Reminder: cfp Media Industries 2020: Global Currents and Contradictions, 16-18 April 2020, King’s College London
Apologies for cross-posting Reminder: deadline for submissions 16 September 2019 Media Industries 2020: Global Currents and Contradictions 16-18 April 2020 King’s College London media-industries.org Second international Media Industries conference, hosted by the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King’s College London Following the success of Media Industries: Current Debates and Future Directions (2018) we are pleased to announce the next Media Industries conference will take place in April 2020. Media Industries 2020 (MI2020) maintains an open intellectual agenda, inviting papers, panels or workshops exploring the full breadth of media industries, in contemporary and historical contexts, and from all traditions of media industries scholarship. MI2020 will therefore provide a meeting ground for all forms of media industries research. As a specialized focus, the 2020 conference takes Global Currents and Contradictions as its coordinating theme. In media industries scholarship, repeated attention to a few key territories, frequently but not exclusively located in the Global North, has concentrated but also limited the scope of the field. In choosing the theme Global Currents and Contradictions, we are therefore particularly interested in receiving submissions engaging with industries, contexts and bodies of research that represent, extend or challenge the geographic reach of the field. To headline this theme, a programme of keynote speakers will be announced in due course. PARTNERS A core aim of the Media Industries conference is to bring together scholars researching media industries from across multiple professional associations and their relevant sub-groups or sections. The Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King’s College London is therefore very pleased to be organizing MI2020 in partnership with: · British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS) - Screen Industries Special Interest Group · European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) - Media Industries and Cultural Production Section · European Media Management Association (EMMA) · European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS) - Screen Industries Work Group · Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft (GFM) - AG Medienindustrien · Global Media and China journal · International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) · International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) - Media Production Analysis Working Group · International Communication Association (ICA) - Media Industry Studies Interest Group · Media Industries journal · Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) - Media Industries Scholarly Interest Group · South Asia Communication Association (SACA) HOST COMMITTEE For King’s College London: Sarah Atkinson, Bridget Conor, Virginia Crisp, Sonal Kantaria (conference administrator), Wing-Fai Leung, Paul McDonald (conference chair), Jeanette Steemers and Jaap Verheul ADVISORY COMMITTEE Deb Aikat (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Courtney Brannon Donoghue (University of North Texas), Hanne Bruun (Aarhus Universitet), Evan Elkins (Colorado State University), Elizabeth Evans (University of Nottingham), Tom Evens (Universiteit Gent), Franco Fabbri, Anthony Fung (Chinese University of Hong Kong), David Hesmondhalgh (University of Leeds), Catherine Johnson (University of Huddersfield), Derek Johnson (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Ramon Lobato (RMIT University), Skadi Loist (Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf), Amanda Lotz (Queensland University of Technology), Alfred Martin (University of Iowa), Jack Newsinger (University of Nottingham), Sora Park (University of Canberra), Alisa Perren (University of Texas-Austin), Steve Presence (University of the West of England), Roel Puijk (Høgskolen i Innlandet), Willemien Sanders (Universiteit Utrecht), Kevin Sanson (Queensland University of Technology), Andrew Spicer (University of the West of England), Petr Szczepanik (Univerzita Karlova), Harsh Taneja (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Patrick Vonderau (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg) REGISTRATION Registration for the conference will go live in mid-November 2019. Fees will be published then and will be tiered according to the delegate’s country of residence using the World Bank’s country classifications by Gross National Income per capita. SUBMISSIONS To submit, see the ‘Submission Instructions’ and accompanying link at https://media-industries.org. Deadline Submissions will be accepted until 16 September 2019 at 23.00hrs British Summer Time (BST) (please note: BST is Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) + 1 hour) Submission Categories Submissions are welcomed in three categories. i. Open Call Papers Format: solo or co-presented research paper lasting no more than 20mins. ii. Pre-constituted Panels Format: 90mins panel of 3 x 20mins OR 4 x 15mins thematically linked solo or co-presented research papers followed by questions. iii. Pre-constituted Workshops Format: 90mins interactive forum led by 4 to 6 x 6mins thematically linked informal presentations. Led by a chair or co-chairs, workshops adopt a roundtable format bringing together 4 to 6 speakers to offer short (up to 6 minute) position statements or interventions designed to trigger discussions around a central theme, issue, or problem. As such, the workshop does not involve the presentation of formal research papers, but rather is designed to create a forum for the speakers and the audience to engage in a shared discussion. The workshop format is flexible and can be adapted to allow the chair or co-chairs to introduce exercises or other activities where appropriate. Delegates can make TWO contributions to the conference but only ONE in any category, i.e. presenting an open call paper and participating in a workshop will be permitted but presenting two open call papers will not be. Chairing a panel or organizing a workshop will NOT count as a contribution. Professor Paul McDonald Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries / Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries Vice Dean (People and Planning) for Arts / Faculty of Arts and Humanities King’s College London Strand London WC2R 2LR UK (t) +44 (0) 20 7848 1100 (Skype) paulmcdonald100 (WWW) PaulMcDonald<https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/person.aspx?id=aa77eb9e-202a-45db-8501-c8e9af6dc49c>
