ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

Marcos P. Dias

https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526135780/

The machinic city reveals the potential of performance art to create spaces for reflection and deliberation on contemporary urban living and to speculate on the future of cities. As social and spatial interactions in the city become increasingly mediated by machines, performance art can help us reflect on the new modes of subjectivity that emerge as human and machine agency become intermingled and digital media permeates the urban fabri

Several case studies of urban art interventions are analysed and discussed as examples of the potential of the aesthetic machine of performance art, as it assembles with media, Capitalist, human and urban machines. These case studies reveal the importance of acknowledging dissensus as a constitutive factor of urban life and as a means of countering machinist determinism in present and future conceptualisations of city life.

Table of Contents:

Introduction

1 A Machine To See With

2 Probing the machine of performance art

3 Rethinking machines

4 The aesthetic machine

5 Participation in the machinic city

6 Future machines

Conclusion

Author bio:

Marcos Dias is an Assistant Professor at the School of Communications, Dublin City University. He completed a PhD in Media Studies in the University of Melbourne, Australia in 2015 and also holds a MSc with Distinction in Interactive Digital Media from Trinity College Dublin. His research investigates the social and spatial impact of digital technologies in the contemporary mediated city.

September 23 – 26, 2021

Gaborone, Botswana

Deadline: May 31, 2021

SMUS Conference

23 – 26.09.2021, 

We hereby invite you to submit an abstract for the “1st International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Spatial Methods” (SMUS Conference) and “1st RC33 Regional Conference – Africa: Botswana” in cooperation with ESA RN21 “Quantitative Methods” 23 – 26.09.2021, organised and hosted online by the University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana.

The “Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability” (GCSMUS) together with the Research Committee on “Logic and Methodology in Sociology” (RC33) of the “International Sociology Association” (ISA) and the Research Network “Quantitative Methods” (RN21) of the European Sociology Association” (ESA) will organize a “1st International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Spatial Methods” (“SMUS Conference”) which will at the same time be the “1st RC33 Regional Conference – Africa: Botswana” from Thursday 23.09 – Sunday 26.09.2021, hosted by the University of Botswana in Gaborone, Botswana. Given the current challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic, the conference will convene entirely online. The conference aims at promoting a global dialogue on methods and should attract methodologists from all over the world and all social and spatial sciences (e.g. area studies, architecture, communication studies, educational sciences, geography, historical sciences, humanities, landscape planning, philosophy, psychology, sociology, urban design, urban planning, traffic planning and environmental planning). Thus, the conference will enable scholars to get in contact with methodologists from various disciplines all over the world and to deepen discussions with researchers from various methodological angles. Scholars of all social and spatial sciences and other scholars who are interested in methodological discussions are invited to submit a paper to any sessions of the conference. All papers have to address a methodological problem.

Please find more information on the above institutions on the following websites:

“Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability” (GCSMUS):

https://gcsmus.org and www.mes.tu-berlin.de/spatialmethods

ISA RC33: http://rc33.org/

ESA RN21: www.europeansociology.org/research-networks/rn21-quantitative-methods

University of Botswana in Gaborone: www.ub.bw

If you are interested in getting further information on the conference and other GCSMUS activities, please subscribe to the GCSMUS newsletter by registering via the following website: https://lists.tu-berlin.de/mailman/listinfo/mes-smusnews

Conference Sessions:

1. Decolonizing Social Science Methodology – Towards African Epistemologies

2. Decolonizing Social Science Methodology – Overcoming Positivism and Constructivism

3. Decolonizing Methodologies and Epistemologies: Discourse Analysis and Sociology of Knowledge

4. Culturally Sensitive Approaches for the Global South – Potential New Directions of Empirical Research

5. Critical Conversations on Bagele Chilisa’s Indigenous Research Methodologies

6. Policy Analysis and Political Economy

7. Researching the History of Postcolonial States with Qualitative Methods

8. Hermeneutics ‒ Interaction ‒ Social Structure

9. Interpretative and Multi-Method Approaches to Global-South-Migration

10. Process-Oriented Micro-Macro-Analysis

11. City Networks between the Structural and the Everyday: Methods that Bridge Macro- and Micro-Perspectives for a Better Comparative Understanding of Cities

12. Methodologies for the Investigation Spatial Transformation Processes

13. Human Centric Approaches on Urban Futures

14. Methods of Architectural Research

15. Art and Design Based-Research, Cross-Disciplinary Approaches for Material Knowledge Production

16. The Contribution of Urban Design to the Qualitative Methodology Discourse

17. Mapping for Change? Resituating 'Slow Time'. Craftwo/manship and Power

18. Applying Research Methods in Interdisciplinary Urban Sustainability Projects

19. The Role of ‘Productive Interactions’ between Researchers and Stakeholders in Creating Rigorous and Relevant Research for Urban Sustainability

