Media in the Post-Truth World: The New Marketplace of (Dis)information
Prague Media Point Conference 2017
Call for Papers
Prague, 2-4 November 2017

The surprising decision of the UK to depart the EU and equally stunning win of Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential elections have provided dramatic confirmation of long-term trends in the way people consume information, providing further evidence that so-called legacy media are now playing an even smaller role in influencing individual choice. The central challenges facing the media in 2017 are to regain some of the lost credibility that has led to a general lack of trust and also identify new roles or redefine old ones in the current communication ecosystem. What then is the mix of old and new in the marketplace of ideas affecting people’s political choices and overall local and worldviews? What sources are now most trusted, and do gatekeepers matter anymore? Are people even searching for the “truth” or simply what fits their already-predefined opinions?

Possible topics include but are by no means limited to:
Media and Politics
•       The media’s role in the Brexit and Trump campaigns, as well as lessons learned
from upcoming elections in France, Germany, and the Netherlands
•       The impact of celebrity endorsements
•       WikiLeaks’ role in the U.S. presidential campaign
•       The effect of the media on voting behaviour in elections and plebiscites
•       Political satire, talk shows, and humour in the media
•       Populists’ use of the media, especially to polarize audiences
•       Hate speech, including in political campaigns
•       The role of “outside” media actors in influencing domestic elections

(Dis)information Channels – Public Opinion and the Media
•       The power of disinformation and propaganda
•       Media literacy as a possible antidote, with an emphasis on best practices
•       The influence of fake news and conspiracy theories on public opinion • Lessons learned from attempts to counter disinformation and fake news, including new verification tactics and tools
•       Best practices in debunking myths and manipulation
•       Fact checking in response to media reporting
•       The responsibility of the technology giants in the fake news phenomenon, as well as the role of automated algorithms
•       The growing influence of alternative media narratives • The role of social networks as new information channels
•       Echo chambers, selective exposure, and filter bubbles
•       The impact of memes and other viral, non-traditional content • Pre-election polling and public opinion
•       Political and ideological polarization in media coverage and/or media consumption

Media Ownership
•       Oligarchs as media owners and self-censorship
•       The role of public media and government-controlled media in setting the agenda
•       The declining impact of traditional media and the challenge of financial sustainability
•       Fake news as a revenue source for both companies and individuals.
Please submit your 500-word abstracts and a short bio by 31 May, 2017. Please suggest 5-10 keywords which can be used for describing the content of the abstract. The abstracts will be subjected to a peer review process and should be submitted to: spata@keynote.cz.
The organizers have reserved a number of spaces for non-presenting conference attendees. We also provide non-presenting students the possibility of applying for a limited number of free registration spaces for the conference. If you want to apply, please contact Martin Špáta at spata@keynote.cz.

Deadlines
Abstract submission deadline                    May 31, 2017
Notification of acceptance                      July 1, 2017
Early bird registration deadline                        July 31, 2017
Full paper submission                           September 30, 2017
Regular conference registration deadline        October 15, 2017

Conference fee
Early bird fee (submission of payment by July 31, 2017)
Basic                                                           € 220
ECREA and CISS members, and Charles University faculty  € 195
PhD students                                                    € 90

Regular conference fee (submission of payment by October 15, 2017)
Basic                                                           € 250
ECREA and CISS members, and Charles University faculty  € 220
Non-presenting participants                                     € 145
PhD students                                                    € 110

More information about the conference: www.keynote.cz.
Prague Media Point is an annual international conference, dedicated to discussing the changing media landscape in a professional, political, economic, and social context. These events gather leading academics, journalists, media executives, and experts from around the world to exchange experiences, establish new contacts, and debate challenges facing both traditional and new media It is organized by Transitions, a non-profit organization established to strengthen the professionalism, independence, and impact of the news media in the post-communist countries of Europe and the former Soviet Union, and KEYNOTE, an organization specializing in organizing conferences and events that lead to cutting-edge international encounters, bring new ideas to life, and facilitate a unique networking experience. In November 2016 Prague Media Point was organized as an ECREA pre-conference.

