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  • 02.01.2020 12:20 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Proposal deadline (extended): February 1, 2020

    Co-editors:

    • Jessica M. F. Hughes, Assistant Professor, Millersville University, jessica.hughes@millersville.edu
    • Mariaelena Bartesaghi, Associate Professor, University of South Florida, mbartesaghi@usf.edu

    This is a call for an edited volume on Disability in Dialogue. We invite chapter proposals (1500-200 words) that employ discourse studies methodologies to analyze disabled dialogues and dialogues about disability for a volume of interest to dialogue, communication, disability and discourse scholars.

    Everyday dialogues are consequential. Spoken, written and digital discourse in conversations, public hearings, assessment measures, social media sites, organizational manuals, and institutional policies defines disabilities, grants certain bodyminds access, and excludes others. It is through dialogue as embodied inter-action that disability dis/appears and that disabled identities are constituted and that we experience ableism and manage impairment. Disability is also a way of knowing. Disabled dialogues realize our understanding of dis/ability and communication.

    As with ‘disability,’ there are many discourses of ‘dialogue.’ For us, ‘dialogue’ calls attention to interaction (whether face-to-face, digital, or temporally distant), asymmetries (of knowledge, status, access), dilemmas, tensions, problems, voices, and affective experience. Analyzing disability in dialogue is a method for theorizing these and other dimensions of discourse to account for disabled ways of knowing, thinking, perceiving, and being in the world.

    This collection was first conceived in light of the following questions. How might we center disabled perspectives to theorize dialogue? What sorts of ways of communicating does disability afford? How does disability shape dialogue and vice versa? What does it mean to identify as disabled, to claim an experience in terms of disability, to belong within a discourse, to access a diagnosis? How does the dis/appearance of disability rearrange the past, present, and future and redefine relationships and experiences? What kinds of moral accounts accompany disability in dialogue? What might be the power of dis/ability and what sort of power is it? How is ableism constituted in dialogue? What kinds of dialogic moments have the most potential to dismantle ableism and make the world a more inclusive place for all bodyminds?

    We invite chapters that raise these and other questions about disability in dialogue. Chapters should start by defining dialogue and then offer empirical analyses that pay close attention to spoken, written, and/or other semiotic forms that constitute dialogue, in order to guide us in an examination of the consequentiality of disabled dialogues and discourse about disability.

    Submission proposals are due February 1, 2020 and should include

    • Name(s), affiliation and contact information of author(s)
    • A 150 word bio
    • Chapter title
    • A 1500- 2000 word description of your proposed chapter plus references

    Notices of acceptance will be sent by March 31, 2020. Full chapters are due October 1, 2020.

  • 02.01.2020 12:14 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    April 29-30, 2020

    McGill University, Montreal

    Deadline: January 10, 2020

    Organized by

    • Jhessica Reia, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University
    • Will Straw, James McGill Professor of Urban Media Studies, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University

    Over the last decade, the study of the night has emerged as an international, interdisciplinary field of scholarly research. Historians, archaeologists, geographers, urbanists, economists and scholars of culture and literature have analyzed the night time of communities large and small, across a wide range of historical periods. The study of the night has expanded in tandem with new attention to the night on the part of city administrations, organizers of cultural events (like nuits blanches and museum nights) and activists fighting gentrification, systems of control and practices of harassment and exclusion which limit the “right to the night” of various populations.

    In this context of this new attention to the night, we invite proposals for an international conference, in English and French, on relationships between media and the night. We are open to papers focussing on old and new media, from any disciplinary perspective, and dealing with any historical period or geographical area. Possible topics may include (but are not limited to) the following:

    - The place of media consumption and circulation within the 24-hour cycle;

    - Formal and stylistic features of media treatments of the night;

    - Media constructions of the transgressive, marginal or identitarian night;

    - Specialized media directed at (or produced by) communities of the night;

    - The role of media forms (or platforms) in tracing itineraries of night-time activity;

    - Media tools to enhance the safety and accessibility of the night;

    - “Intermedial” dimensions of media’s relationship to the night (e.g., electric lighting and photography; late-night television and classic cinema, etc.);

    - The challenge of imagining “night” genres for 24-hour streaming services;

    - Archiving the night;

    - Pre-digital or digital practices of mapping the night;

    - Night, social media and data visualization;

    - Games, apps and night modes;

    - Night media and energy infrastructures.

