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The journal Global Media and China published the latest issue—March 2022
by Xiao Han 24 Mar '22

24 Mar '22

Dear All, We are pleased to announce that our journal Global Media and China has just published its latest issue (Volume 7, Issue 1, March 2022). And also we sincerely welcome your contribution to our journals. If you are interested and have the time, it is a great honour for us to receive your submission. Here is the submission portal: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/gmac <https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/gmac>. For more information about Global Media and China, please go to gch.sagepub.com <http://gch.sagepub.com/>, you can also find detailed submission guidelines there. You can freely read this new issue at: https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/GCH/current <https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/GCH/current> Original Articles ‘Pathetic earthlings! Who can save you now?’ Science fifiction, planetary crisis and the globalisation of Chinese culture John Hartley The Rise of the East Asian Gaming Industry: A Value-Added Chain Among the East Asian Game Companies During 2000–2010 Laichi Chen Comparing newspapers in mainland China and Hong Kong: The limits of media systems theory Haiyan Wang and Nan Lyu A ‘New Arms Race’? Framing China and the U.S.A. in A.I. News Reporting: A Comparative Analysis of the Washington Post and South China Morning Post Dennis Nguyen and Erik Hekman Special Section: Communicating the COVID-19 Pandemic Guest Editors: Lars Willnat and Zixue Tai Special Issue Articles Introduction to Global Media and China’s Special Issue on COVID-19 Lars Willnat and Zixue Tai Media attention, dependency, selfeffificacy, and prosocial behaviours during the outbreak of COVID-19: A constructive journalism perspective Jiankun Gong, Hasmah Zanuddin, Weipeng Hou and Jinghong Xu When positive energy meets satirical feminist backfifire: Hashtag activism during the COVID-19 outbreak in China Yue Yang Book Reviews Fengmin Yan, Image, Reality and Media Construction - A Frame Analysis of German Media Representations of China Yuwen Gu Filippo Gilardi and Celia Lam (eds.), Transmedia in Asia and the Pacifific: Industry, practice and transcultural dialogues Andrew White Xiao, Jian. Punk Culture in Contemporary China Christian Morgner Dr HAN Xiao Research Associate, State Key Lab of Media Convergence and Communication, Communication University of China (CUC) Commissioning Editor, Global Media and China http://journals.sagepub.com/home/gch <http://gch.sagepub.com/>

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The journal Global Media and China published the latest issue—March 2022
by Xiao Han 24 Mar '22

24 Mar '22

Dear All, We are pleased to announce that our journal Global Media and China has just published its latest issue (Volume 6, Issue 4, December 2021). And also we sincerely welcome your contribution to our journals. If you are interested and have the time, it is a great honour for us to receive your submission. Here is the submission portal: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/gmac <https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/gmac>. For more information about Global Media and China, please go to gch.sagepub.com <http://gch.sagepub.com/>, you can also find detailed submission guidelines there. You can freely read this new issue at: https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/GCH/current <https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/GCH/current> Original Articles ‘Pathetic earthlings! Who can save you now?’ Science fifiction, planetary crisis and the globalisation of Chinese culture John Hartley The Rise of the East Asian Gaming Industry: A Value-Added Chain Among the East Asian Game Companies During 2000–2010 Laichi Chen Comparing newspapers in mainland China and Hong Kong: The limits of media systems theory Haiyan Wang and Nan Lyu A ‘New Arms Race’? Framing China and the U.S.A. in A.I. News Reporting: A Comparative Analysis of the Washington Post and South China Morning Post Dennis Nguyen and Erik Hekman Special Section: Communicating the COVID-19 Pandemic Guest Editors: Lars Willnat and Zixue Tai Special Issue Articles Introduction to Global Media and China’s Special Issue on COVID-19 Lars Willnat and Zixue Tai Media attention, dependency, selfeffificacy, and prosocial behaviours during the outbreak of COVID-19: A constructive journalism perspective Jiankun Gong, Hasmah Zanuddin, Weipeng Hou and Jinghong Xu When positive energy meets satirical feminist backfifire: Hashtag activism during the COVID-19 outbreak in China Yue Yang Book Reviews Fengmin Yan, Image, Reality and Media Construction - A Frame Analysis of German Media Representations of China Yuwen Gu Filippo Gilardi and Celia Lam (eds.), Transmedia in Asia and the Pacifific: Industry, practice and transcultural dialogues Andrew White Xiao, Jian. Punk Culture in Contemporary China Christian Morgner

