The research team of the ACiME (Academic Communication in Multimedia Environment) project is pleased to issue the first call for participation to the international conference “Academic Communication in Multimedia Environment”, which will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria, on 12-14 September 2015.
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).
At the same time, this conference provides an opportunity to touch upon emerging issues of knowledge representation, distribution and consumption, intercultural communication, unification versus diversification, dominance of culture-specific discourses and ideologies, authorship, including the burning issue if plagiarism, and interpersonal communication in academia – thanks to, or in spite of the Internet!?
Relevant topics thus include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Academic communication and the new media
- Realization of intertextuality and interdiscursivity in multimedia settings
- Approaches to Hypertext analysis
- Culture-specific multimedia discourses
- Plagiarism and the new media
- Authorship and the new media
- Intercultural academic communication and the new media
- Interpersonal communication and the new media
- Students’ perception of the use of the new media for academic achievements
- 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 March 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.
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