ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

Journalism Practice (Special issue)

Deadline: December 16, 2022

Guest editors:

Claudia Mellado

Daniel Hallin

Over the past decade, research on journalistic role performance—defined as the study of how particular journalistic norms and ideals are collectively negotiated and result in specific practices—has become very important among scholars from the Global North and South, providing a more thorough understanding of the processes behind journalistic practices in relation to normative expectations in a fluid media environment.

While journalists must adapt, adjust, and perform multiple roles on a daily basis in response to ever-changing circumstances, shifting norms, rapidly changing technology, political polarization, and a years-long pandemic are making the profession more challenging than ever. In public discourse, journalists are often derided as failing to live up to their duties to serve society, and public distrust with media performance is widespread and by many accounts increasing. At the same time, journalists across the world are working in smaller newsrooms, covering a variety of beats, feeding more platforms, often in environments that offer little job security. How do these circumstances impact the performance of journalistic roles? How is the performance of journalistic roles shaped in the news, and how do journalistic ideals compare to actual practice?

As a concept, role performance conceives of journalism as a social practice, focusing on the interplay between political economy, agency, and the structure of the media. This epistemic umbrella provides a strong theoretical and empirical framework to account for the fluid, dynamic nature of journalistic roles and to explore the constant tension between norms, ideals, and the practices of journalists and news organizations in different institutional settings.

This special issue explores the factors shaping journalistic roles, what roles journalists most frequently perform in their newsrooms, the way journalists feel they can perform multiple roles, to what extent journalistic ideals consistently or fully match the real-world behavior of journalists and the content of news media in different newsrooms, how this varies across space and time, and how this affects the way audiences evaluate the profession.

We welcome empirical and theoretical submissions that contribute to the further development of this research area. Contributions to this special issue may employ different methodological and theoretical approaches and study professional roles and role performance from different levels of analysis.

A conference related to this special issue, “Between ideals and practices: Journalistic role performance in transformative times,” will be held by Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) in May, 2023 before the ICA Conference.  People interested in submitting to the special issue are encouraged, but not required, to submit to this conference as well.

The special issue aims to bring together innovative, thought-provoking contributions, from different national and regional contexts, exploring a range of topics, including:

• Professional roles and pandemic reporting: How has the pandemic affected roles performed by journalists? How has journalistic content creation changed/evolved and how has a global pandemic impacted the ways journalists view their roles?
  
• Role performance and technology: How have technology and AI modified news media practices and consumption? How has the digital transformation of journalism impacted the performance of journalistic roles in the news? How are converged newsrooms that deliver to multiple platforms changing traditional roles?
  
• Role performance and media systems: What political, social and economic contexts shape the performance of journalistic roles?
  
• Role performance and news beats: How does the performance of professional roles vary across news beats and genres?
  
• Role performance and news routines: How do journalistic roles materialize in, or are shaped by, the practices of sourcing, newsgathering, and packaging the news?
  
• Role performance and audiences: How do audiences play a role —shaping, perceiving or receiving— the roles that news media and journalists perform?
  
• Methodological challenges of studying journalistic roles: What are the best practices to engage with and gain access to journalists and for data collection and analysis in the study of journalistic role performance?
  
• Blurred professional boundaries: How do the proliferation of digital media and the variety of actors and channels introduced into the circulation of news affect professional norms and role performance?

Submission Instructions

This is a call for extended abstracts (500-750 words), accompanied by a 100-150-word bio introducing your relevant expertise. Abstracts should be sent no later than December 16, to claudia.mellado@pucv.cl and dhallin@ucsd.edu. Upon selection, scholars will be invited to submit full papers. Article submissions should be about 8,000 words in length, including references, and are subject to full blind peer-review, in accordance with the peer-review procedure of Journalism Practice. Manuscripts will be submitted through the journal’s ScholarOne website. Authors must indicate that they wish to have their manuscript considered for this Special Issue.