The Steering Committee includes the following members:
Tony Curzon Price, openDemocracy, Editor-in-Chief
Jeremy Druker, Transitions, Director
Sai Felicia Krishna-Hensel, CISS/ISA, President Emeritus
Alenka Jelen Sanchez, University of Stirling; ECREA Executive Board Member
Jakub Klepal, Forum 2000 Foundation, Executive Director
Jiří Pehe, New York University in Prague, Director
Václav Štětka, Charles University in Prague, Senior Fellow Researcher
Gavan Titley, National University of Ireland, ECREA Diaspora, Migration and the Media, Chair
Eva van de Rakt, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Prague, Director
Christopher Walker, National Endowment for Democracy’s International Forum for Democratic Studies, Executive Director
The 2016 conference was supported by the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Prague, Representation of the European Commission in the Czech Republic, the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Prague, the Embassy of Canada to the Czech Republic, the Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism at Charles University, and the Comparative Interdisciplinary Studies Section (CISS) of the International Studies Association (ISA).

Workshop: Fake news and its implications on democracy
Conference: Big data – Small world
Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 29 – June 1 2017
Supported by the IPSA RC10
Organized by the Faculty of Political Science and InMed Institute

InMed Institute and Faculty of Political Science supported by IPSA’s Research Committee 10 on Electronic democracy and in partnership with DEL research network are organizing IPSA Workshop on „Fake news.“ We would like to hear about:

Workshop topics

•             History of fake news and its origins
•             Fake news websites
•             Future of journalism in times of post-truth and fake news
•             Fake news in political campaigns
•             Alternative facts“ and Trump’s campaign
•             Fake news and democracy
•             Importance of relevant sources and how to distinguish false and truth information
•             Exposing and challengingfake news
•             Fake news, misinformation and propaganda

Conference topics

•             From datafication to data activism
•             ‘Dark’ uses of Big data
•             Applications of Big data and the way in which the data is collected and organised
•             Management of Big data, Data mining and statistical predictions
•             Data journalism
•             Big data and Social Media
•             Political campaigns and Big data

Interested participants should first submit an abstract (a 300-word outline) of their paper by 25 March, 2017 indicating clearly its subject and scope, and including a provisional title. The abstracts received will be peer-reviewed and authors will be notified of the outcome by 10 April, 2017.

Authors of accepted abstracts will be required to send the full paper or presentation by 25, May 2017.

The conference language is English.

We invite individuals from academic and practical backgrounds as well as public administration offices, public bodies, NGOs, education institutions and independent organizations, to submit their contributions.

Costs :

EUR 70 – for authors
EUR 85 – for participants

The fee includes conference entry, proceedings and social program during the conference.

Pre-conference social program is to be announced.

Important dates:

March 25         Abstract submission
April 10 Notification of acceptance of abstracts
May 25 Full paper/presentation submission
May 29  –  30  Workshop
May 31 – June 1     Conference

Submissions
Please send all submissions by electronic mail in pdf format tomarina@edemokracija.hr.
All submissions are subject to a double-blind full paper review by at least 2 reviewers. To facilitate the review process, please write a separate cover sheet with the paper title and affiliation/s and omit the affiliations in the actual paper.

Participants who are not contributors (i.e. who do not propose a paper) can apply through our web site www.edemokracija.hr. Please note that the number of non-contributing participants is limited so we encourage you to apply as early as possible.

For further information please visit: www.edemokracija.hr

Workshop Chairs :

Prof. dr. Nenad Prelog (president) nenad@edemokracija.hr
Doc.dr. Domagoj Bebić (secretary general) domagoj@edemokracija.hr
Contact Details :
Marina Jurić (coordinator)
marina@edemokracija.hr
Šibenska 1, 10 000 Zagreb, Hrvatska

The ingenuity and entrepreneurial spirit of the city of Chemnitz, located in mid-eastern Germany, is a driving force of the scientific success of Chemnitz University of Technology since its foundation in 1836. With more than 11.000 students, 2000 university employees and its renowned Cluster of Excellence “Technologies for Multifunctional Lightweight Structures (MERGE)”, Chemnitz University of Technology is an aspiring, future-oriented, and modern educational institution with both high scientific competence and high potential for innovation. The university’s primary profile builds upon interdisciplinary and international cooperation by bringing together research from the fields of engineering and natural sciences with social sciences and humanities as well as economics to promote state-of-the-art research and study programs.

