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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

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.

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).

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

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

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

College of Communication & Creative Arts, Rowan University

Review starts: November 20, 2019

The Department of Public Relations & Advertising welcomes applications for two full-time (10-month) tenure-track Assistant Professors to join the department September 1, 2020.

Position 1: The Department seeks a strategic communicator who can teach public relations/advertising, with a focus on sports public relations/advertising. The individual should have demonstrated experience with online media and digital platforms and a record of successful teaching. The individual should be able to conduct cross-disciplinary research and contribute to a department that looks favorably on a multidisciplinary approach to strategic communication. The candidate will assist in implementing a new undergraduate, interdisciplinary Sports Communication & Media degree program within the College of Communication & Creative Arts and teach undergraduate courses. See here for more information: https://ccca.rowan.edu/departments/sportscam/index.html.

Position 2: The Department seeks a strategic communicator who can teach advertising creative such as ad copywriting, portfolio preparation and ad strategy/campaigns courses. The individual should have a technology-driven focus as well as proven public relations and advertising approaches. The individual should be able to conduct cross-disciplinary research and contribute to a department that looks favorably on a multidisciplinary approach to strategic communication.

These tenure-track positions carry an expectation of successful scholarly research or creative activity and publication with efforts to seek external funding. The candidate should have a demonstrable commitment to promoting and enhancing diversity. In addition, the successful candidate will be asked to contribute to the department and university through service including curriculum development and advisement of department student organizations such as PRSSA, the student PR agency, Ad Club, or the student Advertising firm.

Rowan University is a Carnegie-classified Doctoral University (R2: High Research Activity) with over 19,000 students. Its main campus is located in Glassboro, N.J., 20 miles southeast of Philadelphia, with additional campuses in Camden and Stratford.

See full descriptions and application process at http://www.rowan.edu/jobs

Editor: Heloisa Pait

Deadline: December 15, 2019

Connections between the emergence of national democracies, economic development, and the introduction of mass media have been studied for many decades, but there are still missing links in this complex web. In 1949, Daniel Lerner suggested the existence of a relationship between new media and the modern mentality in developing nations. Although much criticized, his insights influenced optimistic views of the impact of television and the internet around the globe. Here we ask a different question: what is the impact of State censorship and material restrictions on the press, in countries that have been witnessing continuous economic development?

Do restrictions on the functioning of the media in the formative period of a nation have long-term impacts on economic development? Looking from a different angle, can a limited labor market, with few formal vacancies in competitive firms, make literacy less rewarding, discouraging private investment in education? How do low literacy rates influence political culture and the nature of the public sphere in a modern society? In this volume, we would like to examine the multiple relationships between economic development, adoption of new media, literacy and education, and democratic culture.

We are interested in studies of so-called developing countries, and in particular those where there have been restrictions on the printing press, such as colonial Brazil and the Ottoman Empire, or which somehow differ from the Northern European and North American model of media development. We welcome papers using a variety of methods, particularly those bridging interdisciplinary gaps. Our goal is to point to new paths in the understanding of the challenges to achieving a free and just society. We welcome papers that discuss public policy regarding educational or economic reforms within that larger investigative framework, as well as research on the experience of particular groups. Research is particularly welcome on women, the African diaspora, and/or Marranos.

The article “Liberalism Without a Press: 18th Century Minas Geraes and the Roots of Brazilian Development”, by the editor, which appeared on volume 18 of Studies in Media and Communications, further elaborates on the possible relations between media, development and the public sphere. Please send your inquiries to Dr. Heloisa Pait, heloisa.pait@fulbrightmail.org with the subject “Emerald Book Series”. Submissions should be sent before January 15, 2020.

Editor: Heloisa Pait is a tenured professor of sociology at the São Paulo State University Julio de Mesquita Filho. She has written on Brazilian telenovelas, on the role of new media in political action and on higher education in Brazil and in the United States. Heloisa Pait is an active participant of public debates; she has recently launched Revista Pasmas, an online women’s magazine. Her published articles are listed in the Lattes platform at www.bit.ly/helopaitLattes.

Contributing editor: Renata Nagamine is a postdoctoral fellow in the Graduate Program in International Relations at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. She received her PhD in international law from the University of São Paulo Law School. Nagamine has worked as a researcher at the Brazilian Centre of Analysis and Planning (Cebrap) and was a Kathleen Fitzpatrick Visiting Fellow with the Laureate Program in International Law at the University of Melbourne in 2018. Her areas of interest are international humanitarian law, human rights, and political theory. Her published articles are listed in the Lattes platform at http://lattes.cnpq.br.

Editor: Julie B. Wiest

Initial Deadline: September 30, 2019

This volume will include social science research that advances knowledge about the complex relationships between media and crime. Chapters will be divided into central focal areas within this literature to seek the widest breadth of current scholarship. In particular, studies are sought that examine: representations of crime and criminals in mass media; links between media representations of crime and related public beliefs and behaviors; the use of new/digital media in the commission/detection of crime or in the dissemination of crime stories; and advances in theory and/or methods relevant to studies of media and crime.

Topics might include:

1. Crime and Criminals in Mass Media: Chapters may examine the representation of crime and/or criminals in news or entertainment media, possibly focusing on depictions of crime rates, criminal incidents, or characteristics of criminals such as race, gender, age, nationality, occupation, etc.

