ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

Briony Hannell

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/feminist-fandom-9798765101803/

Examines how fannish and feminist modes of cultural consumption, production, and critique are converging and opening up informal spaces for young people to engage with feminism. 

Adopting an interdisciplinary theoretical framework and bringing together media and communications, feminist cultural studies, sociology, internet studies and fan studies, Hannell locates media fandom at the intersection of the multi-directional and co-constitutive relationship between popular feminisms, popular culture and participatory networked digital cultures. Feminist Fandom functions as an ethnographic account of how feminist identities are constructed, lived and felt through digital fannish spaces on the micro-blogging and social networking platform, Tumblr.

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Reviews of Feminist Fandom

“While the pedagogical value of digitally-mediated fandoms is often asserted, here Briony Hannell critically engages with the complexities and contradictions of how a feminist pedagogy functions in online fan spaces. Through its exploration of a range of practices and debates from reflexive un/learning to “SJW fatigue” in these communities, this book complicates exclusively celebratory claims about fandom’s links to rising feminist consciousness. While Hannell’s arguments are deeply attuned to the socio-technical features of Tumblr, her sophisticated theoretical, methodological and analytic approach is an exemplar of critical and nuanced digital feminist media analysis that makes this book a must-read in the field.”

— Alison Harvey, author of Feminist Media Studies (2019) and Associate Professor of Communications, York University, Canada

“Fandom as a pathway to feminism is understudied, yet after reading Feminist Fandom, the two seem inseparable. This book offers a compelling account of the intersection of digital cultures, feminisms and popular culture. As such, it is recommended reading for scholars in participatory culture, audience studies, gender studies, feminist studies and fandom studies. This is a book about the power of stories, the importance of Tumblr as a platform of first-person narration and the centrality of storytelling for social movements and their reinvention.”

— Katrin Tiidenberg, co-author of tumblr (2021) and Professor of Participatory Culture, Tallin University, Estonia

“Feminist Fandom is a rich, qualitative study of Tumblr as a site for social justice. It’s a deep dive into fandom and audience creativity. With its insights on feminist user cultures and pedagogies, Feminist Fandom explains why and how online platforms act as a space for identity construction and activism.”

— Nicolle Lamerichs, author of Productive Fandom: Intermediality and Affective Reception in Fan Cultures (2018) and Senior Lecturer in Creative Business, HU University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

Gabriele Balbi

Link: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-digital-revolution-9780198875970?cc=us&lang=en&

The book is a history of the ways in which the digital revolution has been narrated, of the rhetoric, the narratives, and the overt or implied debates that have accompanied it and continue to accompany it today. It aims to tell the story of an idea, which I define as one of the most powerful ideologies of recent decades: that digitalization constitutes a revolution, a break with the past, a radical change for the human beings who are living through it. The four chapters investigate the origins of this idea, how it evolved, which other past revolutions consciously or unconsciously inspired it, which great stories it has conveyed over time, which of its key elements have changed and which ones have persisted and have been repeated in different historical periods, , how it can be considered a quasi-religion. All these discussions, large or small, have settled and condensed into a series of media, advertising, corporate, political, and technical sources and so, in the book, readers can also find new, previously-unpublished historical sources. The main aim of the book is to deconstruct what looks like a “natural” and incontestable idea and to help rethink digital societies today.

Joke Hermes and Linda Kopitz

https://www.routledge.com/The-Pocketbook-of-Audience-Research/Hermes-Kopitz/p/book/9781032325118 

Focusing on qualitative methods, The Pocketbook of Audience Research uses contemporary, global television and cross-media examples to explain essential approaches to audience research and outline how they can be employed.

This handy guide is divided into three parts: the first part, ‘Watching Post-Television’, offers ‘television’ as a shortcut to understanding today’s platform media and gives an introduction to key theoretical terms such as representation, identity and community. The second part, ‘Methods with Method’, introduces different methodological tools to study cross-media texts and practices from an audience-led perspective. With individual chapters covering ethnography, textual analysis and visual methodologies, this part also functions as a toolset and starting point for small research projects. The third part, ‘Methods in Action’, offers a variety of recent case studies to show how these methodological principles work in practice.

