ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

Chinese Journal of Communication (SPECIAL ISSUE)

Deadline: July 31, 2025

This special issue of the Chinese Journal of Communication aims to expand our understanding of transnational migration in the digital age, especially as it relates to platforms, publics, and policies. It explores how digital platforms (Chinese and non-Chinese), their sociotechnical affordances, and the discourses they produce (or censor) bear upon transnational migration between China and various parts of the world, including Southeast Asia, Oceania, Africa, and Latin America, as well as North America, Europe and the rest of Asia.

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Friday, 24 January 2025, 12pm EST/6pm GMT

Zoom

Dear colleagues,

As Urbanism/Geography/Architecture SIG at SCMS, we are pleased to invite you to our third online event of 2024-25, focusing on the theme of 'Home on Screen.'

Join us for a conversation with editors and contributors of "Home as a Site of Resistance", Alphaville Special Issue 26.

We are delighted to have Professor Laura Rascaroli (University College Cork), Editor-in Chief of Alphaville, as respondent.

Editors will briefly introduce the special issue, followed by a response and Q&A.

Panelists include: editors Liz Patton and Anna Viola Sborgi and contributors Mariana Liz, Julie Le Hegarat, Jenny Gunn, Conn Holohan, Lauren S. Berliner, Francianne dos Santos Velho, Sabine Haenni.

About the Special Issue 

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed how we view the concept of home. This shift has highlighted various societal disparities, including those based on race, gender, sexuality, and economic status. While the idea of the mediated home has been a growing topic of study (Schleier; Wojcik; Rhodes; Barnwell; Baschiera and De Rosa; Palmer; Patton; Price), this issue of Alphaville narrows its focus on the home as a space of resistance across different geographies and periods, from the 1960s to today. Considering debates from fields such as home movie studies, virtual reality, media activism, and the relationship between film and urbanism, the articles in this issue demonstrate how film and media can address resistance centred around the concept of home. 

Please find all the info on the event and register at this link: 

https://lu.ma/sm2kv17l

Looking forward to seeing many of you there!

The Urbanism/Geography/Architecture Scholarly Interest Group Co-chairs

For more info and Contacts:

https://www.cmstudies.org/page/groups_urban

https://www.facebook.com/groups/UrbanStudiesSIG

scmsurbanism@gmail.com

April 24-26, 2025

University of Vienna (Austria)

Deadline: January 15, 2025

Dear ECREA Community,

This is a reminder that the submission deadline for COMPTEXT 2025 is January 15. Please submit your abstracts (250 words) at: https://www.conftool.org/comptext2025/

You can find the Call for Papers, Panels, and Data Presentations here: https://www.comptextconference.org/7th-annual-comptext-conference-2025/

As always, an exciting line-up of tutorials is being planned for the first day of the conference. Whether you are a beginner or looking to advance your skills, you will have the opportunity to learn about:

• Donations and digital trace data collection
  
• Narratives in large datasets
  
• Visual data analysis
  
• Creative text analysis toolkits
  
• Bayesian text analysis
  
• ...and more!

For any questions, please contact us at comptext25@comptextconference.org.

We look forward to welcoming you to Vienna this April!

Best regards,

Anna Maria Planitzer on behalf of the organisers

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Call for Papers and Panels

COMPTEXT 2025

The Seventh International and Interdisciplinary COMPTEXT Conference on the Quantitative and Computational Analysis of Text, Image and Video as Data will be held at The University of Vienna, Austria, on 24-26 April 2025.

COMPTEXT is an international community of scholars working on the Quantitative and Computational Analysis of Text, Image, and Video as Data. COMPTEXT conferences offer opportunities to obtain useful feedback on ongoing research, present new data and methods, network with scholars working on similar themes, and participate in workshops. 

