Submission deadline?
With respect to the deadlines for this year’s conference CFP, can anyone explain why despite having no stated time once the deadline was extended, that at 11:50 pm EDT, the submissions are now closed? The last deadline for the submission of new contributions was 15th Apr 2021, 11:59:59pm UTC. If the deadline was to be UTC, which is vastly different from previous years, where the deadline was established at midnight Hawai’i time, that the extended deadline would be so limited. Especially when the only way to see said deadline would be on the submission page. It is disappointing to know that my submission will not be included in the process because the times are apparently less negotiable than in previous years, especially considering the online nature of a conference meant to be hosted in Philadelphia, a city clearly in the US EDT. I understand this information may have appeared elsewhere, but in looking back at the email announcing the deadline extension Best, Dr. Plothe -- Theo Plothe, PhD Assistant Professor Journalism and Mass Communication Savannah State University
Alas, we are in the same boat as you. Having prepared a paper to submit, we ran into the UTC cut-off once logged into the submission system and ready to submit. In our case, we were thrown off by the deadline for the dissertation awards ("April 15, 2021 by midnight where ever you are") with that of AoIR2021. Best regards, Zach On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 at 23:59, Plothe, Theo <plothet@savannahstate.edu> wrote:
With respect to the deadlines for this year’s conference CFP, can anyone explain why despite having no stated time once the deadline was extended, that at 11:50 pm EDT, the submissions are now closed?
The last deadline for the submission of new contributions was 15th Apr 2021, 11:59:59pm UTC.
If the deadline was to be UTC, which is vastly different from previous years, where the deadline was established at midnight Hawai’i time, that the extended deadline would be so limited. Especially when the only way to see said deadline would be on the submission page. It is disappointing to know that my submission will not be included in the process because the times are apparently less negotiable than in previous years, especially considering the online nature of a conference meant to be hosted in Philadelphia, a city clearly in the US EDT.
I understand this information may have appeared elsewhere, but in looking back at the email announcing the deadline extension
Best, Dr. Plothe
-- Theo Plothe, PhD Assistant Professor Journalism and Mass Communication Savannah State University
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I wonder if this is just two cases or may be a few more that some exception can be made because of this vagueness. Peter T. I don't speak for my employer or associations I am a member of or volunteer for unless otherwise noted.
On Apr 16, 2021, at 12:14 AM, Zach Bastick <zach.bastick@gmail.com> wrote:
Alas, we are in the same boat as you. Having prepared a paper to submit, we ran into the UTC cut-off once logged into the submission system and ready to submit. In our case, we were thrown off by the deadline for the dissertation awards ("April 15, 2021 by midnight where ever you are") with that of AoIR2021. Best regards, Zach
On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 at 23:59, Plothe, Theo <plothet@savannahstate.edu> wrote:
With respect to the deadlines for this year’s conference CFP, can anyone explain why despite having no stated time once the deadline was extended, that at 11:50 pm EDT, the submissions are now closed?
The last deadline for the submission of new contributions was 15th Apr 2021, 11:59:59pm UTC.
If the deadline was to be UTC, which is vastly different from previous years, where the deadline was established at midnight Hawai’i time, that the extended deadline would be so limited. Especially when the only way to see said deadline would be on the submission page. It is disappointing to know that my submission will not be included in the process because the times are apparently less negotiable than in previous years, especially considering the online nature of a conference meant to be hosted in Philadelphia, a city clearly in the US EDT.
