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Media Studies 2/2022 was supported by a subsidy from the Media and Audiovisual Department of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.

https://www.medialnistudia.fsv.cuni.cz/en/

FULL ISSUE is available in PDF

Special Issue Introduction

David Selva Ruiz, Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt & Miguel de Aguilera Moyano: Current Trends in European Media and Communication Research

STUDIES

Dorien Luyckx & Amber Verstraeten: Flemish journalism students' perception of and preparedness for entrepreneurial job profiles in their future careers 

Mihhail Kremez: Dividing and Uniting News Frames: Framing Russia-related Border Issues in the Estonian, Latvian, Finnish, US Public Service Media and Chinese State Media

She Anglada-Pujol: “Our fans are gonna go crazy when they know we are together”: Fandom identities and self-representation in YouTubers slash fiction 

Daniela Jaramillo-Dent: Algorithmic (in)visibility tactics among immigrant TikTokers 

Helena Dedecek Gertz & Florian Süsser

Migration and educational projects online: A topic modeling approach of discussions on social media groups

Nils Wandels, Jelle Mast & Hilde Van den Bulck: Bureaucracy and authoritative control in contemporary legacy news media companies: A Weberian analysis of a Flemish case study

About the Journal

Mediální studia / Media Studies (ISSN 2464-4846) is a peer-reviewed, open access electronic journal, published in English, Czech and Slovak twice a year. Based in disciplines of media and communication studies, it focuses on analyses of media texts, media cultures, media professionals practices, and media audiences behaviour. We especially support the emphasis on the dynamics of local-global knowledge on media and its mutual connections. The journal is indexed in Scopus, MLA, Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL), and European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences (ERIH PLUS).

Contact: medialnistudia@fsv.cuni.cz

Call for papers for Comunicação Pública no. 34 (June 2023), special issue

Deadline: February 13, 2023

Editors: Catarina Duff Burnay (Faculdade de Ciências Humanas da Universidade Católica Portuguesa) and Paulo Nuno Vicente (Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

Languages: Portuguese; English; Spanish

The potential of the digital world has challenged established assumptions about audiovisual and multimedia as contexts and objects of study. Screens multiply, content access devices hybridize, emerging media become increasingly important in everyday life, texts are fragmented and become more complex and the receiver acquires a dual and simultaneous status of consumer and producer. The special issue “Studies in Audiovisual and Multimedia” aims to explore the process dynamics of creation, distribution and reception, map their main technological and social changes and envision and understand the impacts on the industry and on the cultural practices of individuals.

Description and Framework

Kyle Nichols (2006), when discussing the future of television, has replaced the concept of broadcast with something closer to genetic engineering, with viewers working in their personal multimedia laboratories, bringing together content, channels and platforms according to their tastes and desires. Almost two decades later, this reality gains importance, especially among the younger population. Born and/or raised within an evolved technological bubble, the must see generations become proficient in choosing and accessing content and, as a result, in the immediate satisfaction of their informational and recreational needs. The author has predicted that the elderly would maintain a close relationship with the television and the television set, transforming the flow of Raymond Williams  (1974) into a strategy for reception rather than production itself. If this scenario, marked by the diversification of access to sources, increases the supply and the technical improvements of devices, it will also make consumption more flexible and increase the pressure and demand on the producing entities. Faced with a media environment without defined borders, where the internet obtains the status of a medium by directly enabling experiences and content (Johnson, 2019), they have to choose “wars”, “weapons” and “tactics”, according to its nature, positioning, resources and market objectives, for decision making.

Cyclically, technology enhances the emergence of new cultural objects (Manovich, 2001) in a process of media convergence (Meikle & Young, 2012), making it crucial to pay attention to the technical environment and the social impacts beyond production and distribution platforms and forms of access. In this sense, in an approach to the developments of the last decade, it is necessary to look critically, for example, at the principles of Artificial Intelligence, to better understand the implications of the buzzwords automation, algorithm and recommender systems when used in reference to video streaming platforms, digital social networks or even digital editorial projects. At the same time, it is important to disentangle and analyze the socio-technical effects of its use in decision-making processes, in the levels of user involvement (with platforms and content), in market performances and, more broadly, in the implications of the potential datafication of the life and social dynamics (Møller Hartley et al., 2021; Couldry, 2020; Van Dijck, 2014).

The context described has been shaping what is understood by television (Lotz, 2007, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022), but also by audiovisual and multimedia as concepts. The articulation of sound and moving image, although directly connected to the small screen, represents devices and contents operating simultaneously in a wider and markedly inter, multi and trans media way. These dynamics still have to be envisaged and worked on in accordance with the social fields in which they take place and the habitus of different sociodemographic groups (Bourdieu, 1976) and with the geographical and cultural environments in which they operate, taking into account the opportunities and constraints provided by the contexts of globalization (Giddens, 1995; Featherstone et al, 1995), as well as by the ideas of mobility, representations and identities (Morley, 2000; Hall, 1997; Hall & du Gay, 1996).