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Book Announcement and Zoom Talk - Buy Now: How Amazon Branded Convenience and Normalized Monopoly by Emily West (MIT Press)
by Emily West 23 Mar '22

23 Mar '22

Hi Everyone, I’m delighted to announce the publication of my book “Buy Now: How Amazon Branded Convenience and Normalized Monopoly.” It explains how Amazon combined branding and relationship marketing with massive distribution infrastructure to become the ultimate service brand in the digital economy. In Buy Now, I examine Amazon's consumer-facing services—including ecommerce, streaming, Alexa, and brick-and-mortar store formats—to investigate how Amazon as a brand grew so quickly and inserted itself into so many aspects of our lives even as it faded into the background, becoming a sort of infrastructure that can be taken for granted. I show how Amazon has cultivated personalized, intimate relationships with consumers that normalize its outsized influence on our selves and our communities. “Buy Now” offers a cautionary cultural study of bigness in today's economy. It is the first book in the new Distribution Matters series at The MIT Press, co-edited by Joshua Braun and Ramon Lobato. The book is available for sale at MIT Press and other booksellers, and the digital version is available Open Access: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/buy-now I will be giving a book talk on Zoom on Wednesday, April 6th, Noon – 1 pm, with an introduction by Prof. Joshua Braun, co-editor of the Distribution Matters series. You can register at this link: https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/j/94219252663 ********************************************* Dr. Emily West (she/her) Associate Professor, Graduate Program Director Department of Communication University of Massachusetts Amherst ewest(a)comm.umass.edu www.emilywestphd.com<http://www.emilywestphd.com> Author of Buy Now: How Amazon Branded Convenience and Normalized Monopoly <https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/buy-now> (The MIT Press, 2022) Author of Review Pollution: Pedagogy for a Post-Truth Society <https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/4015> (Media and Communication 2021)

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CfP: Mediated Conversation minitrack of HICSS, the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
by Seth Lewis 22 Mar '22

22 Mar '22

CALL FOR PAPERS: Mediated Conversation minitrack of HICSS The Mediated Conversation minitrack focuses on the study of conversations taking place on digital and social media. Conversations are at the core of human communication. Mediated conversations can use text, emoticons, audio, images, or video, or any combination thereof. The minitrack welcomes research on conversations that are interpersonal as well as those that occur via organizational or mass communication; involve journalistic, educational, or political contexts; or which appear in any other sphere of human activity, including the emerging interplay of human-machine communication. For details, see https://mediatedconversation.wordpress.com/ This minitrack is part of the Digital and Social Media track of HICSS, the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, which will host its 56th annual conference on January 3-6, 2023, at the Hyatt Regency, Maui. The submission site opens mid-April. Submissions will be accepted until June 15, 2022, at 11:59 p.m. HST This minitrack brings together researchers and innovators to explore mediated conversation and its implications; to raise new socio-technical, theoretical, ethical, pedagogical, linguistic, and social questions; and to suggest new methods, perspectives, and design approaches. The Mediated Conversation minitrack is the successor of the Persistent Conversation minitrack (established by Tom Erickson and Susan Herring at HICSS in 1999), which was originally focused on the novelty of conversational persistence. With the prevalence of mediated conversation, we are called upon to consider a wider field of issues. Examples of appropriate topics include but are not limited to: * Innovation in mediated conversational practice * The dynamics and analysis of large-scale conversation systems (e.g., MOOCs and big data applications) * Methods for analyzing mediated conversation: qualitative, quantitative, data analytics, etc. * Mediated collaboration * The dark side of mediated conversation: e.g., loafing, incivility, hate speech, bullying, and communication overload * Studies of virtual communities or other sites of mediated conversation * Ethics and mediated conversation: privacy, deception, freedom of speech, security, and information warfare * The role of mediated conversation in knowledge management * The role of mediated conversation in organizations * Domain-specific applications, opportunities, and challenges of mediated conversations and conversational exchanges (e.g., in education, healthcare, social movements, government, citizen participation, management, and news media) * Conversation visualizations and analytics * The role of listeners, lurkers, and silent interactions * Novel properties of mediated conversation * A platform’s role in mediating the conversation * Power dynamics and conversational patterns among users of social media * The role of conversation in understanding the interplay between media producers and media audiences * Human-machine communication and related conversations (e.g., chatbots) Fast-track journal opportunity: Authors of papers accepted for presentation in the minitrack will be offered the opportunity to submit an extended version of their papers for consideration for fast-track publication in the ACM journal ACM Transaction on Social Computing (https://tsc.acm.org/) Mediated Conversation minitrack co-chairs: Seth C. Lewis (Primary contact) University of Oregon sclewis(a)uoregon.edu<mailto:sclewis@uoregon.edu> Gina M. Masullo The University of Texas at Austin Gina.Masullo(a)austin.utexas.edu<mailto:Gina.Masullo@austin.utexas.edu> Yoram Kalman The Open University of Israel yoramka(a)openu.ac.il<mailto:yoramka@openu.ac.il> -- Seth C. Lewis, Ph.D. Professor, Shirley Papé Chair in Emerging Media, and Director of Journalism School of Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon New book: News After Trump<https://global.oup.com/academic/product/news-after-trump-9780197550359?lang…> (Oxford U Press, 2021) Sign up for RQ1<https://rq1.substack.com>, a newsletter about news research