20. Knowledge Creation in Informal Settlements: The Process, Ethics and Outputs of Co-Productive and Community-Led Research Methods

21. Fieldwork in the Global South – Shedding Light into the Black Box

22. Survey Data Quality in Interviewer-Administered Surveys in LMIC Contexts

23. Assessing the Quality of Survey Data

24. Digital Methods in Action: Use, Challenges and Prospects

25. Researching Climate Change Communication: Methodological Challenges and Opportunities in the Digital Era

26. Money and Digitalisation in the Global South

27. Methods in Food Studies Research

28. Locating the Religious/Secular in Africa: Methodological Challenges Conveners

29. Ethical and Methodological Dilemmas of Social Research in Violent Conflict Situations

Submission of Papers

All sessions have to comply with the conference organization rules (see below). If you want to present a paper, please submit your abstract via the official conference website: https://gcsmus.org between 20.02.2021 and 31.05.2021. You will be informed by 31.07.2021, if your proposed paper has been accepted for presentation at the conference. For further information, please see the conference website or contact the session organizers.

Conference Organizers:

Gabriel Faimau (University of Botswana, Botswana) and Nina Baur (TU Berlin, Germany)

Botswana Organizing Team: Gabriel Faimau, Sethunya Mosime, France Maphosa, Godisang Mookodi, Ikanyeng Malila, Gwen Lesetedi, Latang Sechele, Esther Nkhukhu-Orlando

Rules for Session Organization (According to GCSMUS Objectives and RC 33 Statutes)

1. There will be no conference fees.

2. The conference language is English. All papers therefore need to be presented in English.

3. All sessions have to be international: Each session should have speakers from at least two countries (exceptions will need good reasons).

4. Each paper must contain a methodological problem (any area, qualitative or quantitative).

5. There will be several calls for abstracts via the GCSMUS, RC33 and RN21 Newsletters. To begin with, session organizers can prepare a call for abstracts on their own initiative, then at a different time, there will be a common call for abstracts, and session organizers can ask anybody to submit a paper.

6. GCSMUS, RC33 and RN21 members may distribute these calls via other channels. GCSMUS members and session organizers are expected to actively advertise their session in their respective scientific communities.

7. Speakers can only have one talk per session. This also applies for joint papers. It will not be possible for A and B to present at the same time one paper as B and A during the same session. This would just extend the time allocated to these speakers.

8. Session organizers may present a paper in their own session.

9. Sessions will have a length of 90 minutes with a maximum of 4 papers or a length of 120 minutes with a maximum of 6 papers. Session organizers can invite as many speakers as they like. The number of sessions depends on the number of papers submitted to each session. E.g. if 12 good papers are submitted to a session, there will be two sessions with a length of 90 minutes each with 6 papers in each session.

10. Papers may only be rejected for the conference if they do not present a methodological problem (as stated above), are not in English or are somehow considered by session organizers as not being appropriate or relevant for the conference. Session organizers may ask authors to revise and resubmit their paper so that it fits these requirements. If session organizers do not wish to consider a paper submitted to their session, they should inform the author and forward the paper to the local organizing team who will find a session where the paper fits for presentation.

11. Papers directly addressed to the conference organising committee (and those forwarded from session organizers) will be offered to other session organizers (after proofing for quality). The session organizers will have to decide on whether or not the paper can be included in their session(s). If the session organizers think that the paper does not fit into their session(s), the papers should be sent back to the conference organizing committee as soon as possible so that the committee can offer the papers to another session organizer.

merzWissenschaft | medien + erziehung

Deadline: February 22, 2021

Supervising Editors:

• Prof. Dr. Oliver M. Reuter (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg),
• Wolfgang Neumann & Prof. Dr. Anja Hartung-Griemberg (Ludwigsburg University of Education)
• and the merzWissenschaft editorial team (JFF)

The weasel is said to be able to suck out the entire contents of an egg without leaving a single visible trace on the empty shell.

This peculiar ability brings to mind a phenomenon encountered in some forms of human activity. Weasel words pose more questions than they provide answers to. “Creativity” is a weasel word, one whose ubiquitous use is as casual as it is programmatic. One reason for this is certainly its positive connotation: A creative person is capable of performing well, someone who promotes creativity is working on behalf of something good. Creativity techniques expand the awareness of possibilities and mental freedom. Creative approaches help solve problems, generate ideas and develop visions. Free Creativity is the “driving power in times of crisis” (Muntschick 2020 [translation adapted]). It is thus no surprise that creativity is also ubiquitous in the context of media education and is anchored firmly in relevant media literacy definitions. The invocation of the creative subject has an emancipatory component. In creative acts the subject successfully achieves distance from central societal images and participates in deliberative processes with authentic expectations.

