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Malmö University, Sweden

https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1015/job?site=6&lang=SE&validator=df9f5539db53eab37b3e3087d2a2669b&job_id=1942

One of the first and most advanced online learning programs in the field of Communication for Development, ComDev is educating between 120-150 global students every year. The MA program team has developed, pioneered and improved a unique pedagogical concept, the Glocal Classroom, to establish a virtual global learning community with many local bases since its inception in 2000. External international evaluations have confirmed its high pedagogical quality. A core team of about six staff teach, research, communicate with students and stakeholders worldwide.

Our ComDev scholars are actively participating in externally funded and internal research networks such as the Rethinking Democracy platform and the Datasociety program and have a long history of international collaborations. Read more about ComDev here.

Work duties

As senior lecturer in Communication for Development your basic terms of employment comprise teaching (70%), conducting research (20 %) and general administrative duties (10 %). Raising external research funding and additional duties at MAU, can change those terms, but an active involvement in pedagogical work is expected.

The position involves independent teaching, grading, course management as well as supervision and examination of master’s theses, educational development work. collaboration with external stakeholders, international research partners and the wider society. This position involves teaching primarily within the Communication for Development program and teaching within other programs (e.g. MA in Media & Communication Studies) and courses may also occur, both at K3 and across faculty departments.

Qualifications

Those qualified for appointment as a Senior Lecturer are, except in disciplines in the fine, applied or performing arts, a person who has demonstrated teaching expertise and been awarded a PhD or has the corresponding research competence or some other professional expertise that is of value in view of the subject matter of the post and the duties that it will involve (Chapter 4, Section 4 of the Higher Education Ordinance).

A university teacher at Malmö university is expected to have a pedagogical higher education comprising at least 15 higher education credits, or equivalent formalized higher pedagogical education. New employees who do not have this training are required, within the framework of their employment, to begin such training within one year from the start of the employment.

Since Swedish is the official language at Malmö University, all employees are expected to learn basic Swedish within a two-year timeframe.

Specific requirements for this position:

• Completed PhD degree in a subject of relevance to Communication for Development
• Research profile in Communication for Development or similar subject
• A high level of proficiency to teach, research and communicate in English
• Good communication and collaboration skills

The following would be of benefit for the position:

• Experience in teaching and working in an online, blended learning environment
• Experience with working, teaching, conducting fieldwork, coordinating and implementing development-related and applied research in the global South
• Knowledge of media theories and practices in the context of humanitarian or development communication in a historical as well as a contemporary perspective
• Experience in external fundraising
• Practical media production skills
• Additional language proficiency

In addition to formal competence, University's employees must possess the personal capacities necessary to perform the duties of the position well and to represent the University in the best possible way.

All qualifications and skills must be accompanied with supportive documentation in the application: https://web103.reachmee.com/…942

Umeå University, Sweden

DIGSUM is an interdisciplinary academic research centre for the study of the relationship between digital technology and society at Umeå University, Sweden. >> https://www.digsum.org/…out

Our Digital Sociology group is looking for new PhD candidates >> https://www.umu.se/…gy/

The open positions are fully funded and salaried for four years.

The deadline for applications is 28 June 2021.

The positions:

1. PhD position in Digital Sociology focusing on internet, social media, politics and civil society

2. PhD position in Digital Sociology focusing on political discourses around AI and automation

Read more and apply >> https://www.digsum.org/…ogy

September 2-3, 2021

University of Brighton/ online conference

Deadline (extended): June 25, 2021

The last few decades have witnessed an increasing interest in revisiting, reproducing or rewriting various aspects of nineteenth-century culture, particularly that of the late Victorian period, whether in the form of neo-Victorian literature, steampunk, media archaeology, fashion, documentaries and period dramas, among others. This trend has received various different interpretations, either as part of the recycling of past periods, styles and texts characteristic of postmodernism of the 1980s, of the ‘memory boom’ of the 1990s and the ensuing culture of commemoration, anniversaries and memorialisation, or the most recent signs of a widespread imperial nostalgia, evident not just in various media texts, such as film or television, but also in contemporary political realities like Brexit.

These are only some of the symptoms of this widespread trend and only some instances of the critical approaches that they have received, and this two-day conference seeks to explore this trend from a diverse range of disciplinary, theoretical and methodological perspectives. The specific focus of the conference is on papers that address the dialectic relationship between the two historical periods. We are particularly interested in the ways in which the late-Victorian is re-envisioned and reconceptualised within the neo-Victorian.