Expected dates:

Deadline submission of extended abstracts:  December 16, 2022

Decision on abstracts: February 1, 2023

Deadline for full-papers submission: July 1, 2023.

Publication: Online first after acceptance, and later in a forthcoming issue of Journalism Practice

Bournemouth University’s Centre for Science, Health, and Data Communication Research continues its ongoing online research talk series in 2022-23. This semester’s speakers include:

• Manisha Ganguly on the future of investigative journalism (27 Oct)
  
• Anastasia Denisova on fashion media, influencers, and climate change (3 Nov)
  
• Ozlem Demirkol Tonnesen on researching social media in risky settings (17 Nov)
  
• Antonio Lopes on the sustainability of algorithms (24 Nov)
  
• Isabella Rega & Andrea Medrado on media activism in the Global South (1 Dec)
  
• Pollyanna Ruiz on Black Lives Matter (8 Dec)
  
• Sarah Jones on understanding VR (12 Jan) 
  

All events take place online at 2pm UK time, and are free to the public. Register to attend and receive updates and Zoom links at https://bu-shdc.eventbrite.co.uk/. We hope to see you there!

Sociolinguistic Studies (Special issue, August 2024)

Deadline: January 15, 2023

Guest editor(s): Olga Ivanova (University of Salamanca, Spain) & Anastassia Zabrodskaja (Tallinn University, Estonia)

https://journal.equinoxpub.com/SS/announcement/view/294

Scopes of the Issue. The main aim of this Special Issue is to bring attention to the sociolinguistic changes that the war in Ukraine is triggering in its linguistic situation in both homeland and worldwide. The objective of the Issue is to report on ongoing developments in the use of the two major languages of Ukraine, Ukrainian and Russian, and in attitudes towards their functional and symbolic value, both among the Ukrainian population and in the diaspora. It is of particular interest for this Issue to report on the changes that are taking place in the perception of the linguistic situation in Ukraine around the World. One of the purposes of the Issue is to report on the initiatives of language revitalization and support that are emerging in different countries around the world in response to the wave of displacement of Ukrainian population.

The Special Issue aims to achieve the following objectives:

• to take into account changes in the use of and attitudes towards Ukrainian
  
• Russian and Ukrainian-Russian bilingualism in Ukraine and in the world
  
• to reflect the management (and possible resolution strategies) of the language issue among refugees and in the diaspora
  
• to highlight top-down and bottom-up actions taken both in Ukraine and, above all, abroad to support the Ukrainian language
  

To this end, the Issue welcomes empirical studies based on mainly qualitative research, as well as on the discourse and social network analysis, to inquire into any aspect related to the sociolinguistic change in the language situation in Ukraine and in the Ukrainian community abroad. The Issue particularly seeks for studies based on methods from the ethnography of communication, the ethnography of the interactional, and/or interactional/conversational pragmatics. Authors are welcome to focus their proposals on heritage language, family transmission, code-switching, bilingual socialization, intercultural families, bilingual couples, Russian-Ukrainian interaction, interactional children practices (at the kindergarten, etc.). All these questions are really at the nucleus from the situation now (both in the Ukrainian diaspora, and in Ukraine). Public discourse, with focus on sociolinguistics, policy, and identity, is also at core of the Issue.

Call for papers. The editors of the Special Issue invite all interested authors to submit the abstract of their possible contribution to the Issue by January 15, 2023.

