Call for Papers

Conference: #History on Social Media - Sources, Methods and Ethics

The #SocialMediaHistory project (www.socialmediahistory.de) is organising an online conference on 11 and 12 November.

We want to have a look at the significance of social media for historical research as well as research pragmatic approaches. We therefore welcome proposals for empirical case studies as well as theoretical or methodological contributions and problem outlines on various social media. Interdisciplinary approaches to history-related subjects, e.g. from (historical) communication research, media studies and digital humanities are explicitly encouraged.

Possible topics, e.g.

• Methodological approaches, e.g. digital methods, close and distant reading, citizen science, nethnography, ...
• Empirical case studies
• Source corpora and archiving
• Research access to different platforms
• Ethical Considerations
• Legal framework
• Investigation of (audio-)visual content
• Potentials and challenges of Big Data
• Reception and media effects research
• Practices and communities\
• ...

Application

Proposals for a 15-20 minute presentation in English can be sent to socialmediahistory@rub.de by 31 August 2022 (abstracts of max. 500 words + short bio of max. 100 words). Applicants will receive feedback by the end of September.

If the deadline is too close, just send us a message.

Contact

socialmediahistory@rub.de