Objectives and approaches

Taking into account these lines of thought, the special issue “Studies in Audiovisual and Multimedia” accepts contributions that cross different experiences of production/creation and reception, among others, in the following thematic areas:

• Post-Television and “ecranization” of society

• Audiovisual streaming platforms: production, distribution and consumption

• Multimedia and gamification contents

 • Taste platforming

• Automation and Big Data

• Algorithms and Algorithmic Literacy

• Audiovisual, Representations and Identities

• Regulation of new media environments

• Audience measurement, reception studies, fandom

• Audiovisual production and sustainability (green production)

• New media narratives: genres, formats, strategies

• Language and multimedia practices (narrative universes)

• Interactive Digital Games

• Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Realities

• Archive(s) and Memory(ies)

• Immersive practices (journalism, entertainment, fiction)

KEY DATES

• 1st Call for Papers: 15 September 2022
  
• Deadline for Submissions: 13 February 2023
  
• Deadline for submitting the final version of accepted paper: 15 May 2023
• Publication date: 30 June 2023
  

Submission guidelines:

Articles must be submitted online via https://journals.ipl.pt/cpublica/index . Authors are required to register in the system before submitting an article; if you have already registered, simply log into the system and start the 5-step submission process. Articles must be submitted using the pre-formatted template of Comunicação Pública. For more information on submission, please read Information for Authors and Guidelines for Authors.

Call for Chapters

Deadline: April 15, 2023

This edited book is intended for the Women, Economics and the Labour Relations series, published by Emerald (editor-in-chief: Dr Martina Topić). The book will provide a much-needed exploration of the intersection of gender and freelance work in the communication industries (public relations, advertising, marketing, corporate comms, and digital communication), with a special focus on national issues and comparative international research.

The exploration of the experiences, practices, and discourses related to communication freelancers from a gender perspective would contribute to the closing of the current research and knowledge gaps, often generated by the lack of individualisation of freelancers among communication professionals in research projects. The editors invite prospective authors to develop chapters addressing the several topics (see full call) through qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods approaches.

The editors Anca Anton (University of Bucharest, Romania) and Raluca Moise (University of the Arts London, UK) invite interested contributors to send a 500-word structured abstract together with up to six keywords and a 100-word biography for each author by April 15, 2023. For submission instructions and further details, please see the full call for chapters: https://www.commswomen.uk/2022/12/19/freelancers-2/ 

15-16 June 2023

University of Sheffield

Deadline: January 31, 2023

Journalism Education Trauma Research Group (JETREG) 2023 event

Free Registration 

The Journalism Education Trauma Research Group (JETREG) is excited to announce its next international conference and knowledge exchange event on 15 and 16 June 2023 hosted by the Department of Journalism Studies at the University of Sheffield, UK in partnership with the University of Lincoln, UK. 

Keynote speaker: Professor Anthony Feinstein, University of Toronto. 

We are inviting scholars to submit 250- word abstracts/proposals for individual papers or pre-formed panels by 31 January 2023. Registration is free but places will be limited. We will have a travel bursary for one PhD/ECR researcher to take part in the conference. Please state if you would like to apply for the bursary when submitting your abstract. 

This conference responds to the persistent work-related problem of emotional and psychological stress in journalism practice. Journalists are one of the first responders to traumatic events and the last to leave, but they are the least likely to receive training in trauma informed literacy and resilience, unlike their counterparts in the police, nursing, ambulance services and fire brigade. Previous studies show that many journalists are reporting either post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), associated symptoms, depression, and/or substance use while many journalists feel ill-prepared for assignments, which involve reporting on critical incidents and events that carry a risk of being traumatised. Some scholars have blamed journalism’s deep-seated objectivity norm, which is central to journalism education and the ‘macho’ views to be found in some newsrooms, as one of the reasons why journalists are reluctant to talk about the emotional and psychological effects of exposure to traumatic events on their health and wellbeing. Studies show that journalism students are also ill-equipped to deal with their own emotional reactions and to assess what they experience from an ethical perspective. 

The academic conference aims to highlight current multidisciplinary research into trauma, emotion and resilience in journalism and media work; psychological and emotional safety of journalists/media workers, pedagogical approaches and best practice to trauma literacy in journalism education/training and the various experiences of trauma, emotional labour or (un)happiness in journalism/media. We also seek the perspectives of scholars from different disciplines, practicing journalists/freelancers/editors on coping strategies and/or newsroom support that may have pedagogical relevance. 