The Institute for Media Research at the Faculty of Humanities is looking for applications for the following position as Full Professor at the next possible date:

Professor (W2) „Communication and Media Studies“ / „Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft“
The professor will represent the broad range of communication and media studies and collaborates with other sections of the Institute of Media Research both in research and teaching. Applicants should have a strong record of research with a focus on digital media, online communication, and processes of social and cultural mediatization employing qualitative empirical methods in the field of media analysis and social science. A high willingness to participate in transdisciplinary and interfaculty cooperation during research and teaching is expected.

Courses can be held in English or German language. Applicants should possess prior experience with applying for and procuring research funding.

Requirements for appointments as Full Professor are given in § 58 SächsHSFG. Applicants require a successfully completed habilitation or equivalent achievement as evidenced by an excellent record of research in relevant areas.

Chemnitz University of Technology expects applicants to be willing to shift their center of vital interest to Chemnitz and will provide assistance accordingly.

With the goal to increase the proportion of female university employees, qualified female researchers are kindly asked to consider applying for the position.

Equal qualification provided, applications of severely handicapped researchers are treated with preferred status.

Please hand in your application by 31 March 2017 including the usual documents (academic CV, publication record, list of courses, results from teaching evaluations, and other qualifications). Applications should be sent to dekanat@phil.tu-chemnitz.de

Gostaríamos de informar-lhe sobre o III Congreso Internacional de Cultura Visual, que será celebrado na Universidad Abat Oliba CEU em Barcelona, Espanha, nos dias 22 e 23 de maio de 2017. O evento é um lugar de reflexão crítica, tanto para acadêmicos líderes neste campo de estudo como para pesquisadores emergentes.

O tema destacado para esta edição é “100 Anos de Avant-Garde: a revolução da imagem” e as temáticas sobre os quais os participantes poderão realizar uma comunicação são:

Tema 1: Imagem e sociedade
Tema 2: Cultura visual
Tema 3: História e filosofia do visual
Tema 4: A indústria da imagem

O próximo prazo para enviar uma proposta ao congresso, em português, espanhol ou inglês (um título e um breve resumo) é 7 de março de 2017.

Além disso, os participantes que realizarem sua inscrição antes de 22 de março de 2017 terão direito a um desconto na taxa de inscrição.

Para mais informações, não hesite em contactar-nos via e-mail em soporte@sobreculturavisual.com.

http://sobreculturavisual.com/congreso/envio-de-propuestas/?utm_source=Contactos+Cultura+Visual&utm_campaign=539a66a71b-Call_for_papers_Cultura_Visual_2017_ESP_15_02_2017&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c60fd9ce9f-539a66a71b-59050393

The 7^th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology titled RE:TRACE focuses on an evaluation of the status of the meta-discipline MediaArtHistories today.

More than a decade after the first conference founded the field now recognized worldwide as a significant historical inquiry at the intersection of art, science, and technology, Media Art Histories is now firmly established as a dynamic area of study guided by changing media and research priorities, drawing a growing community of scholars, artists and artist-researchers.

Immersed in both contemporary and historiographical aspects of the digital world, we explore the most immediate socio-cultural questions of our time: from body futures, information society, and media (r)evolutions, to environmental interference, financial virtualization, and surveillance. And we do so through a fractal lens of inter- and trans-disciplinarity, bridging art history, media studies, neuroscience, psychology, sociology, and beyond. MediaArtHistories is a field whose theory, methods, and objects of study interweave with and overlay other disciplines.

