ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

September 23, 2024

Two Method Workshops are part of the series of pre-conferences organised within 10th European Communication Conference (ECC) in Ljubljana. The aim of these full-day meetings of ECREA members is to discuss various ways how to do research. The workshops consist of three sessions, each is dedicated to one particular method and run by a different speaker. However, we kindly ask you to participate in all three parts.

These workshops are intended for ECREA members. Please register as soon as possible, the number of places is limited. 

REGISTER HERE: https://form.jotform.com/241572783119057

Fee: 25 EUR - covering 2 coffee breaks and a lunch (sandwiches)

MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE WORKSHOPS:

1) Research methods workshop: Methods for studying society-technology relations

• Using vignettes and scenarios in user-centric algorithm studies - Prof. Ranjana Das (University of Surrey)
  
• "When I tried to use ChatGPT in my work": deconstructing affective entanglements in society-technology relations with mind scripting – Dr. Doris Allhutter (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
  
• Making monsters as methods for studying data work – Prof. Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt  (Malmö University)

https://ecrea.eu/event-5736311

2) Methods for studying platforms, apps and online content

• Appscapes method – Dr. Signe Sophus Lai and Dr. Sofie Flensburg (University of Copenhagen)
  
• The walkthrough method for visual platforms – Dr. Daniela Jaramillo Dent  (University of Zurich)
  
• Developing quanti-quali approaches to study social media visual content – Dr. Stefania Vicari  (University of Sheffield)
  

https://ecrea.eu/event-5736309

Edited by: Dominic Wring, Nathan Ritchie

Europe Votes is a timely new book free to download via https://www.europevotesbook.com.

Edited by Dominic Wring and Nathan Ritchie of the from Loughborough University Centre for Communication and Culture, the book has been published in collaboration with the European Election Monitoring Center. Europe Votes offers a comprehensive look back at how political campaigning has evolved in the second largest democracy (after India) of 400 million citizens – and does so as member states go to polls next month for the tenth European elections. Europe Votes features twenty experts analysing developments in their own countries from the inaugural elections of 1979 to the most recent ones in 2019. Every chapter features content from the European Elections Monitoring Center archive which is now available to consult online and holds more than 15000 campaign items. More details about the book are available here.

Arab Media & Society

Deadline: July 1, 2024

The advent of artificial intelligence has ushered in a new era that promises significant changes in the field of communication and media. As nation-states and organizations invest substantial resources in advancing artificial intelligence, it becomes essential to explore the potential outcomes of this revolutionary digital mechanism. While artificial intelligence is often presented within a utopian framework, there are also cautious voices raising concerns. This call for papers aims to critically analyze the impact of artificial intelligence on media and communication, particularly in the Arab world and its diaspora.

Specifically, we seek to examine how artificial intelligence will contribute to and shape the production of media and communication. Additionally, we aim to investigate the downstream effects of artificial intelligence on media audiences and consumers, as well as the potential alterations in communication dynamics between individuals and entities. This call encourages deep reflection on the opportunities, risks, ethical and moral implications, potentialities, and transformations that may arise in the imminent age of artificial intelligence.

In light of the pressing need to address the complexities presented by artificial intelligence, Arab Media & Society dedicates its upcoming publication, issue 37, to this theme. We welcome diverse submissions on various subtopics related to media and artificial intelligence. Some suggested subtopics include, but are not limited to:

• The role of artificial intelligence in media production and content creation
  
• AI-driven algorithms and their impact on media consumption patterns
  
• Ethical considerations and challenges in introducing artificial intelligence in media and communication
  
• The future of media and its content: journalism, advertising, public relations, strategic communication, broadcast, etc., in an era of artificial intelligence
  
• Journalism and Communication programs in Higher Education in the era of Artificial Intelligence
  
• Digital Divide / (In)equitable access to technologies
  
• Social Media Algorithms and User Behavior
  
• AI and Media Consumption Patterns
  
• AI, Propaganda, and Information Warfare
  
• AI in Entertainment and Creative Industries
  
• Economic Impact of AI on Media Industries
  
• Regulatory and Policy Perspectives on AI in Media
  

Authors interested in submitting their work for peer-review consideration should send their manuscripts by June 15, 2024. Other submissions, including book and conference reviews, shorter research papers, and columns, should be received by July 1, 2024.

All submissions must be in Microsoft Word format (.doc or .docx), adhere to the Chicago Manual of Style, and have a maximum length of 10,000 words (including footnotes and citations). Please include the author's name (as it will be published), affiliation, and a brief abstract of no more than 150 words.

