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I am pleased to invite you to the next in the series of IPRA Thought Leadership webinars. The webinar Japan digital PR best practices: how to run hybrid media relations will be presented by Kazuko Kotaki on Thursday 8 June 2022 at 12.00 GMT/UCT (unadjusted).

What is the webinar content?

Explore hands-on learnings and insights on how corporate communications have evolved in the hybrid world resulting from a three-year-long virtual media relations. The webinar will share practical knowledge on what works and why, based on Kazuko’s global media and agency client experiences from both Japan and around the world.

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 Kazuko Kotaki

Kazuko is Associate Director, Corporate at Edelman Japan. She is a passionate public relations veteran with over 20 years of experience in consulting, media relations, and narrative development focusing on communications in the STEM field. She joined Edelman in 2022 to provide business communications counsel to the world’s top brands and most critical communication needs. 

Contact

International Public Relations Association Secretariat

United Kingdom

secgen@ipra.org

Telephone +44 1634 818308

November 15-17, 2023 

TU Dresden, Germany, hosted by the Chair of Digital Cultures

Submission deadline: 14 July 2023

Format: in-person presentations

Confirmed keynote speaker: 

Dr Iván Chaar-López, University of Texas Austin 

The conference is organized in collaboration between the Chair of Digital Cultures at TU Dresden, Germany, and the Department of Media and Communications at The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK. The event is funded by the Internationalization Strategy of TU Dresden and the LSE Global Research Fund. 

Organizing team:

Dr Michelle Pfeifer (TU Dresden): michelle.pfeifer1@tu-dresden.de 

Dr Philipp Seuferling (LSE): p.seuferling@lse.ac.uk 

The buzzword “smart borders” commonly captures the widespread digitalization and automation of migration control and the expansion of racial capitalist security regimes by technological means. Yet, the term describes only the most recent instance of media technologies constituting and enabling state bordering. While states around the world rely on and invest in ever newer “smart” technologies to control migration, these developments stand in longer historical continuities, not least hailing from projects of mobility and population control of colonialism, racism, eugenics, or carceral regimes (Chaar-López, 2019; Weitzberg, 2020; Pfeifer, 2021; Leurs & Seuferling, 2022; Tazzioli, 2023). 

This conference aims to address the international research field on temporalities and histories of smart borders, to trace genealogies and longue durées of media, communication, and information technologies in the control of borders and migration. Such histories can be traced on different levels: materialities of media technologies, uses and practices around them, struggles against bordering tactics and technologies, as well as socio-technical imaginaries of what these technologies can and cannot do – all of which are characterized by continuities and change. While media shape borders across time, media technologies are also shaped by and emerge from projects of bordering. In this sense, borders can be better understood by attending to their media, and vice versa, media histories more generally can be explored at the border – a “technological testing ground” (Molnar, 2022) historically and today. 

Questions guiding the conference are: 

How can we understand histories of the “smart border” within histories of media technology and digitalization, as well as within histories of territorialization, biopolitics, racial capitalism, colonialism, and bordered states? How are technological innovation as well as processes of digitalization and computation historically tested, developed, and trialed in the context of border and migration control?How has the entanglement of media technologies with borders evolved over time?How can historical perspectives on smart borders advance critiques of violence and discrimination enacted by smart border regimes today?  

We explicitly welcome papers that engage with queer, feminist, decolonial, postcolonial, abolitionist, and critical race perspectives on the histories of mediated bordering.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Theoretical perspectives on “smart borders” across time Methodological approaches to historicizing “smart borders” Histories of digitalization and automation, in contexts of mobility, migration, and border controlStudies of historical empirical contexts of mediated borders Histories of border and technological regulation, policy-making, and law The role of risk, uncertainty, and security in genealogies of border and migration controlGenealogies of datafication of people on the moveHistories of biometrics, surveillance, policing, and carceralityMediated containment, surveillance, and control of people on the move, mobility, and movement concerning imperatives of digitalization, automation, and artificial intelligenceHistories of struggles against and contestations of “smart border” regimes 

Submission guidelines:

Submissions should include an abstract (300-400 words), as well as a short biographical note (100-150 words). Please use this form: https://forms.office.com/e/fmhfvNQE5T 

The submission deadline is 14 July 2023. We plan to notify applicants about proposal acceptance by 4 August 2023. 

