In 2006 /TMG – Journal for Media History/ published the special issue “Cinema in Context”. It contains some of the earliest theoretical reflections on and results of the broad approach of cinema historiography that is currently often labelled as “New Cinema History”. In 2003 an international group of film historians created the platform HoMER (/History of Moviegoing, Exhibition and Reception/). Instead of taking films as the starting point and focus of research, these scholars shifted the agenda to the contexts of film production, distribution and consumption, broadening the perspective to social and economic aspects. Digital data collections and methods (databases, GIS) are often part of New Cinema History research.

Over a decade after the special issue, New Cinema History has developed into a substantial sub field of media history, as is evidenced in series of conferences, research projects and many publications. At the end of 2017 the/Routledge/ /Companion for New Cinema History/ is expected to appear. The editors of /TMG – Journal for Media/ /History/ view this as a suitable moment to reflect on the question what this broad contextualizing approach has taught us about the cinema history of the Low Countries. Where are the blind spots and lacunae of New Cinema History? Which new research questions have arisen or should be introduced in the current debates? In brief, an evaluation of results and methods, and a prospect to the future research programme of New Cinema History. Contributions can consist of concrete (comparative) case studies or can be more theoretical or historiographical reflections.

*Editors*: Clara Pafort-Overduin (c.pafort-overduin@uu.nl <mailto:c.pafort-overduin@uu.nl>) & Thunnis van Oort (thunnisvanoort@yahoo.co.uk <mailto:thunnisvanoort@yahoo.co.uk>)

*Deadline proposal*(approximately 300 words): 1 June 2017
*Deadline article*(6.000-8.000 words): 1 November 2017
*Publication date*: 1 May 2018
*Language*: Dutch and English

*About the journal*: /TMG – Journal for Media History/wants to promote research in media history and publish the results of that research. It offers a platform for original research and for contributions that reflect theory formation and methods within media history.//The journal is published online in open access, twice a year. /TMG – Journal for Media History/ uses a double blind peer review procedure: the authors do not know the identity of the reviewers, and vice versa. See: www.tmgonline.nl<http://www.tmgonline.nl/>.

ICSI Regional Conference is the 5^th bi-annual meeting of the Interpersonal Communication and Social Interaction Division of ECREA, European Communication Research and Education Association. This year’s conference is co-hosted by University of Jyväskylä and Aalto University School of Business, and will be held in Helsinki, Finland.

The title of the conference, (Mediated) Social Interaction in Groups, Networks and Organizations, reflects some of the relevant themes and discussions within our division. Workplaces, as well as groups and networks beyond traditional organizations, are constituted through communication and social interaction. Face-to-face communication, routines and practices shape organizing in traditional organizations whereas virtual communities and teams rely heavily on digitally mediated communication. Furthermore, social media and other technologies bring new affordances to communication and organizing in all kinds of professional relationships and interactions.

ICSI Regional Conference 2017 will provide an opportunity to discuss the role of (mediated) communication in constituting groups, teams, networks, and organizations. We call for paper and panel proposals from any communication or communication-related discipline and methodology that address the conference themes, including, but not limited to, papers that intersect and/or interconnect with the following topics:

·Privacy and publicity in professional (mediated) social interaction
·Virtual teams, networks and communities
·The role of communication and technologies or other artifacts in constituting groups, teams and organizations
·(Mediated) workplace meetings
·Social interaction and social media in the workplace
·The role of (digital) media in different professions
·Digitization of work and professions
·Leadership in the age of new/social media
·Communication competence and new skills in (mediated) professional settings
·Professional boundaries, identities, and social interaction
·Interpersonal relationships and (mediated) support
·Methodological challenges in studying (mediated) social interaction in groups, networks or organizations

*Abstract Submission*

We welcome both individual and co-authored abstract submissions as well as clearly framed, thematic panel proposals. If you want to submit a panel proposal, please send an abstract of the overall panel theme as well as a short description of each panelist and their presentation (3-5 participants).

