*Coordinators: Ainara Larrondo / Irati Agirreazkuenaga (Gureiker Research Group, UPV/EHU);* *Juliana Fernandes Teixeira*

/Teknokultura/, a journal devoted to the study of technology’s impact on society, seeks submissions for Communication, Innovation and Social Change, an upcoming issue to be guest-edited by Gureiker Group (UPV/EHU) researchers Ainara Larrondo and Irati Agirreazkuenaga. Communications and journalism have always needed to respond and adapt to changes brought on by technological innovations and the social and cultural transformations that occur in their wake. This monographic issue purports to provide a contemporary, systematic overview of the ongoing transformations in communications being driven by the Web from the varying perspectives of producers, consumers and prosumers – categories that cover traditional and emergent actors ranging from media outlets and professional journalists to publicly funded institutions, social movements and organisations, citizens, bloggers and influencers. As such, it seeks to address topics such as the main factors driving present and future innovation in social communication, the tools employed, the creative and productive processes involved, the content produced, strategic challenges that must be addressed and public opinion.

Editors are open to receiving manuscripts that reflect a wide spectrum of approaches to this area of research, including, but not limited to, theoretical dissertations, reports on fieldwork, case studies, best practice codes and recommendations.

*The following topics are of particular interest:*

* Cultural policy, technological innovation and network society
* Participation, the psychosocial behaviour of active audiences and  public empowerment
* Challenges involved in Web 2.0 communication for social change
* Public and private organisations’ online communication strategies
* Analyses of the offshoots and outcomes of cultural and media convergence (transmedia storytelling, multi-platform coverage,  newsroom integration, etc.)
* Mobile communications and journalism
* Professional attitudes and reactions in response to the new demands and realities of online communication and journalism (multitasking, professional retraining, changing working conditions, new
relationships with audiences, etc.)
* Ethical questions and best practices related to media work in the context of the new technologies.

*Contact: ainara.larrondo@ehu.eus,* irati.agirreazkuenaga@ehu.eus

/Teknokultura/ (ISSN-e 1549-2230) covers the growing central role of technology within communication and social mobilisation contexts taking a critical view. It looks at the complex ways in which technology and new social communication media, in their role as significance systems, can restructure social, economic, political and cultural life. To do this, it offers lines of discussion on these issues through articles intended to disseminate the results of original research and innovative trials.

The /Routledge Handbook of Character Assassination and Reputation Management/ is due to appear in 2018. It will consist of 28-30 chapters from a wide variety of disciplines, including political science, history, psychology, communication, and legal studies.

This handbook responds to the demand for a creative collection of recent scholarship that transcends disciplinary boundaries. The book consists of the most recent original essays to satisfy the growing interest in this area. It is intended to be both engaging and relevant to scholars, practitioners, and students focusing on issues of character assassination and reputation management in the aforementioned fields.

We define character assassination (CA) as the deliberate destruction of an individual’s reputation or credibility through character attacks. The term may refer to the process as well as the result. Character attacks are by definition intentional and public in nature. They can take place in the context of a political campaign, national or religious propaganda, rivalry between scientists or celebrities, etc. Character assassination can even occur posthumously, for instance in the case of overthrown regimes or political or religious icons (Karl Marx and the Prophet Muhammad are prominent examples). Reputation management entails the building and maintaining of a positive public image, including the defense against character attacks and damage control in case of a bruised reputation.

We invite all contributors to approach character assassination and/or reputation management from their personal expertise. Chapters may discuss a particular phenomenon (e.g. CA in political cartoons), culture, region or period, or focus on relevant case studies. However, it’s important that each author reflects on the relevance of their specific topic for the broader themes of the volume.

*Proposals*

If you are interested in contributing to this volume, please submit a 500-word abstract of your proposed chapter and a 50-word biography to Sergei Samoilenko at ssamoyle@gmu.edu <mailto:ssamoyle@gmu.edu> by *April 1*. Accepted authors will be notified in May and have until *October 16* to write their 7,000-word contribution.

*Questions and inquiries*

The editors are available to answer any questions.

