Posts tagged CfP
CFP: Medium, Immediacy, Intermediality - “medium” beyond current disciplinary frames (Postmodern Culture, due June 1, 2012)
This issue of Postmodern Culture aims to gather ways of seeing the term “medium” beyond current disciplinary frames. Rather than take the routes of literary or film studies, art history or communication theory - and rather than see media as discrete, pre-constituted categories of aesthetics or mechanics - we seek to put the category of medium into question, and in doing so, to facilitate approaches to the various mutually dependent media whose boundaries and frames might now seem less conclusive.
Abstracts due June 1, 2012.
Read full call-for-papers: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/postmodern_culture/v021/21.3.article.html
CFP: Cities to be Tamed? Questioning the role played by urban planning, design, and policies in the urbanisation processes of the global South (Nov 2012, Milan)
International conference aimed at simultaneously exploring and questioning the role played by urban planning, design, and policies in the continuous urbanisation processes affecting the so-called ‘global South’.
Abstracts due June 15, 2012. The conference will be held at Politecnico di Milano, November 15-17, 2012.
Read full call-for-papers: http://www.contestedspaces.info/
Call for Chapters: Research and Design Innovations for Mobile User Experience (due May 30)
Mobile user experience has gained momentum as a significant area of research in recent years. This book will aim to provide relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in the area.
Chapter proposals due May 30, 2012. To be published by IGI Global
Full call: http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/720
INTRODUCTION - Mobile user experience (UX) has gained momentum as a significant area of research in recent years. The emergences of mobile human-computer interaction (HCI) as a separate, unique field in HCI discipline with diverse academic activities and body of literature supports this idea. Although mobile devices allow users to stay connected anytime anywhere, diverse user groups still suffer from usability issues caused by the design of mobile interfaces and the limitations of mobile devices (Kaikkonen, 2009). Although the mobile HCI community is trying to create and adapt research methods, tools, and infrastructure for mobile-specific challenges and opportunities (Kjeldskov and Stage, 2004), there is still a limited number of studies on mobile UX, which addresses both researchers and professionals that work in the field of mobile HCI. Secondly, it is not so difficult to observe that the product managers in the sector of mobile communication often ignore usability issues and UX processes because of time and budget limitations. However, when it comes to delivering innovation on mobile devices, new philosophies, researches, and approaches should be taken into consideration.
OBJECTIVE - This book will aim to provide relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in the area. By including cutting-edge empirical studies and live cases from the professional sector, it intends to prepare a reference book for the mobile human-computer interaction community that will reveal key mobile user experience issues with solid data and guidelines and will support innovative mobile UX design processes.
Call for Submissions: The Car as an Arena for Gaming (Workshop @MobileHCI, San Francisco)
The car is unique place to be. Gaming in cars, for safety reasons, cannot be like gaming at home, but also not should be. But gaming in cars has the potential, of making use of all the cool properties of the car itself, the practices of driving, and of driving as a socially shared experience.
Due May 25, 2012. The Car as an Arena for Gaming Workshop at MobileHCI 2012, San Francisco, CA, September 21, 2012.
Read full call here: http://workshops.icts.sbg.ac.at/mobilehci2012/index.html
MORE - In this workshop, we aim to gather both practitioners and academics to work out the possibilities and challenges of this design space that to our experience has been slightly forgotten about since Juhlin and colleagues’ excellent work on the Backseat Playground system.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
- in-car gaming or driving or traffic as a social experience
- the car or driving or traffic as a design space for gaming
- passengers or children in various car related activities
- safe driving in relation car gaming
- learnings from game research or the game industry relevant for the topic
Call for Submissions: Using Technology to Facilitate Behaviour Change and Support Healthy, Sustainable (Workshop @HCI12, UK)
This workshop aims to bring together a multidisciplinary set of researchers interested in the behaviour change through technology across three highly topical domains; non-communicable diseases, greenhouse gas emissions and ageing.
Workshop papers due June 17, 2012. HCI 2012, Sep 12-14, 2012, Birmingham, UK.
View full call here: https://sites.google.com/site/techbehavchangehci2012/
CFP: The Art of Research - Making, Reflecting, and Understanding (Nov 2012, Helsinki)
This conference aims to explore the relations between MAKING and CRITICAL REFLECTION, and how these enable artistic and designerly practices to be characterized as art and design, or artistic or designerly research.
