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  • 21.04.2021 20:34 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    September 16-17, 2021

    Ljubljana (online or hybrid)

    Deadline: June 7, 2021

    Organizers: Peace Institute (Slovenia) and University of Vienna (Austria)

    Link: https://www.mirovni-institut.si/en/after-the-summer-of-migration-right-wing-populism-media-and-affects/

    The conference focuses on the nexus between political parties, media, and right-wing populism since the so-called 2015 summer of migration in Europe with an affect perspective. The historical background is the erosion of party democracy and the rise of populist democracy. Classical political leadership is declining, giving centrality to personalisation and mediatisation of politics, and above all, populist leaders who exploit social media as new opportunity structures that are becoming a substitute for political debate. On the upswing are right-wing populist actors who aim at mobilising against the elite and internal and external others. The growing number of refugees fleeing to European countries along the Balkan route from war-torn and economically devastated zones fuelled the populist upsurge across Europe, as refugees were increasingly regarded as dangerous, culturally deviant, and a threat to the national security and the welfare system. The COVID-19 period has appeared as yet another crisis that deepened social inequalities and accelerated the invisibility of minorities. The conference intends to debate the populist production of politics of fear and securitisation, which addresses the emotions and affects of people and converts fear of economic and social decline into anger against migrants. The dynamic interplay between political strategies and media practices—the media-political parallelism—is of central concern, i.e. how the policy frames of the political field and the media are distributed and become common sense. The focus is also to understand how affective populist appeals shape public opinion on migration and how they mobilise people’s political and voting preferences. This conference is the final event of the Slovenian-Austrian research project POP-MED.

    We welcome papers addressing one or several of the issues mentioned above. We wish to attract a diverse range of participants from a variety of countries and backgrounds. There is no fee for attending and participating at the conference. The conference language is English.

    Proposals for papers should include the author’s/authors’ name(s), institutional affiliation, email address, together with a paper title, abstract of 300–500 words and a short biographical information. Proposals should be sent by 7 June 2021 to Mojca Frelih: mojca.frelih@mirovni-institut.si.

    Notification of acceptance by 25 June 2021.

    Key note speakers:

    • prof. Zizi Papacharissi, University of Illinois Chicago, Department of Communication
    • prof. Lance Bennett, University of Washington, Center for Communication & Civic Engagement

    Organizing committee:

    Mojca Pajnik, Associate Professor of Media and Communications at the University of Ljubljana and Researcher at The Peace Institute, Ljubljana; Birgit Sauer, Professor of Political Science at University of Vienna; Iztok Šori, PhD in Sociology, Researcher and Director of the Peace Institute; Otto Penz, Sociologist at the University of Vienna; Mojca Frelih, MA in Sociology, researcher at the Peace Institute.

  • 21.04.2021 20:27 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    May 13, 2021

    Online webinar

    I am pleased to invite you to the next in the series of IPRA Thought Leadership webinars. The webinar Communication and culture: cross-culture dimensions for PR will be presented by Esther Cobbah on Thursday 13 May 2021 at 12.00 GMT/UCT (13.00 British Summer Time). Esther is a CEO of the award-winning communications agency, Stratcomm Africa based in Ghana.

    What is the webinar content?

    The webinar will explore the challenges to professional communicators as they attempt to navigate cultural realities in crisis situations. Drawing on the agency’s experience during the covid-19 related pandemic we will draw experience from specific African case studies. Further the webinar will explore the cross-cultural dimensions of public relations in a diverse continent.

    How to join

    Register here at Airmeet.

    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 Esther

    Esther is Ghanaian and CEO of the award-winning communications agency, Stratcomm Africa based in Ghana. She is an IPRA Board member. She was previously external affairs manager for the West African Gas Pipeline Project and public affairs manager for the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation. In all these roles she has developed innovative communication approaches to address organisational needs. Esther is a graduate of the University of Ghana Legon and Cornell University, USA.

    Contact

    International Public Relations Association Secretariat

    United Kingdom

    secgen@ipra.org

    Telephone +44 1634 818308

  • 21.04.2021 20:18 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    COMUNICAZIONI SOCIALI - 2021/2, special issue

    Edited by Nico Carpentier and Johanna Sumiala

    Slowly but surely, arts-based research is making its entry into Communication and Media Studies, moving away from a rather exclusive focus on written texts and oral presentations. This special issue is driven by the belief that still more could be done at the level of theorizing arts-based research practices, and at the level of deploying them in different contexts. The aim of this special issue is to further stimulate the discussion on this topic, bringing together a diversity of voices, formats and approaches. In order to translate this objective into practice, a very strict (and restrictive) definition of arts-based research was avoided. Instead, all contributions that allowed for an artistic-academic dialogue on arts, academia and research were welcomed.

