identities, images, and by generally influencing our views. This applies not only to politics (i.e. political campaigns) but also to the formation of how we see ourselves and others. Popular culture, on the other hand, also affects our daily lives by fostering images and ideologies, and by selling a way of life that is presented as acceptable or non-acceptable.

    However, in recent years there has been a decrease in the trust in mainstream media which has come under criticism for bias and discriminatory representation while social media has become a platform for influencing the public. While it is still the content from the mass media that is being shared on social media and while it is still the mass media that set the agenda, the public has started to selectively join various groups on social media platforms, thus creating forums for exchange of information which is not always factual and there is lots of space for manipulation.

    The media system is thus changing and with the proliferation of fake news and alternative websites offering alternative facts, we live in the age of propaganda and wars for the dissemination of information. In addition, growing anti-intellectualism and populism in the West, especially promoted by the Far-Right politicians and activists, means that many members of the public dismiss information from experts who are seen as elites and thus not trustworthy. All of this created a situation in which many do not trust official sources of information and the public is more prone to propaganda than ever.

    Popular culture has also been in the spotlight in regards to Oscars and the fact not many black films obtain awards and that not many women obtain awards for film directors. Thus, the criticism is that the film production is still predominantly white and male, while other voices and narratives struggle to enter this arena. The social media movement has changed this to an extent by bringing criticism to Oscars and similar awards, and the mainstream media have picked up on this criticism, thus attracting anger from the Far-Right viewers who turned to social media sphere and alternative websites to look for places where PC and human rights are directly challenged and misinterpreted.

    Papers are invited (but not limited to) for the following panels:

    • Trust in the media
    • Fake news and alternative websites
    • Far Right and the Media
    • Donald Trump and the Media
    • Media Bias
    • Media representation
    • Social media and information exchange
    • Social media and politics
    • Representation in Popular Culture
    • TV shows and identity
    • Film and identity
    • Audience studies
    • History of media and popular culture
    • Oscar awards and women
    • Social media movements for equality in popular culture
    • Women and Film
    • Women Film Directors

    Prospective participants are also welcome to submit proposals for their own panels. Both researchers and practitioners are welcome to submit proposals.

    Submissions of abstracts (up to 500 words) with an email contact should be sent to Dr Martina Topić (martinahr@gmail.com) by 15 October 2019. Decisions will be sent by 15 November 2019 and registrations are due by 25 December 2019.

    The conference fee is GBP 180, and it includes the registration fee, conference materials and meals for a whole day of the conference.

    Centre for Research in Humanities and Social Sciences is an organisation originally founded in December 2013 in Croatia. Since July 2016 the Centre is registered in Leeds, UK.

    Participants are responsible for finding funding to cover transportation and accommodation costs during the whole period of the conference. This applies to both presenting and non-presenting participants. The Centre will not discriminate based on the origin and/or methodological/paradigmatic approach of prospective conference participants.

  • 03.10.2019 11:43 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    The American University in Cairo

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    Category: Multimedia journalism

    Department: Journalism and Mass Communication

    Locations: Cairo, Egypt

    Posted: Jun 10, 2019

    Closes: Open Until Filled

    Type: Full-time

    Ref. No.: JRMC-1-2020

    About The American University in Cairo:

    Founded in 1919, AUC moved to a new 270-acre state-of-the-art campus in New Cairo in 2008. The University also operates in its historic downtown facilities, offering cultural events, graduate classes, and continuing education. Student housing is available in New Cairo. Among the premier universities in the region, AUC is Middle States accredited; its Engineering programs are accredited by ABET, its Chemistry program is accredited by the Canadian Society for Chemistry, and the School of Business is accredited by AACSB, AMBA and EQUIS, and the Master of Public Administration and the Master of Public Policy programs of GAPP are accredited by the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NASPAA). The AUC Libraries contain the largest English-language research collection in the region and are an active and integral part of the University's pursuit of excellence in all academic and scholarly programs. AUC is an English-medium institution; eighty-five percent of the students are Egyptian and the rest include students from nearly ninety countries, principally from the Middle East, Africa and North America. Faculty salary and rank are based on qualifications and professional experience. According to AUC policies and procedures, faculty are entitled to generous benefits.