Drawing on different genres from drama to sports, The Pocketbook of Audience Research gives a sense of what audience-led cross-media research can achieve. This concise, accessible book gives students, early-career researchers and creative professionals the tools to do useful and inspiring audience research, whether for a paper, a proposal or a market survey.

We invite you to participate in a brief survey in the field of AI alignment. Through responses to 39 questions, we will record the sentiment of humans towards the futuristic concept of artificial general intelligence (AGI). On the other hand, we also examine the artificial intelligence itself (ChatGPT and other language models). Please first complete the survey and then forward it to anyone who might be interested, which includes online groups, mailing lists, etc. 

Link to the survey: https://forms.gle/npGBJf72ECwpSHV78 

Thank you! 

The research team from the AI Institute of Serbia, the Digital Society Lab, the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory at the University of Belgrade, the Faculty of Engineering Sciences at the University of Kragujevac and the Faculty of Media and Communications.

Media & Jornalismo, Vol. 24 N.º 45 (2024)

Deadline: March 15, 2024

Editors: 

• Maria José Brites - Universidade Lusófona, CICANT; maria.jose.brites@ulusofona.pt
  
• Teresa Sofia Castro - Universidade Lusófona, CICANT; teresa.sofia.castro@ulusofona.pt
  
• Paloma Contreras-Pulido - Universidade Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR); paloma.contreras@unir.net
  

Topics:

• Children, youth, and news
  
• Children, youth, and contexts of digital citizenship
  

Subtopics:

• Algorithms and datafication
  
• Audiences and news
  
• Socialisation, families, and peer influence
  
• News literacies
  
• Information disorders
  
• News resistance and avoidance
  
• Theoretical reflection and future perspectives of the field
  
• Methodological discussions
  
• Participatory media
  
• Decolonization of the field
  
• Glocal news contexts
  
• Glocal digital citizenship contexts
  

In this special issue, we aim to capture theoretical and empirical reflections that shed light on how, why, and where young people follow, understand and express what is currently happening in the world in the context of digital citizenship and information disorders (Wardle & Derakhshan, 2017). The COVID-19 pandemic and recent wars accelerated a torrent of fake news and other information disorders (Galan et al., 2019, Frau-Meigs et al, 2017), in which social media platforms revealed underlying ambivalences. This is why it is so pressing to consider diverse approaches in the investigation that identifies what, how and where young people from diverse contexts and geographies propose their views and expressions of what is happening in the world. By anticipating normative and/or decolonised definitions of news, we aim to apprehend research that assesses themes related with youth voices and views of the world, their (dis)connection with news and contexts of digital citizenship.

The research continually points to a shift from the traditional journalism environments to new opportunities for consumption and production (Clark and Marchi, 2017), fostering participative processes. By proposing the concept of “connective journalism”, Clark and Marchi (2017) highlight the need for sharing, having a self-view of the news stories, and considering making their stories. They also note a disruption between young audiences' needs and news outlets.

What are the social environments where these processes are grounded? Even if the peer group influence has an impact, family, and in particular parents, are at the centre of the socialisation process for seeking news and different views of the world (Brites et al., 2017; Edgerly et al, 2018a; Lemish, 2007; Silveira, 2019), including contexts for operating digital devices (Edgerly et al, 2018a). Self-socialization is found in other studies regarding youth information consumption: incidental and leisure (Boczkowski et al, 2018) and news avoidance and resistance (Brites e Ponte, 2018; Edgerly et al, 2018b).

These sociocultural environments pose additional challenges to news brands and the production of stories that fit young people’s interests and expectations. It is thus imperative to reflect on these timely issues, namely considering how young people regard and deal with algorithms (Swart, 2021), algorithmic literacy, and what are the implications for information selection and consumption processes in their everyday lives, and even to observe how in some cases this content is used for participatory, prosocial and citizen purposes, shaping initiatives that promote social change.