The current Maker movement put wind in the sails of those relying on the concept of creativity. Laser cutting machines and 3D printers inspire new forms of creative encounter and media-esthetic configuration. FabLabs and HackerSpaces provide new atmospheres for creative processes. Veni creator spiritus! On closer examination this anthem of creativity is based on several contradictions and ambivalences. Can Artificial Intelligence be creative? And what is the value of the creative, since it is subjected to capitalist compulsions? What values and added value does the creative subject bring forth?

If we ask what is specifically meant by the term creativity, we encounter confusion. An abundance of definitions characterizes the heterogeneous overall image of the term. The legacy of theories, for example those of Graham Wallas (The Art of Thought, 1926), may still inhere in the basic nuances of many creativity models (e. g. the distinction of various creative stages). But a wide variety of disciplines which see worthwhile substance in creativity for their respective fields results in an impenetrable thicket. The hodgepodge is intensified by popular-scientific usage which claims the glory of the term for itself, admittedly without providing an adequate basis for doing so.

In contrast to processes which whenever possible pursue a previously known objective along a linear path, creative processes cannot withdraw into the simple execution of a predefined or derivable plan. Much more it is absolutely prerequisite to generate something previously unknown in the mutual interaction of phases in which ideas freely unfold and phases of concrete realization. The central objective of creative processes is ultimately to develop something new, regardless of the nature of that novelty. The significance of originality is enough to give creative action a relevance exceeding a personal sense of purpose and the compensatory, which subjects the processes of esthetic education to political and structural demands. Creativity as a sensible and in some aspects crucial element in the use of media is not only relevant in the field of education in the broadest sense. Creative approaches are also obligatory in fields such as computer programming and in the development of applications.

In the current special issue of merzWissenschaft we would like on the one hand to discuss the subject of creativity in terms of its various theoretical relationships and reflective outlooks and on the other hand to provide impulses for scientific and practical educational work. The following focus areas and questions are for example conceivable:

Creativity and its theoretical-discursive constitution

• How is creativity understood in (media-)educational discourse?
• What positions, cognitive interests and research questions determine the shape of the current debate on the concept of creativity?
• Which analyses of the links between central societal images and creativity are essential to critical reflection on (media-)educational objectives and work methods?
• To what extent is creativity a normative term, what is the normative justification for this term and what are the associated consequences?
• What significance does creativity still enjoy as a central concept of art critique?

Creativity and media behavior

• What relationships between creativity and various media are to be observed? What is the specific significance of digital media in this context?
• What prerequisites do media generate for creative action? And to what extent do these prerequisites at the same time limit creative action?
• What is the significance of digital media which preclude options for their own deployment (as is the case in computer games) or which react adaptively to user behavior?
• How do creative processes (using media) become visible? What esthetics are manifested? How can observers participate?

Creativity and conditions for educational enablement

• What structural and temporal factors place conditions on and favor creative processes?
• How can creative processes emerge in a media landscape which already offers a surfeit of information and images?
• To what extent does a media landscape support or impede the creation of new ideas?
• How can creative approaches be made fertile, even as early as in the development of media products?
• What creativity-related perspectives are conceivable in contexts relating to personal development, societal-democratic and even economic-ecological aspects?
• What role does creativity play in the context of societal constellations of recognition?
• To what extent are alternatives to the creative imperative conceivable? To what extent can the original intention of art critique be mobilized to articulate and therefore undermine social grievances and political power structures, based on creative artifacts?

Note: There is no requirement to espouse and/or give scientific preference to a specific concept of creativity. Contributions are to explicitly explain their reference to a creativity concept formulated in the context of the investigation/presentation.

merzWissenschaft provides a forum advancing scientific analysis in media education and promoting progress in the theoretical foundation of the discipline. For this purpose qualified articles are called for from various relevant disciplines (including mediaeducational, communications sciences, media sciences, (developmental) psychological, legal fields and philosophical perspectives in the history of a given field), also with an interdisciplinary approach, for the continuing development of expert mediaeducational dialog. Of interest are original papers with an empirical or theoretical foundation, presenting new findings, aspects or approaches to the topic and which are explicitly related to one of the topic areas or questions outlined above, or which explore a separate topic within the scope of the overall context of the Call.