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New open access book: Heritage and Nationalism (UCL Press)
by Coughlin, Margie 22 Mar '22

22 Mar '22

*** We apologise for any cross-posting*** UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a new open access book that may be of interest to list subscribers: Heritage and Nationalism, by Chiara Bonacchi. Download it free: https://bit.ly/3MQZalJ ******************************************* Heritage and Nationalism By Chiara Bonacchi Free download: https://bit.ly/3MQZalJ ******************************************* How was the Roman Empire invoked in Brexit Britain and in Donald Trump's United States of America, and to what purpose? And why is it critical to answer these kinds of questions? 'Heritage and Nationalism' explores how people's perceptions and experiences of the ancient past shape political identities in the digital age. It particularly examines the multiple ways in which politicians, parties and private citizens mobilise aspects of the Iron Age, Roman and Medieval past of Britain and Europe to include or exclude 'others' based on culture, religion, class, race, ethnicity, etc. Chiara Bonacchi draws on the results of an extensive programme of research involving both data-intensive and qualitative methods to investigate how pre-modern periods are leveraged to support or oppose populist nationalist arguments as part of social media discussions concerning Brexit, the Italian Election of 2018 and the US-Mexican border debate in the US. Analysing millions of tweets and Facebook posts, comments and replies, this book is the first to use big data to answer questions about public engagement with the past and identity politics. The findings and conclusions revise and reframe the meaning of populist nationalism today and help to build a shared basis for the democratic engagement of citizens in public life in the future. The book offers a fascinating and unmissable read for anyone interested in how the past and its contemporary legacy, or 'heritage', influence our 'political' thinking and feeling in a time of hyper-interconnectivity. Free download: https://bit.ly/3MQZalJ ---------------------- uclpress.co.uk | @uclpress

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Reminder-CfP – TikTok-Music-Cultures: Perspectives on the Study of Musicking Practices On and Through TikTok
by Juan Bermudez 22 Mar '22

