Highlighting Preconferences in London
In each Newsletter leading up to the conference, we will highlight different preconferences and postconferences that have been planned for London. This month, learn more about these preconferences: "Transmedia Storytelling: Theories, Methods and Research Strategies," "Successful Publication in Top-Ranked Communication Journals: A Guide for Nonnative English Speakers," "Strategies for Media Reform: An International Workshop," "From Feminism, With a Feminist Agenda: Digital Interventions to Incite Change in Publishing, Pedagogy, the Academy, and our Networks," and "Power Through Communication Technology in a 21st Century Global Society: Questions that Must Be Addressed." Also, these postconferences will be highlighted: "Cultural Work, Subjectivity and Communication Technologies: Crossing Existing Research Paradigms," "Political Public Relations: Examining an Emerging Field," "Bridging the Quantitative-Qualitative Divide in Comparative Communication Research: Heading Towards Qualitative Comparative Analysis," and "Advancing Media Production Research."
To learn more information about these and other preconferences, visit http://www.icahdq.org/conf/2013/confdescriptions.asp.
(Cosponsors: Tallinn U Baltic Film and Media School and Department of Communication - U Pompeu Fabra)
Time: Monday, 17 June; 8:00 – 17:00
Location: Hilton Metropole London Hotel
Cost: $155.00 USD
Description: Transmedia storytelling is one of the remarkable experiences emerging from the contemporary media ecology. It is a complex research object that can be approached from different perspectives: economical (business models, branding, etc.), narratological (narrative structures, expansion strategies, etc.), legal (copyright, remix culture, etc.), sociological (user-generated contents, fan cultures, etc.). The main objectives of the preconference are to present, diffuse and discuss the cutting edge studies on transmedia phenomena around the world and to consolidate an international network of transmedia researchers.
*For more information visit http://ica2013transmedia.wordpress.com/
Contact: Carlos Alberto Scolari (carlos.scolari@gmail.com)
Indrek Ibrus (indrek.inbrus@tlu.ee)
Time: Monday, June 17; 13:00 – 17:00 (half-day)
Location: Hilton London Metropole Hotel
Cost: $20.00 USD (students), $60.00 USD (nonstudents)
Description: This preconference is intended primarily to serve younger faculty and graduate students, or more senior faculty planning or beginning to publish in English-language journals. It should also be of interest to native English-speaking scholars who are more senior, and serving or likely to serve as journal editors or active editorial board members, as well as to native English-speaking graduate students who might benefit from an in-depth discussion of journal publication issues. Registration costs are being held to a minimum for graduate students who would like to participate with the help of sponsorship by Communication Research and Sage Publishing, in support of international publication in English-language journals.
Contact: Michael D. Slater (slatermichael@gmail.com)
(Cosponsors: Philosophy, Theory and Critique Division, Communication Law and Policy Division, and Global Communication and Social Change Division)
Time: Monday, 17 June; 9:30 – 17:30 (with a public rally in central London at 19:00)
Location: Two places: during the day at Small Hall/Cinema at Goldsmiths, U of London, Lewisham Way)
Cost: $30.00 USD
Description: The preconference will aim to feature contributions by international activists reflecting on pressing concerns and complementary challenges, for example, the use of social media to build reform movements; successes and challenges of movements for democratic media legislation; key principles and paradigms that underpin media reform campaigns; how to prioritize media in wider movements for social justice; how to resist the threat of unaccountable media power; how best to theorize the democracy and activism that will empower media reformers; how best to understand and apply historical battles for media democratization.
Contact: Des Freedman (d.freedman@gold.ac.uk)
Time: Monday, 17 June; 9:00 – 17:00
Location: Hilton Metropole London Hilton
Cost: $110.00 USD
Description: This preconference “storms” traditional methods of pedagogy, publishing, mentoring, and networking, at the fulcrum where feminist scholarship meets digital methods. The primary lens for the preconference is this linkage—how we can exploit the capabilities of digital media and digital infrastructures to employ feminist practices and methods in key areas of our work: pedagogy, publishing and networking. Feminist practices imagine power and power exchange in strategically distinctive manners that challenge mainstream concepts of Communication and Media. Feminist academics and activists have numerous effective practices and tools for creating power to successfully institute change in academic, community, and industry realms. Digital media’s accessibility, affordability, and commonality make it an obvious tool for feminist strategies that, nevertheless, require experimentation and testing to discover most effective practices, with careful attention to populations and spaces targeted. This preconference brings together a diverse group of scholars and media and community activists to test, deliberate, and generate ways to employ digital media to achieve feminist, activist goals.