I understand this information may have appeared elsewhere, but in looking back at the email announcing the deadline extension
Best, Dr. Plothe
-- Theo Plothe, PhD Assistant Professor Journalism and Mass Communication Savannah State University
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Hi Theo & Zach, Sorry to hear you missed the deadline; it was communicated quite clearly the deadline was UTC in the emails sent on 13 April, but I appreciate we've all got many, many emails and that may have been missed. (The shift to UTC was because both last year's and this year's conferences are organised using UTC first, then translated into whatever time zone people are in.) The dissertation awards (and the book awards etc) do have different deadlines, but I appreciate, too, how that may have caused some confusion. I'm jumping in to reply as both the Conference Chair and AoIR President are (I hope) fast asleep. One challenge here is that a number of people did request extensions via email, and we denied those as we're already running well behind (the mid-April due deadline was already extended from the usual March due date because of the shift back online again) so we asked people to try their very best to submit whatever they could by the hard deadline. That said, we aren't trying to be punitive, simply fair, so my suggestion is that you email the submission you prepared but couldn't submit directly to ac@aoir.org as soon as you read this. Then, as soon as we're able, the Conference Chair and AoIR President and I can discuss the situation and get back to you. (As it's not my call, this is the best I can offer before people are awake to discuss!) Hope that seems reasonable. Regards, Tama On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 12:14 PM Zach Bastick <zach.bastick@gmail.com> wrote:
Alas, we are in the same boat as you. Having prepared a paper to submit, we ran into the UTC cut-off once logged into the submission system and ready to submit. In our case, we were thrown off by the deadline for the dissertation awards ("April 15, 2021 by midnight where ever you are") with that of AoIR2021. Best regards, Zach
On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 at 23:59, Plothe, Theo <plothet@savannahstate.edu> wrote:
With respect to the deadlines for this year’s conference CFP, can anyone explain why despite having no stated time once the deadline was extended, that at 11:50 pm EDT, the submissions are now closed?
The last deadline for the submission of new contributions was 15th Apr 2021, 11:59:59pm UTC.
If the deadline was to be UTC, which is vastly different from previous years, where the deadline was established at midnight Hawai’i time, that the extended deadline would be so limited. Especially when the only way
to
see said deadline would be on the submission page. It is disappointing to know that my submission will not be included in the process because the times are apparently less negotiable than in previous years, especially considering the online nature of a conference meant to be hosted in Philadelphia, a city clearly in the US EDT.
I understand this information may have appeared elsewhere, but in looking back at the email announcing the deadline extension
Best, Dr. Plothe
-- Theo Plothe, PhD Assistant Professor Journalism and Mass Communication Savannah State University
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Tama, Thank you for explanation, and apologies for missing the email on the 13th. I understand the move and the reasonings for it, and had the original date held, I likely would have been fine. I think the extension was difficult to grasp in terms of that UTC deadline. Thanks again, I simply wondered if there were others in my position, and I appreciate your response. Best, Theo -- Theo Plothe, PhD Assistant Professor Journalism and Mass Communication Savannah State University On Apr 16, 2021, at 1:44 AM, Tama Leaver <tamaleaver@gmail.com<mailto:tamaleaver@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi Theo & Zach, Sorry to hear you missed the deadline; it was communicated quite clearly the deadline was UTC in the emails sent on 13 April, but I appreciate we've all got many, many emails and that may have been missed. (The shift to UTC was because both last year's and this year's conferences are organised using UTC first, then translated into whatever time zone people are in.) The dissertation awards (and the book awards etc) do have different deadlines, but I appreciate, too, how that may have caused some confusion. I'm jumping in to reply as both the Conference Chair and AoIR President are (I hope) fast asleep. One challenge here is that a number of people did request extensions via email, and we denied those as we're already running well behind (the mid-April due deadline was already extended from the usual March due date because of the shift back online again) so we asked people to try their very best to submit whatever they could by the hard deadline. That said, we aren't trying to be punitive, simply fair, so my suggestion is that you email the submission you prepared but couldn't submit directly to ac@aoir.org<mailto:ac@aoir.org> as soon as you read this. Then, as soon as we're able, the Conference Chair and AoIR President and I can discuss the situation and get back to you. (As it's not my call, this is the best I can offer before people are awake to discuss!) Hope that seems reasonable. Regards, Tama On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 12:14 PM Zach Bastick <zach.bastick@gmail.com<mailto:zach.bastick@gmail.com>> wrote: Alas, we are in the same boat as you. Having prepared a paper to submit, we ran into the UTC cut-off once logged into the submission system and ready to submit. In our case, we were thrown off by the deadline for the dissertation awards ("April 15, 2021 by midnight where ever you are") with that of AoIR2021. Best regards, Zach On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 at 23:59, Plothe, Theo <plothet@savannahstate.edu<mailto:plothet@savannahstate.edu>> wrote:
With respect to the deadlines for this year’s conference CFP, can anyone explain why despite having no stated time once the deadline was extended, that at 11:50 pm EDT, the submissions are now closed?
