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Bahruz Samadov is a doctoral student at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University in Prague. On 21 August 2024, when he was visiting Baku, Samadov was detained by Azerbaijan’s State Security Service. On 23 August 2024, it became known that he had been charged with 'high treason' and that he would remain imprisoned during (at least) a 4-month pre-trial detention. Based on the limited information available, the accusations appear to be directly related to Samadov's research and advocacy interests in peace in the South Caucasus and his meetings with Armenian counterparts at civil society and academic fora.

DESIRE is deeply concerned by Samadov’s detention, and by the accusation of treason. Together with PSA populism we have started a petition to free Samadov. Another open letter on this subject by international scholars can be found here. The Université Libre de Bruxelles, where Samadov has spent a research stay, has published a statement concerning his detention as well. PEN America, Amnesty International (repeatedly), the International Press Institute, Human Rights Watch, and Le Monde have all reported about the case and shown their concern.

Edited by: Yener Bayramoğlu, Łukasz Szulc, Radhika Gajjala

We are delighted to announce the publication of the Special Issue on ‘Transnational Queer Cultures and Digital Media’, edited by Yener Bayramoğlu, Łukasz Szulc, and Radhika Gajjala for Communication, Culture & Critique. It includes an introduction, 7 empirical articles and 5 forum pieces. They are all amazing! :) You can read the Special Issue here: https://academic.oup.com/ccc/issue/17/3 

CONTENTS

Special Issue: Transnational Queer Cultures and Digital Media

Special Issue Editors: Yener Bayramo[1]glu, Łukasz Szulc, Radhika Gajjala

Original Articles

Transnational queer cultures and digital media: An introduction

YENER BAYRAMOGLU, [1] ŁUKASZ SZULC, AND RADHIKA GAJJALA

A comparative study on the transcultural (re-)reception of The Untamed and its queerness with Chinese characteristics

PENG QIAO AND YUQI HU

“Instagram is like a karela:” Transnational digital queer politics and online censorship and surveillance in India

TANVI KANCHAN 

RuPaul’s Drag Race: Queer authenticity and strategic Westernness

ZANE AUSTIN WILLARD AND RACHEL E. DUBROFSKY

Trans (on) YouTube: Localizing transnational narratives on two Polish trans YouTube channels

JOANNA CHOJNICKA

Glitchy transnationalism: When queer migrants meet the state online

HATIM RACHDI

“We are just with each other, everything is going to be okay:” BlackQueer rural–urban migration, danger and digital sexual desires

ESIHLE LUPINDO 

What does it mean to be queer in Wikidata? Practices of gender representation within a transnational online community

BEATRICE MELIS, CHIARA PAOLINI, MARTA FIORAVANTI, AND DANIELE METILLI 

Forum 

The “aroma of citrus” as transnational queer digital culture: Girls’ Love webtoons in contemporary China

JAMIE J. ZHAO 

When the homo deamon went digital: Writing Africa’s transgender refugee diaspora

B. CAMMINGA

“Middle East conflict in Berlin schools:” On the affectability of “fake news”

JIN HARITAWORN

“How do I put this gently?” Articulating the link between racial selectivity in the sexual market and neighborhood selection in the residential market of a global city

NICHOLAS BOSTON 

Gay for pay: Homocapitalism and LGBTQ employees in the transnational corporate landscape

SHARIF MOWLABOCUS

Nordicom Review

Deadline: October 11, 2024

The SMIDGE research project (HorizonEurope), Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics at University of Copenhagen, and Nordicom invite scholars from a broad range of disciplines to submit extended abstracts for a special issue of Nordicom Review. The issue will focus on contemporary trends in extremism on social media in the Nordic countries, including mainstreaming processes, hybrid threats, conspiracy theories, and social media practices and phenomena, which enable shifts toward the extremes of the Nordic public cultures.

