ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

The European Journal of Communication Research (special issue)

Deadline: March 30, 2023

Although there is no universally agreed upon definition, online hate speech is often described as any form of web-based communication that disparages a person or a group on the basis of characteristics such as race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or religion. Online hate speech can take many different forms: from racist comments on news sites, to anti-semitic memes spread via social networking sites or misogynistic or homophobic actions in games. It may also vary in severity and whether it is considered legal (but harmful) or illegal.

For this Special Issue of Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research we are seeking for original articles that build on theories in communication science or related fields in the social sciences, and take a European perspective (e.g. by reporting the findings of a comparative study, by paying attention to a unique “case-study” within that broader European context, or by illustrating the relevance of the research findings for European policies, practices, and interventions .....). Proposals can present empirical data drawn from a wide range of scientific methods (e.g., qualitative and/or quantitative approaches) or be systematic/scoping reviews of extant literature.

The following topics will be given full consideration (though other topics will also be considered):

a) Who are the senders of online hate speech - (news) media, politicians, celebrities, social influencers...or “average” users?, What internal states (emotions, cognitions, motivations) or external forces (e.g. structural incentives, exposure to hateful comments of others) drive their behaviors?, How does online hate spread?,....

b) What are the platforms that are being used for online hate speech? How do technological features “afford” users to produce and disseminate online hate speech? How do platform algorithms contribute to the spread of online hate speech?

c) What characterizes online hate speech messages? What is their content and form (visual, textual,...)? How is humor being (mis)used in online hate speech? What differentiates online hate speech from “online incivility”,”dangerous speech”, “cyberbullying”, “flaming”, etcetera.

d) What are the characteristics of different receivers of online hate speech? How do victims and bystanders decode hate speech messages? How do they react to and cope with online hate speech? What does (individual/collective) resistance against online hate speech look like?

e) Whatistheimpactofengaginginandbeingexposedtoonlinehatespeech:on the individual level, the (inter-)group level, and the societal level?

f) What type of communication interventions (i.e. counter narratives, media literacy interventions, reflective interfaces, victim support systems,... ) can be used to prevent or deal with (the negative impact of) online hate speech (apart from, or in combination with, for instance, legal solutions). How can insights from social scientific theory inform the development of technological solutions such as automatic detection systems? How to design online platforms that promote safe spaces and respectful communication?

Timing for this special issue:

• March 30, 2023 - Deadline for the submission of abstracts (400 words)

• Mid April 2023 - Feedback on abstract - Invitation to submit a full paper

• August 31 2023 - Submission deadline for full papers

• Mid November 2023 - Reviews and decision (accept/revise reject)

• End of February 2023 - Submission deadline for revised versions 

•  April 2024 -  Final versions ready
• September 2024 Publication Special Issue

The abstracts should be submitted via e-mail to the Special Issue Editors Heidi Vandebosch and Tobias Rothmund by March 30th, 2023.

Questions?

Contact the Editorial Office at ejcr@uni-bremen.de

or the Special Issue Editors at:

heidi.vandebosch@uantwerpen.be and tobias.rothmund@uni-jena.de

July 6-7, 2023

ICNOVA, Portugal

Deadline: March 6, 2023

Submission of papers to the Conference Arts and Humanities in Digital Transition is open until March 6th.  

ICNOVA - NOVA Institute of Communication

NOVA University of Lisbon – School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH), Lisbon - PORTUGAL

Keynote speakers

• Yuk Hui (City University of Hong Kong)
  
• Claire Bishop (City University of New York)
  

This call for papers aims to foster reflection on the cognitive and creative ecology of the humanities and the arts in the context of the digital transition. The program welcomes proposals on epistemology, cognition and creativity in the age of AI and automation, literacies and cultural techniques, cognitive and creative industries, digital humanities, post-humanities and the post-digital, among other topics on culture, technology and the arts, namely explorations of the work of Bernard Stiegler (1952-2020) whose intellectual legacy this conference also wishes to celebrate.

Transformations stemming from digital technologies are growing with every passing decade, even if the newness of new media is gradually fading. The idea of digital transition evokes a feeling of disruption but also of inevitability and becoming, mixing the voluntarism and design of the artificial with new evolutionary narratives. Between a lingering post-historical atmosphere and the spectre of an era of extinctions, the certainty of the digital transformation stands out as the only truly foreseeable future - a future where not only capitalism but the co-evolution of nature, culture and technology seem to take the place of history itself. The question concerning the digital, which has only begun, is crucial for understanding the anthropological, ecological and cosmological crisis (Latour, 2021) of the present and resisting a one-way universalisation of technology. This crisis makes it urgent that we image alternative futures but also that we concern ourselves with the digital(Stiegler 2010, 2019) and explore this transient temporality, the transformative and transgressive possibilities opened up by this very being in transit.

Submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ahdt2023

Website: https://ah-digitaltransition.fcsh.unl.pt/

E-mail: digitaltransition@fcsh.unl.pt                                               

We look forward to seeing you at AH-DT 2023!

June 27-29, 2023

Leeds School of Arts, Leeds Beckett University, UK 

Application Deadline: 28 February 2023 

Postgraduate students working on any topic concerning newspapers, zines, magazines and other periodicals from any historical period, geographical origin, and cultural context are invited to a training workshop linked to the ESPRit 11th conference on 27th June 2023 in Leeds, UK. Registration for participants is free and includes attendance at a professional workshop and the main conference (28-29 June). 

To apply, please send the following: 

1. A short abstract (approx. 250 words) for a 10-minute presentation. We request that candidates propose a methodological approach or ask a methodology question relating to their research on periodicals. 

2. A page-long summary of the thesis, including title, supervisor, affiliation, year of forthcoming or recently completed PhD. 

3. A page-long academic CV (including studies, interests, and possible distinctions and publications). 

Please send the above as one attachment (word or pdf) to ESPRit23@leedsbeckett.ac.uk with the Subject: ESPRit Postgraduate Workshop, no later than 28 February 2023. 

Please note that texts of presentations will be circulated one month in advance of the PGR Workshop. 

We look forward to welcoming you to Leeds! 

The ESPRit 2023 Selection committee 

Laurel Brake, Fabio Guidali, Evanghelia Stead (ESPRit) and Andrew Hobbs (ESPRit 2023) 

https://www.uclan.ac.uk

Please consider the environment before printing. 

October 23-27, 2023

Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Deadline: July 1, 2023

https://iksz.fsv.cuni.cz/en/study/phd-studies/phd-course

About the course

Course title: Discourse Studies and Method: Using Discourse-Theoretical Analysis and Discursive-Material Analysis

Course coordinator and leader: Professor Nico Carpentier

Course credits: 5 credits

Course timing: The course will be organised on 23 October - 27 October 2023

Course location: Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Course background and purpose

The course aims to discuss two methods in the field of discourse studies: Discourse-theoretical analysis (DTA) and Discursive-material analysis (DMA). Both are grounded in so-called high theory, with discourse theory as its main starting point, but with elements of actor network theory and new materialism. This course will start with an introduction to these theoretical models, but will then move on to their analytical deployment in communication and media studies research. 

Special attention will be spent on the creation of a theory-grounded analytical model to guide the research. Apart from attending lectures, participants will be expected to participate in both theoretical and research-driven workshops.

Learning outcomes 

On completion of this course, successful students will be able to:

• have a deeper understanding of the field of discourse studies, and in particular of its discourse-theoretical component 
  
• have a deeper understanding of the theoretical relationship between the discursive and the material 
  
• know how to translate discourse-theoretical models into analytical practice, through the use of the notion of the sensitising concept (applied to discourse theory, and to discourse-theoretical rereading of other theories) 
  
• set up an analytical model for a discourse-theoretical analysis and a discursive-material analysis

Teaching and evaluation

The one-week course will be organised in 10 teaching slots, combining lectures and workshops. These workshops are partially theoretical (presenting an article or chapter), and partially research-driven (presenting an analytical model). 

A certificate (with a grade “Pass”) is given after 1) attendance of minimally 8 meetings, 2) a working group theoretical presentation, 3) an individual case study presentation.

Available participant slots and costs

A total number of 20 participant slots are available. The participation fee is 50 euros, and only covers course attendance. Participants are required to pay themselves for their travel and accommodation costs, and all other expenses.

Registration

The deadline for the application submission is 01 July 2023.

To register for this course, the following three documents have to be submitted:

• A motivation letter
  
• A brief description/abstract of the ongoing (PhD) research (including the current stage of the research) 
  
• A CV (including information about your university affiliation and your contact information) 
  

Please send these documents to Mazlum Kemal Dağdelen (mazlum.dagdelen@fsv.cuni.cz) or use the form on the course webpage for submission.

Payment

The fee for course participation is 50 euros. Selected participants will be informed about the payment procedure. 

