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 About emma, the European Media Management Association:  

Since 2003, emma has been shaping the future of media management. As a European not-for-profit, we drive innovation in media management research, education, and practice.

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Upcoming emma Events:

#emmahub 2024 – Media Management and Migration - - Applications are open until 7th of October (deadline extended!) 

Join us in Berlin for an engaging workshop on Media Management and Migration, focusing on media-making by and for diasporic communities. Hosted by Macromedia University of Applied Sciences, #emmahub offers a space to reflect on emerging trends and innovations in the media industry.

Date: November 13-15, 2024

Location: Berlin, Germany

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#emmarome 2025 – Empowering Media through Sustainable and Human-Centered Innovations

Experience the emma Annual Conference in the heart of Rome! Held at Luiss Business School, this conference will explore how sustainability and human-centered innovation can transform the media landscape, considering environmental, economic, and social dimensions.

Date: June 3-5, 2025

Location: Rome, Italy

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#emmasummerschool 2025 – Doctoral Summer School

A unique opportunity for doctoral researchers in media management! Hosted by imec-SMIT-Vrije Universiteit Brussel, the emma Doctoral Summer School offers an international setting for knowledge exchange between students, scholars, and industry experts.

Date: September 2-5, 2025

Location: Brussels, Belgium

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University of Zurich 

The Media Change & Innovation Division (Prof. Dr. Michael Latzer) at the Department of Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich invites applications for two open positions at the postdoctoral level: 

Postdoctoral researcher (80-100%). Start of employment: January 1, 2025 (or upon agreement). Two-year contract.

Short-term visiting postdoctoral researcher (80-100%). The start date will be determined based on the candidate's availability. The duration will be agreed upon, with a minimum commitment of 2 months. 

The division’s research program focuses, among other things, on the societal implications of digitalization and the internet, algorithmic selection and artificial-intelligence (AI) tools in everyday life, dataveillance and privacy, governance of media change, religion-like digitalization and implicit everyday religion, cyborgization, digital inequalities, and digital well-being (see https://www.mediachange.ch/research/ for an overview of our current research projects and https://mediachange.ch/publications/ for the division’s recent publications).  

Further information and application details:

Postdoctoral researcher: 

https://jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancies/postdoctoral-position-in-socio-technical-transformations-through-digitalization-and-ai/2cce0f6a-5e70-4c0d-b330-c2941aa9d47a 

Short-term visiting postdoctoral researcher

https://jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancies/short-term-visiting-researchers-in-socio-technical-transformations-through-digitalization-and-ai/fbe39727-27ee-4153-92a9-3c01b931435f 

Review of applications starts immediately, but the positions will remain open until qualified candidates are found. 

Please contact Dr. Noemi Festic (n.festic@ikmz.uzh.ch) or myself, Dr. Daniela Jaramillo-Dent (d.jaramillo@ikmz.uzh.ch) for questions.

University of the Free State (UFS), South Africa

Re-advertisement for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in News Translation at the University of the Free State (UFS) in South Africa, but we now also invite applicants beyond South Africa to apply.  

The postdoc will be hosted by the UFS and participate in an international research project titled “South-North flows of information through translation in the global news agency AFP”. The principal investigators are Marlie van Rooyen (UFS) and Lucile Davier (University of Geneva), and the project is funded by the South African National Research Foundation (NRF) and the Swiss National Research Foundation (SNSF). The UFS-appointed postdoc will be based in Bloemfontein, South Africa, and supervised by Marlie van Rooyen. 

The successful applicant must be fluent in English and French, must have graduated with a PhD degree in a relevant discipline within the last five years must have a strong socio-political knowledge of Africa and not hold full-time salaried employment during the fellowship. We invite applicants with knowledge of and experience in research related to 

• translation studies  
  
• news translation  
  
• news/media and language  
  
• discourse analysis  
  
• pragmatics 
  
• and sociolinguistics.
  

Experience in qualitative research methodologies, such as ethnography, is recommended. 

Please read the full advertisement for all the requirements and the expected duties and responsibilities of the successful applicant.   