Launched in 2020 by Ola Ogunyemi at the University of Lincoln and Lada Price at the University of Sheffield, JETREG is a thriving international research group comprising over 230 members across the world with seven regional research hubs in Europe, North/South America, Africa, Australia/New Zealand, South Asia and MENA who will be represented at the event. The event will bring together media practitioners and researchers from JETREG and the Journalism Safety Research Network (JRSN) at the Centre for Freedom of the Media (CFOM) at the University of Sheffield.  

Topics of interest for this conference may include, but are not limited to: 

●Trauma informed journalism practice and pedagogy and challenges to normative assumptions around objectivity and detachment

●‘Moral injury’ in journalism

●Impact of journalists’ exposure to traumatic events

●Stress, burnout and PTSD in journalism practice

●Trauma and resilience during the pandemic

●Skills and capacity to cope with the effects of exposure to traumatic events

●Enhancing resilience in journalism

●Addressing barriers to trauma literacy in journalism practice and education

●Emotional literacy and psychological safety in journalism

●Institutional responses to trauma in newsrooms; support mechanisms 

●Happiness and retaining staff in newsrooms

●Best practices and innovation in journalism pedagogy in building emotional resilience 

●Mental health/wellbeing among journalists and journalism students/trainees

SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT by January 31, 2023 for consideration. Questions and abstracts may be directed to the organisers, Lada Price: l.t.price@sheffield.ac.uk and Ola Ogunyemi: Oogunyemi@lincoln.ac.uk Notification of acceptance will be sent out in February/early March 2023.

Proposals for individual papers must include an abstract (max 250 words) and a short speaker biography (max 100 words).

Panel proposals must include a 150-word rationale for the panel, a 250-word abstract for each of the papers, and a biography for each speaker of no more than 100 words.

June 19-21, 2023

King’s College London, Bush House, 30 Aldwych, London WC2B 4BG

Deadline for Proposals: January 15, 2023

A Three-Day International Interdisciplinary Conference

Co-organisers: Professor Paul McDonald, Kings College London; Professor Andrew Spicer, University of the West of England Bristol

We invite proposals for papers, panels, or roundtables conceptualising, defining, analysing, discussing, or mapping relationships between media industries and locality. Proposals are invited from across the full breadth of media industries research. We hope the conference can provide an inclusive inter-disciplinary meeting ground, so welcome proposals from all disciplinary traditions relevant to the topic.

The importance of locality to the media industries has been widely debated through a range of perspectives. Harvard economist Michael Porter claimed that ‘clusters’ – which he defined as ‘geographical agglomerations of firms that collaborate and compete with each other’ – provide ‘enduring competitive advantages in a global economy’ through local knowledges and relationships ‘that distant rivals cannot match’ (1998: 78). Studies of clustering activity in media industries have focused on ‘a specialized form of clusters designed to produce mediated content’ (original emphasis, Picard 2008: 4), recognizing how these take form in both planned and organic ways, but also the different types of cluster that emerge from such developments (Komorowski 2016 and 2017).

Porter’s emphasis on the economic significance of location has been challenged by other studies that focus on the significance of historical factors and the importance of long-term cultural traditions. In his seminal The Cultural Economy of Cities (2000), Allen J. Scott argues that place has a particular significance for creative production because of the ways in which locality and culture are intertwined. Places, he argues, leave ‘deep traces on the form and cognitive meanings’ of creative products emerging from ‘localized systems of industrial activity’. These ‘symbolic and sentimental assets’ derive from the ‘distinctive historical associations and landmarks’ that make each particular place unique (2000: 3).

Discussing how the concentration of film and television production in Louisiana formed ‘Hollywood South’, Vicki Mayer (2017: 3) focused on the ways in which ‘life in a film economy shapes and is shaped by its location’. A focus on locality can therefore ground our understanding of how media industries are actually inhabited and lived, but also how media workers contribute to the formation of locations. Analyses of cities as ‘sites of passage’ (de Valck 2007: 9) connected through the ‘film festival circuit’ (Loist 2007), or of global television marketplaces (Havens 2006; Choi 2021), illuminate how industries temporarily congregate to exchange and circulate media in and through specific locations. Other studies have investigated the representational dimensions of locality in media industries (e.g., Brunsdon 2007; Young 2022): the importance of locations to narrative, iconography, and characterisation (places as characters) and the ways in which these contribute to imagining and imaging a sense of regional identity and consciousness. There has been significant work on where media production takes place (e.g., Ganti 2012; McNutt 2021) as well as the specialized facilities in which media production is performed (e.g., Goldsmith and O’Regan 2005), the operational and emblematic role of media buildings (Evens 2022), of local place-making activities including media tourism and ‘places of the imagination’ (Reijnders 2011), and the ways in which places accrete symbolic images (‘brands’) for international consumption.

