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The Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism, Faculty of Social Sciences of the Charles University in Prague

https://iksz.fsv.cuni.cz/en/admissions/phd-programme-media-and-communication-studies

The Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Charles University in Prague calls for candidates for the following PhD projects (each supported by a scholarship), for its English-language PhD programme in Media and Communication Studies:

Digital life and learning in the times of COVID-19 and beyond

The COVID-19 pandemic has played a profound role in people’s everyday experiences, which have even more than before moved to digital and third spaces. The potential two research projects would either qualitatively or by applying mixed method research explore those experiences through the lenses of digital and media literacy. One would be looking at education of children, while the other at social relationships and isolation. Both local and intercultural/international research projects are welcomed. They need to be interdisciplinary by being theoretically and/or methodologically rooted in media studies, as well as other disciplines such as education, childhood studies, cultural anthropology, philosophy, psychology, health, law, etc. Proposals of innovative research approaches are especially encouraged. The project is in English.

Potential supervisor: Markéta Supa, marketa.supa@fsv.cuni.cz

Intolerant belief systems and their intersection in the online communication

Western liberal democracies are polarizing along different lines and this polarization is specifically visible in the online discussions on various controversial topics. How does intolerance based on one characteristic (for example age) relate to other intolerant belief systems (gender, ethnicity, race, sexuality etc.)? How does intolerant public online communication reflect societal norms and culturalprejudice prevalent in the analysed culture? What is the role of disinformation media in promoting the intolerant belief systems?

The phenomenon can be studied on various research topic and case studies (ranging from politically exposed topics to debates among popular culture fans). Studies are supposed to be rooted in theories on online deliberation and its societal significance, intersectionality, post-truth society and other relevant theories. Project focusing on this field can be submitted in English or in Czech.

Proposed supervisor: Lenka Vochocová, lenka.vochocova@fsv.cuni.cz

Political leadership – new challenges, crisis and issues

The Ph.D. project should focus on these topics (political leadership as a marketing tool, changes in political communication, leadership crisis facing new issues) in relations to Climate change, Covid 19 pandemic, global migration etc., methodologically it can be approached from different angles. Theoretically, it should be rooted in the political marketing theory and political communication theory. The research can either focus on a specific case study or do a more comparative approach. This PhD project can also be submitted to the Czech-language PhD programme in Media Studies.

Proposed supervisor: Anna Shavit, anna.shavit@fsv.cuni.cz

Discursive constructions of the environment

This PhD position consists out of research into the discursive construction of the environment, climate and/or human-nature relationships, driven by a discourse-theoretical (or other post-structuralist) framework, that allows for attention for the workings of contingency, hegemony, materiality and discursive struggle. The research can be located in variety of social fields, including media, the arts and/or museums.

Proposed supervisor: Nico Carpentier, nico.carpentier@fsv.cuni.cz

Emerging Ethical Boundaries in Marketing and Strategic Communication

Currently, the communication profession (marketing, advertising, public relations, strategic, and digital communication) faces an unprecedented shift due to new information and communication technologies. This evolution also opens new questions and generates many new ethical problems, such as using personal data and information, the ability of the public (consumers, voters, customers) to understand the persuasive nature of some communication forms, the rise of hybrid journalistic and commercial products such as content or native advertising etc. We welcome Ph.D. projects tackling changes in communication that focus on an ethical aspect in the business field (covert advertising, ethical issues in a specific subfield such as tobacco or alcohol advertising, etc.) or research of the ability of the publics to understand persuasion.

Proposed supervisor: Denisa Hejlová, denisa.hejlova@fsv.cuni.cz

Current Media and Marketing Trends and Research in Health Communication

Health Communication in the Czech Republic is still a rather unexplored field, which has been highlighted recently due to the Covid19 crisis. We focus on health communication in general (theory, state of the field, expert interviews) or specific subfields, such as vaccination communication or nutrition literacy. We offer an interdisciplinary approach in cooperation with medical and health experts from medical faculties and other departments at Charles University.

Proposed supervisor: Denisa Hejlová, denisa.hejlova@fsv.cuni.cz

Environmental Communication and Corporate Social Responsibility (with a possible focus on the fashion industry)

Recently, many fashion brands included sustainability and environmental issues in their communication and actions and this issue is widely reported also in academic literature (Köcksal, Strähle, Müller and Freise, 2017; Yang, Song and Tong, 2017; Garcia-Torres, Rey-Garcia and Albareda-Vivo, 2017; Resta, Gaiardelli, Pinto and Dotti, 2016). It is not only the fashion brands talking about environment, but also stakeholders play an important role in the dialogue between fashion brands and its consumers. Recently, more consumers demand “brands with purpose”, that communicate its social responsibility, includes societal, political or environmental issues (Montgomery, 2019). We welcome Ph.D project focusing on producer or consumer research in this field, not only limited to fashion industry.