Please direct your articles and ideas to editor@arabmediasociety.com.

For further information regarding our publishing policies, kindly visit www.arabmediasociety.com/publishing-policies/.

International Journal of Games and Social Impact (IJGSI), special issue

Deadline (EXTENDED): June 10, 2024

Games often offer their players strong emotional experiences. Love is a profound human experience that affects all aspects of our lives. Indeed, many games include love as part of their narrative and/or gameplay. Nevertheless, is this truly love? Unlike other media, in which the audience reads about or watches a love story unfold, in games players take on an active role in the execution of the love story.

This raises concerns as to the ability of games to simulate love. Can a player love a (virtual) character? If not, what does this mean for the capacity of games to afford love? If yes, how does this change our understanding of love? Game Studies have approached the concept of love from multiple perspectives: philosophical inquiries (Leino 2015, Dicken 2018), game design challenges (Grace 2020), feminist and queer analyses (Salter 2020, Youngblood 2015), and sociological studies (Burgess and Jones 2020, Bopp et al. 2019, Karhulahti and Välisalo 2021). Yet, despite the multitude and resonance of the existing scholarship, love in games remains an underexplored and fascinating topic that interests both game players and creators alike.

For this issue of the International Journal of Games and Social Impact (IJGSI), we are accepting full papers that are related, not exclusively, to one or more of the following aspects:

• Meaning of love in games
  
• Love relationships between human players and NPCs
  
• Representation and poetics of love in games
  
• Queer and feminist approaches to game love
  
• Close reading of games featuring love
  
• Love as a mechanics and design challenge
  
• History of love in games
  
• Games as spaces for humans to fall in love
  
• Roleplaying and love in games
  

We welcome submissions relating to any type of game: digital, online, VR, tabletop, board games, LARP, etc.

Full papers must be submitted electronically after registering on the platform, respecting the guidelines established in the Submissions section.

Publication timeline

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere. All manuscripts are referred through a double-blind peer-review process. Dates are indicative – to be confirmed.

• Submission deadline for full-papers: extended until 10-06-2024
  
• Notifications of reviews sent to authors: 30-06-2024
  
• Submission deadline for final full-papers:  15-07-2024
  
• Publication of full-papers in special issue: 01-10-2024
  

Special issue Editor

Renata Ntelia (School of Computer Science, University of Lincoln)

To potential Authors

Please submit your proposals via the IJGSI website, according to the format standards for publication: https://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/ijgsi/about/submissions

About the International Journal of Games and Social Impact

The International Journal of Games and Social Impact (IJGSI) is a semiannual open-access publication for games research and critique on social change, inclusion, education and Human Rights. IJGSI was established in Lusófona University, by the Games and Social Impact Media Research Lab (GLOW) to research, discover, and foster links between games studies in academia and civil society through educational and knowledge exchanges.

This Journal is supported through Hei-Lab (https://hei-lab.ulusofona.pt/; https://doi.org/10.54499/UIDB/05380/2020) and CICANT (https://cicant.ulusofona.pt/; https://doi.org/10.54499/UIDB/05260/2020) research units as a strategy to foster multidisciplinary, fundamental, and applied research approaching the intersections between games and human activities. IJGSI is also supported by the FILMEU (https://www.filmeu.eu/) alliance.

Source: https://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/ijgsi/about

January 7-10, 2025

Lisbon (Portugal)

Deadline: September 15, 2024

The 5th Lisbon Winter School for the Study of Communication takes a comparative and global approach to the study of media and fear. Jointly organized by the Faculty of Human Sciences (Universidade Católica Portuguesa) and the Center for Media@Risk (Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania), the Lisbon Winter School offers an opportunity for doctoral students and early career post-doctoral researchers to strategize around the study of media and fear together with senior scholars in the field. It is held in coordination with the Annenberg Schools of the University of Southern California & University of Pennsylvania, the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s School of Journalism and Communication, the University of Helsinki’s Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities, and The Europaeum.

