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Oral history of Oscar H. Gandy, Jr., released
by Jeff Pooley 11 Dec '24

11 Dec '24

The Annenberg School for Communication Library Archives (ASCLA) is excited to announce the release of a four-session oral history interview with Oscar H. Gandy, Jr.: https://www.asc.upenn.edu/research/centers/annenberg-school-communication-l… The interview includes transcripts synced to video, along with PDF downloads. The interviews are part of the Communication Scholars Oral History Project, an initiative of the Annenberg School for Communication Library Archives (ASCLA): https://www.asc.upenn.edu/research/centers/annenberg-school-for-communicati… The Oral History Project was launched in 2016 to record the life and intellectual histories of senior Annenberg School scholars. Interviews with Larry Gross, Joseph Turow are currently in processing; and interviews with Carolyn Marvin and Robert Hornik will complete the Annenberg phase of the project. We are excited to share that the scope of the project will then move to the international field, with the aim to document the histories of a diverse range of senior communication and media scholars from around the globe. The Communication Scholars Oral History Project is among the growing collection of materials hosted by ASCLA on the history of the field. Among the collections: * George Gerbner Papers (1951 – 2006) * Elihu Katz Papers (1948 – 2014) * International Communication Organization (ICA) Records * *Studies in Visual Communication* Among the collections in processing: * Herbert I. Schiller Papers (1919 – 2000) * Gail Cameron Wescott papers (1932 – 2022) * Al Sikes FCC papers (1939 –) * Michael J. Copps FCC papers (1940 –) We are excited, in addition, to welcome the donation of records of the Union for Democratic Communication (UDC), after a membership vote at the association’s 2023 meeting. ASCLA also maintains collections on journalism and media. Please contact lead archivist Samantha Dodd Summerbell (samantha.dodd(a)asc.upenn.edu) (for general ASCLA queries) and/or subject consultant Jeff Pooley (jeff.pooley(a)asc.upenn.edu) (for oral history-specific queries) with any questions

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Fulltime Permanent Post in Media Analytics
by chamil rathnayake 11 Dec '24

11 Dec '24

Dear AOIR Community, Please see details of our new post in Journalism, Media and Communications at University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Through the Charlotte Lythe bequest, we are investing in a number of Lythe Lectureships across Humanities to support the development of postgraduate teaching and research programmes and enhance our research excellence. *Strathclyde Chancellor's Fellow/Lythe Lecturer in Media Analytics (667119)* Salary Range: Lecturer: £41,421 - £56,921*, Senior Lecturer: £58,596 - £65,814 FTE: 1 FTE (hours required to fulfil duties of post – Happy to Talk Flexible Working) Term: Open-Ended Closing Date: 5-Jan-2025 For further details contact Prof Karen Boyle, Head of Department Humanities. I am happy to discuss informally as subject leader for JMC. Best wishes, Lesley *The department for this vacancy is Humanities - Journalism, Media and Communication.* More information on the Strathclyde Global Talent Programme including application requirements can be found on our Strathclyde Global Talent Programme website <https://www.strath.ac.uk/workwithus/strathclydeglobaltalentprogramme/>. For any enquiries, please contact globaltalent(a)strath.ac.uk. The University of Strathclyde is a socially progressive institution that strives to ensure equality of opportunity and celebrates the diversity of its student and staff community. Strathclyde is people-oriented and collaborative, offering a supportive and flexible working culture with a deep commitment to our equality, diversity and inclusion charters, initiatives, groups, and networks. <https://www.strath.ac.uk/professionalservices/accessequalityinclusionservic…> *We strongly encourage applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnicity, women, LGBT+, and disabled candidates and candidates from lower socio-economic groups and care-experienced backgrounds.* ** Your Fellowship will normally be at lecturer level (exceptionally, at senior lecturer (Grade 9) (£58,596 - £65,814) where you have a strong track record in research leadership) for 5 years, with the expectation that you’ll meet our promotion criteria within that period and be transferred to senior lecturer (or, where you’ve been appointed as a senior lecturer, Reader) level.* *https://strathvacancies.engageats.co.uk/Vacancies/W/3770/0/441671/15019/strathclyde-chancellors-fellow-lythe-lecturer-in-media-and-analytics-667119 <https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstrathvac…>*

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CFP special issue "Post-Platform Education: Reimagining Digital Ecosystems in Primary and Secondary Schooling"
by Niels Kerssens 11 Dec '24