Funding will be available to support travel and accommodation of invited speakers. Please note whether you need financial assistance in the submission form. 

August 28 - September 1, 2023

Bruxelles, Belgium

Apply here: https://pomilioblumm.eu/en/summer-school-maastricht-university

Have you ever tried to communicate your ideas to a large target audience such as European citizens? Did you find the language barrier or cultural diversity challenging? Maastricht University in collaboration with Pomilio Blumm has designed a summer school course for you.

With a multitude of domestic and international issues that Europe is facing today, there is an increased need for imaginative ideas and innovative strategy. Even the most visionary plan is likely to fail if it is not paired with a compelling and effective public communication strategy. How we "sell" our ideas is essential, especially when the stakes are high and the audience is as diverse and demanding as the citizens of Europe.

This summer school is designed to show how to develop a comprehensive public communication strategy at the EU level. During five days of lectures and problem-based learning sessions, the participants will be introduced to the entire process of narrative building, from receiving a brief and designing creative, content-related strategic solutions to their implementation. You will be introduced to different analytical tools and theories coming from human and social sciences (social psychology, semiotics, sociology, history) that can contribute greatly to designing the best strategy to reach your objectives. The peculiarities of the citizens-institutions relationship will be analysed, as well as the importance of building trust.

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to inform that CHANSE (Collaboration of Humanities and Social Sciences in Europe) consortium in collaboration with HERA (The Humanities in the European Research Area) and NORFACE (The New Opportunities for Research Funding Agency Cooperation in Europe)  Networks announce calls for international research projects in the following themes: 

• Crisis - Perspectives from the Humanities ­– organised jointly by CHANSE and HERA
  
• Enhancing well-being for the future – organised jointly by CHANSE and NORFCE
  

Information about the calls:

The detailed calls description is available here:

Crisis - Perspectives from the Humanities – announcement

Enhancing well-being for the future –announcement

Project team:

Composed of at least four and maximum six Principal Investigators, i.e. partners, eligible to receive funding from the CHANSE and HERA/NORFACE funding organisations from four or more different countries participating in the call

Project duration: 24-36 months

Cap on funding for one international project: 1 500 000 EUR (across all partners) 

Calls timeline:

• Official calls announcement and launch of the submission system: May 26th, 2023
  
• Deadline for outline proposals: September 21st, 2023, 14.00 CET
  
• Deadline for invited full proposals: March 26th 2024, 14.00 CET
  
• Call results: October/November 2024
  
• Earliest funded project start: December 2024/March 2025

Countries participating in the calls:

Crisis - Perspectives from the Humanities : Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Enhancing well-being for the future: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, France, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom

PARTNER SEARCH TOOL:

In order to facilitate the process of forming research consortia, we offer applicants a partner search tool available here: https://www2.ncn.gov.pl/partners/chanse/. This tool can be used by projects looking for partners and partners looking for projects.  

Contact:

Call Crisis - Perspectives from the Humanities: crisis@ncn.gov.pl

Call Enhancing well-being for the future: wellbeing@ncn.gov.pl

We would appreciate disseminating the news through your online channels. 

Please find the Calls leaflets prepared for that purpose attached to this email.

Detailed information about the Calls can be also found at:

https://chanse.org/announcement-of-the-new-calls-for-transnational-research-projects-crisis-and-well-being/

https://chanse.org/

Twitter: EUCHANSE

Facebook: Chanse - Collaboration of Humanities and Social Sciences in Europe

Linkedin: CHANSE, Collaboration of Humanities and Social Sciences in Europe

Edited By: Heritiana Ranaivoson, Sally Broughton Micova, Tim Raats

ECREA Members can get a 20% discount using the SMA34 code until the end of June: https://www.routledge.com/European-Audiovisual-Policy-in-Transition/Ranaivoson-Micova-Raats/p/book/9781032184487

This book describes and critically addresses the innovations and shifts made in the revision of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD) adopted by the European Parliament and Council in 2018. Reflecting on European Union regulation and policy practice in all its Member States, the book’s unique approach places in-depth case study topics against the broader theoretical background.

