ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

Edited by: Manuel Puppis, Robin Mansell & Hilde Van den Bulck

This state-of-the-art Handbook provides unique insights into the governance practices and institutions shaping digitalized public spheres. Focusing on the power relations involved, it presents diverse approaches to key debates in media and communication governance, showcasing groundbreaking advances in the field.

https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/book/9781800887206/9781800887206.xml

USI Università della Svizzera italiana, Institute of Media and Journalism

Deadline: 10 August 2024

The Institute invites applications for an overall 60% per annum pro rata research and teaching PostDoc position available for one year, starting on the 1st of September, 2024 until 31st of August, 2025.

The PostDoc Position

The successful candidate will be offered the possibility to work in a dynamic research team and in a multidisciplinary and international scientific environment.

The PostDoc candidate will assist in the development of the Institute’s research agenda.

The job description encompasses both research and teaching responsibilities. The successful candidate will have shared responsibilities in the design and implementation of research projects in the fields of media and journalism studies. The Institute plans to submit research projects to funding institutions in one or more of the following areas: media history, digital journalism, digital cultures, and climate change communications. Therefore, expertise in one or more of these fields is important as well as qualitative and/or quantitative methods experience. 

The successful candidate will prepare and teach courses at both the Bachelor and Master level, including supervising dissertation students. Specifically, the candidate will teach a Bachelor-level course of 6 ECTS (56 hours of lectures) in the field of Sociology of Communications (in Italian) from Spring 2025. 

The successful PostDoc candidate is expected to present papers at scientific conferences and produce publications in high-impact journals.

Candidates’ profile

Ideal candidates should satisfy the following requirements:

•             A PhD in media or communication studies, or related disciplines.

•             High personal interest in collaborative work in both teaching and research.

•             Expertise in the field of media and journalism studies. The Institute particularly welcomes candidates in one or more of the following areas: media history, digital journalism, digital cultures and climate change communications.

•             Skills in qualitative and/or quantitative methods are desirable.

•             Excellent command of English and Italian, both written and spoken.

•             A strong desire for research and publishing at high-level conferences.

•             Ability to work independently and to plan and direct one’s own work.

•             Ability to work in a team and autonomy in scheduling research steps. Interest for teaching and tutoring students and availability to collaborate with colleagues (engage in scientific dialogue, listen and think critically) are required

General terms

Workplace is USI Università della Svizzera italiana, located in Lugano, Switzerland. Availability to travel to other parts of Switzerland and abroad (for purposes of collaboration and research) is required.

The starting date for this position is 1st of September 2024. The position will be kept open until a suitable candidate has been found.

The Application

Applications should contain: (1) a cover letter in which the applicants describe their research interests and reason to apply, (2) a complete CV, (3) copies of relevant diplomas, certificates as well as the full transcript of records, (4) a complete list of publications with details on the candidate’s contributions, (5) the candidate’s three strongest publications, (6) a short description of no more than 300 words for a course entitled “Sociology of Communication” to be taught in Italian from Spring 2025. 

Applications received before 10th of August 2024, will be given priority. However, applications will be received until the position is filled.

Requests for further information to Gabriele Balbi (gabriele.balbi@usi.ch).

The application should be done following the link and criteria explained at this link: https://content.usi.ch/sites/default/files/storage/attachments/imeg/imeg-postdoc-2024.pdf

February 5-7, 2025

CERN, Switzerland

Deadline: July 31, 2024

The 2025 ECREA Communication History Workshop will be hosted by CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire / European Council for Nuclear Research), where the World Wide Web took its first steps between the end of the 1980s and the early 1990s. 

This special location inspired us to choose the theme of communication networks from long-term and historical perspectives as the key topic of the workshop. “Network” is one of digital literacy’s most symbolic and obsessively repeated keywords and metaphors. However, communication networks are not exclusively digital. From telegraphy to telephony and wireless communication in the 19th century, from radio and TV networks in the 20th, the concept of network has been used even before the Internet and, specifically, the Web. Communication networks seem to transform the sense of speed, space, and place, creating new connections and erasing others. Networks enable the exchange of communication or limit it; new networks are launched, and old ones are abandoned or have to be maintained.

