ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

May 23-25, 2024

Lab. CIMEOS (University of Burgundy) 

Deadline: November 15, 2024

International Communication Association 

French Society for Information and Communication Science  

Lab. CIMEOS (University of Burgundy) 

The Regional ICA Conference to be held in May 2024 in Dijon welcomes scholars from all over the worldworking on food-related issues from a Communication Sciences perspective. Today, food is the subject of numerous studies in history, sociology and anthropology.Many reference works have been written in the disciplines of Human and Social Sciences yet reading the food fact by the prism of the Communication Sciences is an original approach which allows to underline aspects until now little treated.   

Eating and food choices are the result of numerous factors: biological, psychological, cultural and social. The latter are made up of a whole range of dimensions, such as the media context, memory traces linked to childhood, our upbringing or the experiences and memories that stem from it. 

From this perspective, food choices require us to adopt a reflexive stance on the social, symbolic and memorial values we incorporate when we eat. As part of the research carried out by the CIMEOS laboratory and its food and gastronomy axis, it's the meaning of our food that we're concerned with. Its gourmet meaning, its environmental and ethical meaning, its nutritional meaning but also its political meaning. 

Communication Sciences have taken on the food issue around several polarities (De Iulio et al., 2015). The first considers food as a system in the sense understood by Greimas, who emphasizes that "food constitutes a form of non-verbal communication through which meaning is shared" (2015: 8). The second polarity addresses our acts, practices and food choices from media perspective, as an object of discourse and images.

It is then a matter of working on food and gastronomy by studying the discourses, their circularity, their impacts on the representations of consumers but also, by extension, on their practices. Various and diversified epistemological approaches are developed questioning a multiplicity of concepts from sensorial and sensitive communication to knowledge constitution and mediation, or digital impacts, challenges and stakes.

The ICA "Food Communication” regional conference offers opportunities for engagement with scholars, students and public intellectuals from around the continent to debate these important and topical issues. The following types of proposal are encouraged: communications, thematic panels, posters (especially by the young scholars).  

Papers, panels (free formats but no longer than one hour and a half) or posters could address the following themes: 

1. Social practices concerning the act of « eating ». 

2. Food communication and digital technologies.

3. Health, food and communication. 

4. Communication strategies of the food science industry: food security, labels, etc. 

5. Food as a medium for constructing a territory’s reputation and notoriety. 

The conference will be held in person and is open to everyone, but scholars who wish to present their works need to submit an extended abstract (400-600 words) that will be double-peer reviewed. 

In the future, an Interest Group Food and Communication could be created participating to the development of research in that area for ICA. 

CALL FOR EXTENDED ABSTRACTS DETAILS:

Following the ICA tradition, multiple methodologies are valued and works conducted from a wide range of paradigmatic perspectives are encouraged. The goal for extended abstracts is to present and discuss current research about food communication and should adhere to the following guidelines:

- Extended abstract should be between 400-600 words (excluding references, tables & figures), and should clearly state the contribution of the work to food communication.

- Research data should already be collected. Abstracts need to present some preliminary analyses to provide a first review of results.

- Theoretical or methodological extended abstracts are also acceptable; authors should lay out the main arguments to be developed.

- Work should be unpublished and not presented at other conferences. 

Please upload a single de-identified PDF file of your paper (including tables, figures, and references) by the deadline (November 15th, 2023) to: https://icafood2024.sciencesconf.org/. To submit an abstract each author must create an account on the website. 

Deadlines: 

Deadline for submission: November 15th, 2023 

Applicants will hear by mid-January 2024 

Provisional Schedule: 

23rd of may

8h45 – 9h30: Reception  

9h30 – 12h30: Plenary session  

9h30 – 9h45: Opening (organizing committee, laboratory direction) 

9h45 – 11h30: Keynote speaker #1 + Keynote speaker #2  

11h30 – 12h30: Round table #1 (4 keynote speakers) 

12h30 – 14h00: Lunch break  

14h00 – 15h30: Parallel workshops / panel 

15h30 – 16h00: Coffee break, posters and networking 

16h00 – 17h30: Round table #2  

24th of May:

8h45 – 9h00: Reception 

 9h00 – 10h45: Plenary session (2 keynote speakers) 

10h45 – 11h00: Coffee break, posters and networking 

11h00 – 12h30: Parallel panels  

12h30 – 14h00: Lunch break  

14h00 – 15h00: Young scholars session 

15h00 – 15h30: Coffee break, posters and networking 

15h30 – 17h00: Round table #3  

  17h00 – 17h30: Conclusion

25th of May: Cultural visit – details TBA 

Questions? Please contact:  

