Calls for Papers
Journal of Applied Communication Research Special Issue
Co-editors: Robert T. Craig and Karen Tracy, U of Colorado Boulder
Submission deadline: 15 June, 2013
Anticipated publication: May, 2014
Grounded practical theory (GPT) is a conceptual and methodological approach that aims to develop normative communication theories useful for reflecting on real-world dilemmas and practical possibilities of communication.
Following the initial formulation of GPT by Craig and Tracy in 1995, the approach has been applied to a variety of communicative practices ranging from academic colloquia to crisis negotiations, public meetings, and new forms of organizing. Many of these applications have not only used GPT but have also extended the approach to engage conceptual issues and to employ methods not anticipated in its initial formulation. For this special issue we seek studies that continue this process of challenging, refining, and extending the GPT framework through innovative applications of the approach to address important communication problems in any field of applied communication research.
Manuscripts, limited to 8,000 words, should be prepared for blind review. Please see the Journal of Applied Communication Research for author instructions and guidance on making submissions. Mention in the cover letter that the submission is for consideration in the special issue.
Please contact either special issue co-editor regarding and questions or preliminary ideas: (Robert.Craig@Colorado.edu, Karen.Tracy@Colorado.edu).
The Boston University College of Communication will be hosting the 66th annual World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR) Conference from May 14-16. Professor Michael G. Elasmar and Associate Dean James Shanahan are co-chairs of this year's WAPOR conference. The College of Communication will be welcoming speakers and attendees from around the globe and from a variety of disciplines to the Boston University campus for three days of research presentations.
The theme for this year’s conference is “Revolutions in the Measurement of World Public Opinion”. This theme was selected for a variety of reasons. First, Boston has been the site of many revolutions over the years. Most notably, it was the birthplace of the American Revolution. Second, there has been a recent emergence of alternative approaches for capturing public opinion. This is undoubtedly a revolution in its own rite. Finally, we have seen an exponential growth in the expression of opinion by larger masses of people around the globe. People can express their opinions more freely using advanced forms of technology. These opinions are disseminated on a much larger scale than in the past. This conference will focus on how these factors are changing public opinion measurement and the impacts that these types of analyses will have on the future of measuring public opinion.
Prior to the start of the WAPOR Conference, there will be a pre-conference called “Public Diplomacy, International Broadcasting, and Public Opinion: New Media, New Tools, New Challenges”. This will take place on Tuesday, May 14. This pre-conference will serve as a meeting place for academics, polling professionals, and public diplomacy and international broadcasting practitioners to share their perspectives, formulate new ideas, and identify areas where further research is needed.
For more information on the 66th Annual WAPOR Conference: http://wapor.unl.edu/66th-annual-conference/
For more information on the pre-conference: http://publicdiplomacywapor.wordpress.com/
For more information on WAPOR: http://wapor.unl.edu/
Contact: Professor Michael Elasmar (elasmar@bu.edu)
The Evens Foundation continuously aims to stimulate efforts to increase media literacy in Europe – mainly by raising critical awareness and by encouraging media creativity. Both of these contribute to the development of highly aware, active and responsible citizens.
Subscribing the view of the European Commission, that considers “(…) media literacy as an extremely important factor for active citizenship in today's information society, as literacy was at the beginning of the twentieth century”, the Evens Foundation wishes to support a selection of European projects that contribute to raising the media literacy level of European citizens.
CRITERIA
- This call is open for all European media literacy projects that focus on the general public.
- The project focuses on citizens of all ages, using a household perspective is highly welcomed.
- This call is accessible for all media types and educational methodologies.
- Only projects in existence for 1 year or more can apply.
- The project is submitted by a registered organization, association or institution based and working in the EUROPEAN UNION, or in one of the official candidate countries. Each organization can submit only one project.
- The applying organization operates in conformity with the VALUES of the European Union (Art. 2 of the consolidated version of the Treaty on European Union).
PROCEDURE
- Candidates should send a presentation in English of 4 pages max., in font Times New Roman, size 11.
