Konferenser

ECREA'S Political Communication Section interim conference

Transforming Communication – Old and New Borders

How can the mechanisms of using political communication for building or tearing down borders be described theoretically and empirically, referring to examples from the present and the past? Which kinds of communicative tools and strategies do different political actors use to build or tear down borders? Which transnational, cross-border patterns of such forms of political communication do we find around the world? Which contextual conditions favor or hinder the use of political communication for building or tearing down borders? Which methods do we need to investigate questions like these?

The 3rd International Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Quantitative Analysis of Textual Data

The conference aims to facilitate the knowledge exchange between social scientists and computer scientists who address social, political or economic issues through the analysis of textual data by employing quantitative methods. It also features multi-lingual analysis of textual data to promote the methodology beyond the English language. In this, the symposium will be the first of its kind in Japan.

The International Circulation of National Cinemas and Audiovisual Content

The Challenge of Convergence and Multiplatform Distribution in the European Context

Possible proposals are invited in (but not limited to) the four main following areas: The challenges and opportunities of film distribution: from film festivals to the movie theaters crisis; National cinemas and transnational circulation; Circulation practices and new technologies: OTT platforms, streaming and on-demand offerings, informal and piracy practices of video consumption; European series and their global visibility and success.

"Children and Adolescents in the era of SmartScreens: Risks, threats and opportunities reloaded"

International Off-year Conference ECREA-CYM-TWG-2019.
Children and adolescents increasingly turn to mobile media devices and smart screens, the smartphone in particular - at home, at school or while on the move - to stay connected with family and friends, for learning activities and to  access a variety of digital media contents and services including social media, music, videos, and games. The anywhere, anytime access to mobile media has changed children’s and adolescents’ everyday life with potential implications , broadly, on their socialization, consumer patterns, schoolorientated behaviour among others. This conference will address these issues from a theoretical and methodological perspective, including case studies and research on a range of conference topics.
 

ECREA Radio Research Conference 2019

ECREA Radio Research Conference 2019: Radio as a Social Media: community, participation, public values in the platform society.

This conference aims at gathering together all the scholars that are currently exploring, from different and/or interdisciplinary perspectives, the complex entanglement between radio/audio/digital media and society.

UNESCO Global Media and Information Literacy Feature Conference 2019

The global conference will provide a forum for exchange of ideas, new influences and inspiration to a great variety of participants such as experts, academics, and other civil society actors and practitioners of MIL.

The tentative dates for the UNESCO Global Media and Information Literacy Feature Conference are September 24-26 2019.

The 10th Annual Small Cinemas Conference

On the topic of ‘Small Cinemas, Small Spaces’, the conference will be centered on issues of scale and spatiality in film, with the aim to explore the geographies of small cinemas. The call for papers is open for individual presentations of maximum 20 minutes, as well as for pre-constituted panels with a maximum of three presentations each. Proposals should be submitted via email to smallcinemas@ics.ulisboa.pt by Friday 1 March 2019, and include a title, an abstract of maximum 250 words, and a short bio note. The conference’s languages will be English and Portuguese.

Fourth International Conference on Communication & Media Studies

The Fourth International Conference on Communication & Media Studies features research addressing the following annual themes:

THEME 1: MEDIA CULTURES
THEME 2: MEDIA THEORY
THEME 3: MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES AND PROCESSES
THEME 4: MEDIA BUSINESS
THEME 5: MEDIA LITERACIES

EURONOIR - Producers, distributors and audiences of European crime narratives

The organizers invite speakers to present work on the production, distribution and reception of explicitly transnational European crime narratives as well as more local strands of European crime narratives production, distribution and reception. This includes significant market players and institutions in/across Europe, transcontinental creative and culture industrial processes and practices as well as more locally and regionally successful and less successful crime narratives.  

13th European Conference on Games Based Learning

ECGBL is generally attended by participants from more than 40 countries and attracts an interesting combination of academic scholars, practitioners, game designers and individuals who are engaged in various aspects of games-based learning and serious games. Among other journals, the Electronic Journal of e-Learning publishes a special edition of the best papers presented at this conference.

g19 Swedish Conference for Gender Research

g19 – the biennial Swedish conference for gender studies, titled Rethinking Knowledge Regimes. The conference seeks to bring together the broad and interdisciplinary field that constitutes gender studies in Sweden today.  The conference aims at stimulating cooperation among researchers from various academic disciplines and targets scholars, students, practitioners and activists.

Research Methods in Film Studies: Challenges and Opportunities

Aiming to explore a wide range of approaches, this conference invites contributions that engage with current methodological challenges and opportunities in Film Studies.  Abstracts are invited on topics related to research methods in Film Studies.

Infrastructures and Inequalities: Media industries, digital cultures and politics

This joint-ECREA section conference, seeks to examine digital/media infrastructures and inequalities from an inter- and multi-disciplinary perspective, inviting papers to interrogate the significance of the ‘infrastructural turn’ in media and communication studies to our understanding of media industries, democracy and digital cultures.

Digital Fortress Europe Exploring Boundaries between Media, Migration and Technology

The thematic focus of this conference is on media, migration and technology and all their possible linkages and intersections. While significant attention goes to digital technologies and social media, the organizers do aim for a broad focus that also includes traditional media, and aspects of media production, organization, consumption, representation and policy.

The International perspective on a radio centenary

The centenary celebration takes place at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision in Hilversum that houses a wealth of archive material related to Dutch radio history. Proposals for individual presentations from radio scholars and practitioners on radio in any country/region on the following themes are welcome (both contemporary and historical):

• International radio
• Radio news
• Radio music
• Radio sport
• The future of radio research

Future ICA Conferences

ICA is an academic association for scholars interested in the study, teaching and application of all aspects of human and mediated communication.
Future ICA conferences:
2019 - 23-27 May, Washington, DC
2020 - 21-25 May, Gold Coast, Australia
2021 - Denver, CO
2022 - TBD
2023 - Toronto, Canada