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University of Sheffield - Department of Journalism Studies

Location: Sheffield

Salary: £41,526 to £49,553 per annum. Potential to progress to £55,750 per annum through sustained contribution (Grade 8)

Hours: Full Time

Contract Type: Permanent

Placed On: 2nd February 2021

Closes: 1st March 2021

Job Ref: UOS027472

Apply here: https://jobs.shef.ac.uk/sap/bc/webdynpro/sap/hrrcf_a_unreg_job_search?sap-client=400&sap-syscmd=nocookie&sap-wd-configId=ZHRRCF_A_UNREG_JOB_SEARCH&sap-ie=edge&utm_source=university%20website&utm_medium=link&utm_content=jobs&utm_campaign=jobs-link#

The Department of Journalism Studies is one of the major journalism research and teaching establishments in Europe. We are committed to a teaching and research programme that takes an interdisciplinary approach to the fields of factual media, journalism and communications.

Our staff are drawn from both journalism and academia and we have an excellent network of national and international contacts, in journalism, civil society organisations and in the academic world. We have a thriving international community of postgraduate research students, taught postgraduates and undergraduates. Our alumni are working in newsrooms in the UK and abroad as reporters, editors, producers, presenters while others have gone on into the communications sector more broadly as well as in to academic careers.

The department is now seeking to recruit a specialist in broadcast journalism to the role of University Teacher. This role will contribute across our professional practice programmes across Undergraduate and Taught Postgraduate levels.

We particularly welcome applicants who:

• have substantial and recent background in broadcast journalism at a senior and national level.
• can lead, co-ordinate, support and contribute to the teaching team as a team co-ordinator or member.
• cuts across all elements of broadcast, including TV and Radio.

You will have:

• have a good honours degree (or equivalent experience).
• proven ability to engage with and inspire people.

We’re one of the best not-for-profit organisations to work for in the UK. The University’s Total Reward Package includes a competitive salary, a generous Pension Scheme and annual leave entitlement, as well as access to a range of learning and development courses to support your personal and professional development.

We build teams of people from different heritages and lifestyles from across the world, whose talent and contributions complement each other to greatest effect. We believe diversity in all its forms delivers greater impact through research, teaching and student experience.

To find out what makes the University of Sheffield a remarkable place to work, watch this short film: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LblLk18zmo, and follow @sheffielduni and @ShefUniJobs on Twitter for more information.

Apply now by clicking on the Apply button.

Edited By: Turo Uskali, Astrid Gynnild, Sarah Jones, Esa Sirkkunen

Taylor & Francis Group

This book sets out cutting-edge new research and examines future prospects on 360-degree video, virtual reality (VR), and augmented reality (AR) in journalism, analyzing and discussing virtual world experiments from a range of perspectives.

Featuring contributions from a diverse range of scholars, Immersive Journalism as Storytelling highlights both the opportunities and the challenges presented by this form of storytelling. The book discusses how immersive journalism has the potential to reach new audiences, change the way stories are told, and provide more interactivity within the news industry. Aside from generating deeper emotional reactions and global perspectives, the book demonstrates how it can also diversify and upskill the news industry. Further contributions address the challenges, examining how immersive storytelling calls for reassessing issues of journalism ethics and truthfulness, transparency, privacy, manipulation, and surveillance, and questioning what it means to cover reality when a story is told in virtual reality. Chapters are grounded in empirical data such as content analyses and expert interviews, alongside insightful case studies that discuss Euronews, Nonny de la Peña’s Project Syria, and The New York Times’ NYTVR application.

This book is written for journalism teachers, educators, and students, as well as scholars, politicians, lawmakers, and citizens with an interest in emerging technologies for media practice.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780367713294, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license

February 25, 2021

Online webinar

PaSTIS Research unit is delighted to invite you to the (free) Webinar “Dependent, Distracted, Bored. Affective formations in networked media”. The webinar will be held on 25 February at 3 pm (GMT +1).