Abstracts should be sent to olga.ivanova@usal.es and anastassia.zabrodskaja@gmail.com (please, email to both Editors at the same time) as a Word file named after the author (e.g. Ivanova.doc) or the first author and et al. (e.g. Ivanovaetal.doc)

Abstracts should not exceed 350 words, excluding references and keywords (up to 5). All abstracts should clearly state the methodology of the proposed work

The editors propose the following tentative timetable for the Special Issue call-for-papers:

• Call for abstracts:  October 25, 2022 – January 15, 2023
  
• Notification of abstract acceptance by the guest editors; January 31, 2023
  
• Paper preparation and 1st round submission: January 31, 2023 – April 30, 2023
  
• Paper review:  April 30, 2023 – June 30, 2023
  
• Paper revision by the authors:  June 30, 2023 – September 30, 2023
  
• Editing process by the guest editors: October – November 2023
  
• Final submission of the whole double: December 2023
  
• Special Issue publication: August 2024 (Issue 18.3-4 2024)
  

University of Salzburg

A 0160/1-2022

The Center for ICT&S Unit of the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Salzburg is seeking applications for a research fellow position (research and teaching). Renumeration corresponds to the Austrian Universities Act (“Universitätsgesetz”), the Employment Contracts Act (“Angestelltengesetz”) and § 26 of the collective wage agreement (“Kollektivvertrag” - grade: Postdoc). (Classification B1; the monthly remuneration for this position is € 4,061.50 gross. (14 times per year)).

Start of employment: 16 November 2022

Duration of employment: 5 years

Weekly working hours: 40

Distribution of working hours: by arrangement

Job description: The candidate is expected to conduct independent research and teaching and to support the research, teaching and administration of the Center for ICT&S. The candidate is ex- pected to teach four semester hours per week. The Center focuses on the interdependencies of digital and social change and investigates the effects of digitalisation on the individual and soci- ety. The Center for ICT&S is also responsible for running a doctoral school on “Digital Society and Democracy”. The candidate is expected to conduct excellent independent research on current is- sues in the field of digitalisation and society, co-initiate and participate in grant-funded projects (currently including “Risks to democracy from conspiracy theories on the internet”), organise con- ferences and edit publications. The successful candidate will be given the opportunity to gain fur- ther qualifications.

Requirements: Completed doctoral studies in Communication Studies or another related subject, relevant teaching experience; academic track record of relevant publications and conference pa- pers, good knowledge of English or German.

Desired additional qualifications: Experience working in a university setting; good knowledge of languages, particularly English (including teaching experience); willingness to learn German; clear idea of own future research profile; experience in writing research funding proposals; record of conducting research projects (nationally and internationally); organising scientific conferences, digital competences.

Desired personal qualities: Enthusiasm for the subject area of digitalisation and society, espe- cially in the above-mentioned fields; good communication and team skills; flexibility and ability to work under pressure; enthusiasm for imparting knowledge; strong social skills, especially in stu- dent support; ability to work in a goal-oriented, effective and solution-oriented manner.

Telephone information will be provided on +43/662-8044/4833. Application deadline until 16th November 2022.

The Paris Lodron University of Salzburg aims to increase the proportion of women among aca- demic and general university staff, especially in leadership positions, and therefore explicitly in- vites qualified women to apply. Where a male and female candidate have equal qualifications, female candidates are given priority. Persons with disabilities or chronic illnesses who meet the required criteria are strongly encouraged to apply. Information can be obtained by calling +43/662/8044-2462 or by visiting disability@plus.ac.at.

Unfortunately, travel and accommodation expenses that arise during the application process can- not be reimbursed.

Admissions are made in accordance with the provisions of the Universities Act 2002 (UG) and the Employment Contracts Act.

October 5-7, 2023

Gothenburg, Sweden 

Deadline: April 17, 2023

2023 Conference Theme: Crisis Communication from a Citizen Perspective – Urban Risks and Crises 

The deadline for abstract submission is 17 April, 2023 with notifications sent on or about 17 May, 2023. 

For the ECREA Crisis 7 we encourage participants to suggest papers and panel proposals that address the citizen perspectives of crisis communication in urban settings, but of course even contributions addressing other themes are welcome too. We encourage new approaches to theory, methodology, education and training, practice, as well as the intersection of technology in the context of risk and crisis. We invite both researchers and practitioners and are looking for cross-disciplinary approaches from communication, journalism, business, marketing, health, law politics, policing, crosscul-tural research, education and training. 