The increasing use of large language models (LLMs) in computational text analysis presents opportunities and challenges for the social sciences. At COMPTEXT 2025, two critical issues will be explored in depth: first, the evolving infrastructures needed to support LLMs and their impact on open science; second, strategies to mitigate bias and improve the representation of marginalized voices in computational text analysis. With that in mind, we are pleased to announce two engaging roundtable discussions at COMPTEXT 2025 in Vienna:

1. Collaborative Futures: Infrastructures and Open Science in the Age of LLMs
   
2. Beyond the Margins: Addressing Bias and Amplifying Marginalized Voices in Computational Text Analysis
   

While these round tables will focus on specific themes, paper, panel, and data presentation submissions can, but are not required to, adhere to these topics.

PAPERS. For COMPTEXT 2025 in Vienna, we are seeking paper submissions that

• Rely on image, video, text, or other digital trace data to study social and political phenomena broadly construed
  
• Propose, present, or evaluate new computational methods, tools, or datasets
  
• Offer methodological comparisons, reflections, or critiques of existing computational approaches
  
• Apply computational methods to make contributions at the intersection of social science and computer science
  

We accept both substantive and methodological papers for presentation. Substantive papers may be on any studies in the social sciences or humanities that utilize computational methods, while methodological papers may describe new computational methods, tools, datasets, and approaches.

PANELS. We also accept full panel presentations of three or four papers engaging with overlapping themes from a substantive or methodological perspective. 

DATA PRESENTATIONS. We invite data presentations on publicly available resources to be featured in one of the conference's plenary sessions. 

WORKSHOPS. In keeping with our tradition, the first day of the conference (April 24) is dedicated to a series of methods training workshops for registered participants. Courses will be offered for both beginner and advanced-level participants.

Submission formats: 

Paper Proposals. Abstracts of max. 250 words and three substantive and/or methods-related keywords.

Panel Proposals: Title, abstract of max. 250 words summarizing the panel's topic and three substantive and/or methods-related keywords. Further, abstracts of max. 250 words for three or four papers included in the panel.

Data Presentation Proposals:  Abstracts of max. 250 words and three substantive and/or methods-related keywords.

Please submit your proposals at https://www.conftool.org/comptext2025/ 

Timeline:

• Submission deadline: 15 January 2025
  
• Notifications of acceptance will be sent by 15 February 2025.
  
• The conference programme will be published, and registration will open by 15 March 2025.
  
• Full paper upload by April 8. 2025.
  

Please be advised that a conference fee will be charged for participants with accepted papers and for workshop participants. Reduced rates will be available for early career researchers (up to 4 years since Ph.D).

The Program Committee of COMPTEXT 2025 consists of:

• Fabienne Lind (University of Vienna, Vienna)
  
• Miklós Sebők (HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest)
  
• Petro Tolochko (University of Vienna, Vienna)
  

The COMPEXT 2025 Conference is organized by the University of Vienna with the Local Organizing Committee: Fabienne Lind and Hajo G. Boomgaarden together with Jana Bernhard-Harrer, Dominika Betakova, Hannah Greber, Veronika Ebner, Sarah Epp-Kampl, Jean Kalunseviko, Azade Kakavand, Claudia Koska, Aytalina Kulichkina, Noelle Lebernegg, Jula Lühring, Meike Müller, Anna Maria Planitzer, Moritz Sedlatschek, Sebastian Sherrah, Apeksha Shetty, Marvin Stecker, Petro Tolochko, Annie Waldherr, Daniel Wiesner (Department of Communication, University of Vienna)

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: COMPTEXT is committed to creating an inclusive conference where diversity is celebrated, and everyone is afforded equal opportunity. We welcome applications from everyone, including those who identify with any of the protected characteristics that are set out in University of Vienna 2025 Development Plan, p. 58 https://www.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/startseite/Dokumente/Entwicklungsplan2025_EN.pdf. We especially encourage scholars from traditionally underrepresented groups, female scholars, and early-career researchers to apply.

Green Meeting: The aim is to organize the event in accordance with the criteria of the Austrian Ecolabel for Green Meetings. We hope that you welcome these efforts and support us in the implementation of this green event. If you have any questions, please contact the Green Meeting officer Alexandra Wassipaul (alexandra[dot]wassipaul[at]univie[dot]ac[dot]at).

