ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

November 18, 2022

Online

ECREA Post-conference sponsored by Communication History section & International and Intercultural communication section 

Organizer

China Media Observatory, Università della Svizzeraitaliana (Lugano, Switzerland)

Journal of Transcultural Communication (De Gruyter)

Co-organizer

School of International Journalism and Communication, Beijing Foreign Studies University

Institute for a Community with Shared Future, Communication University of China

Program

10.00-10.15 (UTC+8) Opening Ceremony

Chair: 

Deqiang Ji, Managing editor, Journal of Transcultural Communication; Professor, Communication University of China

Opening remarks:

Gabriele Balbi (recorded), Chair of ECREA Communication History Section; Associate Professor, Institute of Media and Journalism, Università della Svizzera italiana

Mélodine Sommier (recorded), Chair of ECREA International and Intercultural Communication Section, Academy of Finland Research Fellow, University of Jyväskylä

10.15-11:30 (UTC+8) Chinese Technology Companies in Asia and Africa

Chair: Sixian Lin, Beijing Foreign Studies University

Discussant: Dianlin Huang, Communication University of China

Interdisciplinary Research in Globalization Strategies and Insights of Chinese Enterprises -- Taking performance of TikTok in India as an example

Li, Rui; Zhai, Beibei

Beijing Foreign Studies University

Politicizing the Chinese Emerging Media Companies: A Case Study of the Rise and Fall of TikTok in India

Zhang, Xiaoyu

Communication University of China

The Localization, Growth and Closure of ByteDance’s Helo in India: A Case Study of Chinese Social Media Giant’s Third-world Gold Rush

Xu, Nuo

Peking University

An abortive de-othering attempt: TikTok's discipline of African-related short videos by Chinese living in Africa and the re-stereotyping of African images

Tan, Yuchen

Communication University of China

11:30-11:45 (UTC+8) Tea Break

11:45-13:00 (UTC+8) Platforms, Globalization and Cultural Boundaries

Chair: Can Cui, Beijing Foreign Studies University

Discussant: Deqiang Ji, Communication University of China

Umbrella global platform of Tencent eSports industry in China

Zhao, Yupei;Lin, Zhongxuan

Zhejiang University;Jinan University

The cross-genre dissemination of platformed cultural contents: Computing how algorithms erode cultural boundaries in China

Ma, Lide; He, Yuan; Zhao Xiuli; Ren, Beijia

Beijing Normal University; Hebei University

The Influence of TikTok’s Involvement in Global Governance Through Cooperation with UN Agencies on Its Brand Image Building

Xia, Mengyi

University of Macau

13.00-15.00 (UTC+8) Lunch Break

15.30-17.30(UTC+8) /08.30-10.30(CET) Branding and Rebranding of Technology Companies 

Chair: Deqiang Ji, Communication University of China

Discussant: Daya Thussu, Hong Kong Baptist University

A Post-Colonial analysis of transcultural news frames – A case study of Facebook’s rebranding

Ditlhokwa, Gopolang; Cann, Victoria E.

Communication University of China; University of Colorado

The achievement and dilemma of Bytedance on glocalization

Xie, Siqi;Liu, Liuni; Li, Suju

Shenzhen University; Beijing Kuaishou Technology Co., Ltd.; Zhongjin Innovation (Shenzhen) Asset Management Co., LTD

The Super App Strategy: How Tencent combines platformization, infrastructuralization, conglomeration, and financialization in China’s app economy

Jia, Lianrui; Nieborg, David; Poell, Thomas

University of Sheffield; University of Toronto; University of Amsterdam

Netflix as a policy actor: Transnational strategy in Ibero-America

Marina Fernandes, Luis Albornoz

Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

17.30-19.30(UTC+8) /10.30-12.30 (CET) Keynote Roundtable Discussion

Chair: Gabriele Balbi, Università della Svizzera italiana

Invited Speakers:

Daya Thussu, Hong Kong Baptist University

Dwayne Winseck, Carleton University

Stephen Croucher, Massey University

Fei Jiang, Journal of Transcultural Communication; Beijing Foreign Studies University

*Final Remarks from Beijing site

Deqiang Ji

19.30-20.30(UTC+8) /12.30-13.30 (CET) Lunch Break 

20.30-22.30(UTC+8) /13.30-15.30 (CET) Panel FOUR: Transcultural Challenges in Business Practice and Beyond

