Calls for Papers

II International Conference on COMMUNICATION, COGNITION AND MEDIA: POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC DISCOURSE September 19-21, 2012 Catholic University of Portugal Braga, Portugal Final Call for Papers: EXTENDED DEADLINE: April 30, 2012 http://www.cicom2012.org Contact: cicom2012@gmail.com Plenary speakers: Mats Alvesson (Lund University, Sweden) Patrick Charaudeau (Universite Paris 13, CNRS, France) Jonathan Charteris-Black (University of the West of England, UK) Veronika Koller (Lancaster University, UK) Joao Cesar das Neves (Catholic University of Portugal) Ruth Wodak (Lancaster University, UK) The Conference aims to promote interdisciplinary research into the cognitive, socio-cultural, functional-pragmatic, linguistic and semiotic dimensions of political and economic discourse, organizational and businesses discourse, including their various, new and traditional genres and underlining empirical methodologies. It brings together Critical Discourse Analysis and Communication Studies traditions, the Cognitive Linguistics paradigm and other cognitively and socially oriented approaches to political and economic discourse. Within this sociocognitive and interdisciplinary context of research into political and economic discourse, papers are invited on the following (non exclusive) themes and topics: conceptual metaphor and metonymy, image schemas and conceptual blending in political and economic discourse cognitive frames and cultural cognitive models in political and economic communication construal and perspectivization operations (profiling, salience, distribution of attention, force dynamics, intersubjectivity) and their semantic, grammatical and pragmatic expressions within political and economic discourse overt and covert, conscious and unconscious ideologies in political and economic discourse, sociopolitical and socio-economic ideologies, ideologies of crosscultural otherness discursive representations of national, ethnic, collective and corporate identities psychological, linguistic and semiotic strategies for manipulation in political and economic discourse political and economic rhetoric; corporate promotional communication; structures and strategies of argumentation, persuasion and propaganda traditional and new genres in political, economic, business and organizational communication; political speeches, campaigns, debates, interviews, elections, talk shows, blogs, parliamentary discourses; public relations, advertising, marketing, management, customer chat forums; new hybrid genres in the Internet multimodality in political and economic/business communication interplay between political and economic communication, interdiscursivity and intertextuality, political economy and economic politics the media agents in political and economic discourse; political and economic journalism, advertising and marketing language variation and change and crosscultural variation in political and economic discourse globalization and localization of political and economic discourse; supra-national, corporate and sub-national political and economic organizations discursive legitimization of political and economic power; political polarization, socio-economic Darwinism, and economic imperialism perception of political and economic actors; social attitudes to political and economic discourse political and economic systems, political and economic behavior, public policies, political and economic audiences immigration, multiculturalism, racism and ethnic or nationalist conflicts corpus analysis of political and economic discourse and the implementation of advanced quantitative and multivariate techniques language training of politicians, economists and business people. For further information, please visit the conference website http://www.cicom2012.org CALL FOR PAPERS 2012 PLATFORM: JOURNAL OF MEDIA & COMMUNICATION An Interdisciplinary Journal for Early Career Researchers of Media “Automating Conduct: Autonomy in Control” (Vol 4, Issue 2) Abstract Submissions Due: APRIL 26 2012 Full Paper Submissions Due: JULY 22 2012 Platform encourages all contributions related to media studies, with special consideration given to engagement with the cultures, politics and social issues layered within automation and transparency. The freedoms of control that circulate in the digital networked society imbue modalities of both transparency and automation. The coupling of high technological automation with a heightened sense of surveillance implies certain forms of automated conduct as necessary, but not sufficient, for autonomy in spatiotemporal, psychological, economic and aesthetic dimensions of subjectivity and polity. Thus, locating autonomy, automation and transparency in the network becomes a critical project in both respects of the word. After WikiLeaks, can freedom be a creature of the light or the dark? Is autonomy found in the open or in the hidden and unique? 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’? Together, automation and transparency create: issues of privacy in surveillance for mediated and inhabited spaces, asymmetries of access and temptation (e.g. online shopping & dating), and fundamental implications for literacy, living, and society. We encourage contributors to ask what opacities, reflexes, subjectivities and politics are available in what Robert Samuels (2009) terms ‘automodernity’ as society approaches indistinguishability between either of David Brin’s (1996) allegorical cities of automated transparency? PLATFORM encourages the submission of empirical and theoretical work engaging with these themes of freedom, control, transparency and automation including but not limited to: Automation and/or transparency as a facet of everyday life New technologies of automation and transparency and their affect on artists, protestors, publishers, and the police; Automodernity and/or the aestehtics of the automatic Transparency and its impact on the potential to ‘represent’ Automation and/or transparency as (counter) hegemonic instruments Challenges to social, political, and economic assumptions including relations to, and means of, production (P2P, FOSS, Venture Communism etc.); The impact of automation and/or transparency on media production and consumption Processes and practices of privacy within automated surveillance The impact of automation and/or transparency on reading/writing/learning Automation and its impact on the body (automation as prosthesis, as memory) Legal/IP/ethical considerations in media automation and/or transparency Methodological considerations for automation and/or transparency in research Other critiques working across diverse fields in media and communication studies are welcome Issue Editors: Luke Heemsbergen (University of Melbourne, School of Culture and Communication) Suneel Jethani (University of Melbourne, School of Culture and Communication) Please send all enquires and submissions to platformjmc@gmail.com We recommend that prospective authors submit abstracts well before the abstract deadline of April 26, 2012 to allow for feedback and suggestions from the editors. All submissions should be from early career researchers (defined as being within a few years of completing their Ph.D) or current graduate students undertaking their Masters, Ph.D. or international equivalent. All eligible submissions will be sent for double-blind peer-review. Early submission is highly encouraged as the review process will commence on submission. Note: Please read the Submission Guidelines before submitting work. Submissions not in house style will not be accepted and authors will be asked resubmit their work with the correct formatting before it is sent for review. PLATFORM: Journal of Media and Communication is a fully refereed, open-access online graduate journal. Founded and published by the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne (Australia), PLATFORM was launched in November 2008. PLATFORM is refereed by an international board of established and emerging scholars working across diverse fields in media and communication studies, and is edited by graduate students at the University of Melbourne. PLATFORM invites graduate students working in disciplines related to media studies to submit to the journal. We also welcome applications for editorial positions as well as proposals to guest edit a special issue of the journal. For more information and to apply, please contact us at platformjmc@gmail.com.