Call for Applications

Fear is a powerful emotion that is thought to obscure, undermine or derationalize decision-making. It can either trigger or paralyze action, inducing irrational behavior, generating moral panics or fostering responses to keep people safe. It abounds in the media coverage of wars, terror, social protests, natural disasters, technological accidents and the radical events associated with climate crisis, migration, poverty, racialized violence, misogyny, settler colonialism and other global inequities. Fear gives high visibility to inflammatory discourses that furnish a central stage across the information environment, creating a loss of control and predictability alongside an intensification of uncertainty, threat, risk and insecurity across different publics. While reports on fear-inducing conditions and events have the potential to induce action and create solidarity for those being effected, the media also instigate hate against marginalized social groups who have become the target of what Ruth Wodak (2015) has called “the normalization of shameless politics.” Today a central ingredient of many videos and posts that go viral on social media, fear can be promoted by a wide range of actors, including those who instigate action against the rule of law. 

The Lisbon Winter School aims to cut across the many discourses driven by fear, considering its weaponization by political, religious and social actors who aim to increase their own power, including leaders of democratic and authoritarian regimes, drug cartels, religious institutions, terrorist groups and protest groups. Topics include power grounded on fear, threat, and compliance; fear as a rhetorical tool to spread hate against the ‘other’; fear as a propaganda technique used throughout history; fear as a feature of contemporary polarized societies that present particular groups as sources of threat. Fear also has positive effects. It can be channeled toward helping people keep safe or avoid danger. Wearing a mask to prevent a viral infection, abandoning a village or a city before it is hit by a typhoon, or seeking refuge during air strikes are examples. 

Regardless of how positively or negatively scholars feel about the invocation of fear in mediated communication, its presence is a clear component of media environments everywhere. But what kind of presence does it have? How is it part of wider strategies designed to discriminate against specific groups of people? How is it used by democratic or authoritarian regimes, terrorist or criminal groups to create compliance and counter resistance? How is fear central to nationalistic discourses in different nations? What parallels can be established between contemporary media environments and earlier regimes in which fear occupied a central stage? And how can people resist feeling threated by messages that attempt to stir it up? These are just some of the questions the Lisbon Winter School aims to discuss. We welcome proposals by doctoral students and early career post-doctoral researchers from all over the world to discuss the intertwined relation between media and fear in different geographies and temporalities. The list below illustrates some topics for possible consideration. Other topics dealing with media and fear are also welcomed: 

• Media and the dissemination of fear
  
• Fear, populism and the media
  
• Terrorism and the media
  
• Moral panics
  
• Reporting war and tragedy
  
• Fear and the democratic process
  
• Communication techniques to create fear
  
• Fear and identity formation
  
• Algorithms, AI and the promotion of fear
  
• Promoting fear against gender, racial and religious minorities
  
• Fear as tool of compliance 
  
• Fake news and disinformation
  
• Fear, anxiety and irrationality
  
• Fear and (self-)censorship
  
• Fear in the public arena in specific national or regional contexts
  
• Climate anxiety
  
• Visual media and fear
  
•  …
  

PAPER PROPOSALS

Proposals should be sent to lisbonwinterschool@gmail.com no later than 15 September 2024 and include a paper title, extended abstract in English (700 words), name, e-mail address, institutional affiliation and a brief bio (max. 100 words) mentioning ongoing research. Applicants will be informed of the result of their submissions by early-October. 

FULL PAPER SUBMISSION 

Presenters will be required to send in full papers (max. 20 pages, 1.5 spacing) by 15 December 2024. 

For more information visit lisbonwinterschool.com

ORGANIZERS

Nelson Ribeiro

Barbie Zelizer

CONVENORS

Sarah Banet-Weiser 

Risto Kunelius

Francis Lee

Deadline: June 14, 2024

About the Book: Sustainability represents a great challenge for companies today. Understanding sustainability management in the luxury industry is necessary to know its implementation considering the stakeholder expectations, and the benefit of society and the environment. Different theories and methodologies to measure their impacts show the contribution of luxury companies to sustainable development through innovative solutions that apply to their value chain. The communication strategy is crucial to increase transparency.

The book aims to provide a theoretical and practical reflection on the various implications of sustainable management in the luxury sector. The guiding thread of this proposal is intended to be the journey from detecting the need to implement a sustainable management strategy in their companies in the luxury sector, to the challenge of measuring all sustainability issues, or how the future of data management is and its usefulness for making better decisions. In this way, the reader is shown the different stages in which a luxury company can find itself in the management of its sustainability, so that it becomes a theoretical-practical manual for those responsible for this discipline.

Aims and Scope: The scope of this book covers an advanced level of theories and development of materials in the field of sustainable luxury management, the strategies, measurements and value of Sustainability to understand the main challenges of sustainability in the luxury industry. The book depends on the following themes (but not limited to):

• Luxury and sustainable management.
  
