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[Commlist] CfP "Out of the Comfort Zone: Challenges of Communication Studies in the Age of New Global Realities"

Fri Jun 02 22:08:22 GMT 2023




***Call for Conference Papers***

Out of the Comfort Zone: Challenges of Communication Studies in the Age of New Global Realities

Date & Place: Berlin, 16-17 November 2023
Deadline for submissions: 30 June 2023

No conference fees! Support for PhD students!

Link to the full call: https://www.dgpuk.de/sites/default/files/FG%20IIK%20Jahrestagung%202023_Call%20For%20Papers.pdf

The world is rapidly developing in a polycentric manner: Western dominance in globalization seems to be waning, new wars are challenging the world order, migration and mobility are transforming the cultural foundations of society, and modern media environments add to a seemingly fundamental structural change. Communication and media studies must face up to these complex developments. Yet, its approach to the world has so far been highly selective, which is problematic given the dynamic reconfigurations of global conditions. For example, Eastern Europe and the global South are on the agenda today; however, selective interest and oversights of previous research have undermined our understanding of these developments. Therefore, not without reason, communication studies are also struggling for their societal position. In light of the contemporary global challenges, we need to ask whether our discipline risks losing its chance to contribute to the communicative restructuring of the world if it clings to old spatial references or indulges in a one-sided media centrism. In which ways does communication research need to change in order to provide answers to global challenges? How can current research help to better integrate the "North" and "South"? Which kind of approaches need to be adapted to global realities, and how can "universalism" be achieved today? How can we identify, document and analyze new phenomena in a more international comparative way?

This conference is held by the international and intercultural communication section of the DGPuK and the DFG-network cosmopolitan communication studies, which engages in a "deep" internationalization of the discipline. Therefore, the conference will include different formats: 1) panels with conference papers/presentations, 2) a PhD-Workshop, and 3) public panel debates.

We will discuss alternative and new horizons in communication research in a global age by bringing together scholars as well as representatives of higher education policy and society. Central to our de-bates are the discipline's cosmopolitan contours and how they can be realized in research programs and higher education policies.

We are looking for contributions for the following key topics:

1) Global structural change of the communicative world? Theoretical challenges for media and communication studies

In this key topic, debates about alternative theoretical perspectives and approaches are in focus helping us to understand media and communication phenomena in a global perspective. Contributions can widely range from the transformation of "old" and "new" media and their systems to cur-rent developments in journalism, the public sphere, and sociological questions of worldwide communication cultures. However, contributions should offer considerations about new theoretical perspectives, which integrate new spatial references and innovatively address current social challenges. In-sights from debates of scientific communities of other countries are also welcome in this context.

2) New spaces, old methods? Methodological challenges of global communication research

This key topic addresses methodological challenges resulting from discussions and analysis of new phenomena and regional scopes. What challenges does academic work that moves "out of the com- fort zone" have to reflect on? Contributions can include aspects of language competence and translation, documentation of global digital realms, old and new limits in field research, or new forms of global comparative data and they should add to solution strategies. Methodological challenges can originate from international comparative research projects but can also address queries of the empirical validation of "multi/transcultural" or "post-migrant" communication in today's social order.

3) Practical implications

The third pillar of the conference will add a more practical implication to our discussions by going beyond academic contributions and focusing on the "usefulness" of cosmopolitan communication research. What political and social contexts can profit from the insights from this strain of research? What are fields of application and work areas, and how could institutional preparation and support look like? Hence, discussions on this key topic will not exclusively focus on research findings but on experiences and perspectives for education and sustainable effects of cosmopolitan communication research.

4) Submissions are also welcome for the PhD workshop

The workshop will provide PhD candidates with a forum to discuss their conceptualapproaches, research questions, and methodologies with the members of the network cosmopolitan communication studies. The members are experienced in international and transcultural research and will give feedback in a colloquium-like session. Submissions can include interdisciplinary junctions; how- ever, they should primarily be based in communication studies. The PhD projects should explicitly deal with global, international, or transcultural questions.

Submissions!

Please send your proposal for a 20-minute panel presentation or a contribution to the workshop for PhD students to the organizers ((niik /at/ zedat.fu-berlin.de)) no later than ***June 30, 2023*** (using a single pdf file). The abstract should not exceed 7000 characters (including blank spaces) and should be assigned to one of the themes. Submissions for the conference should be ideally made in English. Please add a title page to the abstract containing the name(s) and address(es) of the presenter(s) and the title of the presentation. All submissions for panel presentations will be anonymously peer-re- viewed according to the criteria of originality, relevance, theoretical foundation, appropriateness of the methods used, clarity of language, and reference to the conference theme. For the PhD workshop, the abstract should take the form of a short exposé including research question, theoretical and methodological approach and a short description of the current status quo. Submitters will be informed by ***August 31, 2023*** about the outcome of the selection process.

Registration for the conference will be open by ***September 15, 2023***. The conference will take place at the premises of Freie Universität in Berlin-Dahlem. Updated information about the conference are available under this Link: https://www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/kommwiss/arbeitsstellen/internationale_kommunikation/Projekte-und-Publikationen/Kosmo/Kosmopolitische-KW1/tagung2023_kosmokw/index.html

Contact: (niik /at/ zedat.fu-berlin.de)


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