Editors:  

Mikkel Bækby Johansen, University of Copenhagen  

Line Nybro Petersen, University of Copenhagen  

Contact: 

Mikkel Bækby Johansen: mikkel.johansen@hum.ku.dk 

Important dates: 

• Deadline for extended abstracts: 11 October 2024 
  
• Invitation to submit full paper: 1 November 2024 
  
• Full paper submission: 17 February 2025 
  
• Peer review process: Spring 2025 
  
• Expected publication (Open Access): Early 2026  
  

Background and aim 

Recent years have witnessed a growing scholarly interest in emerging forms of extremism on social media. Extremist content, ranging from hateful yet ironic and ambiguous memes over misinformation-based narratives to malicious conspiracy theories and hardcore extremist ideologies, circulates on mainstream social media platforms on a large scale (Bryant, 2020; Rothut et al., 2024). Everyday social media users are exposed to radical and subversive content on the same platforms they use for the most common practices of catching up with the news and keeping in touch with their network. On the one hand, mainstream actors such as influencers, journalists, celebrities, activists, and politicians use their social media visibility to platform ideas and opinions previously considered fringe (Baker, 2022). On the other hand, extremist narratives have become a matter of co-creation, as social media users accumulate ad hoc convictions, political opinions, personal grievances and inclinations, conspiracy beliefs, and ideology fragments to construct new narratives located outside the window of what is typically considered morally or politically acceptable (Petersen & Johansen, forthcoming; see also Makinac Center for Public Policy, 2019). 

This type of amalgamated and crowdsourced extremism challenges established classifications of extremism and obfuscates the process of tracing its origin. In a fragmented digital media landscape, antagonism against the center of society – that is, the political and institutional mainstream – may not necessarily originate from the most well-known extreme positions, for example, the far-right, the far-left, or militant Islamism. Today, extremist narratives also emerge from diffuse online communities, which cut across ideological divides. This type of hybrid extremism has recently caught the attention of security practitioners and law enforcement in the Nordic region (see PET, 2024; SÄPO, 2023). Highlighting the ontological connection between extremism and conspiracism (Cassam, 2021), the hybridisation trend is closely linked to the online proliferation and increased salience of conspiracy theories, which accelerated during the Covid-19 pandemic (Brennen et al., 2020). This, combined with the perpetually ironic and ambiguous tone of online environments, challenges security practitioners and scholars alike to distinguish real threats from playful rhetoric. 

While Nordic societies are traditionally recognised as relatively peaceful, homogenous, pragmatic, and consensus-seeking, the recent pandemic and polarising effects of “the dark side” of social media culture (Zeng & Schäfer, 2021) are currently unsettling the categories by which Nordic public discourse may be understood. This includes Nordic perceptions of extremism vis-à-vis the mainstream and the perceived presence and influence of conspiracy theories in the Nordic public cultures. How, for instance, is the QAnon conspiracy theory imported and adapted to fit a Nordic context? What characterises the sentiments of anti-authority groups in the Nordic region, and what role do cross-national conspiracy theories like The Great Reset and The Great Replacement play in these movements? Are there any patterns, similarities as well as differences, in the way extremist narratives emerge through social media use across the Nordic countries? 

Further empirical studies of dynamic, ambiguous, and unclear spaces of online extremism in the Nordic context may help not only security practitioners and scholars but also a wider public audience to understand the emerging environments from which new extremist ideas and potential threats originate. 

Focusing particularly on contemporary forms of extremism and conspiracism in the context of social media, we invite empirical as well as theoretical contributions to elucidate potential Nordic particularities within current developments in online extremism. We prioritise contributions that 1) specifically address social media and engage with social media theories and 2) have a clear focus on the Nordic region. We welcome a broad range of methods, both qualitative and/or quantitative approaches, (comparative) case studies, ethnographic studies, and so on. Topics may include but are not limited to the following: 

• Social media practices and communities, e.g., (co-)creation and dissemination of extremist narratives and conspiracy theories. 
  
• Social media technologies, affordances, and the communicative infrastructure of extremism. 
  
• Changing forms of extremist expression: aesthetics and genres. 
  
• Hybridisation processes and the amalgamation of ideologies, conspiracy beliefs, religious convictions, current events, etc. 
  
• Conditions of mainstreaming and processes of normalisation, e.g., conceptualisations of the mainstream-extreme continuum. 
  
• Nordic import of conspiracy theories and extremist narratives from other national contexts. 
  