Abstracts with a maximum length of 800 words can be submitted to the merz-editorial team (merz@jff.de) until February 22, 2021. Submissions should follow the merzWissenschaft layout specifications, available at https://www.merz-zeitschrift.de/manuskriptrichtlinien/. The length of the articles should not exceed a maximum of approximately 7,000 words. Please feel free to contact Susanne Eggert, tel.: +49.89.68989.152, e-mail: susanne.eggert@jff.de

Summary of deadlines

• February 22, 2021: Submission of abstracts to merz@jff.de
• March 12, 2021: Final decision on acceptance/rejection of the abstracts
• June 14, 2021: Submission of papers
• June 15 to July 19, 2021: Assessment phase (double-blind peer review)
• August/September 2021: Revision phase (with multiple cycles, when appropriate)

Review of Communication Research

Deadline: August 1, 2021

Review of Communication Research invites the submission of literature reviews and meta-analyses relevant to audience and reception studies. Possible areas and issues to be covered include, but are not limited to:

- Critical/cultural approaches to audience/reception studies

- Political economy and audiences

- Journalism and audiences

- Entertainment and audiences

- Ethics in audience research

- Social media and audiences

- Audience and reception research in the Global South

- Universal and cultural differences in reception

- Methodological questions in audience/reception studies

- Theoretical questions in audience/reception studies

The manuscript submission deadline is August 1, 2021.

Paper proposals, questions, and comments should be addressed to Melissa Tully (melissa-tully@uiowa.edu) cc to editor@rcommunicationr.org.

Authors should submit their manuscripts through the RCR editorial management system: www.rcommunicationr.org.

Download a PDF of the Call for Papers: https://www.rcommunicationr.org/public/journals/1/Call%20for%20Papers%20or%20Proposals%20RCR_Audiences%20&%20Reception%20Studies

Review of Communication Research (RCR, www.rcommunicationr.org ) is an open-access academic journal that has become a reference for the publication of literature reviews for the field of Communication.

The articles we publish are highly cited. According to the SCOPUS SNIP indicator, RCR ranks in the top 2% journals in the Social Sciences, and #14/434 in Communication; Scopus SJR 2019: top 10%; Scopus CiteScore 2019: top 19%.

Special Issue of Media​ International Australia

Deadline: February 28, 2021

Editors: Luke Heemsbergen (luke.h@deakin.edu.au), Emiliano Treré​ (TrereE@cardiff.ac.uk) & Gabriel Pereira (gpereira@cc.au.dk)​

Check the full CfP here: tinyurl.com/1kcs2tzb​

What are the ways in which algorithms are​ being deployed tactically to provocative ends? And, just as​ importantly, are these sustainable as activist or political practice?​

This issue will consider these trends and surrounding issues in order​ to introduce new ways of thinking about algorithmic politics in​ tactical and discrete terms. It hopes to open critical data and​ algorithm studies in ways that might reconfigure how critical​ scholarship approaches the algorithm in tactical terms as networked​ media tools that are antagonistic. We ask for submissions that​ consider the design of algorithms not as finished solutions that​ structure the world, but as something troubling - in a meaningful and​ helpful way - that might better inform our understanding of the​ capacities and limits of algorithmic life.​

We are particularly looking forward to critical engagements with​ algorithmic practice, which may include feminist theory,​ de/post-colonial theory, critical race theory, queer theory,​ indigenous theory, perspectives from the Global South, and others.​

The issue looks to submissions including but not limited to…

-​ Agonistic and antagonistic algorithm design

- Algorithms as culture​ (and critical responses to algorithmic culture) - Algorithmic practice​ of the everyday

- Activist algorithmic science and practice

-​ Adversarial algorithmic externalities

- Standpoint data justice

-​ Tactical algorithmic media

- Forms of algorithmic resistance and​ antagonistic algorithm design in the Global South

- Applied​ evolutionary computation

- Feminist and antirracist algorithmic theory​ and practice

- Disaffected technologies and technologists

- Artistic​ forms of response to algorithmic culture

- Antagonism of digital,​ algorithmic, and tech labourers​

Proposed Timeline​

• 28 February 2021: Abstracts (400-500 words) due for submission to guest editors​
• 21 March 2021: Invitation to submit full papers sent to selected​ authors, with feedback on abstracts as applicable​
• 31 July 2021: Full papers sent by authors for Peer Review​
• 15 October 2021: Peer review returned to authors​
• (Up to) 30 Jan 2021: Final papers due for those papers that have​ passed/responded to review.​
• May 2022: Special Issue comes out on MIA

Edited by: Stefania Milan, Emiliano Treré and Silvia Masiero

Published in the Theory on Demand Series of the Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam

The book features 75 authors writing in 5 languages in 282 pages that amplify the silenced voices of the first pandemic of the datafied society. It is a multilingual conversation that celebrates linguistic and cultural diversity but also de-centers dominant ways of being and knowing while contributing a decolonial approach to the narration of the COVID-19 crisis. It brings researchers, activists, practitioners, and communities on the ground into dialogue to offer critical reflections in near-real time and in an accessible language, from indigenous groups in New Zealand to impoverished families in Spain, from data activists in South Africa to gig workers in India, from feminicidios in Mexico to North/South stereotypes in Europe, from astronomers in Brazil to questions of infrastructure in Russia—and counting! The result is a heterogeneous, polycentric and pluriversal narration, which invites the reader to enact and experience the “Big data from the South(s)” approach as an interpretive lens to read the pandemic.