The list below is only indicative of areas for which we welcome submission of abstracts:

• neo-Victorianism in literature, film and television
• Gothic horror, then and now: literature, film, television and gaming
• steampunk (literature, art, fashion, subculture)
• contemporary politics and imperial nostalgia (Empire 2.0, Global Britain, etc.)
• media archaeology, archive studies, museums and the late Victorian ‘frenzy of the visible’
• contemporary sexual politics and late Victorian queer cultures
• The New Woman and the suffragette movement
• contemporary terrorism and the 1890s
• crime, detection and punishment
• nostalgia and material culture: the yearning for the handmade

Keynote Spakers:

• Associate Professor Dr Claire Nally (Northumbria University): 'Steampunk and Postcolonialism', https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/n/claire-nally/
• Professor Kim A. Wagner (Queen Mary, University of London): ‘Afterlives of Empire: Between Nostalgia and Amnesia’. (Media Archaeology Keynote tbc), https://www.qmul.ac.uk/history/people/academic-staff/profiles/wagnerkima.html

The current plan is still to run the conference on campus but, if necessary, it will take place virtually. Final plans will be announced later in the academic year.

Please send 300-word abstracts accompanied by a 90-word bio to conference organisers Victoria Margree (https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/persons/vicky-margree) and Aris Mousoutzanis (https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/persons/aris-mousoutzanis) by June 25 2021 at neovictorian@brighton.ac.uk

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November 25-26, 2021

Hybrid (online/in-person)

Deadline: September 1, 2021

14TH CMI INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

https://www.conf.cmi.aau.dk/…21/

ICT infrastructures and platforms are increasingly pervasive and critical for societies, systems and organizations and for individuals. It is, therefore, of great importance that efficient and resilient infrastructures are developed and deployed and that disruptions of services caused by either cyber-attacks or other interruptions of services are mitigated. Also, as digital platforms constitute crucial communication infrastructures for societies, it is important that such platforms contribute to democratic processes and economic and social fairness.

The 14th CMI conference will be concerned with these topics from different complementary angles: The development and deployment of fast and efficient communication infrastructures including cloud and edge technologies; resilience of ICT systems in order to increase cyber security and mitigate cyber-attacks; institution of social practices and governance approaches that will promote democratic discussions and processes, contribute to economic and social development, equity and fairness, and protect privacy.

The conference focuses primarily on ICT infrastructures and platforms, but as ICT systems increasingly constitute essential foundations for other critical infrastructures such as energy, transportation, public administration, etc. papers on the relationships between ICT infrastructures and critical infrastructures in general will be most welcome. Technical papers as well as papers examining ICT infrastructures and platforms from social science and humanities perspectives are solicited. Furthermore, papers can be oriented towards theory development as well as empirically based analyses. The conference welcomes papers on research that has been concluded and work-in-progress.

Participants in the 14th CMI conference will be researchers from academia and other research institutions, industry players, and people working with policy development and regulation. Students are also very welcome.

TRACKS/TOPICS

Papers are invited in the following (not exclusive) tracks/topics:

WIRELESS COMMUNICATION AND NETWORKING

• Artificial intelligence and machine learning for wireless communication
• systems
• Massive machine-type communications (mMTC)
• IoT for smart manufacturing (industry 4.0)
• Underwater and underground sensor and IoT networks

• Wireless networking for autonomous vehicles in smart cities
• Age of information in real-time systems and networks

CYBER SECURITY

• Cyber security of cyber physical systems and industrial control systems
• IT and IoT security
• Critical infrastructures under cyberwarfare, cyberterrorism and nation-stated attacks
• Artificial intelligence for the protection of critical infrastructure
• Security architectures and secure modelling
• Security governance, risk analysis and management, security awareness of critical infrastructures
• Safety and security of critical infrastructures
• Digital twins, cyber ranges and cyber security training

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

• Critical infrastructures
• Public safety and emergency communications
• Governance of critical infrastructures
• Big Tech economics and regulation
• Data protection and privacy
• Smart cities
• Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials
• AI and work
• ICT4D
• AI and media developments
• Business models

Prospective authors are invited to submit original, unpublished work in any of the topics or related topics. All types of contributions whether academic papers, industrial research, case studies, implementation reviews, etc. are welcome. Selection of the papers to be presented at the conference will be based on abstracts and will be double-blind. If full papers are available already at the abstract deadline, please submit the full paper. Following approval of abstracts, full papers to be presented at the conference have to be submitted at the subsequent full papers deadline.

