European Communication Research and Education Association
Call for book chapters
Deadline: February 12, 2020
Edited by:
Dates
To be published by IGI Global, https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/4552
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Introduction
The contemporary world is characterized by the massive use of digital communication platforms and services that allow people to stay in touch with each other and their organizations. On the other hand, it is also a world with great challenges in terms of crisis, disaster and emergency situations, of various kinds: humanitarian, environmental, nuclear, political, economic, etc. In this scenario there are many challenges in the communication, prototyping, evaluation and development of digital support platforms and services in crisis, disaster and emergency contexts.
Thus, it is crucial to understand the role of digital platforms/services in the context of crisis, disaster and emergency situations. This can be done through a technological perspective, namely, through the design of digital service specifically designed for use in crisis, disaster and emergency situations. But also, through a communicational perspective, by understanding people's communication wishes and needs in these risky scenarios, as well as understanding the use of digital services/platforms such as online social networks (Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, etc.), in crisis, disaster and emergency situations.
This book will present recent studies on crisis, disaster and emergency situations in which digital technologies are considered as a key mediator. It will be a book that features multi and interdisciplinary research findings.
Objective
This book will publish a relevant set of studies on digital services / platforms in the context of crisis, disaster and emergency, which will be a reference for researchers and students in the field of communication, usability, engineering, social intervention and policy makers. It is intended that the different perspectives pointed out by researchers with distinct backgrounds can systematize the interdisciplinary knowledge about crisis, disaster and emergency themes. Combining this with the digital scope, the book will highlight the relevance of society’s digitization and its usefulness and contribution to the different phases and types of risk scenarios. Therefore, the publication of this book will constitute a reference to the researchers, but also, it will be a helpful tool to a large set of stakeholders – governments, local institutions, public corporations, etc. – who deal with crisis, disaster and emergency scenarios.
Target Audience
This book will be particularly useful to researchers, students and teachers of universities and technic schools working on fields such as Communication, Multimedia, Sociology, Political Science and Engineering. Also, professionals of services usability labs and digital Applications, policy makers, professionals of institutions of crisis, disaster and emergency scenarios management as well as professionals of crisis management companies will benefit from the knowledge collected in this book.Recommended Topics
Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on before February 12, 2020, a chapter proposal of 1,000 to 1,500 words, with title and keywords, clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors will be notified by February 26, 2020 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by June 11, 2020, and all interested authors must consult the guidelines for manuscript submissions at http://www.igi-global.com/publish/contributor-resources/before-you-write/ prior to submission. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.
Note: There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted to this book publication. All manuscripts are accepted based on a double-blind peer review editorial process.
All proposals should be submitted through the eEditorial Discovery®TM online submission manager.
Publisher
This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference," "Business Science Reference," and "Engineering Science Reference" imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2021.
Important Dates
September 25-26, 2020
National Research University ‘Higher School of Economics’, Moscow, Russian Federation
Deadline: February 15, 2020
This conference provides a forum for researchers who seek to analyze, challenge, and rethink the concepts of “platform imperialism” in the age of hybrid warfare.
Basically, we are interested in the exchange of opinions on the following issues:
(1)The distribution of global power in terms of the domination over the global platform market by the West (predominantly, the US: e.g., Google, Facebook, Youtube) and control over regional platform markets by China (Baidu, QQ, etc.), Russia (VK, Yandex, etc.), Korea (Cyworld), and so on.
(2) The possibility of the stabilization of meanings (the propaganda of specific power narratives) by means of controlling digital platforms and of increasingly digitized "legacy media""; the possibility of control over the production of knowledge in the interests of those controlling digital markets (global and regional); and social consequences of the stabilization of global and regional hegemonic configurations.
(3) The possibility of resistance to hegemonic narratives by means of information wars, their hybridization, the destabilization/schizophrenization of stable meanings, and social consequences of these destabilizing developments.
Finally, it would be interesting to consider the following question:
(4) Do we really live in the age of digital/platform imperialism, or should we characterize the current state of globalization in alternative terms?