This special issue [under the project Youth, News and Digital Citizenship - YouNDigital (PTDC/COM-OUT/0243/2021); https://youndigital.com] invites articles that theoretically and/or empirically tackle these and other dimensions, considering youth layers in terms of social, educational, gender, and cultural diversity, which demands to be studied and analysed within their relationship with digital media, news, platforms, and digital citizenship.

IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for submitting articles: March 15, 2024

Review process: March-June 2024

Editors' decision: July 2024

Expected publication date: October 2024

January 15, 2024

Webinar

Registration deadline: 13 January, 2024

Are you an MA/ PhD research student or Early Career Scholar in Communication & Media Studies?

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Please join us for the IAMCR Webinar Taming the butterflies: How to write good abstracts & constructively review for Early Career Scholars! (iamcr.org/webinars/tamingthebutterflies)

This webinar will:

1. familiarise the audience with IAMCR, Media Education Research (MER) & Emerging Scholars Network (ESN) Sections,

2. identify resources available to support people submitting to & reviewing for the IAMCR conference for the 1st time, &

3. discuss the nature of good abstracts & reviews to set expectations for the upcoming conference.

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September 30 -October 2, 2024

FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Deadline (EXTENDED): February 18, 2024

Hosted by the DFG-research training group “Literature and the Public Sphere in Differentiated Contemporary Cultures” at 

Keynotes: N. Katherine Hayles and Adrian Daub

At this moment of our present time, processes of digitalization are leading to a profound transformation of social environments. Digitalization impacts the economic, cultural, and historic conditions of the lives we live and the ways we socially interact, communicate, and self-reflect. The turn towards the digital informs cultural structures and practices, it shapes forms of knowledge production and dissemination, and it alters the very fabric of the public sphere. An increasing pluralization and differentiation of public spaces of communication raises renewed questions over the loss of an imagined consensus as well as new potentialities for processes of cultural production, their changing social, political, and cultural functions, and their ethical implications.

Literature, in its extended sense of textuality, cultural production, and history of material practices, is deeply entangled in the structural shift towards digitality. As circumstances of production and reception change, a general reinterpretation of literature as such, its role and functionality, its possibilities or potential “death” ensues. At the same time, literature itself engages in reflections on the opportunities, challenges, and potential risks of the profound shift towards digitality, as digital media forge new literary forms, conventions, and aesthetic practices. Engaging with social change on the level of content, form, and models of engagement, literature actively positions itself and intervenes in the collective imagination and the shaping of processes of exchange between public spheres and new, digital frontiers.

The Research Training Group “Literature and the Public Sphere in Contemporary Differentiated Cultures,” funded by the German Research Foundation, investigates the interconnections between various literatures and various publics in multilayered and heterogenous subnational and cross-national social environments since the mid-20th century.

The international conference aims at investigating the diverse interrelations of literature, the public, and the digital through concrete case studies and readings that elucidate the medial constitution, processes of communication, social conditions, and various functions of literary phenomena. 

Papers we solicit could address but need not be limited to the following research fields:

• strategies for generating attention in the literary marketplace (economies of reaction, scandalization, forms of polarization and populism, aspects of cancel culture)

• public conditions of literary production and reception (digital spaces, platforms, and their specific forms of communication)

• mechanisms that regulate access, exclusion and canonization, form community, inform political participation, or lead towards practices of opting out 

• literary materialities (algorithms and communication, AI and human creativity; altered technologies of publication, altered practices of reading, digitality and materiality) and their function for the adoption of literary aesthetics, shifting forms and genres, and the self-reflexivity of literature on its own affordances

• literary knowledge production (fiction and non-fiction engaging with the future of the digital, posthumanism, the utopian/ dystopian imaginary)

• literary ethics and politics (negotiations of the public sphere as a place of deliberative politics; as a set of platforms providing air time under specific conditions of inclusion and exclusion)

Please submit abstracts (300 words) and short bios by February 18, 2024. (Extended deadline!)