    This became translated into an intentionally-kept-vague structure, with more general reflective texts first, and then a series of more case-study-based approaches and more targeted and specific discussions, divided into a cluster on participation and interaction on the one hand, and mediation on the other. For the very same purpose, also a variety of formats was welcomed, including multimodal formats, more artistic contributions and policy-oriented statements, even though all contributors were asked for relatively short contributions, to maximize the diversity of voices. This strategy produced a variety of contributions that aim to inspire researchers in the field of Communication and Media Studies, and beyond, to reflect about the potentialities (and limitations) of arts-based research, and to consider adapting some of these approaches and methods in their own academic practice.

    http://comunicazionisociali.vitaepensiero.com/scheda-fascicolo_contenitore_digital/nico-carpentier-johanna-sumiala/comunicazioni-sociali-2021-1-arts-based-research-in-communication-and-media-studies-001200_2021_0001-370748.html

  • 15.04.2021 19:08 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Frontiers in Health Psychology, special Issue

    Deadline: May 14, 2021

    The special issue in Frontiers in Health Psychology will focus on studies examining the effectiveness of the use of social influencers to promote health behavior among minors and young adults. Mounting evidence has shown that people, in particular minors and young adults, are susceptible to the promotional activities of influencers on platforms such as Instagram, YouTube and TikTok. Until now, limited knowledge exists on how health interventions through social influencers can be implemented to effectively and efficiently promote important health behavior among minors and young adults (8-35 years). Social influencers could also play an important role in social marketing strategies, such as promoting healthier diets, increased physical activity, less substance use, less smoking, safer sex, more and better quality of sleep, more conscious consumption of screen time, health care seeking, increased adherence to medical treatment, and other health-related behavior.

    Examples of important research questions that this Research Topic hopes to address include (but are not limited to):

    • Which promotion techniques for health behavior do social influencers use and how do these affect people?
    • Are some groups, in particular youth, more susceptible to social influencers than other groups?
    • How has the use of digital and social media affected how health behavior is promoted to youth and young adults?
    • What is the impact of existing governmental programs to stimulate health behavior via social influencers, for example during the COVID-19 crisis, and what is the potential impact of these programs?

    The deadline for abstracts is May 14, 2021. The deadline for full papers is September 11, 2021. For the full call and submission website, please visit:

    https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/20416/social-influencing-for-the-better-how-social-influencers-effectively-promote-healthier-behavior#overview

  • 14.04.2021 21:51 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Silver Screens

    Deadline: April 30, 2021

    Screen Cultures {film, tv drama} are instrumental not only in reflecting but in constructing and reinforcing popular images and narratives of ageing. In recent years such narratives have gained special pertinence with the demographic shift to older populations across European and western nations.

    Following a successful recent conference we are proceeding with an edited collection on the theme of “Silver Screens: Ageing Masculinities in Contemporary [European and Anglophone] Screen Cultures”

    We have a strong line up of scholars and topics and welcome further expressions of interest. We are open to any approach but are especially interested in: constructions of Ageing Masculinities in American and Scandinavian screen cultures, auteur studies and constructions of Queer ageing.

    For consideration and/or further discussion, please forward a 300-word proposal and a short bio to Dr Tony Tracy (Huston School of Film and Digital Media) and Dr Michaela Schrage-Frueh (NUI Galway) at: Irishmascage@gmail.com before April 30th.

    Silver Screens form part of a wider consortium project “Gendering Age: Representations of Masculinities and Ageing in Contemporary European Literatures and Cinemas” [MascAge] at NUI Galway, Ireland funded under ERA Gender-Net + Project under the auspices of the Irish Research Council.

    www.mascage.eu

    www.filmschool.ie

  • 14.04.2021 21:44 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    August 5-7, 2021

    Online conference

    Extended deadline: Monday April 26, 2021

    Hosted by:

    • Ryerson University (Canada)
    • The Glasgow School of Art (Scotland)
    • University of São Paulo (Brazil)
    • The University of Texas at Dallas (USA)

    This virtual edition of the Interactive Film and Media conference on ‘new narratives, racialization, global crises, and social engagement’ is dedicated to the development, analysis, and research processing of the digital experience that is transforming our contemporary world vision through the immense range of storytelling practices, including visual arts, cinema, digital/graphic/interactive narratives, virtual reality, games, etc. The purpose of this conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners working in diverse disciplinary areas to establish an interdisciplinary framework for research on contemporary narratives, including case studies of the multimodal narratives across media and cultures.