22 Mar '22

Dear colleagues, (With apologies for cross-posting!) Please feel free to circulate this call within your networks Call for Papers (deadline for submission: April 1st, 2022) TikTok-Music-Cultures: Perspectives on the Study of Musicking Practices On and Through TikTok International Symposium hosted by the Department of Musicology, University of Vienna – May 26-29, 2022 Call for Papers In a deterritorialized and digitally interconnected world, a vast number of interrelations between physical, virtual, multilocal and multimedia spaces have been developed and established as an inseparable part of our daily life. Just as the use of digital media and devices transforms our daily life, it also influences our musical practices. In addition to musicians employing social media and other digital technologies to represent and market themselves, other stakeholders also participate in the discourse on digital music practices. This has enabled performers to construct new mixed and virtual identities, as well as to make the interrelation and interconnectedness between physical and virtual multi-local spaces increasingly clearer. This appropriation of the virtual worlds, along with the development of new virtual platforms, provides new spaces to develop new forms of musical practice. TikTok is an example of this process. TikTok is a smartphone application aimed at creating and sharing short videos, and currently one of the fastest growing social media applications worldwide, offering an interaction space for different music and video practices. TikTok has not only become an inseparable part of contemporary popular culture, but also operates as a portal into the social, political and cultural spectrums of everyday life. The platform not only attracts attention of teenagers and people of all ages, but has gained interest among the academic community. The investigation of a deterritorialized multimedia musicking such as TikTok offers a large number of theoretical implications, while possessing practical and methodological challenges. In order to understand 1) how people create and disseminate forms of sonic and visual creativity, 2) how people stage performances and build (artistic) identities and communities, 3) how people engage in the production and circulation of content, and 4) how people experience and perform gender, class and race on and through TikTok, we welcome contributions from scholars who are interested in issues pertaining to musicking practices on and through TikTok from a variety of analytical perspectives addressing (though not exclusively) the following: Corporality and Vocality Digital Inequalities Digital intersectionalities (gender, class and race) Fandom Identity and Community Internet- and Youth Cultures Marketing Methodological and theoretical perspectives Multimediality / Transmediality Musical expressions Musical memes Politics and Activism We strongly encourage active participation from women, BIPOC, young researchers, people of the global south, and people who are members of underrepresented sociopolitical groups. ABSTRACT SUBMISSION GUIDELINES • Individual paper abstracts should be within 250 and 300 words. Presentations should be 20 minutes with 10 minutes for questions. • Panel or roundtable abstracts about specific topics should include a 300 word general abstract and 250 word individual summaries. The panel or roundtable should have a duration of 120 minutes. • Workshop proposals should specify an objective, and pedagogical approach or method along with an abstract of 350 to 500 words. The workshop should have a duration of 120 minutes. • Performance demonstrations or innovative and experimental presentation formats should have a proposed duration of max. 90 minutes. These proposals should be a maximum of 500 words and include information about the format and content of the session. DEADLINES FOR SUBMISSION Proposals and abstracts should be sent by April 1st, 2022 to: tiktokcultures.vie(a)gmail.com <mailto:tiktokcultures.vie@gmail.com> Each abstract should include name and surname, brief biography (100 words), institutional affiliation (when applicable), email, and technical requirements. The program committee will select proposals via a peer-reviewed process and notify participants of their acceptance by April 8th, 2022. LANGUAGE Proposals and papers may be submitted and given in German, English or Spanish. The presenter is asked to provide a translation of the paper in English at the symposium for the sake of wider understanding. PUBLICATION A publication based on selected presentations is planned as a tangible outcome of the symposium. HOST INSTITUTION The symposium will run in a hybrid format. In-person activity (subject to the developing situation of the COVID-19 pandemic) will be hosted by the Department of Musicology at the University of Vienna. We kindly ask you to inform us of your preferred modality (online or in-person). However, we encourage in-person participation to facilitate a more fruitful academic exchange. CONTACT Organization team: Juan Bermúdez, Ylva Hintersteiner, and Emma Schrott E-mail: tiktokcultures.vie(a)gmail.com <mailto:tiktokcultures.vie@gmail.com> ————————————— Juan Bermúdez, BA MA Ethnomusicologist He / him / his Institut für Musikwissenschaft Universität Wien Spitalgasse 2, Hof 9 (Campus) 1090 Wien Mail: juan.bermudez(a)univie.ac.at <mailto:juan.bermudez@univie.ac.at> https://musikwissenschaft.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/team/bermudez <https://musikwissenschaft.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/team/bermudez/> https://univie.academia.edu/JuanBermúdez <https://univie.academia.edu/JuanBerm%C3%BAdez>