• Sustainability goals and opportunities for luxury companies.
  
• Implementing goals and opportunities for luxury companies.
  
• Implementing sustainability in luxury business
  
• Impact of regulation on sustainability for luxury companies.
  
• Consumer behavior and Sustainable luxury
  
• Strategies for sustainable supply chain management in luxury.
  
• Collaborating with stakeholders in luxury companies.
  
• Marketing strategies for sustainability in luxury
  
• Strategic communication management to enhance the sustainability of luxury brands.
  
• Differences in sustainable luxury management between conglomerates and small players.
  
• Particularities of the measurement of sustainable luxury management according to the sector, products and services.
  
• Commonly accepted single metrics to measure sustainability issues: global reporting initiative, etc.  Creating value for stakeholders and shareholders of luxury companies.
  
• Measuring sustainable management among the value chain of luxury companies.
  
• Measuring ESG criteria in the luxury industry.
  
• The challenges of measuring sustainability: variables, methodologies and interpretations.
  

Book Editors:

Dr. Celia Rangel-Pérez. Complutense University of Madrid, Avda.Complutense, s/n. 28040, Madrid-Spain. 0034 91 394 2220. cerangel@ucm.es  

Dr. Belén López Vázquez. ESIC University, Avda. Valdenigriales, s/n 28223 Pozuelo de Alarcón Madrid, Spain. 0034 91 4524100. belen.lopez@esic.university 

Manuel Fernández Menéndez. Valdenigriales, s/n 2822 ESIC University, Avda. 3 Pozuelo de Alarcón Madrid Spain. 0034 91 4524100. manuel.fernandezmenendez@esic.university

Important Dates:

• Abstract submission: 14th June 2024
  
• Notification of abstract acceptance: 30th June 2024
  
• Full chapter submission: 15th October 2024
  

Notification the first chapter review: 30th November 2024 Revised chapter submission: 15 January 2025 Notification of second chapter review: 1st March 2025 Final submission of full chapter: 1st April 2025 Submission to publisher: 20th June 2025

How to Submit Abstract/Book Chapter and Queries:

Ensure the complete information of authors and co- authors and send an abstract by the scheduled deadline (14th June 2024) following this link: https://forms.office.com/e/ELs74JnRyV?origin=lprLink

For any query, please, send an email to the editors via these email addresses:

• cerangel@ucm.es
  
• belen.lopez@esic.university
  
• manuel.fernandezmenendez@esic.university
  

Edited by: Gaëlle Ouvrein, Ana Jorge, and Hilde Van den Bulck 

Published in May 2024

Audience Interactions in Contemporary Celebrity Culture: Approaches from across Disciplines explores current understandings of celebrity-audience relationships in the context of digitalization and the ongoing celebritization of all aspects of culture and society. Focusing on the themes of celebrity and health, celebrity and identity, and celebrity and scandal, this volume presents chapters authored by experts from across the globe that deal with celebrity-audience relationships in different historical, cultural, and social settings, tackling the topics from social-psychological, critical/cultural, and persuasive perspectives. In doing so, this book highlights the broadening of disciplinary, paradigmatic, theoretical, and methodological approaches to celebrity studies research. By bringing these different approaches together in one book and drawing overall conclusions across chapters, the editors and contributors of this volume promote and facilitate cross-fertilization in ongoing efforts to grasp the fascinating complexity of celebrity-audiences relationships. Scholars of media, pop culture, and celebrity studies will find this collection particularly useful.

Contributions by: Gwen Bouvier, Mihai Coman, Paulien Decorte, Simone Driessen, Olivier Driessens, Regiane Lucas Garcêz, Qiang Geng, David C. Giles, Alexander Jenkins, Gaëlle Ouvrein, Pedro Paixão-Rocha, Samantha Tecson, Hilde Van den Bulck

About the editors: Gaëlle Ouvrein is assistant professor in the Department of Communication Sciences at the University of Brussels. Ana Jorge is associate professor of media and communications at Lusófona University. Hilde Van den Bulck is professor of communication studies at Drexel University.

