Tracy Wang CID Intern Profile

Tracy Wang is a graduate student in Intercultural Communication at Royal Roads University, Victoria. She graduated from Chongqing Foreign Trade and Business University in China, studying English education.

She fell in love with painting since a child and liked drawing pictures on the wall and white vase. She wants to use her imagination and hand to make a colorful life. Though she missed the chance to study art in University, she is mostly self-taught in software and never stop learning.

After graduating from the university in China, she went to Dubai for work. There she worked for a media company, successfully assisting in organizing Voice of China in Dubai and other big events. The job gave her opportunity to work on pictures. She helped the company designing posters and has gained much fun from advertising design. Since then she has decided to become a great graphic designer in the future. Now she is an art editor of RRU MAIIC Newsletter.

Her multicultural working environment in Dubai and special learning experience in Royal Roads University has enabled her to fully understand and respect the cultural difference. She believes that artworks is a common language that everyone knows, even when people are from different races.

Work for CID:
Tracy was one of several students completing small projects as interns for CID in 2014. Her particular project was to work on the design of digital publications.

CFP Internationalizing Information & Communication Design

Call for Proposals
Special Issue on “Internationalizing Information and Communication Design”

Communication Design Quarterly (CDQ), the peer reviewed publication of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)’s Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication (SIGDOC) is soliciting article proposals for an upcoming special issue that will examine how aspects of culture, language, nationality, and globalization affect information and communication design in international and intercultural contexts. This special issue will be published in November of 2015, and the guest editor is Kirk St.Amant of East Carolina University.

SPECIAL ISSUE DESCRIPTION
Until relatively recently, the idea of designing interfaces, informational materials, and instructional content for international audiences was seen as an “extra” or additional process reserved for multinational corporations. Today, it has become a near imperative for almost any organization.  But developing effective materials for individuals from different nations and cultures is no easy task. Rather, doing so requires an effective knowledge of how individuals from different cultures and nations
– Use various technical and informational products
– Access and share information and ideas via different technologies
– Perceive and evaluate different aspects of information and communication design
For individuals working in the areas of information and communication design, these factors are central to developing materials that effectively meet audience expectations and are used as intended.

The question thus becomes: How can information and communication design be effectively extended to international contexts?

The entries in this special issue will seek to answer this question.  In so doing, the articles published in this issue will constitute a resource for examining and understanding information and communication design issues and practices in global contexts.

POSSIBLE TOPICS FOR THIS SPECIAL ISSUE
The guest editor invites proposals for papers on applied research or theory, case histories/studies, commentaries, teaching approaches, and annotated bibliographies that address issues and questions including
– How do aspects of culture, language, and national identity affect expectations associated with information and communication design?
– What theories, models, or approaches can help us better understand and address cultural factors affecting expectations of information and communication design in international contexts?
– What technological factors (e.g., access to the Internet, uses of hand-held devices, and perceptions of social media) do we need to consider in relation to information and communication design in international contexts?
– What constitutes “best practices” or “effective practices” for internationalizing information and communication design, and why are such practices effective?
– How should information and communication designers work with translators and localizers to create more effective materials for international audiences?
– What international legal or policy factors need to be considered (and addressed) when designing materials for users located in other nations?
– What kinds of research should information and communication designers do – and on what topics should their research focus – to better understand the expectations of users from other cultures and in other nations?
– How should – or can – information and communication designers expand ideas and practices associated with usability, user experience design, and user testing to develop effective materials for users from other cultures and in other nations?
– How should educators re-think or revise the teaching of information and communication design to better prepare students to create effective materials for international audiences?
Individuals are invited to submit proposals that try to answer these – or related – questions or ideas in order to further our understanding of how to expand information and communication design practices to global contexts.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Proposals should be between 250-300 words in length and are due by 1 February 2015.  Proposals should be sent to Kirk St.Amant

All proposals should include:
– The submitter’s name, affiliation, and email address
– A tentative, descriptive title for the proposed article
– A summary of the topic/focus of the proposed article
– An explanation of how the proposed topic/focus connects to the theme of the special issue
– An overview or outline of the structure of the proposed article (i.e., how the author plans to address the identified topic within the context of the proposed article)

