CFP: 5th Annual Data | Media | Digital Graduate Symposium

Extended CFP for DMD.

Call for Submissions 

University of Oregon’s Fifth Annual Data | Media | Digital Graduate Student Symposium 

Submissions Due: Friday January 27, 2023 

We invite submissions for 15-minute presentations from UO graduate students on any aspect of Data, Media, or Digital Studies for a symposium Friday, April 14th (this is week 2 of spring term), tentatively to be held in UO Library’s DREAM Lab.  An annual event co-organized by UO’s Digital Humanities program, the Media Studies program in the School of Journalism & Communication, and the New Media & Culture Certificate, we invite submissions from graduate students in any UO program or department.

Presentations can be based on work in progress or on research and work in the final stages of development. Proposals should specify clear scholarly or pedagogical goals, and should articulate how the design or argument of a data/media/digital project might address those goals. Any kind of data studies, media studies, or digital studies project is welcome (if you aren’t sure if your project fits our call, then it probably does, but please get in touch and we can offer you our guidance).

The Data|Media|Digital Symposium will be an opportunity to showcase the exciting multi-disciplinary work being produced by graduate students across campus. We look forward to sustaining cross-disciplinary conversations and building inter-departmental community over the course of the day. To facilitate this goal, student participants are expected to attend all three panel sessions comprising the symposium (to the extent that their teaching and academic schedules will allow). In addition to panel sessions, we will have informal time for discussion over food and drinks, a hosted lunch, and a panel of short presentations by UO faculty working in these areas.

Submission Details: Enter your submission at https://tinyurl.com/dmd-2023 by the end of day (11:59 PM) on Friday, January 27 (this is week 3 of winter term). The submission form will request an abstract (or executive summary) of your proposed presentation as well as basic information including any relevant research experience (such as conference presentations, publications, etc.). To access the submission form, you will need to be logged in to your UO email account. For your abstract, please prepare a PDF with your name, affiliation, and presentation title at the top. We anticipate this will be an in-person event—if an alternative format is more suitable for presenting your work please propose this in addition to your abstract. 

 Decisions about all submissions will be conveyed by early February.

Questions about D|M|D can be directed to any member of our co-organizing committee:  

Click HERE for a plain-text PDF flyer of this CFP.

 

UO Libraries Data Services Reading Group on How We Became our Data by Colin Koopman

Book Cover of the book "How We Became Our Data: A Genealogy of the Informational Person" by Colin Koopman

Join UO Libraries’ Data Services reading group on Fridays January 20, February 3rd, and February 17, between 12pm and 1pm.

They will be reading How We Became Our Data by current NMCC Director Colin Koopman!

For more information and to register: https://uoregon.libcal.com/calendar/dataservices/book_club_w2023

 

NMCC Winter Open House: Thursday February 2nd

NMCC Winter Open House. Thursday February 2nd. 4pm-5:30pm. Graduate Student Center, SCH 111

Join us for coffee and snacks at our Winter NMCC Open House on Thursday February 2nd from 4pm-5:30pm in the Graduate Student Center (Susan Campbell Hall room 111).Meet fellow certificate members and NMCC faculty, or say hello to those you already know. This event is open to anyone interested in learning more about the New Media and Culture Certificate program, so bring a friend!We also want to hear about any suggestions you have for NMCC workshops, events, or speakers — so bring your ideas.

SOJC’s Hearst Demystifying Media Speaker Series with Thorsten Quandt: Wednesday October 26, 6pm-7pm

The second speaker for Fall term SOJC’s Hearst Demystifying Media Speaker Series is Thorsten Quandt. Quandt is a high-profile researcher (with more than 11,000 citations) from the University of Münster whose work covers a range of issues related to digital media, journalism, and society. Quandt will be in Eugene to visit with students and faculty on Wednesday and Thursday, October 26-27. His main lecture is at 6 p.m. Wednesday, in Allen Hall room 141.
Thorsten Quandt is Full Professor of Online Communication at the University of Münster, Germany. His work focuses on societal changes connected to the Internet and new media. Recent research includes studies on “dark participation” online propaganda, dysfunctional online use, and the transformation of journalism.  His research group’s approaches and methods operate at the intersection of communication studies, psychology, and data science. Previous academic stations include the University of Hohenheim, the Free University Berlin, and LMU Munich, and he was a visiting professor at Stanford University, the Univer

PRESENTATION ABSTRACT
From participation to dark participation: online news between hope and hate
Online communication has been subject to many projections and wild speculation, both in society and academia. In particular, online news and participation were greeted with optimism and hopes for democratic rejuvenation. However, not all of these expectations were met. On the contrary: In recent times, academics have been discussing how destructive forms of “dark participation” serve malicious purposes and undermine democracy. How did it come so far? In his presentation as part of the Hearst Demystifying Media Speaker Series, Thorsten Quandt will sketch the development of online news and participation during the past 20 years, discuss urgent issues, and outline potential solutions, including for democratic countries under stress.

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Recent studies in connection with Prof. Quandt’s talk:

Workshop with Dr. Autumn Womack: Black Archives: Theory & Practice

Following her NMCC Annual Lecture on Thursday October 27 from 2pm-4pm in the Knight Library Browsing Room, Dr. Autumn Womack will be facilitating a workshop on October 28 from 10am to 11:30am in the Knight Library DREAM Lab for graduate students titled “Black Archives: Theory and Practice”.

WORKSHOP DETAILS:

Friday, October 28th, 2022
Knight Library DREAM Lab (1st floor)
10:00 – 11:30 AM
Register now at: https://bit.ly/BlackArchivesWorkshop