    Job Description:

    The AUC Department of Journalism and Mass Communication (JRMC) invites applications for a non-tenure track Assistant/Associate Professor in Multimedia Journalism. A PhD in this or relevant discipline is required.

    The candidate will teach in the Multimedia Journalism and Communication and Media Arts undergraduate programs; the candidate may also teach at the graduate level. The candidate must have the ability to produce multimedia content on a mobile device as well as have knowledge and ability to implement industry innovations into the curricula. Teaching responsibilities will include courses in basic and advanced reporting and news writing, multimedia news writing, video production, camera and digital video editing. The candidate is expected to engage and contribute to program development.

    The candidate will also be expected to actively participate in student advising, and department, school and university service. Demonstration of potential for excellence in teaching, scholarship, and commitment to undergraduate and/or graduate education is expected.

    The JRMC Department is the largest department in the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, serving approximately 440 major and minor students with close to 30 full and adjunct faculty members. The Department offers majors in Multimedia Journalism, Communication and Media Arts, Integrated Market Communication, as well as minors in Journalism and Mass Communication, and Arabic Writing and Reporting. The Department also offers a Master's Degree in Journalism and Mass Communication. It is dedicated to excellence in undergraduate and graduate academic and professional education, and is committed to providing students with the relevant interdisciplinary experiences needed in the local and global markets.

    The Department's facilities include digital production and news studios, new media production labs, state of the art editing suites, high definition television studios, a professional standard radio station, a photographic exhibition gallery and a prominent student newspaper.

    Requirements:

    Proficient professional expertise in the journalism/communication or relevant field; solid reporting skills; strong relevant university-level academic and teaching record; PhD required.

    Area of Specialization: Field video production with a strong professional background in news.

    Additional Information:

    Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.

    Application Instructions:

    All applicants must submit the following documents via online.

    a) an updated CV; b) a letter of interest; c) a completed AUC Personnel Information Form (PIF)

    List names & contact information of at least three references familiar with your professional background to be sent to gapp@aucegypt.edu

  • 26.09.2019 14:15 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    April 16-17, 2020

    Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs, New York

    Deadline: December 1, 2019

    In recent years, awareness has grown about the place of women in the digital world. While social media has created spaces for women to find each other and unite against harassment and genderbased violence, it is also a contested site, with women often the victim of trolling and bullying.

    These topics merit further study and so the Technology, Media and Communications specialization at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (New York, US) and the Audencia Business School (Nantes-Paris, France) are pleased to announce a call for papers for a conference focusing on the relationship between women and digital media.

    We aim to bring together scholars and practitioners working on these subjects and hope to include cross-disciplinary panels and showcase research and case studies from around the world.

    Possible topics might include but are not limited to:

    • Diversity online: gender differences in the use of digital media by women, differences and characteristics of online participation as well as how women are empowered or disempowered by the use of digital tools and social media;
    • The role of journalists within online and offline media outlets covering the situation of women
    • Discrimination online: e.g. how women are treated online, particular traits associated with the treatment of women online, the role of trolling, misogyny and threats of violence;
    • The lived experience of being a woman and/or person of color on social media platforms;
    • The role of international and national organizations, NGOs in fighting gender inequality;
    • Research on intimate partner relationships and how platforms are or are not protecting women from abuse and stalking online (e.g. cyber bullying, uncivil behavior as well as more extreme cases (suicides));
    • Ethics and the use of photography and images online;
    • Policies that can be implemented by government, platforms and users to improve the situation of women online.

    We welcome proposals from journalists as well as academics from broad fields (journalism, media studies, communication, political science, psychology but also economics, behavioral economics, anthropology, sociology). We are also interested in case studies and the experiences of women online.

