ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

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)

Dear all,

we hope you all enjoyed ECC2022 in Aarhus. Here is some documentation:

• See the short gallery: https://conferences.au.dk/ecrea2022/rethink-impact/gallery#c155103
  
• Twitter is full of raving comments: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ECREA2022 OR https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ECREA22
  
• Central Denmark Office in Brussels published a short article (in Danish): https://centraldenmark.eu/aarhus-universitet-var-vaert-for-europas-stoerste-medie-og-kommunikationskonference/ 
  
• Visit Aarhus posted on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/visitaarhus-convention-bureau_aarhus-dktourism-ecrea2022-activity-6988849876750974977-TeP3?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop 
  
• In order to extend the conference beyond Aarhus, we will publish all 50+ podcasts on the conference website produced by Aarhus University Mundus Journalism students by the end of November.
  
• The keynote, opening and closing sessions are now also available as recordings through the microsite: https://ecrea2022.gcon.me/page/home
  

Please fill out the survey: https://form.jotform.com/222932133413345. It takes like 5 minutes, including comments :-).

June 8-9, 2023

University of Rouen-Normandie, France

Deadline: December 15, 2022

The 1920s was a key period for popular song. The slow rise of recorded music, and the arrival of radio, brought to the end that era when live performance was at the centre of the music industries. Meanwhile, ongoing urbanization in many countries continually changed the relationship between song, everyday life, fantasy and identity.

In Britain in the 1920s, the urban music hall suffered terribly. The rise of records and then the radio meant that the competition between songs was far stronger, and in general US production was more sophisticated, faster, more modern. Al Jolson, and later Cole Porter, were more impressive than the old-time singers: for the first time in history British popular song was threatened by US domination. The rise of the dance hall did damage too. Younger people wanted to go out and dance, not sit in a theatre singing along. Jazz reinforced the dance halls, while, at the end of the decade musical cinema could provide a more sophisticated song and dance show for a fraction of the price of a music hall evening.

In 1920s France, the tremendous growth of the Parisian spectacle symbolized the « Roaring Twenties ». The music hall played a euphoric role. Silent, black and white cinema could not match its sparkle. So the great authors of revues[1] played with opulence, light and color, the unusual and the exotic, in a style derived from operetta and the circus. It was at this time that Parisian performance venues gained lasting notoriety.[2] It was often the stars of the caf’conc from the pre-war period who animated the craziest revues and would become the stars of the talkies at the end of the decade.

In Ireland, the gaining of partial independence in 1922 helped to reinforce a nationalist vision  of popular culture, notably through the work of the Gaelic League which worked to encourage traditional song and dance, while in America collectors such as Francis O’Neill worked to preserve and record Irish repertoires.

In Spain, theatres and music halls presented género chico (short theatrical productions with music and dance accompanying), cuplés (short pieces sung by women, with erotic connotations), varietés, and flamenco and jazz spectacles. Jazz had been present since World War One, introduced by artists who were fleeing from the war, but it became popular towards the end of the 20s. The 1920s also brought a paradigm shift in flamenco, since it began to be performed in new venues: theatres, circuses and bullrings. Its newly acquired popularity led flamenco to become the most representative Spanish genre, offering a stereotypical vision of the national music and culture.

In the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (1918-1929), popular music developed and spread rapidly. The reasons for this were the increased importance of women in the cultural sphere as a result of wartime circumstances, as well as the slow emergence of new mass media – film and radio.   Popular music was undoubtedly influenced by musical trends and genres from the United States, France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Hungary, and the Soviet Union, but it remained true to itself.  The music industry was just getting started. The most well-known early music publishers were Jovan Frajt and Sergej Strahov, Albini and Akord,[3] while Belgrade and Zagreb were the most significant commercial markets for music.

These few countries, given as examples among many, reveal a period where technological change, cultural change and economic and political factors combine to shake up the music industry and popular song.

We invite papers on any aspect of popular song in Europe in the 1920s. A fully comprehensive or truly synthetic account of such an outpouring of work and energy is no doubt unobtainable. Our aim must rather be to tease out some of the regularities of what the songs meant to people, how they were produced and sold, what they reflected or did not reflect of people’s lives.

The conference will be in English.

Proposals of 300 words should be sent by 15 December 2022 to john.mullen@univ-rouen.fr accompanied by a biographical note of 150 words. We will acknowledge receipt and, after examination by the scientific committee, a response will be made by 30 January 2023.

Scientific committee

• John Mullen, University of Rouen Normandie, France
  
• Eric Sauda, independent scholar, France
  
• Eric Falc’her Poyroux, University of Nantes, France
  
• Lidia Lopez, University of Barcelona, Spanish state
  
• Nataša Simeunović Bajić, University of Niš, Serbia
  
• Andre Rottgeri, University of Passau, Germany
  

NOTES

[1] Willemetz, Lelièvre, Saint-Granier, Rouvray, Lemarchand, Varna…

[2] Les Ambassadeurs, l’Alcazar, le Bataclan, Bobino, le Casino de Paris, la Cigale, le Concert Mayol, l’Eldorado, L’Empire, les Folies Bergère, le Moulin-Rouge, l’Olympia…

[3] Весић, И.(2014) „Музичко издаваштво између два светска рата као извор за проучавање експанзије популарне музике у Југославији: примери издавачких кућа Јована Фрајта и Сергија Страхова“, Зборник Матице српске за сценске уметности и музику 51, 65–81.