Interrogating communication and networks from a diachronic perspective can be approached from numerous angles: networked communication and its infrastructures, communication through networks, and within networks, networks of communication, and communication on networks, to name but a few. This inquiry should encompass discourses, imaginaries, modalities, infrastructures, governance, and many other dimensions. Three main historical perspectives on communication networks are suggested:

1. Communication and networks before the digital age:

    Potential topics for exploration include, but are not limited to letters, press, telegraph and telephone networks, radio, and TV networks, but also other forms of communication networks, through for example learned societies or rumor. The legacy of these models, their physical or symbolic persistence, their stakeholders, and their structure are topics of interest as well as issues of regulation and governance.

2. Imaginaries, representations, and narratives related to networks:

    This may include cultural imaginaries and narratives surrounding networks in a long-term perspective, their representations in media, the controversies that may have arisen through time, utopia, and mythologies related to networks and networked societies. A reflection on the word per se, its emergence and eventual disappearance, and its metaphorical history is also welcomed.

3. Digital communication networks: from socio-technical origins to platformization:

    Genesis and evolution of digital networks, communication dynamics and changes through digital networks, online communities and their modalities of communication, and past discourses and approaches surrounding the development of networked communication are only a few topics that may be diachronically addressed. The history of social network sites, even the disappeared ones or the failed European attempt to create alternatives to US platforms, can be considered. The digital dimension of networks should always be considered from a historical perspective, in line with the focus of the section. 

Other transversal topics such as the role of networks in shaping communication and community, their impact on societies, or network analysis for studying the history of communication may be proposed. The study of networks in communication and media studies is also welcome: media studies, for example, have often advanced theories about small or large networks, their social role, the power of media in creating or breaking social networks, the strong or weak ties created by networks, etc.

We invite scholars from various disciplines to freely submit abstracts for papers addressing these themes. Submissions should be in English and have a clear historical approach. Abstracts of 300 words should be submitted no later than 31 July 2024. Proposals for full panels (comprising 3 or 4 papers) are also welcome: these should include a 300-word abstract for each individual presentation and a 150-word rationale for the panel. Send abstracts to: comnet@usi.ch. Authors will be informed regarding acceptance/rejection for the conference no later than 13 September 2024. Early career scholars and graduate students are highly encouraged to submit their work (please indicate if the research submitted is part of your thesis or dissertation project).

Fees and accommodation: The conference registration fee is 150 Swiss francs/about 150 euros (100 Swiss francs/about 100 euros for Ph.D. and M.A. students), and participants are asked to cover their travel expenses. This fee includes apero at the get-together, coffee breaks, and two lunches. A special rate has been arranged for lodging near CERN: a single room with a private bathroom for 58.00 Swiss francs. Further information will be sent to all the accepted presenters.

Local organizers: James Gillies and Jens Vigen (CERN, Geneva), Deborah Barcella, Martin Fomasi, and Gabriele Balbi (USI Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano).

For the section management team: Christian Schwarzenegger (University of Bremen), Valérie Schafer (C2DH, University of Luxembourg), Marie Cronqvist (Linköping University).

October 9-12, 2024

Timișoara (Romania)

Deadline: August 25, 2024

The annual conference of the University Network of the European Capitals of Culture (UNeECC) in organized between October 9-12, 2024, in Timișoara (Romania) in a "face-to-face" format, by UNeECC jointly with the Alliance of Timisoara Universities (ATU), with the support of the Timisoara Project Center. The conference discusses the "Impact and legacy of the European Capital of Culture program", proposing plenary sessions, thematic sections, a workshop for PhD students and a rich cultural program. Thematic sections are dedicated to discussing culture and participation, the link between art and technology, the development of sustainable practices, increasing organizational capacity, etc. Registration is open until August 25, 2024. The description of the sections, the registration form and further information can be found on the conference page, https://uneecc2024.org/.

December 14-15, 2024

University of Salford (UK)

Deadline: September 20, 2024

In the 1970s Anglo-American feminist scholars in a variety of disciplines began to explore the problematic representations of women in Hollywood cinema, issues and concerns over female spectatorship, as well as the history of women’s cinema in Hollywood and beyond. Two seminal works Marjorie Rosen’s 1973 Popcorn Venus: Women, Movies and the American Dream, and Molly Haskell’s 1974 From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies, pointed to stereotypical portrayals of women mostly in Hollywood films. The conclusions were epitomised by Haskell when she said, “You’ve come a long way baby … and it’s all been downhill.” Meanwhile, at the same time in Britain several female scholars developed ideas grounded in psychoanalysis, semiotics and Marxist ideology, some offering a pessimistic account of female representations on screen, while others were more optimistic. Such accounts raised questions about female spectatorship and the male gaze, but they also questioned the female gaze and the male body.  

