CFP: Communicating with Machines: Interventions with Digital Agents

CFP: Communicating with Machines: Interventions with Digital Agents

Date & Time: Thursday, 25 May 2017; 8:30 - 16:00
Venue: San Diego Hilton Bayfront **ON-SITE**

Organizers:
Autumn Edwards, Western Michigan U; Chad Edwards, Western Michigan U; Andrea L. Guzman, Northern Illinois U; David J. Gunkel, Northern Illinois U; Steve Jones, U of Illinois at Chicago; U; Austin Lee, Northern Kentucky U; Seth C. Lewis, University of Oregon; Jake Liang, Chapman U; Patric Spence, U of Kentucky



Cost of Registration & Attendance:
Faculty $75 USD/ Student $50 USD

Sponsors:
Northern Illinois U, Department of Communication
Northern Kentucky U, College of Informatics
U of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Communication
U of Kentucky, College of Communication & Information, School of Information Science
U of Oregon, Shirley Papé Chair In Electronic Media, School of Journalism and Communication
Western Michigan U, Communication and Social Robotics Lab

Deadline for submissions: 31 January 2017

Digital interlocutors are increasingly standing in for humans in communication contexts. This pre-conference focuses on communication with and between humans and digital interlocutors that has the potential to engage, alter, and disrupt “normal” events, practices, and phenomena. We invite scholars from across ICA’s divisions and a variety of epistemological and methodological backgrounds to discuss their work related to Human-Machine Communication (HMC) interventions, which encompasses Human-Computer Interaction, Human-Robot Interaction, and Human-Agent Interaction, in this full-day pre-conference. We seek to raise awareness of and further develop HMC research and the scholarly community surrounding it.

Notification of acceptance: 15 February 2017

Participant Acknowledgment: Accepted participants will be listed along with the titles of their presentations in both the ICA Conference and the HMC Preconference programs.

Preconference Focus: As artificial intelligence, robotics, and ICTs continue to develop and merge, we are increasingly interacting with digital interlocutors such as voice-based agents, robots, and social bots. We also are sending and receiving messages to and from wearable devices. We directly interact with the technologies surrounding us, and digital entities have been and continue to stand in for humans in everyday communication contexts. The recent surge of digital interlocutors into quotidian routines has been accompanied with questions – voiced by leading scientists as well as the average person – regarding the ramifications of these technologies and our interactions with them.

In concert with the conference theme of "Intervention," our pre-conference focuses on communication with and between humans and digital interlocutors that has the potential to engage, alter, and disrupt “normal” events, practices, and phenomena. We invite scholars from across ICA’s divisions and a variety of epistemological and methodological backgrounds to discuss their work related to HMC interventions, which encompasses Human-Computer Interaction, Human-Robot Interaction, and Human-Agent Interaction, in this full-day pre-conference. We will focus on the individual, cultural, and philosophical implications of the various ways in which we interact with machines. Possible topic areas for participant presentations include, but are not limited to, communicative practices between humans and digital interlocutors, the integration of artificial entities into private, professional, and political spaces, the incorporation of AI into journalism and other media industries, cultural discourse surrounding these technologies, relationship dynamics between humans and machines, reinterpretations and representations of humans as digital entities, and intercultural aspects of HMC. We invite scholars from ICA’s many divisions to discuss their work regarding the individual, cultural, and philosophical implications of machine/digital interventions. We seek to raise awareness of and further develop HMC research and the scholarly community surrounding it. We hope to continue the conversation from last year’s post-conference in Japan.

Preconference format: Our goal is to provide a space for participants to present their research and engage in conversation with one another. We have adopted a two-tiered format in which some scholars will be invited to deliver a paper presentation while others will be invited to take part in a poster session. More details are forthcoming.

Papers: (750-1,000 words excluding references). Papers should detail what the scholar plans to present and how it relates to the overall focus of the preconference on human-machine communication. We are interested in all forms of scholarship (theoretical, empirical, etc).

Papers should be submitted as an attachment to Autumn Edwards: autumn.edwards@wmich.edu

Job: CSIRO Postdoctoral Fellow in Augmented Reality for Decision Support

Job: Postdoctoral Fellow – Digiscape, Augmented and Virtual Reality

CSIRO: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Canberra, ACT, Australia

http://www.researchcareer.com.au/jobs/5810-csiro/53558

Deadline: January 9, 2017 or until filled

• Do you want to make a difference?
• Build Augmented Reality systems to support decision making in agriculture
• Join CSIRO’s Data61 and make an impact

As a Postdoctoral Fellow you will carry out innovative, impactful research that will lead to novel and important scientific outcomes, including carrying software engineering and programming for rapid pro-typing of Augmented Reality (AR) systems.

Specifically you will:

• Survey literature, attend workshops and collaborate with staff in Aquaculture and the broader Agriculture domains to understand and map opportunities for AR technologies.
• Craft technology demonstrations that enable people to experience new application concepts using real/live data.
• Contribute to commercialisation efforts.
• Maintain an awareness of industry roadmaps.
• Produce high quality scientific and/or engineering papers suitable for publication in quality journals.
• Prepare and present appropriate conference papers.
• Contribute to the development of innovative concepts and ideas for further research.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues and staff across CSIRO.

Location: Canberra, ACT, Australia
Salary: $78k to $88k plus up to 15.4% super
Professional Development Budget: Yes
Term: 3 years
Reference: 29563

To be considered you will need:

• A PhD in Computer Science, Engineering or a directly related field.
• High levels of oral and written communication and ability to represent the team at national and international conferences
• Experience conducting research in interactive 3D graphics and/or computer vision in Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and/or Web3D.
• Experience building interactive software in one of the following programming languages -Javascript, C++, C#, Python, Matlab.
• Familiarity with computer graphics engines such as Unity or Unreal and/or familiarity with Graphics Libraries such as OpenGL, Vulkan, or DirectX.
• The ability to work effectively as part of a multi—disciplinary, regionally dispersed research team and carry out tasks autonomously.
• A record of science innovation and creativity and a willingness to contribute novel ideas and approaches to support scientific investigations.
• To be able to travel to conferences, fieldwork, meetings and other events.

