<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Call for Papers</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Social Media + Society</span></i></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> Special Issue: Semantic Media</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Editors: Andrew Iliadis and Heather Ford</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">This special issue
focuses on “semantic media,” which we define as media technologies that
primarily orchestrate and convey facts, answers, meanings, and “knowledge”
about things directly in media products, rather than lead people to other
sources. Search engines and virtual assistants respond directly to questions
based on textual or verbal searches (e.g., “Things to do in Philadelphia?” or
“What is the capital of Israel?”). The special issue is thus dedicated to the
often-invisible ways (to the non-specialist) that internet companies are now
actively involved in constructing “knowledge” about the world. Organizations
like Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon extract, curate, and store
facts served to users in new and emerging media products. Such processes have
significant implications for the politics of knowledge sharing in the
future. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">We seek papers that
examine how design decisions “bake” these facts into the apps and platforms
people use daily while focusing on the infrastructures dedicated to
orchestrating and presenting this information. The goal is to understand the
technologies that will drive social and political outcomes when large internet
companies become a primary conduit through which people directly acquire an
understanding of facts about the world. We also seek to understand how
governments, nonprofit, and nongovernmental organizations engage these media
technologies. Semantic media are less about searching for keywords and matches
on different websites that are then ranked for people to choose. Instead, they
deal with identifying and describing entities (things like people, products,
and places) and directing interactions with those entities (actions like
purchasing, scheduling, and contacting). How do semantic media identify concepts
and connect related information about them? How do companies and organizations
produce facts and organize the data? From where does the data originate? What
do these semantic processes mean for web users and administrators? What types
of gatekeeping or safety checks do companies and organizations perform
concerning these facts?</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Today’s semantic media
have a long history reaching back to the “Semantic Web” project initiated by
web inventor Tim Berners-Lee. Yet, media researchers do not adequately cover
how companies and organizations implement semantic technologies on platforms
relative to their central role. These semantic technologies are in proprietary
and open source products, and extensive media platforms are now using them to
provide facts and represent knowledge to various publics. Google’s Knowledge
Graph is a database of facts that Google uses to provide quick answers to the
public, and such graphs are in use at other companies. At the same time,
Wikipedia has a product called Wikidata that similarly stores facts about the
world in data formats through which various apps can retrieve the data.
Researchers and journalists also use semantic technologies for search engine
optimization, fact-checking practices, and data sharing and organization. This
special issue thus focuses on such platformized versions of fact production and
examines the underlying infrastructures, histories, and modeling techniques
used in knowledge representation systems.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">We are interested in
quantitative, qualitative, and critical approaches and papers that propose new
methods, theories, and frameworks.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Areas of interest:</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">• The creation or transmission of facts, answers, meanings,
definitions, and “knowledge” across media systems and their platforms</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">• Answers from virtual assistants such as Alexa, Siri,
Cortana, Bixby, etc.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">• Answers from search engines such as Google, Bing, Baidu,
Yandex, etc.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">• Products like knowledge panels, infoboxes, carousels, rich
results, maps, etc.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">• Open-source semantic technologies such as Schema.org,
Wikidata, etc.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">• Proprietary semantic technologies such as Google’s
Knowledge Graph, etc.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">• Fact-checking practices for misinformation and
disinformation across semantic media platforms</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">• Search engine optimization and semantic search practices</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">• Semantic infrastructure projects such as the semantic web,
linked data, etc.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">• Semantic governance organizations such as the World Wide
Web Consortium, etc.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">• Semantic technologies such as metadata, markup languages,
knowledge bases, knowledge graphs, web schemas, applied ontologies, and
enterprise semantic software</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">• Semantic, linguistic, and conceptual theories involving
rules and logic, theories of meaning, ontology, taxonomy, ideas of truth,
social ontology, etc.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Timeline:</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">• Extended 1000-word abstracts due Fri July 15</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">• Decisions out to authors Fri Aug 19</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">• Full 8000-word manuscript due Fri Nov 18</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">• Final decisions January 2023</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">• Submit to journal February 2023</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">• Publication spring 2023</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Send submissions to <a href="mailto:andrew.iliadis@temple.edu">andrew.iliadis@temple.edu</a>
and <a href="mailto:heather.ford@uts.edu.au">heather.ford@uts.edu.au</a> with the subject header “Social Media + Society
Special Issue: Semantic Media”</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Link: </span></b><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/page/sms/collections/cfp" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">https://journals.sagepub.com/page/sms/collections/cfp</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a name="SignatureSanitizer__MailAutoSig"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" size="2">---------------------------<span></span></font></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" size="2"><span><span>Dr Heather Ford <br>
Associate Professor and Head of Discipline (</span></span><a href="https://www.uts.edu.au/future-students/communication/digital-and-social-media" target="_blank"><span><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">Digital and Social Media</span></span><span></span></a><span><span>)<br></span></span><a href="https://www.uts.edu.au/future-students/communication/about-communication/welcome-school-communication" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">School of Communication</span></a>, <a href="https://www.uts.edu.au/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">University of Technology, Sydney</span></a> (UTS)</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" size="2">
w: <a href="http://hblog.org/" target="_blank"><span><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">hblog.org</span></span><span></span></a> / t: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/hfordsa" target="_blank"><span><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">@hfordsa</span></span><span></span></a> </font></p><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>