Annual salary: R300 000 

Closing date: 6 October 2024 

Commencement date: 1 January 2025

If you want more information about the project, or have any other questions, please email Marlie van Rooyen directly: vanrooyenm1@ufs.ac.za

University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

Type: Full-Time 

Posted: 9/18/2024 

Category: Public Relations and Advertising 

Job ID 35348

Location: Tampa, FL

Full/Part Time: Full-Time

Regular/Temporary: Regular

Posting Details

Department: The Zimmerman School of Advertising and Mass Communications (ZSAMC) / 0-1247-000

College: College of Arts and Sciences

Salary Plan: Regular / Faculty

Hiring Salary: Negotiable

Position Summary:

The Zimmerman School of Advertising & Mass Communications at the University of South Florida invites applications for the Zimmerman Endowed Professor in Advertising at the rank of Associate or Full Professor. This is a nine-month, full-time position starting August 7, 2025. Salary is extremely competitive, and the position offers generous funding for research, travel and program development. We seek an innovative and distinguished scholar who will contribute directly to the mission and advancement of the Zimmerman School and enhance the School's undergraduate and graduate programs. 

QUALIFICATIONS (Education & Experience):

Minimum Qualifications:

The successful candidate must have a terminal degree from an accredited institution in advertising or a closely related field; a clearly defined and rigorous research agenda; and an established national/international reputation as a distinguished scholar. The successful candidate must have the experience and qualifications to teach undergraduate and graduate courses and to supervise Master's theses and professional projects in the M.S. in Advertising degree program. Must meet university criteria for appointment to the rank of Associate or Full Professor.

Preferred Qualifications:

Preference will be given to senior faculty members and applicants with ability and experience to teach advertising research, advertising analytics, advertising strategy/planning and/or advertising management; relevant professional experience; and a professional network to build partnerships and opportunities for student and faculty development.

Application Process: When applying, please attach (as a single combined document): a cover letter that speaks to your qualifications for the position, CV, and names and contact information for three references. More documents may be requested for short-listed candidates.

Application Review begins on 10/25/2024 and will continue until the faculty search is concluded. 

The University of South Florida, a high-impact research university dedicated to student success and committed to community engagement, generates an annual economic impact of more than $6 billion. With campuses in Tampa, St. Petersburg and Sarasota-Manatee, USF serves approximately 50,000 students who represent nearly 150 different countries.  For four consecutive years, U.S. News & World Report has ranked USF as one of the nation’s top 50 public universities, including USF’s highest ranking ever in 2023 (No. 42). In 2023, USF became the first public university in Florida in nearly 40 years to be invited to join the Association of American Universities, a prestigious group of the leading universities in the United States and Canada. Through hundreds of millions of dollars in research activity each year and as one of top universities in the world for securing new patents, USF is a leader in solving global problems and improving lives. USF is a member of the American Athletic Conference. Learn more at www.usf.edu.

Conclusion of this search is subject to final budget approval. According to Florida Law, applications and meetings regarding them are open to the public.  USF is an Equal Opportunity/Equal Access institution. For disability accommodations, contact Dr. Gregory Perreault at gperreault@usf.edu, a minimum of five working days in advance.

Doing Women’s Film and Television History VII

18-20 June 2025

University of Lincoln (UK)

Deadline: December 6, 2024

This seventh iteration of the Women’s Film and Television History Network conference will foreground transnational and transmedial approaches to histories of women’s work in and across film, television and related media. The conference seeks to expand women’s film and TV histories by exploring cross-border and cross-medial relationships. 

An 'entangled’ approach to film, TV and media historiography problematises national and mono-medial histories (Cronqvist and Hilgert, 2017). It recognises the complex processes by which film and television are made, distributed, seen and received across borders, be they geographical, cultural, ideological or otherwise defined, and in dialogue with other media.

This compels us to ‘read against the grain’ of existing histories, paying attention to ‘how historical silences are produced’ (Hilmes, 2017). These are the fundamentals of feminist media historiography, and this conference aims to bring women’s voices, figures, organisations, and stories into the light, giving them sharper focus. The conference will emphasise women’s roles in these entanglements. Our understanding of ‘women’ is inclusive and gender-expansive. 

