[Commlist] CfA: Researching Climate Change Communication

*Call for Abstracts:
Researching Climate Change Communication: Methodological Challenges and 
Opportunities in the Digital Era
(Deadline: 31.05.2021)*

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Over the years, communication scholars have used multiple methods to 
research and analyse climate change discourses. In the advent of new 
media technologies, climate change communication and discourses have 
spanned from the traditional modes of communication such as the radio, 
print and television to emerging platforms including the social media. 
This has transformed the ways audiences encode and interpret issues 
revolving around climate change. In addition, the emergence of social 
media technologies allows researchers to analyse data on the dynamics of 
climate change debates with unprecedented breadth and scale. These 
platforms have expanded the research areas for studying changing 
patterns in interpersonal and institutional communication on climate 
change. At the same time this development has brought new methodological 
challenges and opportunities for studying content, context and climate 
change representations. This session is aimed at stimulating innovative 
investigations into the conceptual and methodological challenges and or 
opportunities of climate change communication research in the emergent 
new media digital technologies and directions for future researchers 
from an African perspective.

*Keywords*: climate change; communication; research; digital research.


Type of papers for the session should be around but not limited to:

  * comparing methods for analysing climate change discourses
  * methods for analysing the spatial dimension of land use in African
    social-political environments
  * epistemological challenges and ethical dilemmas in researching
    climate change communication in the digital era
  * climate change in the press, visual/textual analyses
  * semiotics and climate change communication
  * media framing, agenda-setting and climate change
  * qualitative/quantitative studies of climate change perception among
    African communities
  * media portrayal of climate change: longitudinal or case studies
  * social media use and climate change protests
  * climate change engagement in the digital era
  * corpus studies on climate change communication
  * meta-discourses on climate change communication
  * new media climate change discourses.

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*Submission of Papers***

If you want to present a paper, please submit your abstract via the 
official conference website: https://gcsmus.org 
<https://gcsmus.org>until *31^st May 2021*. You will be informed by 
*31^st July 2021*, if your proposed paper has been accepted for 
presentation at the conference. For further information, please see the 
conference website or contact the session organizers, *Anthony M. Gunde, 
Victor Chikaipa and Jimmy Kainja *((agunde /at/ cc.ac.mw) 
<mailto:(agunde /at/ cc.ac.mw)>; (vchikaipa /at/ cc.ac.mw) 
<mailto:(vchikaipa /at/ cc.ac.mw)>; (jkainja /at/ cc.ac.mw) <mailto:(jkainja /at/ cc.ac.mw)>).

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*About the Conference*

The “Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability” (GCSMUS) 
together with the Research Committee on “Logic and Methodology in 
Sociology” (RC33) of the “International Sociology Association” (ISA) and 
the Research Network “Quantitative Methods” (RN21) of the European 
Sociology Association” (ESA) will organize a “1^st International and 
Interdisciplinary Conference on Spatial Methods” (“SMUS Conference”) 
which will at the same time be the “1^st RC33 Regional Conference – 
Africa: Botswana” from Thursday 23.09 – Sunday 26.09.2021, hosted by the 
University of Botswana in Gaborone, Botswana. Given the current 
challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic, the conference will convene entirely 
*online*. The conference aims at promoting a global dialogue on methods 
and should attract methodologists from all over the world and all social 
and spatial sciences (e.g. area studies, architecture, communication 
studies, educational sciences, geography, historical sciences, 
humanities, landscape planning, philosophy, psychology, sociology, urban 
design, urban planning, traffic planning and environmental planning). 
Thus, the conference will enable scholars to get in contact with 
methodologists from various disciplines all over the world and to deepen 
discussions with researchers from various methodological angles. 
Scholars of all social and spatial sciences and other scholars who are 
interested in methodological discussions are invited to submit a paper 
to any sessions of the conference. All papers have to address a 
methodological problem.

Please find more information on the above institutions on the following 
websites:

‒“Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability” (GCSMUS):
https://gcsmus.org <https://gcsmus.org>and 
www.mes.tu-berlin.de/spatialmethods 
<http://www.mes.tu-berlin.de/spatialmethods>

‒ISA RC33: http://rc33.org/ <http://rc33.org/>

‒ESA RN21: 
www.europeansociology.org/research-networks/rn21-quantitative-methods 
<http://www.europeansociology.org/research-networks/rn21-quantitative-methods>

‒University of Botswana in Gaborone: www.ub.bw <http://www.ub.bw>

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