Chair: Mélodine Sommier, University of Jyväskylä

Discussant: Mélodine Sommier, University of Jyväskylä

Huawei Space in Italy

Negro, Gianluigi

Siena University

Cultural Homogeneity or Cultural heterogeneity? Questioning the changing corporate culture among emerging technology companies

Ely Luthi, Zhan Zhang

Università della Svizzera italiana

Intercultural experience learning in Metaverse and VR world

De Masi Vincenzo

United International College (UIC) Beijing Normal University

Being Chinese Online – Discursive (Re)production of Internet-Mediated Chinese National Identity

Wang, Zhiwei

University of Edinburgh

*Final Remarks

Zhan Zhang, Università della Svizzera italiana

Mélodine Sommier, University of Jyväskylä

Special issue of New Media & Society

Deadline: February 15, 2023

Discussions about young people’s access or experiences with online pornography underpin most discussions and concerns about their experiences online more broadly. There is usually consensus among public, policy, and academic pundits that experiences with online/mediated sexual content are or can be potentially harmful for young people (Tsaliki, 2016). For instance, recent media outlets monitor the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office and call for a ‘cracking down’ of regulatory activity for online pornography sites, which will force them to prove they are preventing children’s access to their content (Solon, 02/09/2022). This pressure rejuvenates similar calls invoked by the 2017 Digital Economy Act--which required online pornographic sites to implement strict access rules to people under 18-years old--and the Online Harms White Paper that was put in force to cover the Act’s gap concerning sexual content on social media (Thurman & Obster, 2021).

Effects-laden approaches assuming online pornography’s effects on young people dominate the debates around children’s sexuality more broadly and online pornography specifically, while approaches drawing from cultural studies and porn studies contextualise young people’s negotiations with online pornography in historical, cultural, and social terms. Growing academic research is putting play and consent in the research and sex education agendas (McKee et al, 2020) and also using porn literacy as an analytical framework to understand how young people transform their experiences and their knowledge of the conventions of the genre into a discourse about sexuality (Buckingham & Chronaki, 2014). Discussions about sexting (Albury, 2016), pornography’s position in sex education (Goldstein, 2019), and porn literacy education are being shaped more systematically and are informing current debates.

A key term in almost all debates about young people’s experiences with online pornography is ‘harm’ and the ways in which it is interpreted, negotiated, discussed, and unpacked by young people themselves. This special issue will address young people’s perceptions and interpretations of the notion of harm in experiences with online sexual content. Papers should address, but are not limited to, the following questions:

• How do young people unpack the notion of harm when talking about online pornography?
  
• How do young people who acknowledge a degree of harm in their own experiences with online pornography talk about it?
  
• To what extent is harm working as an umbrella concept including negotiations about representation, consumption, intimacy, consent, or rights?
  
• How do young people account for online pornography in the broader context of sex education and porn literacy?
  
• How is the notion of harm in young people’s experiences with online pornography conceptualised in different cultural contexts and the current historical moment?
  
• What are the methodological and ethical challenges in researching young people’s experiences with online sexual content?
  

Abstract submission:

Please submit abstracts of maximum 500 words to Despina Chronaki (dchronaki@jour.auth.gr). Abstracts should include information about the epistemological stance of your research, a short methodological note, and prospective findings. Submission deadline is no later than 15 February 2023. Full papers will be due 30 October 2023.

Guest editors:

Dr Despina Chronaki, Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, dchronaki@jour.auth.gr

Associate Professor Debra Dudek, School of Arts and Humanities, Edith Cowan University, Australia, d.dudek@ecu.edu.au

Giselle Woodley, School of Arts and Humanities, Edith Cowan University, Australia, g.woodley@ecu.edu.au

University of Vienna

The Department of Communication of the University of Vienna, a subunit of the Faculty of Social Sciences, announces one vacant post-doc position (5 years, 40h/week) and three vacant PhD/pre-doc positions (3.5 years, 30h/week each) within the field of Advertising and Media Psychology (Prof. Jörg Matthes).