Questions related to COMPTEXT Vienna 2025 should be directed to comptext25[at]comptextconference[dot]org

Best regards,

The Organizers

Paris-Lodron University Salzburg, Austria

Ph.D. Position at the Paris-Lodron University Salzburg, Department of Communication/ Transcultural Communication:

A PhD position is available at the Department of Communication Studies/ Transcultural Communication division, starting 1st April 2025. The successful candidate will be offered a four- year position at the University of Salzburg, Austria.

Main duties and responsibilities

• supporting the research and teaching endeavours of the transcultural communication division

• taking on administrative duties

• carrying out individual research

• teaching duties comprise two hours a week from year three onwards

• the PhD thesis has to be defended and published within 4 years

Qualification requirements

We are looking for a highly motivated candidate with experiences in intercultural communication & competence (theories & methods), intercultural trainings (training design & evaluation), cultural studies, empirical data analysis as well as interest in the concept of resilience and various interdisciplinary avenues regarding communication.

The applicant must hold a master’s degree in communication studies or an affiliated discipline. The applicants need proof of language competence in German and English: B2 level (European reference frame) – language proof needs to be submitted by the end of the first year of employment (December 2025).

Personal characteristics

Agreeable, conscientious, flexible, industrious and adaptable to new environments.

We offer

• exciting and stimulating tasks in a strong international academic environment (see: https://kowi.uni-salzburg.at)

• an inspiring work environment with dedicated colleagues

Salary and conditions

PhD candidates work 30hrs a week and are remunerated € 2.786,10 (14x per year). The place of work is Salzburg City, Austria, home office days upon request.

For further information please call Assoc.Prof. Dr. Birgit Breninger: +43 (0)662 8044-41-72 and see: https://www.plus.ac.at/mitteilungsblatt

About the application:

The application comprises:

• CV including information on educational background, work experience, preprints and publications.

• Full list of publications.

• Certified copies of relevant transcripts and diplomas.

• Contact information for at least two references.

• Documentation of fluency (B2 level) in English and German: TOEFL score, IELTS, or equivalent language proof. This needs to be submitted latest by the end of the first year of employment.  

Other documents which the applicant finds relevant may also be included. We might ask for further documents when necessary during the hiring process.

General information about working at the PLUS can be found here: https://www.plus.ac.at/personalentwicklung/jobportal/

Please submit your application electronically to bewerbung@plus.ac.at Please refer to application number: GZ A 0005/1-2025 in your covering letter.

Application deadline: 29th January 2025

Katalin Feher

This groundbreaking book demystifies generative AI’s transformative impact on media, socio-cultural dynamics, ethics, and policy.

Defining generative AI as an evolutionary leap in the development of artificial intelligence, the author examines intricate human-machine interactions and socio-technical dynamics, advocating robust, proactive AI governance to navigate emerging uncertainties.  The book is clearly structured into six key sections, each exploring distinct aspects of the relationship between artificial intelligence, media, and society. The "Transformation" section examines how machine behavior is reshaping our datafied society, questioning whether data is the new oil, or digital manure. The "Generative AI" section investigates the models and future impacts of generative AI as a co-intelligence, revisiting the Turing Test and analyzing societal-business impacts. "AI Media" explores the convergence of media and AI, highlighting robot journalism, synthetic content, and the disinformation era, discussing the trend towards high-risk optimism. The "Uncertainties" section addresses inherent unpredictability vs. strategic foresight, focusing on challenged business models, sustainability concerns, and emotional intelligence factors. In "Ethics," the book analyses generative morality and dual-use technology, covering trusted AI principles—from misuse to integrative solutions. Finally, the "Policy" section discusses governance, labor market impacts, the importance of human rights and power dynamics in generative AI. Each section also provides summaries of impact projects, reflective art, scholarly questions, and strategic takeaways—extended with a comprehensive glossary.