The book is proudly open access and available here in .pdf and .epub versions: https://tinyurl.com/1l28349d - While supplies last, we are also distributing printed copies for free. Enjoy and spread!

May 27-28, 2021

Online conference

Deadline: February 1, 2021

27th International Congress of the SEP

Spanish Society of Journalists (SEP), Faculty of Communication of the University of Seville (Spain) 

Under the title “Digital transformation. Challenges and expectations for journalism”, this edition establishes the necessary connection between the academic, business and professional worlds around the general theme of the activity and between the agents involved. It aims to advance the importance of the digital transformation as a strategy of the media and journalism companies, therefore, the term digital is assumes not as an end in itself, but as a central characteristic of the journalism industries.

The event will be attended by international professionals such as Charo Henríquez, Head of Newsroom Development and Support at The New York Times, and Alfred Hermida, professor at the University of British Columbia and a founding member of BBCNews.com website.

Participation has also been confirmed by renowned Spanish professionals such as Pepe Cerezo, professor at Carlos III University of Madrid and director of Evoca Media; Noemí Ramírez, Chief Product and Customer Officer at PRISA Noticias; Javier Martínez, Chief Digital Officer at La Vanguardia, and José Ignacio Álvarez Ortiz, director of the applicatons business area at Oracle Ibérica.

The abstracts, with the communication proposals, may be sent until 15 February 2021, through the form available on the Congress website: www.sepsevilla2021.com. All accepted abstracts will be included in the digital abstract book published by the Editorial of the University of Seville. The papers defended at the Congress, after peer review, may choose to be published in these reviews: Textual & Visual Media, Ámbitos. Revista internacional de Comunicación, IROCAMM or Anàlisi. Quaderns de comunicaciò i cultura, or as a chapter in a digital book edited by Gedisa and the SEP.

Abstracts with proposals for papers can be sent through the form available on the Congress website: www.sepsevilla2021.com. These are the 5 main thematic areas:

1. Evolution and adaptation of the journalistic profession to the new challenges.

2. Innovation of new business models and entrepreneurial niches.

3. Active audiences and distribution strategies.

4. Recent trends in content production and new narratives.

5. Teaching and research in journalism post Covid-19.

Accepted abstracts will form part of the digital book of abstracts with the seal of the Editorial of the University of Seville. Papers defended at the conference, after peer review, will be eligible for one of the following publication options:

- Textual & Visual Media Journal.

- Ámbitos. International Journal of Communication.

- IROCAMM Journal.

- Anàlisi Journal. Quaderns de comunicació i cultura. (Q2)

- Digital book chapter published by Gedisa (Ranking SPI-Comunicación- 2nd place) and SEP.

- Digital book chapter published under the seal of the Editorial de la Universidad de Sevilla.

REGISTRATION

Registration for the Congress closes on 3 May 2021. Those who register before or including 15 March 2021 can benefit from a reduced rate. Further information is available on the Congress website.

KEY DATES

• 3 December 2020: Call for papers and opening of registration.
• 15 February 2021: Deadline for submission of abstracts.
• 2 to 8 March 2021: Notification of acceptance of proposals.
• 15 March 2021: Deadline for reduced registration.
• 12 April 2021: Deadline for sending the video presentation of accepted papers.
• 24 May 2021: Publication of the Book of Abstracts on the conference website.
• 3 May 2021: Deadline for registration.
• 27 and 28 May 2021: Presentation of papers and holding of the Congress.
• 21 June 2021: Deadline for submission of articles to the following journals: IROCAMM, Anàlisi. Quaderns de comunicació i cultura (Q2) and for the book published by Gedisa and SEP (2022), according to the selected publication option.
• 1 to 15 September: Notification of evaluation and acceptance of chapters for the book edited by Gedisa and SEP.

*Those papers that are accepted after peer review and that are not selected in the previous options, will be published as book chapters with the seal of the Editorial of the University of Seville.

31 December 2021: Deadline for submission to Ámbitos. International Journal of Communication.

Open date: for submission of papers to the journal: Textual & Visual Media.