For more information, see links below:

- Post doc position (deadline: November 17): https://univis.univie.ac.at/ausschreibungstellensuche/flow/bew_ausschreibung-flow?_flowExecutionKey=_cC9C679CB-2FDD-5170-8EEE-892CA7F3C5B8_kF01BC81E-A744-EE2B-6F04-000072E56522&tid=93504.28

- PhD/pre doc positions (deadline: November 17): https://univis.univie.ac.at/ausschreibungstellensuche/flow/bew_ausschreibung-flow?_flowExecutionKey=_cC9C679CB-2FDD-5170-8EEE-892CA7F3C5B8_kCC442DFC-4C79-5E96-0124-BFEF05B00049&tid=93505.28

For further questions regarding the project, please contact Prof. Jörg Matthes at joerg.matthes@univie.ac.at.

Short description:

The positions are situated within the European Research Council (ERC) funded project “Digital Hate: Perpetrators, Audiences, and (Dis)Empowered Targets (DIGIHATE)”. The research project affords a multi-disciplinary, international, and methodologically multifaceted perspective that accounts for different actor groups (perpetrators, audience members/ bystanders, targets from socially disadvantaged and socially advantaged groups) in order to advance our understanding of the emergence, perception, and individual and collective consequences of malicious online communication in a groundbreaking manner. DIGIHATE is set to play an essential part in maintaining and empowering a dignified and resilient digital society. The successful candidate would be involved in a broad range of research activities.

The positions involve conducting research within the ERC project, working together with a thriving research group, employing a rich set of innovative quantitative (and also qualitative) methodologies, working on top-level publications, and presenting at international conferences. There is an expectation of a signed doctoral thesis agreement within 12-18 months. There is also the possibility to be involved in teaching. As part of their research, candidates are expected to participate in raising third-party funding. Candidates are expected to perform administrative duties and participate in evaluation activities and quality assurance.

Deadline: November 13, 2022

We invite submission of high-quality proposed Chapters for New book publishing by IGI GLOBAL.

Please access https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/6261. 

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit, on or before November 13, 2022, a chapter proposal of 1,000 to 2,000 words clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors will be notified by November 27, 2022, about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by March 13, 2023, and all interested authors must consult the guidelines for manuscript submissions at https://www.igi-global.com/publish/contributor-resources/before-you-write/ prior to submission. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.

Note: There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted to this book publication, News Media and Hate Speech Promotion in Mediterranean Countries. All manuscripts are accepted based on a double-blind peer-review editorial process.

All proposals should be submitted through the eEditorial Discovery® online submission manager.

More info: elias.said@unir.net 

Thursday 15 - Friday 16 June 2023

LSE  

Deadline: November 7, 2022

It’s 20 years since the Department of Media and Communications  at the LSE was formally founded. We warmly invite you to join our celebration, and to contribute to our 20th anniversary conference entitled: Media Futures.

We are living in turbulent and increasingly dangerous times which are in large part defined and influenced by the very thing we study and research, namely media, communication infrastructures, algorithms, and data. Faced with an uncertain future, we can discern both dystopian and optimistic scenarios. In terms of the former we need critique, as well as ethical norms and values to validate those critiques. Regarding the latter, alternative imaginaries of hope, social justice and solidarity need to be developed or indeed rejuvenated. 

In our 20th anniversary conference, we aim to address both the critiques of the present and to consider and imagine alternative pathways. We welcome papers aligned with our four research themes: 1) Media Culture and Identities; 2) Histories and Futures; 3) Media, Participation and Politics; and 4) Communication, Technology, Rights and Justice. More details on calls for the specific strands can be found here: https://www.lse.ac.uk/media-and-communications/media-lse/Call-for-Papers.  

Conference Format 

Our current expectation is that the conference will hold in-person on the LSE campus in London. Any changes to this, due to developments in the COVID-19 situation in the UK, will be communicated promptly.  

Submission Guidelines 

Proposals are welcome for single or co-authored papers. Only one proposal per person should be submitted here: https://forms.office.com/r/r034jyy5dae (multiple authors welcome). Proposals must include: a title for the paper, an abstract of up to 300 words, a contact email address and indication of institutional affiliation. 

The deadline for submissions is: Monday 7 November, 2022. 

Outcomes will be communicated by: Friday 9 December 2022.  

Registration Fees 

The cost of attendance is £100. Waivers will be available on request for students and academics based in low-income countries and on hourly paid or adjunct contracts. 