Availability:

Audience Interactions in Contemporary Celebrity Culture: Approaches from across Disciplines (Lexington Books) for $105.00 • (£81.00)(Hardcover) and $45.00 • (£35.00)(Ebook). For more information, please visit: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666922448/Audience-Interactions-in-Contemporary-Celebrity-Culture-Approaches-from-across-Disciplines 

September 16 - 20, 2024

University of Bonn, Germany

Deadline: June 30, 2024

Summer School

In times of datafication and the increasing integration of artificial intelligence applications into many areas of society, the debates about human self-determination and technological autonomy can be seen as symptoms of a profound reconfiguration of the relationships between technology, culture, and society. Together we want to explore key issues related to these themes and their consequences for, among others, individuals, institutions, and democracy.

In the course of the ongoing rise of artificial intelligence, digital society unfolds diverse potentials for transforming the relationship between humans and technology. Social robots like Paro, generative language programs (Large Language Models) like ChatGPT, and interactive voice assistant systems (Alexa, Siri) simulate authentic interpersonal interactions, mimic cognitive processes of emotion recognition, present themselves in humanoid forms, and generate evaluative speech and text communication. With the continuously expanding functional spectrum of artificial intelligence, new scenarios are being explored, and algorithmic degrees of freedom beyond human control, surveillance, and intervention are activated and normalized in many areas of society.

The enhanced capabilities of new “social machines” pose serious ethical and political challenges for democracies. Machines are no longer perceived solely within communication processes as media for storing, visualizing, and distributing information, but are conceptualized, utilized, and researched as communication partners. In particular, we need to account for the increasing autonomy of technical artifacts such as robots, voice assistance systems, drones, or so-called autonomous vehicles. What semantics surround their usage? Which are the most crucial and far-reaching implications that different types of autonomous systems have for defense, surveillance, work and care situations as well as for electoral mobilization and political decision making within democratic societies? Are critical methodologies and research perspectives such as “responsible AI” or “platformization”, sufficient to capture the effects of “social machines” on democratic life?

In general, the summer school explores the development of human self-understanding under contemporary technological conditions, the relationship between states and private actors, and specific scenarios of human-technology interaction in medicine, music, art, and politics that confront us with a complicated landscape of risks and constantly evolving challenges for regulation but also with an underexplored variety of chances for creating a better future and enhancing the resilience and vitality of democracies.

Autonomy and Autonomous Systems Workgroup

Cooperative Summer School

The Universities of Bonn and the Technical University of Aachen (RWTH) in collaboration with distinguished professionals, international scholars, and researchers from Europe and the United States, invite you to participate in an in-depth Summer School on “Artificial Intelligence, Social Machines and the Future of Democracy”. This 5-day program is organized to provide individuals and organizations with the knowledge, skills, and practical understanding necessary to address the intricate issues surrounding AI and the future of human-machine relations and democratic governance structures.

This Summer School intends to bring together a variety of disciplines, such as

• philosophy

• media studies

• political science/international relations

• information science

• science and technology studies

• technology and innovation management

• robotics

• psychology

One afternoon will be dedicated to a practical workshop at University of Bonn’s ‘Human Robot Lab’ to offer a hands-on perspective on robot research.

The Summer School is open for a total of 30 PhD, MA, M.Sc candidates with different disciplinary backgrounds. Participants are offered (1) extensive training in discussing current research problems following keynote presentations and in small-group workshops, (2) the opportunity to network with other students and leading scholars, and (3) an inspiring environment to present and discuss their own research work.

Keynote Speakers:

Christian Bauckhage, PhD, Professor of Computer Science (Pattern Recognition), Lead Scientist for Machine Learning at Fraunhofer IAIS, co-director of The Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, University of Bonn (Germany).

André Cramer (DT/German Telekom), Innovation Strategy, Strategic Communications and Tech Ethics Advocacy, member of the AI competence Team of the German Telekom.

Autumn Edwards, PhD, Professor, School of Communication; Editor-in-Chief of the Human- Machine Communication Journal, Western Michigan University (USA). Co-editor of the «DeGruyter Handbook of Robots in Society and Culture» (to appear 2024)

Chad Edwards, PhD, Professor of Communication, Co-Director of the Communication and Social Robotics Labs; Associate Editor of the Human-Machine Communication Journal, Western Michigan University, USA

Gabriele Gramelsberger, PhD, Professor for Theory of Science and Technology. Co-Head of the Human Technology Center at RWTH Aachen, Director of the Kate Hamburger Kolleg "Cultures of Research", RWTH Aachen (Germany).

Application:

To apply, MA and PhD students are asked to submit an abstract of 300 words detailing their own research and a short CV. Selection of participants based on following criteria: thematic fit, originality, interdisciplinary approach. Accepted abstracts will be presented in a high- density session including a short presentation and a poster. Please submit your application via email (see below) until June 30th, 2024.