Proposed supervisor: Petra Koudelková, petra.koudelkova@fsv.cuni.cz

“Class Swap“: class-driven social experiments in Czech Reality Television culture

This PhD. project will explore Reality Television programmes which are grounded in swapping social positions of the upper-class participants who are sent to socioeconomically adverse environments (such as Milionář mezi námi [FTV Prima, 2020]; Experiment 21 [Prima Cool, 2020]; Utajený šéf [TV Nova, 2017-20]; Zlatá mládež [ČT, 2016 a 2018], etc.) International students are invited to select equivalent television programmes produced in English. The project will be theoretically informed by the scholarship on Reality Television as a neoliberal genre transforming complex issue of social inequalities into the bipolar structure of categories of “winners“ and “losers“. The study will follow methodologies of content analysis, discourse analysis and narrative analysis (or a combination thereof).

Proposed supervisor: Irena Reifová, irena.reifova@fsv.cuni.cz

Discourses and practices of othering

This PhD position involves research in the broad area of othering. It is expected to be driven by a post-structuralist approach, focussing on the construction and practices of othering through, e.g. the media, the arts, politics, or activism. Projects in this thematic area can examine, for instance, the discourses and practices that create (old and new) ethnic, political, cultural others, in specific contexts and/or at different times, or how these practices can relate to social struggle and resistance.

Proposed supervisor: Vaia Doudaki, vaia.doudaki@fsv.cuni.cz

Application

Interested candidates should submit their applications, using in the online application system, which will be open from 1st January to 30th April 2021. Interest in a particular PhD project should be mentioned in the motivation letter, together with a more developed proposal on the PhD project.

All relevant information, including the link to the online application system, can be found at here: https://fsv.cuni.cz/en/admissions/phd-programmes

and here: https://is.cuni.cz/studium/eng/prijimacky/index.php?do=detail_obor&id_obor=22693

Please download the form for filling your dissertation project proposal here: https://iksz.fsv.cuni.cz/sites/default/files/uploads/files/DISSERTATION%20PROJECT%20form%20in%20English.docx

For general questions, please contact for the Centre of PhD Studies cds.iksz@fsv.cuni.cz. For questions about particular projects, please contact the proposed supervisors.

The Open Doors Day for PhD Study in Media Studies is currently scheduled for March 11, 2021 (Thursday) at 14:00 at the Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism (Smetanovo nabrezi 6, Praha 1, 110 00) will be organised online.

Journal of Open Humanities Data

Deadline: March 1, 2021

Research in computational and quantitative approaches to humanities data is a fast growing interdisciplinary area. The first Computational Humanities Research workshop (CHR2020) took place online from 18 to 20 November 2020, organized by the DHLab of the KNAW Humanities Cluster in Amsterdam and The Alan Turing Institute. Although most research presented had a strong data-driven component, the focus of the workshop was primarily on methods, techniques, and computational analyses in humanities research. Thus, the challenges of the underlying humanities data for computational research remained relatively underexposed, but are at least as important. This special collection aims to highlight the challenges of humanities data for computational research. This special collection of the Journal of Open Humanities Data is open to both authors who presented at the CHR2020 workshop and intend to submit a paper highlighting the aspect of humanities data and to new authors.

For this special collection we invite submissions of two varieties:

1. Short data papers contain a concise description of a computational humanities research object with high reuse potential. These are short (1000 words) highly structured narratives that conform to the data paper template. A data paper does not replace a traditional research article, but rather complements it.

CHR2020 authors: If you have already published a paper in the CHR2020 proceedings and your research includes the creation of a dataset with potential for reuse, you are welcome to submit a short data paper that complements your CHR2020 proceedings paper.

New authors: If you are a new author and have created a dataset relevant to computational humanities research, you are invited to submit a paper in this category.

2. Full length research papers discuss and illustrate methods, challenges, and limitations in the creation, collection, management, access, processing, or analysis of data in computational humanities research. These are intended to be longer narratives (between 3000 and 6000 words + references), which give authors the ability to contribute to a broader discussion.