We encourage transmedial approaches that account for the role of women in the long histories of media convergence in different social and cultural contexts, as well as related practices, such as divergence, conglomeration, inter- and cross-mediality. ‘Media’ is defined broadly.  Work that engages with (interconnected) histories of women’s film and television beyond Western contexts is welcome.   

We are calling for papers in any area of women’s film and television history, but especially those that respond to the theme, on topics such as, but not limited to:  

• Entangled and / or transnational women’s media histories and historiography: theory, practice, challenges  
  
• Case studies of film and TV workers across national or medial borders 
  
• Historicising women’s role in digital or online screen media production, distribution, consumption, promotion, publicity or criticism. 
  
• Media convergence pre- and post-digital media 
  
• Feminist and/or decolonising approaches to media archaeology
  
• Methodological challenges and approaches to entangled media histories 
  
• Entangled histories in cinema and TV industries beyond the mainstream e.g. amateur cinema, community television, independent and activist film and TV. 

We welcome proposals in the following three formats:

15-minute presentations, including the following information: 

• title  
  
• 250-word abstract  
  
• brief biography of the author(s).  
  

pre-constituted panels with a maximum of 4 speakers (panel length will be 90 minutes and should include at least 15 minutes for discussion). Pre-constituted panel proposals should include: 

• short (250-word) rationale statement, explaining the constitution of the panel and types of contributions it will include. 
  
• individual abstracts (250 word)   
  
• brief biography of all contributors. 
  

Panels can also be constituted as roundtables, workshops or other non-standard forms. Please contact the organising team to discuss ideas. 

Practice-led contributions which address women’s histories in film, television and audio/visual media are encouraged. Please submit:  

• a 250-word description  
  
• running time 
  
• display requirements   
  
• links to an excerpt and/or full work 
  
• brief biography of creator(s). 
  

If accepted, practice-led contributions may be presented as part of panels or as a limited number of separate sessions/screenings and/or made available to delegates online.   

Please submit here: https://forms.office.com/e/NvRLHtdNa2

Deadline for proposals: 6 December 2024. The acceptance of your proposal will be communicated to you by the end of January 2025. 

If you have any questions please contact Hannah Andrews (handrews@lincoln.ac.uk) and/or Jeongmee Kim (jkim@lincoln.ac.uk). On behalf of the conference organising team: Hannah Andrews, Diane Charlesworth, Jeongmee Kim, and Frances Morgan.

References 

Cronqvist, M. and Hilgert, C. (2017) Entangled Media Histories: The Value of Transnational and Transmedial Approaches in Media Historiography. Media History 23(1): 130-141. 

Hilmes, M. (2017) Entangled Media Histories: a Response. Media History 23(1): 142-4. 

Routledge 2024

Edited by: Zrinjka Peruško, Epp Lauk & Haliki Harro-Loit

European Media Systems for Deliberative Communication explores how four dimensions of national media systems – the legal framework for freedom of expression and information, media accountability, journalism and audience media usage and competencies – contribute to or are detrimental to the success of deliberative communication.

Drawing on a study of 14 European countries and their media systems, the volume provides comparative and individual perspectives to examine the social consequences of various types of media systems. By using fsQCA (fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis), the authors relate deliberative communication to the legal framework for freedom of expression and freedom of information, media accountability, journalism and media usage and media competencies. The book shows how different combinations of conditions and contexts figure as risks or opportunities that are detrimental to, or supportive of, deliberative communication, measured with an original index on a European level.

This book will interest scholars and students in communication studies, political communication, media and society, media sociology, global media studies, European Studies and journalism.

The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Deadline (extended): September 27, 2024

Communication and media research is expanding to include artificial intelligence and robotics, and this broadening of the study of communication also has extended to the classroom. Scholars who are integrating human-machine communication into their courses are invited to participate in the Human-Machine Communication Syllabus Project by Andrea L. Guzman, Northern Illinois University, and Jason Archer, Michigan Technological University. 

The purpose of the project is two-fold: First, we aim to study how scholars are conceptualizing human-machine communication and incorporating it as a subject of study within higher education. Second, we want to offer scholars the opportunity to voluntarily share and access HMC syllabi to support education in this emerging area. 