All theoretical perspectives are welcome; case studies comparing the representation of issues across platforms would be of particular interest.
Keynote speakers:
The conference languages are English and Russian.
Abstracts of 250-300 words (excluding bibliography) of single papers should be sent by email as a Word document attachment to olga.baysha@colorado.edu .
Please include name, affiliation, email address and paper title in the body of the email.
Deadlines:
Queries about the conference and abstracts should be sent to Dr. Olga Baysha at olga.baysha@colorado.edu
May 27-29, 2020
University of Technology Sydney (UTS), School of Communication, Sydney, Australia
Deadline (extended): January 15, 2020
Keynote speakers: Barbie Zelizer, Hugo de Burgh, and Mark Deuze
ICJ2020 is an ICA post-conference. It aims to spur an engaged scholarly debate on how different cultures of journalism become distinctly visible across the world. Though journalism is usually taught and practiced through a traditional model developed in the West, the routines and conventions of journalism have distinctive meanings in the non-Western context. For an effective practice of journalism, there is a need to develop a model that will sit outside the long-established Western paradigm and reflect better national contexts. Therefore, this conference offers an international and intercultural environment for academics, researchers, journalists and postgraduate students to exchange and share research results and experiences about the various cultures of journalism.
The International Cultures of Journalism conference ICJ2020 aims to focus on how journalism is developing in different countries outside Western contexts. Traditionally journalism across the world has been taught and practiced through an Anglo/American apparatus, which has not necessarily been very useful for non-Western contexts. The reasons behind this include differing political, economic, technological, social, and ideological systems in various parts of the world, which make one model of journalism training and practice infeasible. Even journalistic linguistic structures offer an effective variant to journalism practices across the world.
This two-day conference aims to discuss these variants within different structures of journalism operation around the world, and addresses issues that are relevant, but not restricted, to the following questions:
The conference will include paper and panel presentations, with keynote speakers: Professor Barbie Zelizer, Professor Hugo de Burgh, and Professor Mark Deuze. You will have the chance to receive constructive and meaningful feedback from experts in the field, engage in academic debate and create connections with researchers with similar interests.
Submission:
https://www.uts.edu.au/icj2020
For any enquiries, please contact Professor Saba Bebawi (conference convener) or Oxana Onilov (conference organiser) at icj2020@uts.edu.au
Key dates
January 27 - February 6, 2020
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
Deadline: January 13, 2020
Digital Media Winter Institute has annually gathered a network of international researchers, with different backgrounds and expertise, interested in doing investigations from the perspective of digital methods. New media researchers, journalists, developers, data designers, digital methods experts, sociologists, data scientists and more are meeting in Lisbon to work and improve their skills, in theory, practice and critique of digital methods.
The program of #DMWI2020 brings the fourth edition of #SMARTDataSprint with an international program: keynotes and practical labs by Tommaso Venturini (médialab of Sciences Po Paris) and Bernhard Rieder (University of Amsterdam). His keynote talk and practical labs are going to explore visual network analysis. Rieder is an associate professor in New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam and a researcher at the Digital Methods Initiative. He will give a keynote on mapping value(s) in artificial intelligence (AI).
In the first week of DMWI, from 27 to 31 January 2020, participants from around the world will come to Lisbon to attend keynote lectures, short talks, parallel sessions of practical labs and join applied research projects. Experts and scholars will invite participants to work collectively on issues involving internet memes and platform censorship, Anti-Feminist and Anti-LGBT Discourses, Method maps and Cross-Platform Digital Networks. Other opportunities for hands-on experimentation with methods are on the schedule with the following practical labs:
To participate in the SMART Data Sprint 2020 is necessary to submit an application, until January 13, and pay the attendee fee. Also scheduled for the Digital Media Winter Institute 2020, from February 3 to 6, the workshop "Tracking, visualizing and accounting for the networks of (dis-)information with the web crawler Hyphe", taught by Mathieu Jacomy will be promoted. Jacomy is a techno-anthropologist at the University of Aalborg, TANTLab, a former researcher engineer at médialab of Sciences Po Paris and co-founder of Gephi software. The proposal of the workshop is to study and apply the Hyphe webcrawler and understand both information and misinformation issues on the web. Participation in the workshop also requires prior registration by January 20, 2020.
