[Commlist] Call for registration - IAMCR 2022 Pre-conference - Big Data in Communication Research: A contextual Turn?

Call for registration: Big Data in Communication Research: A contextual 
turn? – An IAMCR pre-conference


Date and time
Friday 8 July 2022: | 09:00 – 18:00 (Beijing time) ; 01h00 – 10h00 (UTC)|

Description
Recent advances in communication studies have seen much greater 
attention paid to the development, appropriation, and reflection on 
computational methods for analyzing large and heterogeneous data. 
Despite its considerable contributions, big data analytics has been 
criticized for the lack of contextual consideration for a long time. In 
other words, scholarships with computational methods may suffer from the 
pitfall of not unpacking, recognizing, and theorizing the richness of 
associated contextual elements in (big) data. This preconference aims to 
address such issues by advancing a context-aware approach in 
computational methods and by articulating an interrogation of contextual 
elements in using computational methods. A context-aware approach in 
computational methods is particularly valuable to IAMCR as a worldwide 
professional organization in the field of media and communication 
research, as this approach recognizes a reality where people communicate 
in diverse ways against different contexts.

To acknowledge and explicate such context-bound ways plays a crucial 
role to explain variation in communication practices and networks, and 
to appreciate the plurality of communicative phenomena across the globe.

We thereby invite original and rigorous contributions and reflections 
based on big data and contextual analysis. We hope to engage with 
opportunities and challenges of advancing context-aware approaches in 
computational methods. The submissions can be theoretical or based on 
empirical studies, but would also include innovative suggestions to 
overcome research challenges like the lack of contextual consideration.

Location
An online Zoom conference.

Participation and registration
Participation at the event is free of charge, but registration is 
compulsory. Please use the following link to register by 1 July 2022.

https://ucph-ku.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mZ3UHsrBQbuFjKtOHxPDgg

Keynotes and programme
Keynote Speech 1: Friday, 8 July 2022  09:15 – 10:15 (Beijing time)| 
01h15 - 02h15 (UTC)
Computational communication research: Challenges and opportunities
Cuihua (Cindy) Shen, University of California, Davis, USA; Chair, 
Computational Methods Division, the International Communication 
Association (ICA).
Keynote Speech 2: Friday, 8 July 2022 16:50 – 17:50 (Beijing time) | 
08h50 - 09h50 (UTC)
The Power of Babel: How the neglect of linguistic and cultural diversity 
undermines the advance of computational communication science
Christian Baden, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

The detailed programme is available here: 
https://iamcr.org/sites/default/files/big_data_preconf2022.pdf 
<https://iamcr.org/sites/default/files/big_data_preconf2022.pdf>

For inquiries, please email:  (iamcr.compmeth /at/ gmail.com)

Language
English will be the event's working language.

Convenors and organisers
Jun Liu, the Center for Tracking and Society and Department of 
Communication, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Xianwen Kuang, Department of Media and Communication, Xi'an 
Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China. IAMCR Beijing 2022 Local 
Organizing Committee Member and IAMCR member.
Simon Schweighofer, Department of Media & Communication, Xi'an 
Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China.

In collaboration with Cuihua (Cindy) Shen, Department of Communication, 
University of California, Davis, & Chair, Computational Methods 
Division, the International Communication Association.

With the support of the Computational Methods Division of the 
International Communication Association and the Independent Research 
Fund Denmark Sapere Aude Research Leaders Project (1055-00011B).

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