CFP: Journal of Development and Communication Studies (JDCS)

Journal of Development and Communication Studies (JDCS)
Issue topic: ICT and ICTS in Development

http://www.devcomsjournalmw.org/page/call-papers


Vol. 5. Number 1 of the Journal of Development and Communication Studies (JDCS) will be dedicated to research articles, case studies, and book reviews that explore the potential as well as proven role and impact of Information and Communication Technology/Technologies (ICT) and Information and Communication Technologies and Services (ICTS) in the advancement of health, education, gender, water and sanitation, economic, social and cultural development. Interested authors should email their papers, following this journal's submission format (see http://www.devcomsjournalmw.org/page/author-guidelines), to editorial@devcomsjournalmw.org.

Closing date for submissions: 30 November, 2016.

Articles exploring other relevant areas of development are also welcome and should be sent to editorial@devcomsjournalmw.org

Call: 7th Budapest Visual Learning Conference – Virtual, Visual, Veridical

Call for Abstracts

7th Budapest Visual Learning Conference
November 11–12, 2016

Visual Learning: VIRTUAL – VISUAL – VERIDICAL

How do the visual and the virtual relate to each other, what are the relationships between image and truth? How can the visual be veridical, and how is the really real reflected by virtual reality? How are images handed down, and what do traditions amount to in the network age?

Invited speakers:
James E. Katz (Boston University)
Petra Aczél (Corvinus University of Budapest)
Zoltán Kövecses (Eötvös Lóránd University of Budapest)
Philipp Stoellger (Universität Heidelberg)
Kristóf Nyíri (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

Conference to take place in Budapest, November 11–12, 2016. Conference organized by the Visual Learning Lab, Department of Technical Education, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (http://vll.mpt.bme.hu).

Contributions are invited from educational, communication and media theorists, philosophers, linguists, psychologists, and other interested scholars on the following and related topics:

• educational theory and visual learning
• resemblance, representation, reality
• image and language
• images and media theory
• visual rhetoric
• pictorial meaning
• pictorial communication — visual imagery
• visual intelligence
• the visual mind
• the image problem in the history of philosophy
• visual argument
• scientific visualization
• visualization and higher education
• images in the network age

A slot of altogether 30 minutes is planned for each presentation.

The selected papers will be published as an ISBN publication in the series Visual Learning (Peter Lang Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften) as well as in the on-line journal Opus et Educatio.

Submission of abstracts (max. 200 words) and short biographical statements (max. 100 words) by August 16, 2016. Please send your submissions to vll2016@eik.bme.hu. Those submitting abstracts will be notified of the decision concerning acceptance by August 31, 2016.

The conference venue (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 1117 Budapest, Magyar Tudósok körútja 2, Bld. Q, Wing A) is located near downtown Budapest.

CFP: Mobile Methods: Explorations, Innovations, and Reflections | Mobile Media & Communication

Call for papers for a special section of Mobile Media & Communication titled “Mobile Methods: Explorations, Innovations, and Reflections”, to be published in volume 6:1, 2018 (http://mmc.sagepub.com)

Guest

Editors

Jeffrey Boase, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Toronto, Canada, j.boase@utoronto.ca

Lee Humphreys, PhD, Associate Professor, Cornell University, USA, lmh13@cornell.edu

Overview

Mobile devices have become a primary medium of everyday life. They are a means by which close relationships are maintained, new relationships are formed, information is acquired, entertainment is delivered, and work gets done. As such, mobile devices have become an important new site for social science research, and they have simultaneously inserted themselves into traditional research sites in which quantitative and qualitative data are collected. The implications for how data are collected and analyzed are vast and affect researchers working in a variety of traditions. For those working in behavioural science traditions, the large caches of detailed and highly personal behavioural log data contained on mobile devices raise new opportunities along with weighty ethical and methodological challenges. For those working in interpretive traditions, the role of mobile devices in many aspects of social life requires a rethinking of research contexts and modes. Mobile devices can also act as new tools  for data collection, allowing participants to share and create social meaning, and researchers to conduct on-screen surveying, experience sampling, field experiments, technology probes, and so forth.

We seek out scholars who are methodologically reflective about the use of mobile methods in their research, whether it be to better understand the mobile and mediated environment or to use the mobile devices as a lens into broader social, political or health issues, questions, and interventions. We seek diverse mobile methods scholarship that is innovative, rigorous, creative, and/or exploratory.