Organized by Sabine Friedrich, Svenja Hagenhoff, Karin Hoepker

Contact: E-mail us at grk2806-conf2024@fau.de

https://www.literaturundoeffentlichkeit.phil.fau.de/international-conference-digitality-and-the-public-sphere-literature-mediality-practice/

September 26-28, 2024

Athens, Greece

Deadline: March 15, 2024

Following three successful international conferences (2016, 2018 and 2022) Hellenic American University announces the 4th International Europe in Discourse Conference. This Conference too aims at exploring Europe through all its constitutive dimensions, history, culture, geography and values. The objective is to create an international and interdisciplinary platform for discussion on how Europe is understood and constantly shaped through aspects that can be theoretically approached and empirically identified. EID IV also remains faithful to the conviction that there should be a dialogue between those who talk about Europe and analyze it and those who “do” Europe and shape it. The Conference is therefore an open call to political analysts, communication experts, diplomacy and security experts, public leaders, historians, economists and policymakers from a variety of fields to engage with the Conference themes and submit a contribution along the formats accepted.

Background

In line with the previous Conferences, Europe in Discourse IV sets to analyze Europe by looking at history, geography and values and from there reflect on Europe’s multiplicity. Addressing the issue of multiplicity in Europe cannot escape addressing European identity. European Union’s history, identity and overall orientation has been largely determined by its position, geographical, cultural, religious. Since the end of the Second World War, the dominant doxa was that the world would inexorably be led to its unification and homogenization. “The World is flat” declared Thomas Friedman; Richard O’Brien diagnosed “the end of Geography”. However, the economic and political evolution of recent years show the return of Geography and the overpowering dimension of history. Fragmentation and diversification rather than unification and homogenization are the rules. It is not clear what will be the shape of the new world which will emerge from this reversal during the coming years. In what fragment of the world will Europe belong? Could Europe take the form of a “Common European Home” as imagined by Michael Gorbachev? Or, on the contrary, will Europe be a major component of a transatlantic entity, divided by a new iron curtain from Russia? Where will the Eastern Mediterranean be situated? Will it be unified under the influence of a strong European system or divided by the competition of external powers? 

Geography holds a central role in Europe in Discourse IV; security aside, borders are key to the issue of identity: they define who we are by setting us apart from what we are not. Space can be seen and correlated with European identity in three ways: a) in the context of enlargement, space has been constantly re-negotiated and re-claimed by the European Union resulting in the inclusion of new members, b) in the context of  economic processes of globalisation, common EU policies and technological advancement, space has been reduced between nation states and c) in the relations that Europe forges with neighboring territories (Africa, Eastern Mediterranean and the Global South). During the last two years, the context of the debate about Europe has changed considerably. The return of war in Europe, which seemed unthinkable before, is now a reality. The Russian aggression not only destabilized the international system but also reintroduced the question of the European space. What is the limit of Europe to the East? Is it an issue of values or of geopolitical ambitions? What are the essential components and solidarities of the European whole? Should the German rearmament reassure or disquiet? In this renewed debate, historical and geographical discourses find a prominent place. Their extensive use by the two opponents in the new European war, Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky, shows their importance. The geographical perspective, therefore, allows us to reflect upon the interrelation and intersection of space and identity-making. At the same time, geography has been linked to identity in the sense of an indefinite extension of borders, and the concept of a ‘limitless Europe’ which triggers an identity crisis. 

Values continue to hold a key role in Europe in Discourse Conferences to understand European identity necessitates tracing those core values it draws upon. It is often these values that are invoked in institutional communications to appeal to the peoples of Europe, and it is these values that serve as an antidote to any grievances against European Union. From functional values such as transparency to more overarching ones like democracy most actors in the European sphere mobilize values in an instrumental way. However, in certain occasions, core values of the EU are referred to as “global” and belonging also to non-Europeans. At the same time, we need to look back and ask: What exactly is Europe’s true wealth? The contours of Europe have been carved out on the basis on similarities and differences, often including references to Europe’s heritage of classical Graeco-Roman civilization. Christianity, Enlightenment, and Democracy form key determinants from where the European edifice draws its legitimacy, traditions and legacy. Reason, science, humanity and progress, all of which demand a positive commitment to Enlightenment values are part of the European’s values base. Does the European Union exert normative power by drawing legitimacy from its values basis? To what extent are these values reflected in texts? Can Europe continue to hold the role of the affluent, democratic, value-resilient corner of the globe?