This is an essential resource for scholars, students, policymakers, technologists, ethicists, and AI industry leaders seeking to rapidly understand and address the challenges and opportunities of generative AI and AI media in a cohesive framework.

https://www.routledge.com/Generative-AI-Media-and-Society/Feher/p/book/9781032968735?srsltid=AfmBOooSTC_hfiwOont0FsNEGcbFfBAyzhem8zvnsoI8FLljX0snefgj

May 20, 2025

Rutgers University, New Brunswick (USA)

Deadline: January 15, 2025

We invite proposals for workshops and tutorials at the ACM Web Science Conference 2025 (WebSci’25). The conference will take place at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ and will center the special theme: “Maintaining a human-centric web in the era of Generative AI.” Workshops will take place on May 20, 2025, during the first day of the conference.

For full details, please visit the conference website: https://www.websci25.org/call-for-workshops-and-tutorials/

Important dates

• Workshop/Tutorial proposal submission: Wed, January 15, 2025
  
• Workshop/Tutorial proposal notification: Mon, January 28, 2025
  
• Workshop & Tutorials Day: May 20, 2025 
  

Note that all submission deadlines are end-of-day in the Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone.

Overview and Purpose

We invite proposals for workshops and tutorials at the ACM Web Science Conference 2025 (WebSci’25). The conference will take place in New Brunswick, NJ, USA, from May 20 to 23, 2025, and serve as center stage for the special theme: “Maintaining a human-centric web in the era of Generative AI”. Workshops will take place on May 20, 2025, during the first day of the conference.

The ACM Web Science Conference 2025 will feature co-located workshops and tutorials to provide a forum for interdisciplinary research. Contributions may stem from a variety of disciplinary traditions including (but not limited to) Computer and Information Sciences, Social and Behavioral Sciences, as well as Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences. Researchers and practitioners studying the complex and multifaceted impact of the Web and AI on society and vice versa can engage in discussions on relevant topics (including those mentioned in the CfP for the main conference program).

WebSci’25 workshops/tutorials may address any topic relevant to the global Web Science community, e.g., questions of basic research as well as applied research, Web-related practices of developers, creators, and consumers, new methodologies, emerging application areas, privacy, ethics, sustainability, or innovations. Each workshop/tutorial should strive to generate ideas that can give the community a fresh or synthesized perspective on the topic, or suggest promising directions for future work.  

The organizers are especially interested in topics that resonate with this year’s theme of maintaining a human centric web in the age of AI. For instance, how can the Web science community develop methods, tools, or frameworks to help us responsibly navigate the age of generative AI? How can we better understand web user behaviors and attitudes in the age of and with the aid of  LLMs? The tutorials could cover a wide variety of Web Science approaches and methods. If you are working in an emerging area in the broad landscape of Web Science research, do consider contributing or participating.

Submission Guidelines

Submission System: Submissions should be made on Easychair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=websci25

Please select the WebSci25 Workshops and Tutorials track as shown below.

Format & Length: All workshop proposals should adopt the current ACM SIG Conference proceedings template (acmart.cls available here). Please submit papers as PDF files using the ACM template, either in Microsoft Word format (available here under “Word Authors”) or with the ACM LaTeX template on the Overleaf platform, available here. In particular, please ensure you are using the two-column version of the appropriate template. Submission must be as a single PDF file: 4 (four) pages in length, including references.

Structure: Workshop/Tutorial proposals should conform to the following structure:

• A title and an acronym for the workshop/tutorial
  
• The names, affiliations, and contact information of ALL organizers
  
• Proposed duration of the workshop/tutorial – half or full-day (please specify your flexibility where applicable)
  
• A statement of the workshop/tutorial objectives (including the motivation, relevance, and desired outcomes)
  
• An outline of the proposed workshop/tutorial format, discussing the planned activities (where applicable) such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, breakout sessions, discussion sessions, etc.
  