ABOUT CSIRO

At the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation we do the extraordinary every day. We innovate for tomorrow and help improve today – for our customers, all Australians and the world.

We imagine. We collaborate. We innovate.

Find out more www.csiro.au

ABOUT THE FUTURE SCIENCE PLATFORMS AND DIGISCAPE

Future Science Platforms (FSPs) are a major new CSIRO initiative and are multi-year investments in frontier science that will help reinvent and create new industries for Australia. In the future Australia’s agriculture.

Digiscape is the FSP that is creating next-generation decision tools to transform the agriculture and land management sector. To achieve this aim, Digiscape will bring to bear cutting edge climate science; new sources of locally and remotely sensed data; informatics for agro-ecosystems; rigorous analysis of uncertainties; and innovation in both the ICT and social dimensions of systems integration.

ABOUT AUSTRALIA AND CANBERRA

Australia is a stable, democratic and culturally diverse nation with a highly skilled workforce and one of the strongest performing economies in the world. With a spectacular natural environment, high quality of life and great diversity Australia is a sought after destination. Find out more About Australia.

Canberra is Australia’s capital city, designed for easy living, with wide tree-lined streets. It is close to snow fields and pastoral lands. The climate supports an outdoor lifestyle that engenders a strong interest in sports of all types.

TO APPLY:

Please upload 1 document only containing your CV/Resume, cover letter and any transcripts. In your application please provide sufficient, brief, relevant and specific information to enable the selection panel to assess your suitability against the selection criteria.

Please note: This is an early career position open to those with no more than 3 years research experience since completing their PhD.

To view the full position description and to apply, please visit: https://jobs.csiro.au/job/Canberra%2C-ACT-Postdoctoral-Fellow/378254200/

Application Deadline: Open until filled, however we encourage you to submit your application by January 9, 2017 as we will interview suitable candidates from this date onwards.

CFP: CRITICAL DIGITAL AND SOCIAL MEDIA STUDIES

NEW CALL FOR OPEN ACCESS BOOK PROPOSALS: CRITICAL DIGITAL AND SOCIAL MEDIA STUDIES

Critical Digital and Social Media Studies is a new open access book series edited by Professor Christian Fuchs on behalf of the Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies and published by the University of Westminster Press (UWP). We invite submissions of book proposals that fall into the scope of the series.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Monday 30 January 2017 23:00 BST

by e-mail to Andrew Lockett (University of Westminster Press Manager), A.Lockett@westminster.ac.uk.

For full details and proposal guidelines see; http://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/news

CALL DETAILS

The Critical Digital and Social Media Studies Series is published by the University of Westminster Press (http://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk). The first volume in the series - Christian Fuchs: Critical Theory of Communication - has just been published and is available as gratis open access book and as affordable paperback:

http://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books/detail/1/critical-theory-of-communication/

Example topics that the book series is interested in include: the political economy of digital and social media; digital and informational capitalism; digital labour; ideology critique in the age of social media; new developments of critical theory in the age of digital and social media; critical studies of advertising and consumer culture online; critical social media research methods; critical digital and social media ethics; working class struggles in the age of social media; the relationship of class, gender and race in the context of digital and social media; the critical analysis of the implications of big data, cloud computing, digital positivism, the Internet of things, predictive online analytics, the sharing economy, location- based data and mobile media, etc.; the role of classical critical theories for studying digital and social media; alternative social media and Internet platforms; the public sphere in the age of digital media; the critical study of the Internet economy; critical perspectives on digital democracy; critical case studies of online prosumption; public service digital and social media; commons-based digital and social media; subjectivity, consciousness, affects, worldviews and moral values in the age of digital and social media; digital art and culture in the context of critical theory; environmental and ecological aspects of digital capitalism and digital consumer culture.

CFP: Changing Ecologies of Media Industries: Technology, Business, and Policy

Changing Ecologies of Media Industries: Technology, Business, and Policy

International Conference in Chuncheon, Korea, April 23-25, 2017

It is now almost two decades since the term ‘Information and Communications Technology (ICT)’ moved into media and communication studies. With the emergence and pervasiveness of the internet and digital technologies, laws, policies, and business practices have been enacted on various ICT industries around the world. New standards, regulations, and other social elements in the ICT industries are of different types, significance, scales and scopes. It is significant to critically evaluate the relationship between these standards and values in their social, political, and technological, and cultural dimensions and thereby develop models of policy development in the ICT industries. Comparative studies are also required to understand the nature of the development processes of the ICT industries around the world. Various topics arise from all levels and corners:

• Who has the power to define develop and implement the standards in the ICT industries?
• What are the roles of the state, business, and consumers in developing, maintaining, and/or contesting the boundaries of the ICT industries?
• What social values emerge in these development processes of the ICT industry?
• Which values are attached to standardization processes in each country’s ICT industry and how are they related to the government’s political stance?
• What are differences and similarities in the development processes of the ICT industries among different countries? And many other related topics.

This international conference aims at collecting papers that focus on the issues related to the ecology of the ICT industries from different angles and perspectives in social sciences, including media, communication, political science, psychology, sociology, economics, anthropology, jurisprudence, history and etc. We especially welcome papers developing models of policy development in the ICT industries.

Extended abstracts should be no longer than 1,000 words, written in English and contain a clear outline of the argument, the theoretical framework, methodology, and results (if applicable). These abstracts should be submitted by January 15, 2017 to kalshin@hallym.ac.kr  For each author, please include name, institutional affiliation, and department, title/position, and contact information. For any other inquiries, please also email to kalshin@hallym.ac.kr 

Notifications of acceptance will be sent out approximately 2 to 3 weeks after the deadline. Selected participants are then required to submit their full research paper of no more than 10,000 words by March 31, 2017.

We are pleased to offer full or partial supports for travel and accommodation to authors of high quality papers. There are a limited number of grants and thus they will be offered on a competitive basis.

Conference Organizing Committee Chair:

Shin Dong Kim, PhD. kimsd@hallym.ac.kr

Professor & Director, Institute for Communication Arts and Technology (iCat)

Hallym University, Korea

*This conference is supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea, and Hallym University.