Contact information

If you need any further information/assistance, please get in touch with Mazlum Kemal Dağdelen (mazlum.dagdelen@fsv.cuni.cz)

Course readings

Main reading: 

Carpentier, Nico (2017) The Discursive-Material Knot: Cyprus in Conflict and Community Media Participation. New York: Peter Lang.

Secondary readings:

Butler, Judith (1993) Bodies that matter. On the discursive limits of 'sex'. New York, London: Routledge.

Dolphijn, Rick, van der Tuin, Iris (2012) New materialism: Interviews and cartographies. Ann Arbor: Open humanities press.

Glynos, Jason, Howarth, David (2007) Logics of critical explanation in social and political theory. London and New York: Routledge. 

Howarth, David (2000) Discourse. Buckingham, Philadelphia: Open University Press. 

Howarth, David (2012) "Hegemony, political subjectivity, and radical democracy", in Simon Critchley and Oliver Marchart (eds.) Laclau: A critical reader. London: Routledge, pp. 256-276.

Howarth, David, Stavrakakis, Yannis (2000) “Introducing discourse theory and political analysis”, in David Howarth, Aletta J. Norval and Yannis Stavrakakis (eds.) Discourse theory and political analysis. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 1-23.

Laclau, Ernesto, Chantal Mouffe (1985) Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics. London: Verso.

Latour, Bruno (2005) Reassembling the social. An introduction to Actor-network-theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 

Mouffe, Chantal (2005) On the Political. London: Routledge.

Philips, Louise, Jørgensen, Marianne W. (2002) Discourse Analysis as Theory and Method. London: Sage.

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty (1988) "Can the subaltern speak?", in Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg (eds.) Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, pp. 271-313. 

Torfing, Jacob (1999) New Theories of Discourse. Laclau, Mouffe and Žižek. Oxford: Blackwell.

LSE

LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university   

Department of Media and Communications   

Salary from £38,313 to £46,148 pa inclusive with potential to progress to £49,614 pa inclusive of London allowance 

This is a fixed term appointment for two years, starting from 1 September 2023 

Applications are invited from outstanding candidates in the field of media and communications. The successful candidate will join an established and successful Department, ranked first in its field in the UK's Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021) and third in the QS World University Rankings 2022. 

The Department is seeking to appoint an LSE Fellow who can make important contributions to its teaching and research. This post presents an excellent opportunity for the successful candidate to expand on their teaching experience while developing their research career. 

The post holder will contribute to the core teaching of the Department and in addition to lecturing and class/seminar teaching, will act as academic mentor to taught postgraduate (MSc) students and supervise their dissertations. The post holder will be expected to make an active contribution to the research culture of the Department. The post holder will also be asked to undertake administrative tasks in the Department and School. 

Candidates should: 

·         Have a completed PhD in Media and Communications or a closely related field (PhD in hand without revisions pending by date of application). 

·         Demonstrate evidence of teaching experience at postgraduate taught (Masters) level. 

·         Have an interest in contributing to teaching on methods of research in Media and Communications. 

·         Have experience of teaching Media and Communications theories from a critical and international perspective, including on topics relating to media and communication governance. 

·         Have a developing research record in the field of Media and Communications with evidence of a commitment to critically assessing theories and empirical research. 

·         Have excellent communication and presentation skills. 

We offer an occupational pension scheme, generous annual leave and excellent training and development opportunities. 

 To apply for this post, please go to https://jobs.lse.ac.uk/. If you have any technical queries with applying on the online system, please use the "contact us" links at the bottom of the LSE Jobs page.   

Should you have any queries about the role, please email Professor Lee Edwards, (L.Edwards2@lse.ac.uk).   

The closing date for receipt of applications is Sunday 19 March 2023 (23.59 UK time). Regrettably, we are unable to accept any late applications. 

An LSE Fellowship is intended to be an entry route to an academic career and is deemed by the School to be a career development position.  As such, applicants who have already been employed as a LSE Fellow for three years in total are not eligible to apply. If you have any queries about this please contact the HR Division. 

March 9, 2023

Online webinar

I am pleased to invite you to the next in the series of IPRA Thought Leadership webinars. The webinar The Weixin story: PR’s contribution to CSR will be presented by Zoe Chou, Dean of the Weixin Strategic Research Institute and the Head of PR at Weixin on Thursday 9 March 2023 at 12.00 GMT/UCT (unadjusted).