Please submit an abstract of maximum 300 words for individual/co-authored papers and maximum of 600 words for panels to submission system*. *The submission deadline is *May 5, 2017*.**Submission system: *https://congress.cc.jyu.fi/icsi2017/cgi-bin/contact.cgi*.**

We will get back to you with information on acceptance of papers and panels and with a preliminary program and practical information at the end of June.

*Young Scholars Workshop*

We kindly invite Ph.D. students and junior faculty to participate in the young scholars workshop held on the third day of the conference, on Wednesday, October 25th, 2017 at Aalto University School of Business. During the workshop, participants and senior faculty members from Finland and abroad will discuss the papers submitted by the participants and talk about methodological and theoretical issues in communication research. The workshop provides also an opportunity to discuss research career issues and career development with senior scholars. The workshop is included in the main conference fee.

You can sign up to the workshop and submit summary of your paper via the submission system. The summaries should not exceed 300 words. Submission system: *https://congress.cc.jyu.fi/icsi2017/cgi-bin/contact.cgi*(deadline is *May 5, 2017*).

Please note, that all accepted participants are expected to submit a 1 000–1 500-word paper of their work before the event in September and give short presentation of their work during the workshop/./

We invite all Ph.D. students and junior faculty with relevant projects to participate and get feedback on their research from senior scholars in the field, as well as to network with international peers.

*Contact information*

Conference website: www.jyu.fi/icsi2017 <http://www.jyu.fi/icsi2017>
Organizer email: icsi2017@jyu.fi <mailto:icsi2017@jyu.fi>

October 23–25, 2017 at Aalto University School of Business, Helsinki, Finland

*Keynote presentations*

·*Jennifer L. Gibbs*, Professor, Organizational Communication and Technologies, University of California Santa Barbara, USA

·*Bart J. Van den Hooff*, Professor of Organizational Communication and Information Systems, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands

*Schedule*

Two-day conference and parallel sessions (Oct 23–24) for all participants
One-day (Oct 25) workshop for young scholars and senior respondents

*Proposal submission deadline May 5, 2017*

Proposals are invited for 20 minute paper presentations as well as posters/web-based presentations addressing the theme of ‘language, new media and alt.realties’.

Possible areas of interest include:

·       New media epistemologies and ontologies
·       New media discourse and political polarisation
·       Algorithmic pragmatics and political debate
·       Authoritarian and populist discourses online
·       ‘Trolling’ as a form of political discourse
·       Agnotology (the cultural construction of ignorance)
·       The crisis of ‘expertise’
·       ‘Fake news’ and ‘clickbait’
·       Hacking and disinformation
·       Infotainment and spectacle
·       Conspiracy theories and memes
·       Journalism in the age of social media

Please send your proposals in the form of a 250-word abstract to Prof Rodney Jones, University of Reading r.h.jones@reading.ac.uk.

Deadline for Submitting Proposals: April 5, 2017

This international workshop seeks to theorize the relationship between media and mobility. While mobility has been defined as movement ascribed with meaning, one might in similar fashion define media as meaning ascribed with movement. Interrogating the linkages between media and mobility can enable more thorough understandings of how various power structures produce, transform and reproduce social, material and discursive orders. People, devices, and data are increasingly on the move – movements that may transgress borders and boundaries, but which are also integral to the constitution and regulation of the barriers themselves. The movement of people triggers new imaginaries of territories and social spaces, which circulate through media, questioning and forging new ties between people, signs and things. More broadly, the mobilisation of tangible and intangible things demands a reconceptualization of what a ‚thing’ is, what constitutes the human, and what defines human collectivity. In such circumstances, reimagining circulations through the lens of media and mobility becomes an important step towards understanding current socio-cultural and political changes. While this lens has been applied broadly within anthropological research, its theoretical consequences merit further investigation and discussion.