The research portion of the project focuses on how educators are integrating aspects of human-machine communication into courses at the undergraduate (associate, bachelor’s) and graduate (master’s, PhD) levels. Human-machine communication can be defined as meaning-making among humans and communicative machines (i.e. smart assistants, robots, generative AI, automated journalism) and the implications of such technologies for self, culture, and society. Its study draws from and has applications to the full realm of communication and media research and, in particular, encompasses aspects of human-computer interaction (HCI), human-robot interaction (HRI), human-agent interaction (HAI) and critical and cultural approaches regarding technologies articulated as communicators. (See below for additional HMC resources.) 

For the study, we are seeking syllabi for courses that focus primarily on human-machine communication and its applications as well as courses in which at least 25% of the content covered is dedicated to some aspect of human-machine communication and/or its application. 

To support teaching and learning, we are also creating a public repository of HMC syllabi submitted for this project. We are asking submitters whether they would like their syllabi to be included in a publicly accessible online location to assist others in the development of HMC-related courses. Inclusion of an individual’s syllabus in the public repository is completely voluntary and does not affect their ability to participate in the research project. The researchers will destroy all syllabi not included in the repository after the completion of the research project. The repository will be made publicly available at a future date when all syllabi have been received and reviewed.

The deadline to submit your syllabi to the project is September 13, 2024. Please follow all directions on how to submit to the project that can be found below and at https://andrealguzman.net/hmcsyllabusproject.

You can also contact the researchers directly: Andrea L. Guzman, alguzman@niu.edu, Jason E. Archer, jearcher@mtu.edu. 

Thank you.

Andrea & Jason

Participation Instructions

Required: All syllabi submitted to the project must include the following. If the syllabi do not already include some of the information, then please add this information at the top.

1. University name
   
2. Course title 
   
3. Department/School in which the course is offered
   
4. Indicate whether the course is for undergraduate (associate, bachelor’s), graduate (master’s, PhD), or both
   
5. Date: The term in which the course is being or was last taught (i.e. Spring 2024).
   
6. Course description
   
7. Course objectives/outcomes
   
8. Reading list identifying all readings AND/OR course schedule including all readings
   
9. Be written in English or translated into English by the author
   

There is no limit to the number of syllabi an individual can submit. For recurring courses, submit ONLY the most recent version of the syllabus.

Participants do NOT have to format the syllabi a certain way or remove extraneous information from the syllabi; although, they may want to remove personal or sensitive information if submitting to the public repository.

Voluntary Inclusion in Public Repository

The format of the public repository will be dependent upon the number of syllabi received. Possible distribution options include a folder in Google Drive or a dedicated page on an existing website.  

All syllabi to be included in the repository will be posted “as is” and will be available to the public (i.e. anyone on the internet). Participants voluntarily submitting to the repository are responsible for removing any information they do NOT want shared publicly such as their name, contact information, office/student-meeting hours, links to online learning systems, policies, etc. 

The syllabi of participants who do not want to contribute to the repository will be stored separately and only be available to the researchers. Syllabi will be deleted once the project is completed.

Syllabi submission: 

To participate, please e-mail your syllabi to hmcsyllabusproject@gmail.com. In your e-mail, please indicate whether you want your syllabi shared publicly via the online repository. The (extended) deadline to participate in the project is September 27, 2024.

HMC Resources:

Fortunati, L., & Edwards, A. (2020). Opening space for theoretical, methodological, and empirical issues in Human-Machine Communication. Human-Machine Communication. https://doi.org/10.30658/hmc.1.1 (open access)

Guzman, A.L. (2018). What is Human-Machine Communication, anyway? Human-Machine Communication: Rethinking communication, technology, and ourselves (link to chapter author copy)

Human-Machine Communication Interest Group of the International Communication Association. https://humanmachinecommunication.org/

Human-Machine Communication journal

The SAGE Handbook of Human-Machine Communication edited by A.L. Guzman, R. McEwen, S. Jones (2023). (link to Table of Contents)

Edited by: Kristoffer Albris, Karin Fast, Faltin Karlsen, Anne Kaun, Stine Lomborg, Trine Syvertsen

Read Open Access

The publication can be downloaded with Open Access on the NordPub publishing platform.