Questions and Further Information  

Please forward this message to anyone who might be interested. And please direct any questions about the conference and/or the submission process to: Media.Futures@lse.ac.uk 

March 16, 2023

Lund University, Department of Communication and Media, Sweden

Deadline: December 12, 2022

International Symposium

Organisers Annette Hill, Hario Priambodho, Cheryl Fung and Martin Lundqvist - MKV Lund University

Media imaginaries are shape shifters. We can see imaginaries as make believe, as thinking outside the box, and as social practices. These multiform imaginaries coexist with the dialectics of the real and the imaginary, e.g. technological visions, or post truth politics.

The term media imaginaries refers to the cultural work of texts and artefacts, audience engagement and experiences, and the infrastructural work of commercial and civic organisations. How we create, talk about, dislike and dispute the stories and myths, facts and fictions regarding media related issues such as the environment and mobility, platforms and technologies, or inequalities and social justice, is of pressing concern for citizens, media researchers and industry professionals. We invite international scholars to consider their research contributions towards a critical media imaginaries playbook.

Key questions for this international symposium on the theme of ‘Media Imaginaries’ include:

• How do we imagine media today, yesterday or tomorrow?
  
• How do various forms of media imagine us as citizens, users, fans or producers?
  
• How do institutional organisations and professionals imagine societal contexts for a range of media-related issues, e.g. memories, technologies, communication and transportation, crises and conflict, or the environment?
  

Through an exploration and examination of media imaginaries, this international symposium will provide a scientific space for dialogue on the following topics:

• Imaginary media, e.g. texts, aesthetics and performances in television, film, journalism, platforms, games, podcasts, theatre and sports;
  
• Media imaginaries, e.g. social and technical actors, domestication and communication;
  
• Media and the mnemonic imagination, e.g. cultural memories, performance of memories and archives
  
• Media and social imaginaries, e.g. political and social movements, social inequalities;
  
• Media and cultural imaginaries, e.g. cultural meanings and resources, arts and futures;
  
• Queer and activist imaginaries, e.g. gender and intersectionality, critical disabilities, rewilding;
  
• Mobilities and imaginaries, e.g. transportation, mobilities and immobilities;
  
• Media imaginaries and the global south, e.g. diverse linguistic communities, non-Western centric approaches
  
• Media and environmental imaginaries, e.g. climate crisis, energy justice, critical infrastructures.
  

International invited speakers include Professor Deborah Chambers (Newcastle University, UK), Professor Simon Dawes (Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France), Professor Joke Hermes (InHolland University, Netherlands), Professor Annette Hill (Lund University, Sweden), Dr Ignas Kalpokas  (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania), Dr Robert Willim (Lund University, Sweden), Dr Emiliano Rossi (Bologna University, Italy).

Please submit an abstract of 300 words in English by 12 December 2022 to hario.priambodho@kom.lu.se.  For further information please consult our website https://www.kom.lu.se/en/research/conferences-and-events/media-imaginaries-2023. There is a registration fee of 950 SEK (95 Euros) that covers food and drink for the day and an evening buffet.

*Download a pdf version of this CFP

Simon J. Potter, David Clayton, Friederike Kind-Kovacs, Vincent Kuitenbrouwer, Nelson Ribeiro, Rebecca Scales, and Andrea Stanton

Offers a thematic overview of the history of international broadcasting, from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present, in a single comprehensive volume, complete with timeline of key dates and suggestions for further reading

Spans multiple countries, languages, and periods, and includes discussion of international broadcasting in and to the Global South

Co-written by a team of leading international scholars to ensure expert coverage of a wide range of places and themes, using sources from different countries and in multiple languages

Each chapter examines a key theme in the history of international broadcasting, taking in multiple countries and diverse examples, and chapters are accompanied by further case studies that provide even broader geographical and chronological coverage

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-wireless-world-9780192864987?cc=pt&lang=en&

Volume Editor: Joanna Kędra 

Series:  Advances in Teaching and Teacher Education, Volume: 5

Visual representations are becoming an essential part of our everyday lives, but visual cultures receive scant attention in higher education. This book offers a selection of pedagogical approaches to the visual, which can be easily adapted across courses and disciplines.

The use of images in education is expanding, but clear and comprehensive guidelines on how to carry out visual activities with students of a variety of fields are difficult to find. With the case studies from Finland, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, Poland, Turkey and the United States, contributors to the “Visual Pedagogies in Higher Education: Between Theory and Practice” offer detailed reflections on the pedagogical role of using images in higher education. Examples include drawing, collage making, video production, object-based learning, photography projects, and many more.

