European Communication Research and Education Association
Dr Lauren O’Hagan and Dr Elisa Serafinelli would like to invite you to visit our digital exhibition ‘Views from the Blue’.
"Our exhibition collects 10 images from worldwide civil drone users. Their images are accompanied by a short written reflection exploring its content, which aims to encourage viewers to reflect on how drones are reshaping our geographical imaginations and understanding of the world. Our exhibition is then followed by a brief survey that aims to gather anonymised information that will help us to know more about your thoughts on drone visuals.
To visit our exhibition click here: https://visualsociety.net/exhibition/
We would really appreciate it if you could share this invite with your list of contacts or whoever you think would be interested in this creative experience.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Our exhibition is part of the AHRC funded research project Drones in Visual Culture, which is exploring the ways drones are contributing to change contemporary visual culture. More information about the project is available here: https://visualsociety.net/current-research/"
Thursday 17 June 2021, 16:00 UK time, 17:00 Central European Time
Online event
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-of-the-public-service-media-and-public-service-internet-manifesto-tickets-157227017241
This event launches “The Public Service Media and Public Service Internet Manifesto”.
The Internet and the media landscape are broken. The dominant commercial Internet platforms endanger democracy. The Manifesto stresses the importance of public service media and the creation of a public service Internet for the future of society and safeguarding democracy.
In the online event, media experts will talk about why they support and signed the Manifesto that is the outcome of a discussion and collaboration process organised as part of the AHRC research network InnoPSM: Innovation in Public Service Media Policies.
With interventions by Alessandro D'Arma, Roy Cobby Avaria, Leonhard Dobusch, Christian Fuchs, Minna Horowitz, Luciana Musello, Jack L. Qiu, Barbara Thomass
The event takes place on Zoom. After registering on Eventbrite, you will receive the Zoom access data at latest one day in advance of the event. The audience of the event will have the opportunity to be among the first to read and sign the Public Service Media and Public Service Internet Manifesto.
Edited by Tarik Jusić, Manuel Puppis, Laia Castro Herrero & Davor Marko
https://ceupress.com/book/air
The agenda for transition after the demise of communism in the Western Balkans made the conversion of state radio and television into public service broadcasters a priority, converting mouthpieces of the regime into public forums in which various interests and standpoints could be shared and deliberated. There is general agreement that this endeavor has not been a success. Formally, the countries adopted the legal and institutional requirements of public service media according to European standards. The ruling political elites, however, retained their control over the public media by various means.
Can this trend be reversed? Instead of being marginalized or totally manipulated, can public service media become vehicles of genuine democratization?
A comparison of public service media in seven countries (Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia) addresses these important questions.
Published by CEU Press
November 9-13, 2021
Online conference
Deadline: June 30, 2021
The term “media” occupies such a crucial space in our lives that human interactions are increasingly analysed from a “mediated” perspective. Media forms have been subjected to adulation and censorship simultaneously and are often spoken in terms of the power they have to shape ideas and practices. Anthropological thinking and methods have a vital role to play here, in highlighting the myriad ways in which contemporary worldviews are shaped by media and vice versa. The panel invites scholars from both media anthropology and media/communication studies perspectives to a discussion about theoretical and methodological exchanges between the fields in the broadest sense.
Possible contributions can include the following topics:
The deadline for abstract submissions (400 words) is 30 June 2021.
You can submit your abstract here: https://www.iuaes2021yucatan.org/call-for-papers-registration/ and choose our panel/table in Group 3.
We are looking forward to receiving your proposals,
Florencia García-Rapp, Marie Hermanova and Haripriya Narasimhan
July 9, 2021, 7am ET (1pm CEST)
Deadline: June 21, 2021
This year, as part of the IAMCR pre-conference events, the media sector development working group and MEDAS21 invite PhD students working on media development issues to an online “speed-dating session.” By offering emerging scholars the opportunity to present their research in a 3-minute-thesis format and get feedback from their peers and industry professionals, we hope to contribute to intensified exchange and networking and to develop practical coping mechanisms for any difficulties and pressures they face in their research.