Conference Themes

The Conference invites contributions from a variety of fields which explore Europe across all dimensions that shape it. Contributions may be based on theoretical accounts, a variety of methodologies, ethnographical approaches, case studies and other analytical tools to discuss European identity shaping across all aspects.

• European values: from continuity to change 

• European institutions: discourses and legitimization 

• Political and electoral dimensions in the European sphere 

• Conceptual blending, discourse and metaphors about Europe 

• European narratives of today  

• EU Enlargement 

• Borders, border regions, space in and for Europe

• Europe, globalization, fragmentation and unification 

• Europe and its role in the globe: legitimacy, soft power  

• Political discourses in and about Europe 

• Peace, Conflict through the War in Ukraine

• Relations and Alliances with the Global South

• European identity through arts and culture

• Im/migration, integration, and mobility 

• Populist movements, electoral campaigns

• Europe in the traditional media and social media

• Integration/assimilation/inclusion/homogenization as processes the EU 

• The role of religion in Europe and the EU  

• European Institutions, function, legitimacy, power

• Potential US isolationism and NATO/Ukraine repercussions 

• European Security and Defense 

• EU and the Gaza conflict

• EU and the Middle East

Special Emphasis on the Eastern Mediterranean

The manifold multilateral relationship which the EU might develop with other regional and wider neighboring blocs would prove very useful for the EU’s future. The association agreements that the EU has been establishing with Southern Mediterranean partner states since the late 90’s (Barcelona process or Euro-Mediterranean Partnership) have been a clear token of the strategic importance of the region for the EU. At the same time, we are also concerned with looking at how the EU has been looking to promote the

EU values through a process of Europeanization with countries of strategic importance in the region. These countries can be part of the umbrella of “Eastern Mediterranean” which has been defined historians and geographers and would typically refer to Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon and Syria. Although historically the region has been territorially shaped by peace treaties like the Treaty of Lausanne, yet it has been more infested with conflict rather than cooperation. The region is of critical importance for the global sphere on a number of domains, including trade, geopolitics and energy; the identification of gas reserves has made it even more critical and turned global attention to it. We invite papers to discuss the relationship of Europe with the Eastern Mediterranean in respect to discovery of gas reserves, geopolitical strategy for the EU and population flows to Europe. 

Confirmed Keynote Speakers

Michał Krzyżanowski

Federico Romero

Vivien A. Schmidt

Ruth Wodak

Presentation Formats

1. Oral Communications

Oral communications, which consist of a 20-minute presentation followed by a 10-minute discussion, should be submitted online in response to the general theme(s) of the conference mentioned below. Abstracts for oral communications should be no longer than 500 words and list five keywords. Abstracts for oral communications should be submitted online as a single document. 

Please submit your abstract for an oral communication following guidelines here. 

Deadline for oral communications: March 15th, 2024.

2. Themed Panels

Proposals for panels must be submitted online as a single document, single-spaced in 12-point type. Panel proposals should include a brief overview of the theme, a title of the panel, and 4 to 5 abstract papers, each to be delivered within 30 minutes (a 20-minute presentation followed by a 10-minute period for questions).

The names of the panel presenters should be omitted from the document to enable double-blind review. However, panel organizers should include their name.

Acceptance notifications will be sent to panel organizers.

Please submit your panel proposal through the website following the guidelines here.  

Deadline for panel submissions: March 15th, 2024.

Guidelines for Submission of Abstracts

In submitting your abstract, you will need to provide the following:

• Name, title and affiliation of the contributor(s). 

• Author’s email. For co-authored papers, only the first author’s email needs to be provided.

• Keywords: five in the case of oral communications.

