31.3042, Calls: Applied Ling/Online

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LINGUIST List: Vol-31-3042. Wed Oct 07 2020. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 31.3042, Calls: Applied Ling/Online

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Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2020 19:41:29
From: Jelena Bobkina [vildic20 at ucm.es]
Subject: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON VISUAL LITERACY AND DIGITAL COMMUNICATION: THE ROLE OF MEDIA IN NEW EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE

 
Full Title: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON VISUAL LITERACY AND DIGITAL COMMUNICATION: THE ROLE OF MEDIA IN NEW EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE 
Short Title: VILDIC’20 

Date: 18-Dec-2020 - 19-Dec-2020
Location: Madrid, Spain 
Contact Person: Jelena Bobkina
Meeting Email: vildic20 at ucm.es

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2020 

Meeting Description:

The International Conference on Visual Literacy and Communication (VILDIC’20)
welcomes expert researchers and scholars from across the world to meet for a
premier online conference experience. Scholars and educators will engage in
professional development and explore a wide range of topics relevant to
audio-visual culture and language teaching. VILDIC’20 aims at providing a
forum for researchers, teachers and educational representatives to share their
knowledge and promote creativity and innovation in the area of visual literacy
and digital communication. 

Abstracts are invited on topics related, but not limited to:
 - critical visual literacy
 - media literacy
 - digital storytelling
 - audiovisual cultures
 - films, television, web series, and video 
 - new video formats: creation and production
 - screens: Netflix generation
 - videos and accessibility
 - transmedia and participatory experiences
 - multimedia productions
 - ‘copywright’ and ‘fair use’ for language teaching with media
 - educational media
 - multimodal compositions
 - interactive digital media
 - the role of emerging technologies for fostering student agency
 - teaching materials
 - new assessment models (video essays, wikis, blogs, and social networking
activities)
 - multilingual media and multilingual learning
 - translanguaging and visual cultures


Call for Papers: 

Please submit an anonymous copy of your abstract (max. 300 words, excluding
references), in Word or PDF format, via email to: vildic20 at ucm.es. Please
include paper title, name, affiliation, email address and any other contact
details in the body of the e-mail message. Participants may submit a maximum
of two abstracts, that is, no more than one single-authored paper and one
joint-authored paper, or two joint-authored papers. All abstracts will be
double blind peer-reviewed. 

We invite submissions for two types of presentation:
 - INDIVIDUAL PAPERS: Oral presentations on original research by one or more
authors within a 20-minute period with 10 minutes for questions.
 - LIGHTNING TALKS: A 10-minute long talk (following a ‘TED-talk’ format)
using a maximum of 4 slides. This format may be of interest to postgraduate
students wishing to present their subject area without yet having
gathered/analysed their data. It may also be of interest to language teachers
and other practitioners wishing to present on teaching methods/practices and
developments.

Participants can send their contributions in English, Spanish or French.

Conference Publication: Selected papers presented at the conference will be
published by an international publishing house as book chapters in an edited
book. We will send you the related publishing guidelines after the conference.

Submission Deadlines:
Proposals should be sent by email to: vildic20 at ucm.es
Deadline for Abstract proposals: 1 November 2020
Notification of acceptance: 10 November 2020

Conference Organisers: 
Jelena Bobkina (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
Elena Domínguez Romero (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Carmen Herrero (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Isabelle Vanderschelden (Manchester Metropolitan University)




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