CFP: 2017 #SMSociety Theme: Social Media for Social Good or Evil

2017 #SMSociety Theme: Social Media for Social Good or Evil

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Our online behaviour is far from virtual–it extends our offline lives. Much social media research has identified the positive opportunities of using social media; for example, how people use social media to form support groups online, participate in political uprising, raise money for charities, extend teaching and learning outside the classroom, etc. However, mirroring offline experiences, we have also seen social media being used to spread propaganda and misinformation, recruit terrorists, live stream criminal activities, reinforce echo chambers by politicians, and perpetuate hate and oppression (such as racist, sexist, homophobic, and anti-Semitic behaviour). Furthermore, behind the posts are algorithms, power structures, commercial interests and other factors that surreptitiously influence our experiences on social media. So, we ask:

• What does it actually mean to use social media for social good?
• How can social media be further leveraged for social justice? What are the threats to meaningful participation and how can we overcome these threats?
• What do we know about the 4 W’s of who, what, why, where (and how) do people engage in anti-social behaviour online?
• What theoretical and methodological tools can we use to study anti-social behaviour? Can we detect such behaviour automatically?
• What are the ethics of algorithms (inclusion, accessibility, data discrimination, bots)?
• What are the legal, policy, privacy, and ethical implications of using social big data?
• Considering the proliferation of bots online, can we still trust social media data?
• And more broadly, what are the major effects of using social media on political, economic, individual, and social aspects of our society?

The 2017 International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety) invites scholarly and original submissions that relate to the broad theme of Social Media & Society. We welcome both quantitative and qualitative work which crosses interdisciplinary boundaries and expands our understanding of the current and future trends in social media research, especially those that explore some of the questions and issues raised above. 

IMPORTANT DATES

Workshops/ Technical Tutorials – Due December 5, 2016

Full and Work -in-progress (WIP) Papers – Due January 16, 2017

Posters – Due March 6, 2017

Conference – July 28-30, 2017

Please visit the Submission Page (http://socialmediaandsociety.org/submit/) for a full description of the submission types and deadlines for Workshops/Technical Tutorials, Panels, Full Papers, Work-in-Progress Papers, and Posters.)

PUBLISHING OPPORTUNITIES:

Full and WIP (short) papers presented at the Conference will be published in the conference proceedings by ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (ICPS)  and will be available in the ACM Digital Library. All conference presenters will also be invited to submit their extended conference paper to a special issue of the journal Social Media + Society  (http://sms.sagepub.com/) published by SAGE. 

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE:

The International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety) is an annual gathering of leading social media researchers from around the world. Now, in its 8th year, the 2017 conference will be held in Toronto, Canada on July 28-30.

From its inception, the Conference has focused on the best practices for studying the impact and implications of social media on society. Our invited industry and academic keynotes have highlighted the shifting questions and concerns for the social media research community. From introducing media multiplexity and networked individualism with Caroline Haythornthwaite and Barry Wellman in 2010 and 2011, to measuring influence with Gilad Lotan and Sharad Goel in 2012 and 2013, to defining social media research as a field with Keith Hampton in 2014, to identifying our commitments as social media researchers in policy making with Bill Dutton in 2015, to exploring the future of social media technologies with John Weigelt in 2015, to highlighting the challenges of social media data mining in the context of big data with Susan Halford and Helen Kennedy in 2016.

Organized by the Social Media Lab (http://socialmedialab.ca/) at Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University, the conference provides participants with opportunities to exchange ideas, present original research, learn about recent and ongoing studies, and network with peers. The conference’s intensive three-day program features workshops, full papers, work-in-progress papers, panels, and posters. The wide-ranging topics in social media showcase research from scholars working in many fields including Communication, Computer Science, Education, Journalism, Information Science, Management, Political Science, Sociology, Social Work, etc. 

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: 

• Anatoliy Gruzd, Ryerson University, Canada – Conference Chair
• Jenna Jacobson, University of Toronto, Canada – Conference Chair
• Philip Mai, Ryerson University, Canada – Conference Chair
• Hazel Kwon, Arizona State University, USA – Poster Chair
• Bernie Hogan, Oxford Internet Institute – WIP Chair
• Jeff Hemsley, Syracuse University, USA – WIP Chair
• ADVISORY BOARD:
• William H. Dutton, Michigan State University, USA
• Zizi Papacharissi, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
• Barry Wellman, INSNA Founder, The Netlab Network

TOPICS OF INTEREST:

• Social Media Impact on Society
• Political Mobilization & Engagement
• Extremism & Terrorism
• Politics of Hate and Oppression
• The Sharing/Attention Economy
• Social Media & Health
• Virality & Memes

Social Media & Social Justice

• Social Media & Business (Marketing, PR, HR, Risk Management, etc.)
• Social Media & Academia (Alternative Metrics, Learning Analytics, etc.)
• Social Media & Public Administration
• Social Media & the News

Online/Offline Communities

• Trust & Credibility in Social Media
• Online Community Detection
• Influential User Detection
• Identity

Social Media & Small Data

• Case Studies of Online Communities Formed on Social Media
• Case Studies of Offline Communities that Rely on Social Media
• Sampling Issues
• Value of Small Data

Social Media & Big Data

• Visualization of Social Media Data
• Social Media Data Mining
• Scalability Issues & Social Media Data
• Social Media Analytics
• Ethics of Big Data/Algorithms

Theories & Methods

• Qualitative & Quantitative Approaches
• Opinion Mining & Sentiment Analysis
• Social Network Analysis
• Theoretical Models for Studying, Analysing and Understanding Social Media

Social Media & Mobile

• App-ification of Society
• Privacy & Security Issues in the Mobile World
• Apps for the Social Good
• Networking Apps 

CFP: International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction Special Issue: Following User Pathways

International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction Special Issue: Following User Pathways
http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/est/hihc-cfb-8.2016

Call for Papers
Social media and the resulting tidal wave of available data have changed how researchers analyze communities at scale. However, the full potential for science has not yet been achieved, despite the popularity of social media analysis in the past decade. To date, few researchers invest in cross-platform analyses due to various reasons, e.g. variations in curating data, disparate methods and tools, complexity of cross-platform and mixed method analysis, methodological conflicts arising from mixed method studies, etc.
"Following user pathways: Using cross platform and mixed methods analysis in social media studies" brings together a community of researchers and professionals to address methodological, analytical, conceptual, and technological challenges and opportunities of mapping user across platforms with mixed method analysis in social media ecosystems.

