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Call for papers: International Journal of Marketing Semiotics & Discourse Studies Vol.VII (2019)
by george rossolatos 04 Oct '18

04 Oct '18

*Call for papers: International Journal of Marketing Semiotics & Discourse Studies Vol.VII (2019) * www.ijmarketingsemiotics.com *Submissions for Vol. VII are accepted from now and until the end of 2019 and will be published immediately upon acceptance based on our new all-year-round publishing policy (see relevant announcements).* *About IJMS&DS* The *International Journal of Marketing Semiotics **& Discourse Studies* is an open-source, double blind-reviewed academic journal that covers a wide spectrum of interdisciplinary marketing/semiotic/discourse analytic research streams, spanning: - Conceptual approaches and empirical research across the 5 P's by drawing on different semiotic (post-structuralist, sociosemiotic, Peircean, structuralist, cultural, textual, visual, multimodal) and discourse analytic (CDA, DHA) perspectives. - Consumer cultural theory and research - Cultural experiences, artefacts, practices, spectacles - In virtual, ‘real’, hyperreal environments - In individual or community settings - Methodological frameworks for conducting research into product/service/retail branding, brand identity development, brand equity, packaging design, competitive packaging analysis, new product development, pricing, advertising, IMC development and competitive analysis, consumer behavior (offline and online). - Comparing and contrasting existing marketing research conceptual and methodological frameworks with discourse analytic/semiotic ones. - Cross-disciplinary approaches on marketing research issues that combine discourse analysis and semiotics with perspectives from the social sciences and the humanities, such as anthropology, literary studies, psychoanalysis, anthropology, rhetoric, sociology. *Acceptable contents and content formats include the following: * - Academic conceptual and empirical research papers (see Submission Guidelines @ https://ijmarketingsemiotics.com/submission-guidelines-2/) - Practitioners’ (agencies’) case-studies - Academic presentations (either as part of taught curricula or as delivered in academic conferences) - Full books or individual chapters (either printed or in print) - Book reviews If you wish to contribute to the *International Journal of Marketing Semiotics **& Discourse Studies*, please send your content to: Dr. George Rossolatos email: georgerossolatos123(a)gmail.com

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recruiting PhD students for the Media Archaeology Lab via the Intermedia Arts, Writing, and Performance Program
by Lori Emerson 03 Oct '18

03 Oct '18

Dear all, I would be so grateful if you would share this announcement far and wide to anyone you think might be interested and/or a good fit. In short, I'm trying to recruit a new PhD student to develop programming in and around the Media Archaeology Lab as part of their degree. Details below! many thanks, Lori Emerson *** Applications are now being accepted for the University of Colorado at Boulder's four-year, fully-funded, practice-based PhD in Intermedia Art, Writing and Performance. In particular, I am recruiting a fully funded PhD student to work in the Media Archaeology Lab as part of the student's own research agenda and/or artistic practice and as part of the research assistantship they will take up in the lab for semesters throughout their degree. I am interested in applicants who work in any combination of the following fields: media archaeology, retrocomputing, history of computing, history of technology, (alternative/experimental) networks, (alternative/experimental) curatorial and archival practice, digital preservation, digital literature, and net art. In short, the successful student will be expected to develop programming in the MAL in a way that benefits both the student's career trajectory as well as the needs of the lab. The Intermedia Art, Writing and Performance (IAWP) program is entering its fourth year and is an interdisciplinary digital arts and humanities research unit with a practice-based PhD. Located in the University of Colorado's College of Media, Communication and Information, IAWP's core faculty collaboratively investigate past and present forms of digital art, writing, and performance and offer graduate students a hands-on, experiential-based learning environment in which to explore emerging forms of creativity triggered by practice-based research methodologies. The program concentrates its curriculum on digital forms of creativity so as to cultivate cutting-edge investigations into the practice, theory, history, and philosophy of media and its relationships to creativity, communication, technology, and information. IAWP’s internationally-renowned and affiliated faculty network collaborate with graduate students probing the significance of a digitally-expanded, process-based research environment located in a cluster of interdisciplinary research labs. The program provides a flexible pedagogical structure that will lead to the creation of new and hybridized forms of art, writing, performance, scholarship, theory, design, curation, exhibition, and publication appropriate for our current cultural moment. Note that while I am looking for a student to work in the MAL, we are also interested in students working in emerging forms of electronic literature, net art, and digital publishing. Application deadlines: International: December 1, 2018 // Domestic: January 1, 2019 To find out more about IAWP as well as application guidelines and program requirements, please visit: http://www.colorado.edu/cmci/academics/phd-intermedia-art-writing-and-perfo… For more on the IAWP faculty, please visit: http://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/intermedia-art-writing-and-performance -- Lori Emerson Associate Professor | Director, Media Archaeology Lab Department of English and Intermedia Arts, Writing, and Performance University of Colorado at Boulder Hellems 101, 226 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0226 traditional territories of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute Nations loriemerson.net | mediaarchaeologylab.com

