[Commlist] Call for papers: Cross-innovations for sustainability skills: linking environment, media and education

Call for papers: Cross-innovations for sustainability skills: linking 
environment, media and education
Tallinn University, Estonia, 28-29 August 2020

The relationship of digital media innovations and environmental 
sustainability is an ambivalent one. The omnipresence of media in our 
lives and the creative forces enabled by digital innovations hold the 
potential for media, entertainment, education services to mediate the 
circumstances in the planetary ecosystem to us in more powerful ways 
than never before. There are increasingly more services and applications 
dedicated to this function and there has been an explosion of 
information revealing the ongoing complexities in environmental 
evolution. Yet, much of the information and the services may be 
misleading or their credibility may be unknown to the users. Further, 
the environmental footprints of the digital service infrastructures can 
easily consume their positive contribution to people’s evolving 
sustainability skills. This calls for new well-designed services and 
innovative uses of digital media to increase environmental sustainability.

We invite practitioners and researchers to explore the role of digital 
innovations for the use of enhancing citizens’ environmental and 
sustainability skills, especially in the context of media and education. 
We seek examples and critical evaluations of cross-innovations (Ibrus, 
2019) defined as collaborative innovations that happen across 
organisational, technological, geographic or sectoral boundaries of 
digital service economies. The conference accepts presentations about 
any stage of the cross-innovation cycle: theoretical considerations, 
prototype development, case studies of innovation use and impact 
evaluation, analyses of sectoral cooperation trends, emergence of new 
convergent markets, etc.

The conference is hosted by the multidisciplinary sustainability skills 
research team in Tallinn University, comprising expertise in ecology, 
educational science, psychology, digital technologies, creative 
industries and media studies, and environmental communication. Our 
research group invites researchers and practitioners from all fields to 
submit papers that discuss in various ways how digital media innovations 
relate to sustainability and the environment. These might include (but 
are not limited to):

-Digital tools in environmental communication
-Technology-enhanced learning in environmental/sustainability education
-Mediatization of ecological research
-Platformization of environmental communication
-Misinformation in environmental communication
-Transmedia and cross-media solutions for environment topics
-Critical analysis of the environmental impact of digital media innovations
-Studies of environmental media infrastructures
-Analyses of rationales for sectoral collaborations and convergence
-User-driven innovations in digital environmental communication
-The role of national innovation systems in facilitating the emergence 
of environmental media and education innovations
-Datafication of environment modelling, representations and communication
-Political economies of innovating environmental media and communication
-The potential role of 5G, Internet-of-Things, Semantic Web and 
blockchain technologies in modelling the environment and in related 
media and communication practices
-Public and private sector collaboration in environmental communication 
and innovation
-The role of public service media in in environmental communication and 
innovation
-The role of digital media start-ups in environmental communication and 
innovation
-Gamification of environmental communication
-Critical histories of environmental media innovation and their uses in 
education

Please send your abstract (max 300 words) by May 10 to (seemik /at/ tlu.ee) 
<mailto:(seemik /at/ tlu.ee)>. All applicants will be notified by June 1.
We hope to run the symposium in a classic format but will prepare to 
move the event on-line if the COVID-19 situation still restricts 
gatherings in August.

We are working towards the option of publishing selected papers of the 
symposium in a special issue of edited volume.

Please see event information at: https://seemik.tlu.ee/symposium/

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