How to apply: Applicants interested in networking with peers should submit a short description (1,000 characters max.) of their research project to michel.leroy@tu-dortmund.de
Deadline for submission: June 21st, 11:59pm CEST
Costs: This is a FREE event, open to anyone, no membership required
Background
Within the relatively new working group focusing on efforts of shaping and developing media systems, early-career scholars sometimes feel isolated or feel that professional connections in the sector are difficult to establish. The aim of this session is to provide an opportunity for early-career scholars to build their networks. It is an opportunity for junior scholars from the “Global North“ and “South“ to meet with practitioners and senior researchers to voice their concerns and challenges such as (but not limited to) choosing a relevant topic, grants and funding issues, access to data and literature... An informal atmosphere will ensure equality, caring and respect.
Aims
What topics are under-researched in the field of media sector development today? What are the most pressing challenges for getting early-career researchers and professionals in the sector to work together? In a casual format similar to “speed dating”, post graduate and doctoral students will be able to propose their answers to these questions and convey them to their peers by presenting their research (project) to the audience in 3 minutes maximum. These contributions will finally be taken up and discussed in a debate with representatives of academic institutions and media development organisations. Those who cannot attend the discussion can contribute to the debate by sending a poster (in PDF format) presenting their project and its issues, to be published on a dedicated webpage.
Call for proposals
This call for proposals is open to emerging researchers, whether they are Master's degree holders considering a thesis, PhD candidates or junior PhDs who have graduated less than a year ago. As the media development sector is at the crossroads of several disciplines, applicants can come from any field (media studies, communication, political science, sociology, history...) but it must be somehow linked to what is called “media sector development” in the sense given on the working group page. Please note that the live event will be held in English but those who would like to present in another language are invited to submit a proposal and kindness is expected towards all those for whom English is not their first language.
For those interested in the live online event, please send a short description (1,000 characters maximum) of your research, its main issues and the challenges you face to michel.leroy@tu-dortmund.de. You must include your name, gender, nationality, university of affiliation and the name(s) of your supervisor(s). You also agree to attend the online event and to have a sufficient internet connection to be able to log in. Participants will receive a certificate of participation at the end of the seminar.
For those interested in the poster presentation, please send directly your poster as a PDF (in English only) attached with the same specifications as above to michel.leroy@tu-dortmund.de. It is advisable to publish your address on the poster so that you can be contacted directly.
Proposals will be selected on the basis of their quality, topicality and with the objective to ensure a variety of their backgrounds.
This session is part of the event series jointly organized by IAMCR media sector development working group and MEDAS21 as 2021 Nairobi pre-conference events. More information can be found at https://www.medas21.net/news/#PhDspeeddate
Comunicar
Deadline: September 30, 2021
Description and Thematic Areas:
Hate speech is considered the conscious and wilful public expression of hostility and rejection towards individuals, groups or collectives, whether based on racial, ethnic, religious or national criteria, on the grounds of gender, sexual identity or orientation, or any other criteria, which promote intolerance, discrimination, stigmatization, violence, aggression or, in its most serious form, physical extermination. These discourses, traditionally reflected in the mass media and alternative circuits, currently, focus their dissemination channel through online media, digital communities and social media. Therefore, this call is open to research that helps to understand this phenomenon, both from a perspective focused on the analysis of the messages, and the background and repercussions of this type of discourse, as well as on prevention and intervention to minimise alleviate the impact of these messages.
Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:
Full CFP can be found at: https://www.revistacomunicar.com/pdf/call/call-71-en.pdf
The full author guidelines can be read at: https://www.revistacomunicar.com/normas/01-normativa-comunicar-en.pdf
DEADLINE:
Article submissions will be due on September 30th, 2021, with notifications of acceptance before January 2021. Issue editors: Mª Dolores Cáceres Zapatero (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain), Mykola Makhortykh (University of Bern, Switzerland) and Francisco Segado (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain).