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2 Instructor positions at the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University.
by Tracey P. Lauriault 03 Oct '18

03 Oct '18

Come and join us! https://carleton.ca/provost/2018/21821/ https://carleton.ca/provost/2018/journalism-and-communication-communication… -- *Tracey P. Lauriault* Assistant Professor Critical Media Studies and Big Data Communication Studies School of Journalism and Communication Suite 4110, River Building Carleton University 1125 Colonel By Drive Ottawa (ON) K1S 5B6 1-613-520-2600 x7443 Tracey.Lauriault(a)Carleton.ca @TraceyLauriault Skype: Tracey.P.Lauriault https://carleton.ca/sjc/people-archives/lauriault-tracey/

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CFP: “Networks: The Creation and Circulation of Knowledge from Franklin to Facebook”
by Jack Gieseking 03 Oct '18

03 Oct '18

Apologies for cross-posting. Please forward widely. ** *CFP: “Networks: The Creation and Circulation of Knowledge * *from Franklin to Facebook” * *June 6-7, 2019* *American Philosophical Society* *Philadelphia, PA* The American Philosophical Society Library invites scholars in all fields to submit paper proposals for an interdisciplinary symposium that will explore the ways that social, scientific, and intellectual networks have influenced the pursuit of “useful knowledge” from the eighteenth century until the twenty-first century. The symposium is inspired by the American Philosophical Society’s recent digitization of Benjamin Franklin’s postal records <https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/islandora/compound/franklin-post-office-book-1…> and by its involvement in “The Cybernetics Thought Collective: A History of Science and Technology Portal Project.” <https://archives.library.illinois.edu/thought-collective/> The program committee is currently accepting proposals for the symposium. Potential topics include (but are not limited to): · The role of networks in producing and disseminating knowledge · The structure of networks over time · Studies of the institutions and individuals who have promoted, established, and sustained networks · The different kinds of knowledge and exchanges facilitated by social, scientific, and intellectual networks · The impact of different technologies (maps, communication infrastructures, etc.) in creating and maintaining networks · The ways in which social, political, and technological changes affected the construction and use of networks over time · The influence that ideas about networks as systems had on the development of new scientific concepts and practices, especially in the past century · The use of digital tools for enabling the formation of networks today and for recreating and visualizing networks of the past Applicants should submit a title and a 250-word proposal along with a C.V. by *November 16, 2018 *via Interfolio: http://apply.interfolio.com/55529. <http://apply.interfolio.com/55529.%20> Decisions will be made by January 2019. All presenters will receive travel subsidies and hotel accommodations. Accepted papers will be due a month before the conference and pre-circulated to registered attendees. Papers should be no longer than 15-double spaced pages. Presenters may also have the opportunity to publish revised papers in the APS’s *Proceedings*, one of the longest running scholarly journals in America. For more information, visit https://www.amphilsoc.org/, or contact Adrianna Link, Head of Scholarly Programs, at alink(a)amphilsoc.org. FORWARD BY -- Jen Jack Gieseking Assistant Professor of Geography University of Kentucky Lexington, Kentucky 40506 www.jgieseking.org www.peopleplacespace.org @jgieseking <https://twitter.com/jgieseking> Pronouns: he/him/his

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New Special Issue on (In)Equalities and Social (In)Visibilities in the Digital Age
by Inês Amaral 03 Oct '18

03 Oct '18

[With apologies for cross posting] The journal Interações is pleased to announce the publication of a Special Issue on (In)Equalities and Social (In)Visibilities in the Digital Age. The articles in the volume present research results and/or theoretical reflection on social visibilities and invisibilities created by dynamics of media and digital inclusion and exclusion, relations between the digital and inequalities in different geographical, social and professional contexts, digital literacy and vulnerable social groups, conditioning created by technology to the individual in social context, among others. The Special Issue brings together seven papers, an essay and a preface. To access the Special Issue, please go to https://www.interacoes-ismt.com/index.php/revista/index *ESSAY* An Era of AI-personation & Self(ie) Surveillance Chris Campanioni *PREFACE* (In)Equalities and Social (In)Visibilities in the Digital Age *ARTICLES* Invisibility, Inequality and the Dialectics of the Real in the Digital Age Matteo Stocchetti Digital Inequality in Theory and Practice: Old and New Divides in the Broadband Era Luca Cigna The Three Levels of the Digital Divide: Barriers in Access, Use and Utility of Internet among Young People in Spain Daniel Calderón Gómez Media Shy: The Perils of Bashfulness in the Digital Age, an Era of Speed, Satisfaction, and Spectacle Natasha Chuk Utilization of Digital Literacy in Retirement Planning Among Ghanaian Formal and Informal Sector Workers Delali A. Dovie Sustainability of the Black Press as Social Justice: A Digital Technology Gap Study Indhira Suero Acosta, Bernardo H. Motta Click to Feed. Mobile Phone Applications’ Role in Improving Food Access in Romania Ioana Ionita