Taking a Europe-wide angle, an international team of authors focuses on key aspects of the AVMSD: the expansion of its scope to include video-sharing-platforms such as YouTube; the update of the rules for commercial communications; the first attempt for harmonized, minimal requirements at EU level regarding transparency of media ownership; new rules to ensure that video-on-demand services offer, invest in, and prioritise European content; the obligation on television distributors and smart TV manufacturers to pass on broadcasters’ signal without any interference, alteration or modification; and, the formalisation and consolidation of new forms of collaboration among national regulatory authorities.

This thorough analysis of the cornerstone of European media policy makes this edited collection a crucial reference for scholars and students of media and cultural industries, media law and policy, European and EU media policy, and technology studies.

Aarhus University, Denmark

Apply here: https://au.career.emply.com/ad/professor-at-the-centre-for-educational-development-aarhus-university-denmark/rpisxi/en

The Centre for Educational Development (CED) at Aarhus University invites applications for a position as professor in university teaching and learning. The professorship is a permanent position beginning 1 March 2024 or as soon as possible. The place of employment is Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.

About the Centre for Educational Development (CED)

The mission of the Centre for Educational Development is to inspire engaging teaching and excellent educations at Aarhus University. We offer teachers, academic staff, coordinators, directors, and executives at Aarhus University practical partnership, collaboration, and help concerning their ongoing teaching tasks and competencies. Furthermore, we ambitiously strive for the highest international level through applied research in university teaching and learning. We contribute to development projects and experiments in the fields of digitalization and learning technologies at universities, university teaching and program development.

CED employs almost 60 colleagues organized into three departments specialized in digital development, teaching development, and program development, respectively, plus a small administration. We have a good collegial atmosphere characterized by a high degree of professionalism, collaboration and the opportunity for continuous professional development. We value inquiry, co-creation, empowerment, and expertise.

The research group at CED works within and across the three departments. The group comprises five associate professors, three to five postdocs, and three PhD-students. The group focus on high quality applied research. The current topics of interest in the group include student learning, transitions and career, teacher development and educational leadership, health sciences education research, digitalization and learning technology in higher education. We come from a wide range of research methods and theoretical frameworks.

The centre management group consist of centre director Anne Mette Morcke, department leads Anders Hyldig (Digital Development), Liza Strandgaard (Teaching Development), and Tina Bering Keiding (Program Development).

For a more detailed description of CED, please, visit our website.

About the positions as professor at CED

As the professor of university teaching and learning at CED, we expect you to take on leadership responsibilities and strategically develop the research field. The successful applicant can develop externally funded research in collaboration with international partners. We expect you to be a dedicated outgoing ambassador for CED, contributing significantly to the centre’s continuous collaboration with educational leaders. We expect you to take on a leading role in the cross-departmental research group and undertake supervision of junior researchers.

The position does not include personnel management, but you are an active member of the centre management group and can also foresee participating in administrative and organisational tasks. Finally, we expect you to participate in CEDs day-to-day-activities (like curriculum development, course leadership, and the practical running of courses, seminars, and workshops for teachers at Aarhus University). 

The responsibilities of the professor at CED

Your primary responsibilities are to

• lead the cross-departmental research group at CED
  
• participate in the centre management group (but no personnel management)
  
• develop the field of applied research in university teaching and learning at international level
  
• attract external funding
  
• supervise younger research colleagues at CED
  
• teach and lead courses in university teaching and learning at Aarhus University and in Denmark
  
• contribute to and lead relevant development and implementation projects from CED
  
• give advice and offer consultations concerning higher education, teaching and learning at Aarhus University and relevant councils and committees nationally and internationally

Qualifications and competences

You have

• a track record of internationally recognised research in higher education
  
• a strong international research network
  
• a portfolio of externally funded research grants
  
• research leadership experience and project management skills
  
• experience with supervision of younger research colleagues
  
• comprehensive experience in teaching and developing courses for faculty
  

You can

• participate in a small, divers, and well-functioning centre management group
  
• collaborate respectfully and professionally with educational leaders at Aarhus University
  
• represent CED in relevant national and international fora
  
• lead development and implementation projects in higher education
  

You are a person who

• thrives on complex processes with multiple agendas and stakeholders
  
• accepts that admin and organizational management is a part of the job
  
• keeps a cool head and high spirits when things are not going as planned
  
• would like to learn Danish (if you are not already speaking a Scandinavian language)
  

Conditions and place of employment

The professorship is a full-time permanent position from 1 March 2024 or as soon as possible.

