ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS)

Are you researching the social, political, media-related or cultural effects of digitalization? Do you want more freedom for your project and are interested in interdisciplinary exchange? A fellowship at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) releases you from your regular work obligations and opens up new perspectives.  

As a fellow, you can spend either six or three months in Bochum, Germany. During this period, we will finance your sabbatical leave from work through compensation (e.g. for a substitute). Alternatively, we will pay grants of up to 2.000 € per month. You can invite guests for collaboration and will receive financial support for research expenses. Individual offices and meeting rooms with modern facilities offer optimal working conditions. In addition, we will provide comfortable apartments free of charge.

Become a member of the vibrant interdisciplinary research community at CAIS.

Apply until 31 October 2022 for fellowships starting from October 2023.

The funding program is open to excellent scholars and practitioners, to all career stages, disciplines and areas of investigation, as well as to pure research and to projects that are more applied in orientation.

Find out more at https://www.cais-research.de/en/cais-college/fellowships/

Further questions? Please contact esther.laufer@cais-research.de.

December 16–18, 2022

University of Belgrade, Serbia

Deadline: October 15, 2022

We invite scholars from diverse fields to evaluate the risks, benefits, and potential outcomes of emerging technologies and to critically examine the ways these technologies affect and shape societies. We welcome submissions examining different aspects of emerging technologies from the perspective of specific disciplines as well as interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and multidisciplinary approaches to the topic.

READ MORE: https://emerge.ifdt.bg.ac.rs

Deadline: October 7, 2022

Universidade Católica Portuguesa

The Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC), at the School of Human Sciences, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, is currently welcoming applications for the position of Post-doctoral Assistant Researcher in the area of Communication Sciences. The deadline for applications is 7 October 2022 (by 5 pm, Lisbon time).

The successful candidate will work at the Lisbon campus of Universidade Católica Portuguesa, and their activities will include the following:

• Designing research projects in the area of Media Studies and submitting these for assessment by financing entities in line with CECC's strategic plan for the period of 2022/2028;
  
• Publishing any research results in books and journals with national and international reach;
  
• Organizing scientific events in the area of Media Studies in line with CECC's strategic plan for the period of 2022/2028;
  
• Participating in national and international research networks whose objectives fall within CECC's strategic plan for the period of 2022/2028;
  
• Participating in CECC's internal events aimed at doctoral training and the promotion of scientific debate among peers;
  
• Participating in work meetings and internal reflection forums organised by CECC and its research groups, as well as in meetings that monitor strategic actions and ongoing activities. 
  

Remuneration and length of contract

Gross monthly pay shall be €3,230.21 plus meal allowance, to which will be added annual leave and Christmas allowances. The estimated duration of the contract is 70 months and will not, under any circumstances, be above 72 months.

Admission requirements

The following may apply: any national, foreign, or stateless candidates who hold a PhD in Communication Sciences or related scientific fields and who furthermore hold a scientific and professional CV that reveals a profile appropriate to the activities to be developed.  

Assessment criteria

The assessment criteria are as follows: scientific output and relevance, participation in scientific projects and conferences, student supervision, scientific dissemination activities, knowledge transfer, and other relevant activities and experience. The assessment process additionally includes an interview with the candidates ranked in the top three positions. The weighting of criteria is as follows:

Scientific and curricular path (SP):

a) Scientific and technological output: 80%;

b) Applied or practice-based research activities: 15%;

c) Knowledge extension and dissemination activities: 5%;

d) Interview (I).

An interview (I) will be conducted with the top three placed candidates, intended to clarify aspects related to their research. They will be asked to make a 10-minute presentation (including a PowerPoint presentation), in which they display their contributions to the research field. Interviewed candidates will be awarded a new classification in addition to the one initially indicated, based on the following formula:

• Final classification = 90% SP+ 10% I
  
• Formal application procedure
  
• Applications shall include the following documents:
  
• CV;
  
• PhD completion certificate, with indication of date of completion.
  

Applications are formalized by sending the required documentation to concursos.cecc.fch@ucp.pt. Applications must be submitted in English.