Job opening at Tallinn University for 5 Research Fellows in Cultural Data Analytics Tallinn University has announced an open competition for five positions of Research Fellow in Cultural Data Analytics in H2020 funded ERA Chair project CUDAN. Start of the employment contract is negotiable: between 15.06.2020- 01.09.2020. The duration of the contract is 3 years. Funded through the European Commission, the designated CUDAN ERA Chair holder, Professor Maximilian Schich, together with the CUDAN project team, the Baltic Film, Media, Arts and Communication School, the School of Humanities, and the School of Digital Technologies at Tallinn University, is looking for research fellows in the area of Cultural Data Analytics to deepen our understanding of the nature of cultural interaction, cultural dynamics, and cultural evolution, doing research while nurturing multidisciplinary cross-fertilization. Through this recruiting, the CUDAN project will bring together a group of at least 5 research fellows and 5 PhD students to harness the rare high-risk/high-gain opportunity of combining multidisciplinary science, computation, information design, with art and cultural history, cultural media studies, and cultural semiotics, in close collaboration and co-authorship. The newly established research group will form the core of the CUDAN Open Lab, which, in addition to research, aims to function as a forum for intellectual exchange, and as an incubator for follow-up projects. Ideally, the research fellows contribute aspects of network science, complexity science, science of science, computational social science, machine learning/AI, information science, data science, data visualization, user experience design, and/or digital humanities to the locally existing expertise in art and cultural history, cultural media studies, cultural semiotics, and digital technology. Beyond the local environment, the CUDAN initiative will also provide the research fellows and PhD students with the opportunity to work closely with high-profile external partners in multidisciplinary science, cultural heritage institutions, and stakeholders in the cultural industries in Estonia, in Europe, and around the globe. More information on the CUDAN project, see http://cudan.tlu.ee/. We are particularly interested to work on the following research challenges: • Using machine learning to analyze images and/or audio-visual material over historical time scales, to reveal patterns and biases in large data collections through a kind of “artificial neural science”. • Using linguistic topic modelling and/or bi-partite network science to analyze the structure and evolution of large corpora of texts and/or classifications, feeding into a “palaeontology of memes”. • Using temporal multilayer network analysis and/or topological data analysis to make sense of large cultural knowledge graphs, through capturing fundamental emerging patterns of “network multiplicity”. • Combining the analysis of multimedia, unstructured, and structured data in a so-called embed-everything-approach that could result in a kind of “multidimensional fluid-dynamics of meaning”. In addition, we aim to nurture the Cultural Analytics community through addressing the following challenges: • Mapping and characterizing the achievements, opportunities, and limits of Cultural Data Analytics, ideally resulting in actionable maps of the relevant “multidisciplinary ski area”. • Enabling and optimizing the CUDAN Open Lab experience through a conscious effort of user experience design, observing and designing workflows, events, and other forms of intentional “academic mixing”. Candidates that are motivated and have the capacity to spearhead one of these aspects are strongly encouraged to apply! Requirements for the candidate (incl. professional experience) • The ideal candidate has a PhD in a field closely related to Cultural Data Analytics, with expertise in quantification, computation, and/or visualization, ideally including previous working experience with large-scale socio-cultural data. • The individual focus could be in machine learning/AI, network science, topological data analysis, complexity science, science of science, computational social science, information science, data visualization, user experience design, and/or digital humanities. • Candidates with a PhD in a seemingly unrelated field whose methods could nevertheless be valuable to the CUDAN project will be considered: Examples include experts in socio-physics, computer vision, species niche modeling, time-series analysis, or matrix clustering as found in systems biology and neuroscience. • The working language of the CUDAN research group is English. Load: 1,0 The duties are approximately divided in (1) research (90%), (2) teaching (5%) and (3) internal and external service (5%). Salary: to be agreed, but internationally competitive. Location: Tallinn, Estonia. Language skills: English C1, Estonian is not required; if staying longer in Estonia, the candidate would need to acquire Estonian as a working language within 3 years in order to be able to participate in administrative tasks. See the more detailed job advert on Tallinn University webpage: https://www.tlu.ee/en/taxonomy/term/84/research-fellow-cultural-data-analyti... Additional information about the posts and the application process: please refer your administrative questions to konkurss@tlu.ee and questions on content to project coordinator for CUDAN Mariliis Niinemägi, mariliis.niinemagi@tlu.ee -------- New (open access) book: "Emergence of Cross-innovation Systems: Audiovisual Industries Co-innovating with Education, Health Care and Tourism”, Emerald, 2019 Meediainnovatsiooni professor, Balti Filmi, Meedia, Kunstide ja Kommunikatsiooni Instituut (BFM), Tallinna Ülikool MEDITi (Tallinna Ülikooli Meediainnovatsiooni ja Digikultuuri Tippkeskus) juhataja Telefon: 56978885 Email: indrek.ibrus@tlu.ee Professor of media innovation, Baltic Film, Media, Arts and Communication School (BFM), Tallinn University Head at MEDIT (Tallinn University Centre of Excellence in Media Innovation and Digital Culture) Tel: +37256978885 Email: indrek.ibrus@tlu.ee Read MEDIT’s recent newsletter <https://tlubfm.sendsmaily.net/browser/4j1RnJVZf1WWMbc48fGdQiLcCD-jRUUazgXRZCleOAc7jwaXgs6ox_sWenjrJ1fUwz0Ra-YRCmx2Nt79vQjw6oWEsxDsi-UmkAqtB5gnoUPrP55da4U7OA,,/>.
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