For more information email crisis7@jmg.gu.se 

Vista, n. 11

Deadline: November 1, 2022

Thematic editors: Luís Miguel Loureiro (University of Minho, Portugal) and Juan Francisco Gutierrez Lozano (University of Málaga, Spain)

Television, considered one of the great inventions of the 20th century in the media sphere, has been an imposing medium for producing entertainment content, fiction narratives and information, and journalistic activity. Representing an industry much more expressive in economic terms than the press or the radio, the "small screen", as it has been identified compared to cinema, has played a decisive role in confirming a society marked by visual communication. After photography, cinema and all forms of graphic image production that have experienced impressive development in the last 100 years, television has had — or still has today — an important role in the construction of imaginaries and the expansion of audiovisual communication processes.

Notwithstanding its historical relevance in the communicational and media landscape, around which television studies were founded and consolidated, television coexists today with other video production and distribution mechanisms. Although it is widely diffused and its access is practically universal, drawing images of everyday life, the "magic box" shares the audience with other audiovisual platforms. Video is also on different screens in an increasingly hybrid and versatile language, whether professional or amateur.

In this thematic section of Vista, we propose a reflection on the place of television and video in a time that, despite increasingly questioning the social centrality of television, has confirmed the image as the dominant medium of communication. Therefore, for this thematic section, we invite scholars to submit (full-length in text format) articles, book reviews, interviews and visual projects that address the cultural role of television and video in constructing visual portrayals of reality. Special attention will be given to proposals focusing on the following themes:

• television, visual culture and imagery;
  
• "sequence" and " flow": television and cultural studies;
  
• the political dimension of television as a mechanism of discourse production;
  
• the social and cultural role of television;
  
• television and regimes of visibility;
  
• the informational and communicative potential of the television image;
  
• television, video and media arts;
  
• the visual representations of television and video and cultural pluralism;
  
• new television formats and audiovisual aesthetics;
  
• television, video and visual narratives;
  
• the relation of young people with television and video production;
  
• the relation of television image with social networks;
  
• the television image and the ethical debate on the production of visual representations;
  
• the hybridization of the visual language of television and video;
  
• the television documentary and the web documentary: intersections and cutting lines;
  
• the platformization of television;
  
• audiovisual creativity and fiction production;
  
• the current challenges of television studies.
  

KEY DATES

Proposals submission (full manuscript): September 1 to November 1, 2022

Publication: continuous edition (January-June, 2023)

Vista is an open-access academic journal following the demanding peer-review standards based on a double-blind review process. https://revistavista.pt/index.php/vista/announcement/view/48

November 10, 2022

I am pleased to invite you to the next in the series of IPRA Thought Leadership webinars. The webinar Mobile storytelling: why a smartphone is a PR manger's best friend will be presented by Stephen Knifton on Thursday 10 November 2022 at 12.00 GMT/UCT (unadjusted for summertime). (Please note summertime is ending in Europe and North America between the day of this email and the event). 

What is the webinar content?

At the webinar you will learn the creative possibilities in smartphone filmmaking and discover how to create content for social media, film, TV, brand and commercial work with your smart device. The webinar will help unlock the storytelling tools that engage audiences.

How to join

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

A reminder will be sent 1 hour before the event.

Background to IPRA

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

Background to Stephen Knifton

Stephen Knifton teaches Smartphone Filmmaking, Smartphone Storytelling and Mobile Journalism in person at a selection of campuses across North America,  and he also teaches remotely at professional workshops globally.

Contact

International Public Relations Association Secretariat

United Kingdom

secgen@ipra.org

Telephone +44 1634 818308 

Deadline for Abstracts: 14 November 2022 

Edited by Alexander R. E. Taylor (University of Exeter), Linda Kopitz (University of Amsterdam), Alexandra Kviat (University of Leicester) and Yiğit Soncul (University of Winchester) 

Overflowing email inboxes. Back-to-back Zoom meetings. Unending data extraction. Constant connectivity. Data-driven productivity measurement. Gruelling gig economy work. The pressure to maintain social media presence. Netflix binging. 