Analyses of ‘the world media cities network’ (Krätke 2003), ‘global media cities’ (Hoyler and Watson 2012), ‘film cities’ (O’Regan 2018) and ‘media capitals’ (Curtin 2003) highlight the importance of global cities as loci for media creativity and flows. At the same time, attention has also been given to concentrations of media industries in marginalised centres (e.g., Haynes 2007 on Lagos) and regions (e.g., Szczepanik 2021 on Central and Eastern Europe). While perennial tensions between ‘centre’ and ‘periphery’ have a long history, these have become more urgent and pressing over the last decade. In many countries this has an explicitly political dimension with governments directing – or encouraging through regulatory systems – the deployment of increased resources into regional screen production in an attempt to strengthen local economies and identities thereby encouraging more diverse and sustainable screen industries that support a range of voices.  The importance of locality and spatial plurality has been accentuated in an era of accelerating internationalisation of the media industries in which Public Service Media (PSM) are losing audiences to satellite channels or streaming platforms that operate to a global commercial logic. However, the streamers’ business models are themselves changing and, as Ramon Lobato argues (2019), this new logic does not entirely displace or supersede the older logics of analogue broadcasting but introduces new layers of spatial complexity that need to be investigated and analysed. This invites a broader question: why, how, and where are networked forms of media reconfiguring the spatial organisation of media industries? 

These perspectives variously foreground the importance of linkages between media industries and locality. Yet the Covid pandemic disrupted those links. Remote and hybrid working became habituated across all areas of professional life. In the media sector specifically, impacts materialized with the movement of media conventions and festivals online, threats to the future of location-specific entertainment such as music venues, and greater use of commercial livestreaming as an outlet for large-scale media events. Cumulatively, with these and other developments, we might therefore ask: to what extent is locality retaining importance for the media industries?           

Proposals can be for single research papers, or pre-constituted panels and roundtables. Topics to be addressed include but are not limited to the following: 

    •        Locality in media production networks

    •        Locality in media and communication infrastructures

    •        Spaces and places as media production locations

    •        Media companies and attachments to place

    •        Civic/social role of media companies

    •        Media companies and urban renewal

    •        Media and the built environment

    •        Cities as media distribution hubs

    •        Environmental impacts of media on places

    •        Media ‘clusters’/‘hubs’

    •        ‘Media Cities’

    •        Media industry events, e.g., festivals, conventions

    •        Spaces and places of media work

    •        Locality and the production and circulation of diasporic media

    •        Media and urban or rural/regional economies

    •        Media and urban or rural/regional policy

    •        Media tourism

    •        Media industries and place branding

Proposal guidelines

Proposals are welcomed in three categories and should be submitted through the following links:

    1)      Open Call Papers (https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fform.jotform.com%2F223075189624359&data=05%7C01%7CAndrew2.Spicer%40uwe.ac.uk%7C62738e0b715f4a4e4d6908dac2587e4b%7C07ef1208413c4b5e9cdd64ef305754f0%7C0%7C0%7C638035982592869376%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=6IQjNw24TaEiRXXrpx8IhEIiPUQOCBkHEck2kXYa26c%3D&reserved=0)

Format: solo or co-presented research paper lasting no more than 20mins. 

    2)      Pre-constituted Panels (https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fform.jotform.com%2F223074632587359&data=05%7C01%7CAndrew2.Spicer%40uwe.ac.uk%7C62738e0b715f4a4e4d6908dac2587e4b%7C07ef1208413c4b5e9cdd64ef305754f0%7C0%7C0%7C638035982592869376%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=xTrhdePdQbQlxAOMXU31o9yQ1Kax3P6aPVkRoACWc3c%3D&reserved=0)

Format: 90mins panel of 3 x 20mins OR 4 x 15mins thematically linked solo or co-presented research papers followed by questions. 

    3)      Pre-constituted Roundtables (https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fform.jotform.com%2F223083000136338&data=05%7C01%7CAndrew2.Spicer%40uwe.ac.uk%7C62738e0b715f4a4e4d6908dac2587e4b%7C07ef1208413c4b5e9cdd64ef305754f0%7C0%7C0%7C638035982592869376%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=16l68tHVGw1K2mMd%2Bndd20%2Bbz7PvnpOY4i8w52XcIno%3D&reserved=0)

Format: 90mins interactive forum led by a chair bringing together 4 to 6 participants (including the chair as a participant if speaking as well as chairing) to offer short (up to 6 minute) position statements or interventions designed to trigger discussions around a central theme, issue, or problem. As such, a roundtable does not involve the presentation of formal research papers but rather is designed to create a forum for the participants and audience to engage in a shared discussion. The format is flexible and can be adapted to allow members of the roundtable to introduce exercises or other activities where appropriate.

Delegates can make TWO contributions to the conference but only ONE in any category, i.e., presenting an open call paper and participating in a roundtable will be permitted but presenting two open call papers will not be. Chairing a panel or roundtable will NOT count as one of those contributions.