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AoIR2022 review allocations
by Kylie Jarrett 22 Mar '22

22 Mar '22

Hello all, By now, those of you who have agreed to review should have received your allocations of submissions for the AoIR2022 conference. Some lucky people may have even already received a second lot! If you haven't seen your allocations, please check your spam folder as this is an automated email and may have been filtered. You can access your assigned submissions by logging into conftool: https://www.conftool.org/aoir2022/ The review deadline is April 22. If you are unable to take on your assigned submissions, please contact me ASAP at the AoIRConfChair [@] aoir.org email so I can re-allocate them. Thanks to everyone for agreeing to review. The conference is only as good as the community makes it, so we really appreciate it your contribution, particularly given the times we live in. Dr. Kylie Jarrett Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) Department of Media Studies Maynooth University, Maynooth, Co. Kildare Ireland Author: Feminism, Labour, and Digital Media: The Digital Housewife Co-author: NSFW: Sex, Humor and Risk in Social Media Google and the Culture of Search

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GLAM and Digital Soft Power events next week
by Natalia Grincheva 22 Mar '22

22 Mar '22

Hello all, Only a week left to register for the upcoming online events that we are running in the framework of the project: *GLAM and Digital Soft Power in the Post-Pandemic World*. datatopower.net Looking forward to seeing many of you next week! *Webinar: Global communications and audiences: Propaganda, fake news & AI censorship* *Date: *March 28, 2022 *Time:* 8:00AM - 10:00AM UTC | 3:00PM - 5:00PM SGT | 6:00PM - 8:00PM UTC+11 *To register follow the link*: https://www.datatopower.net/webinar2 <https://www.datatopower.net/webinar1> The webinar will explore how a rise in new disinformation and propaganda tools, bots and fake news might affect museum global communications by disrupting the flow of global information exchange and accelerating anxiety, negative sentiment, and cross-cultural misunderstanding among online participants. It will also discuss critical issues around data privacy, ethics, provenance and equity, data access and censorship. *Datathon: Understanding and mapping digital museum audiences* *Date:* March 30, 2022 *Time:* 8:00AM - 10:00AM UTC | 3:00PM - 5:00PM SGT | 6:00PM - 8:00PM UTC+11 *To register follow the link:* https://www.datatopower.net/datathon2 <https://www.datatopower.net/datathon1> The Datathon will explore mapping digital audiences methods and will present a prototype of a new web app solution that is currently being co-designed in collaboration with the Museum Science Group in London and Asian Civilisations Museum in Singapore. The Datathon will also feature a number of innovative digital audience research projects developed by museums across Europe and Asia-Pacific. To stay in the loop of current and future activities: *Subscribe to our Google group* https://groups.google.com/g/datatopower

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Social media for consumer engagement in healthcare
by Louisa Walsh 21 Mar '22