Estera-Tabita Badau estera-tabita.badau@u-bourgogne.fr 

Aude Chauviat aude.chauviat@u-bourgogne.fr  

Organizing Committee:  

• Estera Badau 
  
• Aude Chauviat
  
• Clémentine Hugol-Gential
  
• Daniel Raichvarg
  

European Journal of Health Communicaiton (Special Issue)

Deadline: February 15, 2024

Guest Editors: Estera Badau (University of Burgundy), Iccha Basnyat (George Mason University), Evelyn Y. Ho (University of San Francisco), & Olivier Galibert (University of Burgundy)

Download Call as PDF

In this special issue of the European Journal of Health Communication, we invite scholars to submit manuscripts which address (in)equalities and (in)equities in digital health communication and provide theorising that goes beyond individual actors and their responsibilities.

As society grapples with inequities in health and disease, scientists throughout the world have recognised that individual-level behaviour change interventions, while common, are not always ideal for improving health outcomes. Recent global health pandemics have highlighted the need for both digital health technologies and collaborations that bring together the public and private sectors at local, regional, national, and international levels for success. This is an area where health communication scholars should offer new and important insights. New technologies, such as AI, digital health and monitoring tools, electronic medical records, and organisational shifts to digitise clinical encounters, are quickly becoming essential for health, well-being and patient empowerment. At the same time, technologies are often created for profit and exist within systems that replicate and often exacerbate inequalities due to unequal access, literacy, or other structural forms of oppression, such as embedded racism, sexism, and ableism.

What counts as digital health communication?

Worldwide technological development and the digitalisation of health technologies are at the heart of healthcare systems promising efficiency, better management, and a patient-centred approach. However, all the tools available to support patients, carers, and healthcare professionals are also at risk of exacerbating implicit and unintentional discrimination or bias. For this special issue, we are particularly interested in papers that focus on either the human use of digital tools/devices to support health communication or examination of digital health contexts such as mobile health, e-health, and AI-based technologies such as conversational agents and telehealth focused on health communication. This special issue calls on health communication scholars to theorise on or empirically examine (beyond individual actors and their responsibilities) interventions and solutions to health inequality/inequity using digital tools/devices.

What do we mean by (in)equality & (in)equity?

In most of Europe and in other parts of the world, the state plays a major role in ensuring public health. As most health technologies are developed by private companies with often different and conflicting objectives (responsibilities to shareholders and profit), it is worth exploring if and how such technologies can improve health and for whom. Inequalities refers to the unequal distribution or usage of health care services supported or enabled by digital technologies. These inequalities may be related to socio-demographic factors such as age, race, region, income, education level, health status, or health literacy. Inequities refers to failures of governments or other structures or organisations that are supposed to ensure public health for all. Inequalities can create inequities, but they can also be used to address inequities. In addition, digital transformations can both improve or reinforce, produce or exacerbate, through health communication, certain forms of inequalities and/or inequities.

All submissions should address the three main components of this special issue:

• A digital health communication context or technology,
  
• an (in)equality or (in)equity aspect,
  
• the issue of responsibility, which may include individual actors/patients but should also include examination of structural, cultural, organisational, economic, or policy levels.
  
• Examples of topics of interest related to (in)equality and (in)equity in digital health communication include (but are not limited to):
  
• Processes for cultural adaptation of digital health messaging
  
• Digital health literacy alongside language literacy in migrant communities using e-health coaching or wearable devices
  
• Mis/dis-information at structural or organisational levels
  
• Telehealth platform for low-income patients without internet access or smartphones/digital devices
  
• User interaction design that accounts for various ability levels of vision and hearing
  
• Web-based directory of local mental health resources
  
• Health messages generated by AI algorithms/ large language models (e.g., GPT) and intrinsic racism, sexism, or other form of discrimination
  
• Chatbots in the distribution of health information and education
  
• AI communication policies/ethics created by organisations or governments
  
• Digitisation of inclusive health reminders for screenings and procedures that consider diverse gender identities (e.g., pap smears, mammogram, prostate screening)
  
• Health-related controversies on an NGO-designed digital platform
  

Submission format

We welcome submissions that fit any of the EJHC formats: original research papers, theoretical papers, methodological papers, review articles, and brief research reports. For further information on article types, please see http://www.ejhc.org/about/submissions.

Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with EJHC author guidelines and be submitted via the journal website.