Among the papers presented at the conference, selected papers will be submitted for inclusion to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library or will be published in a special issue of the Nordic Baltic Journal of ICT (Electronic publication, ISBN 1902-0988 - find information on NBICT here: http://riverpublishers.com/journal.php?j=NBJICT/2014/1/jdes). Selected papers concerned with information and communication technology developments will be submitted for inclusion to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Other selected papers will be published in the Nordic Baltic Journal of ICT.

All conference papers and presentations will be uploaded to a repository and shared with all registered conference participants.

IMPORTANT DATES

• September 1, 2021: Extended abstract (app. 1.5 pages)
• September 15, 2021: Notification on acceptance
• November 1, 2021: Full paper
• November 25-26, 2021: Presentation at the conference
• November 30, 2021: Notification of selection of papers for publication
• December 6, 2021: Submission of camera-ready versions of selected papers

SUBMISSION

Please submit your abstract to the Easychair submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=14thcmi

HOST

CMI, Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark

contact: Anders Henten – henten@es.aau.dk

The journal Mediální studia / Media Studies welcomes proposals for the special issues which would cover some aspects of the fields of media, communication and cultural studies. he journal is indexed in Scopus, MLA, Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL), and European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences (ERIH PLUS).

Special issues allow for comprehensive reporting on a particular area of research, being socially urgent, methodologically or conceptually revised, or still little explored. They present the subject matter from different perspectives and this makes it easier to explore it more thoroughly and systematically. Thus, they are popular both for readers and authors and may strengthen or expand researchers’ networks. Beyond this, acting as a guest editor allows one to gain experience with the organizational and editorial work and to further participate in a symbolic alchemy of the academic field, including the benefits thus recognized.

Unlike edited collections, the journal special issues allow a more flexible time plan and a more open publishing platform, while maintaining the quality standards for both the content and text editing.

1. What the special issue proposal should include

If you are thinking of compiling a special issue for publication in Mediální studia / Media Studies, your proposal should include:

• What the topic of the issue will be: please explain its research relevance and expected benefits (briefly and precisely, in the extent of approximately 500 words);
• Who the guest editors of the proposed issue will be (two to three people): please attach their short CVs and describe how they will cooperate with each other;
• Whether a special issue follows a conference, workshop, summer school, etc., or whether the contributions are collected through a separate call, or if the guest editors wish to combine both of these; in all cases, please add a call for papers;
• What the preferred publication slot is (Summer 2022, Winter 2022/Spring 2023) and the preparation timeline: please count the time needed for the full texts delivery, the search for reviewers, review process itself, authors’ revisions of the papers based on the reviewers’ recommendations, editing, proofreading, and typographic editing.

Please send your proposals to the editor-in-chief via the e-mail medialnistudia@fsv.cuni.cz . You will be notified about the proposal’s acceptance or rejection within three weeks. This decision is made by the journal’s editorial team or the wider editorial board.

The expected number of reviewed papers included in the issue is 4-6.

Since the journal is published exclusively electronically, it is possible to agree on exceeding this number. The reviewed papers of the issue may be supplemented by non-reviewed texts (book reviews, interviews, etc.; please see https://www.medialnistudia.fsv.cuni.cz/…ual for more details). However, this is not obligatory.

The preferred language of the papers is English; in specific cases, the texts may be also in Czech or Slovak.

2. What happens when the special issue proposal is accepted

If accepted, the guest editors and the editor-in-chief agree on the expected publication date of the special issue (autumn 2020, spring 2021, or autumn 2021).

One of the journal’s internal editors is chosen for further communication between the guest editors and the journal. It is his or her responsibility to work on the final draft of the issue with the guest editors and agree upon its more detailed preparation schedule. This then serves as a work accomplishment orientation tool for both parties.

It is the responsibility of the guest editors:

• To communicate the call announcing the special issue among the researchers;
• To decide which of the manuscripts delivered to include in the review process or which ones to return to rework or which to reject;
• To find peer reviewers for individual papers;
• To inform the authors about the result of the review process and specify a timeframe for reviewing contributions, if required;
• To edit the papers;
• To write an editorial to introduce the special issue and its contributions.