The organizing committee invites researchers of different areas, disciplines and practices to submit individual papers, posters and full panels with new and original research preferably in the following themes:

• MediaArtHistories – historiographies and futures of an ever-emerging field
• Institutional histories of Media Art
• Media Art & Politics (surveillance, climate, visualizations, etc.)
• Collecting media art / Media Art market
• Archiving, preserving and representing Media Art
• Re-Use of cultural heritage data, including education, learning and research
• Methodologies and research tools for MediaArtHistories with a focus on Digital Humanities
• International and local histories and practices of media art
• (Post-)Colonial experiences and non-Western histories of media art, science and technology
• Paradigm shift – Digital vs. Post-Digital Theory
• Alternative histories for Media Art in relation to newly evolving or unexpected fields.
• Models and perspectives of research fields adapted across traditional disciplinary lines.
• New symbolic architecture of digital super companies (Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, FB, Google)

The refereed conference program will include competitively selected, peer-reviewed individual papers, panel presentations and posters, as well as a small number of invited speakers. Presentations will be delivered in a range of formats, from panel discussions to a poster session. We particularly encourage submissions by researchers from international contexts outside of Europe and North America.

Keynote lectures by internationally renowned, outstanding leaders in the field, will deliberate on the central themes of the conference series, its histories and futures.

Submission Deadline: March 26, 2017
submit to the call – click here

Notification of acceptance will be announced by April 30, 2017.

Individual proposals for papers should consist of a max. 250-word abstract with title.
Proposals for full panels should consist of a max. 500-word abstract outlining the panel and individual topics of confirmed speakers.

Submission language is English.

Submitters should upload a short bio file (Word), no longer than ½ page per person. The short bios will be used on the conference website together with your abstracts.

Initiated by the Media Art Histories Board (Steering Committee):

Prof. Dr. Sean CUBITT (Deputy Head of Department & PhD Tutor / Media and Communications / Goldsmiths University of London / UK); Univ.-Prof. Dr. habil. Dr.h.c. Oliver GRAU, MAE (Head of Dept & Chair Professor in Image Science / Danube University / AT); Dr. Linda Dalrymple HENDERSON (David Bruton, Jr. Centennial Professor in Art History / Dept of Art + Art History / University of Texas at Austin / US); Dr. Andreas BROECKMANN (Leuphana Arts Program, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, GER); Prof. Dr. Erkki HUHTAMO (Departments of Design Media Arts, and Film, Television, and Digital Media / University of California Los Angeles / US); Prof. Dr. Douglas KAHN (Professor of Media and Innovation / National Institute of Experimental Arts (NIEA) / University of New South Wales, Sydney / AU); Prof. Dr. Machiko KUSAHARA (School of Letters, Arts and Sciences / Waseda University / Tokyo, Japan); Prof. Dr. Tim LENOIR (Kimberly J. Jenkins Chair for New Technologies in Society / Duke University / US); Prof. Dr. Gunalan NADARAJAN (Dean / Stamps School of Art & Design / University of Michigan / US); Prof. Dr. Paul THOMAS (Director / Fine Arts at College of Fine Art / University of New South Wales /AU)

MAH Honorary Board: Martin KEMP, Jasia REICHARDT, Itsuo SAKANE, Peter WEIBEL,
Douglas DAVIS †, Rudolf ARNHEIM †

Conference dates: November 23–25 , 2017, Krems (World Cultural Heritage) & Vienna, hosted by DANUBE UNIVERSITY

Venues:
Danube University / Located 70km from Vienna in the UNESCO World Heritage Wachau region, Danube University is the only public university in Europe specializing in advanced continuing education by offering low-residency degree programs for working professionals and life-long learners. Located at both a modern university campus and in the Göttweig Monastery, the Dept. for Image Science is an internationally unique institution for research and innovative teaching with an international faculty, at this point 120 scholars from various nations and disciplines. The innovative approach of the Department for Image Science with the close connection to practice has developed the Archive of Digital Art and founded in 2006 the low-residency MediaArtHistories-Advanced, MA answering the need for international, post-graduate studies.
Vienna / The vibrant capital of the Republic of Austria in Central Europe meeting international travel standards with safe and exciting surroundings that embrace culture both old and new. Planning for Vienna is being organized with partner institutions and colleagues. Fast and frequent public transportation between Vienna and Krems allows for a blending of two locations into one venue, distributing separate days in each venue.

Links:
Re:Trace call for papers
MediaArtHistories-Advanced, MA
Archive of Digital Art