Papers (either open call or as part of a pre-constituted panel) maybe presented individually or by a pair of co-presenters. 

When submitting a proposal, each presenter/co-presenter/participant is required to provide:

    •        name

    •        institutional affiliation (if any)

    •        contact e-mail address

    •        short professional biography (max. 100 words)

In addition, different proposal categories require the following: 

    1)      Open Call Papers

    •        title

    •        abstract of no more than 400 words

    •        3-5 keywords

    •        3-5 sources relevant to the paper

    2)      Pre-constituted Panels

    •        nominated chair (either one of the presenters or another delegate)

    •        panel rationale of no more than 400 words

    •        3-5 key words

    •        individual proposals (presenter/co-presenter details, title, abstract, keywords, sources) for 3 x 20mins OR 4 x 15mins research papers 

    3)      Pre-constituted Roundtables

    •        nominated chair (either one of the presenters or another delegate)

    •        rationale of no more than 400 words

    •        3-5 key words

    •        details for each participant accompanied by a statement of no more than 100 words outlining a participant’s intended contribution

Paul McDonald (Paul.McDonald@kcl.ac.uk)

Andrew Spicer (Andrew2.Spicer@uwe.ac.uk)

January 9, 2023

Join the IAMCR Presidential PhD Research Webinar

https://iamcr.org/phd-webinars/media-literacy

IAMCR will be hosting the Presidential PhD Research Webinar titled “Media Literacy: A Critical Pedagogy in Difficult Times of War, Pandemic and Beyond”.

This webinar will bring together doctoral scholars to promote a global dialogue highlighting the role of digital media and media literacy during the difficult times the world faces and to identify the tools and techniques for combating these issues and challenges.

Date and Time: 09 January 2023, at 08h00 UTC

All IAMCR members are invited to participate. There is no charge for IAMCR members. Pre-registration is required by 07 January. Visit the page to register.

Call for Book Chapter Manuscripts

Deadline: February 15, 2023

We are inviting authors to submit chapter manuscripts for a forthcoming handbook, tentatively titled The Handbook of Communication in (pre & post)Pandemics: South Asian Perspectives on Securing Health and Well-Being, under consideration by Routledge and edited by Gita Bamezai (Former Head, Communication Research, Indian Institute of Mass Communication), Pradeep Sopory (Wayne State University), and Uttaran Dutta (Arizona State University).

Research on health communication in South Asia tends to center around media health campaigns and media health discourse analysis. The proposed handbook seeks to shift the focus from the media as a site of health communication to other contexts such as communities, organizations, work groups, and family. It seeks to highlight everyday South Asian experiences of communicative exchanges about health and well-being in these contexts, which may be located in both the geographical South Asia as well as its Diasporas, through de-colonial, indigenous, and de-westernized perspectives.

Overview:

The proposed edited handbook will examine communication related to physical and mental health and wellbeing during (and beyond) the Covid-19 pandemic in South Asia. The region comprises eight countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Maldives) that share many geopolitical, socio-structural, and cultural characteristics. Its citizens face a range of noncommunicable and communicable disease burdens in the context of a dense population (1.9 billion people, 25% of global population) and an inadequate health infrastructure. The Covid-19 (& post) pandemic scenario has added to the health burdens and posed significant short- and long-term challenges to people’s physical and mental wellbeing. The handbook chapters will cover the full range of communication contexts from intrapersonal to societal/cultural, with a focus on communities, organizations, work groups, and family, to examine communicative contents, structures, and processes that both enhance and harm health and well-being in South Asian countries and its diasporas.

Contributions from different disciplines, such as anthropology, economics, political science, psychology, public health, and sociology, examining different aspects of health communication are highly welcome. We solicit both theoretical and empirical works. The handbook is open to all quantitative, qualitative, and rhetorical/critical/cultural methodological approaches.

Topics:

Communication about health and well-being can be investigated in several contexts, including intrapersonal, interpersonal, family, work group, organization, community, media, and societal/cultural. Contributors are expected to examine communicative exchanges to create meanings about physical and mental health and well-being predominantly in contexts other than media. Our expectation is that contributors will examine the structure and content of common South Asian communicative experiences and their relationships to health for topics such as, but not limited to, the following:

Adverse health news and disease diagnosis; Community interactions and relations; Conflict and resistance; Disabilities; Disasters and public health emergency events; Doctor interactions with nurses and medical staff; Education and training curriculum and practices; Environmental health issues; Extended and “joint” multi-generational families and clans; Fear appeals and vaccine hesitancy; Food, hunger, and poverty; Gossip and taunting; Hate and discriminatory talk; Health activism and social justice; Health for all and access to health infrastructures; Health literacy; Healthy practices; Hierarchy of communication structures; History and health communication; Information/digital divide; Inter-organization and -agency coordination and collaborations; Intersectionality (caste, class, gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation) and its implications; Mental health and suicide; Migration; Participatory approaches; Patient rage toward doctors and medical staff; Patient-health provider interactions; Positive deviancy approaches to behavior and social change; Provider interactions with families of patients; Ragging/hazing in educational institutions; Risk communication and pandemics. Sexual harassment in public and work settings; Spirituality, religion, and faith; Sports and physical health activities; Technology of communication, including mHealth and e-health; Terminal health condition and end-of-life; Traffic accidents and road rage; Underserved and marginalized communities; Work-family negotiation.

