ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

November 10-13, 2026

Online

Deadline: September 15, 2026

Organised by CICANT:  MeLCi Lab, AISIC, and InTouch Labs | Lusófona University, Portugal

Website: https://melcilab.cicant.ulusofona.pt/training/vi-melci-lab-autumn-school-2026-advanced-school-on-ai-research-practice-in-media-and-communication/

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Researchers in communication and media studies now face a structural tension. Artificial intelligence - particularly large language models - has entered the research pipeline as a tool for applications such as literature search, data annotation, audience segmentation, and discourse analysis. At the same time, AI has become an object of inquiry: a force reshaping civic cultures, media ecologies, and the conditions under which publics form. These two roles demand different competencies. Using AI as a method requires technical skill, prompt design, and validation protocols. Studying AI as a societal force requires critical frameworks drawn from political theory, media literacy, and the ethics of datafication. Most training programmes address one side or the other. This school addresses both and the friction between them.

The VI MeLCi Lab Autumn School invites applications from PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, and early-career scholars for a four-day intensive online programme. The school combines keynote lectures with hands-on workshops, structured around two complementary themes. Participants will work with media-specific datasets, confront the interpretative challenges particular to communication research, like bias in content classification, the instability of AI-generated annotations, and the opacity of recommendation systems, and develop both the technical and critical capacities the current research landscape requires.

No prior experience with AI or data science is assumed. Introductory modules provide the necessary foundations.

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Theme 1: AI in Research Practice: Foundations, Methods, and Ethics

AI tools have entered research workflows faster than the methodological standards needed to govern their use. Zero- and few-shot prompting now enables researchers with no computational training to perform tasks that previously required supervised classifiers or teams of human coders (Gilardi et al., 2023; Grossmann et al., 2023; Ziems et al., 2024). The accessibility is genuine. So are the risks: prompt instability, opaque model behaviour, and the absence of agreed reproducibility standards mean that convenience can outpace accountability (Barrie et al., 2025). This theme equips participants with the methodological foundations, practical skills, and ethical orientation to use AI tools rigorously.

1.1 Foundations of Current AI Tools

Large language models have transformed what is computationally tractable in text-based research. Prompting techniques that require no training data have achieved annotation accuracy comparable to - and in some cases exceeding - expert human coders. But the same flexibility that makes LLMs accessible also makes them fragile: minor prompt adjustments can shift outputs in ways that compromise replicability. This sub-track addresses the theoretical architecture of contemporary AI tools, the methodological principles governing their responsible use, and the best practices emerging for transparent, accountable deployment in communication research.

1.2 Accountable Literature Search Using AI Tools

AI-powered platforms such as SciSpace and Litmaps have accelerated literature discovery, enabling researchers to map citation networks, identify thematic clusters, and surface relevant work at a pace that manual search cannot match. The efficiency gain, however, introduces a new accountability burden. AI-assisted searches can silently exclude relevant literature, privilege certain databases, or present coverage as comprehensive when it is partial. This sub-track develops strategies for validating AI-generated search results, assessing coverage boundaries, and maintaining the transparent documentation practices that methodological rigour demands.

1.3 AI-Assisted Data Annotation in Research Pipelines

Data annotation anchors most empirical research pipelines. Where this task once relied exclusively on human coders, AI-based annotation now offers a viable and often highly effective alternative - particularly at scale. The central challenge is consistency. Barrie et al. (2025) demonstrate that prompt stability, i.e., the degree to which semantically equivalent prompts produce equivalent annotations, remains a significant source of variability. This sub-track introduces participants to AI-driven annotation workflows, focusing on practical approaches to assessing and improving annotation reliability through frameworks such as Prompt Stability Scoring (PSS) and integrating responsible validation practices into research design.

Theme 2: Communication, Audiences, and Civic Cultures in the Age of AI

AI does not only reshape how researchers work. It reshapes the media environments researchers study. Algorithmic recommendation determines what the public sees, platform architectures mediate how citizens engage, and the datafication of everyday life raises questions about equity, inclusion, and democratic participation that existing frameworks struggle to answer. This theme addresses AI not as a methodological resource but as a structural force within media ecologies - one that demands critical engagement from researchers who study communication, audiences, and civic cultures.

2.1 Civic Cultures and Artificial Intelligence

AI-driven platforms and recommendation algorithms now mediate core dimensions of civic life: how citizens encounter information, how activist networks form, and how media literacy is exercised or undermined (Sarafis et al., 2025). This sub-track examines the opportunities and challenges AI introduces for civic engagement, exploring how algorithmic mediation reconfigures the conditions under which publics participate in democratic processes.