If you have any questions, please visit the Congress website: www.sepsevilla2021.com or contact sep2021@us.es (academic questions) and secretariaSEP2021@sepsevilla2021.com (other questions).

Edited By: Avery Plaw, David Ramírez Plascencia, Barbara Carvalho Gurgel

Routledge 2021

https://www.routledge.com/The-Politics-of-Technology-in-Latin-America-Volume-1-Data-Protection/Plaw-Gurgel-Plascencia/p/book/9780367359416

https://www.routledge.com/The-Politics-of-Technology-in-Latin-America-Volume-2-Digital-Media-Daily/Plascencia-Gurgel-Plaw/p/book/9780367360115

The Politics of Technology in Latin America Volume 1.

This book analyses the arrival of emerging and traditional information and technology for public and economic use in Latin America. It focuses on the governmental, economic and security issues and the study of the complex relationship between citizens and government.

The book is divided into three parts:

• ‘Digital data and privacy, prospects and barriers’ centers on the debates among the right of privacy and the loss of intimacy in the Internet,
• ‘Homeland security and human rights’ focuses on how novel technologies such as drones and autonomous weapons systems reconfigure the strategies of police authorities and organized crime,
• ‘Labor Markets, digital media and emerging technologies’ emphasize the legal, economic and social perils and challenges caused by the increased presence of social media, blockchain-based applications, artificial intelligence and automation technologies in the Latin American economy.

This first volume in a two-volume set will be important reading for scholars and students of governance in Latin American, the protection of human rights and the use of technology to combat crime and the new advances of digital economy in the region.

Table of contents

Chapter 1. Introduction.

Avery Plaw, Barbara Carvalho Gurgel and David Ramírez Plascencia

Part I. Digital data and privacy, prospects and barriers.

Chapter 2. The reception of sexual messages among young Chileans and Uruguayans: Predictive factors and perception of harm.

Amaranta Alfaro, Matías Dodel and Patricio Cabello

Chapter 3. Small Data, Big Data and the Ethical Challenges for a fragmented developing world: Peru’s need for diversity-aware public policies on information technologies and practices.

Hugo Claros

Chapter 4. Open Government, Dilemmas, and Innovation at the Local Level: Comparing the Cases of Austin, Buenos Aires and Madrid.

Edgar A. Ruvalcaba-Gomez, Soledad Gattoni and Raymond W. Weyandt

Part II. Homeland security and human rights, a questioned balance?

Chapter 5. Ethical controversies about Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems: views of small South American States.

Raúl Salgado Espinoza

Chapter 6. From Sensationalist Media to the Narcocorrido: Drones, Sovereignty, and Exception along the U.S.-Mexican Border.

David S. Dalton

Chapter 7. The process of technologization of the drug war in Mexico.

Avery Plaw, David Ramírez Plascencia and Barbara Carvalho Gurgel

Part. III. Labor Markets, digital media and emerging technologies: potentials and risks.

Chapter 8. Algorithmic Law – A legal framework for Artificial Intelligence in Latin America.

Maximiliano Marzetti

Chapter 9. Automation and Robotization of production in Latin America: problems and challenges for trade unions in the cases of Argentina, Mexico and Chile.

Victoria Basualdo, Graciela Bensusán and Dasten Julián-Vejar

Chapter 10. Using functional and social robots to help during the Covid19 pandemic: Looking into the incipient case of Chile and its future artificial intelligence policy.

Carmina Rodríguez-Hidalgo

Chapter 11. Intellectual property and social media policies for user-generated content: some lessons from Mexico.

Rosa María Alonzo González

Chapter 12. Mining as an Art of Survival in Venezuela: Eluding Scarcity and improving Living Conditions with Bitcoins.

David Ramírez Plascencia

Chapter 13. Conclusions.

Avery Plaw, Barbara Carvalho Gurgel and David Ramírez Plascencia

The Politics of Technology in Latin America Volume 2.

This volume focuses on the hyper-mediatization of Latin America from the citizen’s perspective, considering the social impact and how people embrace information technologies to improve their living conditions, engage in political issues and the role of digital journalism in promoting democratic values in Latin America.

The book is divided into three parts:

• ‘Digital Media and Daily Life in Latin America’ explores cases related to the integration of digital media such as mobile devices, social platforms and, even, drones to diverse commercial, private and social activities.
• ‘Information technologies and civic engagement’ gives special attention to the new political practices triggered by the irruption of smartphones and platforms, especially inside organizations and social movements in Latin America.
• ‘Journalism and Media Integrity in the Age of Post-truth’ centers on the study of digital journalism and the new media landscape, and related issues like precarization of labor conditions and the crisis of reliability in media.