Candidates are advised to consult the full Public Notice for this Call for Applications, available at: https://fch.lisboa.ucp.pt/calls-opportunities-cecc

September 26, September 29, October 10, 2022

Online lecture series

The Future of AI: Social and Cultural Aspects online lecture series will bring international experts to discuss the philosophy of AI, AI and post-digital aesthetics, cultural impacts of AI, AI (in) art, non-human agency, AI-driven social transformations, and, more generally, our coexistence with AI and digital technologies in all aspects of daily life. Lecturers: Helga Nowotny (26th September, 5 pm CET, online),  Armin Grunwald (29th September, 5 pm CET, online), Sanja Bojanic ( 10th October, 5 pm CET, online).

Read more: https://ifdt.bg.ac.rs/index.php/2022/09/12/online-lecture-series-the-future-of-ai-social-and-cultural-aspects/?lang=en

We are an informal collective of academics from different continents. We are launching a network of scholars who are keen to globalise media and communication studies.

This is hardly a new ambition. But we believe that the timing has never been better to make major advances towards a more globalised field. There is already a critical mass of colleagues who have been accumulating the intellectual tools to globalise, dewesternise, and decolonialise how we work. More importantly, there is a much larger constituency of peers who know we have to change, even if uncertain about how exactly to do so.

None of us has all the answers. But we are confident that there’s a lot we can do collectively.

Our first major project is to develop a resource hub for teachers: it will recommend topics and course materials for colleagues who want to globalise their syllabi but are not sure how. 

We are also hoping to stimulate more global research in sub-fields that remain highly western-centric, through new events and publications.

We hope you’ll join us. We are not a department or a research centre. What we achieve depends mostly on your response. So please visit our website, http://globalmediastudies.network/, and fill out the contact form. We look forward to hearing from you.

Call for Book Chapter Contributions

Deadline: October 31, 2022

We are inviting authors to submit a chapter proposal for an edited book exploring interprofessional communication in health care, to be published by Palgrave.

Rationale:  

Interprofessional collaboration is fast becoming a cornerstone of 21st century healthcare systems due to its potential to improve organizational efficiency and safety, clinician and care worker satisfaction with their work, and quality of patient care. Indeed, interprofessional collaboration often implies a patient- or person-centred approach to care (A. Fox & Reeves, 2014; S. Fox, Gaboury, Chioochio, & Vachon, 2019). Communication is considered a key determinant of effective interprofessional collaboration and is described as a core competency for healthcare professionals (IPEC, 2010).

Yet, interprofessional communication remains both under-theorized and under-researched in empirical contexts (Careau, 2015). Much of the interprofessional collaboration literature views communication as the transmission of the right information to the right clinician at the right time. However, the transmission perspective of communication fails to acknowledge that the contexts in which interprofessional collaboration occurs shape the communication that takes place, and, conversely, that these communicative practices inform how interprofessional collaboration will unfold. Documenting interprofessional communication in richer, more complex ways allows us to consider how collaborators’ practices, relationships, and identities emerge through and in communication, and why this matters.

Objective of the Book:  

The purpose of this book is to offer a broadened theoretical understanding and rich empirical examples of interprofessional communication in interprofessional collaboration across a range of healthcare contexts. We envisage that chapters will include perspectives from a variety of disciplines and professions, making the book of interest to interprofessional policy makers and curriculum builders, as well as to health communication and organizational communication scholars. Acknowledging that the contexts of healthcare organizations vary across health systems, we also seek international perspectives on interprofessional communication.

Topics may include but are not limited to the following:

• The communicative enactment of professional hierarchies, workplace (in)visibility, and professional/occupational roles.
  
• How interprofessional collaboration shapes how workplace issues such as burnout, stress, bullying, and professional recognition are experienced.
  
•  How institutional and organizational structures, time constraints, and patient flow pressures impact communicative practices and the outcomes such as patient safety and quality of care.
  
• How organizational culture influences interprofessional communication.
  
• How interprofessional workers’ cultural identities shape interprofessional communication.
  
• How professional identities are communicatively manifested. 
  