• A brief description of the workshop/tutorial audience and the expected number of submissions/participants
  
• If the workshop/tutorial was held before, when applicable, please share details on the venues and dates, number of participants, format, number of submissions, and number of accepted papers, and indicate how the proposed edition will differ from earlier editions
  
• A short bio of the organizers, including a description of their relevant qualifications and past experience in organizing workshops/tutorials or similar gatherings
  

Review Process & Next Steps

The workshop and tutorial chairs, in consultation with the general chairs, will create a carefully curated list of workshops with an aim to reflect the needs and desires of the Web Science community at large. Please note that we might propose modifications and augmentations, such as suggesting that workshops be shortened or combined where appropriate. The workshops/tutorials ought to address timely topics and phenomena; therefore, it depends on the year which topics are considered particularly relevant and interesting. Workshop/tutorial series or follow-up workshops/tutorials from those in previous conferences will be given special consideration but are not automatically accepted. Space in the program and technical limitations will also influence the number and form of the selected workshops and tutorials.

• Once accepted, organizers are responsible for publicizing the workshop/tutorial and soliciting potential participants.
  
• Depending on the format of the workshop/tutorial, organizers may decide to cap the number of attendees.
  
• Workshop/tutorial organizers solicit participants for their workshop through their Call for Participation, which is posted to the Web Science 2025 website and includes a link to the workshop’s public website. The workshop organizers determine the submission format.
  
• The workshop organizers will review submissions using their own criteria (not set by the Workshop Chairs or the Web Science PC).

Proceedings option for Workshops

Given the interdisciplinary nature of the conference, workshop proceedings are optional. However, if you wish to have your workshop papers included in the companion proceedings, you must ensure that the camera-ready versions of all accepted papers are prepared by April 15, 2025.

Workshops/Tutorials Chairs

• Kiran Garimella (Rutgers University)
  
• Yongfeng Zhang (Rutgers University)
  
• Harsh Taneja (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign)

For any questions and queries regarding the workshops/tutorials, please contact the chairs at websci25-workshops@easychair.org

June 17-19, 2025

Barcelona, Spain

Deadline: February 15, 2025

Auditorium  - Poblenou Campus - Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Compassionate Futures: Dismantling the Dynamics of Power and Violence in Human-Animal Relationships is a critical exploration of the multifaceted power structures that govern human-animal interactions and the ethical imperative to reimagine these relationships with compassion at the forefront. This conference will bring together scholars, professionals, and advocates from diverse fields to engage in a thorough examination of the social, political, economic, and cultural forces that continue to perpetuate the exploitation, oppression, and marginalisation of non-human animals (NHA hereafter).

The event aims to dissect the mechanisms by which humans assert dominance over NHA, from legal frameworks and economic interests to cultural narratives and institutional practices that sustain speciesism. In analysing these dynamics, we will interrogate how power operates to maintain the objectification and instrumentalization of NHA, often for human benefit, while reflecting on alternative pathways rooted in justice, empathy, and ethical responsibility.

Central to this conference is the exploration of how to distinguish between genuine ethical progress and superficial humane-washing. Humane-washing, often used to placate public concern, obscures the persistence of exploitative practices while allowing industries and institutions to maintain business as usual under the guise of reform. The conference will critically engage with the strategies and narratives that perpetuate this deception and, importantly, will highlight pathways to promote authentic, transformative change in how we relate to and treat NHA.

The conference also seeks to foster interdisciplinary dialogue on the intersectionality of animal oppression with other forms of violence and discrimination, such as racism, sexism, and environmental degradation, highlighting the importance of solidarity across social justice movements. By dismantling the dynamics of power and violence that structure human-animal relationships, Compassionate Futures envisions a world where NHA are recognized not as objects, but as subjects deserving of respect, dignity, and compassion.

Ultimately, this event invites participants to reflect, collaborate, and contribute to the creation of a more just and compassionate future for all beings, with a particular focus on identifying and overcoming the many strategies that simulate progress while obstructing real and transformative change.

Fees and registration

• Registration fees (all include coffee-breaks and lunch). 
  