We will discuss with Susanna Paasonen (University of Turku) about her last research work regarding a new approach to understanding the culture of ubiquitous connectivity, arguing that our dependence on networked infrastructure does not equal addiction.

Introduction: Cosimo Marco Scarcelli (University of Padova)

Discussants: Manolo Farci (University of Urbino) and Paolo Magaudda (University of Padova)

Here the link to register for the (free) webinar: https://unipd.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dUESW2T5TlqrAKGPmiERUw

Tripodos No. 51 - Special Issue

Deadline: June 30, 2021

Editors: Óscar Mateos-Martín (Ramon Llull University, Spain), Ana Isabel Rodríguez-Iglesias (International University of Catalonia, Spain)

Publication: December 2021

The monographic is looking for contributions that offer epistemological approaches to the fields of conflict, peace, and security studies. The understanding of these phenomena is always mediated by who tells the story and the language used for it. As a result, in every context, there is always a plurality of narratives that are produced by top-down analysis and bottom-up experiences. How these narratives interact, clash, accommodate and influence each other is of utmost importance to make sense of how international interventions and the deployment of security and peace policies are received or confronted at the local level, and in turn, how bottom-up narratives could be integrated and get a central position. This call looks for critical articles –feminist, post-colonial, and/or critical and poststructuralist analysis– that focus on the process of narration and the actors involved in defining the script, as well as on intercultural translations by looking into possibilities of coexistence and tolerance.

Papers should be sent by June 30, 2021. In order to submit original papers, authors must be registered with the journal (www.tripodos.com) as authors. Following this step, authors must enter their user name and password, activated in the process of registering, and begin the submission process. In step 1, they must select the section “Monograph”.

Rules and instructions regarding the submission of originals can be downloaded at www.tripodos.com. For any queries, please contact the editorial team of the journal at tripodos@blanquerna.url.edu.

Call for papers: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nPoBr_Og9BqhPj2UtyTJDj3UA-9Mv1GI/view

May 2021

Online event

Deadline for Submission: February 15, 2021

As part of our online activities throughout the first half of 2021, we would like to invite all young scholars to apply for our YECREA PhD Workshop jointly held by ECREA’s Crisis Communication Section and Young Scholars Network (YECREA). The participation in the workshop is free of charge.

The aim of the workshop is to provide an online forum with individual feedback by senior scholars for doctoral students whose Ph.D. and research interest is related to the wide and interdisciplinary field of Risk and Crisis Communication.

The PhD Workshop will take place in May 2021. The exact date and time depend on the countries of origin/time zones of the individual participants. Further information on the date as well as on the respondents (senior scholars) will be announced later in time.

To apply for the workshop, please prepare and submit the following two documents:

• an extended abstract of up to 500 words outlining your project (literature excluded): Please think of key elements such as your research problem, theoretical foundation, research question(s), methodology and (preliminary) findings
• a short letter of motivation stating why you would like to participate and which questions you want to see addressed; it should also mention your doctoral advisor as well as a rough time schedule for your project.

The documents must be submitted to Janina Klingelhöfer (Janina.Klingelhoefer@ifkw.lmu.de) until February 15, 2021. Please do not hesitate to ask questions beforehand.

A jury will select the applications according to standards of academic quality like theoretical foundation, stringency, and originality. You will receive their decision by mid-March 2021. There is no need to be a member of the Crisis Communication Section to apply, but please note that the capacity of the workshop is limited.

February - June, 2021

Online event

The ICOG theme group Arts, Medium and Moving Images at the University of Groningen concentrates on the production, aesthetics, reception and impact of film and other contemporary audiovisual screen media. Our focus is on the philosophical, cognitive and phenomenological relation between audiovisual art and its audience; social, technological and artistic developments in the field; historiographical, epistemological and ontological questions regarding media objects and practices; and the mediality and materiality of artworks. The theme group organizes multiple lectures every semester for the academic community in Groningen and beyond. Lecturers include both local and international scholars from the field of Film and Media Studies.

