European Communication Research and Education Association
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
*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:
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.
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.
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
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.
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
Working focus
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):
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:
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
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:
You will have:
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:
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
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):
Justin Remes (Iowa State University)
Nothing to See Here: Antiretinal Aesthetics in Louise Lawler’s A Movie Will Be Shown Without the Picture
Jaap Verheul (King's College London/University of Groningen)
The Cultural Life of James Bond: Specters of 007
Vivian Sobchack (University of California, Los Angeles)
TBA
Kevin B. Lee (Merz Akademie)
The Future of Videographic Criticism
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/
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twitter.com/groningenfilm
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