Daily life in digital culture can be exhausting. 

This edited collection takes the theme of ‘digital exhaustion’ as a starting point for critical inquiry into the ever-expanding presence of digital technologies in daily life. We offer ‘exhaustion’ as a broad and versatile conceptual prism for thinking through human-technology relations in the current climate of digital overload.  

Digital exhaustion - along with a range of other related affects and experiences, including digital burnout, Zoom fatigue, information overload and social media overuse – have all emerged as key structures of feeling in the present. With digital technologies entrenching themselves deeper and deeper into our personal and professional lives, the possibilities of ‘disconnection’ and ‘detox’ seem increasingly tempting. At the same time, the need to engage in sustained dialogue about digital futures and the ways that digital technologies are being deployed, embraced and opposed is of pressing importance. This edited collection is responsive to this need. 

We are interested in issues and approaches pertaining to the study of digital exhaustion and welcome contributions from a range of topics, such as:  

• The fatigue arising from back-to-back Zoom calls 
  
• The ‘burnout’ that comes from social media overuse 
  
• Digital labour 
  
• Digital remedies to digital exhaustion 
  
• Digital aesthetics of exhaustion 
  
• Digital detoxing 
  
• The exhaustion of planetary resources generated by digital device manufacture/demand 
  
• Gig economy and app-driven work 
  

Please submit the following by 14 November 2022 for consideration: 

• A 500-word proposed chapter abstract 
  
• A one-page CV 
  
• A 150-word bio (please make sure to include your current position, institutional affiliation and email address) 
  
• One previous writing sample representative of writing style and narrative voice
  

We are looking to balance the disciplines and methods represented in the collection and this will partly inform our selection process. 

Tentative Production Schedule: 

• Please send the above material to a.r.e.taylor@exeter.ac.uk by 14 November 2022   
  
• Authors notified following review – 21 November 2022 
  
• First chapter drafts due (6,000-8,000 words - 10 February 2023 
  
• The deadline for the submission of full contributions will be late Spring 2023 
  

Please send any questions to a.r.e.taylor@exeter.ac.uk 

Ethics International Press is pleased to invite proposals for scholarly books and edited collections. We specialise in publishing for the academic market, so if you are researching and writing in fields broadly related to Ethics or addressing ethical issues, we would be delighted to hear from you. You can download a Book Proposal Form here.

We aim to be broad in scope, inclusive and welcoming of diverse voices and approaches, and to be a friendly and unpretentious place to publish. All proposals are independently reviewed. Please note that we make no charges to publish.

We take a deliberately broad approach to the topic of Ethics. In a sense, ethical questions, considerations and decisions can be said to underpin most, if not all, areas of human endeavour. As examples, we have published books dealing with:

• philosophical issues such as Religion and Faith, Morality, and Decision Making
  
• applied fields, such as Bioethics, Education, Built Environment, Data Science, Legal, Medical, and Business Ethics
  
• explorations in Psychology, Psychiatry, Counselling, and Childhood Studies
  
• current challenges, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, Climate Change, Food Security, Poverty, and Technology/AI
  
• discussions in Arts, Humanities and Social Science fields such as History, Society and Culture, Politics, and Literature
  

If in doubt about scope, please ask and we will give you an answer on likely suitability very quickly. 

Additionally, we have a number of 'Open Calls for Chapters' in edited collections including Statistics, Technology and AI, Critical Psychology and Psychiatry, and Socio-Technical Systems. You can see more information on our edited collections here.

We aim to build Ethics International Press into the world’s leading specialist academic publisher in Ethics and related fields. For more information about Ethics International Press, including current and forthcoming titles; our Advisory Board members; and our Notes for Authors, please view our website, at www.ethicspress.com.  