Application #SMARTDataSprint: http://bit.ly/SMARTdatasprint2020
Application deadline: January 13, 2020
Application Workshop Tracking, visualizing and accounting for the networks of (dis-)information with the web crawler Hyphe: http://bit.ly/DMWI-HypheWorkshop
Application deadline: January 20, 2020
Complete info: http://smart.inovamedialab.org
Special Issue of Brazilian Journalism Research
Deadline: January 31, 2020
Guest editors: Tania Cantrell Rosas-Moreno (Loyola University Maryland, US), Rita
Basílio de Simões (Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal), and Salvador de León Vázquez (Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, México)
This Special Issue of Brazilian Journalism Research will look at the relationship between journalism and trafficking. Trafficking is a rather complex phenomenon which comprises arms trafficking, drug trafficking and human trafficking. All three top the world’s criminal enterprises, with drug trafficking taking the number one slot, human trafficking taking third, and small arms following not too far behind. In great expansion, human trafficking umbrellas sex, labor, organ and child trafficking, or the illegal adoption of children. Trafficking is no respecter of persons; it can affect the young/old, rich/poor, educated/illiterate, Global North citizen/Global South citizen, etc.
Media – in particular news coverage – contribute toward shaping public understanding and opinion on societal issues. They also influence (inter)national policies, programs, and legislative action.
This special issue explores the range of ways that media, broadly construed, are connected with all facets of trafficking. How might media be influencing trafficking legislation? How might it be affecting victims? Perpetrators? What effect has journalism coverage of trafficking had on the crime? In what ways might media representations of trafficking be legitimating or challenging different kinds of power imbalances and social hierarchies based on gender, class or race?
Contributors may choose to look at different types of news media, i.e. newspapers, TV, radio, online, etc., and use quantitative and qualitative data. Submissions that are theoretical, empirical, critical, comparative or applied, and which represent a wide range of conceptual and methodological approaches relevant to a focus on media and domestic and/or transnational trafficking are welcome. While a comparative approach to journalism in the context of trafficking is not compulsory for inclusion, it is strongly encouraged.
Contributors are invited to focus on the following issues:
Journalism and:
To be considered, articles must be submitted by January 31 2020.The length of texts must be between 40 000 and 55 000 characters with spaces.
As the Brazilian Journalism Research publishes two versions of each article (Portuguese/Spanish and English), the authors of accepted papers submitted in Portuguese or Spanish must provide a translation into English. Likewise, the articles submitted and accepted in English must provide a translation into Portuguese or Spanish. A selected number of accepted papers from non-Portuguese or Spanish speaking contexts will be eligible for translation services provided by the journal.
Articles should be sent exclusively through the electronic system SEER / OJS, available from the journal website: http://bjr.sbpjor.org.br
If you have any questions, send an e-mail to bjr@gmail.com
Guidelines for authors: http://bjr.sbpjor.org.br/bjr/aboutsubmissions#authorGuidelines
March 12-13, 2020
Leipzig, Germany
Deadline: January 8, 2020
International Workshop
The Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA) in cooperation with the Institute of Oriental Studies, University of Leipzig is pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the international and interdisciplinary Workshop ‘Media Representations of Law and Justice: Middle Eastern Perspectives’ in Germany at the Institute of Oriental Studies, University of Leipzig, 12−13 March 2020.
Law and/in popular culture has been an emerging field of research (at least) since the 1980s. Its initial prominence was primarily limited to North America – the main hub of popular legal culture which, through various kinds of movies and television shows, impinged on what people generally believe about law and legal institutions. By now, the interrelation of law and popular culture has made its way into European legal academia. In addition, transnational comparative studies on how law and justice are portrayed in movies and fictional television dramas have been conducted, providing additional insight for both scholars of law and media studies.