Sergei Samoilenko (George Mason University), Eric Shiraev (George Mason University), Martijn Icks (University of Amsterdam), Jennifer Keohane (George Mason University)

This is an open conference, anybody can submit. It celebrates the end of project moment for the AHRC CEDAR network, in association with Universidade Católica Portuguesa, the Audience and Reception Studies section of ECREA and YECREA

Date: 28th and 29th September 2017
Venue: Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon, Portugal

Some highlights of this conference include –

• *Keynote speakers*: Sonia Livingstone, Martin Barker, Thomas Tufte, Klaus Bruhn Jensen
• *Highlight Plenary*: End of Project launch panel for the CEDAR network’s findings
• *Audiences2030 Respondents’ Panel*:, Peter Lunt, Kim Schroeder, Pille Prullmann-Vengerfeldt
•*Commentary on the* *Launch Event for the CEDAR Final Report*: With a commentary from  Denis McQuail, Sylvia Harvey and David Frohlich

• *YECREA Workshop*: Voice and identity in academia
• *Conference Dinner at Lisbon Castle*: Our conference dinner will take place at the beautiful São Jorge Castle – a Moorish castle atop a hill, overlooking the historic Lisbon and Tagus River.

*Conference Fee Bands*: Option 1: 70 Euros (with lunch and refreshments); Option 2: 95 Euros (conference dinner, lunch and refreshments); Option 3: 35 Euros (non-presenting attendee fee).

At a time of political and socio-cultural flux in Europe, and as we begin to enter times of what is commonly being called the “Internet of Things”, Audiences 2030 brings together researchers taking diverse approaches to researching audiences, to ask what needs (re)doing in the ways in which we research audiences, the ways in with we mobilise theory, and the extent to which we think of future challenges to a rapidly changing field. Audiences 2030 is the end-of-project conference for CEDAR – the Consortium on Emerging Directions in Audience Research (funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council) and will see a highlight plenary from CEDAR launch the outcomes of its unique foresight
exercise about the future of audience research in 2030. The conference will see keynote speeches from Sonia Livingstone, Martin Barker, Thomas Tufte and Klaus Bruhn Jensen. In our call for papers we are particularly keen to see a futuristic outlook – whatever project we speak from, we would like to see it contextualised in contemporary complexities (intellectual, socio-cultural, political), and geared towards future challenges. Topics in our CFP include but are not restricted to –

EU politics, democracy and media audiences
The Internet of Things: implications for audiences and institutions
Audiences’ new literacies, capabilities and coping strategies with digital media
Contemporary political complexities and audience studies
Digital interfaces and their implications for ‘audience’ studies
Speaking to stakeholders in audience research
Race, class, gender and religion in audience studies
Youthful audiences
Invisible, marginalised and under researched audiences
Social action, movements and audiences
Co-option of audience labour
Audiences, media regulation and media policy
New forms of media engagement
The role of texts in contemporary audience research
Cross-media audiences
Methodological and theoretical innovations

For each of this (or indeed, other topics), we particularly welcome papers thinking about the future, including socio-political challenges, anticipated technological changes and implications for research. Our
conference also includes a workshop or PhD students co-hosted by YECREA.

Please find all the relevant information and submit 250 word abstracts on: https://cedarahrc.com/audiences-2030-lisbon-conference/

The last date for submissions is 30th March 2017. We plan to announce results by 15th May 2017.

Ranjana Das (Director, CEDAR), Brita Ytre-Arne (Co-Director, CEDAR),
David Mathieu, Ana Jorge, Ines Amaral, Universidade Católica Portuguesa,
the Audience and Reception Studies section of ECREA and YECREA.
https://cedarahrc.com/audiences-2030-lisbon-conference/
Deadline: 30th March 2017

Move.net <http://Move.net/>* aims to establish itself as an academic forum to share theoretical analysis and ideas in order to understand the social implications of ICTs. We are interested in subjects ranging from the experiences and practices of individual activists and collectives of social transformation to social uses of technology, as well as particular projects based on the idea of technological appropriation in order to promote emancipation.

For the 2017 *Move.net <http://Move.net/>* edition we would welcome papers on the following topics:

_Technological Sovereignty_: Which are the risks and threats for social movements of using technologies made by oligopolistic companies? What dangers does surveillance on behalf of  governments and large corporations have for activists? Which will be the challenges faced by initiatives promoting the autonomous development of technological tools by social movements? Is it worth using disruptive technologies despite their risks?