This second volume in a two-volume set will be important reading for scholars and students of social use of digital media in Latin America, civic engagement, and the connections between politics, journalism and technology.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction.

David Ramírez Plascencia, Barbara Carvalho Gurgel and Avery Plaw

Part. I. Digital Media and Daily Life in Latin America.

Chapter 2. Drone Ethics and Legal Regulation, Comparative Drone Law in Latin American countries.

Jorge Andrés Cruz Silva and David Andrés Mayorga Naranjo

Chapter 3. Net-narcoculture. Discursive trends on femicide violence and youth culture in the consumption of the narcorap aesthetics versus feminist rap resistances.

Dra. Virginia Villaplana Ruiz and Dra. Alejandra León Olvera

Chapter 4. COVID-19 Confinement-related Mental Disorders: Morbidity and the Remedial Use of ICT in Hispanic Societies.

Sergio Yagüe-Pasamón

Chapter 5. Speaking for Communities and Against Oppression: Digital Media Responses to COVID-19 within Marginalized Communities of Brazil and Mexico

Stuart Davis and Melissa Santillana

Part. II. Information technologies and civil engagement.

Chapter 6. Social media as an instrument of activism for feminist university students in Mexico: the cases of MOFFyL and Uni Unida.

Yunuen Ysela Mandujano-Salazar and Luis Antonio Becerra-Soria

Chapter 7. Latin American Indigenous Media Productions: Digital Artefacts of Contestation.

Milton Fernando Gonzalez-Rodriguez

Chapter 8. Digital media in citizen participation and collective action for spatial justice.

Laura Pinzón Cardona

Chapter 9. Social Media and Political Polarization in Latin America: analyzing online discussions during the 2018 presidential campaign in Colombia

Jean-Marie Chenou, Daniel Cabarcas Velandia and Maria Nicoll Sepulveda Marin

Part III. Journalism and Media Integrity in the Age of Post-truth.

Chapter 10. Digital Native Media in Central America: Reshaping the Online News Sphere.

Ramón Salaverría and Silvia-María Corzo

Chapter 11. Disinformation and news consumption in a polarized society: An analysis of the case of Venezuela.

Javier Serrano-Puche, Carmen Beatriz Fernández and Jordi Rodríguez Virgili

Chapter 12. Social Media in a Post-truth Age: Discursive Roles of Fake News About Marielle Franco.

Priscila Muniz de Medeiros and Natália Martins Flores

Chapter 13. Collaborative Journalism vs. Disinformation: An Approach to Fact-Checking Projects in Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, and Spain.

Amaya Noain-Sánchez

Chapter 14. Conclusion.

David Ramírez Plascencia, Barbara Carvalho Gurgel and Avery Plaw

University of Zurich

The Department of Communication and Media Research at the University of Zurich (IKMZ) has a vacancy for a postdoctoral researcher in the division of Prof. Dr. Thomas Friemel. The IKMZ is one of the largest communication research institutes in Europe with about 80 employees and provides an excellent infrastructure for research and teaching, an inspiring academic environment as well as excellent employment conditions. The University of Zurich also offers numerous opportunities for continuing education as well as a wide range of interdisciplinary cooperation possibilities.

The Division of Media Use and Effects (www.mediennutzung.ch) focuses its research and teaching on the social context of media use and effects from a social science perspective. This includes classical mass media as well as new media and various forms of interpersonal communication. In addition to communication science, references to social psychology, sociology, and social network analysis are therefore particularly important for our work. The position is part of the research project "Covid-Norms", which is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) as part of the National Research Program "Covid-19" (NRP78). The project examines social norms as well as the public discourse on key measures to mitigate the Covid-19 pandemic (www.covid-norms.ch/en). This job posting is related to the subproject that focuses on surveying social norms and media use in the general population. Accordingly, in-depth knowledge of standardized survey and analysis methods is an important requirement for this position.

Requirements profile

• Very good doctoral degree in communication and media research or a related research field that is of direct relevance to the outlined research project
• Prior knowledge of or high interest in media use and media effects research
• Very good knowledge of communication science theories
• Very good knowledge of quantitative research methods
• Very good knowledge of German or English (passive knowledge of German or another national language of Switzerland are an advantage)
• Strong organizational and communication skills, commitment and ability to work in a team

Working focus

• Development of survey instruments
• Analysis of collected data
• Internal coordination tasks to manage the subprojects
• Communication with the Federal Office of Public Health and other cooperation partners
• Conference participation and publications 
• Collaboration in other work within the division (research, teaching, administration)

Conditions of employment

The employment will be on an 80% basis. A reduction or increase is possible after consultation and in dependence of the available resources and duties (e.g., teaching assignments). The position will initially run until 31.8.2022. Further employment as a postdoctoral researcher or Senior Teaching and Research Associate at UZH is possible but subject to the availability of appropriate resources (maximum of six years).

