News Digest - March 3, 2017

3/3/17 News Digest by Luling Huang

Dear ACCS Members,
I am pleased to share the latest 2017 ACCS email digest with you.
 
Highlights:
1. Call for submissions: Female leadership in Chinese societies across sectors (China Media Research)
2. Conference announcement and call for papers: Algorithms, automation, and news: Capabilities, cases, and consequences
3. Call for participation: 3rd International Summer School: Synchronization in communication systems
4. ICA preconference announcement: Computational tools for text mining, processing and analysis
5. Call for participation: 2017 International Joint Summer School
 
If you would like to share position announcements, conference announcements, call for submissions, or other information to ACCS members, please email me at [email protected]. Our next email digest is scheduled for April 7, 2017.

1. Call for submissions: Female Leadership in Chinese Societies across Sectors
This special section of China Media Research invites scholars from diverse perspectives and approaches to submit manuscripts on the theme of “Female Leadership in Chinese Societies across Sectors.” Female political and economic status has been promoted because of the equal rights efforts and education. Most notions of women’s empowerment presume a democratic system of participatory deliberation. Feminist and women’s studies should continue to explore the possibilities and roles of women in political systems, economic arenas, and academic fields. These areas are influenced both by modernist (and even postmodern) notions of political, economic, and academic engagement and deeply embedded in folk culture and philosophical prescriptions. This special section aims to present such an opportunity and explore the ways in which women leaders both resist and accommodate traditional expectations of leadership and power.
This special section is especially interested in the studies that address, but are not limited to, the following topics:
1. Female leadership and communication styles in the decision-making or/and conflict management process;
2. The impact of cultural values on female leadership;
3. The unique challenges and opportunities female leaders confront;
4. Female leaders’ rise to power;
5. The possibilities for women’s leadership in a single-party system;
6. The possibilities for women’s empowerment when a paternal central government is the expectation;
7. The impact of digital and interactive media technologies on female leadership;
8. Various theoretical models developed for the studies of female leadership;
9. Comparative studies of female leadership;
10. Female leadership in non-profit organizations;
11. Female leadership in academia
The preference is given to studies on Chinese settings, but studies in all countries are welcome especially for cross cultural comparative studies. Both qualitative and quantitative approaches are welcome in this submission.
Submissions must not have been previously published nor be under consideration by another publication. An extended abstract (up to 1,000 words) or a complete paper at the first stage of the reviewing process will be accepted. All the submissions must be received by March 31, 2017. If the extended abstract is accepted, the complete manuscript must be received by May 31, 2017. Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with APA publication manual (6th edition) and should not exceed 8,000 words including tables and references. All manuscripts will be peer reviewed and the authors will be notified of the final acceptance/rejection decision. Please visit
http://www.chinamediaresearch.net for more information about the quarterly journal of China Media Research, which publishes both print and online versions.
Please direct questions and submissions to the CMR special section guest editor, Dr. Joy Chao, at [email protected]

2. Conference announcement and call for papers: Algorithms, automation, and news: Capabilities, cases, and consequences
MUNICH, 22-23 MAY 2018
On this site (http://www.algorithmic.news/), you will find the complete CFP, the timeline of events, and details regarding speakers and organizers.
Algorithms and automation increasingly are connected to many aspects of news production, distribution, and consumption. We invite original, unpublished papers to address such issues at an international conference to be held at the Center for Advanced Studies, LMU Munich, May 22-23, 2018 — shortly before the ICA annual convention in Prague, not far from Munich. Thanks to the generous support of our sponsors, there will be no conference fee, and free hotel accommodation will be provided for presenters, in addition to opportunities for need-based travel stipends. Select papers from the conference will be published in a special issue of Digital Journalism as well as a proposed edited volume. Please direct all queries to [email protected]
Timeline:
July 15, 2017: deadline to submit abstracts for proposed conference papers; abstracts should be 500-1,000 words in length (not including references) and sent to [email protected]. Please also include a 100-word biography of each author and 6-8 keywords describing your proposal. Work should be original, not previously published elsewhere.
Mid-August 2017: decisions on abstracts submitted to the conference
February 15, 2018: full 7,000-word papers due for initial round of feedback by conference peers
May 22–23, 2018: conference in Munich, Germany, at the Center for Advanced Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
Post-conference: peer-review and feedback process leading toward publication in either the special issue of Digital Journalism or edited volume
CONFERENCE BENEFITS
1. Selection of papers published in Digital Journalism as well as a proposed edited volume.
2. Free accommodation for presenters.
3. Needs-based travel bursaries.
4. No conference fee.
5. Precedes 2018 ICA conference in nearby Prague.