11 Dec '24

Dear colleagues, We are excited to share the CFP for the special issue "Post-Platform Education: Reimagining Digital Ecosystems in Primary and Secondary Schooling”: https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/post-platform-education-r… Journal: Learning, Media & Technology Guest Editors: Lucas Cone (University of Copenhagen) and Niels Kerssens (Utrecht University) In recent years, European schools and classrooms have become increasingly dependent on Big Tech ecosystems and their promises to seamlessly interconnect physical devices, educational software and apps, and cloud services. With companies such as Google, Microsoft and Apple tightening their grip on classrooms’ transition into digital environments, Big Tech is asserting control over the material infrastructures, discursive framings, and economic logics undergirding educational digitalization. As noted in recent scholarship, the process of platformization provides a useful conceptual tool to describe the implications of this dynamic, namely the transformation of educational content, activities and processes to become part of a (corporate) platform ecosystem, including its economies (data) infrastructures and technical architectures (Kerssens & Dijck, 2021; Srnicek, 2016). In educational research, the broad field of study encompassed under the sociologies of education has proven to provide especially fertile soil for critically analyzing the roles and effects of digital technologies as they become entangled with educational ideas, professional practices, and school materialities (Selwyn, 2019). Applying the analytical lens of platformization, recent work has examined Big Tech influence in public education, including the power of corporate cloud companies and infrastructures in educational governance (Cone et al., 2022; Kerssens, 2024; Kerssens et al., 2023; Williamson et al., 2022). One strand of these studies has engaged specific platform brands such as ClassDojo (Manolev et al., 2019), Google Classroom (Perrotta et al., 2021), as well as various country-specific platforms (Gorur & Dey, 2021; Hartong, 2021), exploring how users and pedagogies are configured in and through the platforms’ technical arrangements (Sefton-green & Pangrazio, 2021). Others have taken up the political economy underpinning platformisation, probing how and to whom data is generated, circulated, turned into assets as it moves across platforms, governmental entities, educational institutions, teachers, and other actors (Birch & Muniesa, 2020; Komljenovic, 2021; Pangrazio et al., 2023). Another strand of research has examined how platformization affects the day-to-day relations of teachers and students in schools and other lived, institutional settings (Apps et al., 2023; Cone, 2023, 2024). Yet as the monetary models, materialities, and embodied effects of Big Tech education come under increasing scholarly, political, and regulatory scrutiny, the apparent disaffection permeating much of the literature on platforms and platformization begs the question of how and where to look for alternatives – both from a practical, administrative, pedagogical, and ethical viewpoint. Specifically, recent years have seen a growing body of calls for critical scholars, activists, and teachers to explore possibilities for reimagining digital education ecosystems that can challenge the status quo of the platform as the infrastructural and pedagogical default for educational digitalization (Selwyn, 2022; Selwyn et al., 2020). With this special issue, we seek to give space for empirical presentations and theoretical frameworks that can nurture such forms of questioning of post-platform education and thereby mobilize the global educational research community around the critical study of platformization – not to reject but rethink the use and potentiality of digital technologies in education (Macgilchrist, 2021). The special issue invites papers that explore possibilities for grounding digital technologies in primary and secondary schooling in other forms of pedagogical and sociological reasoning, infrastructural arrangements, and forms of governance. This can include, but is not limited to studies of: • Alternative infrastructures and economic arrangements for digital educational governance of primary and secondary education, hereunder explorations of the promises and pitfalls of alternatives based in open-source or other non-proprietary models for digital design and development • Digital degrowth and other critical theoretical resources for thinking with and beyond platforms in ways that foreground other values and criteria of evaluation in schools • Studies of power asymmetries and inequality in EdTech development and markets for school education, hereunder alternative forms of market-making and feminist design practices • Collective forms of mobilization against big tech across different stakeholders (teachers, unions, politicians) and levels (institutional, sectoral, national, transnational) • Countervailing discourses and framings of EdTech, especially in light of current digital backlashes unfolding in different regions • Postdigital concepts and design processes that recognize educational realities as messy and historical rather than ahistorical problems to be solved • Sociotechnical imaginaries of digital education based in post-platform pedagogies or other models for re-imagining digital ecosystems in schools • Institutional interventions based on extending the terms and interests connected to post-platform education *Submission Instructions* Abstracts of maximum 500 words must be sent to Lucas Cone (lc(a)hum.ku.dk<mailto:lc@hum.ku.dk>) and Niels Kerssens (n.kerssens(a)uu.nl<mailto:n.kerssens@uu.nl>) before January 31st 2025. We encourage original research articles based either on empirical or conceptual analyses of issues pertaining to the call. Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to join an author workshop before the deadline for full paper submissions. Additional information will be provided for accepted papers about how and where to submit the full paper. All papers should be aligned with the journal's Aims and Scope<https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/cjem20/about-this-journal>. The special issue is set for publication during 2027. Accepted articles will be published online first. No payment from the authors will be required. Decision on abstracts: *February, 2025* Full manuscript submission deadline: *June 30, 2025.* For more information on the CfP and submission guidelines: https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/post-platform-education-r…

