[Commlist] CfP - 9th Annual conference on comparative media studies (CMSTW'2021)

I am glad to invite you to submit to and take part in the 9th 
International Conference 'Comparative Media Studies in Today's World' 
(CMSTW'2021). We will be happy to see you in St.Petersburg, Russia 
(virtually), on April 20-21, to discuss the theme 'Communication 
Architectures'.
We see this topic as timely and relevant; the 'platform society' (Poell 
et al., 2018) infuences the societies around the world and across all 
areas of life, which has become especially evident during the pandemic. 
Presence on platforms correlates with trust to mediated communication, 
information consumption patterns, public memorization, and dynamics of 
social ties. Platforms as actors influence policing beyond Internet 
arenas, shape mass trade, and impeach politicians.

Please see the full CfP attached below.

We have incredible keynote speakers confirmed. They are Noshir 
Contractor, the ICA President-Elect, and Barbie Zelizer, ICA President 
in 2009-2010. Two more keynote speakers are expected to be announced 
within January. Track chairs are Silvio Waisbord, Katrin Voltmer, Anna 
Litvinenko, and Olessia Koltsova.

The general deadline is March 1, 2021 (subject to slight extension on 
request). As always, we accept full and short papers, as well as 
abstracts. Moreover, due to the short notice, we have moved camera-ready 
submissions to June 1, 2021, much beyond the conference. We also accept 
group submissions, such as panel proposals and workshops (group 
discussions dedicated to reviewing collective publication projects).

Publication opportunities include a helped submission to Digital 
Journalism (Q1 Scopus) and a special issue in Future Internet (Q2 
Scopus), the latter with 15% discount from the initial price.

All questions and queries may be addressed here, on our Facebook 
community page, or to (cmstw2020 /at/ spbu.ru) - we are still using the 2020 
mailbox, as active communication on the previous conference is still on.

The fees are significantly reduced due to the virtual state of the 
conference. Individual fees are 20 euro per submission (10 euro for PhD 
students) and 70 euro per panel/workshop. This will include acess to all 
the events and get-together virtual activities.


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