    Keynote speaker:

    • Emily Bell Professor at Columbia School of Journalism and the Director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism
    • Rana Foroohar an associate editor at the Financial Times and CNN's global economic analyst.

    Organizers:

    Anya Schiffrin, Director of the Technology, Media, and Communications specialization, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, US

    Karolina Koc-Michalska, Professor, Audencia Business School, France

    Important information

    Conference dates: April 16-17, 2020

    Place: SIPA, Columbia University, New York

    Deadline to submit abstract: December 1, 2019

    Requirements: 500-word abstract and a short CV sent to womendigitalworld@gmail.com

    Information on accepted proposals: (around) January 15, 2020

    Registration: February 15, 2020

  • 26.09.2019 14:11 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Czech peer-reviewed journal Mediální studia / Media Studies is calling for papers for its 1/2020 issue.

    Deadline for submitting full papers: November 18, 2019

    Please submit your manuscripts via e-mail address medialnistudia@fsv.cuni.cz

    Paper types

    Studies are based on original research, solving the issue raised empirically, theoretically or methodologically. In other words, the studies may investigate various concepts or terminology of media and communication studies, or, they may corroborate upon accepted or innovative methodological procedures, or, they may examine different facets of media operation on empirical data. The recommended length of the studies is 6000-8000 words, including footnotes and references with an abstract of up to 150 words, up to 10 keywords, and brief information about the author up to 100 words.

    Essays are contributions shorter in length and more open in its research design. They explore upcoming or current media trends or events and discuss their relevance. Or, they ruminate upon different conceptual or methodological approaches rather than adhering to and defending just the single one finally chosen. The recommended length of the essays is 3000-4000 words, including footnotes and references with an abstract of up to 150 words, up to 10 keywords, and brief information about the author up to 150 words.

    Polemics brings discussions on actual theoretical, or methodological, or empirical studies previously published: it scrutinises its findings, its research design or its applicability. Also, polemics may be built as explicit dialogues of two or more authors, inspecting certain aspect of media field and its academic reflection. The recommended length of the polemics is 3000-4000 words, including footnotes and references.

    Interviews introduce inspiring personalities within the media and communication field, both from academia and practical operation: researchers, pedagogues, but also journalists, editors, or media managers. The recommended length of the interview is 3000-4000 words including footnotes and references. The interviews include brief information about the interviewee.

    Book reviews introduce and critically evaluate new books emerging within the field of study. The author may choose to review one monograph or approach more of them together, usually if close in its key topic, methodology or conceptual basis. The book reviews clearly sum up issues dealt with and they use such overview as a basis for further critical investigation. The recommended length of studies is 2000-4000 words, including footnotes and references.

    Reports inform about interesting events connected with media life (conferences, workshops, festivals, summer schools etc.). Also, reports may introduce some basic findings of a research project just closing in, without a thorough description of its theoretical or methodological grounding. The recommended length of studies is 1000-2000 words, including footnotes and references.

    For more detailed information please see the submission guidelines: https://www.medialnistudia.fsv.cuni.cz/en/call-for-papers?fbclid=IwAR1fXx2uBMT-AXUH-5WG9PwsrxlJ99129u7sncLnWf2zk1WMVQO0EMdjOJc

  • 26.09.2019 14:01 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    International Communication Association 2020 PRECONFERENCE

    May 21 (9:00 am to 5:00 pm), 2020

    2020 ICA conference venue, Gold Coast, Australia

    Deadline: December 1, 2019

    Division Affiliation: Global Communication and Social Change

    Organizers:

    Yu Hong, Zhejiang University, China, hong1@zju.edu.cn

    Philipp Staab, Humboldt University, Germany, philipp.s.staab@hu-berlin.de

    Daya Thussu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong KongSAR, dayathussu@hkbu.edu.hk

    Description and Objective

    The global internet is entering a ‘post-American’ era in a dialectic sense. Dominant ideas, interests, and arrangements emanating from the US continue to matter. They mingle, align, and delink with states, capitals, and social actors in various parts of the world. In a largely asymmetric fashion, they are assembled into the global internet comprising supranational entities, corporate infrastructures, production chains, and networked publics.

