Here are this week’s top New Media calls for papers and proposals:

• Digital Interventions (CSA Working Group on New Media and Digital Cultures)
• Annenberg-Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute
• Latin America digit@l: current trends, legal dilemmas and ethical concerns

2018 Cultural Studies Association Conference

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

May 31-June 2, 2018

The Cultural Studies Association Working Group on New Media & Digital Cultures (formerly Technology and Culture) invites proposals from its members for its sixteenth annual meeting, to be held May 31-June 2, 2018 on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA.

The 2018 conference-wide theme is “Interventions.” We encourage submissions of panels or individual papers that are in dialogue with this theme, but we will consider all submissions that address issues relevant to new media studies, or that explore the broad relationship between cultural studies and a digitally networked, everyday life. Possible topics include:

–      Social Media and Grassroots Activism
–      The Politics of New Media Practices
–      Bad Media Practices & Evil Media Studies
–      Remix Politics
–      Fake News and the End of the Digital Public Sphere
–      Digital Swarms & Digital Multitudes
–     “Networks of Outrage and Hope” Reconsidered
–     Transnational Politics and the Digital Citizen

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Please submit a 500-word abstract no later than Saturday, March 10, 2018 through the Cultural Studies Association website. Please follow the Easy Chair submission guidelines and instructions found on the CSA Conference Registration page: http://www.culturalstudiesassociation.org/registration

Travel grants are available for partial reimbursement to graduate and advanced undergraduate students who planning to present (http://www.culturalstudiesassociation.org/travelgrants).

Please address any questions to:
Mark Nunes, New Media and Digital Cultures Working Group Co-Chair
nunesm@appstate.edu
Jeff Heydon, New Media and Digital Cultures Working Group Co-Chair
jheydon@wlu.ca

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The Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and the Programme for Comparative Media Law and Policy at the University of Oxford are pleased to invite applications to the 20th annual Annenberg-Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute, to be held from Monday, July 30 to Friday, August 10, 2018 at the University of Oxford.

For twenty years, the Institute has brought together top early career communications scholars, media lawyers and regulators, human rights activists, and policymakers from countries around the world to discuss the effects of technology, media, and policy from a global and multidisciplinary perspective. The Summer Institute provides participants with an intensive two week curriculum that combines expert instruction from media policymakers and scholars with hands-on activities such as stakeholder mapping, policy analysis, group case studies, and participant presentations.

The 2018 Annenberg-Oxford Summer Institute seeks applicants whose research or work is broadly related to the the role of the media in society and politics. Past applicants have had specific interests in the relationship between international norms and national jurisdictions, online censorship and surveillance, media ownership, misinformation online, media activism and political change, the impact of social media on the public sphere, the role of corporations in media governance, strategic communications and propaganda, access to information, online extremism and hate speech, net neutrality, and internet governance- amongst other topics. Applications are encouraged from students studying communication, sociology, political science, international relations, information studies, and related disciplines. Practitioners working in media, law, policy, regulation, and technology are also encouraged to apply.

The Institute endeavors to broaden and expand the pool of talented young scholars engaged in media studies and to connect these individuals to elite scholars and practitioners from around the world. The main goals of the program are to facilitate interdisciplinary dialogue and build spaces for collaboration between scholars, policymakers, and practitioners. The Institute’s alumni are a vibrant group who continue to engage in the program, collaborate through network ties, and have become leaders at the top national and international nonprofits, advocacy organizations, government agencies, corporations, and academic institutions. Past institutes have included participants from India, Kenya, Brazil, the Philippines, Jordan, Turkey, Pakistan, China, Italy, Israel, Colombia, Iran, Myanmar, South Sudan, Nigeria, and many other countries.

The application for the 2018 Summer Institute is now open and available here: https://globalnetpolicy-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1XDDS_wqbOZFNwggKz5sYZDJfdL_53EY56PJJXm4x-bA-0&key=YAMMID-27383652&link=https%3A%2F%2Fannenbergoxford.wufoo.com%2Fforms%2Fannenbergoxford-media-policy-institute-2018%2F

The deadline for all applications is Monday April 16, 2018 at 5:00 PM EST. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis before the deadline, so please submit as soon as possible. Several partial scholarships are available to top applicants.

To learn more and apply, please visit: http://pcmlp.socleg.ox.ac.uk/global-network/annenberg-oxford-media-policy-summer-institute/

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Editor has been working with Routledge to prepare this proposal for The Routledge Series on Emerging Technologies, Ethics and International Affairs.

Editor: Dr. David Ramírez Plascencia.
University of Guadalajara – System of Virtual University. Email: david.ramirez@redudg.udg.mx
Proposals Submission Deadline: 01 April 2018
Notification of acceptance: 14 May 2018
Submission Date: 25 November 2018

In Latin America, the use of the Internet in general, and social media in particular, is one of the most significant activities between inhabitants. Social platforms are so important to Latin Americans that in many countries, like Mexico and Brazil, almost all Internet users, more than 200 million in between both countries, have at least one profile on these platforms. And new information technologies are continuously arriving in the region as well, from the internet of things to artificial intelligence, robots, and the instant tracking of transportation and delivery, all of which are conspiring not only to change the domestic social and economic environment, but to transform social and economic links across the region and externally with the outside world. In a real sense, the internet has cut the region’s geographical moorings and plunged it and its inhabitants into an integrated and multi-tiered global virtual space.

Trying to embrace this entire new spectrum of digital phenomena requires not only an innovative and fresh reexamination of traditional concepts like activism, community, intimacy and social responsibility, especially when they are used to describe social relations in digital milieus, but also the construction of legal and ethical frameworks that clarify the boundaries in between private and public assets, and when it is permissible to monitor operations of foreign régimes and international corporations gathering and disseminating information electronically, for example in seeking to influence elections in Las Americas.

Objective and topics.
The purpose of this edited book is to examine the actual technological and ethical trends and prospective challenges that will reshape the social use of digital technologies in Latin America. How will ethical and legal framework have to evolve to respond to novel issues and critical challenges in the region, from virtual harassment, bullying and sexting incidents posted on YouTube, dating apps’ user privacy, criminal organization members’ information disseminated on social media, political activism and government censorship, the introduction of robotics and AI, cyberwar, the rise of fake news and alternative facts, the digital economy, crypto currencies and other key topics.

Submission Procedure
Proposals with a deep theoretical analysis and cases studies focused in novel technologies like drones, artificial intelligence and robots from a regional perspective are especially welcomed.

You are invited to submit a word document with a brief author or authors CV (no more than 250 words with titles, affiliations, and contacts), title of the proposal and the abstract (500-800 words). All proposal should be submitted to the following address: david.ramirez@redudg.udg.mx

Deadline is 01 April 2018.

The final decision will be notified to the authors by 14 May 2018. Authors will be invited to send a full text by 25 November 2018. The chapter’s length will be 5000-6000 words. Submitted chapters should not have been previously published or sent to another editor. All manuscripts will be selected under a double-blind peer review editorial process. The book is planned to be published at the end of 2019.

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