• Collaborative failures (e.g., failing to communicate) and their consequences (e.g., turnover, adverse events).
  
•  How healthcare educators and workers teach and learn about interprofessional communication.
  
•  Interprofessional collaboration and resilience during times of crisis.
  

Book Editors:

Stephanie Fox, Department of Communication, Université de Montréal, Canada

Kirstie McAllum, Department of Communication, Université de Montréal, Canada

Leena Mikkola, Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, Tampere University, Finland

Submission Process:

For consideration, authors should submit two separate documents:

1.     A chapter proposal of 2-3 pages

For theory-building/conceptual chapter proposals, the proposal should (a) identify the communicative process(es) that will be the focus of the chapter; (b) lay out a conceptual framework that helps us better understand the communicative process(es) involved in interprofessional collaboration. 

For empirically grounded chapter proposals, the proposal should (a) identify the communicative process(es) that will be the focus of the chapter; (b) describe and justify the perspective that will be adopted to analyze this communicative process; and (c) provide an overview of the empirical setting and major findings.

2.     A brief half-page biography (name, institutional affiliation and job title, and research interests).

Initial chapter proposals should be forwarded electronically (in .doc or .docx format) to Stephanie Fox at stephanie.fox@umontreal.ca no later than October 31, 2022.   

Decisions about inclusion in the book will be made by December 1st, 2022.  Authors will be expected to produce a full first draft by May 15, 2023, with final submissions incorporating any requested revisions due by August 31, 2023.

Michela Drusian, Paolo Magaudda, Cosimo Marco Scarcelli

• Provides up-to-date knowledge on smartphone research in social sciences
  
• Gives detailed and fascinating insights into the everyday use of smartphones
  
• Questions common-sense vision of practices like shopping, music, photography carried out by youth people
  

In recent years, smartphones and digital platforms have become essential to our lives and are now inextricably interwoven into the everyday practices of millions, especially young people. Focusing on smartphone practices and experiences of youth today, this volume is the result of empirical research based on focus groups and in-depth interviews with young people aged 18-30. Grounded in media theory and analyzed through a blended lens of media and science and technology studies, the book offers detailed and fascinating insights into the everyday use of smartphones. Topics covered include the role of the smartphone as material technology, its use in interpersonal relationships, photographic practices, music and consumer practices, along with the deconstruction of the notion of smartphone ‘addiction’.

September 28-29, 2022

Dear Colleagues,

There’s just under two weeks left to register for the 2022 Policy & Internet Conference, to be held at the University of Sydney, September 28 and 29.

https://internet-policy-meco.sydney.edu.au/datafication-platformization-metaverse-the-state-of-global-internet-policy/

When registering, please indicate if you will be attending the dinner on the first night and the cocktail event at the close of the second night.

The conference theme, Datafication. Platformization. Metaverse. The state of global internet policy, explores how the current developments within digital media spaces has a regulatory impact.

This conference is hybrid, so if you can’t make it to Sydney for the live event, please consider registering for the streaming online alternative.

We also have a preconference, free of charge, on the Tuesday 27 September – more details to come next week. This will have a strong focus on the work of higher degree research students.

The conference will feature the following Keynote presentations:

• Professor Rohan Samarajiva, Chair of LIRNEasia
  
• Associate Professor Tanya Lokot, Dublin City University
  
• Professor John Hartley, A.M., University of Sydney
  
• Associate Professor Crystal Abidin, Curtin University

With a series of specialist panels featuring the work of:

• Dr Damar Juniarto, Executive Director of Southeast Asia Freedom of Expression Network
  
• Dr Matthew Nguyen, Tony Blair Institute
  
• Dr Jay Daniel Thompson, RMIT University
  
• Professor Terry Flew, University of Sydney
  
• Professor Julian Thomas, Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society, RMIT University
  
• Dr Joanne Gray, University of Sydney
  
• Associate Professor Diana Bossio, Swinburne University
  
• Professor Kim Weatherall, University of Sydney
  
• Professor Gerard Goggin, University of Sydney
  
• Professor Katie Ellis, Curtin University
  
• Dr Wayne Hawkins, Director of Inclusion, ACCAN
  
• Dr Natasha Layton, Monash University
  
• Associate Professor Paul Harpur, University of Queensland

Looking forward to seeing you there, and for any further information, please contact Dr Jonathon Hutchinson [jonathon.hutchinson@sydney.edu.au] or Milica Stilinovic [millica.stilinovic@sydney.edu.au].