The book will be available for sale in printed format from the end of September.

“The digital backlash” covers a range of social and cultural practices of digital disconnection, as well as critiques of the impact of digital technologies and platforms in the world today. Through calls for more restrictive, or more “mindful”, uses of digital technologies, “mobile-free” schools, work regulations along the lines of a “right to disconnect” framework, the rise of new entrepreneurs in the growing “digital detox” industry, as well as critiques of the role of Big Tech – society is deliberating on the stakes of the digital for the human condition.  

The digital backlash can best be described as a kind of zeitgeist: a moment in history in which the norms about digital behaviour, consumption, and habits are being questioned, and where the early hype of the digital era beginning in the 1990s is being challenged. This edited volume offers a collection of empirical and theoretical analyses of the digital backlash as it manifests across national, institutional, and everyday contexts.  

The  contributions span analyses of discourses and public debates around disconnection and the so-called techlash, the ambiguities and tensions of digital connectivity for work, labour, and productivity, the reordering of family and school life along with the perceived negative consequences of digital connectivity for the well-being of children and young people, as well as the playful and sometimes subversive recreational practices that people reinvent in search of authenticity as a response to all things digital. A distinct focus is placed on social practices and dilemmas related to new ways that people adapt to, appropriate, and push back against digital technologies in everyday life.

Dear colleagues, 

We are very pleased to announce the publication of Olympic and Paralympic Analysis 2024: Mega events, media, and the politics of sport, edited by Daniel Jackson, Alina Bernstein, Michael Butterworth, Younghan Cho, Danielle Sarver Coombs, Michael Devlin, Ana Carolina Vimieiro

Featuring 107 contributors from over 130 leading academics and emerging scholars, this publication captures the immediate thoughts, reflections, and insights from the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games from the cutting edge of academic scholarship.

Published just 10 days from the end of the the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, these contributions are short and accessible. Authors provide authoritative analysis of the Olympics and Paralympics, including research findings and new theoretical insights. Contributions come from a rich array of disciplinary influences, including media, communication studies, education, kinesiology, history, sociology, political science, and psychology. The report is free to download and can be deposited in any repository or library.

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

Website URL: https://olympicanalysis.org/

Direct PDF download: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/gckkyyyzydbkyof8u44w9/Olympics-Paralympics-2024-large.pdf?rlkey=5ieb118j9qrkqnd0flqfd6k68&dl=0 

Thanks to all of our contributors and production staff who helped make the quick turnaround possible. We hope it makes for a vibrant and engaging read!

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Section 1: Host City & Mega-Events

In Transit from Tokyo to Los Angeles via Paris: place, memory, fantasy and the Olympics/Paralympics. Prof. David Rowe

July in Paris: The last month before the Games. Prof. Garry Whannell

The role of legacy in the organization of the 2024 Olympic Games. Prof. Michaël Attali 

How sustainable is Paris 2024? It depends. Dr. Sven Daniel Wolfe

Environment and resistance. Dr. Toby Miller

Paris Olympics promote sustainability for good reason: Climate change is putting athletes and their sports at risk. Dr. Brian McCullough

Paris the “greenest” Games in history? The case of surfing suggests otherwise. Prof. Belinda Wheaton and Prof. Holly Thorpe

Murky infection control policies at the Paris Olympics. Dr. Kathleen Bachynski

The Olympic contestation over political meaning: Security, protest and paradoxes. Dr. Jan Ludvigsen and Dr. Adam Talbot

From Long Beach to the 2024 Paris Olympics: The evolution of Snoop Dogg. Prof. Billy Hawkins and Dr. April Peters-Hawkins

The Olympics and sports betting. Dr. Jason Kido Lopez

A new chapter in Olympic sponsorship at Paris 2024. Dr. T. Bettina Cornwell

The Evolution of Ambush Marketing: Social Media, Rule 40, and Brand Protection at the Paris 2024 Games. Dr. John Grady and Dr. Gashaw Abeza

Amidst AI-fakery, an iconic feat of visual authenticity goes viral. Dr. Michael Serazio

As athletes became media producers in Paris, does it make sense for non-rights holders to still attend the Games? Dr. Merryn Sherwood