At the same time, the law and/in popular culture discourse has been largely restricted to Europe and North America. Research usually centers on ‘Western’ legal culture and its cinematic/televised representations. Oftentimes, non-‘Western’ legal traditions and systems are only portrayed as supposed counter-examples to the liberal state under the rule of law that is promoted in dominant popular culture.
The AGYA workshop on ‘Media Representations of Law and Justice: Middle Eastern Perspectives’ moves away from this established regional focus by including Middle Eastern legal regimes and their respective local media depictions. We particularly invite contributions on Arabic-language cinematic and television formats (including those on more recent streaming services and social media sites) screening legal system in either contemporary or historical perspective. We also welcome papers on legal dramas from neighboring countries in the ‘Greater Middle East’, as well as comparative studies to allow for broader transnational perspectives. By enabling a conversation not only between different regional sites of media production, but also among various disciplines, a range of analytical methods will be tested and employed to analyze the means and ends to which a legal system is portrayed in popular formats.
Topics, themes, and issues to be explored include, but are not confined to the following:
The workshop is organized by AGYA member Lena-Maria Möller (Institute of Oriental Studies, University of Leipzig/Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg) and AGYA alumna Hanan Badr (Institute for Media and Communication Studies, Freie Universität Berlin). Travel costs and accommodation for confirmed speakers will be covered by AGYA. Funding is still subject to approval.
Those interested in presenting papers are invited to send a tentative title, an abstract of around 300-500 words, and a short biography to:
Lena-Maria Möller (moeller@mpipriv.de) by 8 January 2020.
Notifications of acceptance will be announced by 15 January 2020 and draft papers will be due by 15 February 2020. The workshop language will be English. The organizers aim to publish the papers either as an edited volume or as a special issue of an academic journal.
About AGYA
The Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA) is based at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) and at the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT) in Egypt. It was established in 2013 and is the first bilateral young academy worldwide. AGYA promotes research cooperation among outstanding early-career researchers from all disciplines who are affiliated with a research institution in Germany or in any Arab country. The academy supports the innovative projects of its members in various fields of research as well as in science policy and education. Currently, 50 members – in equal number Arab and German scholars – realize joint projects and initiatives. AGYA is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and various Arab cooperation partners.
For more information about AGYA and the Institute of Oriental Studies, University of Leipzig please visit:
www.agya.info
www.orient.uni-leipzig.de
March 19, 2020
Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway
Deadline: January 15, 2020
“There is a growing global consensus that the secrecy-havens—jurisdictions which undermine global standards for corporate and financial transparency—pose a global problem: they facilitate both money laundering and tax avoidance and evasion, contributing to crime and unacceptably high levels of global wealth inequality.” (Joseph E. Stiglitz and Mark Pieth)
Secrecy mechanisms and facilitators of illicit financial flows hamper public understanding of financial markets. As a result, cross border investigative journalism has become vital in order to build public understanding of the consequences of secrecy in financial markets. However, investigative journalists researching illicit financial flows face a number of challenges. We wish to explore what can be done to facilitate investigative journalism of illicit financial flows.
This is the fourth research conference in the series “Making Transparency Possible - Interdisciplinary dialogues”. The conference invites research papers for a special session on investigative journalism and hindrances and threats investigative journalists face when researching and revealing illicit financial flows.
Confirmed speakers:
Nicholas Lord is a Professor of Criminology. He joined the University of Manchester in September 2013 and teaches in the areas of white-collar and corporate crimes, financial and economic crimes, serious and organized crimes, and criminological research. Nicholas has primary research interests in white-collar and corporate crimes of a financial and economic nature, such as fraud, corruption and bribery, as well as the organization of serious crimes for financial gain, such as 'organized crime' and food fraud.
Tina Søreide is Professor of Law and Economics, NHH. Her research is focused on corruption, governance, markets and development, currently with an emphasis on law enforcement. At NHH, she teaches courses in business ethics, corruption and governance, coordinates a student mobility program in anti-corruption with schools in Ukraine and Georgia, and organizes a research program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement.