Edited by Georgina Born

UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a new open access book that may be of interest to ECREA list subscribers: Music and Digital Media: A Planetary Anthropology, edited by Georgina Born. 

Download it free: https://bit.ly/3cg48Ly

Anthropology has neglected the study of music. Music and Digital Media – A Planetary Anthropology shows how and why this should be redressed. It does so by enabling music to expand the horizons of digital anthropology, demonstrating how the field can build interdisciplinary links to digital/media studies, science and technology studies, and music and sound studies.

Music and Digital Media is the first comparative ethnographic study of the impact of digital media on music worldwide. It offers radical and lucid new theoretical frameworks for understanding digital media through music, showing that music is today where the promises and problems of the ‘digital’ assume clamouring audibility – while acting as a testing ground for innovations in the digital-cultural industries.

Through ethnographies of popular, folk, art and crossover musics in the global South and North, as well as music platforms and music software, the book presents the first comparative portrait of music’s entanglement in digital media worldwide.

Music and Digital Media develops an inventive model for comparative anthropology responsive to decolonisation. It creates a framework for analysing the social and political in music of wider relevance to anthropological and social theory. And it shows how music enlarges anthropology while demanding to be understood with reference to classic themes of media theory.

October 13, 2022

I am pleased to invite you to the next in the series of IPRA Thought Leadership webinars. The webinar Rising to the challenge: how to protect reputation when crisis strikes will be presented by Jonathan Hemus on Thursday 13 October 2022 at 12.00 GMT/UCT (unadjusted).

What is the webinar content?

When crisis strikes, an organisation's reputation, value, and the livelihoods of its stakeholders are all in jeopardy. The ability of leaders to do and say the right things at this moment will determine the fate of the organisation and all those affected by it. Given this intense pressure, it's not surprising that some leaders falter. PR professionals can play a major role in helping their senior management colleagues to navigate through a crisis but only if they fully understand the context in which they are working and the pitfalls to avoid. Calling upon twenty-five years' experience in crisis management, Jonathan Hemus will share with attendees: why smart people do irrational things in a crisis; the most common mistakes made by leaders in a crisis; 10 golden rules for crisis management success; and how to become a trusted advisor.

How to join

Register here at Airmeet. (The time shown should adjust to your device’s time zone.)

A reminder will be sent 1 hour before the event.

Background to IPRA

IPRA, the International Public Relations Association, was established in 1955, and is the leading global network for PR professionals in their personal capacity. IPRA aims to advance trusted communication and the ethical practice of public relations. We do this through networking, our code of conduct and intellectual leadership of the profession. IPRA is the organiser of public relations' annual global competition, the Golden World Awards for Excellence (GWA). IPRA's services enable PR professionals to collaborate and be recognised. Members create content via our Thought Leadership essays, social media and our consultative status with the United Nations. GWA winners demonstrate PR excellence. IPRA welcomes all those who share our aims and who wish to be part of the IPRA worldwide fellowship. For more see www.ipra.org

Background to Jonathan Hemus

Jonathan is the founder of crisis management consultancy Insignia. He was previously global head of crisis and issues management at Porter Novelli. Jonathan works with business leaders to ensure they have the capability to do the right things under the intense pressure of a crisis. Driven by a passion to prevent the needless harm caused by a mis-handled crisis, he enables his clients to successfully prepare for cyber-attacks, catastrophic accidents, management misdeeds, product contamination or environmental incidents. He is the author of Crisis proof – How to prepare for the worst day of your business life. He is a visiting lecturer at Henley Business School, Manchester Metropolitan University, and the University of Central Florida.

Contact

International Public Relations Association Secretariat

United Kingdom

secgen@ipra.org 

Telephone +44 1634 818308