    Proposals (with title) should be approximately 350 words, in French or English, and submitted by email to jhessica.reia@mcgill.ca by January 10, 2020. Please note that, while the organizers are unable to cover the travel and accommodation costs of participants, we will and will not charge a registration fee.

    https://theurbannight.com/

  • 02.01.2020 12:08 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    University of Minho (Portugal)

    International selection tender is open until 9th January 2019

    http://www.cecs.uminho.pt/en/concurso-para-investigador-doutorado/

    Project: AUDIRE – Audio Repository: saving sonic based memories (www.audire.pt)

    Place of work: Communication and Society Research Centre – University of Minho (Portugal)

    AUDIRE is a research project funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. It aims to create social awareness on the relevance of sound as a form of expression and to explore the innovative and creative potential of sound narratives. The working plan is organised into five main objectives:

    a) to develop a theory of sound as an essential support for human expression and as a source of knowledge;

    b) to understand how people recognise and value the acoustic environments;

    c) to construct a repository of open access sound contents;

    d) to create a virtual sound museum which can contribute to stimulate the creativity of emerging artists and at the same time preserve a kind of sound heritage, and

    e) to promote sound literacy based on a proposal of pedagogical activities.

    The research team is now recruiting a new researcher.

    Candidates should fit the following main requirements:

    1) to hold PhD in Communication Sciences;

    2) to be proficient in Portuguese and English;

    3) to present a portfolio of relevant works of technique and/or artistic production in the sound effect area.

    More details available here: http://www.cecs.uminho.pt/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/CTTI_144_19_ICS-IN.pdf

  • 26.12.2019 20:56 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Special Issue of Culture Machine

    Deadline: March 1, 2020

    Edited by Peter Jakobsson, Anne Kaun & Fredrik Stiernstedt

    We are seeking contributions for a special issue of Culture Machine – an international open-access journal of culture and theory – exploring Machine Intelligences in Context.

    Culture Machine is a series of experiments in culture and theory. Its aim is to seek out and promote scholarly work that engages provocatively with contemporary technical objects, processes and imaginaries from the North and South. Building on its open ended, non-instrumental, and exploratory approach to critical theory, Culture Machine calls for creative scholarship and research that contests globalizing technical narratives and their environmental logics of extraction.

    This special issue is a long overdue confrontation with the hype surrounding artificial intelligence. The supposed blessings that AI will bestow upon datafied societies, as well as the associated dangers, are now well-known both to the academic specialist and to the general public. Representatives from the tech sector and the world of politics claim that the fourth industrial revolution will be powered by AI and that AI will eventually become ubiquitous within politics, industry, culture and in everyday life. The impulse behind this special issue is to interrogate these prophesies a bit closer and to get a look behind the shiny surfaces of these new, often unseen technologies. Because it does seem that what AI actually promises, and most of all, what it actually delivers, is neither found in the realm of the fantastic nor the uncanny, and a lot of it is not even particularly new, intelligent or artificial.

    The task of this special issue is thus to provide a counter-narrative to the dominant accounts of AI. It is not a matter of debunking AI, of unmasking the ideological interests behind it or revealing its dirty algorithmic secrets, but of putting AI in its critical contexts beyond the technological sublime – ie. the myths surrounding current technological developments that are meant to inspire both awe and fantasies of control and mastery. By combining phenomena that do not normally go together, such as AI and intersectionality, this special issue seeks to un-familiarize the familiar and to make unexpected connections, while also exploring potential critical and more just futures. One question that seems particularly pertinent to ask is of the relations, substitutions and combinations of different forms of intelligence, both human and more than human, and to explore how these come together in different contexts. Contributions that employ critical perspectives from either the social sciences or the humanities are welcome, but we also invite and encourage experimental and transdisciplinary approaches, including contributions from the information sciences, software studies, and articles focused on case studies of AI with stakes for Latin America, Asia, and Africa.

    It is time to move past an understanding of AI that borders towards viewing it as a technological sublime. In order to do so we should analyse it as a broad phenomenon that questions the integration of machinic forms of intelligence in lived settings, particularly across the relations it is generating in the Global South.