CHR2020 authors: If you have already published a paper in the CHR2020 proceedings, you are welcome to submit a paper in this category focussing on the specific features and challenges of the humanities datasets used in your research.

New authors: If you are a new author you are welcome to submit a paper in this category focussing on the specific features and challenges of the humanities datasets.

Topics of focus are: the features and challenges of humanities data for computational research, including scale and size, sampling and representativeness, data complexity, multidimensionality, multimodality, diachrony, as well as the challenges of preparing data for computational humanities inquiries.

Humanities subjects of interest to JOHD include, but are not limited to Art History, Classics, History, Linguistics, Literature, Modern Languages, Music and musicology, Philosophy, Religious Studies etc. Research that crosses one or more of these traditional disciplinary boundaries is highly encouraged.

The deadline for submissions to this special issue is: 1 March 2021. Manuscripts will be sent for double-blind peer review after editorial consideration, and accepted papers will be published online in the journal’s special collection. Please follow the submission guidelines to submit your manuscript.

Special Forum for Communication, Culture and Critique

Deadline: March 1, 2021

June 2021: Volume 14, Issue 2

Length: 1000-1500 words, inclusive of notes and references

The forum section in Communication, Culture & Critique publishes short, timely commentary pieces exploring contemporary issues in communication, media, and cultural studies for an international readership. COVID-19 is the focus of this forum, which is designed to gather narratives and commentaries from around the world, sharing situated and personal accounts of the pandemic’s many impacts on academic life. The forum’s essays will provide a critical perspective on academic life during the pandemic, with a focus on themes of power, inequality, and injustice. What opportunities and challenges have emerged from our amended work lives? How have existing inequalities been exacerbated or improved by the adaptations we have made to the ways we work? How have remote work practices affected the power dynamics in classrooms and academic departments? From reconciling homelife pressures while teaching/learning from home to adapting research projects and methods to accommodate the necessity of working remotely, these essays will explore how academics responded to COVID-19 in the 2019-2020 academic year.

Submissions should be narratives and commentaries, not research reports. Authors are encouraged to write in creative and/or experimental formats. While burnout and frustration are likely to shape some perspectives, we also seek submissions focused on humor and positive outcomes. Co-authored (or multi-authored) submissions are welcome. Forum topics may include:

• Precarious employment
• Work/life balance
• Connection and solidarity
• Inequality and injustice
• Travel and citizenship
• Coping habits and strategies
• Promotion and tenure
• Online teaching
• Childcare
• Enrollment and budgeting
• Graduate life
• Research and methods
• Digital pedagogy
• Service commitments
• Online conferences
• Advising
• Job searches
• Faculty meetings
• Mental health
• University schedules, policies, and practices
• Grants and funding

Publishing

Submission procedures: Submissions should be received by March 1, 2021 in Word format (.doc extension), following the 6th edition (2nd printing) APA style. Please submit your entry to Melissa Click at click@gonzaga.edu. Turnaround time will be swift to publish this forum section in a timely manner.

Inquiries and questions are welcome; please address them to Melissa Click at click@gonzaga.edu.

Call for Chapters

Deadline: June 30, 2021

Editors: CarrieLynn D. Reinhard (Dominican University), Ben Abelson (Mercy College) and Allison R. Levin (Webster University)

Before the concretization of fan studies as an academic discipline, fans would routinely be labeled and treated as “fanatics” -- people with excessive love for something or someone that could lead them to engage in maladaptive, even dangerous, behavior. Over time the term mental health disorders developed to mean a condition that affects a person’s behavioral, and emotional well-being. As both fanaticism and mental health are framed as being all about how people think, feel, and behave, public discourse framed fandom as a mental health issue. Along with being problematic due to class, racial, gender and other issues, this positioning meant that fandom was not well understood until the recent couple decades.

Now, scholars return to this idea of mental health and fandom, but for the purposes of understanding how being a fan relates to their own mental health. This collection explores what fans learn about mental health from their fandoms and how their fandoms can impact their own mental health, for better or worse. Discussing these issues and intersections will further our understanding of the complex ways in which fandom weaves into people’s lives.

Fans experience and express issues with mental health in various ways. The theoretical and empirical essays intended for this collection demonstrate the importance of neither deriding nor lauding fans and fandom. Instead, they engage with fans to understand how their fandom operates as another component of their lives, which can have positive and negative impacts on their mental health. Such examinations can further reduce any lingering stigma associated with fandom as well as highlight true areas of concern that fans and their communities would benefit from better understanding.

