*Dear Colleagues,Greetings from Boston University's Emerging Media Studies program. This is a friendly reminder that we are hosting our fourth annual #Screentime graduate student conference this summer, and the deadline to submit abstracts is only one week away (May 24). If you have any graduate students or know any researchers who would be interested in attending this engaging academic conference on the lovely BU campus, please forward them the attached details of our upcoming event. And please consider joining us yourself – it is free and open to the public, and we are still seeking potential chairs and discussants. Contact us with any questions. --- --- ---Call for Abstracts – #ScreentimeBU Graduate Student Conference#NoFilter: Unmasking digital engagements and real world influenceDeadline to Submit AbstractsMay 24, 2018 Conference DateJune 21, 2018 11am - 6pmThe graduate students of Boston University’s Division of Emerging Media Studies are calling for abstracts for their fourth annual conference on emerging media. #ScreentimeBU is a graduate conference that provides a platform for students to showcase their research and to network with peers in emerging media studies.This year’s #ScreentimeBU aims to remove the misleading cover of media “hypes” and explore the civic, social, and psychological implications of today’s media landscape. This conference is an opportunity to bridge diverse perspectives on the roles of users and technology in new media and to lay the groundwork for future research in the field.Emerging media studies is an inherently interdisciplinary field, and as such we welcome abstracts from a variety of disciplines on a range of topics centered around our conference theme: Authenticity in digital communication, online engagement and offline effects. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: - Social media movements - Social media bots- Algorithm bias - Political communication - Media in health communication and toxic news - Online relationships, communities, and social networks- Media communication transparency- Big data analysis and machine learning- Media psychology - Self-presentation on social media and digital privacy concerns- Video games, virtual reality, and augmented reality- Media literacy, online actions, and offline consequences- Human-computer interaction- Computer mediated communication- Wearable devices and mobile communicationThe conference is free of charge for both attendees and speakers. For additional information about the conference and previous years’ conferences, please visit http://sites.bu.edu/demsconference/ <http://sites.bu.edu/demsconference/> Deadline for Abstracts: May 24. Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words to demsconf@bu.edu <demsconf@bu.edu>. Include your name and institutional affiliation (department/university), program and year of study, research focus/interests, and contact information (email and phone number) with all submissions. Abstracts will be peer reviewed, and applicants will be notified of their acceptance on a rolling basis no later than May 29.Thanks again – hope to see you there!#ScreentimeBU Abstract TeamDivision of Emerging Media StudiesCollege of CommunicationBoston University* Thanks, Jacob -- Dr. Jacob Groshek Associate Professor of Emerging Media Studies Senior Fellow, Institute for Health System Innovation & Policy <http://www.bu.edu/ihsip/> Associate Director of the Center for Mobile Communication Studies <http://sites.bu.edu/cmcs/> Communication Research Center <http://sites.bu.edu/crc/about-crc/> Fellow Hariri Institute <http://www.bu.edu/hic/> Faculty Fellow Boston University jgroshek.org <http://www.jgroshek.org/> Founding Editor, *Journal of Communication and Technology <http://www.joctec.org/>* Founding Member, Boston Civic Media Consortium <http://bostoncivic.media/> Previously: Research Fellow, Erasmus Uni <http://www.eshcc.eur.nl/english/research/research_centres/erasmus_research_centre_for_media_communication_and_culture/> | Full Member, NeSCoR <http://nescor.socsci.uva.nl/>| Visiting Scholar, IAST <http://www.iast.fr/> @jgroshek <https://twitter.com/jgroshek> | google scholar <https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=G1XXhccAAAAJ&hl=en> 857-615-4709