Proposal Submission Guidelines:

Chapter proposals should have the following components and be combined into a single document for submission:

1. Title page with contact information for all authors;

2. Abstract (300-500 words, excluding references) clearly explaining:

a. Purpose and the contents of the proposed chapter; and

b. How the proposed chapter relates to the overall objectives of the book.

3. Working bibliography for the chapter in APA style (7th edition); and,

4. Brief author biographical statement (max. 150 words) written in the third person that includes:

a. Current position and affiliation;

b. Highest degree held, field, and institution granting that degree; and c. Relevant area of research and/or relevant research project.

Proposals should be submitted by February 15th, 2023 (for other important dates see below).

Submissions and Inquiries:

Chapter proposal submissions and inquiries for further information should be sent to Gita Bamezai,gitabamezai@gmail.com; Pradeep Sopory, dz3594@wayne.edu; or, Uttaran Dutta, uttaran.dutta@asu.edu.

Full-Chapter Guidelines:

Full chapters should, at the minimum, include an introduction to the main identified communicative issue, theoretical postulates and conceptual framework(s) in the context of health communication, review of literature (paying attention to contemporary debates/discussions in the domain of health communication), suggestions for a research agenda, and implications for policy and system changes. The chapter should be located/grounded in the South Asian experience. Full chapters should be between 5,000-7,000 words, including abstract (125 words), references, tables, and figures.

Important Dates (with some flexibility):

Chapter proposal due: February15th, 2023

Notification of acceptance sent to authors: March31st, 2023 First draft of full chapter manuscripts due: August 1st, 2023 Manuscript reviews sent to authors: October 1, 2023

Revised draft of chapter manuscripts due: December 15th, 2023 Final manuscript decisions sent to authors: January 15th, 2024

Additional Note:

Submitted work must not have been previously published or be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Eventual publication will be subject to the outcome of editorial and peer review.

University of Bremen

At the University of Bremen, the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research/ Department 9 - Cultural Studies - in the ZeMKI Lab "Datafication and Mediatization" of Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp has a vacancy from 1.3.2023, subject to funding approval, for a

Research Associate (f/m/d) for Software Development

- pay group 13 TV-L – for a period of 3 years.

The temporary position is within the framework of a project for the validation and further development of the molo.news platform (https://molo.news).

We are looking for a person (f/m/d) who will further develop the backend of the molo.news platform on the basis of their own and research in the project team on participatory approaches (co-creation) and who would like to work in a committed team that deals with the latest media change (including automation and datafication of communication, pioneer journalism, pioneer/developer communities).

Tasks:

• Independent research-based development of the backend of molo.news in Django

• Research on and implementation of automation of tagging in molo.news based on machine learning

• Implementation of a location feature for molo.news

• Independent development of a monetisation tool for freelance journalists (incl. user management and payment interface)

• Product ownership vis-à-vis frontend

• Collaboration in co-creation workshops in a geographically dispersed project with locations in Bremen, Hamburg and Leipzig and neighbouring cities and communities.

Recruitment requirements:

• Completed relevant academic degree (M.A., M.Sc., Magister, Diplom)

• Experience in backend development

• Experience in Python

• Experience in project management

• Experience in software development

• High level of commitment and initiative

• Ability to work in a team, meticulous and reliable

• Willingness to participate in academic self-administration

• If possible:

The University of Bremen intends to increase the proportion of women in science and therefore explicitly invites women to apply. Severely disabled applicants will be given priority if they have essentially the same professional and personal qualifications. Applications from people with a migration background are welcome.

Questions should be addressed to Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp (andreas.hepp@uni-bremen.de).

The deadline for applications is January 31, 2023, quoting the reference number A361/22. Applications have to be sent to

University of Bremen

Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) FAO Ms. Heide Pawlik

PO Box 33 04 40

28334 Bremen

or via e-mail as PDF to: heide.pawlik@vw.uni-bremen.de

In addition to a covering letter outlining the motivation, the application should be accompanied by a curriculum vitae, final certificates and the final thesis or other publications, if applicable.

