Here are this week’s top new media calls:
- Interdisciplinary book on internet-infused romantic interactions and dating practices
- World in Flux: Exploring Cultural and Media Studies in a Changing World
- Texts in Motion (May 2018, Cambridge)
- Intentionally Digital, Intentionally Black
- Call for Papers: CMC and Social Media Corpora 2018
Call for Papers: An interdisciplinary book on internet-infused romantic interactions and dating practices
Title: Internet-Infused Romantic Interactions and Dating Practices
Under Contract with:
Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam (Expected publication – 2019)
Editors:
Prof. Amir Hetsroni
College of Social Sciences and Humanities – Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey
Meriç Tuncez
Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities – Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey
An interdisciplinary book, Internet-Infused Romantic Interactions and Dating Practices, to be published by the house of the Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, aims to analyze intricacies of internet-infused romantic interactions and dating practices. The proposed collection aims to include contributions from communication scholars, social scientists, computer scientists, humanities scholars and design experts whose research and practice will shed light on the romantic interplay of affect, cognition, and behavior on the internet with special attention given to social media platforms such as Tinder, Facebook, Grinder, and OkCupid. The collection would aim to offer an array of international perspectives and methodological novelties and feature a volume of scientific research and practice from a multitude of disciplines and interdisciplinary outlooks.
Quantitative as well as qualitative empirical research, theoretical essays and research reviews are all welcome. We aim to provide the readers with a theoretical and methodological assortment that is sensitive towards various approaches to the study of intimate relationships and romance as reflected in new media – from discourse analysis to visual network analysis; from in-depth interviews to experimental designs; from ethnographic observations to cross-sectional and longitudinal survey studies.
Feasible topics include, but are not limited to (please feel free to suggest additional themes):
– Romantic socialization and impression management in social networking services (SNS)
– Cross-cultural examinations of online dating scripts and practices
– Analysis of stages of intimate relationship on the screen (courtship, breakup, etc.)
– Motivations for using casual hook-up apps (e.g. uses and gratifications)
– Mobile representations and practices of deviant and alternative romance (e.g. threesome, swinger clubs)
– Cross-platform examination of mobile romantic interactions (TV, Internet, Tinder, Grindr, Instagram etc.)
– Construction of body, affect and love on online dating user profiles and role of selfies in exchanging affect
– Algorithmic challenges and role of AI, VR, AR and Machine Learning on the future of dating online.
– Chasing love while playing video games (falling in love with an NPC).
– Intergenerational differences in online dating attitudes, intentions and behaviors
– Privacy-protective behaviors, self-disclosure and impact of personality and context on online dating
– Queer, gay, lesbian and LGBTQ accounts and ethnographies of online romantic practices
– Role of interface, design and coding in online dating services
Please note that while as editors we remain open to any theoretical or methodological approach, the book is eventually an academic volume – not a collection o journalistic reviews or political-ideological polemic.
Please send extended abstracts (1,500 to 2,000 words) or complete papers (3,500 to 12,000 words) that should include a purpose statement, research questions and hypotheses (where applicable), theoretical frame, method(s) of analysis, expected results (for empirical studies), scholarly contribution and public appeal reference.
Because the book needs to be balanced, the chances of having a paper accepted depend not only on the quality of submissions but also on the rarity and innovativeness of their content. Using novel methodological approaches that are not typically employed in studies of online romantic interactions like controlled experiments, experience sampling, brain imaging and eye tracking techniques, intervention programs and action research may increase the likelihood of acceptance.
The deadline for submission of extended abstracts – 1,500 to 2,000 words plus references is: April 15th, 2018.
Notification of accepted proposals and invitations to submit complete papers (4,500 to 11,000 words, APA style) will be made on or before May 15th, 2018.
The complete papers’ due date is October 1st, 2018.
Revisions requests (when required) will be sent by November 1st, 2018
Revisions due date is December 1st, 2018
The book will be sent to the publisher by the End of 2018.
No publication fee would be required.
Please send submissions, inquires and proposals to:
Prof. Amir Hetsroni Meriç Tuncez
College of Social Sciences and Humanities Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities
Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey
amirhetsroni@gmail.com mtuncez@ku.edu.tr
CFP World in Flux: Exploring Cultural and Media Studies in a Changing World
Our world is ever-fluctuating, nothing is static, and these oscillations reflect upon Cultural and Media Studies. The confluence of research and its environment calls for new modes of understanding spanning cultural, aesthetic, socio-economic, technological, political and environmental concerns. Consequently, we are witnessing the development of new approaches and methodologies in Cultural and Media Studies. In navigating new fields of study, stimulating modes of research are emerging. The creative nature of the field invites a wide range of practices that are challenging the borders between art and research.
King’s College London, Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries welcomes proposals for PhD Conference 2018 exploring possibilities for Cultural and Media Studies and how these can help us to understand the fluctuating world we inhabit.