The successful applicant will refer to centre director Anne Mette Mørcke.

Place of employment is Trøjborgvej 82-84, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.

Non-Scandinavian speaking candidates must acquire the necessary basic Danish language skills within a short period of time (2 years).

Further information on the appointment procedure can be found in the Ministerial Order on the Appointment of Academic Staff at Universities.

The appointment is in accordance with the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations (Akademikerne).

Further information on qualification requirements and job description can be found in the Ministerial Order on Job Structure for Academic Staff at Universities.

International applicant?

Denmark is a great place to live. We are world class at work-life balance and attractive working conditions. Equality and trust is high, crime is low. English is our second language. Aarhus is a wonderful, safe, happy, young and vibrant town. Aarhus University ranks in top 100.

Aarhus University offers a broad variety of services for international researchers and accompanying families, including relocation service and career counselling to expat partners. At CED, we truly welcome international candidates for this position.

Please find more information about entering and working in Denmark on Research at AU.

The hiring process

We encourage diverse research and teaching backgrounds and the position is therefore not limited to for example a degree in education or Arts. We acknowledge that other pathways can be relevant.

In connection with your motivated written application, you must attach your

• CV
  
• documentation for the PhD degree
  
• listed publication overview and selected publications for assessment (max 3)
  
• suggested research plan covering the first two years at CED (max 3 pages)
  
• documentation for attracting external funding as primary investigator
  
• experiences with supervising and assessing junior researchers (PhDs and postdocs)
  
• description of experiences in leadership and management
  
• teaching portfolio (max 3 pages)
  
• documentation of participation in teaching courses
  
• a short teaching statement (or your teaching philosophy)
  
• and - if relevant - examples of leading development projects (max 3 pages)
  

We use shortlisting in the hiring process lead by the centre director and head of assessment committee. In this shortlisting process, we exclude applicants that clearly do not match the described position. Applicants that are not shortlisted will not receive a full assessment. After the shortlisting process, an assessment committee with international participation gives their written summary concerning each of the shortlisted applicants. Based on these summaries of qualifications, an employment committee of future colleagues and the centre director invites the most qualified 3-4 applicants for an interview. If necessary, the employment committee can invite 1-2 applicants to a second interview round before making the final decision and offer.

Applications must be made in English.

Interviews are expected to take place in the period 4 – 15 December 2023.

Aarhus University’s ambition is to be an attractive and inspiring workplace for all and to foster a culture in which each individual has opportunities to thrive, achieve and develop. We view equality and diversity as assets, and we welcome all applicants.

The application must be submitted via Aarhus University’s recruitment system, which can be accessed under the job advertisement on Aarhus University's website.

Aarhus University

Aarhus University is an academically diverse and research-intensive university with a strong commitment to high-quality research and education and the development of society nationally and globally. The university offers an inspiring research and teaching environment to its 38,000 students (FTEs) and 8,300 employees, and has an annual revenues of EUR 935 million. Learn more at www.international.au.dk/

October 12, 2023

Online

Deadline: June 2, 2023

We invite you to submit an abstract for our upcoming conference, taking place online on 12 October 2023. Deadline for applications is 2 June 2023.

More info: https://ecrea.eu/event-5219347 

This one-day conference seeks to explore the methods we use and approaches we take for understanding media and cultural production in the contemporary moment. The field of media production research has been growing rapidly over the last decades, as more and more researchers see the gains from studying the ‘backends’ of the media and cultural industries. At the same time, new challenges arise due to rapid shifts in the media and cultural industries, as well as forms and practices of media and cultural production and distribution. A sectoral shift in the media and cultural industries has introduced new actors, as well as new questions, theoretical impulses, empirical objects, and research tools and practices.

This conference explores many of the contemporary challenges to understanding the nature of media and cultural production by focusing on the research process, rather than the research findings. In doing so, we hope to encourage researchers to push the boundaries of production research, share useful research designs, as well as challenging moments and failed experiments, that we can still learn from.