With a focus on a comparative approach, this workshop invites papers that rethink the theoretical underpinnings of media and mobility studies in anthropology. In particular, we hope to encourage papers based on multidisciplinary and mixed-methods research between social anthropology and other disciplines, including sociology, geography, communication studies, and the digital humanities. We aim to select presentation proposals, across a wide variety of formats, from early and mid-career scholars. Possible topics represented could include (but are hardly limited to):

*      Theoretical discussions that connect (or disconnect) media and
mobility;
*      Empirical case studies that contribute to the conceptualisation
of media and mobility;
*      Ethnographic research that brings into relief the politics of
media and mobility;
*      Comparative studies that challenge Anglophone and Eurocentric
theorizations of media and mobility;
*      Practice-based demonstrations of experimental approaches to
thinking through media and mobility;
*      Contributions on media and mobility that engage with broader
theoretical debates in social and political theory.

In addition to paper presentations with discussion, we would like to encourage audio/visual, sensory and experimental formats that speak to the conference theme. Please specify the technical and spatial needs for your presentation in your proposal.

The workshop will take place over two days at the University of Cologne, which is extremely accessible by both air and train transport. Some bursaries will be made available thanks to contributions from both the University of Siegen’s Locating Media graduate school and EASA.

Abstracts for papers (max. 300 words), listing your institutional affiliation and position, should be sent by email a Word .doc attachment by Monday 3 April, 2017 to mediamobilityworkshop [at] gmail.com. If you would like to be considered for a travel bursary, please add a few sentences below your abstract regarding why you require funding consideration.

Organised by the EASA ANTHROMOB (http://www.easaonline.org/networks/anthromob/) and the EASA Media Anthropology Network (http://www.media-anthropology.net/) in collaboration with DFG Research Training Group Locating Media (U Siegen, http://www.locatingmedia.uni-siegen.de/) and a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities (U Cologne, http://artes.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/).

More info: https://mediamobility.wordpress.com/

Globalization debate has entered a new phase which some already label as “third wave”. The debate faces manifold challenges since the last decade has demonstrated ambivalences and paradoxes of global developments. These include increasing as well as decreasing social inclusion, and globalizing as well as re-localizing processes on all social levels. Different understandings of globalization as either growing interdependence/interaction or universalization/interconnection still complicate coherent theory building. A timely, constructive, and integrating theoretical basis beyond the binary posi-tions of early “globalists” and “sceptics” is still pending. Revisionist voices, although not denying globalization at all, have already started to relativize the synchronicity and quality of global change in politics, economics, culture and communication on empirical grounds.

Globalization appears to be prevalent since possibilities of physical, digital, symbolic and material border-crossing have not declined. Yet, the extent and effect of global communication is hard to measure up until today. One of the reasons is that global media and communication studies have focused primarily on how media and communication systems are integrated or connected, for example in research about the global integration of media systems, the growth of transnational organizations, the flow of media and cultural products or the global public sphere. Besides systemic approaches, local adaptations of global cultural narratives have been investigated in the field of media cultural studies. Despite the importance to understand local adoption, it does not provide a profound explanation of the multilayered communicative interactions of individuals, groups or communities across borders either. We do not know very much about the implications and mechanisms of global communication in everyday social realities. Global communication studies tend to ignore global communication processes in the lifeworld of people. “Global understanding” as a social practice beyond systemic or structuralist approaches is a desideratum in theory building.

Especially in times of growing neo-nationalist, right-wing and post-truth politics, of returning rac-ism and discrimination in public space, of culturalism and xenophobia in national discourses, it is even more necessary to scientifically complement globalization processes in the very realm of the everyday. Recognition of and communicative interaction with the “global other” are the prerequisites for globalization that not only builds on co-orientation, but also on cross-border dialogues.

The international conference seeks to focus on the globalization processes of communication in eve-ryday lifeworlds: How does global dialogue look like beyond political and economic systems? Do individuals, groups and communities interact globally and how does that change their social and cultural life, their global knowledge and mutual understanding? How do people communicate across borders through both media and direct interpersonal communication in their everyday lifeworlds? In short: how global is the “global wo/man”?