Abstracts due June 10, 2012.
November 28-29, 2012. Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture; Helsinki, Finland. http://designresearch.aalto.fi/events/aor2012/
ABOUT - While the power of artistic imagination is widely recognized, the exploration of artistic and designerly methods of knowledge acquisition underway in academia has only just become accepted by other professional communities of researchers and practitioners inhabiting the academy. Building on contemporary discourse regarding notions of practice-led research, the Art of Research Conference 2012 aims to explore the relations that can be constructed between making and critical reflection, and how these enable artistic and designerly practices to be characterized as art and design, or artistic or designerly research. Given how different fields of creative practice may be constructing these relations in different ways – e.g, in methods, tools and skills — the main aim of the event is to explore how these fields might relate to and influence each other.
This aim is guided by following questions:
- How do different art and design practices utilize artistic and designerly methods in practice-led research?
- How do artistic and designerly approaches to knowledge production enrich or impoverish the professional art and design-related practices of those who engage in them?
- How are artistic and designerly processes of critical reflection and intervention be productively synthesized in practice-led research?
- How can different forms of art, craft and design contribute new knowledge and understanding and how do they function in the distribution of knowledge?
- How can critical reflection be interpreted and understood as embodied in practice-led research?
Call for Papers: Archiving and Memory - Journal In Circulation
The academic journal In Circulation seeks submissions that question the use of and materiality of the archive and the ways in which the act of archiving has the potential to change the meaning of works of art, information, or objects.
What role does the archivist play? What questions should be asked of the curator? Can we locate the historical moment where this shift toward the past or archiving has taken place? What can be said about the contemporary state of cultural memory?
Submission deadline May 15, 2012.
View the full call here: http://incirculation.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/call-for-papers/
CfP: Automating Conduct: Autonomy in Control - Platform Journal of Media & Communication (due April 26)
What are the critical responses to automated agents that ubiquitously categorise and increasingly contribute to the construction of our social-world and its boundaries? How do they create terror and police the social, while effectively engaging themselves in ‘boundary work’? This issue of Platform: Journal of Media and Communication will explore these questions.
Abstracts due April 26, 2012 (Full papers July 22, 2012).
See full call http://journals.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/platform/call_papers.html
CFP: Social Media, Journalism and Communication Practitioners - International Symposium (abstracts due May 15)
Scholars debate on how journalism as a profession is changing and about the impacts of new technologies such as social media. This international symposium explores this issue.
Abstracts due May 15, 2012.
7th September 2012, North Holmes Campus, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK.
About the call
Social media, and the Internet in general, are having dramatic impacts on journalism (Deuze, 2007; Sarrica, 2010). Traditional practices of newsgathering, verifying stories and reporting are transforming and with that the profession itself is perceived to be changing fundamentally. Web 2.0 Internet technologies are viewed to have changed “newsroom culture and the professionals involved” and they “challenge perceptions of the roles and functions of journalism as a whole” (Deuze and Paulussen, 2002, p. 216). But scholars continue to debate exactly how journalism as a profession is changing and about the impacts of new technologies such as social media (Lasorsa et al., 2012). Discussion on the impacts of these technologies have centred on three main issues: changes in relationship with the audience, changing journalistic practices and changes in professional values and the profession as a whole. This international symposium explores these and related issues.
The conference is open to academics as well as industry practitioners.
Papers/presentations are invited in the general subject area of social media. Suggestions include, but are not limited to:
- Comparative study of social media use
- Impact of social media on audience relationship
- Changing journalistic practices
- Purposes of social media use
- Attitudes towards social media
- PR professionals and social media
- Patterns of social media usages
- Impacts of social media on journalistic values
- Influence of social media on communication practices
Best papers from the symposium will be published in a special edition of a refereed journal.
Please send 250 word abstracts to agnes.gulyas(at)canterbury.ac.uk
CFP: Mediated Urbanism - Int’l Communication Gazette (due May 31)
In this special issue we wish to address the digitally sustained urban environment in terms of public life. Our approach in the issue is to combine the perspectives of city planning and design, on the one hand, with the perspective of people’s activities as urban audiences, on the other.
Abstracts due May 31, 2012.
Double Special Issue of the International Communication Gazette to be published by Sage Publishers on Mediated Urbanism.
See full CFP here: http://www.cost-transforming-audiences.eu/system/files/CFP_ICG_Mediated-urbanism.pdf
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