The journal’s internal editor monitors the progress of the issue preparation and helps the guest editors solve any possible problems. If he or she agrees upon that with the guest editors, he or she also can participate more actively in the preparation of the issue (e.g. helping with the call distribution, passing on the contacts for the journal’s proofreaders, etc.)

The journal’s graphic designer will be responsible for the layout of the papers. The internal editor in charge is tasked with the communication with the designer..

3. Responsibility of the guest editors and the journal

The guest editors are required to respect the ethical rules for offering, reviewing and editing posts (please see https://www.medialnistudia.fsv.cuni.cz/…ora). They also adhere to the formal rules for submissions (the length and structure of the papers, or the citation style) and maintain the qualitative level of papers commonly published in the journal. The editors of the journal undertake not to violate the agreed conditions of cooperation and are supportive for the guest editors in their work and in solving any unexpected problems.

June 17-18, 2021

Hybrid event

The spread of digital technologies has contributed to a multi-faceted change of democratic orders, actors and practices. We are observing a profound redistribution of communication and political power in the long-term evolution of democracies – not least due to the emergence of social media. Traditional mass media are losing their privileged position as gatekeepers of the public sphere; social media platforms are establishing new norms of social relevance and are simultaneously lending a voice to ideas, opinions and actors which used to be marginalized.

This development seems full of ambivalences and the shifting conditions of communication have spawned a situation of democracy in permanent flux. At the same time, current debates on how digital technologies have changed public spheres and impacted democratic systems tend to be scattered across different academic disciplines, political arenas and civil society.

The 2021 annual Weizenbaum Conference entitled “Democracy in Flux – Order, Dynamics and Voices in Digital Public Spheres” aims to bring together these various perspectives and to initiate an interdisciplinary exchange on the linkages between digital public spheres and democracy as a whole.

Keynotes:

• Helen Margetts (Oxford Internet Institute | United Kingdom)
• Matthew Hindman (George Washington University | United States)
• Daniel Ziblatt (WZB Berlin Social Science Center and Harvard University | Germany & United States)

Further information about the conference programme and registration can be found at: https://www.weizenbaum-conference.de/

Studies in Communication Sciences (SComS)

Deadline: December 12, 2021

Edited by: Silke Fürst, Daniel Vogler, Isabel Sörensen, Mike S. Schäfer (University of Zurich, Department of Communication and Media Research IKMZ, Switzerland)

We are seeking contributions for a thematic section of Studies in Communication Sciences (SComS) – a peer-reviewed platinum open-access journal of communication and media research – exploring changes in communication of higher education institutions.

Higher education institutions (HEIs) are pivotal organizations in modern societies (Schäfer & Fähnrich, 2020). In past decades, the higher education sector has expanded considerably in many countries, with rapid increases in research output, growing student enrollment, and newly founded colleges and universities. New public management reforms and a growing need for societal legitimation have led many HEIs to prioritize communication, i.e., to establish communication offices, pursue branding, marketing, and reputation management, and to professionalize their communication efforts on traditional channels, websites, and social media (Davies & Horst, 2016; Elken, Stensaker, & Dedze, 2018; Marcinkowski, Kohring, Fürst, & Friedrichsmeier, 2014; Raupp & Osterheider, 2019; Schwetje, Hauser, Böschen, & Leßmöllmann, 2020; Vogler & Schäfer, 2020). This has resulted in competition for public visibility, involving researchers, HEI leadership, and professional communicators at central levels, research centers, and departments (Crettaz von Roten & Entradas, 2018; Entradas et al., 2020; Friedrichsmeier & Fürst, 2012; Koivumäki & Wilkinson, 2020; McKinnon, Black, Bobillier, Hood, & Parker, 2019; Rödder, 2020; Watermeyer & Lewis, 2018). This competition could fuel the mediatization of scientific organizations (Peters, Heinrichs, Jung, Kallfass, & Petersen, 2008; Scheu, Volpers, Summ, & Blöbaum, 2014) and poses new risks and challenges, from unintended and potentially dysfunctional effects to scandals and crises (Fähnrich, Danyi, & Nothhaft, 2015; Schwarz & Büker, 2019). However, scant research has been conducted on how communication in, from, and about HEIs has developed over time and changed as a result of transformations in higher education and the media landscape. The Covid-19 pandemic has also had an impact on higher education communication that has yet to be explored. Moreover, several studies have focused on practices and structures of communication offices, whereas little attention has been paid to members of the administrative board (rectorate) and their changing perceptions and strategies regarding the public communication and representation of their particular organizations.

