CALL FOR ACADEMIC ABSTRACTS, PROJECT PRESENTATIONS AND SESSION PROPOSALS
What's Working: Responding to AI-induced Volatility in the Media
It is our pleasure to open the call for papers and presentations for the 2024 Prague Media Point Conference, which will take place on November 29, in Prague, Czech Republic.
Artificial intelligence has come with a power to dramatically shaken our economic, labour, and information systems. For the media sphere, it means yet another drastic turn on its bumpy ride towards any prospect of renewed stability. But unlike many other such turns, AI may provide professionals with a reactive (and creative) potential on a more egalitarian and therefore democratic basis. With the hindsight of coming on to two years of widely accessible AI tools, join Prague Media Point in assessing the impact on and responses of the media sphere and journalism to the two-vowel phenomenon. Be that on the job market, school curricula, newsroom policies, media regulation, journalistic solidarity, and beyond.
We seek submissions of abstracts, presentations or session proposals that focus on research, projects, and practices in the media that appear to be working and generating impact in the response to AI-induced media volatility (alternatively, which clearly demonstrate a potential to do so). We stress the importance of this AI-volatility link and the example-based approach for the submissions. The topical areas should be related to the following:
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Reforming media/journalism education and media literacy for the new paradigm
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Responses to increasingly precarious and volatile work conditions of journalists
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Freelancing as the new norm
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Building cross-journalism solidarity and new forms of collaboration
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Internal changes at newsrooms – policies, workers, leadership, strategies
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AI and new business models
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Success of hitherto platform and media regulation and what to improve
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Protecting journalism in adversity – standards, volatility, SLAAPs, pluralism, trust
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Harnessing AI for investigative and data journalism
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AI and English-language dominance vs. small-language media – marginalization or expansion?
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Election super-year and beyond: what’s new on the disinfo scene, what’s missing in our responses
Please submit your 500-word abstracts and a short bio by June 2, 2024 to precek@keynote.cz.
Download our template for abstracts and template for session proposals.
Kindly note that the conference language is English.
Deadlines
Abstract submission: June 2, 2024
Notification of acceptance: June 24, 2024
Early bird payment deadline: July 31, 2024
Presentation submission (for feedback): November 1, 2024
Conference fee for presenting participants
General presenting participants: Regular - € 270, Early-bird - € 240
Presenting students (PhD candidates): Regular - € 170, Early-bird - € 140
Registration fee includes: 20min presentation slot, including Q&A (or more for session proposals) + access to all conference sessions, coffee breaks and lunch + conference documents + certificate of attendance/presentation.
Refund Policy
If you cancel your registration on November 1, 2024 at the latest, you will receive a refund of the registration fee. However, there is non-refundable 30 EUR administrative fee. Written requests for cancellation must be emailed to precek@keynote.cz. No refunds will be given after the given date.
Contact: Marek Přeček, Project Coordinator, precek@keynote.cz