CFP Moving Forward: Where is the Journalist in Social Media?
Centre for Ecological, Social, and Informatics Cognitive Research (ESI.CORE) Inaugural International Conference Moving Forward: Where is the Journalist in Social Media? SpringHill Suites Downtown Denver Metropolitan State University of Denver Denver, Colorado USA June 23-24, 2017 Call for Papers: In the current political climate, the constructions of celebrity leaders and popular forms of mediated truths, especially with the recent “fake” internet news, have raised questions about journalism. Tabloid and other forms of popular journalism use narrative devices of gossip,...
Read MoreCMCS Media Outreach by Dr Louis Massey – National Post
As part of the CMCS media outreach, Advisory Board member and Assistant Professor Dr Louis Massey wrote a critical letter to the editor that has been published in the National Post, August 2016. Read below: Scroll down and read “Fiction presented as reality”...
Read MoreCFP Living Life in Public: Exploring the Private Lives of Celebrities
Call for Presentations Living Life in Public: Exploring the Private Lives of Celebrities The Celebrity Project: 4th Global Meeting Tuesday 28th July – Thursday 30th July 2015 Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom From Dr Jackie Raphael, IDP Steering Group and CMCS Advisory Board Member Call for Presentations: Celebrities are “well-known” individuals who either by choice or by chance have achieved renown or infamy outside of personal and professional circles. Despite complaints that celebrities routinely make of the inconveniences of fame, many devote considerable...
Read MoreCFP: Be your selfie: identity, aesthetics and power in digital self-representation
CFP: Be your selfie: identity, aesthetics and power in digital self-representation From Guest Editors Laura Busetta and Valerio Coladonato Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network This issue of Networking Knowledge will investigate the practice of the “selfie”, one of the most significant phenomena of self-representation in the digital mediascape. Selfies are a notable example of how visual technologies, in conjunction with social media platforms, are reshaping traditional notions such as subjectivity, community, the public sphere and celebrity, among others This...
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