While communication offices at HEIs have expanded, journalism has suffered from reductions in staff and resources, resulting in an increasing imbalance between science journalism and university public relations (Göpfert, 2007; Guenther, 2019; Vogler & Schäfer, 2020). Researchers argue that this development poses a risk that fact-based, independent, and critical reporting on science could decline while the dissemination of strategic, affirmative, and sometimes even misleading information could increase (Bauer & Howard, 2009; Göpfert, 2007; Weingart, 2017; Wormer, 2017), thereby jeopardizing trust in science and HEIs in the mid-to-long term (Weingart & Joubert, 2019). However, we know little about these interrelations, about the quality and ethics of HEIs’ communication as well as about news coverage and public perceptions of HEIs and their changes over the past years and decades.

Existing studies indicate a growing diversity of communication formats and media channels addressing various stakeholders, including the proliferation of events and media releases as well as the increasing use of online channels (Lo, Huang, & Peters, 2019; Metag & Schäfer, 2017; Raupp & Osterheider, 2019; Vogler, 2020). While communication on social media allows for direct and visible interactions with stakeholders, more research on its actual importance and influence is needed. First results show that many universities use social media but fall short of utilizing them fully and only tend to engage in minimal dialogue with stakeholders (Entradas et al., 2020; McAllister, 2012; Metag & Schäfer, 2017; VanDyke & Lee, 2020). However, the role of social media communication – and online channels in general – may have undergone transformations in recent years and in relation to the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.

We invite the submission of empirical analyses and theoretical / conceptual contributions from scholars of organizational communication, communication management, strategic communication, science communication and journalism, higher education studies, organizational sociology, sociology of science, and other related fields and disciplines. We welcome submissions related (but not limited) to the following areas and topics:

• Changes in the resources, practices, strategies, and influences of communication offices at HEIs
• The professionalization of HEI communication and communicators, e.g., with respect to professional training, evaluations of communication processes and practices or in terms of ethical standards and reflections
• Changing representations of HEIs in media / public / online discourses
• The uses, perceptions, and effects of HEI communication and coverage among various target groups / stakeholders
• The transformation of relationships between different actors involved in HEI communication, e.g., communication professionals, rectorates of HEIs, policy makers, scientists, journalists, students, citizens
• Changes in HEI communication resulting from digitization
• The shifting importance of crisis communication and Covid-19-related changes in HEIs’ communication
• Communication in, from, and about HEIs in light of the mediatization of science
• The evolving role of public visibility for the legitimation of HEIs

Submission guidelines​

SComS welcomes submissions in English, German, French, or Italian. However, English is the preferred language of this Thematic Section. Manuscripts should be a maximum of 9000 words in length (including the abstract and all references, tables, figures, footnotes, appendices). In addition, authors may submit supplementary material that will be published as an online supplement. Authors are invited to submit original papers that are not under consideration for publication elsewhere. Articles shall be submitted using the APA reference style, 6th edition. The manuscript itself must be free of any information or references that might reveal the identity of the authors and their institution to allow double-blind peer review. Manuscripts should be submitted via the SComS platform: https://www.hope.uzh.ch/scoms/about/submissions. We ask authors to carefully prepare submissions according to all rules given in the SComS Submission Guidelines.

The expected publication date of the Thematic Section is November 2022. However, early submissions that successfully pass the review process will also be immediately published online first. Contributions that receive positive reviews but are not accepted for the Thematic Section may be considered for publication in a subsequent SComS issue within the General Section. Papers are published under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Authors retain the copyright and full publishing rights without restrictions.

We look forward to receiving your submissions. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact guest editor Silke Fürst (s.fuerst@ikmz.uzh.ch).

Key dates:

• Submission of full papers closes on December 12, 2021.
• The first review will be provided no later than March 15, 2022.
• The revised manuscript should be submitted by May 15, 2022.
• The second review and notification of acceptance will be provided no later than July 31, 2022.
• Final papers should be submitted by September 15, 2022.
• Publication of the Thematic Section is scheduled for November 2022.