Contact: Paula M. Gardner (pgardner@faculty.ocad.ca)
Radhika Gajjala (Radhika@cyberdiva.org)
Time: Monday, 17 June; 14:00 – 17:00 (half-day conference)
Location: Ketchum Pleon
Cost: $35.00 USD
Description: Public relations scholars have thus far reflected very little on the use and abuse of communication technologies, on public relations’ role in such use and abuse, on the potential of these technologies for development communication as well as on those who use them and on their motivations for doing so. A critical need exists for a more thorough discussion that examines the historical development of communication technologies and their use, both by organizations and by those who represent the interests of organizations, i.e., public relations practitioners, and by these organizations’ publics. The goal of this preconference program is to bring together scholars of public relations and social media in a forum to examine a broad range of perspectives on this phenomenon and to explore the impact of communication technologies for public relations from a more critical perspective. In this program, panelists will examine the role of public relations in making sense of the multiple, multi-vocal social media arenas and will discuss the implications for the practice as well as for society-at-large.
Contact: Chiara Valentini (chv@asb.dk)
(Cosponsors: COST – European Corporation in Science and Technology; COST Action IS 1202: Dynamics of Virtual Work)
Time: Friday, 21 June; 17:30 – 19:00 & Saturday, 22 June; 9:30 – 17:45
Location: King’s College London
Cost: free
Description: This seminar will bring together communications research with specific areas of expertise at the Department of Culture, Media, and Creative Industries and Digital Humanities. In particular, the event will put into dialogue research on three areas: work in the cultural and creative industries; subjectivity in and at work; and the interplay between work and communication technologies. Research on cultural work paints a relatively consistent picture of the working lives of ‘creatives’ that highlights the pleasures involved in creative fulfilment, but also draws attention to the high degree of casualisation, self-exploitation, and project-working in the cultural economy. What has emerged more recently is the need for a more in-depth understanding of the affective processes and emotional investments that bind creatives to their work. Finally, it is becoming clear that the affordances of various digital and mobile technologies have become crucial in relations between affectivity, creativity and exploitation in cultural work. What are suitable theoretical frameworks to analyse the interplay between work and subjectivity? Which methods can we use to explore the affective make-up of work subjectivities? And how can we grasp the roles of technologies, particularly information technologies, in this cultural framework?
Contact: Christina Marie Scharff (Christina.scharff@kcl.ac.uk)
Time: Saturday, June 22; 9:00 – 12:00 (half-day)
Location: Hilton Metropole London Hilton
Cost: $75.00 USD
Description: Public relations efforts are more pervasive in political communication today than ever before. Still, there is neither much theorizing nor empirical research on political public relations. Consequently, the goal of this post-conference panel is to bring together scholars at the crossroads of public relations, political communication, political science, and political marketing, and to serve as an initial forum to discuss various perspectives on political public relations. The discussion will be based on studies in a forthcoming special issue of the Public Relations Journal, edited by Spiro Kiousis and Jesper Strömbäck. Tentative agreement from leadership in the Organizational Communication, Public Relations, and Political Communication Divisions has been secured in support of this proposal. To maximize exposure to this session across divisions, this panel will be coordinated with a postconference panel by the Organizational Communication Division on stakeholders and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) so that participants could attend both sessions. Those attending both would receive a discounted for entry.
Contact: Spiro K. Kiousis (skiousis@jou.ufl.edu) and Chiara Valentini (CHV@asb.dk)
Time: Saturday, 22 June; 9:00 – 17:00
Location: Hilton Metropole London Hotel
Cost: $90.00 USD
Description: The workshop will be an ideal opportunity for interested colleagues in the field to engage with this method, getting to grips with its language and procedures. The workshop will bring together experts and users of the method with those who are interested in utilizing such an approach in their own work. There will be talks by those who already use QCA in their own research as well as some of the leading practitioners of the method. The invited keynote speakers are Prof. Benoît Rihoux from the Université Catholique de Louvain, and Prof. Carsten Schneider from the Central European U, Budapest.
Contact: Thomas Hanitzsch (Thomas.hanitzsch@ifkw.lmu.de)
James Stanyer (j.stanyer@lboro.ac.uk)
Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt (keren.tw@mail.huji.ac.il)
Time: Monday, June 24; 8:30 – 17:00
Location: Clothworkers’ Centenary Concert Hall at the U of Leeds School of Music
Cost: $65.00 USD (full price); $40.00 USD (student)
Description: This conference is intended to address the issues raised in the process of researching within media, journalistic, and cultural organisations, primarily from the anthropological and sociological traditions of long-term exposure to production cultures through ethnographic observation or participant observation. Scholars like Tuchman and Born have provided insights into production cultures which have shaped contemporary understandings, but can such research keep pace with the rate of change in media production environments? And is the classic research setting of the newsroom or studio now too limiting; should our focus shift, for news, at least, to the journalistic “ecosystem,” as Anderson has argued?
*Details are available at: http://www.pvac.leeds.ac.uk/productionresearch/
Contact: advancingproductionresearch@leeds.ac.uk