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VTC2025-Spring, 17-20 JUNE 2025, OSLO, NORWAY, Submission Deadline: 16 December 2024
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 11 Dec '24

11 Dec '24

VTC2025-Spring in Oslo will feature world-class technical sessions, workshops, and tutorials on, but not limited to, the following technical tracks. Prospective authors are invited to submit 5-page, original, and unpublished full papers. A full paper can be up to 7 pages in length, just note that papers longer than 5 pages will require the purchase of additional page charges at the time of registration and final paper submission. Please do not submit papers longer than 8 pages for review as it is not likely that the paper could be edited to a maximum of 7 pages or less upon acceptance. 1. Airborne and Maritime Mobile Systems and Services 2. Antenna Systems, Propagation, and RF Design 3. Electric Vehicles, Vehicular Electronics, and Intelligent Transportation 4. Emerging technologies, 6G and beyond 5. Green Communications and Networks 6. IoV, IoT, M2M, Sensor Networks, and Ad-Hoc Networking 7. Machine Learning and AI for Communications 8. Multiple Antennas and Cooperative Communications 9. Positioning, Navigation, and Sensing 10. Signal Processing for Wireless Communications 11. Spectrum Management, Radio Access Technology, Services and Security 12. Vehicular Cooperation and Control, Assisted and Autonomous Driving Paper submission deadline: 16 December 2024 Acceptance notification: 6 March 2025 Final paper submission deadline: 3 April 2025 Submission requirements: 5-page paper (without overlength charge) and up to 2 additional pages are allowed with the purchase of additional page charges in the amount of $100 USD per additional page at the time of registration and final paper submission. For additional information, please see: vtc25-spring-cfp_web-03 11-15-2024<http://events.vtsociety.org/vtc2025-spring/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/2024…> Paper submission is open: https://vtc2025spring.trackchair.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, Associate Professor Computer Engineering Chair Director of Recruiting and Admissions Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Office: 326B Tel.: (505)-277-5501 Email: eirini(a)unm.edu<mailto:eirini@unm.edu> Website: PROTON Lab<http://ece-research.unm.edu/tsiropoulou/index.html> PROTON Lab's News: @Tsiropoulou_EE<https://twitter.com/Tsiropoulou_EE> "Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach." ~ Aristotle

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There's still time to run a Wikipedia assignment in Winter/Spring 2025!
by Helaine Blumenthal 10 Dec '24

10 Dec '24

Couldn't make the priority deadline but have 30 minutes to apply now? There's still time to receive Wiki Education's free support for a Wikipedia assignment <http://wikiedu.org/teach-with-wikipedia/> this spring! Courses will be accepted on a rolling basis as space permits. To apply, visit the dashboard <http://dashboard.wikiedu.org/> to create your Wikipedia account, then follow the prompts to take the self-paced orientation and answer our assignment design wizard's questions to create your custom course page. Don't forget to submit your course page to finish your application – you can always make changes later! In spring 2024, more than 6,000 students across the US and Canada added 4.74 million words and nearly 45,000 references to Wikipedia. Empower your students to be part of the impact this coming spring! Interested in connecting and asking questions live? Join our information session on Monday, December 16 at 12 pm PST / 3 pm EST. Register now. <http://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMuc--prDIrH9Thb2ZTXCjlk-QjjsUzyZN…> Questions? Please let us know. Best, Helaine Blumenthal, PhD -- Helaine Blumenthal,Ph.D. (she/her) Senior Program Manager Wiki Education helaine(a)wikiedu.org teach.wikiedu.org <https://wikiedu.org/teach-with-wikipedia/> Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/WikiEducationFoundation/>, Linkedin <https://www.linkedin.com/company/wiki-education-foundation/>

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REMINDER! LaborTech's End-of-Year Showcase, Dec 12-13
by Rider, Karina (gxy9fq) 10 Dec '24