Spring 2021 lineup (all times in CET):

• Thursday, February 18, 18–20h

Justin Remes (Iowa State University)

Nothing to See Here: Antiretinal Aesthetics in Louise Lawler’s A Movie Will Be Shown Without the Picture

• Thursday, March 11, 17–19h

Jaap Verheul (King's College London/University of Groningen)

The Cultural Life of James Bond: Specters of 007

• Tuesday, April 20, 19–21h

Vivian Sobchack (University of California, Los Angeles)

TBA

• Monday, May 10, 17–19h

Kevin B. Lee (Merz Akademie)

The Future of Videographic Criticism

• Monday, June 7, 17–19h

Julian Hanich (University of Groningen)

On Varieties of Beauty in Film

The research colloquium will take place online via Zoom. For more information on the lectures and registration, please visit:

rug.nl/research/icog/

facebook.com/groningenfilm

twitter.com/groningenfilm

May 7-8, 2021

Istanbul Bilgi University/online

Deadline: March 1, 2021

Interdisciplinary PhD communication conference

Collaborative Research Methodologies

• Co-Construction of Knowledge
• Power, Knowledge and Politics of Collaboration
• Collaboration as a Communication Technique
• Participatory Action Research

Challenging Dichotomies and Bridging Gaps

• Theory and Practice
• Academic and Everyday Knowledge
• Agents of Knowledge Production
• Inter/Multi/Trans/Counterdisciplinarity

Researcher as Collaborator

• The Collaborating Self
• Self-Reflexivity through Collaboration
• Ethical Implications
• Taking Affect into Consideration

Doing and Being Together

• Dialogue and Solidarity
• Collaborative Decision-Making
• Forming Communities
• Collaborative Action
• Feminist, Critical and Collaborative Pedagogies
• Intersubjectivities

Collaborative Communication Technologies

• Affordances and Limitations
• Distance and Proximity
• Public and Private Intertwined

Critical Perspectives on Collaboration

• Dissemination, Accessibility and Transferability of Knowledge
• Public Value of Research
• Forced Collaboration

The 2021 edition of IPCC – Interdisciplinary PhD Communication Conference, realised by a group of young scholars within the PhD in Communication Program at Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey, will be held online on 7-8 May 2021 under the theme “Collaborations“. Participants will be expected to provide 15-minute presentations, followed by roundtable discussions, which encourage further inquiry into the related topics of discussion, with the audience and fellow presenters. In line with the mission of the PhD in Communication Program of Istanbul Bilgi University, IPCC prioritises solidarity. Thus, the conference promotes a platform for the co-creation of knowledge, facilitated by free-form discussion sessions.

All PhD students or candidates, as well as early career researchers with PhDs earned in the last 5 years, who are interested in examining, expressing and exploring the current and possible implications of collaborations within their field of interest, are welcome to submit their proposal and join the discussion. Contributions may include but are not limited to the topics provided.

How are we attentive to collaborations?

In a time marked by biological, political, social and economic crises, the IPCC shifts its focus towards practices of solidarity, of labouring together and building new communities within the scope of communication and beyond.

Acknowledging that it is a period of “necessary interdependence” (Kenneth Bruffee, 1999) we are living in, IPCC 2021 calls for participation to discuss new ways to diversify research methodologies, communication techniques, co-authorship practices, shared dialogical spaces and the public value of research. As the paradigms upon which scientific knowledge and inquiry is built are constantly shifting, the conference also aims to question the implications of collaboration for the transformative process of constructing self as a researcher. Furthermore, the new opportunities that have arisen following the increased use of online communication tools sensitizes us to consider collaboration from new perspectives.

In order to reach out beyond the confines of academia and build on the legacy of the previous two IPCC conferences on rethinking methodologies and intersectionalities within the scholarly endeavour of communication, the necessity of challenging dichotomies among theory and practice, natural and social sciences, intellectuals and the public, and producers and audiences is emphasised. By offering to expand horizons towards including diverse voices and involving non-academic research agents as a means to redefine scholarship, a “community of inquiry” is favoured against a Cartesian model of science. This is a space that promotes and celebrates all forms of collaboration, be it based on distance or proximity.

