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Nordicom Review Special Issue (open access)

Deadline: October 1, 2019

Special issue editors:

Stine Liv Johansen (Aarhus University), Maja Sonne Damkjær (Aarhus University), Martina Skrubbeltrang Mahnke (University of Copenhagen), Ane Kathrine Lolholm Gammelby (Aarhus University).

Motivation and Aim

This special issue of Nordicom Review explores and discusses the concept ‘struggling’ in relation to media and technology use. ‘Struggling with technology’ is a dual concept. It refers not only tosituations where media technology is adopted to deal with different struggles, but also to situations where media technology itself becomes the subject of struggle.

Media technology permeates our social, leisure and work life. Although media technology is often implemented to support everyday activities and communication, it sometimes ‘gets in the way’, is experienced as difficult to handle or becomes the subject of heated debate. In other cases, people challenged by specific life situations or issues such as physical or mental health problems adopt particular technologies in order to overcome these struggles in – for them – meaningful ways.

Appropriation of new technologies thus often fosters – or is fostered by – different kinds of struggle. Technologies may contribute to amplify and extend or modify and constrain specific capabilities for communicationas well as change or reconfigure practices, meanings, social relations and relations of power. Given the similarities of the Nordic media and welfare systems and the Nordic countries’ rapid adoption of media technologies, this special issue will explore the concept of struggling specifically within a Nordic context (cross-national comparative studies are welcome).

This special issue aims to contribute to current debate about societal implications of media and technology use through different theoretical, analytical, empirical and conceptual discussions of how individuals and groups experience ‘struggling’ with technology. A further goal is to examine how discourses and metaphors concerning our engagement with technology affect understandings of media and technology. When these critical discussions become nuanced and sharpened, which we hope to achieve with this special issue, we as a research community contribute to improve insight into the roles that different media and technologies play in our lives.

Under the theme ‘struggling with technology’ we invite researchers to focus on aspects of our lives with media and technology that become pertinent because they are troublesome, imbued with conflict, discomfort or uncertainty, or lead individuals and groups to struggle. We wish to scrutinise features of media and technology use associated with ‘struggle’ at different phases of life and between and across generations and social groups, as well as how media and technology users demonstrate agency and creativity in how they respond to these circumstances.

We welcome contributions that examine and discuss the phenomenon of ‘struggling with technology’ in depth, especially in relation to cultural, social, historical and temporal perspectives on the multiple and complex ways in which people engage with and make use of different media types and technologies. We especially encourage contributors to discuss theoretical aspects of the concept ‘struggling,’ for instance how the given framework of ‘struggling’ can be operationalised for empirical media and technology studies, and how different perspectives can be integrated both analytically and conceptually.

Procedure and Important Dates

The special issue is expected to be published online and in print in the winter 2020/2021. The selection of papers to be included in this special issue will follow this two-step procedure:

Authors submit title and abstract (no more than 600 words incl. references) of their papers along with five-six keywords and short author bios (no more than 150 words per author) to the special issue editors (please send this to stineliv@cc.au.dk). The deadline for submission of abstracts is 1 October 2019 at 23:59 CET. The authors will be notified of acceptance or non-acceptance by early December 2019.

If an abstract is accepted, the authors will be requested to submit a full paper (no more than 7000 words including all references and appendices) anonymised for double-blind peer review and formatted according to the Nordicom Review guidelines. The deadline for submission of invited, anonymised full papers is 1 April 2020. The subsequent double-blindpeer review process and other administrative matters will take place according to a timeline to be further arranged by the special issue editors and the main editorial board.

Please note that if the invited, anonymised full papers are deemed incompatible with the preceding accepted abstracts or do not demonstrate sufficient academic quality, the special issue editors will reserve the right to reject such papers in line with Nordicom Review’s editorial policy.

Please address all questions as well as abstracts and full paper submissions to:

Stine Liv Johansen, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (stineliv@cc.au.dk).

We look forward to receiving your submissions!

About Nordicom Review

Nordicom Review is an international peer-reviewed open access journal published by Nordicom (Nordic Information Centre for Media and Communication Research) at the University of Gothenburg. The publication of Nordicom Review is supported by the Nordic Council of Ministers. Nordicom Review is indexed by SCOPUS.

View this CFP on Nordicom's website: https://www.nordicom.gu.se/en/latest/news/call-papers-struggling-technology

Tallinn University

Deadline: July 1, 2019

Tallinn University announces 5 free study places in its PhD programme titled “Audiovisual Arts and Media Studies”. The places will come with attached scholarships and salaries - in the amount of 1400 euros per month.

The programme facilitates two study tracks: creative practice based audiovisual arts studies and empirical media studies. The curriculum focuses on contemporary forms and phenomena of media and audiovisual arts, first and foremost media production and content research. Special focus is given to the processes of change in media and arts.