• Text of abstract: a maximum of 500 words for oral communications

• You should submit your abstract through the Conference website. Navigate to the submit your abstract page where you will find a text box where you can paste the copied text of your abstract. You will receive an automated confirmation message upon submission. 

For co-authored papers notifications will be sent to the first author only.

Language of Abstract

Papers for the 4th International Conference can be presented in English.

Important Dates

Abstracts and themed panels must be submitted by March 15th, 2024. 

Acceptance Notifications will be sent by June 1st, 2024. 

Evaluation Process, Criteria and Notification 

All abstracts will be peer-reviewed and ranked by the Conference Scientific Committee. Abstracts will be assessed using the following criteria.

Scientific strength. Contributions should:

• offer significant contributions to the development of the discipline and point to future research agendas; and

• present innovative or interdisciplinary approaches, including novel collaborations or syntheses across sub-disciplines or with other related disciplines.

Other Policies

One-Presentation Rule

Proponents are entitled to submit only one abstract as a first author. Speakers agreeing to present papers in panels also follow the one presentation rule, i.e. someone who is first author or presenter cannot also be first author or presenter for another paper. 

Scientific Committee

• Professor Aleida Assmann University of Konstanz

• Professor Michel Foucher, National Public Service Institute

• Professor Evanthis Hatzivassiliou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

• Professor Juliane House, Hellenic American University

• Professor Zohar Kampf, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

• Associate Professor Themis Kaniklidou, Hellenic American University

• Dr. Theodoros Koutsogiannis, Chief Curator of the Hellenic Parliament Art Collection

• Professor Michał Krzyżanowski, Uppsala University

• Professor Evangelos Livieratos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

• Professor George Pagoulatos, Permanent Representative of Greece to the OECD 

• Professor Effie Pedaliu, London School of Economics

• Professor Mario Pezzini, OECD Development Centre

• Professor George Prevelakis, Hellenic American University, Panthéon-Sorbonne University

• Dr. Sotiris Rizas, Research Centre for the Study of Modern Greek History/Academy of Athens

• Professor Vivien A. Schmidt, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration, Boston University  

Organizing Committee

President of the Conference: Leonidas-Phoebus Koskos, Esq. President, Hellenic American University

• Vasia Frontzou, Hellenic American University

• Juliane House, Hellenic American University

• Themis Kaniklidou, Hellenic American University

• Gerasimos Kontaxis, Hellenic American University

• Evangelia Moschou, Hellenic American University

• Bertina Stambolliu, Hellenic American University

• Leonidas Tzonis, Hellenic American University

Contact Information: For any questions, please contact the organizing committee electronically at: europeindiscourse@hauniv.edu 

May 8-10, 2024

Lisbon Polytechnic Institute, Theatre and Film School, Portugal

 Deadline: February 5, 2024

Conference hosted by The Theatre and Film School of the Lisbon Polytechnic Institute in association with the academic franchise Narrative, Media and Cognition as an ode to medial and artistic impurity. We are particularly interested in case studies or theoretical rationale on art forms as media and their varied and profuse connections, beyond the dual relationships that set the minimum condition for intermediality (i.e., an interrelation between artforms). 

Conference languages: English and Portuguese

Suggested topics: (may include but are not limited to)

·       Conceptions of media, intermediality, cross-media.

·       Mediation, remediation, transmediation.

·       Hybridity, media borders, cross-pollination, media fusion.

·       Art forms as qualified media, mediums as conduits for art forms.

·       Early interart and intermediality.

·       Interartistic cases in / throughout history.

·       The medium-specificity debate within intermediality.

·       Fusional artistic case studies.

·       New artistic languages through combination of art forms.

·       Post-media and expanded artistic fields.

·       Narrative adaptation or expression among the arts.

·       Audiovisual or performative ekphrasis.

·       Sensoriality among art forms and art objects.

·       Space and time in the arts.

·       Rhythm and movement / stasis in the arts.

·       Visuality versus performativity.

·       Artistic properties.