The books we select for publication are aimed at scholarly researchers, teachers, and students, worldwide. We publish in English. Ethics International Press was founded in Cambridge, UK in 1993.

Wednesday, May 24 and Thursday, May 25, 2023

Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Deadline for abstracts: Friday, December 2, 2022 at 11:59 p.m. GMT

With the support of the International Communication Association (ICA) Popular Media & Culture Division and Media Industry Studies Interest Group.

Proposal submission form: https://bit.ly/podcastprecon23

This, the first ever podcast studies ICA preconference, invites scholars to present, discuss and listen to a range of works focusing on podcasting as a cultural, aesthetic, and institutional communicative form. We aim to promote a broad, cross-field understanding of podcasting, one that is shaped by multiple forces and perspectives that go beyond the early notion of the medium as simply an extension of radio, and open the horizon to fruitful exchanges between media history research, sound studies, creative industries, journalism, platform studies, and more.

 Podcasting is a relatively young medium: It has been 20 years since the first audio file was distributed online via RSS (Really Simple Syndication) in 2003. Thanks to software developer Dave Winer’s innovation of media enclosures within RSS feeds, podcasting became an audio distribution form that greatly expanded the utility and popular excitement around Apple’s iPod in the first decade of the 21st century. While podcasting was initially leveraged by broadcast radio networks such as NPR and the BBC to asynchronously retransmit their content online, the key to the medium’s early identity and development was the explosion of amateur content production, thereby opening up the medium to new voices and perspectives, unhindered by the presence of institutional gatekeepers.

 The cultural significance of this medium has since been resonating through various corridors of communication, culture, and everyday life, and is evident in both the exponentially growing popularity of, and the scholarly attention given to, podcasting. As an audio medium, podcasting's familiar cultural anchor is radio. However, from its very inception podcasting has presented a combination of traits that straddle a range of old and new media practices: serialization and syndication (Durrani, Gotkin & Laughlin, 2015; Haugtvedt, 2017), portability and customization (Berry, 2006; Menduni, 2007; Spinelli and Dann, 2019), autonomous scheduling and binge-consumption (Stitcher, 2016), the simultaneous democratization and egalitarianism of cultural production alongside the centralization and industrialization of the field (Sullivan, 2019).

Based on an open architecture of RSS that cultivates a culture of entrepreneurism and aspirational labor (Sullivan, 2018), podcasts allow for new modes and workflows of production (Rime, Francombe & Collins 2022), as well as new styles of delivery and sound aesthetics (Copeland, 2018; Florini, 2015; McHugh, 2016; Salvati, 2015). These coincide with new modes of audience engagement (e.g. Perks & Turner 2018), digital activism (Fox & Ebada, 2022) and para-social relationships (Schlütz, D., & Hedder, 2021; Sharon & John, 2019), that thrive in an era of attention scarcity that privilege sight over hearing (Sterne, 2003), making podcasting a unique site of inquiry in the current social media landscape.

OBJECTIVE

This preconference seeks to bring together researchers and academic practitioners to explore questions such as: How can podcasts and podcasting be theorized? How can the study of podcasting enrich our knowledge of core issues of communication, both conceptually and methodologically? What types of content define the podcasting medium today and what does that signify? How can podcasts mediate complex topics and de-marginalize authentic, diverse voices? How do podcasts change our understanding of notions such as storytelling and narratives? What is the social economy of podcasting? How are major platform providers such as Spotify, SiriusXM, and iHeartMedia shifting the nature of podcast production, distribution, and consumption? What are the relationships between the practice of podcasting and the study of it?

We invite works that may address the wide range of subject areas relevant to the study of podcasts, including but not limited to:

• The state and future of podcast studies: Mapping the history of the field, theorizing what a podcast is, delineating the borders of podcast studies in relation to other media fields.
  
• The political economy of podcasting: Industry power and control; processes of consolidation, professionalization and platformization of podcasting; monetization and datafication of podcast listening; commercial aspects and advertising in podcasts; podcasting in the age of streaming platforms.
  