At the end of the millennium, for cultural commentators like Susan Faludi (1999), it was curiously Western masculinity that had apparently reached an apocalyptic state. Its apparent traditional markers (a breadwinner status; social dominance; emotional self-efficacy and regulation) and that men should be adventurous, and risk seeking, even if this means the endorsement of (or participation in) violence – had been pathologised. In the wake of this cultural evolution, old jobs were lost; so-called masculine spaces once filled with miners, dockers and engineers were left barren or converted to penthouse homes and middle-management sites for the newly saturating white collar (so went the rhetoric), while the modern western male was increasingly under pressure to conform to commercial cultures of style, celebrity, and consumption. Ros Coward (1999) asked: when looking back on the achievements of feminism, “Is it now holding us back?” Is it demonising men and denying them the right to understanding and equality in a world that is perhaps far harsher for them than ever before?  

These questions of course were not entirely new. In fact, media diatribes on underachieving boys, deserting fathers, Viagra, the boom in male plastic surgery and cosmetics, the apparent explosion of young male suicide, crime and youth delinquency, were dominant themes of the 90s. Hollywood soon joined the tirade and by the final year of the millennium seemingly had its biggest outpouring of ‘masculinity in crisis’ cinema. From Fight Club and The Matrix, to American Psycho, American Beauty, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me and Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut (amongst many more), Hollywood seemed to turn its lens on the rhetoric of apparent despair. Away from this (though in ways that have yet to see any sustained kind of analysis), a number of films featuring overtly strong (“career”) women were also making waves on the big screen in 1999 and early 2000 (seeElection, Drop Dead Gorgeous, The Bone Collector, Erin Brockovich, Gloria, Cruel Intentions, Dick, Stir of Echoes, Double Jeopardy, The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc, and Girl Interrupted for example), providing collective accounts of dangerous and threatening girls and women. 

Now, exactly 25 years after this outpouring (and exactly 50 years on from Haskell’s seminal From Reverence to Rape), we are looking to explore this cinema and its legacy.  

We invite contributions that deal with the above issues from a broad variety of perspectives. From researchers and scholars, from outreach initiatives to practice-based research among others, we welcome a diversity of approaches on how film is grappling with contemporary portraits of gender in contemporary cinema in and beyond Hollywood.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

• The status of cinematic masculinity nowadays
  
• The status of cinematic femininity nowadays
  
• Challenging male or female dominance on screen
  
• The female spectator then and now
  
• The female gaze then and now
  
• The male gaze then and now
  
• The male spectator then and now
  
• An exploration of (this/ selected) cinema made 25 years ago at the end of the millennium
  
• Interpretations of the end of millennium social and cultural moment
  
• The more recent appropriation of some of these cinematic texts into the “manosphere” (by individuals such as Andrew Tate) and/or far- and alt-right communities 
  
• Advances in cinematic technologies and time fracturing in this end of millennium cinema (or of later cinema influenced by/indebted to examples in this canon)
  
• Equality in contemporary cinema 
  
• The evolution of Gender and sexual diversity over the last 25 years
  
• Toxic masculinity as a cinematic theme
  
• Gender and empowerment on screen
  
• Gender and social change on screen
  
• Women’s and/or men’s weaknesses on screen
  
• Women’s and/or men’s strengths on screen

Please submit abstracts for individual papers (max 250 words) with presentation title, up to 5 key words, your full name, affiliation, 50 word biography, and email address tomenandwomenonscreen@gmail.com

We support the presentation of practice-as-research, with papers and screenings. We also welcome abstracts from early career and postgraduate researchers.

All or a selection of papers will be considered for publication. 