• Actors engaged in mainstreaming, legitimating, or promoting extremism, e.g., journalists, influencers, celebrities, activists, politicians, and public intellectuals. 
  
• Case studies of extremist phenomena, i.e., movements, incidents. 
  
• Comparisons between spaces of extremist discourse in the Nordic countries. 

Procedure 

Please send an extended abstract of no more than 750 words to mikkel.johansen@hum.ku.dk by 11 October 2024. The abstract should outline the main theme and approach of the intended paper and mention how it fits with the overall theme of the special issue. 

Authors invited to submit a full manuscript (7,000–9,000 words) will be notified by e-mail when all abstracts are assessed by the editors. All submissions should be original works and must not be under consideration by other publishers. 

After the initial submission and review process, manuscripts that are accepted for publication must adhere to our guidelines upon final manuscript delivery. You may choose to use our templates to assist you in correctly formatting your manuscript. 

Read the full instructions for authors and download a manuscript template 

References 

Baker, S. A. (2022). Alt. health influencers: How wellness culture and web culture have been weaponised to promote conspiracy theories and far-right extremism during the COVID-19 pandemic. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 25(1), 3–24. https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494211062623 

Brennen, J. S., Simon, F. M., Howard, P. N., & Nielsen, R. K. (2020). Types, sources, and claims of COVID-19 misinformation. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford. https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/types-sources-and-claims-covid-19-misinformation 

Bryant, L. V. (2020). The YouTube algorithm and the alt-right filter bubble. Open Information Science, 4(1), 85–90. https://doi.org/10.1515/opis-2020-0007  

Cassam, Q. (2021). Extremism: A philosophical analysis. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/978042932547

Makinac Center for Public Policy. (2019). The Overton window. https://www.mackinac.org/OvertonWindow

PET (Danish Security and Intelligence Service). (2024). Assessment of the terrorist threat to Denmark 2024. https://pet.dk/en/-/media/mediefiler/pet/dokumenter/analyser-og-vurderinger/vurdering-af-terrortruslen-mod-danmark/vurdering-af-terrortruslen-mod-danmark-2024-eng.pdf

Petersen, L. N., & Johansen, M. B. (forthcoming). Spaces of hybridized prefatory extremism.  

Rothut, S., Schulze, H., Rieger, D., & Naderer, B. (2024). Mainstreaming as a meta-process: A systematic review and conceptual model of factors contributing to the mainstreaming of radical and extremist positions. Communication Theory, 34(2), 49–59. https://doi.org/10.1093/ct/qtae001

SÄPO (Swedish Security Service). (2023). The Swedish Security Service 2023–2024. https://tinyurl.com/4v8yfthd

Zeng, J., & Schäfer, M. S. (2021). Conceptualizing “dark platforms”: Covid-19-related conspiracy theories on 8kun and Gab. Digital Journalism, 9(9), 1321–1343. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2021.1938165 

About the publisher 

Nordicom is a centre for Nordic media research at the University of Gothenburg, supported by the Nordic Council of Ministers. Nordicom publishes all works under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence, which allows for non-commercial, non-derivative types of reuse and sharing with proper attribution. All works are published Open Access and are available to read free of charge and without requirement for registration. There are no article processing charges (APC), and authors retain copyright. 

Nordicom Review is an international peer reviewed journal devoted to new Nordic media and communication research. In 2023, Nordicom Review recorded a Journal Impact Factor of 2.0, a CiteScore of 2.8, and an H-Index of 23.

Read more about Nordicom Review 

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Read the call for papers on Nordicom’s website: https://www.nordicom.gu.se/en/latest/news/call-papers-extremism-social-media-nordic-perspectives  

March 19-21, 2025 

Luxembourg

Deadline: October 15, 2024

Organised as part of Luxembourg's chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe by the University of Luxembourg 

Conference outline 

The advent of the digital age has fundamentally transformed the landscape of political participation,  creating unprecedented opportunities and challenges, particularly for the younger generation. This international conference, "Democracy and Youth in the Digital Age: Evolving Technologies and Political Participation," aims to explore the complex and dynamic relationship between young citizens and the digital political sphere. 