In 2019, there will be two PhD students admitted to conduct research as part of the EU Commission funded Cultural Data Analytics (CUDAN) ERA Chair project and two PhD students admitted to conduct research as a part of the EU Mobilitas Pluss Top Researcher project of Prof. Pia Tikka. One study place will not be attached to a project and is thematically free.

The two doctoral places that relate to CUDAN projects need to relate to the following themes:

• Data based studies of audiovisual heritage (film and television, projects could focus on their histories, their databases and corpora, their metadata, the ways databases and corpora represent or mediate history)
• Data usage in contemporary media organisations (media organisations in smaller countries preferred, projects could focus on their data collection and analytic practices and opportunities, analysis of related value propositions)

The two doctoral places that relate to prof. Pia Tikka research projects need to relate to the following themes:

• Virtual reality/Augmented reality storytelling in immersive narrative environments, practice-based work requiring skills in working with game engines, 3D character animation, and/or 360 cinematic production. Programming skills are considered a plus.
• - Biosensor-driven interaction between the participant and immersive narrative and/or virtual characters, requiring relatively advanced skills in programming, experience in conducting psychophysiological experiments is emphasised.

Deadline for applications is July 1st. Admissions to the programme take place in July.

Learn more about the programme here: https://www.tlu.ee/en/bfm/audiovisual-arts-and-media-studies#projects

November 25, 2019 (tentative)

Berlin, Germany.

Deadline: June 15, 2019

Submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=giganet19

Information: http://www.giga-net.org

GigaNet – the Global Internet Governance Academic Network – is now accepting extended abstracts for papers to be presented at its annual symposium. GigaNet 2019 will be held alongside the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Berlin. We expect our symposium to be held on “Day 0” of the IGF, which is Monday, November 25.

GigaNet is an international association of academic researchers founded in 2006 to support multidisciplinary research on Internet governance. Its membership includes researchers from all over the world who are contributing to local, national, regional, and international debates on Internet governance. More information on GigaNet’s organizational structures and activities can be found on its website at http://www.giga-net.org.

Papers on any Internet governance-related topic are solicited. Welcome topics include, but are not limited to:

• Norm development by states and/or non-state actors
• Cross-regional dynamics (East-West, South-South, East-South, South-West, etc.)
• Governance of/by content, e.g. narratives, disclosures, censorship
• Sovereignty (internal, external) and commons-based governance
• Cybersecurity and cyber conflict among states
• Governance within new top-level domains
• Technical standards as norms
• Theories of and methods applicable to Internet governance research
• Multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary approaches

GigaNet is oriented around the presentation of research papers. Extended abstract should consist of 800-1500 words and must describe:

1) The research question(s),

2) The data used,

3) The methodology and

4) The main findings of the paper.

Theoretical papers need not specify the data used but must have a clear research question and statement of the specific theories used and literature in which the analysis is situated.

Reviews of individual papers will be double blind. Therefore, do not include names or any other personally identifiable information on the uploaded file. (Be aware, however, that applicants will submit through the Easychair platform, which will record their names and contact data, and the program committee chair will be able to see that information.)

GigaNet encourages emerging scholars to submit their work to the symposium. Proposals should be submitted in English.

For submission, the extended abstract must be uploaded to the Easychair website (URL above) by 15 June 2019.

We expect to complete reviews and to notify authors of acceptances within 5 weeks after submission, i.e. by 15 July 2019. Accepted authors must confirm their attendance within two weeks of notification and must submit their final paper within 6 weeks of notification, i.e. by 1 October 2019.

Important dates:

• June 15: extended abstracts submission date. (This is the initial deadline to observe.)
• July 15: notification to authors of acceptances/rejections
• July 29: accepted authors confirm attendance
• October 1: full papers due
• November 25: symposium in Berlin. (This date may shift slightly when the UN allocates facilities at IGF.)

Participation in the GigaNet symposium is free of charge.

December 3-5, 2019

Perth/Fremantle, Australia

Deadline: May 24, 2019

Contact:

http://www.ozchi.org

https://www.facebook.com/ozchi2019/

https://twitter.com/OzchiWA

E. ozchi2019@gmail.com

IMPORTANT DATES

• 24 May 2019 Long Papers
• 24 May 2019 Workshop Proposals
• 24 June 2019 Doctoral Consortium
• 10 August 2019 Short Papers
• 24 August 2019 Student Design Challenge Team Applications
• 6 September 2019 Demos, Posters, Industry Papers, and Work-in-Progress

We listen to YOUR voice and want to make OzCHI’19 even better – submit your conference ideas!