Legacy of the City of Light. Dr. Peter English

Paris 2024 and the agenda of accessibility and inclusion. Prof. Laura Misener

Section 2: Media Coverage & Representation

The Paralympic Games are still overshadowed by the Olympic Games in terms of media coverage. Dr. Christiana Schallhorn

Crowds are important, but the true venue of the Olympics is TV and new media. Dr. Fernando Borges

A sports media system breaking down like it took a punch from Imane Khelif. Dr. Michael Mirer

The Olympic Channel’s position and content strategies on the road to Paris 2024. Dr. Xavier Ramon

Broadening the Olympics coverage from the science side of sports . Dr. José Luis Rojas Torrijos

Vitriol in Tokyo to sexism in Paris?  Narratives about Indian female athletes in Paris Olympics.  Dr. Kulveen Trehan

Radio Olympics in the UK. Prof. Raymond Boyle

Ethics and quality in journalistic coverage of Paris 2024 – The case of mass media in Colombia.  Prof. Francisco Buitrago Castillo

Breaking the rings: Twitter’s role in fragmenting Israel’s Olympic media event. Dr. Haim Hagay and Dr. Alina Bernstein

Olympics in the age of Netflix. Dr. Marcio Telles

Team Brazil on YouTube: the content production of the Brazilian Olympic Committee. Dr. William Douglas de Almeida and Prof. Katia Rubio

The Streaming Games: Analyzing NBC’s Coverage of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games on Peacock. Dr. Cody T. Havard

Media coverage of the Olympic refugee team contributes to sportswashing. Dr. Steve Bien-Aimé, Dr. Umer Hussain and Hanbo Liu

Parenting at the Olympics – how medal-winning mothers and fathers are portrayed in the media. Dr. Karsten Senkbeil 

Sexist framing in the media coverage of the Paris Olympic Games (OG). Dr. Sandy Montañola

Framing a retiring female athlete in the media – The legacy of a minority rugby star. Dr. Riikka Turtiainen

Women’s participation in the Brazilian journalistic coverage of the Paris Olympic Games. Dr. Soraya Barreto Januário

“The half-naked versus the covered”: On the development of sexualization in women’s competitive sport. Dr. Daniela Schaaf and Dr. Jörg-Uwe Nieland

2024 Paralympics para equestrians showcase interspecies interdependence on world stage. Melissa Marsden

They’re mistaking rugby for basketball! How can this happen when national media cover the Paralympics? Dr Kristin Vindhol Evensen and Dr Marte Bentzen

How the U.S. women’s basketball team did without Caitlin Clark – regardless of the gold medal? Dr. Molly Yanity

India and Pakistan celebrate Arshad Nadeem together. Dr. M. Fahad Humayun

The 2024 Olympics and the wars in Ukraine and Middle East – a Critical examination for the IOC and sports journalism. Dr. Jörg-Uwe Nieland

Creating more media visibility for the Paralympics. Dr. David Cassilo

Bruna Alexandre at the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Gabriel Mayr and Giovana Alves Pinheiro 

An exoskeleton on parade: Kevin Piette’s “historical” steps. Dr. James L. Cherney 

Using humor vs. inspiration as a social media strategy for the Paralympic Games. Dr. Nicky Lewis  

Section 3: Performance & Identity

How much is a gold medal worth? Dr. Tatiane Hilgemberg

From sponsorship to transformational social change: the power of paralympic partnerships. Dr. Olga Kolotouchkina, Prof. Carmen Llorente Barrosso and Luis Leardy

The “value” of participating in the Games: about media, money, pressure and representation in sport. Dr. Thomas Horky and Dr. Meistra Budiasa  

On and off the field of play: Equity and Paralympic sport medicine. Dr. Nancy (Quinn) Harrington

Safeguarding at Paris 2024: A turning point? Carole Gomez 

#Notplayinggames: Social media and disability at the 2024 Paris Paralympics. Dr. Filippo Trevisan

Champions of the mind: Positive mental health narratives shaping Olympic athlete success. Dr. Kim Bissell

Stories of sexual abuse within Olympic and Paralympic movement point to need for increased policies and protections for athlete-survivors. Lilah Drafts-Johnson