What is the webinar content?

The One for all Love meal Program won the 2022 Golden World Awards grand prix. The webinar will discuss the background to the program and discuss other corporate social responsibility projects from China’s Weixin and its parent company Tencent. 

How to join

Register here at Airmeet. (The time shown should adjust to your device’s time zone.) 

A reminder will be sent 1 hour before the event.

Background to IPRA

IPRA, the International Public Relations Association, was established in 1955, and is the leading global network for PR professionals in their personal capacity. IPRA aims to advance trusted communication and the ethical practice of public relations. We do this through networking, our code of conduct and intellectual leadership of the profession. IPRA is the organiser of public relations' annual global competition, the Golden World Awards for Excellence (GWA). IPRA's services enable PR professionals to collaborate and be recognised. Members create content via our Thought Leadership essays, social media and our consultative status with the United Nations. GWA winners demonstrate PR excellence. IPRA welcomes all those who share our aims and who wish to be part of the IPRA worldwide fellowship. For more see www.ipra.org

Background to Zoe Chou

Zoe Chou is Dean of the Weixin Strategic Research Institute and the Head of PR at Weixin. She is one of the pioneers of China’s Internet communications and has been a trailblazer of marketing in the digital age. Zoe has been guest lecturer at the School of Journalism and Communication, Tsinghua University and the School of Journalism, Fudan University. She has also served as a judge for a number of international marketing awards.

Contact

International Public Relations Association Secretariat

United Kingdom

secgen@ipra.org

Telephone +44 1634 818308

KOME, an international Open Access journal of media and communication studies and related fields is currently accepting submissions for its 2023 and 2024 issues. We would love to hear from our colleagues across Europe and overseas, and read about their current research! This is an open call and submissions are considered on any topcis related to communication, media and journalism. 

Key topics for the journal: 

-online/digital media and communications 

-health communication 

-organizational and business communication 

-political communication 

-persuasion and influence 

Key article types for the journal: 

-narrative and systematic review articles where the literature is 

surveyed and analyzed qualitatively or quantitatively 

-original research articles using advanced qualitative or quantitative methods to answer relevant research questions based on hypothesis drawn from literature review 

If interested, please visit our website at http://www.komejournal.com 

Manuscripts can be submitted directly to kome@komejournal.com 

We are free to all authors and readers, and indexed in SCOPUS (Q2) and  Web of Science (ESCI). All submission undergo double blind peer review.  Average turnaround time is ~12 weeks. No APC's, page charges, submission charges; we do not charge authors for publishing their work and do not solicit or accept payment for contributions. 

September 11-15, 2023

Inter-University Centre (IUC), Dubrovnik, Croatia

Deadline: April 15, 2023

Keynote Speakers:

• Christian Fuchs, Paderborn University, Germany
  
• Kylie Jarrett, Maynooth University, Ireland
  

Course Directors:

• Thomas Allmer, Paderborn University, Germany
  
• Paško Bilić, Institute for Development and International Relations, Croatia
  
• Benjamin Birkinbine, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
  
• Jernej Amon Prodnik, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
  
• Jaka Primorac, Institute for Development and International Relations, Croatia
  
• Toni Prug, University of Rijeka, Croatia
  
• Aleksander Slaček-Brlek, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia 

ECTS accreditation: University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (10 ECTS points for PhD students upon full completion of the course)

Course Description:

The media are central institutions of modern societies, providing channels for corporate and political control and public space for disseminating and consuming information on systemic changes in politics, culture, and economics to the public. The media underwent massive restructuring through neoliberal policies in the 1970s. Introducing new communication technologies such as satellite and cable television, internet, and web platforms went hand in hand with market liberalisation and communication commercialisation. The multiplication of channels and media outlets was accompanied by concentration and centralisation of ownership. Recently, large transnational digital platforms have solidified their position as core companies within contemporary capitalism, restructuring the distribution of media advertising investments, speeding up the circulation of capital, automating global consumption patterns, avoiding national taxes, and siphoning revenues to offshore entities. At the same time, they benefit from automated management of their diversified and essentially precarious workforces of content moderators, warehouse workers, and gig workers, as well as from software inputs from free and open source communities (FLOSS) communities.