- Presentation has to contain information on the applicant organization, the submitted project and its methodology, the results achieved so far and the total project budget.
- Photo’s and / or promotional materials may be send separately.
- Proposals should be submitted before 1st of July 2013 to Tim.Verbist@evensfoundation.be
- Jury deliberations will take place in September 2013, selected projects will be informed soon after.
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The Fulbright Scholar Program offers teaching, research or combination teaching/research awards in over 125 countries for the 2014-2015 academic year. Opportunities are available for college and university faculty and administrators as well as for professionals, artists, journalists, scientists, lawyers, independent scholars and many others.
This year, there are over 100 awards available to those studying the fields of Communications and/or Journalism. Moreover, All Discipline awards offered in all regions of the world welcome teaching and/or research proposals in any area of study, including interdisciplinary projects.
In order to meet the changing needs of academia and develop new options to better accommodate the interests and commitments of today’s scholars, the program has introduced several innovations to the 2014-2015 program, including: Fulbright Flex Awards, Fulbright Postdoctoral/Early Career Awards, Salary Stipend Supplements, and Teaching English as a Foreign Language Awards.
Interested faculty and professionals are encouraged to learn more about these opportunities, and hundreds of others, by visiting the Catalog of Awards.
The application deadline for most awards is August 1, 2013. U.S. citizenship is required. For other eligibility requirements and detailed award descriptions visit our website at http://www.cies.org/us_scholars/us_awards/ or contact us at scholars@iie.org .
The OCIS (Organizational Communication and Information Systems) division of the Academy of Management is pleased to announce the 2013 Doctoral Consortium, to be held in Lake Buena Vista, FL on 9 August 2013.
The consortium will provide an opportunity for doctoral students to network, receive feedback on their research and discuss career issues. All interested PhD students working on research in the areas of Organizational Communications or Information Systems are invited to apply.
Confirmed faculty advisers include:
Peter Monge, U of Southern California
Emmanuelle Vaast, McGill U
JoAnne Yates, MIT
Marleen Huysman, Vrije U - Amsterdam
Paul Leonardi, Northwestern U
Travel funding will be provided for students who are admitted to the consortium.
Acceptance to the consortium will be based on a review of the application materials. Preference for attendance and funding will be given to students who will have defended their dissertation proposals but not their dissertations by the date of the consortium, to those who have not previously participated in the OCIS consortium, and to those whose institutions or fields would not otherwise be represented.
The application includes:
1) a 5-page, double-spaced, 12 point abstract of the proposed dissertation research; and
2) a letter of recommendation from dissertation chair/advisor supporting the student's participation in the Doctoral Consortium.
The due date for applications and letters of recommendation is 10 May 2013. Please email all application materials as attachments in one email to: ocispdw2013@gmail.com
For questions, please contact Paul Leonardi (leonardi@northwestern.edu), the OCIS Doctoral Consortium chair. And please pass this note on to any doctoral students you know who might be interested.
“Connecting Narrative Worlds”
Istanbul, 6-9 November 2013
Bahçeşehir University
ICIDS is the premier international conference on research and practice covering interactive narrative experiences such as video game narratives, interactive storytelling, interactive drama, and interactive installation art concerned with storytelling. Bringing together researchers, practitioners and theorists presenting cutting-edge works, qualitative and quantitative research, advanced computational narrative techniques and innovative theoretical perspectives, ICIDS serves as the main event for exchanging ideas and perspectives on combining narrative and interactivity for an exciting new form of human expression that redefines the relationship between creators and audiences.
Interactive Digital Storytelling is an exciting area in which narrative, computer science and digital arts converge to create new expressive forms. The combination of narrative and computation has a considerable untapped potential: from artistic projects to journalistic communication, from assistive technologies and intelligent agents to serious games, education and entertainment.
