{"id":5,"date":"2015-04-13T14:36:39","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T18:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/demsconference\/home\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T12:19:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T16:19:26","slug":"2015-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/demsconference\/","title":{"rendered":"#ScreenTimeBU2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"main-container\">\n<div class=\"col-sm-two-third \"><\/p>\n<div id=\"main-content-container\">\n<h1>#ScreentimeBU<\/h1>\n<h2>About the 2025 conference<\/h2>\n<p>#ScreentimeBU is an annual academic conference in June put on by the graduate students from Division of Emerging Media Studies at Boston University. The conference will provide a platform for students to showcase their research and to network with peers and professionals working in Emerging Media Studies.<\/p>\n<p>All Emerging Media Studies students contribute to the annual #ScreentimeBU conference. This exciting conference provides an opportunity for EMS students to present their research in the field of digital communication and society as well as exchange their views with peers and field leaders concerning important contemporary issues. By showcasing the fruits of their research, EMS students share their ideas with the general public and industry leaders. In addition, the conference provides an opportunity for students to develop their public communication capabilities and get input from industry experts in a professional setting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please note, attendance at this year\u2019s conference is by invitation only. Please reach out to <a href=\"mailto:dems@bu.edu\">dems@bu.edu<\/a> with any queries.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--\n\n\n<h2>This Year's Theme<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n<h3>Interconnected Society: Bridging Generations and Communities through Media Strategies<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n<p>This year\u2019s theme, Interconnected Society, illuminates a blueprint for us to empower diverse media users and make our society more cohesive. Through collaboration with clients from educational institutions, non-profit organizations, and the media industry, our students have gained insights into barriers and facilitators in meeting the needs of media users across generations and communities. Their insights are translated into communication strategies that optimize media user experiences in achieving goals including but not limited to enhancing learning experiences, promoting civic engagement and well-being, connecting generations, and fostering a sense of community. <\/p>\n\n\n--><br \/>\n<!--\n\n\n<h2>This year\u2019s theme<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>This summer, we are welcoming the conference\u2019s sixth opening on June 28, 2021 from 8:30 am - 12:30 pm, hosted on Zoom. <a href=\"\/demsconference\/files\/2021\/06\/BU-COM_SUM21_DEMS_Screentime-Program-FINAL-PGS-1.pdf\">Download the program<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>We will explore the topic \u2013 <strong>#Networked Resilience: Navigating Social Isolation Through Media Connectivity<\/strong>. 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as well as interactions within the digital space.<\/li>\n\n\n\n\n<li>The role of social media in redefining the mediated human connection in terms of knowledge gain, information exchange, identify formation, and other related outcomes. <\/li>\n\n\n\n\n<li>How emerging media technologies affect human interaction in different aspects of social life including politics, health, well-being, sociability and entertainment.<\/li>\n\n \n\n\n<li>How human connections\/connectedness vary between the virtual and real worlds, going beyond simple online vs. offline comparisons.<\/li>\n\n \n\n\n<li>Self-presentation on social media and digital privacy concerns related to location- based advertising and in-real-life meetings.<\/li>\n\n\n\n\n<li>How video games, virtual reality, and augmented reality alter (or do not alter) real-world human connection.<\/li>\n\n \n\n\n<li>(Re)evaluating cross-cultural communication online and how that has been facilitated or diminished by the rise of streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, etc.<\/li>\n\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n<!--\n\n\n<p>The conference is free of charge for both attendees and speakers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p><strong>We are still accepting abstracts!<\/strong> If you are interested in submitting abstracts please keep in mind that it should be no more than 300 words by email to demsconf@bu.edu for peer review. All submissions must include your name and institutional affiliation (department\/university), program and year of study, research focus\/interests, and contact information (email and phone number). After abstracts are peer reviewed, applicants will be notified of their acceptance on a rolling basis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Going off from the rough explications of this year\u2019s theme above, we offer the following tentative topics, the research papers under which are deemed eligible for submission. If there is any other relevant topic which we haven\u2019t covered but you think is applicable, you are also more than welcomed to submit your research. <\/p>\n\n\n\n[collapsible heading=\"Relevant Topics\" elem=\"h5\"]\n\n\n<ul>\n \t\n\n<li><span>Social media movements <\/span><\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li><span>Social media botting and algorithm<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li><span>Political communication <\/span><\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li><span>Media in health communication and toxic news<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li><span>Online relationships, communities, and social networks<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li><span>Media communication transparency<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li><span>Big data analysis and machine learning<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li><span>Media effects<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li><span>Self-presentation on social media and digital privacy concerns<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n \t<li\"><span>Video games, virtual reality, and augmented reality<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li><span>Media literacy, online actions offline consequences<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li><span>Human-computer interaction<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li><span>Computer-Mediated-Communication<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n[\/collapsible]\n\n<br \/>\n\n\n<h2>Video Coming Soon...<\/h2>\n\n\n<br \/>\n\n<a href=\"registration\" style=\"display: block;\"><button>Register for the Conference<\/button><\/a>\n-->\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"col-sm-third \"><\/p>\n<div id=\"twitter-container\">\n<h4>Follow us on Twitter!<\/h4>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-timeline\" data-height=\"720\"\n  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/COMatBU\"><br \/>\nTweets by @COMatBU<br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<!--\n\n\n<div id=\"instagram-container\">\n\n\n\n<h4>Follow us on Instagram!<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BwXdPpzAeu8\/\" data-instgrm-version=\"8\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n\n<div style=\"padding:8px;\"> \n\n<div style=\" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.0% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;\"> \n\n<div style=\" background:url(data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC\/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5\/P8\/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo\/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI\/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf\/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;\"><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n \n\n<p style=\" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BwXdPpzAeu8\/\" style=\" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Think of the parable of the 5 Blind Men and the Elephant, each touching a different part, each perceiving a different truth. 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