COMUNICAR is a leading open-access journal, 13 of 92 in 2019 SSCI-JCR ‘Communication’ category
University of Zurich
The Media Change and Innovation Division, Department of Communication and Media Research (IKMZ), University of Zurich is seeking applications for a postdoctoral position. The successful applicant will contribute to a new research project on The Chilling Effects of Dataveillance funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) led by Prof. Dr. Michael Latzer and Dr. Moritz Büchi and also work on further topics that align with the division’s research program (see recent Publications for research focus areas). If you are interested in digital media use, privacy and dataveillance, algorithmic selection and well-being, please consider applying!
→ Read the full job description
→ Apply via UZH jobs website
Contact for further information: Dr. Moritz Büchi (m.buechi@ikmz.uzh.ch)
New 2-volume book from Nordicom
Editors: Josef Trappel & Tales Tomaz
Download the book as open access or order a print copy here: https://www.nordicom.gu.se/sv/publikationer/media-democracy-monitor-2021
Content eq:
Volume 1
Josef Trappel & Tales Tomaz
Preface
Download the chapter here: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:norden:org:diva-12099
1. Democratic performance of news media: Dimensions and indicators for comparative studies
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Tim Dwyer, Derek Wilding, & Tim Koskie
2. Australia: Media concentration and deteriorating conditions for investigative journalism
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Manuela Grünangerl, Josef Trappel, & Tales Tomaz
3. Austria: Confirmed democratic performance while slowly digitalising
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Marko Ala-Fossi, John Grönvall, Kari Karppinen, & Hannu Nieminen
4. Finland: Sustaining professional norms with fewer journalists and declining resources
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Christine Horz-Ishak & Barbara Thomass
5. Germany: Solid journalistic professionalism and strong public service media
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Hanne Vandenberghe & Leen d’Haenens
6. The Netherlands: On media concentration and resilient freelance journalists
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Joaquim Fidalgo
7. Portugal: Impoverished media struggling for survival
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Lars Nord & Torbjörn von Krogh
8. Sweden: Continuity and change in a more fragmented media landscape
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Heinz Bonfadelli & Werner A. Meier, in collaboration with Michael Schanne
9. Switzerland: Highly concentrated leading news media in austerity and downsizing mode
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Martin Moore & Gordon Ramsay
10. United Kingdom: Economic challenges, market consolidation and increasing professional insecurity
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Volume 2
Jonathan Hendrickx, Pauljan Truyens, Karen Donders, & Ike Picone
1. Belgium (Flanders): News diversity put under pressure
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Gregory Taylor & Brooks DeCillia
2. Canada: A strong foundation with an uncertain future
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Enrique Núñez-Mussa
3. Chile: Crisis of trust and a precarious industry
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Mark Blach-Ørsten, Rasmus Burkal, Eva Mayerhöffer, & Ida Willig
4. Denmark: High media independence and informal democratic traditions in the newsroom
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Stylianos Papathanassopoulos, Achilleas Karadimitriou, Christos Kostopoulos, & Ioanna Archontaki
5. Greece: Media concentration and independent journalism between austerity and digital disruption
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Lo Wai Han & Wong Tin Chi
6. Hong Kong: Free press under existential threat
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Valgerður Jóhannsdóttir, Jón Gunnar Ólafsson, & Friðrik Þór Guðmundsson
7. Iceland: A small media system facing increasing challenges
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Claudia Padovani, Giuliano Bobba, Alice Baroni, Marinella Belluati, Cecilia Biancalana, Mauro Bomba, Alice Fubini, Francesco Marrazzo, Rossella Rega, Christian Ruggiero, Simone Sallusti, Sergio Splendore, & Michele Valente
8. Italy: A highly regulated system in search of equality
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Eun-mee Kim & Jae-woo Lee
9. South Korea: Relatively healthy, still trying hard to adapt to digitalization
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10. Solid performance, but democratic deficits remain. Conclusions
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The book will be available for purchase in printed format from 23 June 2021
University of Innsbruck, Austria
In this brand-new project funded by the Austrian Science Fund, we examine the communication strategies that governments and heads of state used in televised press conferences to steer their countries through the immediate phase of the COVID-19 crisis.
We offer a 4-year fully funded PhD position (30 hrs/week). Further details here: https://www.uibk.ac.at/politikwissenschaft/forschung/political-communication/projects/communicating-covid19/
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:
The following would be of benefit for the position:
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
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