We are looking for empirical essays that consider the mental health issues experienced by fans, within fan communities, and/or related to fandom. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Prevalence of mental health issues within fan communities
• How fans negotiate mental health issues
• How fandoms cause mental health issues
• Using fandom as a therapeutic tool
• Representation of fans’ mental health issues
• Fan activity as therapy
• What causes mental health issues within fans, fan communities, fandoms
• How fandom helps people cope
• How fans learn about mental health issues
• How fans talk about mental health issues
• Negative aspects of mental health issues in fandom
• Positive aspects of mental health issues in fandom

Chapter guidelines

Seeking empirically-based essays of 6000-7000 words, inclusive of references (APA citation style)

Current timeline:

• First chapter drafts due June 30, 2021
• Peer reviews due by July 31, 2021
• Final chapter drafts due by September 30, 2021
• Final manuscript submitted by October 31, 2021 for consideration

Contact CarrieLynn Reinhard with any questions: creinhard@dom.edu

Tetyana Lokot

This book examines how citizens use digital social media to engage in public discontent and offers a critical examination of the hybrid reality of protest where bodies, spaces and technologies resonate. It argues that the augmented reality of protest goes beyond the bodies, the tents, and the cobblestones in the protest square, incorporating live streams, different time zones, encrypted conversations, and simultaneous translation of protest updates into different languages. Based on more than 60 interviews with protest participants and ethnographic analysis of online content in Ukraine and Russia, it examines how citizens in countries with limited media freedom and corrupt authorities perceive the affordances of digital media for protest and how these enable or limit protest action.

The book provides a nuanced contribution to debates about the role of digital media in contentious politics and protest events, both in Eastern Europe and beyond.

Link to book: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781786605962/Beyond-the-Protest-Square-Digital-Media-and-Augmented-Dissent

Networking Knowledge

I am guest-editing a special issue on mediatization during the COVID-19 pandemic for Networking Knowledge - journal of the UK's Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association Postgraduate Network, and am looking for PhD researchers working in cognate areas.

The journal is run by doctoral and early career researchers, and is a great opportunity to cut your teeth at all aspects of the editorial process - peer review, publishing, copyediting and production.

The articles in the special issue I'm guest-editing are currently at peer review stage, but I would like to open this opportunity to colleagues who might want to get involved. For example, I would welcome anyone with expertise in mediatization to approach me about joining me as co-editor. I'd also invite special issue commentary, interview and book review contributions.

For example, I would welcome anyone with expertise in mediatization to approach me about joining me as co-editor or a reviewer. I also specifically invite special issue commentary, interview and book review contributions. 

If this sounds appealing, let's talk!

You can reach me on bissie.anderson@stir.ac.uk or @bissieanderson on Twitter.

Special issue of "Transformations: Journal of Media, Culture and Technology", in collaboration with Medea research lab, Malmö University, Sweden

Deadline: February 5, 2021

http://www.transformationsjournal.org/calls-for-papers/

Guest editors are Dr. Bojana Romic and Dr. Bo Reimer, Malmö University, Sweden.

This special issue (#36) of “Transformations” entitled “Artificial Creativity” aims to stir a discussion about the cultural, societal, and ethical aspects of robots or AI engaged in creative production.

Machines engaged in creative activities can be traced back to Pierre Jaquet-Droz’s automata 'The Writer' and 'Musical Lady' (1770s), which involved calligraphic writing and the performing of music respectively. In the 1950s, Jean Tinguely’s 'Méta-matics' produced generative artworks, in response to the long-standing questions about the role of the artist.

Most recently, a number of artworks have featured robots that draw (Robotlab), paint (Moura), or make music (Weinberg, 2020). It has been announced that the 10th Bucharest Biennale in 2022 will be “curated” by Jarvis, an AI system created by Spinnwerks, Vienna (FlashArt, 2020).

These tendencies provoke at least two lines of inquiry. On one hand, what are the possibilities and potential pitfalls of AI technologies in the cultural sector? For example, AI makes its recommendations and choices based on its exposure to large databases, and yet worries pertain about the “increasing automation of the aesthetic realm”, that might, over time, reduce cultural diversity (Manovich, 2017).

On the other hand, AI technologies encourage debate about the meaning and purpose of human creativity (Gunkel, 2017). The title of this special issue is a playful rendering of the term artificial intelligence, which also serves as a reminder that technological innovations are often ripe with organismic language (Jones, 2017; Boden, 2004).