In an era where social media platforms, online forums, and artificial intelligence increasingly shape political discourse and engagement, it is crucial to understand how these technologies influence young people's political awareness, activism, and the formation of their political identities. This conference seeks to bridge the gap between cutting-edge academic research and practical, real-world applications by bringing together a diverse array of experts from various scientific fields, policymakers, activists, and educators. 

The conference will address six interconnected themes, each exploring a critical aspect of democracy and youth engagement in the digital age: 

1. Fragmentation versus Participation: The Public Sphere in the Digital Age - At the heart of this theme lies the paradox of the digital public sphere: while digital platforms democratize information access, they simultaneously contribute to fragmentation through echo chambers. The focus is on identifying strategies that foster a well-balanced and informed digital public sphere, encouraging diverse yet cohesive democratic participation. 

2. Parliamentary Democracy versus Activism: Techniques of Engagement - This section examines the intersection of traditional parliamentary democracy and contemporary digital activism, with a particular emphasis on youth engagement methods. It explores how formal political processes and grassroots activism interact and impact the political landscape, assessing the effectiveness of diverse engagement strategies. 

3. Truth versus Trust: Affective Politics after the End of Argument - Central to this theme is the growing dominance of emotional appeals over fact-based political discourse. The section investigates the implications for democratic dialogue and youth engagement, scrutinizing the shift towards emotion and trust-driven communication and its influence on young people's political beliefs and actions. 

4. Memory versus History: Imagined Identities and Ethical Claims - An exploration of how digital media shapes young people's perceptions of identity and ethics forms the core of this section. It aims to unravel the role of digital platforms in balancing informed political discourse and diverse cultural memories, probing the intricate relationship between history, memory, and identity in the digital age's political and ethical landscape. 

5. Gaming versus Explaining? The Future of Political Education - The potential of interactive games in modern civic education is the focus of this theme. It contrasts gaming technologies with traditional educational methods, examining how gamification can enhance political education for youth, foster engagement, and promote critical thinking. 

6. Cultures of Democracy: Political Narratives and Forms of Representation - This final section delves into the nuanced challenges and opportunities for democratic culture in the digital age. It scrutinizes the co-option of cultural narratives by nationalist and populist discourses, while also highlighting the vital need for vibrant democracies to cultivate and transmit their unique national narratives and aesthetic expressions. 

Call for Contributions 

We welcome submissions from researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and experts across various disciplines, including but not limited to political science, history, media studies, law, sociology, psychology, computer science and educational sciences. Contributions that explore one or more of the conference themes are highly encouraged. We particularly invite young people to actively engage in the conference, whether through oral presentations, posters, or by sharing their perspectives during discussions. Early-career researchers and young professionals are especially encouraged to contribute. Both oral and poster presentations are welcome. 

Submissions can be made in two ways: 

1. Directly aligned with a specific panel: If your contribution clearly fits into one of the six thematic sections outlined above, please indicate this in your submission. 

2. Addressing the conference theme as a whole: If your contribution spans multiple themes or addresses the overall conference topic, you may submit it without specifying a particular panel. In this case, the organizers will assign it to the most appropriate section. 

Both types of submissions are equally valued. This approach allows for both targeted contributions to specific discussions and broader perspectives that cross-cut multiple themes. 

Presentation formats: 

• Oral presentations: 20 minutes, followed by a 10-minute discussion. 
• Poster presentations: We also welcome contributions in the form of poster presentations. 

Everyone is welcome to attend and participate in discussions, even if they are not presenting. 

Attendance is free of charge. Simply register by emailing digital-democracy@uni.lu. 

No conference fees will be charged. 

Submission Guidelines 

Please submit a brief CV (max. 2 pages) and a proposal of no more than 300 words in English 

Submission deadline: 15th of October 2024 

Notification of acceptance: 1st of November 2024 

Please submit your proposals to: digital-democracy@uni.lu  

Financial Support:  

We are pleased to offer financial assistance to invited speakers. If needed, we can provide support for travel and accommodation expenses up to a maximum of 500 € per person. 

Conference Details 

Date: 19-21 March 2025 

Location: University of Luxembourg, Campus Belval 

Conference language: English, French, German 

This conference is part of Luxembourg's commitment to promoting the core values of the Council of Europe – human rights, democracy, and the rule of law. It aims to develop concrete solutions to the challenges and opportunities of youth political participation in the digital age. 