21 Mar '22

Dear Colleagues, I'm writing to let you know that a new guide for using social media to engage consumers in hospital service design and improvement activities is now available and may interest some of you working in health and health research. Using social media as a tool to facilitate consumer engagement in service design and quality improvement: A guide for hospitals, service providers and consumers was developed as part of my NHMRC-funded PhD project and co-created with Australian hospital service providers and consumers. You can access the guide, the accompanying Implementation Workbook, and read more about the project that led to the guide, on the project website<https://www.latrobe.edu.au/chcp/projects/using-social-media-to-facilitate-c…>. The aim of the guide is to: * Help hospitals, service providers, and consumers understand how social media can be used as a consumer engagement tool * Provide evidence-based strategies and actions for implementing social media as a consumer engagement tool in Australian public hospital service design and QI * Provide implementation tools for social media-based consumer engagement The guide was developed for three main groups of people involved in service design and QI in hospitals: * Hospital decision makers: Service providers and consumer representatives in hospital executive and/or governance roles; Communications professionals who are responsible for managing organisational social media pages and developing communication plans * People who are involved in service design and QI projects: Service providers and consumer representatives who are involved in planning, implementing, and evaluating service design and QI projects * Consumers: Patients, family members, and carers; People in consumer representative roles While it has an Australian public hospital focus, much of the information is broadly applicable to consumer engagement in health and health research. If you have any questions about the guide or my research, please just be in touch. Please also feel free to share the links to the guide and the project website among your networks if you think it would be appropriate. Kind regards, Louisa Louisa Walsh (she/her) Managing Editor, Cochrane Consumers and Communication PhD Candidate Sessional Lecturer/Tutor BPhysio(hons), MStratComm Twitter: @laqwalsh Days of Work - Tuesday and Friday Recent publications: * Social media as a tool for consumer engagement in hospital quality improvement and service design: barriers and enablers for implementation<https://www.ijhpm.com/article_4160.html> * The risks and benefits of using social media to engage consumers in service design and quality improvement<https://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12913-021-0692…> * The use of social media as a tool for stakeholder engagement in health service design and quality improvement: A scoping review.<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2055207621996870> * Indirect impacts of COVID-19: A case study of evidence, advice and representation from consumer and community members in New South Wales, Australia<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2374373521998628> Centre for Health Communication and Participation<http://www.latrobe.edu.au/chcp/>, Cochrane Consumers and Communication Group<http://cccrg.cochrane.org/> I School of Psychology and Public Health I College of Science, Health and Engineering I La Trobe University I Victoria I AUSTRALIA. 3086. Ph. +61 3 9479 1578 I Fax. +61 3 9479 5784 I Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/latrobe.CHCP/ Twitter: @CochraneCCRG Newsletter sign-up: http://eepurl.com/RhB6T [cid:image001.png@01D5F87B.B03C8600][cid:image002.png@01D5F87B.B03C8600] Warning to recipients: This email and any attachments are confidential and subject to copyright. If you are not the intended recipient any use, disclosure or copying is unauthorised. If you have received this email in error please advise us immediately by reply email and delete all copies. It is your responsibility to examine this email and any attachments for viruses. Any personal information in this email must be handled in accordance with Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014 (Vic).

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[Call for Papers] CySoc 2022 Workshop at ICWSM
by Ugur Kursuncu 21 Mar '22

21 Mar '22

Call for Papers: CySoc 2022 - International Workshop on Cyber Social Threats @ICWSM 2022 Deadline: March 27, 2022 Website: https://CySoc2022.github.io/ <https://cysoc2022.github.io/> Submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cysoc2022 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cysoc2022> The International Workshop on Cyber Social Threats, CySoc 2022, will be held in conjunction with the 16th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2022) on June 6, 2022. This workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners in computer, social, and medical sciences from both academia and industry to exchange ideas on understanding the multi-faceted social, psychological, cultural, emotional, communicative, and, linguistic aspects of harmful content while leading the discussion on building novel computational methods to reliably detect, derive meaning of, interpret, understand, and counter them. We welcome papers that employ quantitative and/or qualitative, analytical, theoretical approaches to examine a diverse range of issues related to online harmful communications. Papers on resources/data and tools will also be welcome either for demos or for short/regular talks. This year we offer a spotlight topic on vaccine misinformation and special consideration will be given to submissions that focus on this timely and important topic. Topics for research and discussions include (but not limited to): Spotlight topic: Vaccine Misinformation Online extremism Harassment and cyberbullying Hate speech Misinformation and disinformation (e.g., epidemics of fake news, images and videos, during a disaster, health issues and elections) Gender-based violence Human trafficking Illicit drug trafficking Mental health implications of social media Ethical considerations on privacy-preserving social media analytics Emotional and psychological support Trust relationship and community dynamics Relationship of the social web and mainstream news media Cultural implications of social web usage Influencer identification and community detection for movements Co-organizers: Ugur Kursuncu, Georgia State University, GA, USA. Kaicheng Yang, Indiana University, IN, USA. Francesco Pierri, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy. Matthew DeVerna, Indiana University, IN, USA. Megan Squire, Elon University, NC, USA. Yelena Mejova, ISI Foundation, Turin, Italy. Jeremy Blackburn, State University of New York at Binghamton, NY, USA.

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