Possible topics for presentations include but are not limited to:
- Cultural and creative industries in evolution
- Globalisation, neoliberalism and cultural research
- Digital curation and digital archives
- Memory and media archeology
- Ethics and power
- Transparency, accessibility, mobility
- New terminologies
- The future of methodologies for Cultural and Media Studies
- Arts-based, arts-informed and practice-based research
- Auto-ethnography
We welcome paper proposals as well as alternative modes of presentation such as video essays, performances, creative practice etc.
Abstract submission deadline: 9 April 2018
Deadline for registration: 4 May 2018
Conference Date: 15 June 2018
There is no conference fee.
We invite submissions for 15-minutes paper presentations in English. For alternative presentations there is no time limit, but please provide specifications with your submission. Please send an abstract of 250-500 words and 5 keywords, accompanied by a short biography of 150 words (including presenter’s name and affiliation) by e-mail to cmci-conference@kcl.ac.uk.
The same e-mail address is available for questions and queries.
Contact Info:
Linda Clayworth
PhD Candidate, Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries
King’s College, London
Contact Email:
cmci-conference@kcl.ac.uk
CFP (extended): Texts in Motion (May 2018, Cambridge)
Texts in Motion: Materiality, Mobility, and Archiving in World History
12 May 2018
Hosted by the World History Workshop, University of Cambridge
The movement of people, commodities, and ideas has long attracted the attention of scholars of world history. Straddling the interstices between commodities and ideas, written texts have been a particularly productive subject of study. This one-day conference invites graduate students to reflect critically on the written and other physical sources on which their research depends as ‘texts in motion’ within world history. We welcome submissions which interrogate the material and political trajectories of particular texts, which foreground the power relations and truth regimes underpinning the archives of world history, which attend to the sensory and affective dimensions of working with the written word and physical texts.
We are particularly interested in texts like petitions which undergo multiple and varied movements across their life-histories. To highlight what is distinctive about texts in motion, we also encourage reflections on texts which appear fixed in place, and on the relationship between visual and oral sources, on the one hand, and written texts, on the other. And we invite critical reflections on what is lost – or gained – in our engagements with written texts as a consequence of the digitisation of archives.
The conference aims to bring together researchers working on various parts of the globe, including the Americas, Africa, Asia, Oceania, and Europe. We welcome papers on a wide range of themes, including but not limited to:
▪ Texts in motion: from ‘fixed’ monuments to ‘mobile’ petitions and letters
▪ Making text mobile: technological innovation, scribal labour, translation work
▪ Architectures of power: colonial archives, catalogues, hierarchies, classification
▪ Materiality: archives as repositories of paper, questions of lacunae, loss, and decay
▪ Archives in motion: engaging displaced and migrated archives
▪ Allure of the archives: tactile, interpretative, and emotional experiences of the archive ▪ Digital histories: immateriality and the consequences of archival digitisation
▪ Beyond text: visual sources, orality, and regimes of truth, accuracy, authority
We encourage graduate students in any related discipline to apply, and welcome individual submissions as well as suggestions for themed panels. Our aim is to bring together researchers working on various parts of the globe, including the Americas, Africa, Asia, Oceania, and Europe, and across the many different scales of world history. To apply, please submit an abstract of 200- 250 words and a one-page current academic CV toworldhistoryworkshop@gmail.com by 12 March 2018. Please include your name, institutional affiliation, and contact email address with your submission.
Intentionally Digital, Intentionally Black
University of Maryland
October 18-20, 2018
What happens to digital humanities inquiry when we begin with Black culture, Black thought, and Black persons at the center of our endeavors? How does this shift challenge and expand both the humanities and the digital? What happens to Black and African American humanities research when we lead with the digital?
Interdisciplinary inquiry into both the online practices of black users and humanities research focused on black history and culture using digital tools has expanded in the past decade. Too often, this work happens on the margins of established disciplines, boundaries, and paradigms. Rather than arriving at black digital research as an afterthought or a tactic to achieve “diversity”, privileging black theory and black culture in our scholarship can provide alternate paradigms through which to understand the digital and the humanistic.
The first national conference of the African American Digital Humanities (AADHum) Initiative at the University of Maryland will explore how digital studies and digital humanities-based research, teaching, and community projects can center African American history and culture. AADHum invites submissions that may include scholarly inquiry into Black diasporic and African American uses of digital technologies; digital humanities projects that focus on black history and culture; race and digital theory; the intersection of black studies and digital humanities; information studies, cultural heritage, and community-based digital projects; pedagogical interventions; digital tools and artifacts; black digital humanities and memory; social media and black activism/movements, etc.
Proposal Submissions
We invite submissions from within and outside the academy – students, faculty, librarians, independent scholars and community members – to actively participate in the conference!
Proposals are due by Monday, April 9, 2018.
- Proposals should be submitted online at https://www.conftool.pro/aadhum2018/
- Multiple proposal submissions (maximum of 3 submissions) from an individual or group are acceptable
- Selections and notifications will be made by mid-June 2018
Types of Proposals
- Individual Papers. Please provide an abstract of 300-500 words and brief bio (75 words).
- Panels. Please provide a panel rationale of no more than 300 words, with individual paper abstracts (150-300 words) for up to 5 participants. Include titles and institutional affiliations for each participant.