The rise of platforms reshapes traditional institutional mechanisms that broadly safeguard freedom of expression, media pluralism, and public interests. How these mechanisms will be re-considered and how private interests will shape markets and societies is an open political issue. Alternatives are being envisioned in areas ranging from platform cooperatives and commons projects to strategic calls for technological sovereignty and public wealth creation. However, such initiatives usually need broader political support from the public already accustomed to the commercial logic of the media. The commodification of everyday life through data capture, surveillance and privacy intrusion is easily dismissed by citizens as a minor side effect of free usage and flexibility of ubiquitous digital services.

This biennial course aims to explore traditional (e.g. ownership, production, content, consumption, labour, regulation) and contemporary (e.g. algorithms, platforms, data, artificial intelligence) perspectives on the media from the lens of critical political economy. The course will explore how capital and the state(s) control, regulate and form the media (broadly conceived as ranging from traditional printed press to algorithms and software) in societies shaped by persistent social inequalities. The level of analysis can vary from macro phenomena of geopolitics, transnational, national and institutional dynamics, through mid-range phenomena of the structure(s) of the public sphere(s), to micro-phenomena of class-based conditions shaping inequalities of access and skill for using the media in everyday life and for work.

The course will include presentations from keynote speakers, course directors and presentations by advanced MA and PhD students. Through lectures and discussions with international experts, students will gain in-depth knowledge about recent communication, media, and journalism developments from the critical political economy perspective. Methods and analytical tools commonly used in the approach will be explained and discussed. Presentation of the research papers (considered work in progress) will lead to comprehensive feedback that will help students develop their projects further and result in publishable academic writing. Discussions will be carried out collaboratively, with reciprocal assessment by students.

Deadlines:

• Course is open to advanced MA and PhD students. Please submit your CV (maximum two pages), title and an extended abstract of your presentation (maximum two pages with references) by 15 April 2023 to political.economies.of.the.media@gmail.com

• Course directors will review applications, and final decisions on acceptance will be sent by 15 May 2023.

• Accepted applicants will be invited to submit 6 to 9,000-word research papers by 1 September 2023. After completion of the course, the applicants will be encouraged to submit their papers for review in an international peer-reviewed journal in the field of political economy.

• Note: only PhD students can receive 10 ECTS points upon course completion, which entails a submitted research paper, paper presentation and full-week active attendance participation in the course (more information will be published on the course website).

• Please note that all participants pay a registration fee of 50 EUR. A limited number of partial stipends and registration waivers will be available. If you are interested in participation support, please indicate this in your application.

Venue and Location: 

The Inter-University Centre (IUC) Dubrovnik is an independent centre for advanced study, grounded in and sustained by its international network of partner universities. The IUC Dubrovnik maintains high scientific quality standards and provides an open space for critical thinking and innovation. Building upon its location and its 50-year history, the IUC Dubrovnik serves as a bridge between regions within Europe and between the European region and the world by connecting scientific communities and connecting communities through science. The IUC Dubrovnik takes pride in bringing together scholars and students from different countries, cultures and academic disciplines to advanced research and higher education programmes. The IUC emphasises and supports inter-disciplinary and cross-national collaboration on global challenges such as human universal values and rights, health, education, poverty and climate, encouraging, in addition to east-west collaboration also, new north-south initiatives. The IUC Dubrovnik continues organising courses and conferences within the broad spectrum of scientific disciplines provided by scientific staff from multiple countries. The IUC Dubrovnik also stimulates the development of research activities, in particular, related to the courses and conferences within the programme and contributes to connecting leading international partner universities to regional academic institutions.

Important Information:

•    More information about the IUC is available at: https://iuc.hr/

•    All further details about the course will be available at http://www.poleconmed.net/

September 21-22, 2023

Södertörn University, Sweden

Deadline: February 28, 2023

Dear members of the ECREA network,

Sending a kind reminder to submit your abstracts for the upcoming conference Mediations of music and power in online music cultures at Södertörn University, 21-22 September 2023, by 28 February. 

We look forward to receiving and reviewing your submissions!

All the best,

Veronika 

Call for Papers

Mediations of music and power in online music cultures

21–22 September 2023, Division of Gender Studies, School of Culture and Education, Södertörn University, Sweden

Music cultures in the twenty-first century are strongly shaped by online media. Music streaming, social media, video sharing sites as well as internet-based music production software, radio stations, and music magazines have variously affected the formatting, curation, and consumption of music. Largely centralized around a small number of privatized companies, where human and automated processes intersect, online music cultures are sites of mediations of power.