3. Call for participation: 3rd International Summer School: Synchronization in communication systems
Department of Communication at Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI, USA
May 30 to June 4, 2017
http://cas.msu.edu/sync
The International Summer School provides advanced training and mentoring for young researchers by providing networking and collaboration opportunities for the next generation of scholars. Senior and junior scholars, postdocs, and graduate students are all encouraged to attend! This year’s summer school will address the role of synchrony as a fundamental construct for communication science. As its predecessors, the conference agenda will include an opening reception followed by five full days of presentations from leading international scholars, poster presentations by young scholar participants, and collaborative breakout sessions.
FORMAT OF SUMMER SCHOOL
The format of the International Summer School is as follows: The evening before the summer school begins there will be a welcome reception. The first four mornings of the summer school will feature theme sessions. During these sessions, invited speakers will present original research for 1 hour (45 minutes of presenting, 15 minutes of Q and A). The fifth morning will begin with a shortened theme session and will end with a closing panel discussion.
The first four afternoons will begin with poster presentations from junior scholars, postdocs or graduate students– and then break up into small-group sessions where faculty members (and other students) will mentor individual poster presenters from that day. The breakout sessions provide an incredible opportunity for students to get feedback and to brainstorm about extending and refining their work. For fun, we have a barbecue planned near campus one night and a river boat cruise another!
TO APPLY
Those interested in participating in the summer school must submit an extended abstract (including 4- 5 keywords) of 800-1000 words (plus tables, figures, and references) summarizing either a research proposal or already completed work related to some aspect of synchrony, broadly defined.
All submissions will be subject to a review process. If your submission is accepted, you will prepare a poster of your work that will be presented during one of the thematic interactive poster sessions. Your submission will also be forwarded to an appropriate faculty leader to facilitate the individualized mentoring/feedback sessions with faculty and other students with similar interests.
We encourage the submission of the early/first results of existing projects, works-in-progress, and research proposals. Both empirical and theoretical work is welcome. Submissions can be related to any aspect of synchrony related to communication.
Proposals will be accepted based on the intellectual promise of the work.
Depending on the capacity of rooms, we will also accept participants who do not wish to present a poster. If you wish to attend as a non-presenter you still need to register for the conference. When registering, you can indicate whether you have submitted work to present. However, please note that preference will be given to applicants who wish to present their own work at the summer school.
To apply for a poster presentation, please send a Word file containing your abstract and keywords to [email protected]. In your email, please include your name, school, title (e.g., master’s student, doctoral student, post-doc, faculty), and keywords associated with your abstract.
Funding support for travel and lodging will be provided to young scholars whose abstracts are selected for presentation.
The submission and application process is open now, and review of applications is ongoing as we receive them. The deadline for abstract submissions is Monday, April 3 at 5pm EST.
Information about travel, funding, and lodging can be found at our website, http://cas.msu.edu/sync Please send any questions to [email protected]
TENTATIVE SPEAKER LINE-UP
5/30 - Welcome reception
• Welcome lecture: John Sherry, Michigan State University
5/31 - Day 1: Convergence in Communication Behavior
• Introduction: Prof Jim Dearing, Department of Communication Chair, Michigan State University
• Speaker 1: Prof Gary Bente, University of Cologne
• Speaker 2: Prof Prof Kai Vogeley, University of Cologne
• Speaker 3: Prof Judee Burgoon, University of Arizona
• Speaker 4: Prof Matt O’Donnell, University of Pennsylvania
6/1 - Day 2: Synchronizing the Audience
• Speaker 1: Prof Ralf Schmaelzle, Michigan State University
• Speaker 2: Prof Richard Huskey, The Ohio State University
• Speaker 3: Prof Robert Lewis, University of Texas – Austin •
6/2 - Day 3: Synchronization in Interpersonal and Computer-Mediated Communication
• Speaker 1: Prof Edson Tandoc, Nanyang Technological University
• Speaker 2: Prof Catalina Toma, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Speaker 3: Prof Jingbo Meng, Michigan State University
6/3 - Day 4: Synchrony in Human Technology Systems
• Speaker 1: Prof Nicole Kraemer, University of Duisburg-Essen
• Speaker 2: Prof Grace Ahn, University of Georgia
• Speaker 3: TBD
6/4 - Day 5: Synchrony in Social Networks
• Speaker 1: Prof Santo Fortunato, University of Indiana
• Speaker 2: Prof Winson Peng, Michigan State University
• Closing roundtable discussion: Prof Joe Walther, Nanyang Technical University

4. ICA preconference announcement: Computational tools for text mining, processing and analysis
https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/PC26
Time:  Thurs, 25 May; 9:00 – 17:00 
Location:  Hilton San Diego Bayfront   
Cost: $75.00 USD non-student, $50.00 USD student (lunch is not included)
*Registration is open to all.
Limit:  18 min, 50 max 
Organizer(s):  Dror Walter, Wouter van Atteveldt, Sijia Yang
Description:  Based on a survey disseminated among several ICA divisions this workshop will engage with topics related to computational textual analysis: data acquisition (scraping and preprocessing), theme extraction (topic modelling and semantic networks) and classification/sentiment-analysis (machine learning). We hope participants will leave this full-day workshop not only with ready-to-use tools for their day-to-day research but also with a more comprehensive understanding of these methods’ assumptions, properties, theories and debates.
Sponsors: The Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania
Contact:  Dror Walter, [email protected]