Contact:  

Prof. Dr Georg Mein georg.mein@uni.lu 

Dr Isabell Baumann isabell.baumann@uni.lu

November 22, 2024

MS Teams

Continuing our research meetings focused on specific issues of mediatization research chaired by eminent experts (Göran Bolin (2017), Johan Fornäs (2018), Andreas Hepp (2019), Mark Deuze (2020) André Jansson (2021), Andrew Hoskins (2022), Kirsten Frandsen (2023), this year the workshop will take place online on the 22 November 2024 and it will be led by Professor Carlos A. Scolari, Barcelona’s Pompeu Fabra University. We invite all mediatization researchers who wish to discuss their own research projects in a narrow and closed group of media scholars under the guidance of an expert. 

MORE INFO AND REGISTRATION: https://www.umcs.pl/pl/towards-development-of-mediatization-research-viii-mediatization-s-conversations-of-theories-concepts-and-traditions,29680.htm 

How is societal communication evolving with the profound transformation of the digital media environment through communicative artificial intelligence? What consequences, risks, and opportunities arise from the widespread use of this new technology across various social domains? The "Communicative AI" (ComAI) research unit, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), will begin exploring these questions from the perspectives of media and communication studies, sociology, science and technology studies, computer science, and law, starting in early 2025.

The participating research institutions have announced a total of 18 research assistant positions (job scope: DFG 100%, FWF 75%) with the aim of pursuing a doctorate over a four-year period. The specific job advertisements related to this project can be found on the research unit's website (www.comai.space). Additional information on the working environment and the benefits of completing a doctorate within the research unit is also available on the website.

The application deadline is September 27, 2024.

Overview of the research projects in the research unit

P1 | Pioneer Communities: Imagining ComAI and its possible futures (2 vacancies DFG)
P2 | Interfaces: Implementing user-centered ComAI (2 vacancies DFG)
P3 | Law: The Juridification of ComAI (2 vacancies DFG)
P4 | Governance: Private ordering of ComAI through corporate communication and policies (2 vacancies DFG)
P5 | Journalism: Automating the news and journalistic autonomy (2 vacancies DFG)
P6 | Political discourse: ComAI and deliberative quality (1 vacancy DFG)
P7 | Personal sphere: Companionship and ComAI (2 vacancies FWF)

P8 | Health: Caring through ComAI (2 vacancies FWF)

P9 | Education: ComAI for learning and teaching (2 vacancies DFG)

KF | ComAI Research Space (1 vacancy DFG)

Contact: 

University of Bremen

ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research

https://zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/

Leibniz-Institute for Media Research | Hans Bredow Institute

https://leibniz-hbi.de/en/

Institute for Information Management Bremen

https://www.ifib.de/en/home

University of Bremen

TZI, Center for Computing Technologies

https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/tzi   

University of Graz

BANDAS-Center 

https://business-analytics.uni-graz.at/en/center/

University of Vienna

Department of Sociology

https://www.soz.univie.ac.at 

 

Website of the Research Unit 5656 “Communicative AI”: www.comai.space

Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) 

The Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) funds innovative projects that deal with the social opportunities and challenges of the digital transformation. We support individual researchers and groups.

You want to spend a sabbatical in a vibrant interdisciplinary research community? Become a fellow at CAIS!

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 teaching 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.

For the winter semester 2025/2026, we will award up to three fellowships on the topic of “Sustainability in the Age of Digital Transformation” in addition to the usual open call. The special call for applications can be found here: https://www.cais-research.de/wp-content/uploads/Special-Call_Sustainability-in-the-Age-of-Digital-Transformation.pdf

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

You want to boost your collaboration? Bring your group together at CAIS!

Working groups bring together experts from different locations to work on joint projects in an inspiring environment.

We provide modern meeting facilities and catering for working groups of up to ten members. In addition, we will cover travel and accommodation expenses. You can spend up to three weeks in Bochum or get together for up to three shorter meetings.  

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

Application

The next deadline for applications is 31 October 2024. The earliest possible starting date for new fellowships is October 2025. The earliest possible starting date for new working groups is May 2025. Please use the application forms provided on our website.