The call for papers invites researchers from different areas of expertise, including but not limited to: creative arts research, science and technology studies (STS), media and communication studies, critical cultural studies, humanities, human-robot interaction (HRI), ethics of technology, design anthropology, social sciences, gender studies, posthumanism, architecture, game studies, and voice interface design.

We especially encourage submissions rooted in the humanities, with a focus on robots (i.e. embodied AI) invested in creative/artistic labour. We also welcome submissions that critically address the contested terms “artificial intelligence” and “creativity”.

“Transformations” in an independent, open-access, blind-peer review journal, with no author charges (APCs).

Abstracts (400 – 500 words excluding references) are due 5 February 2021, with a view to submit articles by 31 May 2021.

 Abstracts should be forwarded to: bojana.romic@mau.se

Bibliography:

Boden, Margaret. The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms. Routledge, 2004.

Flash Art Feed. “The 10th Bucharest Biennale: the first biennial curated by Artificial Intelligence in VR.” May 27th 2020

Gunkel, David. “Special Section: Rethinking Art and Aesthetics in the Age of Creative Machines: Editor’s Introduction.” Philosophy and Technology, vol. 30, no. 3, 2017, pp. 263–265.

Jacquet-Droz, Pierre. The Musical Lady. 1770s, Musée d’art et d’histoire de Neuchâtel.

Jacquet-Droz, Pierre. The Writer. 1770s, Musée d’art et d’histoire de Neuchâtel.

Jones, Raya. “What makes a robot ‘social’?” Social Studies of Science, vol. 47, no. 4, 2017, pp. 556–579.

Manovich, Lev. “Automating Aesthetics.” Flash Art, vol. 50, no. 316, 2017, pp. 85-87

Moura, Leonel. Swarm Painting 08. 2002, Courtesy of Robotarium, Alverca / Sao Pãulo.

Robotlab. The Big Picture. 2014, Courtesy of Robotlab. ZKM, Karlsruhe.

Weinberg, Gill. “Shimon: Now a Singing, Songwriting Robot: Marimba-Playing Robot Composes Lyrics and Melodies with Human Collaborators.” 25 Feb. 2020, www.news.gatech.edu/2020/02/25/shimon-now-singing-songwriting-robot.

Galactica Media: Journal of Media

Deadline: November 15, 2021

Galactica Media: Journal of Media invites you to participate in a special issue entitled "Visual Rhetoric in Traditional Media".

Link: https://galacticamedia.com/index.php/gmd/visreth

Description:

“Only the media techniques of the 19th century, that is, photography, gramophone and film, had saved the sensuous reality from the absolutism of the book – however, one could formulate more radically: before the absolutism of language”, – N. Bolz writes in the book "Das ABC der Medien". The proposed opposition between writing as an "informational" media (which was most interesting to McLuhan) and "sensory" media needs critical reflection. This is especially important in conditions when a person's immersion in the media space implies that not only the information brain memory should be involved, but also various performative practices of experience and memory of the body. The mutual transfer of medial practices between writing and the visual arts creates a distinctive situation where the emphasis is not on the image itself, but on its perception. This aspect is especially relevant after and within the framework of the iconic turn in the sciences of culture and art. In particular, various artistic practices and visual culture objects are considered more often in the visual rhetoric context. The difficulty is to avoid the blind (automatic) borrowing of this concept from the linguistics and classical rhetoric sphere. The visual image as the most exact way of expression is not only the usual practice of our everyday culture, overflowing with phenomena that have a visual (more broadly – sensual) nature, but also is a key to understanding the social and cultural practices of the past.

In this issue of Galactica Media we invite the authors to explore the traditional media, in particular, writing and spatial arts, in mutual relation to each other, since, as we know, "the meaning of a media can only be understood from its interaction with other media" (N. Bolz). The interdisciplinary nature of rhetorical studies allows us to place image theory in the context of visual anthropology and media theory, thereby revealing the complex relationships associated with a work of art and its interpretation, the stages of its creation and perception, as well as the relationships between different media. We suggest to the authors of the issue basing on the material of various arts to turn to the problems of combining rhetoric and imagery.