See the full call and scope at: http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/est/hihc-cfb-8.2016?

Important Dates
Abstract Submissions (optional): 19 December 2016
Submission of papers: 1 February 2017
Notification of review results: 28 April 2017
Submission of revised papers: 15 July 2017
Notification of final review results: 15 August 2017
Expected Publication: Q1 2018

CFP: Exploring Transmedia Journalism in the Digital Age

Call for Chapters: Exploring Transmedia Journalism in the Digital Age

For more Information: http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/2447

Editors

Renira Rampazzo Gambarato (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia) 

Geane Alzamora (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)

Publisher

IGI Global

Call for Chapters

Proposals Submission Deadline: December 30, 2016

Full Chapters Due: April 30, 2017

Since the advent of digitization, the conceptual confusion surrounding the semantic galaxy that comprises the media and journalism universes has increased. Multimedia, cross-media, intermedia, and transmedia storytelling are some of the terms aggregated in the media convergence process involving news in liquid, fluid, participatory environments (Bauman, 2000). Transmedia storytelling is one of the newest terms. It was coined by Henry Jenkins (2003) in the fictional realm and refers to the expansion of content across multiple media platforms, encouraging audience engagement in the story. Ever since, transmedia storytelling has been the focus of diverse studies, including its application to journalism (Alzamora &Tárcia, 2012; Canavilhas, 2014; Dominguez, 2012; Gambarato & Tárcia, 2016; Moloney, 2011; Renó, 2014). In the journalism realm, audience can add information to the news content, edit it, and/or share it in online social networks, in addition to eventually collaborating directly in the coverage. Although various media are present in journalism and journalists employ multiple practices to cover multifaceted media events, not every news production is necessarily transmediatic; thus far, the majority of the content spread across different media platforms is simply repurposed. We consider that transmedia journalism, as well as other applications of transmedia storytelling in fictional and nonfictional realms, is characterized by the involvement of (a) multiple media platforms, (b) content expansion, and (c) audience engagement (Gambarato &Tárcia, 2016). Transmedia journalism can take advantage of different media platforms such as television, radio, print media, and, above all, the Internet and mobile media to tell deeper stories. Content expansion, as opposed to the repetition of the same message across multiple platforms, is the essence of transmedia storytelling and, therefore, should be the focal point of transmedia journalism as well. 

The book "Exploring Transmedia Journalism in the Digital Age" moves far beyond studies on multimedia journalism to explore how to tell pervasive news stories across multiple platforms and formats, using current digital technologies, expanding the content and engaging audiences. The publication will conceptualize transmedia journalism, delving into theoretical and critical approaches to this updated subject. Moreover, the book will present analytical views on transmedia journalism case studies and the applications and implications of technological advancements in the journalism realm. 

Recommended Topics

We are seeking chapters for this edited book that address (but are not limited to) the following topics: 

• Theoretical and Critical Approaches to Transmedia Journalism 
• Transmedia Journalism Analysis of Case Studies 
• Transmedia Journalism & Virtual Reality 
• Transmedia Journalism & Social Media Networks (Instagram, Snapchat, Tinder, Twitter, Facebook, etc.) 
• Transmedia Journalism & Newsgames 
• Transmedia Journalism & Data, Robots, Algorithms 

Submission Procedure

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before December 30, 2016, a chapter proposal of 500 to 1,000 words, a list of 10 references and short biography. Authors will be notified by January 31, 2017 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by April 30, 2014. Propose a chapter here: http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/2447 

Important Dates

December 30, 2016: Proposal Submission Deadline 

January 31, 2017: Notification of Acceptance 

April 30, 2017: Full Chapter Submission 

June 30, 2017: Review Results Returned 

August 15, 2017: Final Acceptance Notification 

August 30, 2017: Final Chapter Submission

Inquires can be forward to Renira Rampazzo Gambarato, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow (rgambarato@hse.ru).

CFP:International Journal of Digital Television

International Journal of Digital Television

http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=175

Edited by Petros Iosifidis, Issue 8.3

The Public Sphere and the Social Media (Autumn 2017)

Guest edited by Duygu Karatas (University of Westminster) and Mark Wheeler (London Metropolitan University)

Deadline for Proposals:  15 December 2016  

Notification of Accepted Proposals: 1 February 2017
Deadline for Full Papers: 15 May 2017

Social media is said to radically change the way in which public communication takes place: information diffuses faster and can reach a large number of people, but what makes the process so novel is that online networks have the ability to empower people to affect a potentially true form of popular sovereignty. This special edition will focus on the broad area of virtual democratic behaviour with reference to the social media acting as a public sphere to facilitate new forms of political participation, electoral practices and social movements. Therefore, it will critically interrogate the contemporary relevance of social networks as a set of economic, cultural and political enterprises. It is the aim of this edition to consider whether the social media can construct a public sphere(s) in which a variety of political and socio-cultural demands can be met. This edition follows on from a day-long conference in June 2016 entitled ‘Social media, politics and democracy ‘ (http://www.city.ac.uk/events/2016/june/social-media,-politics-and-democracy) which was organized to launch Petros Iosifidis and Mark Wheeler’s recent book 'Public spheres and mediated social networks in the western context and beyond' (Palgrave, 2016).

Possible topics include, but are not limited to: 

• Democratic/post-democratic behaviour and the social media
• The Public Sphere and on-line activism
• Social movements and social networks
• Digital diplomacy, soft power and international relations
• Traditional political activity and social media campaigns
• The policy context for on-line outreach
• The regulatory framework at the national and supranational level for information technologies
• The political economy of the communications revolution
• The globalization of information and knowledge
• The Global South and the social media

  

The International Journal of Digital Television explores the transition to digital TV and the social and cultural questions surrounding the future of television beyond switchover. It brings together and shares the work of academics, policymakers and practitioners. Content ranges from critical work on technological, industry and regulatory convergence to wider socio-cultural and political questions including audience behaviour, plurality of channels and programming choice, and television and new media’s influence.