10 Dec '24

Hello all, Labor Tech Research Network<https://labortechresearchnetwork.org/> is excited to announce our End-of-Year Showcase! On Thurs, Dec 12 and Fri, Dec 13, we will host a series of sessions on topics at the intersection of labor and technology. For a detailed schedule and Zoom links, click here<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RNJcU9RgQUAl29_EQNNLMC4NA4h_BpkwZo3-ftp…>! A shortened version of the schedule is attached at the end of this email. RSVP here!<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScAWe_0pqRkBSKd_ZFIBzGK4kcCn7TUjwk…> Come join us to: * Help celebrate the work our members have done this year and the beautiful diversity of their projects; * Check out spotlight sessions from our members in various regions of the world. We are in over 55 countries! * See a panel with the winners of our Book, Graduate Student Paper, and Social Justice Awards, which will be announced on Dec 2; * Learn about cutting-edge topics that our members are working on and thinking about! Details of the event: * The format will be a series of virtual short sessions that will be ongoing through the day, across multiple time zones, with the centerpoint featuring our awards * Drop in when you can--no pressure, no commitment, no cost! * Accessibility options are available. Let us know what your needs are! Not a LaborTech member yet? * Fill out our new membership form<https://airtable.com/app55rUfFBJrmST4H/shr5mnThXRlRKpgVu>! * Can you make a tax-free donation to our ongoing efforts, including this one, all organized by volunteer labor from our committed members? Go to Zeffy app<https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/fca62d59-c815-4084-852c-475c25b6b…> or Paypal Giving Fund page<https://www.paypal.com/fundraiser/charity/4318991> to make a one-time or sustaining contribution. Sessions (all times ET): Thurs, Dec 12 * 12-1pm: Teaching Critical STS to STEM Students with Karina Rider, MC Forelle, Karen Levy, Maggie Jack, and Sarah Appelhans * 1-2pm: Unlikely Organizers: The Rise of Labor Activism Among Professionals in the U.S. Technology Industry with JS Tan, Nataliya Nedzhvetskaya, and Emily Mazo * 3-4pm: Wearing Multiple Hats: Researching, Teaching, Advising, and Criticizing in LaborTech with David Joseph-Goteiner, Lindsey Cameron, Mariana Manriquez, and Julian Posada * 4-5pm: Spotlight on South Asia * 5-6pm: Spotlight on Latin America: Labor, Technology, and Visibility: Perspectives from Costa Rica with Lucy Pei, Joy Ming, Kim Fernandes, Kemly Camacho, Oscar Luis Alvarado Rodriguez, and Luisa Ochoa * 8-9pm: Mothers Users--Mothers Workers with Angelica Martinez and Catalina Alzate Fri, Dec 13 * 9-10am: Meetup for new & interested members * 10am-12pm: Awards showcase * Book Award * Winner: Code Work: Hacking Across the US/México Techno-Borderlands by Héctor Beltrán (Princeton University Press) * Honorable Mention: Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times by Erin McElroy (Duke University Press) * Graduate Student Paper Award * Winner: "'Animation in London/Matchmove in Bangalore:' Territorial Profiles of 'Creative' and 'Technical' Workforces in the Visual Effects (VFX) Industry by Suryansu Guha (University of California Los Angeles Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media) * Honorable Mention: "Paradox of Marginality: The Formation of a Refugee Workforce and Labor Power in the Digital Labor Market" by Michelle Lee (Northwestern University Department of Sociology) * Social Justice Award * Winner: Landless Workers Movement in Brazil (MTST) * Honorable Mention: Rajarshi Dawn/Awakening IT-FITE Kolkata

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CFP for NordMedia 2025 TWG: Digital Technologies, Materiality, and the Environment
by Laaksonen, Salla-M 10 Dec '24