Also, the possible topics might include following (but are not limited to) themes of:

- Visual techniques for text constructing

- Rhetorical figures in musical pieces

- Visual rhetoric and the using of tropes in the visual arts

- The using of visual rhetoric in architecture and design

- Theatricality as a combination of media practices

- Visual rhetoric: between logic and expression

- Rhetoric as an external extension of the image (similar to "extension of man" in the media)

The Deadline for submission of manuscripts for specialized issue is November 15, 2021. You can send your manuscripts through the electronic manuscript submission system marked “For the thematic issue ‘Visual Rhetoric in Traditional Media’” – Manuscript submission system (please read manuscript requirements carefully) – https://galacticamedia.com/index.php/gmd/about/submissions or by email: admin@galacticamedia.com

All papers are first reviewed by the Guest editors, then peer reviewed by two experts, and only then the editorial board makes the final decision to include the article in the issue.

Guest Editor: PhD, Anna A. Troitskaya, Institute of Philosophy of St Petersburg State University. St Petersburg, Russia

February 1, 2021

Online

The Institute for Media and Creative Industries of Loughborough University London, in collaboration with the School of Journalism, Media and Culture of Cardiff University, invites for:

IMCI Speaker Series: Freire's mindprint on participatory communication and civil society development

Launch of the Special Issue: The legacy of Paulo Freire in civil society Development (Revista Commons Vol.9, N.2)

Guest Speakers: Cássia Ayres (Universidade Lusófona do Porto, Portugal) and Leonardo Custódio (Åbo Akademi University, Finland)

It will be the occasion for the launch of the Special Issue: The legacy of Paulo Freire in civil society Development (Journal Commons Vol.9, N.2), that is the second special issue coming from the Brazil Seminar, that gathered around 30 scholars at Loughborough University London in 2018 to discuss the legacy of the Brazilian educator in the fields of participatory communication and civil society development in Brazil and beyond.

We’ll be happy to have you with us the 1st of February from 2pm to 4.30pm (UK time).

Registration required, please: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/freires-mindprint-on-participatory-communication-and-civil-society-dvlp-tickets-135997192263

Participants registered will receive a link to join the meeting close to the date.

The special issue, with articles in English and Spanish, can be downloaded in Open Access here: https://revistas.uca.es/index.php/cayp/issue/view/432

Charles University, Prague

We are seeking two PhD students to develop projects aligned with the grant “Developing Theories and Methods for Game Industry Research,” starting in 2021, headed by Dr. Jaroslav Švelch, and located at Charles University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism.

Project Description:

Following the rising interest in the study of game industries and the advances in game production studies, the dissertation should focus on digital game production in a specific country or region, based on the student’s preferences. The project can investigate the production routines, design patterns, the content of locally produced games, values and discourses of industry practitioners, or reception of local productions by players and journalists. The project may but does not have to include a historical perspective. Theoretically, it is expected to draw from game studies (especially game production studies), the theory of cultural industries, and/or cultural studies. Interdisciplinary perspectives are welcome. The methods may include ethnography (including interviews), textual analysis/close readings of game titles, discourse analysis, or content analysis. The student will be working on the project within a team that includes senior researchers Vít Šisler and Jaroslav Švelch and postdoctoral researchers Tereza Krobová and Jan Švelch.

Candidate requirements:

Candidates must complete their Master’s degree by August 30, 2021. They are expected to be well-versed in the theory and methods required to study game industries or cultural industries in general. While the program can be studied in either English or Czech language, we require fluency in English. The candidates are expected to present papers at academic conferences and produce publications in international peer-reviewed journals.

Practical arrangements:

Starting in the Fall semester of 2021, the successful applicants will enroll into the Media and Communication Studies PhD program. The standard duration of the program is 4 years. For the duration of the grant project (that is until December 2023), the student will participate in the project as a paid researcher (please enquire for details). For the whole duration of 4 years, they will also receive a doctoral stipend. Successful applicants are eligible for a relocation fee from the project budget. The student(s) are generally expected to physically attend doctoral classes and research meetings, but remote participation is possible in case of continuing pandemic-related restrictions.

Application submission:

The deadline for the application is APRIL 30, 2021. To apply, the candidate must submit a structured CV, a dissertation project (1,500–2,000 words including references) and a list of literature they wish to discuss at the admission interview. We strongly encourage prospective applicants to get in touch earlier to consult the application. The admission interview will focus on the dissertation project and the selected literature and can be conducted remotely.

More information about the admissions process, along with a link to the online application form are available here: https://iksz.fsv.cuni.cz/en/admissions/phd-programme-media-and-communication-studies

For more information about the positions and the grant project, please contact Jaroslav Švelch at Jaroslav.Svelch@fsv.cuni.cz.

To learn more about the doctoral program, please check this webpage: https://iksz.fsv.cuni.cz/en/study/phd-studies.