PRODUCTION SCHEDULE
The schedule for the special issue is as follows:
1 February 2015 – Proposals due
5 February 2015 – Decisions on proposals sent to submitters
5 April 2015 – Initial manuscripts due
5 May 2015 – Reviewer comments to authors
15 June 2015 – Revised manuscripts due
1 July 2015 – Final publishing decisions to contributors
November 2015 – Publication of special issue

CONTACT INFORMATION
Completed proposals should be sent to Kirk St.Amant
Questions about proposal topics or about the focus of this special issue should be sent to Kirk St.Amant

U San Francisco Ethnic Minority Dissertation Fellowship

Ethnic Minority Dissertation Fellowship Announcement

For over twenty years, the USF Office of the Provost has invited scholars from underrepresented ethnic minorities to apply for the Ethnic Minority Dissertation Fellowship. In this program, scholars are expected to complete their dissertation on a diversity related research topic, while teaching one course per semester in the school where they are placed. Promising scholars from diverse backgrounds become familiar with the responsibilities of a USF faculty member. Many of USF’s celebrated professors began their careers at the university through this fellowship, and the university currently has 14 faculty members that are past fellows.

In this program, scholars are expected to develop as researchers and teachers, while teaching one course per semester within the College of Arts & Sciences. Fellows are housed in an existing department and work with senior faculty members to begin the development of an independent research program.

Scholars from underrepresented ethnic minorities are invited to apply to apply for the 2015-16 fellowships.

Nanyang Technological U job ad: Information & Communication Technologies (Singapore)

Full Professor: Information and Communication Technologies and Social Life
Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information

Young and research-intensive, Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) is the fastest-rising university in the world’s Top 50 and ranked 39th globally. NTU is also placed 1st amongst the world’s best young universities while its Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information ranks 6th internationally among communication and media programs. The Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information seeks a Full Professor with a strong record of high-quality research published in leading journals and a commitment to mentoring the next generation of communication and information scholars.

We are casting a broad net, looking first and foremost for an outstanding scholar to join our dynamic faculty. The ideal candidate has an active research programme in or closely related to the study of information and communication technology (ICT) in online relationships, technology-assisted education, online marketing, organisational communication, knowledge management, ambient intelligence, and/or digital law and ethics.

The Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information is a vibrant global leader in communication and information research and education.  Recent hires and a high level of support reaffirm the School’s preeminence in the disciplines under its aegis. Singapore is a vibrant cosmopolitan city/state with good weather, low crime, rich cultural attractions, exceptional food, and proximity to numerous points of interest in Southeast Asia.

To apply, please refer to the Guidelines for submitting an Application for Faculty Appointment and send your application package [consisting of cover letter, curriculum vitae, personal particulars form, a statement of current and future research interest, teaching statement, effectiveness of teaching (If any), selected publications, and the names of 5 referees] by 31 December 2014 to:
The Search Committee
Nanyang Technological University
Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
31 Nanyang Link, WKWSCI Building
Singapore 637718
Email: faculty-recruit@ntu.edu.sg

Applications sent via email should include the reference “Application for Professor in ICT and Social Life” in the subject line. Enquiries about the position can be addressed to the above email.

Initial review of applications will begin in mid-December 2014 and applications must be received by 31 December 2014. The candidate is expected to start work in July 2015. Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

CITP/MiLab (Vienna) Doctoral Workshop

CITP/MiLab Spring 2015 Doctoral Workshop

The Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) at Princeton University and the Media Innovation Lab (MiLab) at the University of Vienna are pleased to announce our inaugural Doctoral Workshop to be held April 6th to April 8th, 2015 at Princeton University.

The workshop will be led by Ed Felten, the Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs and Director of CITP at Princeton University, and Homero Gil de Zúñiga, who holds the Medienwandel Professorship in the Department of Communication and leads the MiLab at the University of Vienna.

The goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for leading doctoral students to present their late-stage research to experts in the field, receive feedback and advice, and gain exposure to related work in other disciplines. We seek to provide a helpful, interactive experience for students, to highlight the work of rising stars in this area, and to foster interdisciplinary collaboration.

Participants will be selected through a competitive review process. We expect to invite about 8 doctoral students to attend. We will provide support for travel and lodging up to $500 per attendee. Students are encouraged to submit dissertation relevant work; abstracts and shorter proposals will not be accepted.