_Digital Rights:_ How should we understand copyright in the new digital world? Is it possible to reconcile the remuneration of authors with the ease of digital copies? How can the industry adapt to the new digital environment? Do intellectual property rights present a threat to digital networks? To what extent should governments legislate on this matter? In what sense? Should access be considered a new civil right?

_Ciberactivism_: Are exclusively virtual actions effective? How can they complement actions in physical space? Which kind of relationships can be observed between classic and virtual activism? Which innovations on the physical sphere can be translated into cyberactivist practice?

_Digital Democracy_: How can NTICs enlarge participation and improve democracy? Can they worsen the situation through finer propaganda techniques? Does digital democracy ease the dissemination of populist discourses? Which are the risks associated to digital participation? How can political representation and participation via information and communication technologies complement each other?

_Open Data_: Are there enough transparency laws at work at an international level? Can open data be used to enforce citizen control over government action? To what extent must confidentiality be maintained ? Are leaks of information classified as secret legitimate in certain cases (wikileaks, Snowden, Falcini …)? Can digital networks help citizens in monitoring their governments or are they only agents of surveillance?

_Digital Culture and Collective Memory_: Which are the cultural referents of cyberactivist practice on the Internet? What is the relationship between mass culture and popular culture on new digital environments? How does the Internet contribute to maintain the collective memory of social movements? Is there a risk that such memory can be censored when using commercial services?

_Mass Media on the Internet_: How do conventional and new media relate to each other? Do the former still dominate the media landscape, setting the agenda and determining public discourse? To what extent can new media influence public opinion? What is the role of traditional journalism in relation to citizen journalism? What is journalists’ role in the new, saturated informative environment?

_Videoactivism_: Which are the dicoursive features of digital videoactivism? How does it contribute to social change? What contradictions lie in videoactivist practice? Is it a question of form or content?

Complete papers (15-25 pages) should be sent before June, 15th, 2017 to jcandon@us.es (José Candón, University of Seville) and will be read during the Congress at the Faculty of Communication (University of Seville) on 25, 26 and 27 October 2017. Papers will be published in a book of proceedings after undergoing a blind peer-review process under the direction of the scientific committee.

More info at: https://congreso-move.net/

Call4Papers: https://congreso-move.net/c4p-2017-en/

UnMediated is pleased to announce an open call for submissions for its inaugural issue, to appear in print and online in early summer 2017. Abstracts and subsequent essays should be theoretically substantial but accessible, with a view to engaging a broad spectrum of readership. Submissions are sought in particular from those in communication and media studies, political science, information and computer sciences, and visual and performing arts; additionally, submissions are welcome both from independent researchers and those with a current institutional affiliation.

THEME
Whether through written word or visual narrative, submissions to the inaugural issue of UnMediated should explore the notion of communication on the margins. This thematic necessarily rests on the belief that changes in the social and material environment at once influence and are influenced by divergent communications practices. From the mediation of mass migration to the challenges of data driven infrastructure development, this issue will examine how practices of communication intersect with and augment the structural dimensions of daily political life among marginalized people, locales, and movements. Possible topics might include, but are by no means limited to:

• The journalistic gaze: intellectual copyright and (self)representation of marginalized peoples
• Tomorrow’s harvest: digital exclusion and the age of data-driven infrastructure and design
• Abstention, refusal, and the (im)permanence of digital memory
• Visualization, interactivity, and the aestheticization of political literacy
• Political consequences of crowdfunding, upvoting, and the will of the majority

GUIDELINES
A wide range of methodologies and perspectives are invited, contributing to a collection of textual and photographic essays which consider the imprint of communications practices across a broad terrain. As a general rule, pitches and abstracts should be limited to between 200-300 words.

• Long-form articles may be up to 2,500 words in length, and will introduce a new perspective,
ongoing project, or novel finding which rests at the intersection of politics and communication.
• Polemics may be up to 1,500 words in length, and will aim to upend established thinking on a
given topic. Submissions should balance constructive commentary with agitation.
• Reviews may be up to 1,500 words in length and will critically examine a piece of recent timebased media (e.g. documentary film, multimedia installation, or public performance) or
publication (e.g. refereed articles, academic publications, fiction, or interactive media).
• Interviews may be up to 1,500 words in length and will engage a key decision-maker in
extended dialogue. Submissions should aim for concision over exhaustiveness.
• Photo essays and visual narratives will be assessed on a case-by-case basis, but space
constraints dictate that accepted submissions are not likely to exceed 6 stand-alone images.