    We welcome proposals that address, build upon and expand the following topics:

    • Critical interrogations of definitions and conceptualizations of intelligence(s)
    • Pluralities of machine intelligences
    • Sensory capacities and AI
    • The biopolitics and geopolitics of AI
    • Sex, gender and AI
    • Race and AI
    • Critical interrogations of AI narratives
    • Critical perspectives on AI sited in the Global South
    • Progressive regulation of AI

    Please submit a 500-word abstract and 2 page CV to peter.jakobsson@sh.se by 1 March 2020

    Timeline:

    • Submission of abstracts: 1 March 2020
    • Notification of acceptance: 20 March 2020
    • Submission of full papers: 1 September 2020
    • Peer Review: 15 November 2020
    • Revision: 15 December 2020
    • Publication: January 2021
  • 26.12.2019 20:54 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Fordham University

    The Gabelli School of Business at Fordham University welcomes applicants to fill an opening for an assistant professor position in the Communications and Media Management Area starting in the Fall 2020 Semester.

    ABOUT THE POSITION:

    We are looking for faculty with strong research and teaching potential in all areas of media management, with possible research specializations in any of the following areas (this list is not exhaustive, and we are open to other areas of research as well: digital media, media economics, media strategies, media product development, social media, audience behavior and metrics - as we have immediate teaching needs in these areas.

    Other areas may also include communication in international and organizational contexts.

    The ideal candidate will possess a Ph.D., but ABD candidates will also be considered. All candidates should be dedicated to excellence in teaching and research.

    We seek candidates who can teach undergraduate and graduate courses in one or more of the following: digital media, business of new media, and media strategy. Ability and expertise to teach courses in business communication and leadership communication is a definite plus.

    ABOUT THE AREA:

    Communications and Media Management Area includes scholars with experience and interest in the business of communication industries as well communication practices in business. We administer undergraduate majors and concentrations related to our field (Communications and Media Management, Digital Media and Technology) and we participate in interdisciplinary programs across campuses. We also offer MS in Media Management, and contribute to MS in Strategic Marketing Communications (online) as well as offer specialized classes to our MBA programs in the areas of media management and organizational communication. Our programs have a strong focus on international business.

    The Gabelli School of Business offers courses on two campuses, one at Lincoln Center in Manhattan and one in the Fordham section of the Bronx. Faculty will teach at our Rose Hill Campus located in the Bronx where our undergraduate program is based, and our Lincoln Center Campus in Manhattan which features our graduate program and recently launched undergraduate Digital Media and Technology program. Faculty can be assigned to either campus, or both.

    Fordham University is an independent, Catholic university in the Jesuit tradition and welcomes applications from men and women of all backgrounds. Fordham is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Women, people of color, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply. Consistent with our Jesuit tradition, we believe that cultural and intellectual diversity is central to the excellence of our academic program and strive to create an academic community and campus culture that attracts and facilitates the development of teacher-scholars. We are especially interested in candidates with substantive experience and commitment to teaching and mentoring students from a range of social, cultural, and economic backgrounds. Having a diverse and inclusive community is a key part of Fordham's Strategic Plan and emphasized in University President Fr. McShane's November 2016 Response to the Diversity Task Force.

    Fordham’s Gabelli School of Business is accredited by the AACSB. Hiring is subject to final budgetary approval.

    REQUIREMENTS:

    Applications should include:

    • a cover letter outlining your areas of research and teaching philosophy
    • a curriculum vitae
    • names and contact information for at least three references
    • a sample of scholarly work
    • evidence of teaching effectiveness.

    For questions about this position, please contact the Area Chair, Bozena Mierzejewska at bmierzejewska@fordham.edu.

    Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. We encourage early submission as decisions will be made once suitable candidates have been identified. We will no longer view applications after January 31, 2020.

    To apply, applicants should go to https://apply.interfolio.com/72576, click "Apply Now", enter your name, email, and create a password, at which point you will be immediately dropped in the application.

  • 26.12.2019 20:43 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Deadline: February 12, 2020

    We would like to invite all of you with research interests on the areas listed below to submit your work for consideration to be publish in the forthcoming book “Digital Services in Crisis, Disaster, and Emergency Situations”. We are asking for an abstract up to 1000/1500 words in English, until 12 february 2020.