2.2 Digital Citizenship and Media Literacy in an AI-Mediated World

The competencies required for informed participation in AI-mediated environments remain poorly defined. Critical media literacy now extends to skills that existing frameworks have not yet systematised: recognising AI-generated content, understanding how recommendation systems shape information exposure, and assessing the epistemic status of machine-produced outputs (Chiu et al., 2024). This sub-track examines what digital citizenship demands in an environment shaped by misinformation, deepfakes, and opaque algorithmic curation.

2.3 Data Ethics, Equity, and Inclusivity in AI Research

AI technologies carry biases embedded in their training data, design choices, and deployment contexts. The ethical implications of using these tools for knowledge production: who is represented, whose categories are imposed, and whose communities bear the risks of misclassification, remain insufficiently examined (Ferrara, 2024; Ntoutsi et al., 2020). This theme moves beyond the binary framing of AI as either a technological panacea or an existential threat. It addresses responsible research practice, equitable research design, and the specific obligations researchers hold when working with data from or about underrepresented communities.

Application Details

• Deadline for submission: 15 September 2026
  
• Notification of acceptance: 12 October 2026
  
• Registration deadline: 28 October 2026
  

Interested participants should submit their application (in English) by 15 September 2026, including:

1. An updated curriculum vitae (max. 3 pages)

2. A research statement describing their doctoral dissertation or current research project, including research questions and methods (max. 2 pages)

3. A motivation letter describing their current engagement with AI, specific concerns or interests regarding AI's role in media research and practice, and their preferred theme (max. 2 pages)

Applications should be submitted as a single ZIP file to melci.lab@ulusofona.pt with the subject line: "Application for the VI MeLCi Lab Autumn School".

The school will be conducted online and in English.

For enquiries, please contact: melci.lab@ulusofona.pt

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References

Barrie, C., Palaiologou, E., & Törnberg, P. (2024). Prompt stability scoring for text annotation with large language models. arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.02039. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2407.02039

Chiu, T. K., Ahmad, Z., Ismailov, M., & Sanusi, I. T. (2024). What are artificial intelligence literacy and competency? A comprehensive framework to support them. Computers and Education Open, 6, 100171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeo.2024.100171

Ferrara, E. (2024). Fairness and bias in artificial intelligence: A brief survey of sources, impacts, and mitigation strategies. Sci, 6(1), 3. https://doi.org/10.3390/sci6010003

Gilardi, F., Alizadeh, M., & Kubli, M. (2023). ChatGPT outperforms crowd workers for text-annotation tasks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(30), e2305016120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2305016120

Grossmann, I., Feinberg, M., Parker, D. C., Christakis, N. A., Tetlock, P. E., & Cunningham, W. A. (2023). AI and the transformation of social science research. Science, 380(6650), 1108–1109. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adi1778

Ntoutsi, E., Fafalios, P., Gadiraju, U., Iosifidis, V., Nejdl, W., Vidal, M., ... & Staab, S. (2020). Bias in data-driven artificial intelligence systems — An introductory survey. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 10(3). https://doi.org/10.1002/widm.1356

Sarafis, D., Karamitsios, K., & Kravari, K. (2025). AI and civic engagement: A brief exploration of applications and opportunities. 2025 International Conference on Advancement in Data Science, E-learning and Information System (ICADEIS), 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1109/icadeis65852.2025.10933183

Ziems, C., Held, W., Shaikh, O., Chen, J., Zhang, Z., & Yang, D. (2024). Can large language models transform computational social science? Computational Linguistics, 50(1), 237–291.

June 27-July 2, 2027

University of Helsinki, Finland

Deadline: September 15, 2026

Abstract submission to: artificialothers@proton.me

20th International Pragmatics Conference

Panel organisers: Emma Lupano, Bettina Mottura, Natalia Riva

Bridges are not built only between people. They are also imagined through the figures, technologies, and social actors that societies create to negotiate difference. Among these figures, humanoid robots and biomimetic agents occupy a revealing position: they are simultaneously technological artefacts, cultural objects, and discursive constructions.

In a period marked by growing social and political polarisation, public discourse increasingly presents artificial agents as potential mediators, companions, assistants, or, conversely, as threats and sources of disruption. This panel examines discourse about robots rather than human–robot interaction itself, while recognising the close relationship between representations of artificial agents and the forms of interaction they make possible.