Submissions that develop or advance new mobile methodological approaches are encouraged, as are articles that explore epistemological issues related to mobile methods.

The articles in the special section may include, but are not limited to, the following themes in the study of mobile methods:

• Ethical issues in mobile data collection
• Multi-method approaches to mobile data collection
• Integrating mobile devices into interviews
• Mobile data collection in field experiments
• Mobile ethnography
• Mobile methods beyond the smartphone and tablet
• Ethically tracking behaviour using mobile devices
• Implications of mobile methods for social science
• Experiential sampling using mobile devices
• Opportunities and constraints with on-screen mobile surveys
• Analyzing large and complex behavioural data collected from mobile devices
• Methods that place mobile use into broader social and situational contexts
• Location tracking in mobile research
• Mobile photo elicitation
• Ethical and methodological issues surrounding the development of data collection apps
• Mobile systems/infrastructure analysis
• Critical methods to mobile data collection

Journal Review Process and Submission Guidelines

For guidelines on preparation of manuscripts and criteria for acceptance, please follow Mobile Media & Communication Submission Guidelines (https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/journal/mobile-media-communication#submission-guidelines).

Please submit an abstract of 700-800 words that clearly states the main argument and evidence of the paper and the primary literatures it is building upon. The abstract should also clearly articulate the submission’s contribution to mobile methods. For empirical studies still in progress, please outline the current state and the timeline. Also include the names, titles, and contact information for 2-3 suggested reviewers. Abstracts are due October 1st, 2016, to j.boase@utoronto.ca (with “Mobile Methods MMC Special Issue” in the subject line), and should be accompanied by an abbreviated biography (approx. 200-300 words).

Positively reviewed abstracts (notification by November, 2017) will be invited to submit full articles by April 1st, 2017, through http://mmc.sagepub.com.

These full articles will be peer-reviewed by two to three reviewers and considered for acceptance. The special section will be published in Volume 6, issue 1, January 2018. Please note that manuscripts must conform to the guidelines for Mobile Media & Communication. Final papers should be no longer than 7,000 words, including abstract, references, figures and tables. In case of further questions, please contact the guest editors.

Tentative Timeline

We are targeting the Special Section publication for January 1st, 2018. The tentative timeline is:

Announce CfP: August 1st, 2016

Extended abstract submission due (700-800 words): October 1st, 2016

Notification of abstract acceptance: November, 2016

Submission of full article: April 1st, 2017

Final version due for production: September 15th, 2017

Submission of full article: 30 April 2016

Final version due for production: December 2016

CFP: ICTs and ICTS in Development

Call for papers

ICTs and ICTS in Development

Vol.5.1 of the Journal of Development and Communication Studies (JDCS) will be dedicated to research articles, case studies, and book reviews that explore the potential as well as proven role and impact of Information and Communication Technology/Technologies (ICT) and Information and Communication Technologies and Services (ICTS) in the advancement of health, education, gender, water and sanitation, economic, social and cultural development. Interested authors should email their papers, following this journal's submission format (see details at http://www.devcomsjournalmw.org/page/author-guidelines), to editorial@devcomsjournalmw.org.

Closing date for submissions: 30 November, 2016.

Articles exploring other relevant areas of development are also welcome and should be sent to editorial@devcomsjournalmw.org.

CFP: Pokémon Go Discussion Panel

Pokémon Go Discussion Panel

Central States Communication Association
2017 Annual Conference

Minneapolis, MN

March 16 – March 18, 2017

The latest iteration of the seminal video game, Pokémon, uses location-based augmented reality. Pokémon Go (PG) became an instant success upon release, accessing the GPS and camera of user’s smartphones in their quest to capture. In-game Pokémon are found in and near different environments (water, forest, grass, etc…) so players must travel in order to obtain a variety of Pokémon, and visit Pokéstops to obtain items used for the game.

The requirement of physically moving around to play PG has been a blessing and curse. Many medical professionals and commentators have praised PG for the improved mental and physical health of players, as they are now moving about their communities and interacting with other players (Halle, 2016). At the same time, PG players are creating issues by trespassing to find different Pokémon, ignoring safety precautions do to being distracted by the game, and disturbing residents who live near very active Pokéstops.