Research topics should focus on the interplay between information and communication technologies and the social, political, civic, and governmental spheres. We welcome applications from doctoral students doing relevant work in any discipline, including communication studies, computer science, economics, political science, and sociology. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
– Citizen journalism
– Civic engagement and digital technology
– E-voting security
– Internet governance
– Open government data
– Privacy technologies for democratic ends
– Social media and political expression
– State-sponsored internet freedom programs

Submission process: Please submit your manuscript, along with your CV and full contact information, to Laura Cummings-Abdo and Meike Müller no later than February 1, 2015.

CFP Do-it-yourself Utopia

CFP: DIY Utopia

Across contemporary activism, art, and popular culture, there appears to be a flowering of utopian imaginings.  More self-conscious than past movements, today’s are often playful, whimsical, and ironic, but are still entirely earnest.  Artists create idealized maps of existing cityscapes, activists archive small, individual ideas for the future, while others generate crowd-sourced manifestos or grandiose mock-ups of worlds that do not yet exist.  All seem to have grown out of a similar Do-It-Yourself ethos and alternative culture.

The mushrooming Do-It-Yourself subculture is one that has developed largely in opposition to mainstream consumer culture.  It encompasses a wide variety of activities, from cooking, to crafting, to farming, leading to the growing visibility of anarchist knitting circles and underground supper clubs.  On the one hand, it is easy to dismiss the hipster preciousness around many such endeavors, but the DIY movement also has a political bent, positioning itself as an alternative to the dominant culture of conspicuous consumerism, corporate mass production, and ecological destruction.  It is this wider subculture that seems to have sparked the utopian imaginings that are the subject of the proposed collection.

These utopian projects take a variety of forms, from fine art to activism to viral video to open-source web collaboration.  Similar to the other D.I.Y. pursuits, their starting point is often a desire to fill in elements that one might feel are missing from mainstream culture or political life.  Far removed from the rigidly prescriptive utopian movements of the past, these projects tend to be characterized by a sense of play, a self-referential wink, or a desire for each participant to make it his/her own.  Utopia here may not be seen as ultimately attainable, but as an opportunity to pose the question “what if?”

In examining a number of individual case studies, this anthology will be positioned to consider a variety of broader questions:

*Does the trend represent evidence of political optimism and will, a feeling that if the world does not exist as one wishes, that one can begin to build it in miniature form?  Or does it represent a retreat from politics, as communities (and individuals) turn inward?

*How do these movements dovetail with or contrast the utopian/dystopian narratives produced by film and television?

*How do they overlap with or differ from past utopian movements?

*Ultimately, what does the phenomenon, taken as a whole, tell us about the contemporary moment?

If interested, please submit a 500-word abstract and short bio to Amber Day by December 21, 2014.  Notification of selection will be shortly thereafter.  Full articles are due by May 1, 2015.

Amber Day
Associate Professor
Literary and Cultural Studies Department
Bryant University

Key Concept #44: Multimodality by Bernd Müller-Jacquier

Key Concepts in ICDThe next issue of Key Concepts in intercultural Dialogue is now available. This is KC44: Multimodality by Bernd Müller-Jacquier. As always, all Key Concepts are available as free PDFs; just click on the thumbnail to download. Lists organized  chronologically by publication date and number, alphabetically by concept in English, and by languages into which they have been translated, are available, as is a page of acknowledgments with the names of all authors, translators, and reviewers.

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Müller-Jacquier, B. (2014). Multimodality. Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, 44. Available from:
https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/key-concept-multimodality.pdf

The Center for Intercultural Dialogue publishes a series of short briefs describing Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue. Different people, working in different countries and disciplines, use different vocabulary to describe their interests, yet these terms overlap. Our goal is to provide some of the assumptions and history attached to each concept for those unfamiliar with it. As there are other concepts you would like to see included, send an email to the series editor, Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz. If there are concepts you would like to prepare, provide a brief explanation of why you think the concept is central to the study of intercultural dialogue, and why you are the obvious person to write up that concept. And starting today, feel free to propose terms in any language, especially if they expand our ability to discuss an aspect of intercultural dialogue that is not easy to translate into English.

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NEH Summer Programs on International Topics

NEH Summer Programs in the Humanities for School and College Educators

Each year, NEH offers tuition-free opportunities for school, college, and university educators to study a variety of humanities topics. Stipends of $1,200-$3,900 help cover expenses for these one- to five-week programs.