Program

The Summer School will include daily keynote lectures, and practical and theoretical workshops on related topics. Further details will be published soon.

Dates

• Application Deadline: June 30th, 2024
  
• Acceptance Notification: July 15th, 2024
  
• Summer School: September 16th - 20th, 2024
  

Contact address for abstracts:

Anna Maria Böhmer (anna.boehmer@uni-bonn.de)

University of Bonn, Lennéstraße 6, 53113 Bonn/Germany

Fees

Participation at the Summer School will be free. Costs for travel and accommodation will not be covered.

Organizing Team:

• University of Bonn
  
• Secretary: Dagmar Ogon (ogon@uni-bonn.de)
  
• Prof. Dr. Caja Thimm (thimm@uni-bonn.de)
  
• Prof. Dr. Maximilian Mayer (maximilian.mayer@uni-bonn.de)
  

More information : https://autonomy-research-group.org/en/index-en.html

Communication & Society (2025 Special Issue)

Deadline: October 30, 2024

Guest Editors:

• Josef Trappel, University of Salzburg, Austria
  
• Tales Tomaz, University of Salzburg, Austria Gillian Doyle, University de Glasgow, Scotland
  
• Mercedes Medina, University of Navarra, Spain
  

Recent transformations in media ownership and market concentration have had a considerable impact on the diversity and quality of news and information accessible to the public. After many years of journalism experience, producing and disseminating news continues to be a highly challenging, but necessary endeavor (Ferrucci and Nelson, 2019; Neff et al., 2022; Picard, 2010). In the latest decades, two categories of new entrants are playing a decisive role in this scenario: small-scale businesses characterized by adaptable frameworks and cost-efficient operations (Medina, Breiner & Sánchez-Tabernero, 2023) and technology titans such as Google, Meta, X, and TikTok (Voci et al., 2019; Trappel, 2024). The stability of the information system is jeopardized by the financial instability of traditional media conglomerates or the infiltration of technological platforms with substantial market reach but minimal regard for journalistic standards (Flew et al., 2024; Hendrickx, Smets, & Ballon, 2021).The current discourse centers on expanding the scope of corporations' operations to guarantee income streams that support journalistic endeavors (Vara-Miguel et al., 2023) or resort to public funding to preserve a struggling market (Sjøvaag & Krumsvik, 2018).

In the present call for papers, we invite authors to contribute empirical and theoretical research on how ownership can influence the continuity of news media and its essential role in democracy.

This special issue aims to bring together interdisciplinary research that sheds light on the following topics (not limited to):

● In the digital age, who owns media matters.

● Ownership and strategic management of media companies as sources of competitive advantage.

● Financial sustainability of media companies: solutions to overcoming information market failures.

● Exploring how private and public ownership influences the content of media outlets.

 ● Market concentration and pluralism in the digital era.

● Transparency in media ownership: implications and case studies.

● Editorial independence and media ownership.

● Relationships between media ownership, politics and democracy.

● Influence of media ownership on audience trust.

● Impact of changes in media ownership and ownership on content policies

and strategies.

● The transformation of media companies through technology.

Paper submission deadline: before October 30, 2024.

Articles should be submitted through the OJS before October 30, 2024 for the peer-review process. Authors should indicate in the "author comments" section that this article is for this monograph.

The proposed articles must comply with the journal's guidelines which can be found on the following link: https://www.unav.edu/publicaciones/revistas/index.php/communication-and- society/about/submissions#authorGuidelines

Publication: April 2025.

This special issue is part of the project Resilient Media for Democracy (ReMeD) the European Union’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement No 101094742.

Call can be found here: https://www.unav.edu/documents/29853/0/CYS_CFP_2025.pdf/3d32359e-4c35-bda9-8cca-e4ecfc7476b2?t=1716894864639 

Edited by: Irina Zakharova (Leibniz University Hannover, Germany) & Juliane Jarke (University of Graz, Austria)

A new Special Issue on “Care-ful Data Studies: or, what do we see, when we look at datafied societies through the lens of care?” edited by Irina Zakharova and Juliane Jarke has been published in Information, Communication & Society, Vol. 27(4): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2316758

The issue and its nine contributions apply feminist care ethics to the study of datafied societies. The contributions explore socio-digital care arrangements, practices of data work and care, situated modes of knowledge production, politics of vulnerability, and build communities of care in our datafied world.