University of Bern

At the Institute of Communication and Media Studies (ikmb) of the University of Bern, a position is available as a

PhD student (full position) OR early Post-doc (80%)*

The position will be available from January 1st, 2023 (or by appointment) for an initial period of three years. It is intended to serve the purpose of scientific qualification.

Tasks:

- collaboration in a research project (inter alia analyzing the spreading of conspiracy beliefs**)

- development and implementation of own research ideas

- teaching of courses in the BA Social Sciences and supervision of BA thesis (approx. 20% of worktime)

- contribution to the general tasks of the Institute

Requirements:

- above-average degree in communication science, a related social science discipline and /or in informatics

- strong interest in political communication

- very good skills in the methods of empirical social science

- affinity for computational methods is a plus

- willingness to present research at (inter-)national conferences / workshops

- ability to work in a team

- very good command in English (German is a plus)

We offer:

An attractive working environment awaits you at the Institute for Communication and Media Science at the University of Bern: a collegial team, cooperation and exchange, as well as the freedom to de- velop your own ideas. Employment adheres to the regulations of the Canton of Berne.

Applications (letter of motivation including research interests / ideas, CV (incl. list of publications), certificates, a central chapter of the thesis / another publication, recommendation letter) should be mailed as a pdf file by November 30th, 2022 to Prof. Dr. Silke Adam (silke.adam@unibe.ch). The talks will take place on Wednesday, December 14th. For further information, please contact Prof. Dr. Silke Adam.

* Maximum 2 years after finishing the phd.

** for more information: https://www.ikmb.unibe.ch/forschung/forschungsprojekte/laufende_projekte/laufende_forschungsprojekte/pre- paring_the_mainstream_media_for_the_next_pandemic__when_does_mainstream_media_content_foster_belief_in_conspiracy_theo- ries/index_ger.html)

January 09, 2023 - 08h00 UTC 

Deadline: November 25, 2022 

PhD Research Webinar 

Co-convened by Dr Priyanka Sachdeva from the University of Delhi, India, and Atashi Bhattacharya from Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, India 

IAMCR invites applications from members for the IAMCR Presidential PhD  Research Webinar on "Media Literacy: A Critical Pedagogy in Difficult Times of War, Pandemic and Beyond", co-convened by Dr Priyanka Sachdeva  from the University of Delhi, India, and Atashi Bhattacharya from Guru  Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, India. 

This webinar intends to 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. 

Media literacy is a human right established by UNESCO and is a growing  and diverse field of study. In recent years, we have witnessed several  world-shaking phenomena that changed our lives profoundly, put democratic values to the test, and even transformed how people communicate. In this context, media literacy gains even more importance to be discussed, and it gets increasingly important to develop literacy for citizenship, participation, and democracy. 

We encourage a wide range of topics from doctoral students interested in  the subjects of the Digital Divide, Media Literacy, Democratic decision-making, and Digital citizenship, among others. 

Potential topics include (but are not limited to): 

• Misinformation and information literacy 
  
• Digital divide, teaching, and media literacy 
  
• Public policies and media literacy 
  
• Media literacy, citizenship, and democracy 
  
• Political literacy and civic participation 
  
• Digital journalism and news literacy 
  
• Technology, literacy, and digital citizenship 
  
• Ethical issues to access and use of information 
  

To submit your paper to present in the webinar, download and complete the application form (*) and send it to Priyanka Sachdeva and Atashi Bhattacharya, the co-convenors of the webinar, and also Mazlum Kemal Dagdelen (IAMCR presidential assistant), with the subject “IAMCR Presidential PhD Research Webinar: {title of your paper proposal}" by 25 November 2022. If there are several presenters, each should fill in an individual application form and send all the documents in one email. 

These are the email addresses to be used: 

Priyanka Sachdeva > priyankasachdeva2711@gmail.com 

Atashi Bhattacharya > atashibhattacharya22@gmail.com 

Mazlum Kemal Dağdelen > mazlum@iamcr.org 

Acceptance of an application is based on the proposed presentation's  academic quality, relevance to the field and the main topic of the  webinar, and originality. 

Key Dates 

• Date of the webinar: 09 January 2023, 08h00 UTC 
  
• Deadline for applications: 25 November 2022 
  
• Announcement of the decisions: 01 December 2022 
  
• Final submission of presentations: 02 January 2023 
  

(*) 

https://iamcr.org/sites/default/files/presenter_application_form_media_literacy.docx 

For more information, you may contact Mazlum Kemal Dagdelen: mazlum@iamcr.org

VIEW Journal

Deadline: December 20, 2022

We are currently accepting proposals for the upcoming #Issue 25 “The Changing Newsroom: Disinformation & Multimedia Journalism”. This new issue is presented by MediaNumeric and co-edited by guest editors Joke Hermes (InHolland University of Applied Sciences, MediaNumeric partner), Kuba Piwowar (SWPS, MediaNumeric partner) & Julia Conemans (Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision, MediaNumeric partner & BENEDMO). This special issue seeks to bring together scholars, archivists, and other interested parties to investigate how the new technologies and data-driven innovation have transformed the media landscape. 