Submission deadline for abstracts: Friday 20th September 2024

Registration fee: £75

Conference venue: Media City, University of Salford, UK

Project leader: Feijoo, Beatriz

Researchers: Vizcaíno-Verdú, Arantxa, Sádaba, Charo

This report presents the findings of the research project “Between Healthiness and the Cult of Physique: The Impact of Fitfluencers’ Content on Adolescents’ Body Care”, known as TEEN_ONFIT. The project is funded by the Institute of Research, Transfer, and Innovation (ITel) of the Vice-rectorate of Transfer at the International University of La Rioja (UNIR), under reference number BE23-008. Additionally, it has received support from the PantallasAmigas association.

https://zenodo.org/records/12755822

Edited by: Daniel Jackson, Katy Parry, Emily Harmer, Darren Lilleker, Julie Firmstone, Scott Wright, and Einar Thorsen

We are very pleased to announce the publication of UK Election Analysis 2024: Media, Voters and the Campaign, edited by Daniel Jackson, Katy Parry, Emily Harmer, Darren Lilleker, Julie Firmstone, Scott Wright, and Einar Thorsen.

Featuring 101 contributions from over 130 leading academics and emerging scholars, this free publication captures the immediate thoughts, reflections and early research insights on the 2024 UK General Election from the cutting edge of media and politics research.

Published just 10 days after the election, these contributions are short and accessible. Authors provide authoritative analysis of the campaign, including research findings or new theoretical insights; to bring readers original ways of understanding the election and its consequences. Contributions also bring a rich range of disciplinary influences, from political science to cultural studies, journalism studies to geography.

The publication is available as a free downloadable PDF, as a website and as a paperback report.

Website URL: http://www.electionanalysis.uk

Direct PDF download: https://bit.ly/UKElectionAnalysis2024_Jackson-et_al_v1-COMPRESSED 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Democracy and representation

1. Public anxiety and the electoral process (Prof Barry Richards)

2. How Nigel Farage opened the door to No. 10 for Keir Starmer (Prof Pippa Norris)

3. The performance of the electoral system (Prof Alan Renwick)

4. Tory downfall is democracy rectifying its mistakes (Prof Stephen Barber)

5. Votes at 16 and decent citizenship education could create a politically aware generation (Dr Ben Kisby, Dr Lee Jerome)

6. “An election about us but not for us”: the lack of communication for young people during GE2024 (Dr James Dennis)

7. Election timing: masterstroke or risky gamble? (Prof Sarah Birch)

8. The dog that didn’t bark? Electoral integrity and administration from voter ID to postal votes (Prof Alistair Clark)

9. A political gamble? How licit and illicit betting permeated the campaign (Dr Matthew Wall)

10. Ethnic diversity in politics is the new normal in Britain (Prof Maria Sobolewska)

11. Bullshit and Lies on the campaign trail: do party campaigns reflect the post-truth age? (Prof Darren Lilleker)

12. Stoking the culture wars: the risks of a more hostile form of polarised politics (Dr Jen Birks)

Voters, polls and results

13. Forecasting a multiparty majoritarian election with a volatile electorate (Dr Hannah Bunting)

14. The emerging infrastructure of public opinion (Dr Nick Anstead)

15. A moving target? Voter segmentation in the 2024 British General Election (Prof Rosie Campbell)

16. Don’t vote, it only encourages them? Turnout in the 2024 Election (Prof Charles Pattie)

17. Cartographic perspectives of the 2024 General Election (Prof Benjamin Hennig)

18. Gender and vote choice: early reflections (Dr Ceri Fowler)

19. Changing Pattern amongst Muslim voters: the Labour Party, Gaza and voter volatility (Dr Parveen Akhtar)

20. Religion and voting behaviour in the 2024 General Election (Dr Ekaterina Kolpinskaya, Dr Stuart Fox)

21. Failure to connect: the Conservative Party and young voters (Dr Stephanie Luke)

22. Youthquake for the progressive left: making sense of the collapse of youth support for the Conservatives (Prof James Sloam, Prof Matt Henn)