Conference Organization:
The conference is based on two fundamental objectives: First, it aims at stimulating theoretical discussions about the communicative construction of lifeworlds beyond local realms. Second, it will collate various aspects of global communication in everyday social and cultural encounters. Through its different open panels, findings from applied research in the wide field of interpersonal, intergroup and inter/transcultural communication are welcome. Global communication can include all aspects of cross-border communication in non-organized social encounters, including both mediated as well as non-mediated interpersonal and intergroup phenomena. More concretely, the following panels are intended to structure and explore the theme of the conference:

Panel 1: Global communication in mediated encounters of everyday lifeworlds
This panel intends to discuss global interaction based on digital communication. Research on the development and social effect of virtual global/regional communities (diaspora, fan-cultures, reli-gious or interest groups), of interpersonal/-group contacts, or of global media usage and readings in everyday life are of interest. Analysis can range from global interdependence of virtual regular tables (facebook, twitter), global ethics of dialogue (“netiquette”), to the circulation of global knowledge and culture.

Panel 2: Global communication in non-mediated contexts of everyday lifeworlds
This panel will discuss non-mediated interpersonal/-group communication in global contexts. Discussions can focus on the construction and circulation of global knowledge in local lifeworlds (e.g. opinion leaders) as well as on various aspects of in/out-group dynamics and inter/transcultural contacts (tourism, migration, multicultural social settings). Aspects and functions of informal global communication in politics (diplomatic dialogues), science and education (academic exchange), business or arts (multicultural professional communities) offer further interesting topics.

Panel 3: Systems, media and lifeworlds in global communication
This panel is loosely based on Habermasʼ idea of the reciprocal influence of systems and lifeworlds. More concretely, the panel can include research on the relationships between politics, media and everyday discourses, global value orientation or stereotypes. Moreover, the impact of global communication in everyday life on politics (global civil society and global protest movements) as a reversed trend of the so-called colonization effect of systems on lifeworlds (Habermas) might be of interest.

Panel 4: Theory-building in global communication
This panel is dedicated to theoretical discussions, which aim at integrating and expanding theories of global communication with regard to cross-border interpersonal and intergroup communication and the communicative construction of everyday social and cultural realities. Aspects can range from the global actors in local lifeworlds to means and mechanisms of global communication in everyday life.

Submission and Selection of Papers:
Please send your proposal for a 20-minute presentation to the organizers no later than May 15, 2017, using a pdf file (projekt.globcomlifeworld17@uni-erfurt.de). The abstract should not be longer than 8000 characters (including blank spaces) and should be clearly assigned to one of the panels. Sub-missions for the conference should be made in English. Please add a title page to the abstract containing the name(s) and address(es) of the presenter(s) and the title of the presentation. All submissions will be evaluated in an anonymous review process and submitters will be informed about the results of the selection process by June 30, 2017.

Further Information:
Click here for full Conference Information: https://www.uni-erfurt.de/kommunikationswissenschaft/forschung/workshopstagungen/lifeworldcommunicationandtheglobalwoman/
Email Contact: projekt.globcomlifeworld17@uni-erfurt.de
Organisation: Dr. Anne Grüne

Annual Conference of the International and Intercultural Communication Section of the German Communication Association (DGPuK)
The Conference is hosted by the University of Erfurt

Email: projekt.globcomlifeworld17@uni-erfurt.de
https://www.uni-erfurt.de/kommunikationswissenschaft/forschung/workshopstagungen/lifeworldcommunicationandtheglobalwoman/

The University of Aveiro (Portugal) opens a call for two Postdoctoral fellowships in the scientific field COMMUNICATION SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES within the framework of the project “CeNTER – Community-led Territorial Innovation”, (CENTRO-01-0145-FEDER-000002), financed under Programa Operacional Regional do Centro (Centro2020), through FEDER funds, under the PT2020 Partnership Agreement.

We seek to receive applications from researchers holding a PhD in Digital Media, or in Communication Sciences and Technologies, or in Information and Communication in Digital Platforms, or in Multimedia in Education, or in other related field within the areas of Digital Media, Culture and Society.

Applicants should refer to the detailed conditions indicated in:
position 1: http://uaonline.ua.pt/pub/detail.asp?lgen&cI888
position 2: http://uaonline.ua.pt/pub/detail.asp?lgen&cI890

The deadline for the submission of applications is April 7th, 2017.