The best ideas are awarded during the conference closing session. ozCHI ‘Idea Box’: https://goo.gl/forms/0XceZlmoP0XSV5RO2

OzCHI is the annual non-profit conference for the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG) of the Human Factors and Ergonomic Society of Australia and Australia's leading forum for the latest in HCI research and practice. OzCHI attracts a broad international community of researchers, industry practitioners, academics and students. Participants come from a range of backgrounds, including interface designers, user experience (UX) practitioners, information architects, software engineers, human factors experts, information systems analysts and social scientists.

After 18 years, OzCHI finally come back to Western Australia. Time has passed and things have changed a lot since OzCHI 2001.

More HCI and UX works have been done in Western Australia as well as its neighbouring countries. Having the privilege to convene the 2nd OzCHI conference in Western Australia, one of our objectives is to be inclusive towards attendees across overall Asia-Pacific.

The conference theme is Experience Design in Asia Pacific, which highlights the challenges we all face in the endeavour to tame the environment without destroying it to ensure our continuing existence. Our vision is to make OzCHI 2019 as an inclusive event for academic, industry, research, start-ups, maker communities to learn and exchange knowledge in the recent and emerging HCI and UX areas - practical, technical, empirical and theoretical aspects regardless their level of maturity in the fields.

We invite contributions on all topics related to Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, Architecture, Engineering, Planning, Social Science, Creative Industries, and other related disciplines. Creating * Designing * Experiencing * Innovating * Intelligence * Community * Reaching out to Asia-Pacific

Join us in Perth/Fremantle, Western Australia in December 2019 to explore and understand the design and role of contemporary interactive technologies.

SUBMISSIONS

Submissions will be accepted in various categories as described below. All submissions must be written in English and follow formatting guidelines in the paper template. Both long and short papers will undergo a double-blind review by an international panel and evaluated on the basis of their significance, originality, and clarity of writing. This review will be based on the full text of the submitted paper. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series available from the ACM Digital Library. Award will be given to the highest quality

We are looking for submissions under the theme of Experience Design across Asia Pacific in the following areas but not limited to:

TOPICS

HCI: Methods, Tools and Techniques

• Usability Methods and Practices
• Human-centered Design
• Participatory Design
• User Studies and Ethnographic Approaches
• Design Methods
• Tools for Design, Modelling and Evaluation
• HCI and Software Engineering
• Usability Metrics and Measurement
• Ethical issues in HCI
• HCI Education and Design Education
• HCI4D

UX Applications and Business Domains

• Digital Transformation
• Mobile User Experience
• Organizational context and technology design
• Games and Entertainment
• Healthcare, E-health and Telemedicine
• Interactive Design for Online Education
• Computer-supported cooperative work and collaboration
• E-commerce Interface Design and Evaluation
• Electronic, Mobile and Ubiquitous Commerce
• Service Design (Micro-finance, Micro-loan, Instant Courier, Agile Transport)
• Social Computing (Social Media, Social Networking)
• Online Gaming, Crowdsourcing, Collective Intelligence, Online Dating
• Cryptocurrency and Financial Technology
• UX and eLearning
• Blockchain
• Crowdsourcing

User Research and Usability

• Lean User Experience
• Agile User Experience
• Usability Testing
• User Research
• Internationalization and Localization
• Accessibility and inclusion
• Design System
• Multimedia and Multimodal Interfaces
• Natural User Interfaces
• Tactile and Haptic Interaction
• Novel Interaction Techniques
• Mobile User Interfaces
• Responsive Design
• Graphic User Interface
• Information Visualisation

Emerging Technologies

• Virtual Reality
• Augmented Reality
• Mobile Computing and User Mobility
• Affective Computing
• Context-Aware and Ubiquitous Computing
• Internet of Things
• Big Data
• Human Robot Interaction
• Artificial Intelligence
• Smart Cities
• Autonomous Vehicles
• Wearable Technology
• Brain Computer Interface
• Novel Interface

Graphics, Art and Media Technology

• Engaging users with multimedia
• Methods and techniques of creative practices
• Visualizing and interacting with data
• Quality of Experience (QoE)
• Digital storytelling
• Interactive art
• Media technology and interactivity
• Designing for multi-user interaction
• Tangible, mixed reality interfaces and multi-modal interfaces

SUBMISSION TYPES

1. Long papers report on innovative, original, and completed research, which is relevant, significant, and interesting to the HCI community.

2. Short papers present ideas that are emerging and would benefit from discussion with members of the HCI community. This type of submission may include work-in-progress, experiences of reflective practitioners, and first drafts of novel concepts and approaches.

3. Workshops are half-day and full-day sessions on topics that contribute to community building around a specific HCI topic. Topics may include methods, practices, and other areas of interest and that support active participation beyond presentation.