Please send an abstract of up to 300 words by 15 December 2016 to:

Mark Wheeler:  m.wheeler@londonmet.ac.uk and

Duygu Karatas: D.Karatas@westminster.ac.uk

Invited authors will be notified by 1 February 2017 and full articles of 5,000-7,000 words will be due on 15 May 2017. All submissions will be subjected to double-blind peer review. Following refereeing, final versions of articles will be due on 30 June 2017.

More information about the Journal and Notes for Contributors: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=175

CFP: ICA 2017 Pre-Conference "Data and the Future of Critical Social Research"

Call for the ICA 2017 Pre-Conference "Data and the Future of Critical Social Research"

Sponsored by the Philosophy, Theory and Critique Division of the International Communication Association
Event date: 25 May 2017, 9:00 AM - 5 PM, San Diego, California, USA
Deadline for proposals: January 15th, 2017 (500 words abstract)
Organisers: Nick Couldry (London School of Economics) and Andreas Hepp (University of Bremen)


What we call media and mediated communication is more and more interwoven with processes of datafication in an environment of continuous and largely automated data-gathering, for example, from our activities online or our mobile phone use. The uses of data collected, aggregated and analysed by systems of computers are today a precondition for everyday life. In short, data are changing social ontology, and as a result the role of 'media' within the constitution of the social. This can be understood as  part of a process of 'deep' mediatization (Couldry and Hepp 2016) - in which the very elements and building-blocks from which social is constructed are based in processes of mediation, accompanied by automated data processing.

In this transformed context, this pre-conference asks: What do such changes mean for critical communications and social research - indeed for critical social theory and informed political action generally? How should we now do critical empirical research into media and communications bearing this deep mediatization in mind? The pre-conference aims both to focus these questions theoretically and to encourage perspectives on what constitutes critical empirical research under such conditions.

Questions on which we welcome either theoretical or empirical contributions include:

• What sort of economic, political and social order is being built through today’s data relations and their underlying linked infrastructures?
• How are the self's relations to institutional power changing through digital traces, data relations and with implications for autonomy and freedom?
• How is the nature of social institutions changing through deep mediatization and the pervasiveness of data relations?
• Are practices of civic and political intervention for social change on balance stimulated or undermined in a datafied environment? 
• What does community and other forms of collectivity come to mean under these new datafied conditions?
• How should we develop our methods for a critical analysis of processes of deep mediatization?
• What kind of social interventions are needed that build from critical analyses of datafication?

Please email a 500 words proposals to Andreas Hepp (andreas.hepp@uni-bremen.de) by January 15th, 2017. Please direct any questions to: Nick Couldry (n.couldry@lse.ac.uk) or Andreas Hepp (andreas.hepp@uni-bremen.de).

6th International Mobile Innovation Screening

6TH INTERNATIONAL MOBILE INNOVATION SCREENING

The #MINAmobile2016 International Mobile Innovation Screening will showcase short films produced on and with smartphones, mobile and pocket cameras. In addition this year will introduce Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), Drone, Social Media and New Media productions as part of the screening program (http://mina.pro/screening)

MINA CREATIVITY & MOBILE INNOVATION SYMPOSIUM

This year MINA, the Mobile Innovation Network Australasia, is pleased to announce that Swinburne University (AUS) will host #MINAmobile2016 – International Mobile Creativity and Mobile Innovation Symposium & Screening in Melbourne, 30th November - 2nd December (http://mina.pro/minamobile2016/).

Tickets via https://minamobile2016.eventbrite.co.nz

CFP: Studies In New Media

Call For Book Proposals -- Studies In New Media

Series Editor: John Allen Hendricks, Ph.D.
Series Editor Email: jhendricks@sfasu.edu
Publisher: Lexington Books, a division of Rowman & Littlefield

Deadline: Rolling Deadline

ABOUT THE SERIES:

This series aims to advance the theoretical and practical understanding of the emergence, adoption, and influence of new technologies. It provides a venue to explore how New Media technologies and Social Networking Sites (SNS) are changing the media landscape in the twenty-first century. Single authored, Multi-authored, and Edited book proposals will be considered.

Books included in this series focus on topics such as:

• Online Gaming
• New Media and research methodologies
• Media technologies
• Theory development
• Video games
• Mobile content
• Policy development
• Media usage and psychology
• Political usage
• Social media technologies

PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS/QUERIES:

Scholars interested in having a proposal considered should contact the series editor:
John Allen Hendricks, PhD
Chair and Professor
Stephen F. Austin State University
Department of Mass Communication
(936) 468-4001

CFP In Radio & Audio Studies

Call For Chapters In Radio & Audio Studies

Radio’s Second Century: Perspectives on the Past, Present and Future

Editor:
John Allen Hendricks, Stephen F. Austin State University (jhendricks@sfasu.edu)

Abstract Submission Deadline: Friday, November 25, 2016

As radio enters its second century of serving the news, information, and entertainment needs of listeners around the world and despite seismic shifts both internally and externally, it has remained a very robust and vital media industry. Undeniably, the radio industry has witnessed extraordinary changes and challenges since the passage of the Radio Act of 1927, and it remains a primary mass media outlet around the globe.

Recent research indicates that 91% of Americans, or 243 million people, aged 12+ listen to radio weekly, 53% listen to online radio monthly from mobile phones and computers, and 81% listen to radio when they are in automobiles. Research also indicates radio continues to have the ability to appeal to new listeners. Millennials, those born between 1982 and 2004, are now the largest share of the radio audience. Moreover, UNESCO asserts: “Radio is the mass media reaching the widest audience in the world.” There are more than 40,000 radio stations worldwide. Undeniably, despite numerous challenges, radio is thriving. This book will explore and explain how the radio industry has been able to remain relevant.

Research from both national and international perspectives of the radio industry will be evaluated. Specifically, the book will examine issues that have played a pivotal role in radio’s evolution, and may specifically focus attention on: 1) technological changes and challenges (internet, mobile, and satellite); 2) legal, regulatory, and ownership policies; 3) a shifting and dynamic audience; 4) management/sales; 5) programming; and, 6) the history of the industry. All research methods and theoretical approaches will be considered.