The last deadline for the submission of new contributions was 15th Apr 2021, 11:59:59pm UTC.
If the deadline was to be UTC, which is vastly different from previous years, where the deadline was established at midnight Hawai’i time, that the extended deadline would be so limited. Especially when the only way to see said deadline would be on the submission page. It is disappointing to know that my submission will not be included in the process because the times are apparently less negotiable than in previous years, especially considering the online nature of a conference meant to be hosted in Philadelphia, a city clearly in the US EDT.
I understand this information may have appeared elsewhere, but in looking back at the email announcing the deadline extension
Best, Dr. Plothe
-- Theo Plothe, PhD Assistant Professor Journalism and Mass Communication Savannah State University
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In the conferences I have organized I've advocated for (and usually gotten agreement on) "midnight anywhere on Earth" deadlines. You give a date and set the server shutdown for midnight of the last time zone that is in that date. Then there is no ambiguity based on location. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anywhere_on_Earth If someone wants to try to do the math to submit after midnight their time zone, it is at their risk. On 4/15/21 7:44 PM, Tama Leaver wrote:
Hi Theo & Zach,
Sorry to hear you missed the deadline; it was communicated quite clearly the deadline was UTC in the emails sent on 13 April, but I appreciate we've all got many, many emails and that may have been missed. (The shift to UTC was because both last year's and this year's conferences are organised using UTC first, then translated into whatever time zone people are in.) The dissertation awards (and the book awards etc) do have different deadlines, but I appreciate, too, how that may have caused some confusion.
I'm jumping in to reply as both the Conference Chair and AoIR President are (I hope) fast asleep. One challenge here is that a number of people did request extensions via email, and we denied those as we're already running well behind (the mid-April due deadline was already extended from the usual March due date because of the shift back online again) so we asked people to try their very best to submit whatever they could by the hard deadline. That said, we aren't trying to be punitive, simply fair, so my suggestion is that you email the submission you prepared but couldn't submit directly to ac@aoir.org as soon as you read this.
Then, as soon as we're able, the Conference Chair and AoIR President and I can discuss the situation and get back to you. (As it's not my call, this is the best I can offer before people are awake to discuss!)
Hope that seems reasonable.
Regards, Tama
On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 12:14 PM Zach Bastick <zach.bastick@gmail.com> wrote:
Alas, we are in the same boat as you. Having prepared a paper to submit, we ran into the UTC cut-off once logged into the submission system and ready to submit. In our case, we were thrown off by the deadline for the dissertation awards ("April 15, 2021 by midnight where ever you are") with that of AoIR2021. Best regards, Zach
On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 at 23:59, Plothe, Theo <plothet@savannahstate.edu> wrote:
With respect to the deadlines for this year’s conference CFP, can anyone explain why despite having no stated time once the deadline was extended, that at 11:50 pm EDT, the submissions are now closed?
The last deadline for the submission of new contributions was 15th Apr 2021, 11:59:59pm UTC.
If the deadline was to be UTC, which is vastly different from previous years, where the deadline was established at midnight Hawai’i time, that the extended deadline would be so limited. Especially when the only way to see said deadline would be on the submission page. It is disappointing to know that my submission will not be included in the process because the times are apparently less negotiable than in previous years, especially considering the online nature of a conference meant to be hosted in Philadelphia, a city clearly in the US EDT.
I understand this information may have appeared elsewhere, but in looking back at the email announcing the deadline extension
Best, Dr. Plothe
-- Theo Plothe, PhD Assistant Professor Journalism and Mass Communication Savannah State University
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