4. Doctoral consortium is a full-day intensive session for research students. A panel of experienced HCI researchers provides advice and guidance.

5. Student Design Challenge is an annual international competition in which students work rapidly researching, brainstorming and sketching a solution for a real HCI problem. This year the competition took place the 7th of April and now the submissions are under review, finalists will present their work at the OzCHI 2019 conference.

6. Industry papers provide the opportunity for practitioners and industries for their initiatives or new developments that could benefit from discussion with members of the HCI community.

7. Work-in-Progress papers are a subset of the long papers track (subject to the same format and deadlines). Rather than reporting on mature research, they describe work-in-progress, late-breaking and new ideas, questions, or challenges, and are intended to provoke discussion in the OzCHI community. The accepted submission will be required to present a poster

8. Demo/Posters is a venue for industry, research, startups, maker communities, the arts, and design to present their hands-on demonstration, share novel interactive technologies, and stage interactive experiences. This venue promotes and provokes discussion on novel technologies.

OzCHI 2019 GENERAL CHAIRS

General Chairs

• Artur Lugmayr, Curtin Univ., AUSTRALIA
• Eunice Sari, UXINDO & Charles Darwin Univ., AUSTRALIA/INDONESIA

Long Paper Chairs

• Ryan, Kelly, Univ. Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
• Mark Reynolds, Univ. of Western Australia, AUSTRALIA
• Virpi Roto, Aalto Univ. FINLAND
• Ingrid Richardson, Murdoch University, AUSTRALIA

Short Paper Chairs

• Haifeng Shen, Australian Catholic Univ. AUSTRALIA
• Callum Parker, Univ. of Sydney, AUSTRALIA
• Naseem Ahmadpour, Univ. of Sydney, AUSTRALIA
• Jo Li Tay, Curtin Univ., AUSTRALIA

Publication Chairs

• Hollie White, Curtin Univ., AUSTRALIA
• Jared Donovan, QUT, AUSTRALIA
• Simon Perrault, Singapore Univ. of Technology & Design, SINGAPORE

Workshop Chairs

• Greg Wadley, Univ. of Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
• Sarah Webber, Univ. of Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
• Jo Jung, Edith Cowan Univ., AUSTRALIA
• Demos, Work in Progress, Posters
• Mark Billinghurst, Univ. of Auckland, NEW ZEALAND
• Soojeong Yoo, Univ. of Sydney, AUSTRALIA
• Martin Masek, Edith Cowan Univ., AUSTRALIA

Doctoral Consortium Chairs

• Dana McKay, Univ. Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
• Margot Brereton, QUT, AUSTRALIA
• Wally Smith, Univ. Melbourne, AUSTRALIA

Panel Chairs

• Marcus Foth, QUT, AUSTRALIA
• Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, RMIT, AUSTRALIA

Student Design Challenge

• David Cook, Edith Cowan Univ., AUSTRALIA
• Trevor Hunter, Univ. of Queensland, AUSTRALIA
• Peter Worthy, Univ. of Queensland, AUSTRALIA
• Industry Engagement and Sponsorship Chairs
• Jess Tsimeris, Google, USA
• Jonathan Steingeisser, Isobar, Perth, AUSTRALIA
• Greg Stewart, SMS Management and Technology, Perth, AUSTRALIA
• Christopher Kueh, ECU, Perth, AUSTRALIA
• Ulrich Engelke, Data61, CSIRO, AUSTRALIA
• Sean Gardiner, BHP, AUSTRALIA
• Adi Tedjasaputra, UX Indonesia, AUSTRALIA/INDONESIA

Local Liaisons & Publicity Chairs

• Susannah Soon, Curtin Univ., AUSTRALIA

Website

• Yanginbo Zhang, Curtin Univ., AUSTRALIA

Student Volunteers Chairs

• Casey Xin Wei Lim, Curtin Univ., AUSTRALIA
• Jamie Dougall, Curtin Univ., AUSTRALIA

Asian Liaisons and Publicity

• Ethel Ong, De La Salle University, PHILIPINES
• Masitah Ghazali, University of Teknologi, MALAYSIA
• Thippaya Chintakovid, Chulangkorn University, THAILAND
• Nova Ahmed, North South University, Dhaka, BANGLADESH
• Adi Tedjasasaputra, UX Indonesia, INDONESIA/AUSTRIA