Specific Topics that Could be Explored: Digital music, Pandora, Spotify, iHeartRadio, SiriusXM, Apple and Digital Music, Rdio’s partnership with Cumulus, Radio Advertising, Radio Listener Demographics (Teens, Millennials, Gen X, Baby Boomers), Performance Fees, Connected Cars, HD Radio, Social Media, Radio Automation and Localism, etc.

Proposal Guidelines

Submit a title and 300-400 word abstract as an email attachment (MS Word) no later than November 25, 2016 to the editor. Abstracts should give a clear sense of (a) the focus of the chapter, (b) the scope of the research, (c) the method of inquiry, and (d) the theoretical foundation.

In addition to the abstract, please submit a bio of each author no longer than 200 words that succinctly includes (a) highest degree earned and the institution from which it was earned, (b) most recent relevant publications and research interests, and (c) areas of scholarly interests and expertise.

The deadline for the final manuscript to submitted is May 15, or earlier.

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CFP: 2017 International Conference on Social Media & Society

2017 International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety)

WHEN: July 28-30, 2017

WHERE: Toronto, Canada (Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University)

SUBMISSION DEADLINES:

Dec 5, 2016: Workshops, Tutorials, & Panels

Jan 16, 2017: Full & WIP Papers   

Mar 6, 2017: Poster Abstracts

Conference website: http://SocialMediaAndSociety.org 

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

2017 #SMSociety Theme: Social Media for Social Good or Evil

• Our online behaviour is far from virtual--it extends our offline lives. Much social media research has identified the positive opportunities of using social media; for example, how people use social media to form support groups online, participate in political uprising, raise money for charities, extend teaching and learning outside the classroom, etc. However, mirroring offline experiences, we have also seen social media being used to spread propaganda and misinformation, recruit terrorists, live stream criminal activities, reinforce echo chambers by politicians, and perpetuate hate and oppression (such as racist, sexist, homophobic, and anti-Semitic behaviour). Furthermore, behind the posts are algorithms, power structures, commercial interests and other factors that surreptitiously influence our experiences on social media. So, we ask:
• What does it actually mean to use social media for social good?
• How can social media be further leveraged for social justice? What are the threats to meaningful participation and how can we overcome these threats?
• What do we know about the 4 W’s of who, what, why, where (and how) do people engage in anti-social behaviour online?
• What theoretical and methodological tools can we use to study anti-social behaviour? Can we detect such behaviour automatically?
• What are the ethics of algorithms (inclusion, accessibility, data discrimination, bots)?
• What are the legal, policy, privacy, and ethical implications of using social big data?
• Considering the proliferation of bots online, can we still trust social media data?
• And more broadly, what are the major effects of using social media on political, economic, individual, and social aspects of our society?

The 2017 International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety) invites scholarly and original submissions that relate to the broad theme of Social Media & Society. We welcome both quantitative and qualitative work which crosses interdisciplinary boundaries and expands our understanding of the current and future trends in social media research, especially those that explore some of the questions and issues raised above.  

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE:

The International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety) is an annual gathering of leading social media researchers from around the world. Now, in its 8th year, the 2017 conference will be held in Toronto, Canada at Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University on July 28-30.

From its inception, the Conference has focused on the best practices for studying the impact and implications of social media on society. Our invited industry and academic keynotes have highlighted the shifting questions and concerns for the social media research community. From introducing media multiplexity and networked individualism with Caroline Haythornthwaite and Barry Wellman in 2010 and 2011, to measuring influence with Gilad Lotan and Sharad Goel in 2012 and 2013, to defining social media research as a field with Keith Hampton in 2014, to identifying our commitments as social media researchers in policy making with Bill Dutton in 2015, to exploring the future of social media technologies with John Weigelt in 2015, to highlighting the challenges of social media data mining in the context of big data with Susan Halford and Helen Kennedy in 2016.

Organized by the Social Media Lab at Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University, the conference provides participants with opportunities to exchange ideas, present original research, learn about recent and ongoing studies, and network with peers. The conference’s intensive three-day program features workshops, full papers, work-in-progress papers, panels, and posters. The wide-ranging topics in social media showcase research from scholars working in many fields including Communication, Computer Science, Education, Journalism, Information Science, Management, Political Science, Sociology, Social Work, etc.

SUBMISSION DETAILS:

See online at https://socialmediaandsociety.org/submit/

PUBLISHING OPPORTUNITIES:

Full and WIP (short) papers presented at the Conference will be published in the conference proceedings by ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (ICPS)  and will be available in the ACM Digital Library. All conference presenters will be invited to submit their work as a full paper to the special issue of the Social Media + Society journal (published by SAGE).

TOPICS OF INTEREST:

Social Media Impact on Society

• Political Mobilization & Engagement 
• Extremism & Terrorism
• Politics of Hate and Oppression
• The Sharing/Attention Economy
• Social Media & Health
• Virality & Memes
• Social Media & Social Justice
• Social Media & Business (Marketing, PR, HR, Risk Management, etc.) 
• Social Media & Academia (Alternative Metrics, Learning Analytics, etc.) 
• Social Media & Public Administration 
• Social Media & the News

Online/Offline Communities

• Trust & Credibility in Social Media 
• Online Community Detection 
• Influential User Detection 
• Identity

Social Media & Small Data

• Case Studies of Online Communities Formed on Social Media 
• Case Studies of Offline Communities that Rely on Social Media 
• Sampling Issues 
• Value of Small Data 

Social Media & Big Data

• Visualization of Social Media Data 
• Social Media Data Mining 
• Scalability Issues & Social Media Data 
• Social Media Analytics 
• Ethics of Big Data/Algorithms

Theories & Methods

• Qualitative & Quantitative Approaches 
• Opinion Mining & Sentiment Analysis 
• Social Network Analysis 
• Theoretical Models for Studying, Analysing and Understanding Social Media 

Social Media & Mobile

• App-ification of Society 
• Privacy & Security Issues in the Mobile World 
• Apps for the Social Good 
• Networking Apps

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: 

Anatoliy Gruzd, Ryerson University, Canada – Conference Chair

Jenna Jacobson, University of Toronto, Canada – Conference Chair

Philip Mai, Ryerson University, Canada – Conference Chair

K. Hazel Kwon, Arizona State University, USA – Poster Chair

ADVISORY BOARD:

William H. Dutton, Michigan State University, USA

Zizi Papacharissi, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Barry Wellman, INSNA Founder, The Netlab Network

CFP: Lifestyles • Lifeworlds • Lifeworks: What is Life?