Kalle Moene is a Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Oslo. He is the head of ESOP (a center for the study of Equality, Social Organization, and Performance). His research interest is the study of inequality in income and wealth in rich and poor countries. A core interest is the role of economic development, institutions, unions and welfare states. He was a lead author in the International Panel of Social Progress. He has published widely in international journals and received the Fridtjof Nansen Prize for excellent research in 2016.
Bradley Birkenfeld is a whistle-blower and former international banker and wealth manager who worked with the Swiss investment bank UBS. UBS enabled wealthy Americans to hide wealth due to Switzerland’s banking secrecy laws and to avoid paying tax in the US. In 2007, Birkenfeld became a whistle-blower. He later obtained the largest whistle-blower reward ever given to an individual whistle-blower for reporting IRS Tax Fraud.
Simon Bendtsen is a Danish journalist with the newspaper Berlingske Tidende. Bendtsen helped expose the Danske Bank money laundering scandal. The bank is currently under investigation for channeling 234 billion dollars through an affiliate in Estonia.
Linda Larsson Kakuli and Axel Humlesjö investigated and helped revealed the so-called Sewdbank money laundering scandal for Uppdrag Granskning (Swedish SVT). The bank is currently under criminal investigation for channeling around 40 billion Swedish kroner through affiliates in Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia.
Ingi Freyr Vilhjálmsson is a journalist at Stundin, a media platform for investigative journalism financed through crowdfunding, subscriptions and public support. In 2019, Vilhjálmsson revealed how “an Icelandic fishing company bribed officials in Namibia and used Norway's largest bank to transfer 70 million dollars to a tax haven”.
Roar Østby, head of compliance in the Norwegian bank DnB.
Lars Erik Bolstad is a data scientist and expert on artificial intelligence in the Norwegian bank DnB.
Gunnar Holm Ringen is responsible for fraud prevention services and legal services in PwC Forensics Oslo and works extensively with accounting investigations. He has worked as a senior public prosecutor in the National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime (ØKOKRIM) and as a police inspector on the police force, and has extensive experience in the investigation, prosecution and litigation of serious cases related to most forms of financial irregularities. He has also been a district court judge.
The organizers seek paper presentations based on on-going research. We particularly welcome original, high-quality papers that can deepen our understanding of the following questions:
Other relevant topics are also welcome.
We have a limited number of scholarships available to cover direct costs for travel/hotel. Priority will be given to researchers from Latin America, Africa, The Middle East and Asia.
Abstracts and applications for scholarships have to be submitted before January 15th 2020. Please submit a one-page paper abstract together with a short CV of no more than two pages. Please send to conference@pwyp.no
The conference is organized by the research project Making Transparency Possible at Oslo Metropolitan University and financed by The Research Council of Norway.
May 1, 2020
University of Nottingham, UK
Deadline: February 14, 2020
https://digitalcultureconference.wordpress.com/
A one-day conference hosted by the Digital Culture Research Network, and supported by the Midlands4Cities DTP (M4C) Cohort Development Fund
The Digital Culture Research Network is pleased to open the call for papers for our third annual conference: ‘Digital⇌Culture 2020’.
This year’s theme of ‘Boundaries’ encompasses the varied means by which digital technologies challenge, perpetuate or instantiate margins and limits. Despite the potential to transform notions of accessibility, the embodied realities of digital culture are subject to geopolitical, cultural, or ethical limitations. Digital platforms create new avenues for self-representation, and the boundary between our digital selves and our embodied selves ‘IRL’ are becoming increasingly porous (if they were ever really separate at all). The public/private binary is blurred: these identities can be censored by the platform or the state, and have their data privacy violated. In the era of the “long tail,” concepts of cultural fringes or margins are becoming problematized and objects of academic study shun any designation as “high” or “low” culture. The field of digital cultures also presents new challenges to researchers’ ethical boundaries.