The panel explores how linguistic and multimodal resources contribute to the construction of robots as social actors and how these constructions shape understandings of otherness, agency, and social cohesion. We are particularly interested in the metaphors, narratives, evaluative practices, and stance-taking strategies through which humanoid and biomimetic robots are represented in different social, political, cultural, and linguistic contexts. While the panel is not inherently contrastive, it encourages contributions that can help shed light on local, national or international discursive trends on the subject.

Possible topics of research include (but are not limited to):

• the institutional, corporate, and policy discourses that formulate promises, expectations, or warnings concerning robots in social domains;
  
• the ethical debates surrounding the deployment of robots in contexts such as education, healthcare, social management, justice, political dialogue, and military activities;
  
• the discursive representations of biomimetic robots and the ways they blur or reinforce categorical boundaries between humans, animals, plants, and machines.

We welcome established as well as innovative analytical approaches including metaphor analysis, critical discourse studies, conversation analysis, corpus pragmatics, historical pragmatics, and related frameworks, in order to shed light on:

• narratives that portray robots as agents of conflict resolution, reconciliation, or social integration, as well as discourses that challenge or resist such visions;
  
• metaphors and figurative framings of robots as bridges, mediators, servants, threats, or mirrors of the human, and their variation across languages and cultures;
  
• epistemic markers, evaluative language, and other pragmatic resources that contribute to attribution or denial of intentionality, emotions, and agency;
  
• discursive strategies such as humour and irony that either humanise or delegitimise artificial agents.
  

By bringing together pragmatics, discourse analysis, human–robot interaction, and science and technology studies, the panel aims to advance understanding of how discourse about artificial beings may contribute to either reinforcing or reconfiguring contemporary social divides.

Please send a short bio of max. 150 words and an abstract of min. 250-max. 500 words with 5 key bibliographical sources to artificialothers@proton.me.

Abstract submission deadline: 15 September 2026.

Acceptance notifications will be sent out by the end of September 2026.

The panel is part of the 20th International Pragmatics Conference to be held at the University of Helsinki, Finland, from 27 June to 2 July 2027. For further information, please check the Conference link: https://pragmatics.international/page/IPC20

Please note that the conference will be held only in person. Travel and accommodation expenses are to be covered by the participants.

November 5-6, 2026

University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal 

Deadline: September 1, 2026

https://televisaoenovosmeios.ubi.pt/

Democracy is increasingly challenged by political polarization, disinformation, populist communication, declining trust in institutions, and the rapid transformation of the media ecosystem. Television now coexists with digital platforms, streaming services, social media, and algorithmically curated information environments that profoundly shape political debate and public opinion.

The International Conference Television and New Media invites scholars, researchers and media professionals to reflect on the role of television and audiovisual media in contemporary democratic societies. Under the theme “Democracy in Times of Anger”, the conference seeks to explore how television and new media contribute to the construction, mediation, amplification or resistance of democratic and non-democratic discourses.

We welcome theoretical, empirical and comparative contributions from communication and media studies, political communication, journalism, propaganda, political science, cultural studies and related fields.

SUGGESTED TOPICS INCLUDE

• Television and democratic resilience
  
• Television and political communication
  
• Populism, polarization and media
  
• Television, propaganda and non-democratic discourses
  
• Disinformation, misinformation and fact-checking
  
• Television news and public trust
  
• Public service media and democracy
  
• Authoritarian narratives in audiovisual media
  
• Electoral campaigns and political advertising
  
• Journalism, editorial independence and democratic accountability
  
• Artificial intelligence, algorithms and political communication
  
• Television and social media ecosystems
  
• Platformisation of television
  
• Streaming platforms and the transformation of the public sphere
  
• Digital participation and civic engagement
  
• Hate speech, online extremism and media regulation
  
• Media literacy and democratic citizenship
  
• Visual communication and political persuasion
  
• Comparative perspectives on media systems and democracy
  
• Media regulation and freedom of expression
  
• Television audiences and democratic culture
  

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Researchers are invited to submit original abstracts of up to 500 words, clearly outlining the research question, theoretical framework, methodology and main findings or expected contribution.

Submissions should be written in English and subjected to: https://forms.gle/sNGAvrceNQSHTDUB7

IMPORTANT DATES

• Call for Papers: 15 June 2026
  
• Submission deadline: 1 September 2026
  
• Notification of acceptance: 30 September 2026
  
• Conference: 5–6 November 2026
  

We look forward to welcoming researchers from around the world to the University of Beira Interior for two days of discussion on the future of television, audiovisual media and democracy.