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WEBCAST NOON TODAY: IS SOCIAL MEDIA A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY?
by Joly MacFie 02 Oct '18

02 Oct '18

Great viewing!. DiResta, Godwin and Szoka going at it. <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/DigitalCooperation> [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/reboot2018> Today *Tuesday October 2 2018* at *Noon EDT* (16:00 UTC) the *Internet Society Livestream Channel <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/reboot2018>* will webcast the opening panel – *Is Social Media A Threat To Democracy? Fake News, Filter Bubbles, and Deep Fakes* – of the *REBOOT 2018 Conference <http://joinlincoln.org/events/2018/reboot-2018>*, which took place in San Francisco on September 21 2018. As social media companies are under increasing scrutiny for their effect on American society. According to critics, these platforms promote hyper-partisanship, disinformation, extremism and even violence. They are also blamed for facilitating Russian-sponsored voter manipulation during the 2016 election. The panel discussed these challenges as well as their implications for the upcoming election. Speakers: *Mike Godwin*, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the R Street Institute; *Renee DiResta*, Policy Lead at Data for Democracy; *Berin Szoka*, Executive Director at TechFreedom; *Lorelei Kelly*, Senior Fellow at the Beeck Center at Georgetown University (Moderator). *VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: http://joinlincoln.org/events/2018/reboot-2018 <http://joinlincoln.org/events/2018/reboot-2018>TWITTER: #REBOOT2018 http://bit.ly/2Rj0voA <http://bit.ly/2Rj0voA>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/10587/ <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/%E2%80%8Bhttps://isoc.live/10587/%E2%80%8B> -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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Recommendations of data extraction tools for LinkedIn
by Cristian Camilo Jiménez 02 Oct '18

02 Oct '18

Hi community! I hope all of you are having good times, It is very simple: I am currently working on a project that implies to map profiles and professions, and I thought that LinkedIn would be a great source of data extraction. But I have not found a tool to extract data from this platform. Have you got any suggestions? I really would appreciate it. Thanks a lot Best regards -- Cristian Jiménez Ruiz @CristianCJRuiz M.a. Communication Sciences SMART Research Member iNovaMediaLab – NOVA/FCSH E4Value Research Member IN+ – UL/IST

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Job Posting: Two tenure-track positions, Université de Montréal, Canada
by Aleksandra Kaminska 02 Oct '18