2. Theorizing Media and Crime: Chapters may explore classical and emerging theories used in studies of media and crime, such as uses and gratifications theory, the mean world syndrome, mediatization, media logic, and others.

3. Mediated Perceptions of Crime: Chapters may focus on relationships between media representations of crime/criminals and public perceptions, attitudes, and/or behaviors related to criminality and/or criminal victimization.

4. Crime and Criminals in a New Media Landscape: Chapters may examine the role of new/ digital media technologies in the commission of crime, the detection/policing of crime, or the dissemination of information about crime and/or criminals.

5. Methods for Studying Media and Crime: Chapters may explore classical and/or emerging research methods used to study the relationships between media and crime, including quantitative, qualitative, and/or mixed methods.

Volume Deadlines

• Proposal submissions: Sept. 30, 2019 (acceptance notifications by Nov. 1, 2019)

Proposals should be emailed to jbwiest@gmail.com as an attached Word file in the form of an extended abstract of 500 to 1,000 words, plus references.

All proposals should include information about the purpose and significance of the study, the data and methods employed, and major findings.

• Chapter drafts: Feb. 3, 2020 (peer review feedback by March 16, 2020)
• Final chapters: May 15, 2020 (about 8,000 – 10,000 words, including notes and references)

QUESTIONS? Contact the volume editor at jbwiest@gmail.com

Editor Julie Wiest is Associate Professor at West Chester University of Pennsylvania USA. As a sociologist of culture and media, Julie Wiest applies mainly symbolic interactionist and social constructivist perspectives to studies in three primary areas: (1) the sociocultural context of violence, (2) mass media effects, and (3) the relationship between new media technologies and social change. Wiest received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Tennessee and M.A. in journalism and mass communication from the University of Georgia. Before academia, she worked as a print and online journalist for nearly a decade.

Also see: http://www.emeraldmediastudies.com/Calls---Volumes.html

9th Brazil-US Colloquium on Communication Studies 2020

March 24-25, 2020

UT Austin, Texas, USA

Deadline: October 15, 2019

You are invited to submit your research to the ninth Brazil-U.S. Colloquium on Communication Studies to be held at the University of Texas at Austin on March 24-25, 2020. The event is co-sponsored by the Brazilian Association of Interdisciplinary Studies in Communication (Intercom). Research is welcome regarding the central theme and on any theme relevant to Brazil and the U.S., as well as other topics on history, literature, media, culture, and/or communication studies in the Americas. Comparative work Brazil-US is welcome but not required. Research may be in Portuguese or English. For selected Brazilian papers, presentations may be in Portuguese but with Powerpoint in English.

Optional Publication Submission: Deadline December 1, 2019

An edited volume will be published with ESMC highlighting scholarship from the Colloquium.

For consideration in the volume, full papers are due by December 1, 2019

See formatting guidelines here: http://www.emeraldmediastudies.com/Calls---Volumes.html

Send submission to: brazil.us.ccs@gmail.com

Dates and Deadlines

• Colloquium Submission Deadline: October 15, 2019
• Colloquium Notification Date: On or before November 15, 2019
• Optional Publication Deadline: December 1, 2019
• Colloquium Dates: March 24-25, 2020

Colloquium Format

The colloquium is conducted in Portuguese and English with informal translation offered. Both days of the conference take place in an expanded “round table” format to facilitate discussion and Q&A between scholars interested in media and communications in Brazil, the U.S., and the Americas. Participation is welcome from researchers, graduate students, and practitioners. Scholars presenting papers may also wish to take advantage of the concurrent BRASA Conference (March 26-28).

Submissions for Scholars in the USA and/or Outside of Brazil

Submissions are due October 15, 2019 with notification on or before November 15, 2019. The first twenty extended abstracts accepted will receive free registration. To submit your extended abstract, please send the following items below in a single document by email to: brazil.us.ccs@gmail.com

Colloquium Submission: Due October 15, 2019

1) An overview of your research (approximately 500-750 words)

2) A working title for your paper

3) 3-5 keywords

4) Short bio or highlights from CV for all authors (approximately 250-750 words max)

5) Author(s)’ names, affiliations, and contact emails

Send submission to: brazil.us.ccs@gmail.com

Coordination

Brazil: Sonia Virgínia Moreira (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro / Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora)

USA: Joe Straubhaar (UT Austin), Leila Lehnen (Brown University), Laura Robinson (Santa Clara University), Jeremy Schulz (UC Berkeley)

Academic Committee

BRAZIL: Sonia Virgínia Moreira (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro / Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora), Maria José Baldessar (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina), Monica Martinez (Universidade de Sorocaba), and Sergio Mattos (Universidade Federal do Recôncavo Baiano)

USA: Joe Straubhaar (University of Texas at Austin), Leila Lehnen (Brown University), Laura Robinson (Santa Clara University), Jeremy Schulz (University of California, Berkeley), John R. Baldwin (Illinois State University), Juliana Maria (da Silva) Trammel (Savannah State University), and Mauro Porto (Tulane University)

Questions? Send any queries to email: brazil.us.ccs@gmail.com