    In the wake of the death of George Floyd, the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter has gone viral across the world raising many concerns about the media’s role in our society. Today, it is not enough for the media to not be racist: it must actively be anti-racist. It would not be an overestimation to say that the participation of media in discourses other than those centered on racism is also paramount: it played a decisive role in many recent social and political events, including the pandemic crisis. Therefore, this conference is proposing to examine how media around the world are dealing with the aftermath of these developments. This conference also aims to discuss how the late proliferation of online social events and the increased fragmentation of the discourse via microblogging, subtitling, hashtags, and the enhanced sharing of images through screenshots, short-form videos, selfies, and video calls have affected interactive narratives.

    We are inviting interdisciplinary proposals reflecting on the recent changes to the mediascape and the closely related medium of interactive narrative, in its many forms and iterations. Submissions that consider the advantages and drawbacks of the current trends in film, media, and interactive narratives, will be of special value, as well as those that develop new approaches to the process of algorithmization and hybridization between the information ecosystems dominated by tech enterprises and the mediasphere’s micro-level, where the instant-message apps transform our everyday lives by exposing polarized and contradictory messages, disseminating the misinformation.

    The organizers will consider unpublished works that present research results and/or theoretical reflections within the scope of Interactive Film and Media Studies, with a special focus on ‘new narratives, racialization, global crises, and social engagement’.

    CONFERENCE FEE: No registration fee will be charged for participation/presentation at this conference.

    SUBMITTING PROPOSALS

    Submit an abstract (around 500 words in length including the research objectives, theoretical framework, methodology, and conclusions) and a brief Bio-CV (100 words maximum). Please fill out the form available at https://forms.gle/…dP7

    CONTACT EMAIL: interactivefilmconference@gmail.com

    MORE INFO: https://interactivefilm.blogspot.com

  • 14.04.2021 21:31 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    National University of Singapore (NUS)

    We invite applications for Assistant Professor of Global Media Communication and other tenure-track positions in the Communications and New Media department at the National University of Singapore (NUS). The application deadline is June 1, 2021.

    We welcome candidates whose expertise falls in one or more of the following areas: global media and communication, environmental communication, media industry studies, intercultural communication, science and technology studies, development communication, digital technology and social change, global media governance, media communication in Asia and/or Southeast Asia.

    Candidates are expected to have a PhD in Media Studies, Communications Studies, or a closely related discipline at the time of appointment. This position has a maximum teaching load of three courses per year and will commence in January 2022. For more information, see: https://academicjobsonline.org/…089

    Other positions can be found here: https://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/…ngs

    Inquiries about these positions may be directed to Jasmin Tay at: cnmcareer@nus.edu.sg

  • 14.04.2021 21:27 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Deadline: July 16, 2021

    Call for chapters, Studies in Media and Communications (Emerald series)

    Edited by:

    • Jason A. Smith, Center for Social Science Research - George Mason University
    • Richard T. Craig, Department of Communication - George Mason University

    http://www.emeraldmediastudies.com/…tml

    Racialization is a term used within the social sciences to highlight the ways that social interactions become racial. This is an important concept in sociological and political science research when looking at structural mechanisms that perpetuate racial inequalities. The state, and its various organizational spaces of action, is often seen as a site for race to be enacted (e.g., Bracey 2015). Public policy sectors such as housing, taxation, and immigration, to name a few, have been ripe areas of research. However, media policy research has not effectively engaged with this critical conception. Media policy research has been driven by political economy perspectives within the field of Communications and Media Studies, and can benefit from an approach that analyzes it in relation to social science perspectives that focus on processes which constitute, or are constituted by, actors, groups, and organizations.

    Racializing Media Policy seeks to fill this scholarly gap by providing case studies which focus on media policy issues in the United States through the lens of racialization. It will contribute to a growing body of media policy research within the Communications and Media Studies literature, as well as anchor the role of media policy in Sociological research – where it is lacking. It would also lend itself toward a growing body of work in the Sociology of Organizations which have begun to focus on “raced organizations” (Ray 2019; Wooten 2019) to understand how racial inequalities are embedded within organizational practices.