- Digital Posters. Posters may present work on any relevant topic in any stage of development. Poster presentations are intended to be interactive, providing the opportunity to exchange ideas one-on-one with attendees. Please provide an abstract of 300-500 words.
- Tools/Digital Project Demonstration. Tools/Digital Project demonstrations are intended to showcase near-complete or completed work in an interactive environment. Please provide an abstract of 300-500 words. Abstracts should include 1) research significance, 2) stage (near complete/complete), 3) intervention of platform/project/tool 4) demonstration requirements (technology).
- Roundtables. Please provide a rationale of no more than 300 words, accompanied by a list of 4-5 participants (including title and institutional affiliation).
For each proposal, please include 3-5 keywords.
About AADHum
The AADHum Initiative (Synergies among African American History and Culture and Digital Humanities) at the University of Maryland is an initiative funded in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. AADHum seeks to prepare the next generation of scholars and scholarship by facilitating critical dialogue between digital humanists and African American centered humanities scholarship. The Initiative works to expand the reach of the digital humanities into African American/Africana/Black Studies while enriching humanities research with new methods, archives, and tools. This initiative enhances digital research while recognizing the expertise and knowledge from traditional humanities research and how it may propel digital scholarship forward. In so doing, it fosters a dialogue among a community of scholars from within and outside the academy as they venture into new research and pedagogical endeavors.
Examples of proposal topics
Abundance and deprivation
Activism
Africa and the Americas
Afro-futurism, -pragmatism and -pessimism
Agency and movements
Anti-racisms
Archives and archival practices
Arts and visual cultures
Blackness in everyday life
Comparative Blackness
Cyber/digital feminism
Digital presence
Digital slave studies
Ethics
Empirical and epistemological considerations
Evaluating digital scholarship
Intersectionality
Gaming
Languages and literatures
Local and regional history
Memory and commemoration
Methods and tools
Migration and movement
Mobile technologies
Pedagogy
Performance studies
Platform studies
Poetics and aesthetics
Public humanities
Sexualities
Social media
Space and place
Systems of institutional power
Within and beyond the academy
Youth cultures
Submissions will be accepted until April 9, 2018.
Please direct all questions and concerns to aadhum@umd.edu
Call for Papers: CMC and Social Media Corpora 2018
‘CMC-corpora 2018’ is the 6th edition of an annual conference series dedicated to the collection, annotation, processing and exploitation of corpora of computer-mediated communication (CMC) and social media for research in the humanities. The conference brings together language-centered research on CMC and social media in linguistics, philologies, communication sciences, media and social sciences with research questions from the fields of corpus and computational linguistics, language technology, text technology, and machine learning.
2018 edition
The 6th conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora will be held in Antwerp, Belgium on 17-18 September 2018. It will be hosted by the CLiPS research center (Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics) at the University of Antwerp.
Conference website: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferences/cmc-social-media-2018/call-for-papers/
Important dates
– 1st May: submission deadline
– 20th June: notification of acceptance
– 15th August: submission of camera-ready version
– 17th & 18th September: conference
Submission procedure
We invite submissions for talks and for posters or software/corpus demonstrations on any topic relevant to the list of themes (below). Contributions should be anonymized and submitted via the online conference system, and will be peer-reviewed by the scientific committee. (Visit the online submission link)
For talks, we request short papers (2-4 pages) in English, following the template which you can download here for MSWord (40 kB) or here for LaTeX (260 kB). Authors of accepted papers can present their work at the conference in a 20 minute talk followed by 10 minutes for questions and discussion. Accepted short papers will be published in online proceedings before the conference. After the conference, there will be an open call for extended papers to be published in a special issue of European Journal of Applied Linguistics (EuJAL), to appear in 2019.
For poster presentations (reserved for early stage research) or software/corpus demonstrations, we request abstracts in English (max. 500 words, bibliographical references not included). Authors of accepted abstracts can present their poster and/or give their demonstration during the poster session, which will be opened by one-minute ‘teaser talks’. Accepted abstracts will be printed in the book of abstracts.
Topics of interest
- Development of CMC corpora
– Building CMC corpora: from data collection to publication
– Open data for research on CMC: questions of ethics and rights
– Annotation of CMC genres: representation of CMC genres, annotation of linguistic phenomena, metadata
– Multimodal corpora
– …
- Analysis of CMC corpora
– Sociolinguistic studies of CMC
– Discourse analysis of CMC
– Linguistic characteristics of CMC
– Multimodal aspects of CMC
– Language in contact and code-switching in CMC
– CMC in language learning & teaching
– …
- Natural Language Processing (NLP) of CMC
– Normalization
– PoS Tagging
– Lemmatization
– Syntactic parsing
– Named-entity recognition
– …
Scientific Committee
Chairs
– Reinhild Vandekerckhove (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
– Darja Fišer (UL, Slovenia and Jožef Stefan Institute)
Co-chairs
– Michael Beißwenger (UDE, Germany)
– Ciara R. Wigham (LRL, France)