REGISTRATION

• €50: PhD holders
  
• €25: Students
  
• Free: UBI/LabCom members
  

ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE

• Sónia de Sá (LabCom-UBI)
  
• Haphisa Mugnaini
  
• Inês Salvador
  
• Nuno Teixeira
  
• Débora Gato
  

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Coming soon…

September 17-18, 2026

Online

Deadline: September 12, 2026

Registration is now open for the ECREA 2026 Post-Conference Connected Generations: Media, Communication, and Intergenerational Exchange in Contemporary Lives, which will take place online on 17–18 September 2026.

Organised by the ECREA Section Children, Youth and Media, the ECREA Temporary Working Group Aging and Communication, and the CNSC – UOC research group, the post-conference will bring together scholars and practitioners interested in intergenerational communication, media, and digital technologies.

Participation is free of charge, but registration is mandatory.

Registration is open until 12 September 2026 and can be completed here: https://symposium.uoc.edu/149878/tickets/connected-generations-media-communication-and-intergenerational-exchange-in-contemporary-lives-17-1.html.

More info: https://symposium.uoc.edu/149878/detail/connected-generations-media-communication-and-intergenerational-exchange-in-contemporary-lives-17-1.html

Mediapolis, Vol. 11, No. 3 (Themed dossier)

Deadline: September 10, 2026

Edited by: Susana Viegas

Every city must negotiate the place of its dead. Cemeteries, crematoria, memorial parks, roadside shrines, temporary memorials, and other deathscapes form an often-overlooked layer of the urban fabric, revealing how societies negotiate memory, ecology, religion, politics, and everyday life. Whether depicting deathscapes as places of dwelling, as in Sérgio Tréfaut’ s “The City of the Dead” (2011), or as destinations of travel, as in Roberto Rossellini’s “Journey to Italy” (1954), media reveal the many ways in which spaces of the dead participate in the social, cultural, and political life of cities. Documentary and fiction films, photography, television, digital media, video games, and social media not only represent urban deathscapes but also influence how they are experienced, imagined, and transformed.

This dossier for Mediapolis – A Journal of Cities and Culture seeks contributions that examine how media engage with urban deathscapes across historical and contemporary contexts. We welcome contributions from scholars working across film and media studies, urban studies, geography, architecture, anthropology, death studies, environmental humanities, memory studies, and related fields.Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• Housing, everyday life, and communities in spaces of the dead;
  
• Tourism, pilgrimage, walking, and travel through urban deathscapes;
  
• Colonial cemeteries, military cemeteries, contested memorials, and unmarked graves;
  
• Green burial, biodiversity, and environmental transformations;
  
• Representations of urban deathscapes in cinema, photography, television, digital media, and video games;
  
• Heritage, ruins, archaeology, memory, and the coexistence of multiple urban pasts;
  

Please submit an abstract (maximum 300 words) and a short biography (maximum 100 words) to Susana Viegas (filmdeath@fcsh.unl.pt) by 10 September 2026. Authors will be notified shortly after the deadline. Full articles (maximum 3,000 words, including references following the Chicago Manual of Style, notes and bibliography system) will be due 1 November 2026 and will undergo anonymous peer review. More info here. 

November 5-6, 2026

Lusófona University

Deadline: July 29, 2026

On 5 and 6 November 2026, Lusófona University will host the European conference for the NewsArcade – Seriously Play the News in the Classroom! project (Project Number 101186092).

The event has an open call for papers for various presentation formats until 29 July. A special issue of the International Journal of Games and Social Impact is planned for publication following the event.

https://cicant.ulusofona.pt/agenda-news/news-events/21055-newsarcade-european-conference-2026

mediastudies.press

Deadline: July 31, 2026

mediastudies.press, the scholar-led and nonprofit OA publisher, is happy to announce our annual proposal window from 1 June to 31 July, 2026. During this date window, authors are encouraged to submit a proposal for review.

mediastudies.press welcomes submissions from scholars across media, communication, and film studies. We currently publish in five series:

• Media Manifold series — monographs and other book-length works of contemporary media scholarship
  
• Public Domain series — reprints of neglected classics, in new critical editions anchored by framing introductions
  
• Open Reader series — themed collections of openly licensed, public domain, and linked materials curated and introduced by leading experts
  