    Nonetheless, global economic crises, and accompanying power shifts, have complicated the continuity and discontinuity of political economies, shaping and being shaped by the global internet. The rise of conservative nationalism and xenophobes in the global North has also exposed the fragmented nature of the existing order and provoked counter proposals, alternative narratives, and new arrangements. Indeed, the topography of the global internet and its governing landscape look very different today. For example, under the pressure from China and the US, many European countries have made increased efforts to build national ICT infrastructures. Questions also arise regarding both technological dependence and initiatives of the global South during their integration into global trade and communication networks. The debates about data localization are increasingly taking a nationalist turn in India, home to the world’s second largest internet users after China.

    Digital transformation enabled by 5G networks drives another vector of change. New networked applications, such as the Internet of Things, smart city systems, and the Internet of Bodies, cross many boundaries, be they spatial, material, temporal, or social. They draw much innovative energy from non-Western socio-economic contexts and are likely to extend commodification and surveillance of body, land, labor, information, and communication. Again, this happens against a backdrop of heightened geopolitical struggle over technology and renewed debates over governance.

    In the ‘post-American’ era, internet technologies connect populations and things amidst unfixed values, contesting relations, and changing contexts. Thus, conceptualizing a ‘post-American’ internet encourages scholars to delve into formative disagreement spaces, emergent geopolitical processes, and dynamic political-economic structures. This also draws attention to a range of actors, whose collaboration and contestation re-work, and sometimes transcend, conventional protocols, procedures, and typologies, which include but are not limited to states and capitals, subnational and transnational regions, interstate relations and social formation, master narratives and social imaginations.

    This preconference is intended to encourage focused discussion of socio-technical transformations, geopolitical reconfigurations in the emerging context of a digital ‘Cold War’, and institutional reactions and normative debates surrounding ICT-related governance and development in a ‘post-American’ era. We welcome theoretical and empirical studies from multiple conceptual frameworks, methodologies, and scales of analysis.

    How to participate

    If you wish to present a paper at this event, please send an abstract of 300-400 words. This must be submitted to dyzxlxt@163.com by December 1, 2019. The organizers will consider these submissions and advise on acceptance by January 20, 2020.

    With financial support from the College of Media and International Culture, Zhejiang University, registration fees will be waived for paper presenters(including two tea-coffee breaks and lunch). For other participants, it will be $90 for ICA full members and $45 for students

    Note: it is assumed that presenters will be available to attend the event for the full day. If you are coming from overseas, we recommend that you arrive May 20, 2020, and make appropriate accommodation arrangements for that night.

    About Zhejiang University as the co-host

    Zhejiang University was founded in 1897 and is one of the earliest modern academies of higher education in China. Its College of Media and International Culture was established in 2006, of which the Department of Journalism was set up in 1958 and is one of the oldest journalism schools in China. Currently, the College has four departments and several research institutes, covering a wide range of research programs in communication studies, journalism studies, new media and critical theory, and international culture. The College is also home for Public Diplomacy and Strategic Communication Research Center, Zhejiang University.

  • 26.09.2019 13:56 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    July 7-9, 2020

    Auckland University of Technology (USA)

    Deadline: January 17, 2020

    https://www.popculturecentre.org/cfp

    The Popular Culture Research Centre (Auckland University of Technology) welcomes papers for its upcoming interdisciplinary conference on the theme of ‘storytelling and identity’ in popular culture. The conference will be held in Auckland on 7-9 July 2020.

    The conference aims to bring together researchers in the field, and foster important interdisciplinary scholarly conversations in popular culture. Practices of storytelling are at the centre of the ways in which popular culture disseminates information.

    From film to television, from Twitter accounts to the latest fandom trend, popular culture provides us with an arena where our narratives of the everyday can transform from immaterial notions to very material and tangible objects of consumption. Popular culture is privileged in its ability to both reflect and influence our identities, and the way we live, in our twenty-first century context.