The learner-centered approach and close attention to the visual in the learning process (photographs, drawings, artworks, videos) are what connect all of the chapters. The authors share their expertise and experience of working with a particular type of visual medium and at the same time situate their pedagogical approaches within relevant, but disciplinary specific, theoretical contexts, including (critical) visual literacy, photomedia literacy, object-based learning, drawing pedagogies, and many more. By initiating this cross-disciplinary dialog about university teaching and learning with and through the visual, the book outlines the key principles of visual pedagogies for higher education, underlining the need to develop learners’ skilled vision.

The book constructs a solid argument for the further development of visual pedagogies in higher education, highlighting the need to support students in advancing their visual competency as it has become fundamental to command in everyday life and professional contexts.

Contributors: Gyuzel Gadelshina, Tad Hara, Joanna Kędra, McKenzie Lloyd-Smith, Gary McLeod, Olivia Meehan, Marianna Michałowska, Iryna Molodecky, Pınar Nuhoğlu Kibar, Paul Richter, Karen F. Tardrew, Rob Wilson and Rasa Žakevičiūtė.

Orders via Brill website (25% discount until 31 Dec. 2022 with the code: 72225)

The book launch (online, two events):

November 16th at 2:00 - 3:00pm (EET / UTC+2) (with Rasa Zakeviciute, Olivia Meehan, Gary McLeod and Pinar Kibar) - visual research methods, object-based learning, photomedia literacy, learner-generated video;

November 22nd at 3:00 - 4:00pm (EET / UTC+2) (with Marianna Michalowska, Karen Tardrew, Iryna Molodecky and Gyuzel Gadelshina) - photography & critical visual literacy, mask making in teacher education, doodling and freehand drawing in business education;

Sign up for one or both events HERE

Pre-registration is required by 4 November 2022: Register here.

Worldwide Online launch with Thomas Tufte, the editors and the authors and Spanish hybrid launch (scroll down for Spanish)

The editors Gisela Gonçalves and Evandro Oliveira are pleased to announce a webinar to present the “Routledge Handbook of Nonprofit Communication”.

This Handbook brings together multidisciplinary and internationally diverse contributors to provide an overview of theory, research, and practice in the nonprofit and nongovernmental organization (NGO) communication field. Composed of 34 chapters, this volume provides a thorough account of the challenges that converge in nonprofit research in a changing and complex environment.

It is structured in four main parts: the first introduces metatheoretical and multidisciplinary approaches to the nonprofit sector; the second offers distinctive structural approaches to communication and their models of reputation, marketing, and communication management; the third focuses on nonprofit organizations’ strategic communications, strategies, and discourses; and the fourth assembles campaigns and case studies of different areas of practice, causes, and geographies.

Date & time: 09 November 2022 @13h00 UTC/ 09h00 New York / 14h00 London / 15h00 Paris / 16h00 Nairobi / 18h30 Kolkata / 21h00 Beijing/ 24h00 Australia

Pre-registration is required by 4 November: Register here.

With: 

• Dr. Thomas Tufte, Loughborough University London (Discussant)
  
• Dr. Gisela Gonçalves, Universidade da Beira Interior & LabCom (Editor)
  
• Dr. Evandro Oliveira, Universität Autònoma de Barcelona & LabCom (Editor) &  the authors.
  

Description: After discussant Thomas Tufte presents his impressions on the handbook, the editors will present some ideas about the field of nonprofit communication and about the concept of the book. Furthermore, an overview and also time for discussion. Authors will be also present to answer questions and for discussion.

Duration: Max 90 minutes.

Location: The webinar will take place on Zoom and will be streamed via YouTube.

Reviews:

"The Routledge Handbook of Nonprofit Communication is an important addition to the literature. The book examines nonprofit communication from various perspectives – critical, structural, and strategic – and it also provides the reader with reading focused on practical application. It will be an excellent addition to any personal or institutional library."

Brigitta R. Brunner, Auburn University, USA

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Handbook of Nonprofit Communication - Lanzamiento en Castellano desde la Universidade de Málaga y online

Los editores Gisela Gonçalves y Evandro Oliveira se complacen en anunciar un seminario web para presentar el "Routledge Handbook of Nonprofit Communication".