5. Call for participation: The 9th International Joint Summer School (2017): Communication, China, and Alternative Globalization
June 18-28, 2017
Zhuhai, China
The 2017 IJSS in Zhuhai is calling for participants who are interested in communications, media, and social studies. Enrollment will be limited to 40 students.
Prospective participants are required to fill out an application form (see attachment) accompanied by a statement of research interests, both of which should be sent to [email protected] by April 15, 2017. The provision of other supporting documents will be appreciated, such as an up-to-date CV or relevant academic publications. Early submission is recommended, and notification of the applicants' status of acceptance will be sent out on May 1, 2017.
The IJSS is free of charge, however, participants will be responsible for their own travel and accommodation expenses. The UIC will provide dormitory on campus for participants to choose.
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to call 86-10-65779313 or send an email to [email protected].
Globalization is both a political economic process, which is increasingly facilitated by information and communication technologies (ICTs), and a discursive space with diverse, even contesting, narratives. If the western-centric narrative of globalization underpins a social evolutionary logic and center-periphery relationship in the modern world system, globalization from the East or the South provides alternative narratives to either counter the Western hegemony in world history, or to break down the concept into different localities. The key questions are thus how many of those perspectives we have brought into our discussions, and whether an epistemological reorientation is necessary. Since the West is currently undergoing a structural crisis, which is widely recognized due to a series of political and economic signals, for example, the financial problems in a number of advanced capitalist countries and the extremism of those such as Donald Trump, it might be a prime historical conjuncture to rethink the construction of the West and to simultaneously revitalize narratives from the rest of the world that were ignored or marginalized in the former hegemonic discourse of globalization.
The role of China in the processes of globalization is multifaceted. By proposing new visions for the global future, such as the Belt and Road Initiative and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, Chinese leaders intend to maintain a high rate of economic growth and strengthen trade relationships with international partners on the one hand, and to contribute to the change of the world political economic order towards more equality and justice on the other. Furthermore, the Chinese government is eager to have a broader and deeper dialogue with foreign countries, through international media projects and cultural exchange programs like the Confucius Institute, while more than one hundred million Chinese have gone abroad for tourism, business, and study every year since 2015. Comparing to the previous decade, more intercultural encounters are emerging between China and outside world at different levels. Therefore, it is also crucial to interrogate the role of China in developing economics and transforming society in a global context in which trans-border connections are intensified.
The influence of media, broadly defined, is of particular importance. They are not only a representation of reality with multiple political and cultural implications, but also one of the central mechanisms in the organization of a society. In the pursuit of both the developmental path and discourse of alternative globalization, media and mediated communication through various ICTs deserve further examination. 
With those afore-mentioned concerns in mind, the 2017 International Joint Summer School(IJSS) will focus on a series of inter-related questions under the overarching theme of “Communication, China, and Alternative Globalization”. The complexity of different narratives of globalization, China’s encounters with the world, and the roles of communication in pursuing alternative globalization, will be addressed.
The IJSS has been held eight times since its inception in 2009. Following four successful years in Beijing, the fifth summer school moved base to Simon Fraser University in Canada, while the sixth, seventh and eighth were hosted consecutively by the National Institute of Development Administration in Thailand, the School of Media and Communication at Inner Mongolia Normal University, and the Heyang Institute for Rural Studies in collaboration with Lishui College in Zhejiang. Now in 2017,the 9th International Joint Summer School is set to take place in Zhuhai, one of the first Special Economic Zones and a garden like coastal city in Guangdong Province neighboring Macau and Shenzhen. Joining as local host will be the International Journalism Program at Beijing Normal University - Hong Kong Baptist University United International College.
The 2017 summer school will consist of two main components: academic lecture and field research. First, lectures will be given by Chinese and overseas scholars on a number of topics that are related to the overarching theme “Communication, China, and Alternative Globalization.” Prospective lecturers will include Yuezhi Zhao, Anthony Fong, Colin Sparks, Xin Xin, Gehao Zhang, Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman, Lei Zhang, Deqiang Ji and other scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds. Young scholars will direct the summer school students to carry out field studies in Zhuhai and regions nearby. Research topics will include (but are not limited to) people’s experience of development in reform China, the global and the local in Zhuhai’s development, The Belt and Road Initiative, urban-rural nexus in special economic zones, ICT industries in the Pearl River Delta, local media representation of development, the mechanism of “glocalization” in local economies, and the labor situation. Finally, the summer school will conclude with a wrap-up and experience-sharing session in which students will reflect upon the theoretical insights they have gained and the findings of their field studies.