23. Values in the valence election (Prof Paula Surridge)

24. Tactical voting: why is it such a big part of British elections? (Thomas Lockwood)

The nations and regions

25. Have voters fallen out of love with the SNP? (Dr Lynn Bennie)

26. The spectre of Sturgeon still looms large in gendered coverage in Scotland (Melody House, Dr Fiona McKay)

27. The personalisation of Scottish politics in a UK General Election (Dr Michael Higgins, Dr Maike Dinger)

28. Competence, change and continuity: a tale of two nations (Dr Will Kitson)

29. Election success, but problems remain for Labour in Wales (Dr Nye Davies)

30. Four ways in which Northern Ireland’s own seismic results will affect the new Parliament (Prof Katy Hayward)

31. Bringing People together or pulling them apart? What Facebook ads say about the NI campaign (Dr Paul Reilly)

32. A New Dawn For Levelling Up? (Prof Arianna Giovannini)

33. Who defines Britain? National identity at the heart of the 2024 UK General Election (Dr Tabitha Baker)

Parties and the campaign

34. A changed but over-staged Labour Party and the political marketing weaknesses behind Starmer’s win (Prof Jennifer Lees-Marshment)

35. To leaflet or not to leaflet? The question of election leafleting in Sunderland Central (Prof Angela Smith, Dr Mike Pearce)

36. Beyond ‘my dad was a toolmaker’: what it’s really like to be working class in parliament (Dr Vladimir Bortun)

37. The unforced errors of foolish men: gender, race and the calculus of harm (Prof Karen Ross)

38. Election 2024 and rise of Reform UK: the beginning of the end of the Conservatives? (Dr Anthony Ridge-Newman)

39. The Weakening of the Blue Wall (Prof Pete Dorey)

40. The Conservative party, 1832-2024: an obituary (Dr Mark Garnett)

41. Bouncing back: the Liberal Democrat campaign (Prof Peter Sloman)

42. The Greens: riding two horses (Prof Neil Carter, Dr Mitya Pearson)

43. Party organisations and the campaign (Dr Danny Rye)

44. Local campaign messaging at the 2024 General Election (Dr Siim Trumm, Prof Caitlin Milazzo)

45. The value of getting personal: reflecting upon the role of personal branding in the General Election (Dr Jenny Lloyd)

46. Which constituencies were visited by each party leader and what this told us about their campaigns (Dr Hannah Bunting, Joely Santa Cruz)

47. The culture wars and the 2024 General Election campaign (Prof John Steel)

48. “Rishi’s D-Day Disaster”: authority, leadership and British military commemoration (Dr Natalie Jester)

49. Party election broadcasts: the quest for authenticity (Dr Vincent Campbell)

Policy and strategy

50. It’s the cost-of-living-crisis, stupid! (Prof Aeron Davis)

51. The last pre-war vote? Defence and foreign policy in the 2024 Election (Dr Russell Foster)

52. The 2024 UK general election and the absence of foreign policy (Dr Victoria Honeyman)

53. Fractious consensus: defence policy at the 2024 General Election (Dr Ben Jones)

54. The psycho-politics of climate denial in the 2024 UK election (Prof Candida Yates, Dr Jenny Alexander)

55. How will the Labour government fare and what should they do better? (Prof Rick Stafford and team)

56. Finding the environment: climate obstructionism and environmental movements on TikTok (Dr Abi Rhodes)

57. Irregular migration: ‘Stop the boats’ vs ‘Smash the Gangs’ (Prof Alex Balch)

58. The sleeping dog of ‘Europe: UK relations with the EU as a non-issue (Prof Simon Usherwood)

59. Labour: a very conservative housing manifesto (Prof Becky Tunstall)

60. Why the Labour Government must abolish the two-child benefit limit policy (Dr Yekaterina Chzhen)

61. Take the next right: mainstream parties’ positions on gender and LGBTQ+ equality issues (Dr Louise Luxton)

The digital campaign

62. Local news and information on candidates was insufficient (Dr Martin Moore, Dr Gordon Neil Ramsay)

63. The Al election that wasn’t – yet (Prof Helen Margetts)

64. Al-generated images: how citizens depicted politicians and society (Niamh Cashell)

65. The threat to democracy that wasn’t? Four types of Al-generated synthetic media in the General Election (Dr Liam McLoughlin)

66. Shitposting meets Generative Artificial Intelligence and ‘deep fakes’ at the 2024 General Election (Dr Rosalynd Southern)

