Second International Conference on Communication & Media Studies
University of British Columbia – Robson Square, Vancouver, Canada
16-17 November 2017
http://oncommunicationmedia.com/vancouver-conference-2017
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Second International Conference on Communication & Media Studies will be held at the University of British Columbia – Robson Square, Vancouver, Canada, 16-17 November 2017. We invite proposals for paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters/exhibits, virtual lightning talks, virtual posters, or colloquia addressing one of the following themes:
Theme 1: Media Cultures
- Mass versus niche media
- ‘Audience’ and practices of participation in media
- Cultural representation and power in media
- Popular culture in the media
- Feminist analyses of media
- (In)equities in access, and digital divide
- Politics of media and media in politics
- Censorship, affront and censoriousness in media
- Bodily presence and embodiment in media
- Multicultural media
- Media identities, from stars to selfies
Theme 2: Media Theory
- Communications theory
- Telepresence and time-space compressions
- Psychology of media and communications
- The idea of the virtual
- Cybernetics
- Mediation and remediation
- Media discourses: vicarious and participatory
- Ideologies in media, manipulation and propaganda
- Information theory
- Media analytics
Theme 3: Media Technologies and Processes
- Mass media and broadcast media: television, radio, newspapers, magazines
- Cinema and documentary
- Typographic media, from print to postscript
- Photography, from film to digital
- Hypermedia and multimedia
- Internet and online media
- Social media
- Informatics: code and data in media
Theme 4: Media Business
- Political economy of media
- Media management
- Advertising and marketing
- News media and journalism: changing dimensions of a profession
- Public relations as text and profession
- The changing publishing industry
- Intellectual property, between copyright and commons
- Reputational economies
- Globalization of media
Theme 5: Media Literacies
- Media education
- Media training and workforce development
- From learning management systems to MOOCs: e-learning environments as educational media
- Self-instructing media and informal learning
- Over-the-shoulder learning
2017 SPECIAL FOCUS: Rethinking the “Mediascape”… read more. “Call: Second International Conference on Communication & Media Studies”