• History of Media Studies series — monographs and other original scholarly works centered on history of media, communication, and film studies
  
• Goffman in the Open series — public domain texts, monographs, translations, and other original scholarly works centered on the Canadian-American sociologist Erving Goffman
  

We are small and artisanal by mission, and aim to publish just five books a year. Given the volume of proposals that we receive—and with our production schedule in mind—we maintain an annual proposal window (1 June to 31 July), for the review of manuscripts slated for publication in the following calendar year. You are welcome to send informal queries outside these dates, but our general practice is to only consider proposals within the annual window. Each year, we review proposals with an initial reply by August 30, with the aim to conduct peer review of proposals of expressed interest by the end of October.

mediastudies.press is an open-access publisher for the media and communication studies fields. The press is nonprofit and scholar-led. We publish living works, with iterative updates stitched into our process. And we encourage multi-modal submissions that reflect the mediated environments our authors study. 

Publishing with mediastudies.press is free on principle. Our aim is to demonstrate, on a small scale, an open-access publishing model supported by libraries rather than author fees, via the Open Book Collective. Open access for readers, we believe, should not be traded for new barriers to authorship. 

All our published works are rigorously peer-reviewed, and receive unusual editorial attention. We prioritize discoverability through careful metadata, library records, and directory listings. As a scholar-run operation, our publicity outreach is uncommonly informed by the fields’ intellectual contours. 

We kindly ask that proposals be submitted as a single PDF. Proposals should include the following elements, in addition to at least one draft chapter:

• Proposed title and subtitle
  
• A 500- to 1000-word narrative description of the book
  
• Short bios of author(s) and/or editor(s)
  
• Proposed series (see above)
  
• Tentative table of contents, preferably annotated
  
• Estimated word count
  
• Multi-modal components, if any
  
• Status of the book (i.e., expectation of completion date, the portion now complete)
  
• At least one draft chapter
  

To submit your work to mediastudies.press please follow our submission link. 

If you have any questions at all about the proposal process for books, please contact us at press@mediastudies.press

Dave Park, co-director of mediastudies.press

Jeff Pooley, co-director of mediastudies.press

December 10-12, 2026

University of Perugia & University for Foreigners of Perugia, Italy

Deadline: September 16, 2026

https://www.compol.it/eventi/convegno/convegno-2026/

In recent years, the social sciences have explored the process of fragmentation of the cultural field and of public discourse, associated with polarization, distrust in institutions, and with the crisis of mediating functions, including those of parties and journalism. However, it seems that contemporary society, facing the contradictions and uncertainties of the global context, is looking for pathways of renewed belonging defined by political-cultural and affective affinities. Such tendency may be helped by the sharing practices in the hybrid media environments. Rather than as elements of disintegration, such processes can be investigated as new forms of belonging, capable of producing recognition, connection, and coordination, and therefore as processes of re-aggregation.

This perspective does not exclude dynamics of conflict or perceived incompatibility. Values and interpretations are redefined through new criteria of legitimation to express strategies of reaction to contemporary complexity or resilience in response to global crises.

Within this tendency, a relevant process seems to be shaped by a shift toward pre-political ideas, practices, and experiences rooted in everyday life, lifestyles, local contexts, and cultural consumption. This implies a personalization of social participation, often assuming a collective dimension. The perception of community ties is increasingly important, so that identities and sub-cultures acquire higher relevance. These forms of belonging redefine the way influence and leadership are enacted and become able to aggregate meanings, exploiting the multiple possibilities offered by social and media arenas, also linking different contexts and environments.

Such processes call for a closer examination of language, understood not simply as word or image, but as a more general device for identity construction, legitimation, and agency. Languages are practiced as markers of belonging and shared feelings, and as resources for defining group boundaries. The search for a common ground appears capable of producing or revitalizing various types of community which, in addition to internal cohesion, are oriented toward participation in the public sphere. They can be seen as nodes in socio-cultural networks whose cohesion is played out within the interaction between social territories and media environments, including the digital platforms and artificial intelligence systems, which help shape visibility, social relationships, access to content, and may foster processes of symbolic aggregation.

The conference therefore welcomes theoretical and empirical contributions on the following themes:

-          Transformations in political cultures and in party organizations.

-          The role of values in political cultures and political communication.

-          Pre-political dimensions of citizenship, agency, and participation.

-          The affective dimension of political cultures and political communication.

