CFP Communication as a Discipline & as a Field (Moscow)

Call for papers
Communication as a Discipline and as a Field: Sharing Experiences to Construct a Dialogue
July 9-11, 2015
Moscow, Russia
Sponsored by National Research University Higher School of Economics and National Communication Association

Defining and reflecting upon the development of communication as a discipline and as a field has been on the communication researchers’ agenda for about 50 years; however, there still is no clear agreement among communication scholars about the scope and development vector for this field of study and practice. There still are a lot of disagreements on the nature of communication discipline, including subject area, theoretical and methodological base, etc. Moreover, little is known about the specifics of development of communication discipline in the countries other than the leaders in the field. Multiple communication associations and international conventions have raised the issue of communication as a discipline, taking theoretical, regional, historical, institutional, and other perspectives. Finally, communication is a must-have part of many universities’ curricula and one of the most wanted skills and specializations in contemporary service and information job fields. The conference organized by the Department of Integrated Communications at Higher School of Economics in Moscow is aimed at bringing together once more different voices from communication scholarship in order to advance constructing a conceptual map of communication discipline and field in various parts of the globe and thereby further our understanding of the primary role of communication in modern society. We invite you to share your perspectives on the essential questions of the nature of communication as a discipline and as a field.

We welcome conceptual papers as well as comparative and empirical studies on the topic of the state and shape of communication discipline and field around the world. We also intend to welcome studies on the interdisciplinary aspects of communication and the changing disciplinary landscape with the growing power of new media. Possible presentation topics may include, but not limited to:
* Communication discipline: Regional and national perspectives
* Interdisciplinary nature of communication
* Approaches to studying and researching communication
* Communication discipline: the need for intercultural and cross-national dialogue
* National paradigms in communication research
* Communication as transmission of messages and co-production of meanings
* The role of new media in transformation of communication discipline
* Communication competencies in training modern professionals: a business-oriented approach
* Communication education: challenges, needs, and opportunities
* The map of communication journals: opportunities and constraints

Please submit your extended abstracts from November 2014 to March 2015 by sending an email to aendaltseva@hse.ru or by using a submission form provided on the conference website.

The participants will be informed on the decision in early April 2015. Full papers should be submitted by May 2015.

The registration process will be opened in May 2015 to allow us time to get visa assistance paperwork done.

To submit your paper or ask further questions about the conference or the Department of Integrated Communications please email Alexandra Endaltseva, International Academic Projects Coordinator, Lecturer at aendaltseva@hse.ru or fill out a form on the conference website http://commconferencehse.ru/?lang=en

Frederick Douglass Fellowships 2015-16

Frederick Douglass Scholars Fellowship Summer 2015 – May 2016

In keeping with Frederick Douglass’ life of public service and commitment to equity and access, the Frederick Douglass Institutes of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) are offering teaching opportunities to graduate students who are pursuing careers as university faculty and who are entering the final year of terminal degree and/or doctoral programs.  As a Frederick Douglass Scholars Fellow, scholars will teach and/or co-teach during the summer session(s) or full academic year (depending on term of appointment), continue their research, and contribute to the life of the university.  Dates of employment vary among universities, but typically run during May –August 2015 for summer appointments, or August 2015-May 2016 for full year appointments.

The Douglass Scholars Fellowships are designed to provide teaching and other professional experiences, mentoring, and potential employment opportunities within universities that are strongly committed to cultural diversity.  Applicants from diverse cultural backgrounds, especially those from historically underrepresented groups, are encouraged to apply, as are candidates whose research, teaching, or service have prepared them to contribute to our commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Scholars will be compensated as adjunct faculty, according to each university’s collective bargaining agreement.  Additionally, Fellows may be provided housing and travel. The appointment is for the scholar alone, not families, and scholars are responsible for their own local transportation.  Faculty benefits (office space, computer and network access, and library privileges) are also provided.

Minimum requirements are: Applicant must be U.S. citizen or permanent resident; MA degree completed and enrollment in a terminal degree program (Ph.D., MFA, Ed. D, etc.); academic background in one of the disciplines taught at the university.  Preferred: teaching experience; currently ABD or doctorate within last two years.  Priority consideration given to completed applications postmarked by January 19, 2015.

The list of universities offering the Douglass Scholars Fellowship and common application is available at http://frederickdouglassinstitute.org/fellowship.php.  Please contact each campus representative for more information about and academic disciplines.

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.