• With paper presentation: 150 € 
  
• For unemployed, students without scholarships and people with low income: 100 € 
  
• Without paper presentation: 75 €.
  
• For unemployed people, students without grants and people with low income: 50 €
  

Key dates

• Start of Abstract Submission: 15 December 2024
  
• Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15 February 2025
  
• Decisions on abstracts will be notified by: 15 March 2025
  

April 5, 2025

Lleida (Catalonia, Spain) 

Submission deadline: January 31, 2025 

We invite scholars to approach the theme of aging stereotypes from diverse methodological and epistemological perspectives, including but not limited to critical theory, empirical analysis, and creative practices. We warmly encourage work-inprogress submissions as well as submissions from students, researchers, and practitioners new to ECREA events. 

Read more:  http://tinyurl.com/TWGAgingComm

September 18-19, 2025

Lisbon (Portugal)

Deadline: January 31, 2025

We would like to invite you to submit a proposal for the off event of the ECREA Gender, Sexuality and Communication Section organised in collaboration with ICNOVA – NOVA Institute of Communication.

In 2025, we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA), an international policy framework adopted at the Fourth UN World Conference on Women in 1995, which established global objectives for advancing gender equality. Section J deals with gender equality in the media and calls for the participation of women in media roles and a balanced, non-stereotypical portrayal of women. It took decades of feminist activism to include Section J in the Platform. These initiatives led to the launch of the Global Media Monitoring Project, a comprehensive analysis of the portrayal of women in the news in different countries.

Despite this foundation, gender and intersectional inequalities still exist. The media landscape of the last 30 years has seen a concentration of ownership, a decline in budgets for journalism, the rise of large tech companies and a challenging regulatory environment — all of which emphasise the need for initiatives on gender and intersectionality in the media. Although Section J advocates for women’s participation, stereotypical representations are still prevalent and women are often excluded from media decision-making processes. Gender-based violence online has increased as digital platforms have failed to effectively combat misogyny and protect women’s digital rights. This has added new forms of abuse, especially for those belonging to different minority groups and facing other forms of discrimination such as ableism, racism, lgtbqphobia, aporophobia, classism or ageism.

At a time when rights are under threat, it is necessary to continue to develop strategies for action and exchange ideas on methods to support demands for a fairer media environment. This conference aims to foster a dialogue on changes, challenges and future directions in realising gender and intersectional equality in the media.

Format

We invite scholars, policymakers, journalists, media professionals and activists to submit a contribution on topics such as feminist media policy, digital harassment, intersectional discrimination, media representation and the role of feminist movements in shaping media policy or other topics mentioned below. Contributions dealing with intersectional and comparative approaches to media and gender issues are particularly welcome. Presentations can be inspired by research, creative, media, activist, and interdisciplinary practices and will be arranged in thematic sessions by the organising team.

Potential topics could include (but are not limited to):

- The role of feminist movements in media and gender policy-making

- Gender and media regulation

- Online gendered harassment and abuse

- Gender and intersectional issues in media production

- Manifestations of misogyny in digital and popular media

- Gendered implications of AI / automated technologies and algorithmic communications

- Intersections of sexism, ableism, racism, lgtbqphobia, ageism, classism and other forms of oppression

- Shortcomings and possibilities of the Beijing Platform for Action

- Pervasiveness of (neo)colonial framings in the global representation of women

- The role of affect, emotion, and authenticity within gender and communication

- Disinformation, misinformation, malinformation and threats to gender and intersectional equality

- Far-right communication, social media and women’s rights

- Alternative feminist media practices

- Possibilities for building solidarity in and through the media, especially within the Global South and the Global North

- Specific policy issues such as privacy, surveillance, issues of data justice and others

- Feminist utopias in media production and representation. 

Submission

https://easychair.org/cfp/WomComRights25

Please submit your proposal by 31st January 2025, 23:59 (CET) highlighting how your work relates to the conference topic, methods used, and perspectives you would like to bring to the discussion. Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words.