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Davies, S. R., & Horst, M. (2016). Science communication: Culture, identity and citizenship. London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://www.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50366-4

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VanDyke, M. S., & Lee, N. M. (2020). Science public relations: The parallel, interwoven, and contrasting trajectories of public relations and science communication theory and practice. Public Relations Review, 46(4), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2020.101953

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September 27-28, 2021

Online conference

Public Service Media (PSM) organizations across Europe and beyond are increasingly under pressure. Media use is changing rapidly, with streaming services and online platforms gaining in importance and making it harder for legacy media to hold their ground. The business model of newspaper publishers is under pressure, which, in turn, leads to disagreement about PSM’s online activities. And many policy-makers are highly critical of PSM due to a belief in the efficiency of market solutions or for political reasons. As a result, both PSM’s role in a digital environment and its funding are under scrutiny.

Increasingly, PSM organizations are using the “contribution to society” concept to demonstrate their public value. Yet scholars need to critically discuss the analytical value and the usefulness of new concepts that are circulated in industry and policy-making – the RIPE@2021 conference offers such an opportunity.

RIPE@2021 will take place as a virtual conference on Monday, September 27, 2021, in the afternoon, and Tuesday, September 28, 2021, in the morning (Central European Time). As a positive side effect of the virtual format, all interested scholars may participate free of charge.

RIPE@2021 offers:

• A keynote speech by Abraham Bernstein (University of Zurich, Director Digital Society Initiative) titled “Society Rules”.
• A keynote speech by Gilles Marchand (Director-General SRG SSR) tilted “SRG SSR Public Value Approach: Managing Our Contribution to Society – A Swiss Perspective”.
• The session “How Practitioners and Scholars Can Work Together to Demonstrate the Value of PSM” discussing the potential and pitfalls of collaboration between academics and PSM practitioners.
• A closing plenary session providing answers to some overarching conference questions.
• And dozens of paper presentations focusing on the four conference themes “Communication Needs of Changing Societies”, “New Forms of Contribution and Distinctiveness”, “Involving Citizens, Building Communities”, and “Governance, Communication and Legitimacy Management”.

There will be no live presentations at RIPE@2021. All presentations will be pre-recorded and participants can watch them before the conference starts. The live sessions will be entirely devoted to discussion. While the plenary sessions are open to all registered participants, working group sessions are restricted to paper presenters. However, all registered participants have access to all the presentations and papers.

To see the complete program and to register for the conference, please visit https://www.unifr.ch/dcm/en/ripe-2021

Thematic ​Issue in the International Journal of Communication

Deadline: October 31, 2021

Guest-edited by:

• Prof Dr Andreas Hepp, University of Bremen, ZeMKI (ahepp@uni-bremen.de)
• Prof Nathan Schneider, University of Colorado Boulder (nathan.schneider@colorado.edu)
• MA Anne Schmitz, University of Bremen, ZeMKI (a.schmitz@uni-bremen.de)

Overview

In their 1996 publication of the same name, Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron characterized what they called the “Californian ideology” as a combination of “the free-wheeling spirit of the hippies and the entrepreneurial zeal of the yuppies” (Barbrook & Cameron 1996: 44). At its core, this Californian ideology is defined by the notion of a society characterized simultaneously by libertarian markets, alternative ideas of community and individual freedom—shaped by technology more than other social forces. Such notions were driven by networks such as those that emerged around the Whole Earth Catalog, and later, Wired magazine (Turner 2006), which communicated these ideas far beyond the American West Coast. Many of today’s platforms and digital infrastructures, which drive the current “deep mediatization” (Hepp 2020) of society, were created in the spirit of such an ideology, supported by ideas of “global scalability” of once found "technical solutions”.

At the same time, there were groups early on that seem to be opposed to such ideas. Examples of this are the Hacker, Open Source, or Civic Hacking movements, which are interested in critically questioning tendencies of commercialization. Such groups exert their influence by developing alternative “sociotechnical imaginaries” (Jasanoff & Sang-Hyun 2015) about possible futures – thus creating a space of possibility. However, if one also looks at emerging communities today such as the Maker, Quantified Self, or Biohacking movements, it becomes evident that many “alternative” imaginaries are closely interwoven with the Californian ideology. On closer inspection, the boundaries do not appear to be so easily drawn; there are manifold connections, fractures, affinities, and differences in the various communities.

Against this background, the aim of this special issue is to look at different technology-oriented communities and to ask what “alternative imaginaries” of a deeply mediatized society they develop as well as what their possible impact on future developments might be.

Submissions should address questions like these:

• What imaginaries of possible futures are tech communities developing?
• In which areas are they experimenting and which future developments are they opening up?
• Where is a Californian ideology reproduced in the practices and discourses of these communities?
• How does the departure to other models and concepts of technological development succeed?