Application documents

Please submit the following documents to Valeria Rieser via the application button on the UZH job portal (www.uzh.ch/jobs):

• Letter of motivation (1-2 pages)
• Curriculum vitae in tabular form incl. copies of certificates
• Doctoral thesis
• A selected publication (e.g., journal article)

Application and selection process

Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, and the call will remain open until a suitable candidate has been found. For questions regarding this job offer, please contact Dr. Sarah Geber, s.geber@ikmz.uzh.ch.

Nantes, France

Description

Position overview:

The position is located within the Communication and Culture Department at Audencia’s Mediacampus, on the Ile de Nantes, at the heart of the Creative Arts District. The Mediacampus’ ecosystem is a breeding ground and a place for learning, sharing and manufacturing development as well as content delivery, training, research, and testing.

Audencia Business School is triple accredited (AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA), and one of the leading European and French Business Schools. The school offers a wide range of programs including MSc, MBA, Executive MBA, European Master in Management, Doctorate and Executive Education Programmes, with more than 120 core faculty members from 25 countries.

The school is located in the city of Nantes, just 2 hours away from Paris by train, serviced by an international airport. With a vibrant city life full of cultural and other events, the sandy Atlantic coast to the west of the city and rolling vineyards and royal castles to the east, it is it an ideal city to live in. Perhaps these are the reasons for which Time Magazine selected Nantes as 'the most liveable city in Europe'. In addition to its pleasant environment, the city also boasts a rich economic and industrial identity, housing more than 1330 companies within the city.

Requirements

Position requirements:

The preferred candidates for the position will:

• hold a PhD (preferably in Communication);
• has publishing experience or a well-developed research program to publish in top-tier international journals (SCIMAGO Q1, ICA Journals, etc…);
• has previous international experience and/or has developed international research networks and projects;
• have an ongoing program of academic research in Strategic Communication, Communication & Organization, or Communication & Management, that can contribute to one of the four axes of research structuring the Communication & Culture Department (website):
• • Media: Rhetoric and Practices of Engagement. Engagement has become a central issue in contemporary societies. Research in this area focuses on political communication and civic engagement, responsible brand messaging and the perception of same by consumers, environmental rhetoric and interfaces with consumers, on digital consumption and usage, and on the figures (from the illustrious to the infamous), values and actions they promote.
  • Creativity, Innovation, Design. In this area, researchers look into the different approaches and phases of the design process in communication and culture management (including education). The purpose is to analyse, deconstruct, redesign and test new methods and discourses about design, creativity and innovation.
  • Art and Organizations: The aesthetic issues involved in the organization and mobilization of "ordinary" creativity constitute a sector in the development of research. At the crossroads of the arts, culture, digital technologies and organizational theories, Art and Organization explores objects of cross-functional research, focusing on the study of artistic organizations, and/or the aesthetic facets of conventional organizations.
  • Design and Drafting of Public Policies: Researchers in this area are interested in the process with which public policies are developed, from their writing to their circulation. Work in this area focuses on the production of public policies in the specific fields of culture, security and poverty through the mechanisms that these policies use, the figures they involve, the market players taking part in the interactions, and the media output they generate.
• has recent experience and demonstrate evidences of excellence in higher level teaching and student mentoring. Courses to be provided in English in the Master’s Degree in Communication and Media (Audencia SciencesCom), or in Programme Grande Ecole including core courses (Criticism and Ethics in Communication; Strategic Management of Communication; elective course in Public Communication), and courses commensurate with the candidate’s expertise;
• be expected to provide leadership in the areas of teaching, curriculum development, student engagement and extra-curricular activities in Communication and Culture (in French and in English);
• be expected to contribute to outreach activities to the broader practitioner community and across the school.

Salary is negotiable and commensurate with experience and qualifications. The contract, to begin at the earliest in September 1st 2021, is for a full-time permanent position and includes a number of benefits, such as research and other performance-based bonuses, full family insurance coverage, generous medical coverage, etc. A good working knowledge of English and French languages is essential. If necessary for international profile, the candidate may be assisted to improve his or her proficiency in French.

Application

Candidates should send an electronic application by May 1st, 2021, including an application letter, a curriculum vitae (including a full list of publications), two selected publications, information regarding teaching performance, and names of two referees by e-mail to Thibaut BARDON, Audencia’s Associate Dean for faculty and research - faculty-recruitment@audencia.com with reference “C&C2021”

For more information, please contact:

Research: Julien PIERRE, julienpierre@audencia.com

Pedagogy: Martha ABAD GREBERT, mabadgrebert@audencia.com