As scholars, we have a unique opportunity to examine a variety of aspects surrounding PG literally from the start of the game release. As such, I would like to assemble a group of scholars for a discussion panel regarding PG for the coming Central States Communication Conference.

• Possible discussion topics include, but are not limited to the following:
• PG helping with family communication
• PG bridging different groups such as young and old, female and male, etc…
• PG helping those with communication anxiety
• PG and community involvement
• PG assisting those with illness such as PTSD, agoraphobia, depression, etc…
• Pedagogical potential for PG
• Players breaking the law (trespassing, destruction of property, etc…) to track down Pokémon
• Differences between the PG gaming community and other gaming communities
• PG creating distractions that are dangerous to the user and those around them
• PG and privacy concerns
• Abuse of the system where criminals have used the app to track down and/or attract unsuspecting players
• PG creating issues for those living near popular Pokéstops
• Discourses about the potential benefits or downsides to PG
• PG as a display of the social and economic conditions of a community
• PG as a site for disruption, protest, and amplification

If you are interested, please send me your name, email, phone number, affiliation, and a brief message explaining what your are interested in discussing in regards to PG and why you would be an excellent addition to the panel.

Thank you,

Christopher Anderson
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
ander973@uwm.edu

Global Media Policy, Governance & Rights: IPSP report panel, Sat 30 July - IAMCR 2016

Global Media Policy, Governance, and Rights Beyond NWCIS and WSIS: Reflections on the International Panel on Social Progress

Saturday July 30, 2016 14:00 - 15:30
LT3 KEB, Ken Edwards Building

Pradip Thomas (University of Queensland)

Ingrid Volkmer (University of Melbourne)

Herman Wasserman (University of Cape Town)

Pradip Thomas (University of Queensland)

Aimée Vega Montiel (National Autonomous University of Mexico)

Cees Hamelink (University of Amsterdam)

In the midst of significant global challenges, especially associated with media transformations, how we can grasp and rethink global media policy, governance, rights, and social justice? How do the complex infrastructures of connection today both expand capitalism but also enable counter-movements? From scientific and policy perspectives, as well as the standpoints of other key actors, how can we approach media infrastructures as a specific site of social and political struggle? What opportunities and challenges are available to us, across the various domains of global media policy, struggling to deal with longstanding issues in media power, as well as new issues in Internet governance, intellectual property, social media platforms, mobile media, the data turn, and so on?

Engaging these urgent questions, this panel introduces and explores a major international initiative the International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP; http://www.ipsp.org/) involving over 300 scholars, ‘rethinking society for the 21st century’. The IPSP includes a number of IAMCR scholars, as well as other leading figures in the field, responsible for the pivotal chapter on media (publicly available in draft form). Participants will include various authors from the IPSP media in dialogue with experts in framing and intervening on global media concerns.

Transnational Mobility in the Asia Pacific

Transnational Mobility in the Asia Pacific
​ ​
Family, Friends, Facebook
​ Symposium​

3 November 2016
RMIT University

Travelling internationally for work, study, humanitarian and lifestyle reasons has become a global phenomenon and commonplace in the Asia-Pacific.  Facilitated by cheaper and more frequent modes of travel together with varied degrees of desire, determination and desperation, the past few decades has seen greater and increasing numbers of people leaving their countries of origin and families to pursue better and improved lives for themselves.  The normality of transnational mobility also means that people have prior, if not frequent experience living outside the country of origin.  Transnational mobility however does not mean a loss of connectivity to family and friends left behind due to the vast improvements in media and communication technologies.  Social media which has grown rapidly in less than a decade has become an embedded part of everyday life.

Social media has changed the landscape of communication.  We are now able to communicate with family, friends and acquaintances en masse and privately, constantly and in real time wherever we are and in whatever we are doing.  More than just presenting us with various ways of communicating with each other, social media has also expanded the social groups we communicate with.  While social media is a platform of choice for everyday communication with people we know, it also allows us to broadcast our thoughts, opinions, ideas and ideologies with a broad audience – across state and national lines.

Discussing the intersections of transnational mobility with new communication technologies and their impact on familial and social networks and relations, this symposium brings together cutting edge research from scholars across disciplines.

Keynote address: Prof Brenda Yeoh, National University of Singapore

Convenor: Dr Catherine Gomes

This event is funded by the RMIT Foundation, International Visiting Fellowship, Digital Ethnographic Research Centre and Asia@RMIT

Registration is FREE

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