Call for Papers

Lifestyles • Lifeworlds • Lifeworks: What is Life?

University of Oregon in Portland (USA) • April 6-8, 2017

Today, media constitute and permeate all avenues and forms of life – scale, pace, and pattern interact in private, public, and organic systems. As technology encompasses more and more practices and agents, and becomes evermore malleable and fungible – What is Life? And, how is life mediated?

In 2017 the seventh annual “What is...?” conference-experience investigates, imagines, and enacts everyday lifestyles and lifeworks by emphasizing the lifeworlds we inhabit. Our aim is to build bridges through multidisciplinary networks along with discovering how communication is instrumental in and for living systems.

The event will bring together scholars, government and community officials, industry professionals, alumni and students, as well as scientists, artists, filmmakers, grassroots community organizations, and the public. It will feature plenary speakers, roundtables, paper presentations, installations, and special events.

Presentations/panels/installations may include the following topics (as well as others):

Communication and Media

• What is media life? How is life mediated? How is life a medium? How do media shape everyday life’s habits?
• How do science communication and ecology inform each other? What is public and/or solutions journalism?
• What are approaches to civic media, engagement, and action for the environment? What is ecosophy?
• How do media draw attention to and motivate certain lifestyles and livelihoods (e.g. crowdsourcing)?
• What ways do technology/media act as life-support/sustaining systems? What is life in an “always-on culture”?
• How do apps, games, and immersive worlds help us to adapt to the ever-changing landscape of mediated life?
• Where are boundaries (dis)integrating between databases and life (e.g. social media and/or bioinformatics)?
• How are language, meaning, mind, and thought grounded in life processes? What is new materialism?
• What are relationships between media archaeology and nature (Geologies of Media and Insect Media)?
• Is life an algorithm (materially and/or symbolically) in big data and data visualization?

 Media and The Environment

• How are ecological education and media related (e.g. ecomedia, ecocriticsm, ecodesign, and/or ecoliteracy)?
• How are communication/media and the natural and life sciences coming together (e.g. ecosystem analysis)?
• How is media metabolized (e.g. e-waste)? How can we repair the world (e.g. bio-remediation)
• What are emerging issues in environmental humanities research? What is biomedia and/or bioart?
• How are place and space (environments) related to media and life? What is life enhancement (H+)?
• How does an embodied (material) account of media and science/art contribute to integrative thinking?
• What are indigenous peoples’ rights and issues (e.g. natural resources, autonomy, environmental degradation)?

 Sustainability, Responsibility, and Beyond

• What are sustainable cities and livability? What is biourbanism? What is social ecology?
• How do sustainable housing and/or placemaking foster habitats? What are DIY (design) & SLOW (e.g. food)?
• How can sustainability cultivate more diversity and inclusivity (e.g. gender, race, age, socioeconomic class)?
• How are sustainable business and systems thinking intertwined (e.g. triple bottom line, biomimicry)?
• What is corporate social responsibility in public relations? What is social entrepreneurship (e.g. L3C, B-corp)?
• How does advertising enhance/obsolesce sustainability trends (e.g. life-cycle assessment, greenwashing)?
• What are incubators for social, economic, and political change? What is an evolutionary political economy?
• How are collaborative and cooperative projects facilitating ecological praxis (e.g. open source ecology)?
• Are there accounts of aesthetics and ethics that can assist in our understanding of life processes?
• What comes after sustainability? How do we differentiate sustaining from thriving (communities of practice)?

 Emergence, Synergy, and Regeneration

• What is biodiversity? What is biocommunication, biosemiotics, bioculture, or bioethics?
• What is biopower, biopolitics, bioeconomics, and/or biosecurity? What is ecofeminism and/or ecospirituality?
• What is artificial life/intelligence and/or synthetic biology? How is life being incorporated?
• How do microbes change our conception of life? How does microbial health relate to the built environment?
• What are black swan events? Who controls life, death, birth and aging? What is integrative medicine?

Conference Organizers: Janet Wasko (University of Oregon) and Jeremy Swartz (University of Oregon)

Send 100-150 word abstracts/proposals by November 21, 2016, to: Janet Wasko • jwasko@uoregon.edu

School of Journalism and Communication • University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, 97405-1275, USA

International "COMMUNICATIVE FIGURATIONS“ conference

International  "COMMUNICATIVE FIGURATIONS“ conference

From December 7-9, 2016 the Bremen House of Science (Haus der Wissenschaft, Sandstr. 4/5, Bremen, Germany) will host the international conference 'Communicative Figurations' on the interdependent transformation of communication, media, society and culture.

The ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research, University of Bremen, organises the international conference in collaborati

For today’s life-worlds, media communication is essential: work, leisure, socialization, the public sphere, public engagement, etc. are articulated by different types of mediated communication. Even from a historical point of view it is impossible for us to imagine the multiple and contradictory processes of modernization without media. Today, various domains of the social world are so closely related to (digital) media that they could not exist in their present form beyond media. In this sense, we live in times of 'deep mediatization'.

A particular challenge of researching this stage of mediatization is the present complexity of the media environment: It is not one single medium that is the driving force of change. With the spreading of various technical communication media - television, radio, mobile phone, internet platforms etc. - we are confronted with a 'media manifold' which stimulates various processes of re-mediation and transmediation. And as media are more and more software-based and related to the internet, their use becomes entangled with processes of datafication. How can we investigate then transforming communications in times of deep mediatization? How do the figurations of living together change with the media environment?

The conference takes these fundamental questions seriously and moves the transformation of communications and figurations through the 'media manifold' into the foreground. The focuses of the conference are the transformation of journalism, religion, education, communities, politics, and public discourse. Beyond this, the conference puts an emphasis on the (digital) methods used to investigate related processes of transformation. It is the concluding event of the Creative Research Unit 'Communicative Figurations', being funded within the framework of the Initiative of Excellence.