Submissions which exploit the interplay of words and images are particularly encouraged.
Deadline for pitches and abstracts: March 15, 2017
Kindly submit by e-mail to: tomas@unmediatedjournal.com

‘Excavating Media: Devices, Processes, Apparatuses’, an interdisciplinary conference addressing new approaches to media theory and history

The two-day conference will be held at the University of Cambridge on June 30 – July 1, 2017.

Details are available at: https://excavatingmedia.wordpress.com

Media often escape articulation, even as they shape articulation itself. Today, we increasingly express ourselves through and within digital media, yet our critical vocabulary for these devices, their processes, and the apparatuses in which they are enmeshed, remains thin. Even as the study of media has become an increasingly prominent feature of the scholarly landscape in recent years, it remains a notoriously difficult field to define. This conference will explore the methodologies with which we might excavate past media forms and the knowledge they produce, as well as practices with which we might usefully juxtapose new and old media in order to reframe these technologies in the present.

We invite proposals that consider new approaches to media theory and history. We are interested in papers that will critically examine recent developments in the field, or offer an analysis of specific media, whether new or old, digital or analogue, that will suggest new ways to think through our understanding of media and their epistemological frameworks. A place to begin may indeed be with the term media, or perhaps medium, itself—which is notoriously ill-defined, yet essential to our theoretical frameworks. The programme committee welcomes submissions in the form of 20-minute presentation papers from any discipline. Topics which these might address include, but are not limited to:

Media and the construction of historical narrative
How do media transpire and expire?
How have digital media transformed our perception of older media forms?
The philosophy of technology: technics and techne
How do we distinguish between media and the intermedial?
Polemics on recent approaches, such as ‘media archaeology’ and ‘cultural techniques’
How do media condition and produce knowledge?

The conference will bring together individuals from a variety of disciplines to discuss how we might enhance our articulations of media. Focusing on media will offer a new avenue towards the consideration of the conceptual and material frameworks that undergird the more traditional subject matter of humanistic and social-scientific work. Such questions might radically alter our understanding of interdisciplinary work and the theoretical models in which we trade. An interrogation of the epistemologies bound up with media remains essential in questioning the binary of the old and the new, the antiquated and the relevant, the useful and the remainder.

Plenary addresses will be given by:

Jussi Parikka (Professor in Technological Culture & Aesthetics, Winchester School of Art)

Bernhard Siegert (Gerd-Bucerius-Professor for History and Theory of Cultural Techniques and Director of IKKM, Bauhaus Universität Weimar)

Abstracts for individual papers should be no more than 300 words in length and should be sent, along with a biographical note, to excavatingmedia@gmail.com by Saturday, 22 April 2017. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by the end of April.

Conveners: James Gabrillo (Faculty of Music) & Nathaniel Zetter (Faculty of English)

Está aberta até 31 de maio a chamada de artigos para o Ebook “A Comunicação Organizacional e os desafios tecnológicos”. A publicação, coordenada pelo CECS-Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Universidade do Minho – Portugal e pelo ECO – Grupo de Pesquisa de Estudos Avançados de Comunicação Organizacional, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte – Brasil, pretende promover a divulgação do pensamento científico sobre a Comunicação Organizacional e Estratégica a acontecer no mundo virtual. Ou seja, acolherá artigos que debatam as características e os efeitos da! comunicação organizacional que usa os canais tecnológicos, discutindo os desafios e as oportunidades que apresenta e explorando as possibilidades que abre para o ensino e a investigação em Ciências da Comunicação.

Coordenadores do Volume:
Teresa Ruão – CECS (truao@ics.uminho.pt), Ronaldo Neves – ECO (neves.ronaldo@gmail.com) & José Zilmar – ECO (josezilmar@uol.com.br)

CECS – Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Universidade do Minho – Portugal (http://www.cecs.uminho.pt/)
ECO – Grupo de Pesquisa de Estudos Avançados de Comunicação Organizacional, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte – Brasil (https://ecoufrn.wordpress.com/)

Data-limite de submissão | 31 de maio de 2017
Língua | Português

Contactos: 
Ana Isabel Lopes
b7235@ics.uminho.pt
+351 253601751

Toda a informação:

http://www.cecs.uminho.pt/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Chamada-Ebook-CECS_ECO-2017.pdf