    Please email abstracts to the attention of the conference organisers at: pop.centre@aut.ac.nz

    Your abstracts should include your name, affiliation, e-mail address, the title of your proposed paper, and a short bio (100 words max).

    The deadline for submissions is 17 January 2020

    The conference invites abstracts for presentations related to the theme of ‘storytelling and identity’ in popular culture. Topics can include, but are not limited to:

    Fictional narratives (from film to literature, television, comics, and beyond)

    • Popular genres and media
    • Social/online media, sharing cultures and cult followings
    • Fandom and celebrity
    • Popular icons, trends and fads
    • Depicting ‘reality’ in popular media and culture
    • Biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs
    • Practices of remaking and re-adaptation
    • Fashion, design, and culture
    • Aesthetics and desire
    • Consumerism and (im)materiality
    • Food cultures, histories, and representations
    • All matters of taste, cuisine, and identity
    • Gender identities and politics
    • Sex and sexualities
    • Family matters (including functions and disjunctions)
    • Spirituality and religion
    • Matters of life and death
    • Gothic and horror (in all their guises, as related to storytelling and identity)
    • Memory, remembering, and mis/remembering
    • Popular performances
    • Environmental matters
    • Education, pedagogy and popular culture
    • Popular culture and the news
    • Authenticity and accuracy
    • Heritage and historiography
    • National politics and identities
    • Global vs local narratives and identities

    Please email abstracts to the attention of the conference organisers at: pop.centre@aut.ac.nz

    When submitting abstracts please make sure to include your name, affiliation, e-mail address, the title of your proposed paper, and a short bio (100 words max).

  • 26.09.2019 13:51 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Frontiers in Communication, Political Communication

    Deadline: January 31, 2020

    Populism has been recently the focus of researchers attempting to conceptualize and explain the rising of populist leaders across European democracies and the US. The media in Europe and the US, in many instances, appear to have contributed to a legitimization of the issues, key-words and communication styles typical of populist leaders. Leaders striving to gain media attention have successfully exploited the media’s eagerness to break the routine and attract public attention. To ensure media coverage, the supply and demand relationship appears to have increased the visibility and significance of populist leaders and their strategic messages, serving as a powerful tool of mobilization for populist causes.

    The well-established mainstream media, in most countries, is arguably the mouthpiece of the ruling classes. The media tend to overtly combat/downplay/protest populist threats, contributing to their containment. Television, specifically, is central to the political process. There is an ongoing adaptation of political public performances, language and at times even policy-making, to the demands of an increasingly commercialized mass media. Thus, the mediatization of political communication is often identified with the marketization of the public representation of politics, and the transformation of political language into spectacle is its most evident effect. In contemporary society, where image is paramount, political leaders must be good actors and master the tools of drama to address effectively a domestic audience that has become increasingly distracted from politics. It is interesting therefore to look at the most successful communication strategies implemented by populist movements in order to both tap into the public mood and capture the media’s attention.

    The media’s role in the dissemination of populism remains nevertheless by and large underexplored, especially for Western democracies. In Arab authoritarian countries, especially in Egypt, media populism has been a natural practice since the time of Nasser. The media in Egypt is under complete control of the state by law, whether state or private media. The aim of this Research Topic is to offer a variety of case studies demonstrating the role of the media, specifically social media, in getting populist leaders to power in democratic and authoritarian states. It seeks to examine the process of media representation and the symbolic construction of favorable opinion climates for populist leaders. Finding indicators that the media provides a significant degree of support for the rise of populist phenomena is a key factor. Other factors to be analyzed in this process include the nature of political systems, and the features of social and cultural political climates, which the media help disseminate.

    This Research Topic seeks to provide clear and specific answers to the following questions:

    1- How is fear continuously invoked and legitimized through various types of media?

    2- How is the politics of fear manifested by instrumentalizing ethnic/religious/linguistic/political minorities as scapegoats, as a threat ‘to us’ and ‘our nation’?