The full call for papers can be found here: https://www.viewjournal.eu/announcement/#cfp25 

The availability of technology and data as an opportunity and as a threat.

Presented by: MediaNumeric

Guest editors: Joke Hermes (InHolland University of Applied Sciences, MediaNumeric partner), Kuba Piwowar (SWPS, MediaNumeric partner) & Julia Conemans (Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision, MediaNumeric partner & BENEDMO)

Publication date: Spring/Summer 2024

A wide range of technologies and data-driven innovations transform the modern media landscape in Europe, from the way content is created, to how it is distributed and interacted with. Television newsrooms, documentary makers, and creative storytellers rely more and more on technology and data to enable and increase direct and interactive access to information, explore new possibilities in formatting immense stores of information, and innovate in information presentation and transmission. But the broad accessibility to multimedia production and digital media tools can also pose a threat to trust in journalism. Notably, technologies generate new challenges for journalists,such as the easy, prolific spread of inaccurate and misleading information.

Moving images can be taken out of context, edited and manipulated, or newly-created based on data: deep fakes are crafted with such accuracy, they are hardly recognizable. And where the visual representation of data can be very helpful for example to clarify scientific content, data visualisations can also be easily manipulated to support a false claim.

Both disinformation (the intentional spread of false information) and misinformation (the spreading of false information that one believes to be accurate) causes harm on an individual and societal level. It can misinform our opinions, mislead our actions, distort government policies and democratic processes and disenfranchise the vulnerable in a variety of ways. It can also harm the quality of an open media ecosystem, as exposure can lead to increased distrust in traditional media.

This issue of VIEW explores how television newsrooms and other media outlets navigate the immense availability of technologies and data in the reality of the increasing spread of disinformation and misinformation.  The use of multimedia and technological advances in the area of automation, interaction and distribution is a major opportunity for journalists and visual storytellers. Multimedia materials (including archival moving images) can play an increasingly crucial role in journalism in the sense that they can be 1. analyzed to verify given information 2. used to generate a factual (news)story based on a research question and 3. used to create and present stories in an informative and appealing way. 

This changing landscape impacts the profession of journalism also on an individual level: a gap exists between the needs of journalists in their day to day practice and the training journalists have received. The pace of media production and consumption has changed, distrust towards traditional journalism has grown, and another layer of complexity has been added by easy access to an immense amount of digital and technological resources. These developments call for a strong focus on continuous training in media, data, and digital literacy for journalists, storytellers and other media professionals.

Topics for consideration include, but are not limited to:

The changing profession:

• new practices in data/data-driven journalism in visual media
  
• debunking false claims (such as fact-checks) using new, visual technology
  
• critically examining how AI and machine learning are becoming part of the journalism toolbox 
  
• broad access to the creation of multimedia and its relation to trust in traditional journalism
  
• ethical considerations in journalism concerning the use of multimedia (e.g. moving image archival materials) and data
  
• the changing profession of journalism and re-organisation of newsrooms/editorial teams around creating with data (and/or) multimedia
  
• what are the critical considerations for using osint-activities for journalism (including best and worst practices)
  

The changing landscape:

• what are the current literacy needs for a changing and technologically advanced media landscape
  
• critical examinations of the rising presence of ‘Alternative Media’ and its effects on consumers and/or more traditional news organisations
  
• use of data and multimedia in storytelling and television news delivery through the years
  
• analyses of how oppressive regimes use new tools for propaganda and disinformation purposes
  
• how are new tools for propaganda and disinformation purposes used by oppressive regimes
  

New technological advances impacting the field:

• the impact of synthetic media (f.i. deep fakes) and other ways of manipulating imagery
  
• data/information visualisation, its benefits and risks
  

Submission details

We invite submissions from broadcast historians, media studies scholars, audiovisual archivists and television professionals including journalists, data scientists working in journalism, and creative storytellers using multimedia, and others.

Proposals (max. 500 words) should be submitted by email to journal@euscreen.eu by December 20, 2022. Article proposals can (optionally) mention if they will take the form of a “discovery” (audiovisual-driven case study) or “exploration” (more traditional academic approach; for further info see https://viewjournal.eu/about/). Authors are encouraged to send in a short biography with their proposal.

A notice of acceptance of abstracts will be sent to authors by the middle of February 2023.

Articles (between 3,000 – 6,000 words) will be due on May 15, 2023. Longer articles are welcome, provided that they comply with the journal’s author guidelines (https://www.viewjournal.eu/about/submissions/).

All articles will be peer-reviewed. The issue will be published in June 2024.

Questions about the issue can be directed to: jconemans@beeldengeluid.nl