Some of the more obvious topics are listed below, but be sure to check the main website for other opportunities as well as further details.

Summer Seminars for College and University Teachers

America and China: 150 Years of Aspirations and Encounters
Deadline: March 2, 2015
Dates: July 12-31 (3 weeks)
Project Director(s): Daniel Bays, Dong Wang
Visiting Faculty: Chas W. Freeman, Jr., Larry Herzberg, Terrill Lautz, Richard Madsen, Diane Obenchain, Grant Wacker
Location: Grand Rapids, MI
For more information: dan.bays327@gmail.com (816) 943-6588 http://www.calvin.edu/scs/neh2015/.

The Cross-Border Connection: Immigrants, Emigrants, and their Homelands
Deadline: March 2, 2015
Dates: June 15-July 17 (5 weeks)
Project Director(s): Roger Waldinger
Visiting Faculty: Jose Moya, Laurie Brand
Location: Los Angeles, CA
For more information: waldinge@soc.ucla.edu (310) 206-9233 http://international.ucla.edu/migration/summerseminars.

The Irish Sea Cultural Province: Crossroads of Medieval Literature and Languages
Deadline: March 2, 2015
Dates: June 8-July 12 (5 weeks)
Project Director(s): Charles MacQuarrie, Joseph Nagy
Visiting Faculty: Thomas Clancy, Peter Davey, Sioned Davies, Jennifer Kewley-Draskau, Katherine Lowe, J.P. Mallory, Gillian Rudd, Sir David Wilson
Location: Douglas, Isle of Man and Glasgow, Scotland
For more information: (661) 654-2144 http://www.csub.edu/~cmacquarrie/isle_of_man/.

Latin American Theater Today: Aesthetics and Performance
Deadline: March 2, 2015
Dates: June 15-July 10 (4 weeks)
Project Director(s): Gustavo Geirola, Lola Proaño-Gómez
Visiting Faculty: Adhemar Bianch, Norman Briski, Cristina Escofet, Ricardo Gómez, Agustina Ruiz Barrea, Ricardo Talento
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
For more information: ggeirola@whittier.edu (562) 907-4200 x43 http://www.nehsummerseminar2015.com/.

Summer Institutes for College and University Teachers

The Alhambra and Spain’s Islamic Past
Deadline: March 2, 2015
Dates: June 15-July 10 (4 weeks)
Project Director(s): D. Fairchild Ruggles, Oscar Vázquez
Visiting Faculty: Antonio Almagro Gorbea, Jerrilynn D. Dodds, Lara Eggleton; José Antonio González Alcantud, Richard Kagan, Mariam Rosser-Owen
Location: Granada, Spain
For more information: neh.alhambra@gmail.com (217) 333-0176 http://neh-alhambra.squarespace.com.

American Material Culture: Nineteenth-Century New York
Deadline: March 2, 2015
Dates: July 5-31 (4 weeks)
Project Director(s): David Jaffee
Visiting Faculty: Kenneth L. Ames, Debra Schmidt Bach, Joshua Brown, Edward S. Cooke Jr., Cynthia Copeland, Ivan Gaskell, Katherine C. Grier, Bernard L. Herman, Kimon Keramidas, Cindy Lobel, Amelia Peck, Jack (John Kuo Wei) Tchen, Catherine Whalen
Location: New York, NY
For more information: nehinstitute@bgc.bard.edu (212) 501-3047 http://bgc.bard.edu/neh-institute.

American Muslims: History, Culture, and Politics
Deadline: March 2, 2015
Dates: July 13-31 (3 weeks)
Project Director(s): Irene Oh Koukios, Sohail Hashmi
Visiting Faculty: Zain Abdullah, Youssef Aboul-Enein, Terry Alford, Sylvia Chan-Malik, Sylviane Diouf, Carl Ernst, Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, Yvonne Haddad, Juliane Hammer, Muqtedar Khan, Felicia Miyakawa, Besheer Mohamed, Kathleen Moore, Lucinda Mosher, Andrew Shryock, Gregory Smith, Richard Brent Turner
Location: Washington, DC
For more information: ireneoh@gwu.edu (202) 994-1675 http://go.gwu.edu/nehinstituteamericanmuslims.