    3- How is the politics of denial employed by dominant populist rhetoric? How are media scandals provoked to dominate the agenda, forcing all other important topics into the background?

    4- How do populists produce and reproduce exclusionary ideologies in everyday politics, in the media, in campaigning, in posters, slogans and speeches, legitimizing the politics of exclusion?

    5- How do populist leaders succeed (or fail) in sustaining their electoral success?

    Keywords: populism, media, social media, populist leaders, Egypt, mediatization

    Important Note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.

    Please send your abstract through the following link: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/10026/media-populism-how-has-social-media-served-to-get-populist-politicians-to-power

  • 26.09.2019 13:45 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Edited collection, (Bloomsbury)

    Deadline: November 1, 2019

    Editors - Toija Cinque (Toija.Cinque@deakin.edu.au) and Jordan Beth Vincent (Deakin University)

    As the technological climate continually evolves, the implications for¨society and individuals are being drawn in stark relief. Globally, personal and industrial data collection, data sharing and increased self-tracking practices using social media applications on mobile screen devices that are linked to wearable devices or recorded data from ingestible sensors are becoming more prevalent. Today, small mobile screens together with computer networks and various networked digital technologies (such as smartphones and tablets or ‘phablets’) make it possible for individuals, corporations and governments to accumulate, curate and distribute data and information on an unprecedented scale.

    Algorithms and big data are increasingly shaping our socio-cultural and technical relations and our everyday experiences. Important questions are arising that concern the human impacts of emerging digital technologies as the advent of ‘big data’ (and small data) technologies and social media have inexorably altered the boundaries between private and public life, and profoundly altered our sense of self.

    The intention for this edited collection of original essays is to critically consider how the former techniques of connection to community (traditional health, education, cultural and leisure activities) are reconfigured through this changing landscape of digital media visibility, data agglomerations and personal engagement with an empirical digital self. Digital culture and communication are inevitably changing as media infrastructures, media practices and social environments become increasingly ‘datafied’.

    The chapters in /Materializing Digital Futures: Touch, Movement, Sound and Vision/ orient to the inescapable fact that the underpinnings of a swiftly materializing digital future are so pervasive that we take them for granted. By way of debate and analysis around the concept of digital media artefacts and human identity, we circumnavigate the significant implications of living in a contemporary information-based society.

    Toward this critical exploration of the ‘the human’ in and outside the digital environment, the intention is to get beneath questions of: (1) Whether or not immersive technologies have been overestimated as consumer gadgets, entertainment media and the future of exhibition practices; (2) Whether the promises attached to ‘full immersion’ via mixed AR and VR have created tensions between the technologies and physical spaces of exhibitions, museums, education and health institutions and the like; (3) How the spaces between all-digital artworks and all-physical exhibition and learning spaces being negotiated; (4) How the design, marketing and use of digital applications and platforms might determine the ways in which the offline and online [digital] self is formed. A key point of difference in this book is that it looks at the application of digital futures within an industry context. We capture the important ways that key industry players are rapidly adjusting as they address change, asking: /What relations to the digital are you called into? What relations call to you?/

    We invite submissions (essays between 6000-7000 words) that explore Digital Media in a global context and the transference of ideas between machines and humans. We hope to critically appraise digitalisation systems and their various purposes and impacts. The intention of this book is about the actualities and imaginaries of emerging digital technologies to illuminate the impact upon the physical, finding important connections between the digital and the material.

    This edited collection is deliberately interdisciplinary and we encourage proposals from researchers working in areas such as Digital Media Studies, Science and Technology Studies, Film and Television Studies, Creative Industries, Anthropology, Sociology, Performance Studies, Arts and Cultural Management to Health, Mediated Intelligence in Design and Architecture -- for whom the human is central. The themes that chapters might address include issues around:

    • Big and Small Data
    • Robotics, HCI, AI
    • Digital identities/ digital futures
    • Immersive technologies, practices, audiences and experiences
    • Health, ageing and wellbeing
    • Games and Digital Worlds
    • Datafication, agency and power
    • Ecologies of media industries
    • Data futures
    Your submission should be emailed by 1 November 2019 to and include:
    • The name(s) of the author(s)
    • A concise and informative title
    • The affiliation(s) and address(es) of the author(s
    • The e-mail address, and telephone number(s) of the corresponding author
    • A short bio (250 words)
    • Title of your work
    • Genre of your work
    • A 500-word description of your proposed work
    • A 200-word statement on your relation to digital cultures as it reflects the general themes and tensions of /Materializing Digital Futures, /as described above.