The ICIDS conference series has a long-standing tradition of bringing together theoretical and practical approaches in an interdisciplinary dialogue. The motto for ICIDS 2013 “Connecting Narrative Worlds” expresses this need to build bridges of understanding across different fields to make even better use of the immense potential of interactive narrative. The objective of ICIDS 2013 is to promote understanding and dialogue between A.I. researchers, designers, transmedia and digital artists, narratologists and digital game scholars.
We welcome practical work and theoretical inquiries from fields related to computer science – including (but not limited to) artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, natural language generation and understanding or automated story generation. We invite contributions on the current and future usage scenarios from digital artists, transmedia producers and game designers: original pieces of Interactive Digital Narrative (IDN) may be presented, as well as post-mortem discussions of completed projects. Finally, we ask for submissions from the fields of semiotics, narratology, media studies, digital humanities and interactive arts criticism: interested scholars may focus on improved schemas for describing and critiquing Interactive Digital Narratives as well as analyses discussing narrative features across digital media.
We welcome research papers and demonstrations – including interactive narrative art – presenting new scientific results, interactive narrative theory, innovative technologies, case studies, creative insights, best practice showcases, or improvements to existing techniques and approaches in the research field of Interactive Digital Storytelling and its possible applications in other fields, e.g. video games, virtual/online worlds, e-learning, training, and edutainment. We are planning to have a space for art work/demonstrations that will be open (and attended by security) for the duration of the conference. We plan to issue a specific call for artworks closer to the conference.
Suggested research topics for contributions include, but are not limited to:
1) Technological, theoretical, and aesthetic issues in all areas of interactive narrative
2) Interactive Digital Narrative systems, authoring tools and practical/artistic projects
3) Video game narrative
4) User experience reports and evaluations of interactive digital narratives
5) Innovative narrative applications of artificial intelligence
6) Multi-user IDNs: social applications, ubiquitous computing and collaborative environments
7) New frontiers and concrete applications: IDNs and intelligent agents as art pieces, games or tools
Workshops
Workshops are an integral part of ICIDS. A separate call for workshops will be issued at a later date.
Submissions
All submissions must follow the Lecture Notes in Computer Science format, available at:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0
Papers must be written in English, and only electronic submissions in PDF format will be considered for review.
The submission categories accepted are:
- Full papers (8-12 pages in the proceedings) describing interesting, novel results or completed work in all areas of IDS and its applications.
- Short papers (4-6 pages in the proceedings) presenting exciting preliminary work or novel thought-provoking ideas that are in their early stages.
- Demonstrations and posters (2-4 pages in the proceedings) describing working, presentable systems or brief explanations of a research project.
Submissions that receive high ratings in the peer review process will be selected for publication by the program committee as Springer LNCS conference proceedings. For the final print-ready version, the submission of source files (Microsoft Word/LaTeX, TIF/EPS) and a signed copyright form will be required.
All submissions will be processed using the EasyChair system. Authors are advised to register a new account well in advance of the paper submission deadline:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icids2013
The review process for ICIDS will be double blind. Authors should remove all identifying information from their submissions.
Important Dates
- Deadline: June 14, 2013 Submission deadline for full and short papers, demonstrations and posters proposals. The precise deadline for paper submissions is 11:59PM on June 14, 2013, Hawaii Standard Time. Authors are strongly advised to upload their submissions well in advance of this deadline.
- July 21, 2013 Accept/reject notifications sent to authors.
- August 14, 2013 Camera-ready copy due.
- November 6 – 9, 2013 ICIDS Conference Dates.
This conference is organized by the Games & Narrative research group and hosted by Bahçeşehir University Game Lab (BUG) and organized in collaboration with the Turkish Chapter of the Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA).
Organizing Committee
General Chairs
Hartmut Koenitz
Tonguc Ibrahim Sezen
Program Chairs
Mads Haahr
Gabriele Ferri
Local Arrangements Chair
Guven Catak
Workshops Chair
Digdem Sezen
More Information
Additional information about the conference can be found online at:
ICIDS conference series:
http://icids.org
Conference home page:
http://gamesandnarrative.net/icids2013/
Questions about the conference should be directed to the organizers via email at:
icids2013@gamesandnarrative.net