CHISIG Liasons

• Duncan Stevenson, Australian National University, AUSTRALIA
• George Buchanan, University of Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
• Local Conference Steering Board
• Artur Lugmayr, Curtin University, AUSTRALIA
• Andrew Woods, HIVE, Curtin University, AUSTRALIA
• Andrew Rohl, Curtin University, AUSTRALIA
• Christopher Kueh, Edith Cowan University, AUSTRALIA
• Clive Barstow, Edith Cowan University, AUSTRALIA
• David Cook, Edith Cowan University, AUSTRALIA
• Eunice Sari, Charles Darwin University and UX Indonesia, AUSTRALIA
• Jo Jung, Edith Cowan University, AUSTRALIA
• Michelle Ellis, Edith Cowan University, AUSTRALIA
• Philip Ely, Curtin University, AUSTRALIA
• Martin Masek, Edith Cowan University, AUSTRALIA
• Mark McMahon, Edith Cowan University, AUSTRALIA
• Mark Reynolds, University of Western Australia, AUSTRALIA
• Tele Tan, Curtin University, AUSTRALIA
• Honorary Local Conference Steering Board Members
• Vasillis Kostakos, Univ. Melbourne, AUSTRALIA

UNDER FIRE (short articles)

The post-millennium world has seen a rapid escalation of violent conflicts in the Middle East, West, Central and some areas of Southern Africa, and ongoing civil wars, refugee migrations on unprecedented scales and human rights abuses in a variety of other regions across the world. As a means to engage these developments, Critical Arts instituted a new Section, “Under Fire” in 2002. This is in keeping with its interpretation of cultural studies as a form of praxis, of experience, and of strategic intervention, in which individuals find themselves caught up in broader process over which they may have little or no control. The aim of this section is to invite short (anything up to 2000 words) theorised autobiographies, authoethnographies, and dramatic narratives of what it is like living under fire, of the relevance of cultural studies in such circumstances, and how it could be deployed to challenge such conditions. The original Call emanated from a number of unsolicited submissions we had been receiving from colleagues in Palestine and Zimbabwe, letters from friends in Israel, and marginalised groups in South Africa, and from academics whose research and work is pilloried by hostile authorities. The exigencies of being under fire make it hard to find the discursive space in which participants can catch enough breath to speak the truths of their own participation:

• When does a culture of resistance lose focus, becoming a culture of violence as an end in itself?
• At what point can one recognize when legitimate defence against violence has suddenly become indistinguishable from the Warsaw Ghetto?
• How can we turn war-talk into justice-talk, without provoking war-mongers to renewed efforts?
• In a world with a global view of even the most local eruption of violence, how can those under fire on opposite sides of the street, the valley, the river, the sand dune find enough space to escape the solidarities of occupation, of resistance, and develop a language of restitution, restoration, Reformation, in the face of corporate and state reaction?
• Closer to our own sites of research, when does academic managerialism and bureaucratisation of research become offensive, anti-humanist and self-destructive? The academic enterprise is under fire itself, as are many employed within it.

“Under Fire” offers such a space, and we do not expect to define what will make submissions acceptable or not. The object is for those who have had enough, to speak in the ways they believe those across the camp or the corridor might attend to them. The “Under Fire” submissions should reflect not just the pressures of a personal involvement within a context of oppression, occupation, or resistance; it should carry a clear indication of just how this involvement tests the cultural studies tradition. In this “test” the writers’ experience can draw not only on the cultural studies method of examining texts in relation to contexts, but should also use the writer’s own context as the critical touchstone for pushing the cultural studies envelope.

For more see:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02560240285310041

Some Recent Under Fire Postings:

Njabulo Ndebele, They are Burning Memory https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02560046.2017.1318158

Chris Merrett, Marx, Labour and the Academy https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02560046.2013.784389

Brenden Gray, Neoliberalising Higher Education https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02560046.2016.1269237

And the essay that started the section in 2002:

Lena Jayyusi, Letters from the Palestinian Ghetto, 8-13 March 2002 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02560240285310051

Submission Guidelines:

Submissions should be made online via ScholarOne Manuscripts at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rcrc (in cases where internet connectivity is not conducive to a ScholarOne submission, we will still accept manuscripts submitted via email to the Critical Arts office. Send to David Nothling at criticalarts@ukzn.ac.za and/or editor-in-chief, Keyan Tomaselli, at tomasell@ukzn.ac.za). Submissions should be original works not simultaneously submitted elsewhere, if up to 2000 words in length including any references. Referencing should be done according to the Chicago manual of style (see attachment).