Submission
For this one-day conference, we invite researchers from a diverse range of disciplines, particularly those early in their careers, to present theoretical and empirical research related, but not limited, to the following topics:
In order to encourage proposals from doctoral researchers, up to 12 joint-travel/accommodation grants are available to be awarded to successful proposals. Further details below.
Submissions should follow the format below and be submitted to digitalcultureconference@gmail.com by 23:00 GMT on Friday 14th February 2020.
Funding
This year, we are pleased to offer the following grant opportunities:
A. 10 grants of one night’s accommodation and £50 towards travel
This grant is open to all doctoral applicants, but at least five of the grants are reserved for non-M4C-funded applicants based at one of the DTP’s eight institutions:
Those currently funded by M4C are not eligible to apply for this grant.
B. 2 grants of one night’s accommodation and £100 towards travel
These two grants are specifically reserved for international researchers in order to facilitate them with the higher cost of coming from abroad to present a paper at the conference.
Both grants will only be offered to doctoral students whose papers have been accepted for the conference.
If you wish to apply for a grant, please complete a Grant Application Form (available at http://bit.ly/digitalculturegrant) and submit it with your abstract. Grants will be awarded on the basis of the conference organising committee’s collective consideration of submitted applications.
May, 12, 2020
Palais du Pharo, Marseille, France
Submission Deadline: January 20, 2019
Website: https://www.clarin.eu/ParlaCLARIN-II
Submission page: will be communicated by December 20, 2019
Workshop Description
Parliamentary data is a major source of socially relevant content. It is available in ever larger quantities, is multilingual, accompanied by rich metadata, and has the distinguishing characteristic that it is spoken language produced in controlled circumstances which has traditionally been transcribed but is now increasingly released also in audio and video formats. All these factors require solutions related to structuring, synchronization, visualization, querying and analysis of parliamentary corpora. Furthermore, approaches to the exploitation of parliamentary corpora to their full extent also have to take into account the needs of researchers from vastly different Humanities and Social Sciences fields, such as political sciences, sociology, history, and psychology.
A successful first edition of the ParlaCLARIN scientific workshop held at LREC 2018 (https://www.clarin.eu/ParlaCLARIN) and a follow-up developmental ParlaFormat workshop held by CLARIN ERIC in 2019 (https://www.clarin.eu/event/2019/parlaformat-workshop) resulted in a good overview of the multitude of the existing parliamentary resources worldwide as well as tangible first steps towards better harmonization, interoperability and comparability of the resources and tools relevant for the study of parliamentary discussions and decisions.
The second ParlaCLARIN workshop therefore aims to bring together developers, curators and researchers of regional, national and international parliamentary debates that are suitable for research in disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences. We invite unpublished original work focusing on the compilation, annotation, visualisation and utilisation of parliamentary records as well as linking or comparing parliamentary records with other datasets of political discourse such as party manifestos, political speeches, political campaign debates, social media posts, etc. Apart from dissemination of the results, the workshop also aims to address the identified obstacles, discuss open issues and coordinate future efforts in this increasingly trans-national and cross-disciplinary community.
Due to the Freedom of Information Acts that are supported by the United Nations and set in place in over 100 countries worldwide, parliamentary debates are being increasingly easy to obtain, and have always been of interest to researchers from a wide range fields in Humanities and Social Sciences both for the potential influence of their content, and the specificities of the formalized, often persuasive and emotional language use in this context. As a consequence, there are many initiatives, on the national and international levels, that aim at compiling and analysing parliamentary data. The recent CLARIN-PLUS survey on parliamentary data has identified over 20 corpora of parliamentary records, with over half of them being available within the CLARIN infrastructure (https://www.clarin.eu/resource-families/parliamentary-corpora).