10 Dec '24

CPF: NordMedia 2025 conference temporary working group (TWG): *Digital Technologies, Materiality, and the Environment* NordMedia 2025 conference will be organized in Odense, Denmark, August 13-15 2025. Our newly established temporary working group “Digital Technologies, Materiality, and the Environment” is calling for contributions (papers, panels, and workshops). /The TWG investigates questions at the nexus of digital communication technologies and their environmental responsibility. Recent research has started to question the amalgamation of digitalization and sustainability by revealing the environmental consequences of digital technologies from increasing energy consumption to accumulating e-waste and broader infrastructural dependencies. This TWG seeks to bring together researchers working at the intersection of digital technologies and the environment fromthe perspective of media and communication research, with a specific attention to the material aspects of digital technologies. / Deadline for abstracts is Feb 28^th . See the full CFP here: https://nordmedianetwork.org/latest/news/nordmedia-25-call-for-submissions/ More about our TWG: https://nordmedianetwork.org/twg-3-digital-technologies-materiality-and-the… All the best, Chairing team Martina Skrubbeltrang Mahnke, Salla-Maaria Laaksonen, Meri Frig, Emma Christensen, and Julia Velkova -- Salla-Maaria Laaksonen // @jahapaula Docent, PhD, University Researcher Centre for Consumer Society Research (Kuluttajatutkimuskeskus) Faculty of Social Sciences P.O. Box 16, 00014 University of Helsinki tel. +358 50 415 6576 salla.laaksonen(a)helsinki.fi http://blogs.helsinki.fi/smlaakso

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New book, Too Much Fun - The Five Lives of the Commodore 64 Computer
by Jesper Juul 10 Dec '24

10 Dec '24

Dear AOIR list I am thrilled to announce that my new book, *Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64 Computer* is out today in the Platform Studies series on MIT Press <https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262549516/too-much-fun/>. *Too Much Fun *is about two central *mysteries*. First, why is the best-selling Commodore 64 computer absent in many computer and video game histories*? *Second, why did this early computer, destined for a shelf life of just a few years, live so long, and end up being produced from 1982-1994? Building on work in media archeology, the book is a "*biography*" of technology, where I show both the historical ideas and technology behind early home computers, advertising, the design of the machine, and how this design was later used in both intended and unintended ways. I also pay special attention to the difference between early North American and European computer history. I use this to describe the "*Five Lives"* of the title, as the Commodore 64 was *imagined* to be different things in its 40 years of existence from 1) a serious computer, to a 2) game computer, to 3) a computer for a technological subculture, to 4) a computer about to fall behind, to 5) a comforting device whose limitations are now a style, a cause for celebration, an old device experiencing a new renaissance. *Too Much Fun* is* for anyone interested in computer or game history*, in how devices can be made to live longer, and for anyone who had, or didn't have, a Commodore 64. You can get the book in electronic or paper format from your preferred distributor, or via the book's website: https://www.jesperjuul.net/c64/ *Endorsements* “Jesper Juul has provided a long-needed addition to the Platform Studies series. It's a wonderful book, as readable as it is informative.” *Jimmy Maher, author of The Future was Here: The Commodore Amiga* “A beautiful, sincere, and rich account of everything that makes this influential computer so special to me: that unique punk stew of technology, creativity, culture, people, and zeitgeist.” *Gary Penn, editor of Zzap!64; inaugural Games Media Legend; author of Sensible Software 1986–1999; Creative Director at DMA Design* “In this standout contribution to the Platform Studies series, Juul illuminates the overlooked career of the Commodore 64 home computer by integrating the perspectives of hardware designers, marketeers, game programmers, demo creators, and retrocomputing enthusiasts.” *Thomas Haigh, lead author of ENIAC in Action and A New History of Modern Computing* “As someone who has a wealth of knowledge on this subject, this book is 'highly recommended reading,' so do not hesitate—just buy this book and rejoice.” *David John Pleasance, musician, former Managing Director, Commodore UK, author of Commodore: The Inside Story* -- Jesper Juul, Video game theorist, Royal Danish Academy New book coming Dec 10, 2024: Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64 Computer <https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262549516/too-much-fun/>. www.jesperjuul.net | j(a)jesperjuul.net | @jesperjuul.bsky.social <https://bsky.app/profile/jesperjuul.bsky.social>

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Doing Nation Book Available for Pre-order
by Vico,S 10 Dec '24

10 Dec '24

Dear All, I am delighted to share that my monograph titled 'Doing Nation' in a Digital Age: Banal Expressions of Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Polymedia Environments is available for pre-order on Routledge (publisher's) website here: https://www.routledge.com/Doing-Nation-in-a-Digital-Age-Banal-Nationalism-a… I develop a theory of national identity and the concept of 'doing nation' to argue that a nation comes into being and is sustained through everyday interpersonal communication practices, that have become increasingly mediated, and as such represents embodied cultural and discursive practices. It is based on 18-month-long ethnographic research (including both traditional and digital ethnography) and 40 in-depth interviews with Serbian Londoners completed in 2018. The book will ship after 31 December 2024. Best wishes, Sanja

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CFP special issue "Digital Resilience within a Hypermediated Polycrisis"
by Esteve Del Valle, M. 10 Dec '24