Special issue of Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society

Deadline: February 28, 2023

(editors of the special issue: Leopoldina Fortunati, Autumn Edwards & Janet Abbate)

This call for papers will take stock of the historical entanglement of gender and the Internet/Web. Facing a critical juncture both in terms of the technological development of the Internet (e.g., the nascent Web 3.0, radical decentralization, the integration of AI and machine learning) and also in terms of sociopolitical struggle on the part of women and gender-linked identity groups on local and global levels, we ask: How can we root the analysis of gender and the Internet on a historical level? How can histories that integrate gender and the Internet/Web help us comprehend the sociological, cultural, and political meaning and dimensions of each?

This special issue will explore these questions and many others through a diachronic approach that includes global, transnational, national, regional, and local histories.

Suggested topics:

• The construction of gender, including its intersectionality with race, on the Internet
  
• Feminism on the web, gender activism, and social movements
  
• Masculine cultures and the Internet/Web
  
• Participation of women online, including structural/cultural obstacles and varying national patterns
  
• Women’s expertise as Internet builders (e.g., Jake Feinler), managers, hackers, influencers, bloggers, content moderators, coders, etc.
  
• Gender and imaginaries of the Internet, including advertising
  
• Gender communities and social solidarity, including LGBTQ+ communities
  
• Gendered controversies and anti-woman movements online (e.g., trolling, gamergate, #metoo, etc.)
  
• Gender and the Internet of Things
  
• Gender and the mobile Internet
  
• Gender and online gaming
  
• Gender and the immaterial labor of domestic reproduction
  
• Gender and digital labor, including relational/affective labor
  

In addition, we encourage and welcome other topics and perspectives on gender and Internet/ Web Histories. 

 Submissions

The proposals are to be submitted to

• leopoldina.fortunati@uniud.it
  
• autumn.edwards@wmich.edu
  
• abbate@vt.edu
  

explicitly mentioning CFP Gender and Internet/Web History

They need to be a maximum of 250 words, detail an explicit angle of analysis and outline, and integrate a short bibliography.

Selected authors will be invited to submit a full paper through the editorial system, which will undergo full peer review and determine acceptance of papers for publication.

No payment from the authors will be required.

Time schedule

• Deadline for the submission of proposals: February 28th, 2023
  
• Notification of proposal acceptance: April 1st, 2023
  
• Submissions of the full paper (6000-8000 words): March 1st, 2024
  
• Feedback based on reviews: May 31st, 2024
  
• Deadline for Revisions: August 31st, 2024
  
• Publication will begin in 2025
  

Journal Information

Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society is an international, inter-disciplinary peer-reviewed journal concerned with research on the cultural, social, political and technological histories of the internet and associated digital cultures.

More information on the journal

Instructions for Authors 

Should you have any questions regarding this CfP, please feel free to contact us: leopoldina.fortunati@uniud.it; autumn.edwards@wmich.edu; abbate@vt.edu

About the Guest Editors

Leopoldina Fortunati, senior professor, teaches Social Robotics at the University of Udine, Italy. She is ICA fellow and member of the Academia Europaea. She is associate editor of the journal The Information Society.  Her research interests focus on feminist and gender perspective in respect to the adoption and appropriation of digital technologies, on the role especially of the mobile phone and the Internet on co-constructing social relationships, and on analogue and digital journalism. Leopoldina is author and editor of numerous publications including 5 monographs, over 100 peer reviewed articles and 15 edited volumes: most recently, The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Communication, Culture, and Information (OUP, 2020), jointly with Rich Ling, Gerard Goggin, Sun Sun Lim & Yuling Li. Her works have been published in twelve languages.

Autumn Edwards is professor of communication at Western Michigan University where she also co-directs the Communication and Social Robotics Labs. At present, she is Theodore von Kármán Fellow at RWTH Aachen University. She is the founding editor-in-chief of the journal Human-Machine Communication, which focuses on the theory and practice of communication with and about digital interlocutors, including social robots, technologically-augmented persons (cyborgs), and communication in augmented, virtual, and mixed-reality environments. Her research addresses human-machine communication with an emphasis on how ontological considerations, or beliefs about the nature of communicators and communication, both shape and are shaped by interactions with digital technologies, including in the contexts of computer-mediated communication and in communication with social robots, voice-based assistants, chatbots, and spoken dialogue systems. She is the author of over 60 research articles and book chapters.

Janet Abbate is Professor of Science, Technology and Society at Virginia Tech and Co-director of the STS graduate program in Northern Virginia. Her research focuses on the history, culture, and politics of computing and the Internet. Her 2012 book Recoding Gender: Women’s Changing Participation in Computing explores how gender has shaped computing and how the experiences of female software pioneers can inform current efforts to broaden participation in science and technology. Other major publications include Inventing the Internet (1999) and Abstractions and Embodiments: New Histories of Computing and Society (with co-editor Stephanie Dick, 2022). Her current research interests include gender and computing; how perceptions of expertise and opportunity contribute to underrepresentation of women and minorities; and the history and cultural significance of computer science as an intellectual discipline. 