Critical Arts URLs:

Author Services: http://journalauthors.tandf.co.uk/

Critical Arts Home Page: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rcrc20

eJournals Archive (1980-1992) Open Access: http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/africanjournals/html/browse.cfm?colid=263

IAMCR pre-conference

July 5, 2019

Madrid, Spain

Deadline: June 3, 2019

Description: 

It is an undeniable fact that the world is changing, also politically speaking. All over the world new political parties of far-right and far-left political tendencies have come to stay in many societies historically known for their socialist governments in the past. Even in some core countries of the European Union, such as France or Italy, far-right political parties either are already in power or have grown in size and number of voters – thus becoming more important in the political scene. The reasons for this growth may vary in each country, but they are often associated with an increase of both legal and illegal immigration while, simultaneously, welfare systems in these countries tend to decrease and provide less benefits for the citizens. In many cases these developments affect public trust in established political actors and institutions negatively. The rapidly changing political landscape potentially influences existing media-politics relations and, more generally, fundamental conditions for open societies. Media policies are no longer only related to left-right wing positions, but also related to traditional elites versus populist perspectives. What are the media policies and strategies expressed by recently-elected far-right populist parties? To what extent have they been influential and how can these new tendencies be measured?

In this conference we will analyze contemporary media policy developments in different contexts and countries in order to arrive to relevant findings that allow us to ‘measure’ the different influences of far-right and far-left populist parties’ strategies and effects. Also, we will try to define the democratic consequences that populist media policies entail, if any.

This pre-conference is organized with the support of the Official Research Group "Nordic Model and Culture of the Information Society" (Research Group Nº 962068) of Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

We invite academic colleagues, researchers, journalists and political experts to submit abstracts to this IAMCR 2019 International Communication Section pre-conference.

Location: Conference Room, New Building at the Faculty of Information Sciences, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Date and time: Friday 5 July 2019, 9:30 to 18:00.

Participation and registration: Participation in this pre-conference is free of charge. Registration is required.

Call for proposals: Abstracts (300-500 words) should be submitted for blind review before Monday, 3 June to iamcr2019.popmediapreconf@gmail.com. Authors will be notified on Monday, 10 June.

The language of this pre-conference is English, only.

Organisers

Prof. Dr. Karen Arriaza Ibarra, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, is Chair of the International Communication Section of IAMCR. She participates actively in international conferences and seminars and is the author of articles and books on international communication, political communication, media structure, and cultural industries. 

Email: arriazaibarra@ccinf.ucm.es

Prof. Dr. Lars Nord, Mid-Sweden University, is the Head of the Department of Political Communication at Mid-Sweden University, Sundsvall Campus, and also the Director of the DEMICOM Institute. His profile can be seen in this link.

email: iamcr2019.popmediapreconf@gmail.com

An IAMCR 2019 post-conference

July 12, 2019

Segovia (Spain)

Deadline: May 12, 2019

The post-conference event will be held in Segovia, Spain, sponsored by IAMCR's Media Education Research Section and with the participation of Universidad de Valladolid (Campus María Zambrano, Segovia). The aim of this post-conference is to take stock of media literacy education in 2019, over 35 years after the Grunwald Declaration, and at a time of cultural and political shifts in an era of populism and “post-truth.”

Date and time: 12 July 2019, 09:00 to 20:00

Location: Universidad de Valladolid, Plaza de la Universidad, 1. 40005 Segovia, Spain.

Participation and registration: A fee of 50 € (Euros) will cover registration and will include lunch and beverages for the day. The fee will be reduced to 30 € for IAMCR and UVA members, as well as for graduate students and colleagues from low-income countries.

Please send abstracts (in English or Spanish) of 300 to 500 words by 12 May 2019 to contacto@educacionmediatica.es and meriamcr2019@gmail.com

Convenors

IAMCR Media Education Research Section

Grupo de Investigación Reconocido “Educación y TIC” de la UVA (Alfonso Gutiérrez Martín)

Organisers

Alfonso Gutiérrez Martín, University of Valladolid

Michael Hoechsmann, Lakehead University, Faculty of Education

Stuart Poyntz, Simon Fraser University, School of Communication

Email: contacto@educacionmediatica.es

Tel: +34 664578336

October 23-25, 2019

School of Media, Faculty of Media, Communication and Design, National Research University HSE, Moscow

Deadline: May 31, 2019

Keynote Speakers

• Vincent Mosco, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Queen's University (Canada)
• Joe Karaganis, vice-president American Assembly, Columbia University, editor of the report “Media Piracy in Emerging Economies” (US)
• Patrick Burkart, professor, Texas A&M University (US)
• Tristan Mattelart, professor, French Institute of Press, University of Paris II Pantheon-Assas (France)
• Göran Bolin, professor Södertorn University (Sweden)
• Aleksandra Elbakyan, creator of Sci-Hub (platform of free scholar publications)

Call for Papers

This conference explores piracy as a figure navigating the conventions, norms and boundaries of legality in digital cultures and beyond. Offline and online piracies thrive on technological affordances yet they do so in opposition to corporate efforts -in music, film, publishing and academia- to label them as threatening for the economy and society. In turn, pirate activities frequently become themselves subject to economic exploitation, co-optation and spectacurilzation by market forces. During the last decades, while the copyrights industry lobbies for tighter IP laws on a global scale, social media corporations find productive ways to capture counter-hegemonic networks through the exploitation of free or leisure time and users’ data. Caught in the highly flexible and contingent context of digital networks, piracy allows for the probing of norms and boundaries, questioning the logics that define intellectual property laws, broadening the uses and perceptions of authored production and enabling new forms of technology usage surpassing corporate control. Moving beyond approaches that represent piracy in terms of illegality or supply and demand, we propose to explore pirate networked sociabilities working within and outside the fringes of market economy through the lens of institutional and discursive power and attempts to escape corporate control.