Fingernails, tattoos, and iconic photos: Personal branding at the 2024 Olympics. Dr. Jana Wiske 

The Ilona Maher effect. Dr. Courtney M. Cox

Life after the medal: Brazilian Rayssa Leal’s challenges in high-performance skateboarding. Monique de Souza Sant’Anna Fogliatto

Hijab ban demonstrates hypocritical nature of “liberté, egalité, fraternité” for French Muslim sportswomen. Dr. Adrianne Grubic

A kayak repairer working with Olympic athletes: An unknown profession that impacts high-performance. Rémi Delafont, Dr. Helene Joncheray and Dr. Sylvaine Derycke

Paris 2024 and the LGBTQ+ athlete. Dr. Rory Magrath

Simone Biles did not need “redemption”. Dr. Shanice Jones Cameron and Dr. Daniel A. Grano

Black girl magic: The unprecedented triumph of three Black women gymnasts at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Dr. April Peters-Hawkins and Prof. Billy Hawkins

Masculinity and the Asian turn at the Olympics.  Dr. Michelle H. S. Ho and Dr. Wesley Lim 

Beyond football: Stefano Peschiera’s Olympic legacy. Dr. Alonso Pahuacho Portella

Latino underrepresentation in Team USA: Systemic barriers ahead of the 2028 LA Olympics. Dr. Vincent Peña

Paris 2024: South Korean competitive sports at a crossroads. Dr. Guy Podoler

What is next for Olympic surfing? Tiago Brant de Carvalho, Dr. Kevin Filo and Dr. Popi Sotiriadou

Breaking menstrual taboos during the Olympic Games. Dr. Honorata Jakubowska

From motherhood to medals: New research sheds light on postpartum guidelines for returning to sport. Dr. Jenna Schulz and Dr. Jane Thornton

Weber & Duplantis & Paris 2024 – an unlikely love story? Prof. Aage Radmann and Prof. Susanna Hedenborg

On the Paris 2024 Olympic marathon qualification controversy: Is it worth fighting for a dream? Dr. Kateřina Turková

Glory, gold and GoFundMe’s: Who really profits at the Olympic Games? Dr. Amira Rose Davis 

Athletes with intellectual impairments and the Paralympics: Achievements and challenges. Prof Jan Burns

Section 4: Fandom & National Identity

Renewing the fandom of the Olympic Games young audiences, videogames and esports. Dr. Adolfo Gracia Vázquez

Fringe to flag: Nation, the Olympics, and the popularization of golf. Dr. Lou Antolihao

Coco Gauff and LeBron James cross the Delaware. Dr. Ever Josue Figueroa

Fanship and the Caitlin Clark “snub”: social media and U.S. women’s 5×5 Olympic basketball. Prof. Pam Creedon and Dr. Laura A. Wackwitz

Propagating ideological discourse through sports and media framing in Iran. Dr. Mahdi Latififard and Dr. Sean R. Sadri

The appeal of watching the Paralympic Games: “I care about my relatives, not about the sports”. Dr. Veronika Macková and Dr. Ondřej Trunečka 

Brazilian soccer legend Marta massively attacked by hate speech at the Paris Olympics. João Vítor Marques

Paris 2024: Spanish women break barriers and make Olympic history. Dr. Nahuel Ivan Faedo

Gang members and a German who forfeited her citizenship: Kenya’s fencers for 2024 Paris. Dr. Linda K. Fuller

It’s not all about you: American perceptions of the 2024 Olympic opening ceremony. Dr. Dorothy Collins

The Queen’s Legacy: Brazil can play without Marta. Dr. Leda Maria da Costa

From gold medal to cyberbullying: Imane Khelif’s Olympic experience highlights persistent issues of online abuse. Dr. Tammy Rae Matthews

The influencers’ games: Communication strategies of the Brazilian Olympic Committee for Paris 2024. Dr. Fausto Amaro and Isadora Ortiz

IOC’s positive social media shift: Paris 2024 online reactions.  Dr. Roxane Coche and Dr. Nathan Carpenter