We also have two excellent keynote addresses:

• Epistemic crossroads – towards digital communication system analysis? Signe Sophus Lai & Sofie Flensburg, University of Copenhagen
  
• Analysing Cultural Platforms: Interfaces, Infrastructures, Recommender Systems.  David Hesmondhalgh, University of Leeds
  

We invite scholars to present short papers or provocations on methods and methodology in the field of media and cultural production research. The presentations can reflect on one’s own research designs and methodologies, as well as on broader issues such as developing novel methods and approaches in the field, or conceptual and theoretical discussions on the practice of studying media and cultural production in recent years.

To apply

Submit a 150-300-word abstract (excluding references) and a 100-word bio for each speaker (including email address and affiliation). In your submission, please indicate whether you are applying for a 15-minute presentation or a 7-minute provocation.

Please send your proposal to Vilde Schanke Sundet at v.s.sundet@media.uio.no.

Costs

This online conference will be free of charge.

Deadline for submission

Deadline for submission: 2 June 2023. Decisions will be communicated no later than mid-August.

Media & Jornalismo

The Scopus indexed Media & Jornalismo receives articles in continuous flow and accepts proposals for the organization of special issues.

Media & Jornalismo, an internationally recognized and Portuguese pioneer journal in the field of Media and Journalism Studies (indexed in Scopus and ERIH Plus), invites the international scientific community to submit articles that fall within the thematic scope of the journal and to submit proposals for the organization of special issues. 

This call for papers and proposals for thematic issues is related to the editorial changes that Media & Journalism is implementing and that will come into full force in 2024: 

1) From the second semester of 2023 onwards, the submission of articles will happen in continuous flow, all year round. This measure aims to privilege the heterogeneity of themes, responding to a need to cover the most salient academic and scientific issues at a given moment, in the disciplinary field of communication sciences.

2) From 2024, the continuous flow modality is now accompanied by the online first publishing policy, thus reducing the waiting times for publication of the different articles that overcome the double-blind peer review and ensuring the timely dissemination of the critical findings generated that are so important for the systematic accumulation of knowledge in the discipline of communication sciences. Articles published in the online first publishing modality will continue to integrate the Scopus database (in which the journal is indexed) under the denomination "Article in Press".  All the articles published in this double format, continuous flow and online first publishing, will integrate, in due time, and in definitive publication, numbers of the journal, which will maintain its biannual periodicity. 

3) Also from 2024, all articles accepted for publication will be published in a bilingual version (Portuguese and English or Spanish and English), the English version being compulsory. The journal seeks, with this measure, to internationalize itself and to achieve a different dissemination. The costs resulting from the necessary translations (Portuguese into English; Spanish into English; English into Portuguese), will be borne by the authors of the articles, in a practice followed by other important national journals. 

4) The free-to-publish policy of submission and the policy of consultation at no cost for the reader (free-to-read) will be maintained. 

5) The continuous flow of submissions and the online first publishing policy do not preclude the organization and publication of special issues, whether a) they are proposed to the journal by guest editors with recognized research merit, b) they seek to cover a topic that is salient in the academic community at the time the proposal is made, and c) the proposal is in line with Media & Journalism's editorial strategy and main thematic lines. In the case of special issues, the articles included and organized by the guest editors are published together and immediately after the formatting of the various articles that integrate the different special issues.

June 8, 2023

I am pleased to invite you to the next in the series of IPRA Thought Leadership webinars. The webinar Japan digital PR best practices: how to run hybrid media relations will be presented by Kazuko Kotaki on Thursday 8 June 2022 at 12.00 GMT/UCT (unadjusted).

What is the webinar content?

Explore hands-on learnings and insights on how corporate communications have evolved in the hybrid world resulting from a three-year-long virtual media relations. The webinar will share practical knowledge on what works and why, based on Kazuko’s global media and agency client experiences from both Japan and around the world.

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 Kazuko Kotaki

Kazuko is Associate Director, Corporate at Edelman Japan. She is a passionate public relations veteran with over 20 years of experience in consulting, media relations, and narrative development focusing on communications in the STEM field. She joined Edelman in 2022 to provide business communications counsel to the world’s top brands and most critical communication needs. 

Contact

International Public Relations Association Secretariat

United Kingdom

secgen@ipra.org

Telephone +44 1634 818308

Friday 6 October, 2023

London college of communication

Deadline: July 3, 2023

8.00-14.00 (BST) / 16.00-22.00 (AWST)

TikTok Creators and Digital Economies Symposium

From new dance challenges to instantly recognisable songs, TikTok is often attributed with producing new global trends. Merging short form video, popular and original music, hashtags, comments, and participatory features like stitching and duets, TikTok provides a platform for ordinary users to consume, create, play and participate in public conversations.