The deadline for submissions is 15 February 2024.

Review Process

All articles will undergo a rigorous peer review process. Once the paper has been assessed as appropriate by the editorial management team (with regard to form, content, and quality), it will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers in a double-blind review process, meaning that reviewers are not disclosed to authors, and authors are not disclosed to reviewers. To ensure short publication processes, EJHC releases articles online on a rolling basis, expected to start in October 2024.

Contact Guest Editors

Estera Badau (France): estera-tabita.badau@u-bourgogne.fr

Iccha Basnyat (United States): ibasnyat@gmu.edu

Evelyn Y. Ho (United States): eyho@usfca.edu

Olivier Galibert (France): olivier.galibert@iut-dijon.u-bourgogne.fr

October 12-14, 2023

Berlin University of the Arts

A Book launch and Symposium

All events take place in the main building of the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK)

Hardenbergstraße 33

10623 Berlin 

Charlotte-Salomon-Saal / Raum 101 (& 102 for the symposium)

Thursday, 12.10.2023:

18:00: BOOK LAUNCH 

Brief book presentation

Domesticating Domestication? 

A dialogue between Anne-Jorunn Berg (Nord University, NO) & Maren Hartmann (UdK, DE)

Fingerfood & drinks

Friday, 13.10.2023:

SYMPOSIUM

8:30-9:00: Arrival

9:00-9:15: Welcome

9:15-9:45: Domestication - what is it good for?  An interactive workshop-element

9:45-10:00: Coffee break

10:00-12:00: TALKS - ROUND ONE: 

INFRASTRUCTURES & RE-DOMESTICATION

Domestication as User-Led Infrastructuring

Thomas Berker (NTNU, NO)

Meant for the whole household - Self-characterizations of residential communities in the setup of a smart speaker

Niklas Strüver & Tim Hector (University of Siegen, DE)

Conceptualizing re-domestication: theoretical reflections and empirical findings to a neglected concept 

Corinna Peil (University of Salzburg, Austria) & 

Jutta Röser (University of Münster, DE)

Respondent: David Morley (Goldsmiths, UK)

12:00-12:15: Break

12:15-13:15: KEYNOTE: 

Domestication Meets the Big Other

Maria Bakardjieva (University of Calgary, CAN)

13:15-14:30: LUNCH

14:30-15:00:   MAPPING DOMESTICATION RESEARCH - AN EXERCISE

15:00-17:00: TALKS - ROUND TWO: 

OPENING UP POLICIES, CULTURES & SIMULATIONS

Policy relevance of domestication research: Insights from three Swedish case studies

Tobias Olsson & Carolina Martinez (Malmö University)

Nuanced Domestication of Social Media: Intrigues of Situated Cultural Affordances in Kenyan Local Ecologies of Knowledge

James Ogone (Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology (JOOUST), Kenya)

Domesticating the simulated situations and spaces of video calling and virtual reality technologies

Deborah Chambers (Newcastle, UK)

Respondent: Leslie Haddon (LSE, UK)

17:00-17:15: COFFEE BREAK

17:15-18:15: EMTEL Panel: 

Reflections on the life of a network

Jo Pierson (University of Hasselt, BE); Leslie Haddon (LSE, UK) & Knut Sørensen (NTU, NO)

19:30: DINNER

Saturday, 14.10.2023:

10:00-11:15: TALKS - ROUND THREE: 

OTHER SIDES OF DOMESTICATION

The Dark Side of Domestication? Individualization, Anxieties and FoMO Created by the Use of Media Technologies

Tem Frank Andersen & Peter Vistisen (University of Aalborg, DK)

Domestication Theory: Reflections from the Kalahari

Helle-Valle & Storm-Mathisen (OsloMet, NO)

11:15-11:30: COFFEE BREAK

11:30-12:45: TALKS - ROUND FOUR: TAKING CARE OF BODIES 

Lacking the body in the house 

Maren Hartmann (UdK, DE)

Feeling Good, Feeling Safe: Domesticating Phones and Drugs in Clubbing

Kristian Møller (RUC, DK)

12:45-13:30: FINAL REFLECTIONS ON THE FUTURE OF DOMESTICATION RESEARCH

October 12, 2023

I am pleased to invite you to the next in the series of IPRA Thought Leadership webinars. The webinar Diversity: have we got it right in PR? will be presented by Christine Moore on Thursday 12 October 2023 at 12.00 GMT/UCT (unadjusted).

What is the webinar content?