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.

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

December 12-13, 2024

Belgrade (Serbia) and online

Deadline: October 1, 2024

Website: https://emerge.ifdt.bg.ac.rs 

EMERGE is an annual event that brings together scholars, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to discuss the ethical, social, environmental, and cultural implications of emerging technologies. EMERGE 2024 is organized by the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, and the Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research and Development of Serbia. The conference will be held on December 12 and 13 in Belgrade, Serbia, and online. This year's conference will address eight subtopics within the overarching theme of Ethics and AI Alignment, with one of them focusing on Media, Freedom of Expression, and Democracy.

There are no participation fees for this conference. 

Important Dates: 

Submission Deadline:  October 1

Notification of Acceptance: October 21

Conference Dates:  December 12–13 

For full details, submission instructions, and updates, please visit our website: https://emerge.ifdt.bg.ac.rs.

Journal of Science Communication (Scopus Q2) - Special Issue

Deadline: November 30, 2024

Editors: Fábio Ribeiro (University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro – Portugal); Sónia Silva (Catholic University of Portugal); Thaiane Moreira de Oliveira (Fluminense Federal University – Brazil)

Contacts: fabior@utad.pt; sonsilva@ucp.pt; thaianeoliveira@id.uff.br

KEY DATES AND TIMELINE:

Deadline for abstract submission: 30 November 2024

Selection of abstracts: 31 January 2025

Full article submission: 31 May 2025

Publication date: December 2025

Language: English

No Article Processing Charges (APC) are required

This special issue is dedicated to exploring ‘informal science communication’, broadly defined as playful and meaningful science learning, communication or engagement that typically occurs in daily life within informal contexts.

Historically, the public communication of science was controlled mainly by individuals located within universities and similar research institutions [Schäfer & Fähnrich, 2020], with the result that science was perceived as exclusive, elitist and inaccessible. Today, we increasingly value broad societal access to knowledge about new scientific advances. Recent developments have paved the way to a renewed vision that understands science communication as a broader phenomenon. Several global and regional health crises have highlighted the importance of constructive dialogue between science and society, as well as the challenges associated with public apathy or ignorance towards science and related challenges such as anti-science sentiments, distrust, and misinformation about science. society [Ruão & Silva, 2021].

In this special issue, we want to delve into the potential and efficacy of public engagement of science in these unexpected places and (possibly) involving unexpected role players and novel approaches. Possible contributions to this special issue may include research articles, essays, or practice insights related to the following thematic areas:

• Advances and directions of science communication in informal contexts
  
• Technological environments and “new” informal contexts to communicate science
  
• Creative science communication strategies
  
• Public perceptions of and responses to encountering science in public spaces
  
• Experiences and motivations of researchers’ participation in novel science communication contexts
  
• Procedure to participate
  
• Please send an abstract of about 500 words to the guest editors of this special issue (listed above) by 30 November 2024. Your abstract should include:
  
• the angle on or definition of informal science communication, and the central aim of the proposed manuscript
  
• the context of and perspective that will be discussed
  
• the expected findings, recommendations, or conclusions.
  

Please indicate whether the proposed contribution is intended as a research article (typically 6,000 to 8,000 words), a practice insight (3,000 to 5,000 words), or an essay (3,500 to 4,500 words).

You are welcome to consult with the editors of this special issue about your article ideas and potential angles or approaches.

Invited manuscripts will be submitted directly via the JCOM submission system for peer review. As such, an invitation to submit a full manuscript does not guarantee publication as part of this special issue.

Full information here: https://jcom.sissa.it/news/18/

Tilburg University

We are pleased to announce the hiring of a PhD student for the project, "Digital Inequality and Social Inclusion in the Netherlands." This project explores how digital technologies can support and hinder the inclusion of marginalized communities within Dutch society. We welcome candidates from a range of academic backgrounds. The position is based in the Department of Communication and Cognition in the Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences (TSHD) at Tilburg University. 

I would greatly appreciate it if you could share this opportunity with the network, if that is still possible.

More information and to apply: https://tiu.nu/22401

Application Deadline: September 14, 2024