67. Shitposting the General Election: why this campaign felt like one long meme (SE Harman, Dr Matthew Wall)

68. Winning voters’ hearts and minds… through reels and memes?! How #GE24 unfolded on TikTok (Dr Aljosha Karim Schapals)

69. Debating the election in “Non-political” Third Spaces: the case of Gransnet (Prof Scott Wright et al)

70. Which social networks did political parties use most in 2024? (Dr Richard Fletcher)

71. Facebook’s role in the General Election: still relevant in a more fragmented information environment (Prof Andrea Carson, Dr Felix M. Simon)

72. Farage on TikTok: the perfect populist platform (Prof Karin Wahl-Jorgensen)

News and journalism

73. Why the press still matters (Prof Steven Barnett)

74. When the Star aligned: how the press ‘voted’ (Prof Dominic Wring, Prof David Deacon)

75. Visual depictions of leaders and losers in the (still influential) print press (Prof Erik Bucy and Dr Nathan Ritchie)

76. Towards more assertive impartiality? Fact-checking on BBC television news (Prof Stephen Cushion)

77. The outsize influence of the conservative press in election campaigns (Prof Dan Stevens, Prof Susan Banducci, Dr Ekaterina Kolpinskaya and Dr Laszlo Horvath)

78. GB News – not breaking any rules… (Prof Ivor Gaber)

79. Vogue’s stylish relationship to politics (Dr Chrysi Dagoula)

80. Tiptoeing around immigration has tangible consequences (Dr Maria Kyriakidou, Dr Iñaki Garcia-Blanco)

81. A Taxing Campaign (Prof David Deacon et al)

82. Not the Sun wot won it: what Murdoch’s half-hearted, last-minute endorsements mean for Labour (Dr John Jewell)

83. Is this the first podcast election? (Carl Hartley, Prof Stephen Coleman)

84. A numbers game (Paul Bradshaw)

85. Election 2024 and the remarkable absence of media in a mediated spectacle (Prof Lee Edwards)

86. 2024: the great election turn-off (Prof Des Freedman)

Personality politics and popular culture

87. Ed Davey: Towards a Liberal Populism? (Dr Tom Sharkey, Dr Sophie Quirk)

88. Why Nigel Farage’s anti-media election interference claims are so dangerous (Dr Lone Sorensen)

89. Nigel Farage and the political circus (Dr Neil Ewen)

90. Binface, Beany and Beyond: humorous candidates in the 2024 General Election (Prof Scott Wright)

91. What Corbyn support reveals about how Starmer’s Labour won big (Prof Cornel Sandvoss, Dr Benjamin Litherland, Dr Joseph Andrew Smith)

92. “Well that was dignified, wasn’t it?”: floor apportionment and interaction in the televised debates (Dr Sylvia Shaw)

93. TV debates: beyond winners and losers (Prof Stephen Coleman)

94. Is our television debate coverage finally starting to match up to multi-party politics? (Dr Louise Thompson)

95. Tetchiness meets disenchantment: capturing the contrasting political energies of the campaign (Prof Beth Johnson, Prof Katy Parry)

96. “We’re just normal men”: football and the performance of authentic leadership (Dr Ellen Watts)

97. ‘Make the friendship bracelets’: gendered imagery in candidates’ self-presentations on the campaign trail (Dr Caroline Leicht)

98. Weeping in Wetherspoons: generative Al and the right/left image battle on X (Simon Popple)

99. An entertaining election? Popular culture as politics (Prof John Street)

100. Changing key, but keeping time: the music of Election 2024 (Dr Adam Behr)

101. Truth or dare: the political veracity game (Prof John Corner)

Johan Lindell

Bourdieusian Media Studies illustrates the merits of Pierre Bourdieu’s cultural sociological approach in the field of media studies, explicating exactly what a “Bourdieusian” analysis of media would entail, and what new understandings of the digital media landscape would emerge from such an analysis.

The author applies the Bourdieusian concepts of social field, capital, and habitus to understand the social conditions of media and cultural production, media users’ practices and preferences, and the power dynamics entailed in social media networks. Based on a careful illumination of Bourdieu’s concepts, epistemological assumptions, and methodological approach, the book presents a range of case studies covering television production, the field of media studies itself, media use, and social media networks.

Illustrating the craft of Bourdieusian media studies and shedding new light on key dynamics of digital media culture, this book will appeal to scholars and students working in media studies, media theory, sociology of media, digital media, and cultural production.

https://www.routledge.com/Bourdieusian-Media-Studies/Lindell/p/book/9781032421179

ECREA has become a member of the Advisory Committee of the European Audiovisual Observatory, a decision which was greenlighted by the Observatory’s Executive Council in its Tbilisi meeting on 13 June this year.