 Este Manual reúne a colaboradores multidisciplinares e internacionalmente diversos, para ofrecer una visión general de la teoría, la investigación y la práctica en el campo de la comunicación de las organizaciones no lucrativas y no gubernamentales (ONG) y de la sociedad civil. Compuesto por 34 capítulos, este volumen da cuenta de los desafíos que convergen en la investigación en comunicación en entornos sin animo de lucro en un entorno cambiante y complejo. Está estructurado en cuatro partes principales: la primera introduce enfoques metateóricos y multidisciplinares; la segunda ofrece enfoques estructurales distintivos de la comunicación y sus modelos de reputación, marketing y gestión de la comunicación; la tercera se centra en las comunicaciones estratégicas, las estrategias y los discursos de las organizaciones no lucrativas; y la cuarta reúne campañas y estudios de caso de diferentes áreas de práctica, causas y geografías.

Fecha y hora: 14 de noviembre de 2022 13:30 Madrid / 08:30 Buenos Aires 

Se requiere la preinscripción antes del 10 de noviembre: Inscríbase aquí.

Con

Dr. Evandro Oliveira, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona y LabCom, Portugal (Editor)

Dra Isabel Ruiz-Mora, Universidad de Málaga (Respondente)

Dr. António Castillo, Universidad de Málaga (Presidente de la AIRP y Director del Dep. de Comunicación Audiovisual y Publicidad de la UMA)

Dra. Ana Almansa, Universidad de Málaga (Autora) & demás autores hispanohablantes.

Duración: Máximo 90 minutos. 

Lugar: El seminario es presencial en la UMA y en la web tendrá lugar en Zoom y se transmitirá a través de YouTube.

 Inscríbase en: https://forms.gle/UgNxsGaWGuRg595MA

Communication & Democracy international section conference & PhD course

Conference: May 8 - 9, 2023 (9:00-17:00 CEST)

PhD Course: May 10, 2023 (9:00-17:00 CEST)

University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Deadline: December 15, 2022

Conference Website: https://comm.ku.dk/research/information-technology-and-connections/to-use-or-not-to-use/tim-talks/international-conference-phd-course/

Confirmed keynote speakers: 

Donatella della Porta / W. Lance Bennett / Hazem Kandil / Guobin Yang

Scope:

Rapidly emerging technologies have become a crucial component of movement and contention, ranging from strikes and protests to riots and civil disobedience to revolution and war. We have witnessed the widespread use of digitally mediated communication during large-scale political protests in promoting social justice like Black Lives Matter and the #MeToo movement, but also intelligence and information warfare that contribute to precise strikes, effective surveillance, and reconnaissance in Russia’s war against Ukraine. Interest in this field endures, while interrogation of the role of technology in movement proliferates. Still, contestation over the nature and degree of effectiveness of technology in movement and contention remains. And theoretical and methodological reflections are badly needed to identify challenges and opportunities for advancing the field. 

This international conference seeks to address and advance such discussion. We look for original, rigorous, and creative contributions and reflections that examine technology and movement/contention. Submissions can be primarily theoretical or based on empirical studies but may also include innovative suggestions for overcoming methodological challenges. In all forms, the submissions should make explicit, original, and substantial contributions to the relevance and implications of the role of technology in movement.

PhD Course: 

An international PhD course with the same theme on technology and movement will be offered in the conference. The participant will receive 3 European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) if s/he join both the conference with presentation and the PhD seminar (on 10 May, 2023), or 1.5 ECTS (for those who only join the PhD seminar).

Possible Submission Topics:

• Theoretical developments in the sociology of technology in movement

• The historical, social, and political contingency of the role of technology in movement

• Technology and gender, sexuality, feminism, and LGBTQI issues in movement

• Technology and class, social, and digital inequalities in movement

• Big data and computational approaches to studying technology and movement (as well as critiques of these approaches)

• Safety and security issues of technology and movement

• Comparative empirical analyses of technology and movement across (a) historical eras and/or (b) countries, regions, and societies

• Legal, social and ethical issues of technology and movement

• Promise and peril of technology and movement

Key Dates:

Deadline: Abstracts of 300-500 words excluding references must be sent to techinmovement@ku.dk by December 15, 2022.

Notification of Acceptance: January 31, 2023

Deadline for Registration: February 28, 2023

Conference: May 8 - 9, 2023 (9:00-17:00 CEST)

PhD Course: May 10, 2023 (9:00-17:00 CEST)