Find more information about Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society at https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rint20

Human-Machine communication (Special Issue)

Deadline: March 15, 2023

Editors

- Göran Bolin (Södertörn University)

- Andreas Hepp (ZeMKI, University of Bremen)

- Wiebke Loosen (Leibniz Institute for Media Research)

Description:

Mediatization research has long been concerned with the interrelationship between the transformation of media and communication on the one hand, and culture and so-ciety on the other (Bolin & Hepp 2017; Couldry & Hepp 2013; Ekström et al. 2016; Hjarvard 2013; Krotz 2009). With the spread of “communicative AI” (Guzman & Lewis 2020) – understood as AI-based systems whose function is to communicate with hu-mans (Esposito 2022) – we are currently experiencing the beginning of yet one more change to our media environment. The foundations of this change can be seen in the emergence of “social bots” (Gehl & Bakardjieva 2016) on various platforms, the spread of “artificial companions” such as Apple Siri or Amazon’s Alexa (Thorne 2020), the al-gorithmic response suggestions (Hancock et al. 2020), or the “work bots” (Hepp 2020) that produce automated journalism (Diakopoulos 2019; Loosen 2018). A further tech-nical boost to all this is the recent development of ChatGPT and GPT-3.5. The increas-ing success of machine learning and other AI technologies suggests that this is merely the first step toward the automation of communication (Gunkel 2020; Taipale & Fortu-nati 2018).

Against this background, it seems obvious that research into mediatization and hu-man-machine communication enters into a dialogue that, in the best case, mutually enriches empirical research and the theoretical discussion, helping us to better under-stand the current changes to media and communication and their consequences. This Special Issue aims to create a starting point for just such a dialogue. The objective is to discuss the following questions based on empirical studies and theoretical considera-tions:

• To what extent do current phenomena of automated communication represent me-diatization re-asserting itself? 

• How can approaches to and theories of HMC and mediatization research mutually relate to and enrich one other?

• What will be the consequences to theorizing media and empirical research?

For more information or questions, please contact Andreas Hepp (ahepp@uni-bremen.de).

Keywords: Human-Machine Communication, Mediatization, communicative AI, 

Deadline: Submissions are due March 15th, 2023, and the publication will be in Sep-tember, 2023. All manuscripts should be submitted via the journal’s online submission system (https://hmcjournal.com) with the remark, “Special Issue” in the cover letter. In the online submission system, there will be a drop-down menu under Document Type. Please choose “Special Issue Submission.” For formatting and length specifications, please see the journal’s Instructions for Authors. 

References:

Bolin, G., & Hepp, A. (2017). The complexities of mediatization: Charting the road ahead. In O. Driessens, G. Bolin, A. Hepp, & S. Hjarvard (Eds.), Dynamics of mediatization (pp. 315-331). London: Palgrave. 

Couldry, N., & Hepp, A. (2013). Conceptualising mediatization: Contexts, traditions, arguments. Communication Theory, 23(3), 191-202. 

Diakopoulos, N. (2019). Automating the news. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 

Ekström, M., Fornäs, J., Jansson, A., & Jerslev, A. (2016). Three tasks for mediatization research: contributions to an open agenda. Media, Culture & Society, 38(7), 1090-1108.

Esposito, E. (2022). Artificial communication. Cambridge: MIT. 

Gehl, R. W., & Bakardjieva, M. (Eds.). (2016). Socialbots and their friends: Digital media and the au-tomation of sociality. London: Routledge.

Gunkel, D. J. (2020). An introduction to communication and artificial intelligence. Cambridge: Polity. 

Guzman, A. L., & Lewis, S. C. (2020). Artificial intelligence and communication: A Human-Machine Communication research agenda. New Media & Society, 22(1), 70-86. 

Hancock, J. T., Naaman, M., & Levy, K. (2020). AI-Mediated communication: Definition, research agenda, and ethical considerations. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 25(1), 89-100. 

Hepp, A. (2020). Deep mediatization. London: Routledge. 

Hjarvard, S. (2013). The mediatization of culture and society. London: Routledge. 

Krotz, F. (2009). Mediatization: A concept with which to grasp media and societal change. In K. Lundby (Ed.), Mediatization: Concept, changes, consequences (pp. 19-38). New York: Peter Lang. 

Loosen, W. (2018). Four forms of datafied journalism. Journalism’s response to the datafication of society. Communicative figurations working paper, 18, 1-10. 

Taipale, S., & Fortunati, L. (2018). Communicating with machines: Robots as the next new media. In A. L. Guzman (Ed.), Human-machine communication (pp. 201-220). New York: Peter Lang. 

Thorne, S. (2020). Hey Siri, tell me a story: Digital storytelling and AI authorship. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, doi:10.1177/1354856520913866