In this context, online music media have entailed economic, technological, and cultural changes in contemporary music cultures. For example, music streaming illustrates monetary shifts in the music industry, where power is newly negotiated between music recommendation companies and the record, advertisement, and investment markets. Moreover, online music media combine curatorial and algorithmic processes that mediate cultural production and consumption and re-construct listeners as ‘datafied’ users. While the ‘platformization’ of online music cultures impedes the visibility of non-commercial media and practices, global music and media corporations present their own initiatives toward equality in the music industry and activist practices in networked communities on and off commercial sites negotiate the affordances and limitations of these media.

This conference asks: What characterizes mediations of music and power in online music cultures? What are emergent mediations of subjectivity, identity, and difference in online music cultures, and how do they map onto or newly shape discourses of taste, value, and authenticity? What possibilities may online music media offer for centering artistic and fan practices, alliances, and communities that have previously been subjugated in music cultures?

This conference invites presentations from research fields including musicology, popular music, media, gender, postcolonial and cultural studies, which examine emergent mediations of music and negotiations of power in online music cultures. We particularly seek to highlight media technologies, stylistic developments, user practices, and intersectional perspectives that have not yet been emphasized as well as to deepen the understanding of central themes, concepts, and practices in this cultural field and its scholarly inquiry.

Keynote speaker: Eric Drott – Butler School of Music, The University of Texas at Austin

Themes

We invite submissions on topics that may include, but are not limited to:

• Mediations: Intersecting algorithmic and human logics in mediations of music and power
  
• (Re-)mediations of music: Formations and discourses of style, genre, taste, and value in online music cultures
  
• Algorithmic culture: Speculative logics, ‘postdemographic’ technologies, and the datafication of listening
  
• Networked communities: Listeners, communities, and articulations of resistance in online music cultures
  
• New media: Emergent online music and social media and their music cultures
  
• Sites of power: Platformization and centers and peripheries in global cultural economies
  

Abstracts

Please submit abstracts (250 words maximum) via email by 28 February 2023 to mediationsconference@gmail.com.

Please include the title of your paper and a brief biography (100 words maximum).

Organizers

Veronika Muchitsch, Södertörn University

Ann Werner, Södertörn University & Uppsala University

Contact

For further information, please send an email to mediationsconference@gmail.com.

June, 8-9, 2023 

Prague, Czech Republic 

Deadline to submit abstracts: 12 March 2023 

The 4th International Conference ILIS is now open for abstract submission. The conference will take place this year at the University of Finance and Administration in Prague. 

Virtual and in-person sessions.

Theme of the 4th International Conference ILIS: Rethinking social theories and methods in a digital society 

Author Notification: 25 March 2023 

Call for paper: https://www.labilis.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/4th-Ilis-conference-call.pdf 

Abstract submitting form:  https://www.labilis.org/2023/01/18/4th-international-conference-ilis/ 

Leveraging on the previous editions, this conference will explore the main challenges digitalization poses to different strand of sociological theories and methods particularly investigating the distinctive topics of digital social research and the digital biases. 

Thus, it especially (but not exclusively) calls for contributions that shed new light on the following topics: 

- Digital sociology; 

- Revised sociological theories; 

- Revised sociological concepts: identity, citizenship, social capital, 

inequalities, institutions, power, work, community, etc.; 

- Revised social research methods and digital transposition of traditional methods; 

- Social research methods that incorporate digital and gaming practices, such as the game-based methods; 

- Digital biases; 

- Digital discriminations. 

Abstracts need to be limited to 500 words and include goals, research methods and main findings. 

The participation fee is 50 EUR. 

For in-person participants the fee cover: 

Lunch 2x 

Coffee break 4x 

No participation fee is requested for accepted students and Ph.D. candidates. 

The scientific committee of the conference will select best papers for publications in special issues dedicated to the conference and/or national or international books. 

For more info visit: https://www.labilis.org/en/home-2/ 

If you have further questions, please contact the organizers at the address: _labilis@unisa.it <mailto:labilis@unisa.it>_ 

Executive Board: 

• prof. Felice Addeo – Salerno 
  
• dr. Angela delli Paoli – Salerno 
  
• prof. Giuseppe Masullo – Salerno 
  
• prof. Gabriella Punziano – Naples 
  
• dr. Jitka Cirklova - Prague 
  
• dr. Eva Kostikov – Prague 
  
• prof. Jan Lansky – Prague 
  
• prof. Nadezda Petru - Prague 
  

Chief of the 4th International Conference ILIS: 

prof. Giuseppe Maiello - Prague