• Podcasting as a creative industry: The creative labor of podcasting; audience and production studies about podcast shows and communities.
  
• Non-human podcasts: Generative podcasts, robot hosts, and automated transcripts
  
• Podcasts diversities: The inclusive (and exclusive) nature of podcasts; diverse hosts and audiences; podcasting in the Global South; how podcasts amplify diverse perspectives; making podcasts more accessible; and more.
  
• Podcasts as audio archives: Who is in charge of institutional and informal podcast archives? Who are the gatekeepers of podcasts? How do we preserve human speech and sound, and according to which categories?
  
• Podcast studies methods: Analysis of podcast networks; models for studying podcast delivery modes; theorizing para-social relations between host and listener applying sound studies tools to research podcasts.
  
• Podcasts and journalism: Podcasts and the public sphere; long-form audio news
  
• Podcasts forms and new aural cultures: The rise of new audio genres, narrative and storytelling modes.
  
• Podcasts as academic avenues: Podcasting as a form of intellectual and scholarly engagement; peer review of and through podcasts.
  
• Podcasts as acoustic spaces

SUBMISSION AND SELECTION PROCESS

Given the auditory and often conversational nature of podcasting, this preconference welcomes several types of contributions:

Paper presentations (15 minute presentations)

Audio work presentations (15 minute presentations)

The audio work could be your own (completed or work-in-progress), or you might present the work of others (e.g. clips or sections from a published podcast) for listening and discussion.

Theme-centered podcast episode recording

Recording studios will be available to conduct podcast recordings related to podcast studies. Take advantage of this gathering of experts to get them into the studio! Studios can accommodate up to 6 participants including host(s) and include all necessary equipment. Recorded podcast episodes may be included in a special series of The Podcast Studies Podcast and/or you can release the recording as part of your own podcast if you have one. Technical support staff will be on hand to give you a quick overview of how to run the studio and to help if you run into problems.

Leading a roundtable discussion (of ~20 minutes)

In these roundtable sessions, attendees will participate in three 20-minute roundtable discussions. Attendees may choose to move from one table to another at the end of each 20 minute stretch, or may choose to stay at a particular table to continue to engage with the topic at hand. As a roundtable discussion leader, you would determine the specific theme/topic, summarize the context of the topic, and encourage discussion amongst participants at your table.

Workshops (of up to 90 minutes)

Other: something you want to propose that isn't captured in the categories above

For all submission types, the proposal format is a 500-word abstract (not including bibliography) submitted by Friday, December 2, 2022 at 11:59 p.m. GMT, through the preconference proposal form: https://bit.ly/podcastprecon23

Abstracts should include the main idea/argument, a short literature review and/or theoretical perspectives, and an explanation of the work’s contribution. Aiming to broaden the scholarly imagination through the concept and practice of podcasting, we welcome different delivery modes and approaches, including discussions of literature, historical perspectives, empirical works, critical listening, and other creative forms of academic contributions that can fit with one of the submission types.

Decisions on acceptance will be made by Tuesday, January 31, 2023.

In general, authors of accepted abstracts are expected to attend the preconference in person. However, while we are planning to stream the event, we are exploring options for remote presentation, under certain circumstances.

REGISTRATION FEE (TBC)

100 USD / for registered participants: speakers and attendees who are faculty members

50 USD / for students, and speakers and attendees with no employment

Fee includes: participation in the conference, two snack breaks per day and lunch for both days.

The preconference is open to both ICA members and non-members. Note that you may attend this preconference even if you are not attending the main ICA conference.

ORGANIZERS

Lori Beckstead, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University)

Kim Fox, The American University in Cairo

Nicholas John, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Tzlil Sharon, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

John Sullivan, Muhlenberg College

CONTACT INFORMATION

If you have any questions regarding this call for participation, feel free to reach out to our committee at podcastprecon23@gmail.com