Creators benefit from new kinds of visibility and affective economies, yet also complain of shadow bans, seemingly arbitrary limitations on views, and algorithmic personalisation and circulation of content.

TikTok follows and disrupts the social media landscape and popular imagination. TikTok’s ‘For You’ feature amplifies the potential for ordinary users to create viral content and its powerful personalised algorithms extend creators’ reach to global audiences and across multiple platforms.

TikTok influencers and ordinary creators generate niche communities important for identity expression, community building and visibility, introducing new iterations of symbolic, cultural and economic power (Abidin et al. 2020, Abidin 2020, 2019).

TikTok native influencers generate millions of views and leverage virtual, gift, and live-streaming economies, expanding forms of cultural production across platforms (Poell et al 2022, Yesiloglu and Costello 2021).

In addition, Bytedance and Douyin, TikTok’s Chinese counterpart, point to significant cultural, geo-political, and economic commonalities and differences in platform governance, as determined in and through national contexts and markets (Kaye et al al. 2022, Zhang 2021).

More globally, Bytedance occupies a unique position in the data economy and is at the heart of serious privacy and surveillance concerns, marked by the rise of TikTok bans (Maheshwari and Holpuch 2023).

TikTok and Douyin open up new creator practices with serious implications for creative industries, monetisation practices, digital economies alongside governance frameworks encompassing these spheres.

All of these factors point to big questions about the relationship between TikTok creators and emerging features of digital economies. While TikTok’s niche creator practices share common features across other social media and digital platforms (Hardy 2022, Sujon 2021), TikTok’s specific approaches to monetisation and affective entrepreneurialism raises questions about what is distinct on TikTok for creator economies.

This symposium brings together current work which opens up these dynamics, examining emerging forms of cultural production and also their economic consequences for creators, citizens, consumers, advertisers, and platforms.

Submission guidelines

We invite papers examining TikTok Creators and Digital Economies, related to but not limited to these themes:

• Creator identities and cultures
  
• Storytelling, music and creator discourses
  
• Intimate, relational and affective labour
  
• Virtual gifting and cultural production
  
• Creator academy and creator fund
  
• LGBTQ+ creators
  
• Queerbaiting
  
• Materialities of creation, consumption and circulation
  
• Global, local, national creator contexts and economies
  
• TikTok, ByteDance and Douyin platform ecosystems
  
• Douyin and wanghong
  
• Resilience and precarity
  
• Influencers, celebrity, and virality
  
• Creator business models
  
• TikTok advertising and monetisation
  
• Political and networked economies
  
• Nichification, metrics and metrification
  
• Branded content, paid partnerships and the creator marketplace
  
• Livestreaming and e-commerce
  
• Symbolic power and cultural economies
  
• Attention economy, affective commerce and regimes of visibility
  
• Algorithmic personalisation
  
• TikTok audiences and markets
  
• Platform governance, bans and censorship
  
• Content ownership, copyright and royalties
  
• Geo-politics of short-form video
  

Research students, early career researchers and scholars in and/or or from the Global South and/or underrepresented communities are strongly encouraged to apply.

A selection of papers will also be considered for inclusion in a Special Issue tentatively entitled “TikTok Creators and Digital Economies” that will be published in a top-ranked peer-reviewed journal in the field of Media and Communication Studies. 

For consideration in this symposium, please submit abstracts (up to 250 words) on previously unpublished papers and a short bio (up to 100 words) to DCE@lcc.arts.ac.uk. 

Key dates

Abstracts and biographies submission: 3 July 2023

Notifications of acceptance: 24 July 2023

TikTok Creators and Digital Economies Symposium: 6 October 2023

This event is a collaboration between the TikTok Cultures Research Network based at Curtin University and the Digital Cultures and Economies Research Hub at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London.

The event is organized by Zoetanya Sujon, Sevil Yesiloglu, Irida Ntalla, Jonathan Hardy, Yue Qin, Yingwen Wang and Richard Meng.

Please email DCE@lcc.arts.ac.uk with any questions about this event.