02 Oct '18

* Deux postes au Département de communication à l'Université de Montréal - Two tenure-track positions in the Department of Communication at the Université de Montréal * For posting in French, please visit: http://fas.umontreal.ca/faculte/postes-de-professeur/ Posting no: FAS 09-18 / 14 The Département de communication is seeking applications for two full-time tenure-track positions at the rank of Assistant Professor in Communication from candidates specializing in one or more of the following areas: -- Social media studies, digital platforms and networked publics, especially as these intersect with studies of participative culture, mobile culture, digital activism, online interaction and collaboration, new forms of communities associated with network technologies, and/or algorithmic publics and new forms of digital sociability. -- Digital creation, especially studies and practices of visual culture, new forms of digital storytelling/narration (podcasts, web documentary, etc.), design of user interfaces and experiences, and/or visualization of information and data. -- Journalism studies, especially in the areas of digital and multiplatform journalism, investigative and data journalism, and/or alternative media. RESPONSIBILITIES: The successful candidates will be expected to teach at all three levels of the curriculum, supervise graduate students, engage in ongoing research and publication, and contribute to the academic life and reputation of the University. REQUIREMENTS: Ph.D. (or near completion) in Communication or a related field; Strong research record; University teaching experience; An adequate knowledge of the French language (written and spoken) or a strong commitment to mastering the proficiency level required*. Deadline: November 12, 2018 Starting date: On or after August 1st, 2019 The application must include the following documents: - Cover letter - Curriculum vitae - Copies of recent publications and research - Evidence of teaching effectiveness - Statement of research interests - Statement of teaching interests Three letters of recommendation should also be sent directly to the Department Chair by the referees. Applications may be submitted to the Department Chair by post or by email. By post, send to: Thierry Bardini, Chair Département de communication, Pavillon Marie-Victorin Université de Montréal C. P. 6128, succursale Centre-ville Montréal (QC) H3C 3J7 CANADA By email, send to: thierry.bardini(a)umontreal.ca Please visit the Department website for more information: www.com.umontreal.ca POLICIES * Language Policy: The Université de Montréal is a Québec university with an international reputation. French is the language of instruction. To renew its teaching faculty, the University de Montréal is intensively recruiting the world’s best specialists. In accordance with the institution’s language policy, the Université de Montréal provides support for newly-recruited faculty to attain proficiency in French. Confidentiality: The Université de Montréal application process allows all regular professors in the Department to have access to all documents unless the applicant explicitly states in her or his cover letter that access to the application should be limited to the selection committee. This restriction on accessibility will be lifted if the applicant is invited for an interview. Equal Access Employment Program: Through its Equal Access Employment Program, the Université de Montréal invites women, Aboriginal people, visible and ethnical minorities, as well as persons with disabilities to apply. During the recruitment process, our selection tools will be adapted to meet the needs of people with disabilities who request it. Be assured of the confidentiality of this information. The Université de Montréal is committed to the inclusion and the diversity of its staff and also encourages people of all sexual and gender identities to apply. Immigration Requirements: We invite all qualified candidates to apply at UdeM. However, in accordance with immigration requirements in Canada, please note that priority will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. -- Aleksandra Kaminska, PhD Professeure adjointe / Assistant Professor Université de Montréal Département de communication a.kaminska(a)umontreal.ca

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CFP Radio as a Social Media - ECREA Radio Research Conference - Siena 2019
by tiziano bonini 02 Oct '18