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2016

20:00
Get Together

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2016

9:00
Plenary: Researching Transforming Communications
*Andreas Hepp, University of Bremen, GER
*Uwe Hasebrink, Hans-Bredow-Institut, GER

10:00-11:00
KEYNOTE 1:
Otherwise Engaged: From vanity metrics to critical analytics
*Richard Rogers, University of Amsterdam, NL

11:00-13:00
Panel: Journalism and its audience - audiences and their journalisms
(chair: Wiebke Loosen)
*Laura Ahva, University of Tampere, FI
*Irene Costera Meijer, University of Amsterdam, NL
*Neil Thurman, LMU Munich, GER
*Wiebke Loosen & Uwe Hasebrink, Hans-Bredow-Institut, GER

13:00
Lunch

Olbers Hall
14:00-16:00
Panel: Remembering to belong? – Family memory in times of deep mediatization
(chair: Christine Lohmeier)
*Sara Polak, Leiden University, NL
*Karina Horsti, University of  Jyväskylä, FI
*Göran Bolin, Södertörn University, SE
*Christine Lohmeier & Rieke Böhling, University of Bremen, GER

Little Hall
14:00-16:00
Panel: Forces of persistence? Religious authority in times of deep mediatization
(chair: Kerstin Radde-Antweiler)
*Pauline Cheong, Arizona State University, USA
*Andrea Rota, University of Fribourg, CH
*Tim Hutchings, Stockholm University, SE
*Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, Sina Gogolok & Hannah Grünenthal, University of Bremen, GER

16:00
Coffee and tea break

Olbers Hall
16:30-18:30
Panel: Datafying education
(chair: Andreas Breiter)
*Kim Schildkamp, University of Twente, NL
*Daniel Light, Center for Children and Technology, New York, USA
*Rebecca Eynon, Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford, UK
*Andreas Breiter & Juliane Jarke, University of Bremen, GER

Little Hall
16:30-18:30
Panel: Networked media collectivities
(chair: Thomas Friemel)
*Thomas Friemel & Matthias Bixler, University of Bremen, GER
*Mathias Weber, University of Mainz, GER
*Volker Gehrau, University of Münster, GER
*Christian Steglich, Linköping University, SE

20:00
Dinner

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2016

Olbers Hall
9:00-10:00
KEYNOTE 2:
The social lives of personal data: Communicative Figurations in the rise of self-tracking
*Gina Neff, University of Oxford, UK

Olbers Hall
10:00-12:00
Panel: Pioneer communities: Imagining media-related transformations
(chair: Andreas Hepp)
*Tamara Witschge, University of Groningen, NL
*Leah A. Lievrouw, University of Los Angeles, USA
*Nicole Zillien, University of Trier, GER
*Andreas Hepp, University of Bremen, GER

Little Hall
10:00-12:00
Panel: Imagined communities and cross-media constructions of collectivities
(chair: Hans-Ulrich Wagner)
*Andreas Fickers, University of Luxemburg, LUX
*Marie Cronquist, Lund University, SE
*Alec Badenoch, University of Utrecht, NL
*Lisa Spanka, University of Bremen, GER

12:00
Lunch

Olbers Hall
13:00-15:00
Panel: School’s out: Informal learning in mediatized collectives
(chair: Karsten Wolf)
*Karsten Wolf, University of Bremen, GER
*Paul Eisewicht, TU Dortmund, GER & Pfadenhauer, Michaela, University of Vienna, AT
*Manuela Pietrass, University of the Bundeswehr Munich, GER
*Sebastian Fiedler, University of Hamburg, GER

Little Hall
13:00-15:00
Panel: Meeting face-to-face: Communication and political decision-making
(chair: Tanja Pritzlaff)
*Stéphanie Novak, Espol, Lille, FR & Sandrine Baume, UNIL-Dorigny, Lausanne, CH
*Philippe Urfalino, Directeur d'études EHESS (Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales), FR
*Tanja Pritzlaff & Frank Nullmeier, University of Bremen, GER

15:00
Coffee and tea break

Olbers Hall
15:30-17:30
Disturbances of the middle classes’ conduct of life and their coping
(chair: Ute Volkmann)
*Peter Lunt, University of Leicester, UK
*Christine Linke, University of Rostock, GER
*Uwe Schimank, Ute Volkmann & Michael Walter, University of Bremen, GER

Little Hall
15:30-17:30
Panel: Bridging moralization and deliberation research
(chair: Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz)
*Simon Beste, University of Stuttgart, GER
*Peter Dahlgren, University of Lunt, SE
*Jostein Gripsrud, University of Bergen, NO
*Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz & Rebecca Venema, University of Bremen, GER

17:30
Coffee and tea break

Olbers Hall
18:00-19:30
Panel: The mediated construction of reality
(chair: Uwe Hasebrink)
*Nick Couldry, LSE, UK & Andraes Hepp University of Bremen, GER
*Uwe Hasebrink, Hans Bredow Institut, GER
*Hubert Knoblauch, TU Berlin, GER
*Giselinde Kuipers, University of Amsterdam, NL

20:00
Dinner

REGISTRATION
Registration for the conference is now open. Please register via e-mail (commfigurations[at]uni-bremen.de) with your name, status group and affiliation. You will receive a confirmation.

Please note the following registration fees that have to be paid at the conference check in accompanied by a proof of your status group (e.g. certifcate of matriculation).

Regular rate: 30 euros
Doctoral students: 20 euros
Graduate students: 10 euros

You will receive a cash receipt. The registration fees include the conference dinner and lunches as well as coffee and tea in the breaks between the panels.

CONFERENCE BROCHURE
The conference brochure can be downloaded at:
http://www.kommunikative-figurationen.de/fileadmin/redak_kofi/news/cofi-conference-2016.pdf

on with the Hans-Bredow-Institute for Media Research, Hamburg and the SOCIUM, University of Bremen. The conference welcomes numerous speakers from all over Europe and the United States who investigate transforming communications against the background of an increasing complexity of the media environment. Richard Rogers (Digital Method Initiative, University of Amsterdam) and Gina Neff (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford) will be keynote speakers.