-          Changes in political and government communication strategies, election campaigns, and voting in national and international contexts.

-          Emerging political subcultures.

-          Symbolic content and communicative forms of online communities.

-          Journalists and journalism as aggregators of communities.

-          Forms and actors of an alternative news ecosystem.

-          Readership, news use, and forms of community around informational content.

-          Disinformation, polarization, and incivility in contemporary forms of political and cultural belonging.

-          Redefinition of the public agenda in the European space.

-          Methodological proposals, approaches and techniques for the analysis of the cultural transformation.

-          Strategies and experiences of connection among movements and subcultural entities.

-          Innovative and/or alternative experiences of political-cultural and volunteer associations.

-          Local movements, unconventional movements and association networks.

-          Local belonging as political cultures.

-          Cultural consumption and art experiences as forms of civic engagement.

-          The technological infrastructure of political participation.

-          Platforms and social media as environments of political empowerment and civic engagement.

-          Social understanding of technology, of the opportunities and risks linked to artificial intelligence.

Paper proposals must include:

• Title
  
• Author(s), including the affiliation and institutional email address of each author
  
• Extended abstract (5000 characters, space included)
  
• Reference
  
• 3 keywords
  

Useful information on how to write an abstract for AssoComPol conferences is available in the “Abstract Instructions” section of the AssoComPol website: https://www.compol.it/eventi/convegno/convegno-2026/

Relevant deadlines:

·         Deadline for uploading proposals on the websitehttps://compol.confnow.eu/: 16 September 2026

·         Notification of acceptance: 10-12 October 2026

·         Full papers must be uploaded by 30 November 2026 to the conference paper room (accessible after login)

Scientific Committee: Cristopher Cepernich, Matteo Gerli, Paolo Mancini, Rita Marchetti, Rolando Marini, Giampietro Mazzoleni, Marco Mazzoni, Augusto Valeriani.

Local Organizers: Selena Mariano, Roberto Mincigrucci, Susanna Pagiotti, Grazia Enerina Pisano, Anna Stanziano, Giovanni Daniele Starita.

Conference Secretariat: Junio Aglioti Colombini, Alice Fubini, Antonio Martella, Melissa Mongiardo, Celeste Satta.

Digital Futures for Children centre

The Digital Futures for Children centre is hiring a Research Officer for our project DigiPulse: Real-time Ecological Momentary Assessment of children’s smartphone engagement and mental health.

The project is funded by the Huo Family Foundation and led by Professor Sonia Livingstone. Over the next three years, across Brazil, UK and Kenya, we are bringing together passive smartphone tracking, Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) and longitudinal surveys to measure 750 children, aged 10 to 17, to study how smartphone use impacts their mental health and wellbeing.  

DigiPulse gathers a multidisciplinary, multi-country team of researchers and child rights advocates across the three project countries to deliver innovative methods and produce novel, comparable data, while employing a child rights approach to engage children in project design and analysis across the project lifecycle. We are now looking to expand our team. 

Eligible candidates will:

• Develop and refine the EMA instruments at the heart of the study
  
• Shape our hypotheses and contribute to the research literature
  
• Run participatory work directly with children and young people
  
• Conduct the statistical analysis and help produce findings that partners across three continents will build on 

Eligible candidates should have:

• A completed PhD in a relevant field
  
• Experience developing surveys or questionnaire instruments
  
• Experience running longitudinal studies 
  
• Hands-on experience with EMA, experience sampling or equivalent

Apply here: https://jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/2504/0/471333/15539/research-officer-digipulse-digital-futures-for-children-centre/Referral

Read more about the project here: https://www.digital-futures-for-children.net/our-work/Digipulse

Closing date for applications: 22 July 2026

Expected starting date: 1 September 2026

If you have any questions please reach out to Project lead Dr Kim R. Sylwander k.g.ringmar-sylwander@lse.ac.uk

November 26-27, 2026

University of Bucharest, Romania

Deadline: July 31, 2026

Venue: Department of Communication Studies, Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest (RO sessions on-site; English track fully online, Friday; free of charge)

Deadline for abstracts: 31 July 2026

Notifications: 7 August 2026

Submission: letters_commconf@litere.unibuc.ro

You can find attached the CfP here.

It’s a focused conference on how digital media, AI, archives, and platforms reshape communication, space, intimacy, death, and social life. English track is fully online, held on a Friday, free of charge. We welcome humanities and social sciences perspectives. Abstracts (250–500 words) by 31 July 2026.