·       Rhythm, stasis, dimensionality…

·       Immersive qualities and spectatorial adhesion.

Keynote Speakers: 

Ágnes Pethő – Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania (Romania)

Chiel Kattenbelt – Utrecht University (The Netherlands)

• Co-editor of Mapping Intermediality in Performance (2010), Intermediality in Theatre and Performance (2006).
  

[Speaker to be announced] 

We plan to publish a selection of papers based on the presentations in the form of a special issue of a journal and/or an edited volume submitted to an international publishing house. Both conference languages will be contemplated in these publishing prospects.

Submission:

We invite you to submit a proposal for a 20-minute oral presentation.

You may submit individually or in a pre-established panel of three presenters. However, if during the conference a member of a panel is unavailable, we may have to reassign the other speakers to different panels or cancel the panel altogether.  

This is essentially an in-person conference, as we are committed to foster a (pro)fusion of intermedial dialogues among researchers. A small quota of online presentations (20% of the total presentations) is, however, available for researchers affiliated with academic institutions from outside Europe. No full online panels will be accepted.

The proposal must contain an abstract (500 words max.), 5 keywords, 3 bibliographical references and a short bio of the author (250 words max.). Send to Fátima Chinita (chinita.estc@gmail.com).

Conference website: https://intermedialconnections.estc.ipl.pt

Conference fees:

(The fee includes coffee breaks, snacks, conference dinner)

Researchers: 120 €

Students: 60 €  

Online presenters: 80 €

Deadline for submissions: 5 February 2024 (Monday)

Submission results: 12 February 2024 (Monday)

(Feel free to request an earlier reply if you submit earlier than the final deadline and need it in order to apply for funding at your university.) 

Deadline for registration: 15 March 2024 (Friday)

Media International Australia (MIA). SAGE.

Deadline (EXTENDED): March 1, 2024 

Feature Topic Editor: David Ramírez Plascencia, Universidad de Guadalajara – Mexico (Editor)

davidrapla@gmail.com and davidram@udgvirtual.udg.mx

Recent edited publications. Imagining Latinidad: Digital Diasporas and Public Engagement Among Latin American Migrants (Brill, 2023), “Medios educativos como espacios subversivos en América Latina: potencialidades, inconvenientes y consideraciones en el contexto de la pandemia.” Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research (JILAR, Taylor and Francis, 2022), and The Politics of Technology in Latin America (Volume 1 and 2) (Routledge, 2020).

Brief

In Latin America during the health emergency in 2020, digitalization, despite digital infrastructure limitation, was essential not just because it allowed to continue studying and working at home and promoted the improvement of the exchange of goods and services networks using smartphones and mobile applications, but because it helped people to build solidary chains to support and provide relief in places where authorities were absent or negligent. Digitalization augmented even more the popularity of social platforms and mobile devices which have consolidated as the main places of socialization and entertainment among Latin Americans.

After three years since the outbreak, the Latin American landscape invites us to ponder, from a critical perspective, the digital economic activities that have flourished in this post-pandemic context. This special feature topic invites proposals that analyze, from an interdisciplinary and international perspective, the impact of the pandemic and digitalization in the Latin American labor market.

Prospective articles may include topics related with social media influencers (Youtubers, Tiktokers, instangramers and so on), fact-checkers, crypto miners and bitcoin traders, digital nomad workers, online gamers and videogame-items dealers, delivery-platform app workers, social media platforms sellers, among others. Propositions that address (i) the economic and cultural influence of theses economic activities in the regional and international content-consumption market, (ii) novel digital professions as a mechanism to surpass economic and social exclusion, and (iii) externalities, genre barriers and legal and ethical controversial issues, are particularly welcome.

Submission Instructions

Articles should be between 5,000-8,000 words in length (including notes, references, accompanying reference list, and all other inclusions). Papers should be submitted directly to the journal. More information in this link https://journals.sagepub.com/author-instructions/MIA  

You may send an extended abstract (500 words) to receive feedback from the Feature Topic editor, before you submit your article to the journal. 

We are very much looking forward to your submissions!