Given the maturity, variety, and potential of this type of language data as well as the rich metadata it is complemented with, it is urgent to gather researchers both from the side of those producing parliamentary corpora and making them available, those making use of them for linguistic, historical, political, sociological etc. research as well as those linking or comparing them with other datasets of political discourse such as party manifestos, political speeches, political campaign debates, social media posts, etc. in order to share methods and approaches of compiling, annotating and exploring parliamentary and other political language data in order to achieve harmonization of the compiled resources, and to ensure current and future comparability of research on national datasets as well as promote transnational analyses.
Topics of interest
Topics include but are not limited to:
Submission & Publication
We accept submission of long papers (up to 8 pages), short papers (up to 4 pages) and demo papers (up to 4 pages) to be presented as a long or short oral presentation at the workshop. The papers of the workshop will be published in online proceedings.
When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones). For contact data, stylesheets, up-to-date details on submission and the workshop itself, please consult the workshop website.
Submission page: will be communicated by 20 December 2019
Organizing Committee
The workshop is supported by the CLARIN research infrastructure.
To contact the organizers, please mail clarin@clarin.eu (Subject: [ParlaCLARIN@LREC2020]).
Programme Committee (in alphabetical order)
Identify, Describe and Share your LRs!
Describing your LRs in the LRE Map is now standard practice in the submission procedure of LREC (introduced in 2010 and adopted by other conferences). To continue the efforts initiated at LREC 2014 about “Sharing LRs” (data, tools, web-services, etc.), authors will have the possibility, when submitting a paper, to upload LRs in a special LREC repository. This effort of sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their description, may become a new “regular” feature for conferences in our field, thus contributing to creating a common repository where everyone can deposit and share data.
As scientific work requires accurate citations of referenced work so as to allow the community to understand the whole context and also replicate the experiments conducted by other researchers, LREC 2020 endorses the need to uniquely Identify LRs through the use of the International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN, www.islrn.org), a Persistent Unique Identifier to be assigned to each Language Resource. The assignment of ISLRNs to LRs cited in LREC papers will be offered at submission time.
University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Deadline: February 17, 2020
Website: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/472386
RESEARCH FIELD
RESEARCHER PROFILE
TYPE OF CONTRACT: Temporary
JOB STATUS: Full-time
HOURS PER WEEK: 37,5
OFFER STARTING DATE: 01/09/2020
The Department of Communication at Pompeu Fabra University has begun a selection process to cover a temporary contract of 5 years of full-time teaching for a professional with a teaching and research profile in Interactive Communication. Upon submitting the application, applicants must present proof of their PhD qualification as well as excellent research potential, with internationally disseminated publications, and the ability to teach and coordinate university teaching.
Financial conditions include a gross annual salary of approximately €38,000, plus initial funding of approximately €20,000 for research work.
Applicants must have a doctoral degree, preferably in one of the following areas of knowledge: audiovisual communication, information sciences, journalism, advertising and public relations or graphic design. If this qualification was obtained at UPF, candidates must demonstrate academic dissociation of 24 months from the date of obtaining the degree. Furthermore, additional postgraduate training in the field of ICT, Social Sciences and Humanities will be highly valued.
The candidate must have at least 3 years of experience in research related to Interactive Communication. Also, all of the experience of the candidates in teaching and output will be evaluated. Such research and output will be especially valued if it is related to:
The candidate must have a thorough command of the English language. In addition, knowledge of Spanish, Catalan or other languages will be positively valued.
Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) has adopted the tenure-track system to attract and retain talent. The tenure-track contract has a fixed term of five years. A year before the contract expires, the candidate will be evaluated by the Communication Department Teaching Staff Committee. If the evaluation is negative, the candidate will not be eligible to continue at the Department of Communication at UPF once their fifth year of the tenure-track contract has elapsed. However, if the evaluation is positive, the candidate may apply for a permanent position. Therefore, before the end of their tenure-track contract, the applicant must obtain accreditation from the Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency (AQU) to enable them to participate in the competition for a permanent position. Candidates can obtain further information on this procedure on the AQU website.
The evaluation criteria that will be applied to assess the candidate’s activity until their fourth year of the contract are:
Involvement in the running and management of the Department and/or the Dean’s office (participation on committees, etc.)
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