The discourse on piracy can be seen as part of a broader set of discourses and practices shaping the figure of the threat in media and culture, that is to say the construction of borderline and contested practices, identities and phenomena that rest on the threshold of the legitimate and illegitimate, the legal and the illegal. We understand these boundaries to be highly contingent, historical and politically defined and subject to discursive contestation. To bring few examples beyond digital piracy, the figures of the ‘parasite’ in biology, the ‘virus’ in digital worlds or the ‘benefit scrounger’ in public discourse become likewise threats that have to be managed and confronted for the presumed progress of the community. We look for abstracts that explore the threat as a broader phenomenon related to issues of political economy, otherness, marginality, resistance, community, assimilation, camouflaging, gender, class, recognition and representation. We seek to address the power relations in designations of the threat (who, why, when and by whom is someone categorized as a threat) as well as explore the conditions under which authorities and legal entities decide who has the right to exist and how.

We welcome contributions in the following topics:

• Legality, Illegality and Sharing Economies
• Political Economy of Othering
• Disruption and the New Economy
• Academic Publishing and Piracy
• Art, Music and Piracy
• Discourses on Disruption
• Ecosystem and Disruption
• Gender, Class, Sexual Others
• Viruses and Parasites in Media
• Human and Non-Human Worlds

Submissions should include the name(s) and institutional affiliations of the applicant(s), email address and abstracts no longer than 500 words (including references) in English or in Russian.

Abstracts must be submitted before May, 31, 2019 at: piracyandbeyond@gmail.com

Participants will be notified about acceptance by June 30, 2019

For any further information, please contact us at: piracyandbeyond@gmail.com

WEBSITE: https://cmd.hse.ru/mediapiracy/

Organizers

• Ilya Kirya, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
• Yiannis Mylonas, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
• Panos Kompatsiaris, Higher School of Economics, Moscow

University of Tübingen

Deadline: June 16, 2019

The Chair for Empirical Media Research at the Institute of Media Studies (Prof. Zurstiege), University of Tübingen, has the following position available as of October 01/2019: Academic Employee (m/f/d) (full-time, German public sector pay scheme E 13 TV-L).

The duties of the position holder include academic teaching in the field of media science (4 hours per week during the semester) as well as cooperation in the context of the ongoing projects at the department.

The following is expected: a doctorate in media or communication science as well as profound knowledge of quantitative and / or qualitative research methods. The position provides the opportunity for further qualification (habilitation) and is initially limited to three years.

The University of Tuebingen seeks to raise the number of women in research and therefore invites qualified female scientists to apply. Disabled persons will be preferred in case of equal qualification. Recruitment is carried out by the central administration.

Applications with the usual documents, including a copy of the dissertation and a presentation of the habilitation project, preferably in electronic form, should be submitted by June 16/2019 to: Prof. Dr. Guido Zurstiege (guido.zurstiege@uni-tuebingen.de), University of Tuebingen, Institute of Media Studies, Wilhelmstr. 50, 72074 Tuebingen, Germany 

Institut für Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, Klagenfurt University

Application deadline: May 21, 2019

Die Universität Klagenfurt will mehr qualifizierte Frauen für Professuren gewinnen.

Am Institut für Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft der Fakultät für Kulturwissenschaften an der Universität Klagenfurt ist gem. § 98 UG voraussichtlich ab 1. Jänner 2020 eine unbefristete Universitätsprofessur für Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften im vollen Beschäftigungsausmaß zu besetzen.

Mit rund 12.000 Studierenden ist die Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt eine junge, lebendige und innovative Universität, die am Schnittpunkt zwischen alpiner und mediterraner Kultur – einer Region mit höchster Lebensqualität – liegt. Als staatliche Universität gemäß § 6 UG ist sie aus Bundesmitteln finanziert. Ihr Leitbild steht unter der Devise „Grenzen überwinden!“. Das QS Top 50 Under 50 Ranking 2019 zählt sie zu den 150 besten jungen Universitäten der Welt.

Gemäß ihrem zentralen Strategiedokument, dem Entwicklungsplan, gehören der wissenschaftliche Exzellenzanspruch bei Berufungen, vorteilhafte Forschungsbedingungen, gute Betreuungsrelationen und die Förderung des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses zu den vorrangig leitenden Grundsätzen und Zielen der Universität.