    Topics of interest:

    • Digital services in Crisis, Disaster and Emergency planning
    • Digital services in Crisis, Disaster and Emergency prevention
    • Digital services in Crisis, Disaster and Emergency preparedness and mitigation
    • Digital services in Crisis, Disaster and Emergency response and public policy
    • Digital services in environmental Crisis, Disaster and Emergency
    • Digital services in humanitarian Crisis, Disaster and Emergency
    • Digital services in political Crisis and Emergency
    • Digital services in nuclear Crisis, Disaster and Emergency
    • Digital services in Resilience and social capital evaluation in Crisis, Disaster and Emergency situations
    • Digital services Social vulnerability and resiliency in Crisis, Disaster and Emergency situations
    • Instructional communication in Crisis, Disaster and Emergency situations
    • Other topics related to digital services in the context of Crisis, Disaster and Emergency Situations

    Please visit https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/4552 for more details regarding this publication and to submit your work.

    Thank you very much for your consideration of this invitation, and I hope to hear from you by 12 February 2020!

    Lídia Oliveira, Federico Tajariol and Liliana Gonçalves (“Digital Services in Crisis, Disaster, and Emergency Situations” Editors)

  • 26.12.2019 20:40 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    April 30–May 2, 2020

    University of Oregon Portland 

    Deadline (extended): January 24, 2020

    whatis.uoregon.edu

    What is Information? (2020) will investigate conceptualizations and implementations of information via material, representational, and hybrid frames. The conference-experience will consider information and its transformational effects and affects—from documents to data; from facts and fictions to pattern recognition; from physical information to differential equations; and from volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity to collective intelligence and wisdom.

    The tenth annual What is…? examines tapestries, temperaments, and topologies of information lenses and practices—including—social and technical, mathematical and semantic, physical and biological, economic and political, cultural and environmental information. Information can thus be understood as physical, for instruction, and about epistemic systems.

    Scholars, government and community officials, industry professionals, scientists, artists, students, filmmakers, grassroots community organizations, and the public are invited to collaborate. We welcome submissions for papers, panels, roundtables and installations.

    Presentations / panels / installations may include the following topics (as well as others):

    • What is information? Is it synonymous with data? What distinguishes information from knowledge and wisdom?
    • What is truth, misinformation, or disinformation? Is information material/concrete, symbolic/abstract, or both?
    • What are information science and information art? What are relationships between STEAM+ and ICT?
    • How are the natural sciences and information sciences continuing to converge (e.g. bioinformatics, bioinspiration)?
    • How do quantum computers differ from binary computers? What are the scales and speeds between bits & qubits?
    • Is information at the core of music, architecture, design, craft, and/or science and technology studies?
    • Is biology itself information or only a representation? What are data science, cultural analytics & visualization?
    • How are informatics enhancing medicine and the environment via regenerative systems?
    • What is the philosophy of information? What are information literacy, ethics, education, & aesthetics?
    • What are networks? What are relationships between information, technology/media, and communication?
    • What are information ecologies, information environments, and how do/can they facilitate public good?
    • What is political economy of information? How do information and socio-cultural factors æffect each other?
    • What are current approaches to the study of information professions, audiences, and psychology?
    • How does information highlight gender, race, indigenous, and/or global environmental concerns?
    • How can contemplation, empathy, kindness, and/or responsibility be studied via information?
    • What are patterns of digital divides? What comes after an era of meta-data, post-truth, and pattern recognition?
    • What are data-mining, threat detection, and privacy in a cyber-physical defense and cybersecurity age?
    • Can AI, machine learning, and/or MR help us to adapt to the ever-changing transdisciplinary landscape?
    • What laws/regulations/policies are appropriate for information? How are information and value(s) related?

    Send 150–200 word abstracts for papers / panels / installations by JANUARY 24, 2020 to: Janet Wasko (jwasko@uoregon.edu)

  • 26.12.2019 20:29 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Edited by Daniel Jackson, Einar Thorsen, Darren Lilleker and Nathalie Weidhase

    Featuring 85 contributions from over 100 leading academics and emerging scholars, this free publication captures the immediate thoughts, reflections and early research insights on the 2019 UK General Election from the cutting edge of media and politics research.

    Published just 10 days after the election, these contributions are short and accessible. Authors provide authoritative analysis of the campaign, including research findings or new theoretical insights; to bring readers original ways of understanding the election and its consequences. Contributions also bring a rich range of disciplinary influences, from political science to cultural studies, journalism studies to geography.

    The publication is available as a free downloadable PDF, as a website and as a paperback report.

    Website URL: http://www.electionanalysis.uk

    Direct PDF download: http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/33165/7/UKElectionAnalysis2019_Jackson-Thorsen-Lilleker-and-Weidhase_v1.pdf

    Thanks to all of our contributors and production staff who helped make the quick turnaround possible. We hope it makes for a vibrant and engaging read!