The webinar leverages Claudine’s long-standing passion for diversity with a focus on how it applies to public relations. She explores a little history and geography and focuses on where we stand today.

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 Christine Moore

British born and raised, Claudine lives in New York and owns an impressive PR and communications career. In July 2022 her boutique global agency C. Moore Media, International Public Relations was acquired by Allison+Partners (A+P) a top 15 global agency and one of the fastest-growing and most innovative agencies in the world. The acquisition expands A+P presence in Africa with Claudine at the helm as Managing Director, Africa. 

Contact

International Public Relations Association Secretariat

United Kingdom

secgen@ipra.org

Telephone +44 1634 818308

Edited volume (full chapters), Helsinki University Press (HUP)

Deadline December 17, 2023 

David Ramírez Plascencia (University of Guadalajara) and David Dalton (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) invite full chapters for the edited collection “The pandemic of the Forgotten: strategies of endurance among deprived groups in Ibero-America during the COVID-19 emergency, which will be submitted to Helsinki University Press (HUP).” We are about to complete the volume, but we still need to cover some topics related with ethnic minorities, those marginalized due to their gender or sexuality, refugees, sex workers, disabled people, essential workers (drivers, farm workers), elderly citizens living in nursing homes, the mentally ill, homeless, etc. 

This edited book looks for contributions on relevant cases from Ibero-America (Latin America, Spain, and Portugal) that discuss the negative impact of the pandemic on forgotten members of society from marginalized groups. Possible topics include but are not limited to public repression, negligent attitudes, xenophobic attacks, negative media framing, human rights violations, labor exploitation, etc. Other topics include the strategies that marginalized individuals and communities employed to overcome the economic, social and health challenges of the pandemic. Comparative studies related to past pandemics and historical studies focused on marginalized groups under the context of a pandemic are very welcomed as well. 

We are particularly interested in those chapters that focus on describing the resilience mechanisms developed by these groups. These may include examples of street and digital mobilizations, the use of social media to create solidarity, local and international solidarity networks, the role of social organizations and community initiatives, etc. We are open to include works from multidisciplinary, comparative, and historical approaches. You are warmly invited to send your chapter along with a brief bio (no more than 250 words with titles, affiliations, and contacts) and a 300-word abstract. The chapter’s length is between 6000-7500 words (US English, Chicago Manual of Style 17th edition). Bear in mind that the acceptance of your proposal does not imply the final approval of your chapter. Please, if you have issues writing in English, we strongly recommend you contact a professional proofreader. Deadline: December 17, 2023. Please feel free to contact us with any questions.

David Ramírez Plascencia (University of Guadalajara)

davidram@udgvirtual.udg.mx  

davidrapla@gmail.com

David Dalton (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)

dalton@uncc.edu

University of Copenhagen

Dear ECREA fellows,

We have a job opening as postdoctoral researcher at The Center for Tracking & Society at University of Copenhagen, Denmark, in the Datafied Living project. The position is full-time for a duration of up to 2 years to be filled by 1 January 2024 or as soon as possible thereafter.

The position targets researchers in the area of Datafied Work and is part of the Datafied Living research project which runs 2021-2025 and is funded by the ERC (datafiedliving.ku.dk). The candidate’s research activities will advance the aims of the Datafied Living project regarding empirical studies of how digital tracking and datafication affects work practices and decision-making in key welfare institutions (such as education and healthcare) and private sector organisations; and how datafied societies should respond to such developments.

As postdoc in Datafied Living you will be expected to, independently and in collaboration with other researchers in the team, contribute to advancing empirical datafication research along one or more of the following lines:

• Developing organizational studies of datafication that can inform current and future policy making around data, work, and algorithmic management.
  
• Developing empirical studies of how digital tracking and data-driven decision-making transform professional work and workplaces.
  
• Linking empirical developments in datafied work and algorithmic management to current regulatory efforts at the national and EU levels.
  

You will have your daily working space in the Center for Tracking and Society (CTS). CTS is an interdisciplinary research hub that develops and consolidates emerging interdisciplinary and empirical research on the interplay between digital tracking, existing social structures and the various actors that form future society. The interdisciplinary work at CTS spans media and communication, computer science, surveillance, political economy and critical data studies.

For more info on the position, see https://jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabelige-stillinger/?show=160069

Kind regards on behalf of the Datafied Living team,

Stine Lomborg, PI and director of Center for Tracking & Society

Journalism (Special issue)

Deadline: October 20, 2023

Reminder that just over two weeks are left to send in your abstract to be considered for the Journalism special issue on

Key Dates

• Deadline for abstracts: October 20th, 2023.
  