Area of responsibility

Der Aufgabenbereich der Professur umfasst:

• die Vertretung des Faches in Forschung und Lehre insbesondere in den Bereichen Mediatisierung sowie Medienbildung im Kontext der Digitalisierung
• die organisatorisch-koordinierende Mitbetreuung des Fachs und die Mitwirkung an der curricularen Entwicklungs- und Evaluationsarbeit
• die Mitwirkung in den Bachelor- und Masterstudien des Institutes
• die Mitwirkung im Doktoratsstudium sowie an der Entwicklung und Implementierung von Doktoratsprogrammen
• die Beratung und Betreuung von Studierenden im Fach, insbesondere die Betreuung von Bachelorarbeiten, Masterarbeiten und Dissertationen
• die Mitwirkung an der Profilbildung des Instituts
• die Beratung und Förderung des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses
• die Mitwirkung im Universitätsmanagement

Requirements

• Habilitation in Medien- und/oder Kommunikationswissenschaft oder gleichzuhaltende Qualifikation
• hervorragende Forschung und Lehre im Bereich Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft im Schwerpunktbereich Mediatisierung, Medienbildung im Kontext der Digitalisierung
• nachgewiesene universitäre Lehrerfahrung und hochschuldidaktische Kompetenz
• Führungskompetenz und Teamfähigkeit

Desired skills

• Bereitschaft zur Weiterentwicklung des Fachs
• Erfahrungen in der internationalen Forschungskooperation und Einbettung in die internationale Forschungslandschaft
• Internationale Forschungs- und Publikationsleistungen
• Fähigkeit und Bereitschaft zur Leitung einer Organisationseinheit
• Bereitschaft und Fähigkeit zu interdisziplinärer Kooperation
• Innovative Ansätze in der Entwicklung und Vermittlung von Theorien und Methoden
• Thematische Bezüge zum 2019 gegründeten Digital Age Research Center (D!ARC) der Universität (interdisziplinärer Potenzialbereich „Humans in the Digital Age“, HDA)
• Erfahrung in der Konzeption und Durchführung von Drittmittelprojekten
• Kompetenz im Bereich Gender Mainstreaming und Diversity Management

Additional information

Der Aufgabenbereich der Professur bedingt, dass die zukünftige Professorin / der zukünftige Professor den Arbeitsmittelpunkt nach Klagenfurt verlegt.

Die Universität strebt eine Erhöhung des Frauenanteils beim wissenschaftlichen Personal ­— insbesondere in Leitungsfunktionen ­— an und fordert daher qualifizierte Frauen ausdrücklich zur Bewerbung auf. Frauen werden bei gleicher Qualifikation vorrangig aufgenommen.

Menschen mit Behinderungen oder chronischen Erkrankungen, die die geforderten Qualifikationen erfüllen, werden ausdrücklich zur Bewerbung aufgefordert.

Die Bezüge sind Verhandlungsgegenstand. Das Mindestentgelt für diese Verwendung (A1 gem. Universitäten-Kollektivvertrag) beträgt derzeit € 71.900,-- brutto jährlich.

Neuerdings kann bei Berufungen nach Österreich für die ersten fünf Tätigkeitsjahre ein attraktiver Zuzugsfreibetrag gemäß Einkommensteuergesetz gewährt werden. Die Voraussetzungen sind im Einzelfall zu prüfen.

Ihre Bewerbung besteht bitte aus einem maximal fünfseitigen Pflichtteil, einem vollständigen Verzeichnis der Publikationen und Vorträge und der in den letzten fünf Studienjahren abgehaltenen Lehrveranstaltungen sowie allfälligen ergänzenden Unterlagen (z.B. Lehrveranstaltungs­evaluierungen). Die Übermittlung des o.g. Pflichtteils ist eine notwendige Bedingung für Ihre gültige Bewerbung. Bitte übermitteln Sie Ihre Unterlagen bis spätestens 21. Mai 2019 per E-Mail an die Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Büro des Senats, z. Hd. Frau Sabine Tomicich (application_professorship@aau.at).

Für die Berufungsvorträge ist der 1.Oktober 2019 in Aussicht genommen. Für inhaltliche Fragen beachten Sie bitte die allgemeinen Informationen für BewerberInnen (www.aau.at/jobs/information) oder wenden sich an den Vorsitzenden der Berufungskommission, Herrn Prof. DDr. Matthias Karmasin (Matthias.Karmasin@aau.at).

Es besteht kein Anspruch auf Abgeltung von Reise- und Aufenthaltskosten, die aus Anlass des Aufnahmeverfahrens entstehen.