Buddhist Asia: Traditions, Transmissions, and Transformations
Deadline: March 2, 2015
Dates: May 25-June 26 (5 weeks)
Project Director(s): Peter Hershock
Visiting Faculty: Anne Blackburn, David Germano, Rupert Gethin, Thomas Kasulis, John Kieschnick, Keller Kimbraugh, Paul Lavy, Kate Lingley, Fabio Rambelli, Juliane Schober, James Mark Shields, Tansen Sen, John Szostak, Paola Zamperini
Location: Honolulu, HI
For more information: MineiA@eastwestcenter.org (808) 944-7337 http://www.eastwestcenter.org/ASDP-NEH2015.

Development Ethics and Global Justice: Gender, Economics and Environment
Deadline: March 2, 2015
Dates: June 22-July 17 (4 weeks)
Project Director(s): Fred Gifford, Eric Palmer
Visiting Faculty: Bina Agarwal, Alison Jaggar, Naila Kabeer, Serene Khader, Christine Koggel, Henry Shue, Asunción Lera St. Clair
Location: East Lansing, MI
For more information: gifford@msu.edu (517) 355-4492 http://ethicsanddevelopment.org.

The Legacy of Ancient Italy: the Etruscans and Early Rome
Deadline: March 2, 2015
Dates: June 2-26 (3 weeks)
Project Director(s): Gregory Warden, Gretchen Meyers
Visiting Faculty: Claudio Bizzarri, Luca Fedeli, Alba Frascarelli, Mario Iozzo, Stephan Steingräber, Nicola Terrenato, Anthony Tuck
Location: : Lugano, Bologna, Orvieto, and Rome, Italy
For more information: berry@essex.edu (973) 877-3577 http://www.etruscansnehccha.org.

Negotiating Identities in the Christian-Jewish-Muslim Mediterranean
Deadline: March 2, 2015
Dates: July 5-August 1 (4 weeks)
Project Director(s): Sharon Kinoshita, Brian Catlos
Visiting Faculty: Thomas Burman, Cecily J. Hilsdale, Marcus Milwright, John Tolan
Location: Barcelona, Spain
For more information: mailbox@mediterraneanseminar.org http://www.barcelonaneh2015.com.

What is Gained in Translation?
Deadline: March 2, 2015
Dates: June 7-27 (3 weeks)
Project Director(s): Brian James Baer, Françoise Massardier-Kenney
Visiting Faculty: Rosemary Arrojo, M. R. Ghanoonparvar, Carol Maier, Ibrahim Muhawi, Michelle Yeh
Location: Kent, OH
For more information: fkenney@kent.edu (330) 672-2150 http://appling.kent.edu/neh-translation-institute.cfm.

Northwestern U in Qatar job ad: Global Media Studies

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY IN QATAR
Global Media Studies/Technology Policy

Northwestern University’s first international campus, Northwestern University in Qatar (NU-Q), invites applications for a full-time faculty appointment in Global Media Studies/Technology Policy to join the school’s Program in Communication.

Candidates will hold appropriate advanced degrees and will be prepared to teach undergraduate students in the field noted above.

NU-Q’s programs in Journalism, Communication and Liberal Arts aim to prepare students for careers in media industries and other fields and are committed to the advancement of the understanding and practice of freedom of expression. The university aspires to build a legacy of education and discovery in a dynamic area of the world in which excellence in cultural development, science, technology, health care and the information economy are fundamental goals of the host nation, Qatar. Many faculty find this to be a geographic area rich in research opportunities and NU-Q has partnerships with Al Jazeera and the Doha Film Institute.

We seek individuals engaged in visionary lines of teaching, research and creative activity who will appreciate a culturally diverse community of students, faculty and staff comprised of women and men drawn from Qatar, the Middle East, Asia, Europe, Africa, North America and elsewhere. The successful candidate will join colleagues whose teaching experience includes Northwestern, Stanford, Cambridge, Columbia, Minnesota and other highly ranked schools. Located in Education City in Doha, Qatar, NU-Q collaborates with sister institutions that include Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Georgetown, Texas A&M, and Virginia Commonwealth.

The ideal candidate will be able to examine media industries globally and in the Arab world from the perspective of communication policy and institutions. Candidates demonstrate interest in the economic, historical, legal, social, and cultural forces shaping the direction and organization of media implementation, use, and regulation, especially in the Middle East. Other areas of expertise might include, but are not limited to: global media history; media economics and industry study, communication technology and society; big data; social media; media, gender, and culture in the Arab world. Earned Ph.D. preferred.