• Deadline for full paper submission: January 8th, 2024.
  
• First round of reviews complete: April 30th, 2024.
  
• Resubmission of papers: June 30th, 2024.
  
• Second round of reviews completed: August 2nd, 2024.
  
• Submission of final manuscripts: October 31st, 2024.

Guest Editors: Dr. Saumava Mitra, Prof. Roy Krøvel and Dr. Yennué Zárate Valderrama

We invite submissions for a special issue of Journalism which aims to bring together recent research on how journalists, newsrooms and journalist organizations, by working across professional, cultural and geographical boundaries can improve safety for journalists. Understanding the roles that self-reliance and solidarity among journalists, individually, collectively and structurally, can play in ensuring safety of journalists is key to identifying the possibilities and potentials of the emergent practice of 'radical sharing' of risk as well as information, among journalists. The full call for papers can be found here.

We are keen to include papers on, but not only limited to, the following topics:

• Investigations on experiences from journalistic cooperation projects creating a consensus that 'killing the journalist will not kill the story'.
  
• Investigations into efficacies and efficiencies of approaching safety measures collectively, internationally and cross-continentally.
  
• Investigations into efforts to promote the safety of journalists in authoritarian "democracies" through cross-border collaborative platforms, organisations and interventions.
  
• Measuring the effects of collaborative campaigns and other collective actions to improve the safety of journalists.
  
• Knowledge about and practice of fostering a future culture of safety through international collaborations in journalism education.
  
• Investigations on economic, professional and political implications of collaborative journalistic work.
  
• Different approaches to theorising the safety for journalists based on crossborder solidarity.
  
• Investigations on local and cross-border journalistic collaborative work in, between, and among countries both in the Global South and North.
  
• Other topics that might be relevant within the broad framework of solidarity and self-reliance for safety among journalists will also be given due consideration by the editors for the forthcoming special issue.
  

Extended abstracts (500-800 words), accompanied by a 100-150-word author bio, should be sent to the guest editors at safetyofjournalists@oslomet.no by October 20, 2023. 

If selected, scholars will be invited to submit full papers. We welcome research articles that are empirical or conceptual. These should not be more than 8,000 words in length, including references. All submissions are subject to full blind peer-review, in accordance with the peer-review procedure of Journalism. Manuscripts will be submitted through the journal's ScholarOne website. Authors must indicate that they wish to have their manuscript considered for this Special Issue.

Wednesdays

Online

The School of Journalism, Media and Communication (University of Sheffield) would like to invite you to our hybrid research seminar series. The series includes a range of talks that will be of interest to members of ECREA. Topics include conflict, disinformation, drag performance, feminism, social media, and visual methods. Guest speakers are from universities across Europe, North America, and South America. The talks are focussed on countries such as Chile, Ukraine, Czechia, Latvia, and the United States.

All talks are hybrid or online only and take place on Wednesdays from 2-3pm (UK time). 

The full programme is available here (including links to sign up for virtual attendance)

If you would like to speak in the series in the spring or have any questions, please contact maria.tomlinson@sheffield.ac.uk

April 13-16, 2023

Las Vegas, USA

Deadline: December 1, 2023

BEA2024 invites media related research papers from academics, students and professionals for presentation in Las Vegas, USA from April 13-16, 2024.

BEA2024, co-located with NAB Show, is a hybrid academic media convention with over 250 virtual and on-site sessions on media pedagogy, collaborative networking events, hands-on technology workshops, research and creative scholarship and the Festival of Media Arts.  BEA2024 will be an in-person convention with limited virtual participation opportunities for presenters and attendees.   

Submit your research to the relevant BEA interest division as a “Debut” or an “Open” paper. “Debut” is open only to those who have never presented a paper at a BEA convention, and “Open” if you have previously presented a paper at BEA.  To help defray costs, 1st and 2nd place “Debut” winners receive $200 and $100 respectively.  Regardless of the number of authors, BEA will award one check to the individual who submitted the paper.  

More details on the 2024 BEA paper competition are available on the BEA website: https://www.beaweb.org/conv/bea2024-call-for-papers/

September 30-October 2, 2024 

Friedrich-Alexander-Universität

Deadline: December 10, 2023

Hosted by the DFG-research training group “Literature and the Public Sphere in Differentiated Contemporary Cultures” at  FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 30.09.2024 - 02.10.2024  

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 December 10, 2023. 

Organized bySabine 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/