    The volume is under contract with the Emerald series ‘Studies in Media and Communications.’ The series is sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association.

    Proposals of 750-1000 words are due by July 16, 2021. Submissions that are theoretical and/or empirical are welcomed, although we will give more weight to empirical submissions that can demonstrate the mechanisms of racialization throughout the media policy process. Both qualitative and quantitative approaches will be welcomed, as well as case study approaches which allow authors to connect to larger structural conditions within media policy debates.

    Topics of interest for this volume might include, but are not limited to:

    -A focus on traditional (print, radio, television) and new (internet, social) media issues

    -Historical media policy issues analyzed through the lens of racialization

    -Contemporary issues such as: Net Neutrality, Privacy, Telecom Development (5G), Broadband Access

    -Tensions over media ownership

    -The role of federal agencies in policy formation and decisions

    -The role of media activist groups who engage in media policy work/spaces

    -Localized media policy decisions at the municipal/county or state level

    -Discourses of policy debates

    -Racialized outcomes of media policy decisions

    Submissions should be sent to Jason A. Smith jsm5@gmu.ed and Richard T. Craig rcraig@gmu.edu .

    References

    Bracey, G. E. (2015). Toward a critical race theory of state. Critical Sociology, 41(3): 553-572.

    Ray, V. (2019). A theory of racialized organizations. American Sociological Review, 84(1): 26-53.

    Wooten, M. E. (Ed.). (2019). Race, organizations, and the organizing process. Emerald.

  • 14.04.2021 21:15 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Imke Henkel

    This book offers a new approach to understanding disinformation and its destructive impact on the democratic function of the news media. Using the notoriously false reporting of EU policies by the British press as a starting point, it utilises Critical Discourse Analysis to examine the linguistic properties of false news stories and to understand how they function as myth in Roland Barthes’ sense. The disinformation is essential for the impact these news stories had as it provides the simplification which creates the blissful clarity of myth that Barthes described. As myth, the false news stories depoliticised a political argument and naturalised the claim of antagonistic British-European relations. Henkel shows how news stories used disinformation to articulate a Eurosceptic myth of the feisty, witty Briton who stands up against the European bully. Her main argument is that the disinformation contributed to the Brexit vote because, as myth, it transported an ideology. Henkel argues that the Brexit debate and the news reporting that preceded it for decades can be understood as a case study for how political journalism becomes democratically dysfunctional. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of journalism, media and culture, political communication, and Critical Discourse Analysis.

    https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030695026

  • 14.04.2021 21:04 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    September 10, 2021

    Online conference

    Deadline: May 31, 2021

    Media and communication studies today especially focus on questions surrounding how digital media and digitization have changed and revolutionized previous media ecologies. Funding opportunities, PhD dissertations, journals and books on digitization and the relevance of digital media are overwhelming. This joint ECREA postconference, organized by the Communication History, Radio Research, and Television Studies Sections, invites colleagues to focus on and discuss claims that studying old media is imperative and still fully relevant to understand our contemporary media landscapes. In several media sectors, traditional media, such as television and radio, printing, analog photography and music, are still the most profitable businesses. The integration of old and new media seems to be more effective than disruptive models, and the so-called “old media” are still used and appreciated by media audiences worldwide. This postconference invites empirical and theoretical contributions from different angles. Potential topics may include, but are not limited to:

    • Old media persistence in terms of content, political mentality, business, law, regulation, audience and usage;
    • Remediation and persistence of old media forms into new media, processes of digitization of old media and persistence of old media business models;
    • The significance of traditional media (e.g. broadcasting, printing, analog photography and music, etc.) in contemporary digital culture;
    • Production studies of old media industries;
    • The persistence of propaganda and fake news from old to new media;
    • Old media and how they contribute to the process of datafication;
    • The persistence of old media in the everyday life of minoritarian or marginalised audiences;
    • New media histories for old media;
    • The persistence of old media activism;
    • The continuation and renewal of old controversies and debates (on governance, neutrality, etc.);
    • Nostalgia and use of old media archives as current practices both in the production of new media contents and in the audience consumptions.
    • Analog photography, vinyl, tapes and Super8 movies (among others): the return of nostalgic media

    Please send your 500 word abstract and a short bio of 100 words to info@oldnewspersistence.com. Deadline for submissions is 31 May 2021 and the conference will take place as an online event only on 10 September 2021.

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