25.3833, Calls: Sociolinguistics, Ling & Literature/Bulgaria

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Subject: 25.3833, Calls: Sociolinguistics, Ling & Literature/Bulgaria

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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 17:09:27
From: Mariya Chankova [mariyachankova at gmail.com]
Subject: Academic Communication in Multimedia Environment

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Full Title: Academic Communication in Multimedia Environment 
Short Title: ACiME 

Date: 12-Sep-2015 - 14-Sep-2015
Location: Sofia, Bulgaria 
Contact Person: Irena Vassileva
Meeting Email: acime at uni-bonn.de; vassileva.irena at gmail.com; mariyachankova at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2015 

Meeting Description:

The research team of the ACiME (Academic Communication in Multimedia Environment) project is pleased to announce the international conference “Academic Communication in Multimedia Environment”, which will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria, on 12-14 September 2015.

The conference constitutes the final stage in the completion of a three-year research project (ACiME ) financed by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, and realised by a team of scholars from Bulgaria and Germany. The hypothesis tested is that the Internet is a rich and unique non-linear multimedia environment offering access to massive amounts of information; It provides new, more effective ways of communicating ideas and an audience of unparalleled size and diversity. How does it, however, affect the production, transmission and consumption of knowledge and what is the effect of globalisation on academic communication?

The conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in the field of academic communication in the new media with a view to promoting interdisciplinary and intercultural dialogue and the elaboration of a suitable methodology for the elicitation of the distinguishing features of academic communication in multimedia settings and the new opportunities they offer for the realisation of intertextuality and interdiscursivity. It is assumed that since multimediality would certainly allow for the establishment of a much wider range of intertextual and interdiscursive links, there should also be a threshold of comprehension beyond which it would be very difficult, if not impossible for the audience in academia to perceive the links sought by the author (quantitative aspects). Another facet of interest is to establish the degree of relevance of the hypertextual links to the academic needs and background knowledge of the target audience (qualitative aspects).

Keynote Speakers:

Prof. Dr. Angelika Storrer, Germany – “From linked data to digital genres: text-linguistic approaches to multimodal hypertext analysis”
Prof. Dr. Diane Pecorari, Sweden - „Irreconcilable differences? On plagiarism and other intertextualities in academic communication“
Prof. Dr. Klaus Schneider, Germany – to be confirmed
Prof. Dr. Irena Vassileva, Bulgaria – “Multumedia Environment and the Academia – Friends or Foes?”

The fee (150 Euro) includes conference materials, coffee breaks, an evening reception on September 12, 2015, and publication costs.

A conference dinner will take place on the evening of 13 September 2015. Conference participants will need to register and pay and additional fee to participate.

Call for Papers:

Relevant topics thus include, but are not limited to, the following:

1. Academic communication and the new media
2. Realization of intertextuality and interdiscursivity in multimedia settings
3. Approaches to Hypertext analysis
4. Culture-specific multimedia discourses
5. Plagiarism and the new media
6. Authorship and the new media
7. Intercultural academic communication and the new media
8. Interpersonal communication and the new media
9. Students’ perception of the use of the new media for academic achievements
10. Didactic issues

Individual presentations will last 20 minutes, followed by a 5 minute question session.

Contributors will need to tie their presentation with one or two of the conference themes, as described above. The deadline for submission is January 15, 2015.

Abstracts should not be more than 200 words; they must (i) clearly state the research question, (ii) include a brief description of the theoretical framework and of the methodology adopted by the author and (iii) highlight the originality of the proposal.

Publication:

A volume with selected papers, including the plenary presentations will be published shortly after the event.

Organising Committee:

ACiME (Academic Communication in Multimedia Environment) team:

Prof. Dr. Irena Vassileva
Prof. Dr. Klaus Schneider
Dr. Esther Breuer
Dr. Mariya Chankova

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