10 Dec '24

Dear colleagues, I am excited to share the CFP for the special issue "Digital Resilience within a Hypermediated Polycrisis: https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/pages/view/nextissues#… *Editor(s): * Marc Esteve Del Valle (University of Groningen), Ansgard Henrich (University of Groningen), and Anabel Quan-Haase (University of Western Ontario) *Submission of Abstracts: *1-15 May 2025 *Submission of Full Papers: *15-30 September 2025 *Publication of the Issue: *January/June 2026 *Information: * As the world faces a state of interwoven and overlapping crises—Covid-19 pandemic, climate change, and ongoing wars with global scope—referred to as “polycrisis” (Morin & Kern, 1999, p. 74), the role of media, and in particular of online social networks (boyd & Ellison, 2007), in affecting people’s resilience to withstand these crises remains understudied (Craig et al., 2015). This is problematic, as people’s extensive engagement with online social networks intertwines resilience to these crises with their practices on these digital platforms (Esteve-del-Valle et al., 2022). This thematic issue aims to discuss how digital resilience (Tomkova, 2020) can be (re)defined within a state of polycrisis that—thanks to increased global connectivity through digitization—can be characterized as “hypermediated” (Hepp, 2020). It aims to bring together theoretical, conceptual, and empirical contributions examining how digital resilience can help counter digital threats such as mis/disinformation, conspiracy theories, malicious bots, or deepfakes (among others). The editors welcome proposals that focus on both individual countries and comparative studies employing quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods approaches. We welcome proposals that address (yet are not limited to) potential questions/themes such as: - How can digital resilience be (re)defined within the current hypermediated polycrisis? - How can digital resilience be conceptually integrated with digital literacy? - What strategies can be employed to enhance digital resilience in countering misinformation and disinformation on social media platforms? - How can digital resilience help mitigate current polarizing and radicalizing narratives in online social networks? - What measures can be taken to build digital resilience against polluted online environmental discussions? - What role can journalists play in increasing digital resilience against the so-called crisis of trust in media? We particularly seek contributions that employ interdisciplinary approaches and strive for a balanced representation of gender and non-Western viewpoints. *References* boyd, d., & Ellison, N. B. (2007). Social network sites: Definition, history, and scholarship. *Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication*, *13*(1), 210–230. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2007.00393.x Craig, S. L., McInroy, L., McCready, L. T., & Alaggia, R. (2015). Media: A catalyst for resilience in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer youth. *Journal of LGBT Youth*, *12*(3), 254–275. https://doi.org/10.1080/19361653.2015.1040193 Esteve-del-Valle, M., Costa, E., & Hagedoorn, B. (2022). Network shocks and social support among Spanish, Dutch, and Italian WhatsApp users during the first wave of the Covid-19 crisis: An exploratory analysis of digital social resilience. *International Journal of Communication*, *16*, 2126–2145. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/18282 Hepp, A. (2020). *Deep mediatization*. Routledge. Morin, E., & Kern, A. B. (1999). *Homeland earth: A manifesto for the new millennium*. Hampton Press. Tomkova, J. (2020). Digital social resilience: Navigating in the new normal. *Cybersecurity and Resilience in the Arctic*, *58*, 413–426. https://doi.org/10.3233/NICSP200060 *Instructions for Authors*: Authors interested in submitting a paper for this issue are asked to consult the journal's instructions for authors and submit their abstracts (maximum of 250 words, with a tentative title) through the abstracts system (here <https://www.cogitatiopress.com/abstracts>). When submitting their abstracts, authors are also asked to confirm that they are aware that Media and Communication is an open-access journal with a publishing fee if the article is accepted for publication after peer-review (corresponding authors affiliated with our institutional members do not incur this fee). *Open Access:* Readers across the globe will be able to access, share, and download this issue entirely for free. Corresponding authors affiliated with any of our institutional members <https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/pages/view/institution…> (over 90 institutions worldwide) publish free of charge. Otherwise, an article processing fee will be charged to the authors to cover editorial costs. We defend that authors should not have to personally pay this fee and encourage them to check with their institutions if funds are available to cover open-access publication costs. Further information about the journal's open-access charges can be found here <https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/about/editorialPolicie…> . Best wishes, Marc Esteve del Valle -- Dr. Marc Esteve Del Valle, *Senior Lecturer*, Centre for Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen (The Netherlands) | Google Scholar <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=BtRD8IkAAAAJ&hl=en>

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