How can you apply?

Kindly send your submissions to ipcc@bilgi.edu.tr with an extended abstract of 500-750 words and a bio of 100 words by Monday, 1 March 2021.

Panel submissions with 3-4 paper presentations are accepted. Panel organisers are kindly asked to submit the panel title with a 500-750 words panel rationale followed by 150 words abstract of each paper presentation and short bios of the participants. Discussants can also be identified with a short bio by Monday, 1 March 2021.

Submissions for roundtable discussions are also encouraged. You can send your topic or questions for the roundtable discussion along with a 400-500 words rationale and a 100 words short bio of yourself by Monday, 1 March 2021.

Submissions will be notified via email by April.

For detailed information: ipcc.bilgi.edu.tr

Deadline: February 15, 2021

Call for Book Chapters

We invite submission of chapters, especially case studies and campaigns analysis on Non-Profit Communication. The proposals should be in a form of an extended abstract of 1000 to 2000 words.

Why a new book?

The interest in civil society organizations present in multiple disciplines, such as sociology, political sciences, management, international law or marketing, is accompanied by different technical, hermeneutical and critical approaches. However, there is no handbook that can provide an overview of the multiple and complex approaches in the non-profit field at micro, meso and macro level. This handbook brings together multiple and multi-disciplinary perspectives and provides an outline throughout critical, structural, strategic approaches, besides debating the new challenges, case studies and recent trends on this social and communicational phenomenon.

Topics

The Routledge Handbook of Non-Profit Communication (NPC) aim is to set out a comprehensive review of research in the NPO communication field. We especially welcome chapters on:

• Metatheoretical and multidisciplinary approaches to the non-profit sector
• Intersection of the definitions of democracy, public sphere, civil society
• Distinctive forms of civil society organizations and their models of reputation, marketing and communication management.
• NPOs’ strategic communication and on the relation between these organizations and their stakeholders and publics.
• Environmental communication
• Health Communication
• Humanitarian Communication
• Development Communication
• Fundraising
• New media challenges
• Campaigns, case studies.

Editors

Gisela Gonçalves, University of Beira Interior, Portugal

Evandro Oliveira, University of Beira Interior, Portugal and University of Mannheim, Germany.

Submission:

We invite submissions before February 15, 2021 to nonprofitcom.routledge@gmail.com consisting of an extended abstract of 1000 to 2000 words clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his/ her proposed chapter. The abstracts will be double blind peer reviewed.

Authors will be notified by the end February about their status. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by the beginning of May.

This publication is anticipated to be released in 2022, by Routledge Publisher.

Contacts:

Gisela Gonçalves (gisela.goncalves@labcom.ubi.pt)

Evandro Oliveira (evandro.oliveira@ubi.pt)

Deadline (EXTENDED): March 31, 2021

Literary photobooks are frequently described as paradigmatic cases of intermediality. Authors have defined intermediality as “intertextuality that transgresses media borders” and “intermodal relations in media”. In literary photobooks, at least two systems are densely related – the verbal system and photography. The word seems to be linked to the photographic image through a bidirectional interaction, involving mutually modulatory influences connecting word and photographic image. They create a coupled system that can be described as a new system, or a new genre. Designed and produced since the end of the 19th century, this kind of multimodal experiment (or literary intermedia genre), has attracted writers, photographers and designers, from several literary and artistic domains. In the last decades this phenomenon has become more and more popular, as witnessed by anthologies and book series in many publishers’ catalogues. The technological development of editing processes and digital printing, with smaller and cheaper print houses, the emergence of independent publishers using new distribution channels, including online networks, contributed to the rise and consolidation of the photobook as a significant contemporary genre. The purpose of this special issue is to bring together experts from different fields of research (literary history and criticism, photography, semiotics, media studies, intermedia and multimodality studies), interested in the photobook as a specific literary genre.

Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Literary photobook: history;
• Analysis of text-photo relations;
• Forms of collaboration between writers and photographers;
• Photobook of literature and intermedia arts;
• Photopoetry: a literary genre?;
• Photobook and intermediality;
• Photobook and multimodality;
• Literary photobook: theories, methods, and models.

DEADLINE: Article submissions will be due on March 31, 2021, with notifications of acceptance by June 1, 2021. Issue editors: Ana Luiza Fernandes (PUC-Rio, Brazil), Karl Erik Schollhammer (PUC-Rio, Brazil) e João Queiroz (UFJF, Brazil).

MATLIT: Materialities of Literature is an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal published by Coimbra University Press and the Centre for Portuguese Literature at the University of Coimbra (Portugal). The journal addresses the material and technological mediations of literary practices, with a particular focus on printness, digitality, aurality, and intermediality. The research fields covered by the journal extend from literary studies to comparative media studies and to digital humanities. MATLIT uses the following working languages: Portuguese, English, and Spanish. There are no article processing charges. Adopting an interdisciplinary and transmedia perspective, the journal is organized into thematic issues. Each issue has its own Call for Papers.

Authors must register and upload their files through the journal platform here: https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/matlit/user/register

Information about submission guidelines: https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/matlit/about/submissions

February 10, 2021

Online event

Deadline: February 8, 2021

Speaker: Dr. Tamsyn Dent (Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King’s College London)

Date & Time: Wednesday 10th February 2021, 16:00-18:00 (GMT)

All welcome.

This is a virtual seminar. Joining instructions will be sent the day before the event.

Please complete registration at Eventbrite: https://kcl_place_space_culturalparticipation.eventbrite.co.uk (open until 8.2.2021)

Details:

This seminar addresses the politics and situated relevance of place in relation to everyday cultural participation and recognition of value. It builds on Jonathan Gross and Nick Wilson’s (2018) work in relation to cultural opportunity through their development of the cultural ecosystem approach to understanding the interdependencies and interconnections of multiple cultural resources but adds a spatially driven relational framework, influenced by feminist geographer Doreen Massey (1994). The seminar will discuss the methodological approach to mapping cultural participation as applied in the Horizon 2020 research project ‘DISCE’ – Developing Inclusive and Sustainable Creative Economies – by looking at the spatial arrangement of cultural activity and participation, from the position of value and orthodoxy (Miles and Gibson 2016) in two small-sized European cities; Enschede, The Netherlands and Dundee, Scotland. The use of maps in the qualitative fieldwork data has enabled an exploration of cultural activity and opportunity from a multitude of locally based participants and through these visual narratives of space we’ve been able to explore recognition of the economic hierarchy of cultural activity, the existence of spaces that enable everyday cultural participations and the relationship and interconnections between them.

Gross, J. and Wilson, N. (2018) ‘Cultural democracy: an ecological and capabilities approach’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, pp. 1–16. doi: 10.1080/10286632.2018.1538363.ass

Massey, D. (1994) Space, Place and Gender. Univ of Minnesota Press

Miles, A. and Gibson, L. (2016) ‘Everyday participation and cultural value’, Cultural Trends, 25(3), pp. 151–157. doi: 10.1080/09548963.2016.1204043.

Biography:

Dr. Tamsyn Dent is working on a collaborative EU project titled DISCE: Developing Inclusive & Sustainable Creative Economies which is looking at improving the growth of the Creative and Cultural Industries across Europe. She is interested in working structures and cultures within the growing creative economies. Her PHD explored the impact of motherhood on women’s career trajectories in the creative and media industries looking at the relationship between identity and value across different social spaces. Prior to her academic research, Tamsyn worked in documentary television production for independent companies and spent many years working in film exhibition for the UK-based women’s Film Festival, Bird Eye View.