ECREA represents a community of media and communication scholars across Europe, bringing together researchers and educators from a broad spectrum of universities, research, and educational institutions throughout various European regions. A significant portion of ECREA’s membership is devoted to exploring the audiovisual communication sector, including television, radio, film, post-broadcast television, video streaming platforms and podcasts, for example. This focus is particularly relevant to the work conducted by members of several ECREA sections, including Audience and Reception Studies, Digital Culture and Communication, Film Studies, Media Industries and Cultural Production, Radio and Sound, Television Studies, and Visual Cultures.

The Strasbourg-based Observatory is part of the Council of Europe. It functions as a clearing house for information about the audiovisual sector in Europe, covering film, television and on demand services from an economic and legal point of view. The information it produces is available in the form of publications, on-line reports, databases, and newsletters, almost all available free-of-charge at: www.obs.coe.int. The Observatory also shares its information via numerous conferences and conference presentations throughout the year. The Observatory’s Advisory Committee currently brings together 41 different European and international professional organisations representing the various branches of the audiovisual industries. Sectors such as film production, distribution, exhibition, public and private broadcasting, and the press are represented within this body. The Advisory Committee meets twice a year in order to inform the Observatory on the information needs and concerns of the various different branches of the audiovisual industries.

John Downey, ECREA president, stated that “an enriching and mutually beneficial exchange of academic data and research would now be possible between the members of ECREA and the Observatory.”

The European Audiovisual Observatory expressed enthusiasm about ECREA’s membership. "We welcome ECREA to our community," said Susanne Nikoltchev, Executive Director of the European Audiovisual Observatory. "ECREA’s membership of our Advisory Committee is in line with the Observatory increased efforts to reach out to academic communities working within the audiovisual sphere.” She added that future exchanges could potentially “support our work to understand and make more transparent the general legislative and market structures that frame the European audiovisual sector."

Read the original post here: https://www.obs.coe.int/en/web/observatoire/-/ecrea-joins-the-advisory-committee-of-the-european-audiovisual-observatory 

Moment

Deadline: September 15, 2024

Three concepts/ three disciplines have been chosen for Moment’s upcoming December 2024 issue. The Triptych is no longer only a painting in which three paintings connected to each other and the painting in the middle is taken as the central. Instead of paintings/panels, Moment, follows around the “different” writings which make and/or destroy the connection of this trilogy while the art is forming an inseparable completeness in between philosophy and communication in this issue. 

What kind of study /work comes out when academic study/studies is/are written in an interdisciplinary style and make use of the concepts, questions, and accumulations of the fields of Philosophy-Art-Communication? In terms of theoretical and methodological point of view how these studies effect each field? Should creativity be considered only for or in the art? Could scientific study literally be “creative”? Is philosophy always difficult? Is art unreachable and Is communication always be/stay connected? How could be possible to consider these fields all together and construct new thoughts which remind us of the triptych? If you are willing to answer all these questions as well as the other questions which give rise to these questions, we invite you to contribute to the Triptych: Philosophy-Art-Communication in order to find out how these three fields be considered as side by side through togetherness and/or disjunctions of Philosophy-Art-Communication and show the results to everyone. 

The suggested themes below are given in order to give you an idea on how to contribute to this issue. Provided that you study each theme with the concepts that make this triptych, we would like you to remind that you are not limited with these. You are only and only limited with the Triptych.   

-Philosophy of Communication    -Old / New            -Same/Different        -Visual Communication

-Philosophy of Art                         -Traditional               -Digital Art              -Digital Game

-Theories of Art and Aesthetics      -Historical                -Modern                   -Good/Bad                         

-History of Art                                 -Everyday               -Postmodern              -Beautiful/Ugly                  

- Art Movements                           -Conceptual                -Face / Body              -Intertextuality      

-History of Communication          -Reflective                   -Silence                    - Experience

- Theories of Communication        -Self-Reflective          -Interdisciplinary      -Play

-History of Philosophy                 -Contemporary Philosophy   -Pop Philosophy -Hermeneutics           

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