    Key dates

    • Abstract submission: 1 November 2019 
    • Notice of acceptance: 15 November 2019
    • First Draft Submission:  2 April 2020 
    • Submission:  1 October 2020

    If you have any enquiries, please direct them to Toija.Cinque@deakin.edu.au

  • 26.09.2019 13:42 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA, USA

    Beginning: Fall 2020

    Our curriculum is dedicated to the integration of media analysis and media production for social justice in a liberal arts setting. We seek a teacher-scholar who is committed to enhancing our culture of diversity, equity and inclusion and will complement existing faculty strengths. The Media and Communication Department mission statement can be found here: https://www.muhlenberg.edu/academics/mediacom/missiongoals/

    Preference will be given to candidates with experience in qualitative, ethnographic, and/or community-based approaches to media, including documentary in all audiovisual forms, digital, print, and/or audio-based media such as radio and podcasting. We are particularly interested in candidates with research and teaching interests in the following areas: ethics of media representation; representation and underrepresentation in popular media; postcolonial and decolonial studies; intersectional queer and transgender politics of race; critical race theory; alternative forms of cultural production; public sphere studies; racism and antiracism; media activism; class and racial disparities in media access and adoption. Candidates should hold a Ph.D. in Communication, Media Studies, or a related field by August 2020.

    The successful candidate must combine teaching excellence and innovative pedagogy with an intellectually compelling research agenda as well as a commitment to Muhlenberg's General Education Curriculum goals such as diversity and global engagement, community-based learning, integrative learning (including, but not limited to, interdisciplinary collaboration), and the cultivation of curiosity. The 3/3 teaching load will include required courses such as Media & Society, Documentary Research (ethnographic research course in media), Media Theory & Methods, and the Honors Seminar (a year-long capstone course for advanced students) along with electives in the candidate’s field of specialty.

    Candidates should upload their complete applications as a single pdf file. A complete application will include: 1) cover letter of application, 2) curriculum vitae, 3) statement of teaching philosophy, 4) contact information for three references, and 5) a statement describing experiences supporting diversity, equity, and inclusiveness and ways in which the candidate can contribute to Muhlenberg’s goal of becoming a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable community. Candidates selected as finalists will be provided with a confidential email address for the submission of recommendation letters.

    Application review begins on November 1, 2019 and will continue until the position is filled.

    About The College:

    Founded in 1848, Muhlenberg College is a highly selective, coeducational, residential college of liberal arts and sciences located in eastern Pennsylvania's picturesque Lehigh Valley. The campus is about one-hour north of Philadelphia, 90 minutes west of New York City and in close proximity to the Appalachian Trail. The College currently enrolls more than 2,200 full-time day students and has enjoyed steadily increasing selectivity and student quality.

    An equal opportunity employer, Muhlenberg College is committed to recruiting and retaining outstanding faculty and staff from racial and ethnic groups that have been traditionally underrepresented in higher education. For additional information about Muhlenberg's commitment to diversity and inclusion, applicants can find the latest updates to the College's Diversity Strategic Plan at this link: http://www.muhlenberg.edu/main/aboutus/president/initiatives/diversityatmuhlenberg/

    To apply for the position, click here: http://bit.ly/m3diacom

    For additional information, please contact the Search Committee Chair:

    John L. Sullivan, Ph.D.

    Professor and Chair, Dept. of Media & Communication

    Muhlenberg College, 2400 Chew Street

    Allentown, PA 18104 USA

    johnsullivan@muhlenberg.edu

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