Registration

The cost of (in-person) attendance is 100 euros for salaried academics and other professionals, and 50 euros for students and unwaged participants. Requests for fee exemption will be handled case-by-case by the organising committee. This covers conference registration and coffee breaks. Booking for the conference dinner will be available once registration is opened.

Organisation

This conference is co-organised by ICNOVA (Lisbon) and ECREA’s Gender, Sexuality and Communication Section with the support of the Digital Culture and Communication Section. The conference is partially supported by National Funds through FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology under Project refª: UIDB/05021/2020. Hosted and sponsored by ICNOVA (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa). 

For questions, please email us at WomComRights25@fcsh.unl.pt

September 17-19, 2025

Karlstad University, Sweden 

Deadline: April 14, 2025

We would like to inform you that the call for papers for the 6th International Geomedia Conference "Transforming Passions" is now open.

The conference is organized by the Centre for Geomedia Studies and will take place at Karlstad University in Sweden from 17th to 19th September 2025.

It marks 10th anniversary of the Geomedia conference series and explores, among other dimensions: refocusing emotional energy to imagine alternative futures and push for systemic changes; questioning the role of media in relation to individuals’ and groups’ emotional investments into space and place; reorienting personal affective experiences into collective action; reevaluating the risks associated with commodified or exploited passion in digital labor; and redefining current understandings of passion into new forms that are artistic, social, political, or technologically mediated.

We welcome contributions that address issues of, but do not have to be limited to:

• spaces and places of mediated intimacy and (com)passion
  
• affective dimensions of digital (media) labor
  
•  passion in representations of space and place 
  
• feelings and experiences of connection / disconnection 
  
• passion’s states of being and modes of becoming
  
• passions and desires of the self and their surroundings
  
• (geo)media and love of place and/or environment
  
• geopolitics and the mediation of affect 
  
• passion, media and territorialization
  
• temporalities and proximities of passion
  
• affective dimensions of mobility and tourism 
  
• (social) media and performance of love, hate, and everything in-between
  
• solid and unstable forms of passion, passion and privilege, passion and glitches, failures and uncertainties
  
• passion and the public sphere
  
• transformative potential of passion’s fragilities and vulnerabilities
  
• passion and its boundaries or excessiveness
  
• environmental and sustainable passions
  
• mediating emotions in times of political and social turmoil
  
• the democratic role of passion
  
• passion as a form of agency
  
• passion as a concept and/or method in research and activism
  
• cocreating passion in and through artistic practice
  
• transmedia and transdisciplinary perspectives of passion
  

The theme Transforming Passions will also be addressed through invited keynote sessions, plenary panels and workshops, audiovisual screenings and conversations. Participants are encouraged to submit proposals for individual papers, artistic contributions, audiovisual essays, workshops or paper sessions addressing the conference theme.

The theme Transforming Passions will be addressed through invited keynote sessions, plenary panels and workshops, audiovisual screenings and conversations. Participants are encouraged to submit proposals for individual papers, artistic contributions, audiovisual essays, workshops or paper sessions addressing the conference theme.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

• Paul C. Adams (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
  
• Mark Deuze (University of Amsterdam, NL)
  
• Annette Hill (Jönköping University, SE)
  
• Jyoti Mistry (University of Gothenburg, SE)
  
• Kaarina Nikunen (Tampere University, FI)
  
• Erika Polson (University of Denver, USA)
  
• Jenny Sundén (Södertörn University, SE)
  

The Geomedia Conference 2025 invites proposals for individual papers, thematic panels, audiovisual essays, workshops or paper sessions in English through the conference submission system opening in February 2025.  

Each proposal should include the following information: Title; Abstract; Presentation format; Biographical note of max. 100 words; 3-5 keywords.

The submission system opens for proposals in February 2025, and the deadline for submission is 14th April 2025.

For more information on specific proposal guidelines and conference timeline, see: https: www.kau.se/transformingpassions

If you have any questions, feel free to email us at: geomedia2025@kau.se