02 Oct '18

Hello, some of you might be interested in this conference we are going to organize next year in Siena: CALL FOR PAPERS: ECREA Radio Research Conference 2019: Radio as a Social Media: community, participation, public values in the platform society. *website: http://www.congressi.unisi.it/ecrea2019/ <http://www.congressi.unisi.it/ecrea2019/>* 19-21 September 2019 University of Siena (Italy) The next conference of the Radio Research Section of ECREA will be held at the Department of Social, Political and Cognitive Sciences of the University of Siena, from 19 to 21 September 2019. The topic In the age of platformization of culture (Nieborg & Poell 2018) every media is being turned into a digital platform and every audience is being datafied and commodified. What is the role of radio within this new media ecosystem? Tim Wu (2011) showed how radio broadcasting too was eventually colonized by the ethos of profit, but along its history the radio medium has been able to partially escape its commodification and it has carved out a social role as a public service media and as a community/civic media, more open to audience interaction and participation than television and print media used to be. In a media ecosystem increasingly shaped by algorithms, radio is the only medium that still has a relevant analogue component, especially in non-western areas of the world. The relevance of analogue broadcasting is not only a residual practice but could be also framed as a space of freedom, a practice of resistance to the process of platformization. “Radio as a social media” is the theme of the 2019 ECREA Radio conference. What does it mean to be a “social media” in the era of digital “social media”? Our proposal is that radio, in order to be “social”, needs to be “convivial”, in the sense proposed by Ivan Illich in its work “Tools for Conviviality” (1973), which also inspired the first hackers and makers of home computer’s history. Conviviality is a concept that was introduced by Ivan Illich (1973). He imagined a world where people had an open relationship with the material world surrounding them, including the technologies they used: ‘I choose the term ‘conviviality’ to designate the opposite of industrial productivity. I intend it to mean autonomous and creative intercourse among persons, and the intercourse of persons with their environment’ (1973, p. 11). Conviviality is about being vigorously engaged in relationships, conscious of values and meanings. For Illich, a convivial technology was a tool that people could manipulate, transform, adapt and control. Convivial tools are ‘those which gave each person who uses them the greatest opportunity to enrich the environment with the fruits of his or her vision’ (1973, p. 21). Conviviality according to Illich revolves around the idea of free and equal access to empowering tools. Conviviality, as David Gauntlett noted, “is therefore about having the power to shape one’s own world. Illich makes it clear that individuals *must *retain this power – society must not seek to drain it from them” (2011, p. 168). Is it still possible a social/convivial use of radio in the age of proprietary algorithms-driven journalism and music consumption? *Key note speakers:* Elena Razlogova, Concordia University (Canada); Christina Dunbar Hester, University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism (USA), David Hendy, University of Sussex (UK) Enrico Menduni, Università Roma Tre (Italy) David Fernandez Quijada, Media Intelligence Service, EBU This conference aims at gathering together all the scholars that are currently exploring, from different and/or interdisciplinary perspectives, the complex entanglement between radio/audio/digital media and society. The conference will try to situate radio studies within the broader contemporary media ecosystem and aims at starting a dialogue with and accepting contributions from Internet Studies, Platform studies, Social Media studies, critical political economy of the media, Media History, digital media management, Cultural Studies, production studies, ethnography, sound studies, social sciences. ECREA Radio Research 2019 is not only a conference, it wants to be also a festival. A festival for the community of scholars with an interest in radio. DEADLINE for abstract submissions: January 15, 2019 (18:00 hours Greenwich Mean Time) The Scientific Committee of the conference will select the proposals that could deal with the following topics: Radio AS a social media Community/civic/free/pirate/alternative/radical/DIY not for profit radio radio and conviviality (Illich) radio audiences, empowerment, participation radio and the diaspora radio and migration Migration, identity, radio copyright, copyleft and radio creation Radio AND social media Doing radio in the age of social media (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, WhatsApp, Snapchat…) Datafication of listening radio and music streaming platforms radio curation vs. algorithmic curation music radio programming vs. music platforms programming radio, music platforms and the listener’s agency networked listeners Access, Interaction, Participation (Carpentier) social media for radio: between exploitation and participation radio as an app “haptically-mediated” radio listening Radio AS public media Who care for…Public service radio? Public service radio and innovation radio and cultural diversity Radio and the public sphere(s) Radio (retro)Futurism radio innovation and multi-platform delivery radio-vision radio and Artificial Intelligence Smart speakers and audio/radio listening Transnational radio Analog stories Podcasting the second age of podcasting: a new digital mass media repurposing radio content on new platforms distribution technologies hybrid radio/hybrid future DAB, streaming or LTE broadcasting? Streaming kill the digital (DAB) star What’s the frequency, Kenneth (frequencies and transmission studies) Radio as a Research field Political economy of the radio Radio and gender studies Radio genres Radio art Politics of listening Poetics of listening Philosophy of listening History of listening Audio vs. Radio Radio audiences and commodification Production practices/studies Reception/Production ethnographies Digital ethnography Digital Methods Network analysis Radio history Radio journalism Radio and the music industry Ownership, regulation and governance of radio SPECIAL ISSUE OF “THE RADIO JOURNAL” We invite delegates of the conference to submit their full papers no later than October 30, 2019 to be selected for a special issue of The Radio Journal, edited by the ECREA Radio Research board, to be published in the second issue of 2020. SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Tiziano Bonini, University of Siena, Italy Marta Perrotta, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy Enrico Menduni, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy Magdalena Oliveira, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal Grazyna Stachyra, Lublin University, Poland Belén Monclus, Autonoma University, Barcelona, Spain Conference website: http://www.congressi.unisi.it/ecrea2019/ TIMELINE Paper and Panel Submission Deadline: January 15, 2019 Final decisions on accepted papers and panels: March 10, 2019 Early registration deadline: May 31, 2019 Late registration deadline: July 15, 2019 Full paper submissions for The Radio Journal Special Issue: October 30, 2019 -- Tiziano Bonini ||| Assistant professor in media studies ||| DISPOC Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali, Politiche e Cognitive Università degli studi di Siena Via Roma 56, 53100 Siena ::: Academia ::: *https://alegrafast.academia.edu/TizianoBonini <https://alegrafast.academia.edu/TizianoBonini>* ::: Audio/Radio ::: http://audioboo.fm/tizianobonini

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IJSC special issue on the topic of social media in sport
by Gashaw Abeza 02 Oct '18

02 Oct '18

Greetings Colleagues, We hope that you are having a good Fall semester. We are pleased to report that our IJSC special issue <https://journals.humankinetics.com/toc/ijsc/current> on the topic of social media in sport is now out and invite you to take a look at the compiled works. We hope that they will help stimulate discussion as well as contribute to advancing scholarship on the topic area. Gashaw, Norm, and Benoit *IJSC* Special Issue on Social Media in Sport: https://journals.humankinetics.com/toc/ijsc/current -- *Gashaw Abeza, PhD* · Assistant Professor Department of Kinesiology <http://www.towson.edu/towson.edu/chp/departments/kinesiology/> – Sport Management Towson University <http://www.towson.edu/> · 8000 York Road · Towson, Maryland, 21252-0001 p. 410-704-5722

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