Formatting and Requirements

To be considered for this collection, a paper should range between 6,000 and 8,900 words (all-inclusive, which includes the abstract, keywords, images with captions, footnotes, references, and appendices, if any) must be submitted by October 31, 2021 to the editors and adhere to the following formal requirements:

• Formatting according to the most recent version of the APA style-guide (including in-text citations and references).
• Any endnotes should be converted to footnotes.
• Papers must include the author(s) name(s), title, affiliation and email-address. (Your paper will subsequently be anonymized for double-blind peer review.)
• All articles should include an abstract of 150 words.
• All spelling must be rendered in American English. To change British or Commonwealth spellings to their American equivalents, please see the Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary.
• See “Author Guidelines/Submission Preparation Checklist” at https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/about/submissions#authorGuidelines

Any papers that do not follow these guidelines will not be submitted for peer review.

The International Journal of Communication is an open access journal (ijoc.org). All articles will be available online at the point of publication. The anticipated publication timeframe for this Special Issue is October 2022.

Contact Information

All submissions should be uploaded to https://cloud.medlab.host/s/pt43t39ZrHtXcnD by October 31, 2021. Late submissions will not be included for consideration.

University of the Arts London

Vacancy ID: 6903

College/Service: London College of Communication

Main location: LCC - Elephant and Castle, London UK

Job type: Full time

Unit: School of Media

Job term: Permanent

DBS check required?: No

Closing date: 20 June 2021 23:55

Scheduled interview date: 19 July 2021

Salary: £46,423 to £55,932 per annum

The role

We are looking to recruit an established academic in the field of Public Relations. You will join our team of academics and practitioners working on our BA and MA Public Relations courses in the Communications and Media programme. The role requires specialism in Public Relations, including PR planning processes, research methods (qualitative and quantitative), promotional PR, consumer behaviour, branding, and digital marketing.

You will proactively contribute to pedagogic and curriculum development that stimulate thought and practice that challenge the canon of public relations with the aim of promoting diversity and inclusivity.

You will have substantial teaching experience in Higher Education and have a proven track record of delivering high quality student experience, including curriculum delivery, development and assessment. You will take responsibility for leading, teaching and learning on relevant units, as well as supervising final projects and dissertations.

You will bring an advanced knowledge of your subject area and be able to apply this to broader processes of change through innovative pedagogy, knowledge exchange and/or research.

Why choose us?

London College of Communication is a pioneering world leader in creative communications education. With the communications sector constantly evolving at a rapid speed, we work at the cutting edge of new thinking and developments to prepare our students for successful careers in the creative industries of the future. Our course provision reflects the breadth of expertise housed within the most diverse creative agency including: journalism, advertising, PR and publishing; photography; film, television and sound; communications and media; graphic communication; spatial communication; design cultures; and interactive and visual communication.

Your profile

Before completing an application form, candidates should please download the candidate information pack and the job description/person specification for the role and read the full list of requirements and selection criteria before applying as this will be the criteria on which your application will be assessed.

Requirements of the role:

• Experience of teaching & assessment in a higher education environment
• Considers and promotes equality, diversity and inclusivity in all aspects of teaching, assessment and scholarly practice
• Collaborates and works effectively within team and across different professional groups
• Evidence of research, knowledge exchange and/or practice that contributes to the advancement of public relations and is relevant to the goals of the Programme, College and University
• Plans, prioritises and manages resources effectively to achieve objectives
• PhD or Higher level research degree and/or equivalent publications

UAL is committed to addressing the under-representation of staff from Black and Minority Ethnic communities, using our student profile as a reference point. During the Academic Futures recruitment campaign of 2021, we will therefore be offering application consultations to prospective candidates from this under-represented group.

If you identify as a Black or Minority Ethnic candidate and would like to book an application consultation, please fill in this short form Academic Futures Consultation Expression of Interest.

Posting date – Thursday, 27 May 2021

Closing date – Sunday, 20 June 2021

Should you have any queries, please contact the Recruitment Team via email lcc.jobs@lcc.arts.ac.uk

UAL is committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments for all staff and students to work and learn – a university where we can be ourselves and reach our full potential. We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and Staff Support Networks. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds, including race, disability, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion and belief, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, and caring responsibility.

Candidates are advised to submit applications early.

Job description and personal specification

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Additional Attachment

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