NU-Q faculty-in-residence receive a highly competitive salary and benefits including overseas allowances and travel as well as funds for research and faculty development. Candidates should be available to begin August 1, 2015. Rank for these non-tenured positions is based upon qualifications and experience. All NU-Q faculty are employees of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

Applications received by December 15, 2014 will receive the highest priority. The search will continue and applications will be accepted until the position is filled.

To apply, please send a letter of application, a CV, a sample of research, writing or creative work, a statement of teaching philosophy, evidence of teaching effectiveness, and the names of three references.

Northwestern University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer of all protected classes including veterans and individuals with disabilities. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. Hiring is contingent upon eligibility to work in Qatar.

CFP Protest Participation in Variable Communication Ecologies (Italy)

Protest Participation in Variable Communication Ecologies: Meanings, Modalities and Implications

Call for papers to the upcoming Information, Communication and Society Symposium (24-26 June 2014, Sardinia, Italy) titled ‘Protest Participation in Variable Communication Ecologies’. Deadline for abstracts: 30 January 2015.

For more information please visit the conference website or get in touch via social media (@protesteco; Facebook).

Contemporary collective action, social movements, civic and political protests are characterized by a growing complexity of actors, contents, repertories, contexts, and effects. Grappling with the implications of late modernity, scholars worldwide have reflected on the cross-fertilization of individual practices and collective mobilizations. They have foregrounded unconventional forms of engagement, through reflexive, expressive and embodied acts of dissent cutting across the cultural, political, and social domains, in persistent as well as increasingly transient modes of  organisation and belonging. Within this field,  some accounts graft social  media as an independent variable that would mitigate the democratic deficits of mass-mediated and institutionalised politics. Others would warn of the power imbalances and the inequalities in participation particularly social media reinforce or heighten.

Keynote speakers
Lance Bennett (University of Washington, USA)
Natalie Fenton (Goldsmith College, University of London, UK)
Zizi Papacharissi (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
Bev Skeggs (Goldsmith College, University of London, UK)

Seeking to kindle an imagination that situates social media in lived experience and practice, this conference intends to unpick the history and the present of linkages but also of any signs of a conscious uncoupling of network technologies, broadcasting media and physical places where protest participation is enacted. In doing so, we aim to tackle the significant challenges posed to democratic politics, social theory and research by resultant variable communication ecologies.

The organizers invite theoretical reflections and empirical analyses tracking continuities and changes in protest participation arising in the blurred lines between social media, broadcasting media and physical places. In particular, the conference welcomes contributions that address the following questions:

*What forms of civic/uncivic protest participation are (de)activated in contemporary communication ecologies?
*What are the effects of these different forms of participation on institutional politics, political culture, civic education, collective identities and the media?
*Which structural – both societal and technological – elements of contemporary communication ecologies enable, accentuate or discourage protest participation?
*Which type of content converges and is hybridized in the practices of protest participants, of protest-covering media or of the organizations that are targets of protest?
*Which forms of exclusion are being overcome or heightened in the communication ecologies where protest participation is instantiated?
*What are the conceptual challenges ahead of us? As we query communication ecologies, do concepts old and new, e.g. “mediatization”, “convergence”, “remediation”, “boundary publics”, “connective action” continue to be analytically informing for mapping the nature and meaning of participation in protest as well as in the civic life beyond it?
*Which methodological obstacles arise for research oriented towards analysing protest participation in variable communication ecologies? And how do we overcome them?

We invite 500 word abstracts that outline the envisaged potential to tackle such questions in innovative ways. Abstracts should be accompanied by a 100-word biography of the presenter(s) together with contact details. Abstracts/biographies/contact details should be sent to protest_ecologies@uniss.it.

Proposals will be reviewed on a rolling basis by the scientific committee. The final deadline for submission is 30th January 2015. Without compromising scientific standards, the Conference aims for a wide geographical representation of scientists. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out at the earliest opportunity and no later than March 2015.

Following the conference, participants will be invited to submit their papers for consideration by the journal iCS – Information, Communication & Society  which will dedicate a special issue to the conference proceedings. At that time, contributions will also be invited to an edited collection.