Success or failure? – Mediated national expectations and reactions on Olympic performance in Hungary. Dr. Dunja Antunovic and Dr. Tamás Dóczi

Online violence and the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. Dr. Emma Kavanagh and Dr. Keith D. Parry

Bidding for a future capital: Indonesia’s worlding ambitions for Nusantara 2036. Dr. Friederike Trotier 

Section 5: Politics of Sport

The optics of parity.  Dr. Amy Bass

How Paris 2024 exposed a nexus of governance gaps, gender eligibility chaos and universality utopia. Prof. Dikaia Chatziefstathiou

Paris 2024 turned into a platform for geopolitical contention. Dr. Jung Woo Lee 

The new era of the Olympic movement. Dr. Yoav Dubinsky 

The sports diplomacy of Paris ‘24. Dr. J. Simon Rofe 

Stepping into the void: American conservative outrage about the Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony. Dr. Michael L. Butterworth and Dr. Douglas Hartmann

Ageism is an overlooked form of discrimination when it comes to Olympic participation. Dr. Brigid McCarthy

Paris 2024 demonstrated the role of unpredictability in competitive surfing, raising discussions about the use of wave pools in the future. André Tavares

Technology has helped para-athletes compete for decades. But it can also create an unfair advantage. Prof. John Cairney, Dr. Emma Beckman and Prof. Sean Tweedy

A growing basketball rivalry: writing new chapters in France and U.S. sports diplomacy. Dr. Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff

The Olympic drone-spying scandal and Nike ad campaign: Why the myth of sport always wins. Dr. Karen L. Hartman

Media sports events and soft disempowerment: Spotlight on the Zimbabwean delegation to the Olympic games . Dr. Tendai Chari

Fighting for the country: Mediated Ukrainian athletes’ success in Paris. Dr. Alice Němcová Tejkalová 

Gender equality at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games: The enduring legacy and unfinished work of Alice Milliat. Prof Ellen Staurowsky

Dualism at play: The politics of sport for development and peace. Prof. Shaun Anderson

Brazilian media coverage of Olympians’ protests and demonstrations in Paris 2024. Clarisse Silva Caetano et al.

Beyond the podium: The role of protest at the Olympic Games and rule 50. Dr. Jake Kucek

Did that upset you? – Activism at the Paris 2024 Games.  Dr. Anthony Cavaiani and Dr. Megan Klukowski 

Anti-Olympics activism.  Prof. Jules Boykoff 

Human-Centered, Ethical Design of Technology-Enhanced Cultural Experiences 

Location: NTNU, Trondheim, Norway 

Application deadline: 30th of September 2024 

About the position: 

The postdoctoral fellowship position is a temporary position (3 years) where the main goal is to qualify for work in senior academic positions. The postdoctoral fellow will perform research within the context of an EU-funded project focusing on sustainable digital transition in the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs). More specifically, the project will explore and exploit the use of eXtended Reality (XR) technology, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other transformative technologies to enable novel forms of presence and immersive, cultural (co-) experiences and that revolve around music. The project team consists of artists, technologists and researchers from 8 European countries dedicated to facilitating the sustainable digital transition in the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs).

The project aims to develop, test and pilot different solutions building on digital technologies empowered by Artificial Intelligence and Extended Reality (XR) technology for CCIs, based on a genuine human-centric design process. The focus will be on music and different types of musical experiences aiming to foster meaningful co-experiences (e.g., between on-site and remote audiences or artists). The methodological cornerstone is an inherently human-centric, inclusive, and ethical approach towards the design and evaluation of novel digital tools that can enhance the deep human-to-human connections, and emotional and aesthetic co-experiences mediated by music in diverse settings. NTNU’s main responsibility in the project is the ethical and human-centric design and evaluation of the developed tools and enabled experiences. 

This position offers a unique opportunity to work within an interdisciplinary setting of researchers from different fields, professional artists and representatives from the creative industries and to perform impactful user research on real-world use cases. 

More information and application submission portal: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/266971/postdoctoral-fellow-in-human-centred-ethical-design-of-technology-enhanced-cultural-experiences 

Contact: Associate professor Katrien De Moor (katrien.demoor@ntnu.no) and Associate professor David Palma (david.palma@ntnu.no)