  • 26.12.2019 20:27 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    ECREA European Communication Conference 2020

    October 2-5, 2020

    Braga, Portugal

    Deadline: January 7, 2020

    The Local and Community Media Network is calling for proposals for a panel submission to the 8th European Communication Conference on the theme of ‘Communication and trust; building safe, sustainable and promising futures’ to be held in Braga, Portugal, October 2 - 5 2020.

    Focussing specifically on ‘Trust and sustainable communities: Current Trends in Local Media’, the panel would like to capture the range of approaches which underpin the many interventions in the local news landscape globally. Up to five papers can be included.

    Papers which address both practice-based projects and theoretical reflections on local media, content, production and environment (including business and policy environments) and cultural and social contexts in relation to diverse communities are particularly welcome.

    In order to comply with the ECREA guidelines, individual abstracts of 500 words can be submitted. Abstract titles are limited to 30 words. All abstracts must be written in English and up to 10 authors can be included. The presenting author must be listed first and only one author can be nominated as the presenting author.

    Please send your abstract in the first instance to Dr Rachel Matthews at Coventry University, r.matthews@coventry.ac.uk. The deadline for submission has been extended slightly to January 7, 2020, This will enable the Network Committee to peer review contributions ahead of the ECREA deadline in mid-January.

    The October conference is organised by the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) and the University of Minho. For more information follow the link here: http://www.ecrea2020braga.eu/2019/10/09/http-www-ecrea2020braga-eu-call-for-papers/

    Information on the MeCCSA LCM Network is available here: https://www.meccsa.org.uk/networks/local-and-community-media-network/

  • 26.12.2019 20:20 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    NY, Ithaca

    Education - Dean/Senior Education

    Deadline: January 28, 2020

    Ithaca College invites nominations and applications for the next dean of the Roy H. Park School of Communications (the Park School). The Park School is widely acknowledged as a leader in communications education, having begun offering courses in radio in the 1930s and currently offering a comprehensive array of 10 undergraduate majors that span the applications of media, as well as professional low-residency/online master’s degrees with an overall enrollment of over 1,800. The school has also recently partnered with the School of Business and the School of Music to develop an M.B.A. in Entertainment and Media Management. Student success is supported by faculty who are active scholars and media creators, professional advisors and career development coordinators, and technical support for over $20 million of studio and portable media gear and studios. Donors have given generously over the years to help create a number of unique opportunities for Park School students, faculty and alumni, including the Park Scholar Program, the Park Center for Independent Media, the John Keshishoglou Center for Global Communications Innovation and the Jessica Savitch Endowed Programs, among others.

    The next dean will be expected to address a number of key leadership opportunities, including: shaping a vision for the future; fostering interdisciplinary experiences; building an inclusive culture and enhancing diversity; evaluating academic offerings; supporting co-curricular learning; and engaging outside of campus. The successful candidate should have a proven record of leadership, the ability to support the range of communications disciplines found within the school and a strong understanding of the future of the field of communications.

    Ithaca College (IC) provides a rigorous education blending liberal arts and professional programs of study. Learning at IC extends beyond the classroom to encompass a broad range of residential, professional and co-curricular opportunities. The college was founded in 1892 as Ithaca Conservatory of Music with roots in theory, practice and performance. Today it is known as a largely undergraduate institution with a liberal arts core that is fueled by the power of practice and professional education. Faculty members at Ithaca College are deeply committed to the education and development of their students and invest the time and energy to mentor and advise them. Ithaca College is committed to creating an inclusive environment and attracting a diverse body of students, faculty and staff. All members of the college community are encouraged to achieve excellence in their chosen fields and to share the responsibilities of citizenship and service in the global community. The college recently completed a strategic plan – Ithaca Forever – to guide the institution into the future.

    Applications and nominations should be received by January 28, 2020 to ensure full consideration. Candidates should submit a resume or CV and cover letter in response to the opportunities and expectations described within the leadership profile.

    All materials should be sent electronically via e-mail to Ithaca College’s consultants, Ryan Crawford and Rachel Bieniek, to IthacaDeanComm@wittkieffer.com. The consultants can be reached through the desk of Marietta DeMauro, executive search coordinator, at 630-575-6975.

    Ithaca College values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity for all persons regardless of age, color, disability, ethnicity, marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other status protected by law.

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