ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

Spring 2021

School of Education and Communication, Jönköping University/ online

Deadline: December 12, 2020

During spring 2021, the PhD course “Sustainable Communication”, 7,5 hp will again be offered at the School of Education and Communication, Jönköping University, Sweden. The course is webbased (Zoom) and in English, and addresses how communication in various forms and in various institutions might contribute to (un)sustainable processes in society.

Please find the course syllabus and schedule here: https://ju.se/en/research/doctoral-programmes/doctoral-programmes-at-the-school-of-education-and-communication/phd-courses.html

Please submit your application at the latest on Nov 22 here: https://ju.se/en/research/doctoral-programmes/doctoral-programmes-at-the-school-of-education-and-communication/phd-courses.html

Questions can be emailed to Professor Ulrika Olausson, ulrika.olausson@ju.se.

Deadline: December 7, 2020

The Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King's College London has the pleasure of hosting a launch of the collection published by the Oxford University Press (eds. Virginia Crisp and Gabriel Menotti).

Date & Time: Wednesday 9 December, 16.00-18.00 (GMT)

All welcome!

This is a virtual seminar. Joining instructions will be sent the day before the event. Please register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-practices-of-projection-histories-and-technologies-tickets-129714937871

16:00 – 16:15 Practices of Projection: Histories and Technologies

Introduction from the editors – Virginia Crisp & Gabriel Menotti

16: 15 – 17:00 Session 1

5-minute presentations from each contributor followed by questions and discussion

17:00 – 17:45 Session 2

5-minute presentations from each contributor followed by questions and discussion

Contributors’ Biographies

Introduction

Gabriel Menotti works as an Assistant Professor in Moving Image Studies at Queen’s University, Ontario, and as an independent curator. He holds a PhD in media and communications from Goldsmiths, University of London, and an­other from the Catholic University of São Paulo. His projects have been presented in venues such as the São Paulo Biennial, Transmediale Festival, Centre Pompidou, and the International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA). Menotti has authored and edited books on the topics of image and technology. His latest work is Movie Circuits: Curatorial Approaches to Cinema Technology, a monograph published by Amsterdam University Press (2018). Together with Virginia Crisp, Menotti co­ordinates the Besides the Screen network.

Virginia Crisp is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King’s College, London. She is the author of Film Distribution in the Digital Age: Pirates and Professionals (Palgrave, 2015), and co-editor of Besides the Screen: Moving Images through Distribution, Promotion and Curation (Palgrave, 2015). She is the cofounder, with Gabriel Menotti, of the Besides the Screen network (www.besidesthescreen.com).

Session 1

Amanda Egbe is an artist, filmmaker, and researcher. She is currently a Lecturer in Media at the University of Bedfordshire. She has been awarded a number of commissions and residencies for her installation and film work, as well as screening her films nationally and internationally. Her research is concerned with new and emerging digital technologies, archives, and media production practices.

Stefania Haritou studied philosophy and film in Greece and the UK. She is researching the various forms of film practices, besides the screen. Currently she is interested on children's film education and cinematic creativity.

Anthony Head is an artist- designer and Professor of Digital Media Art and Design at Bath Spa University. His research practice includes coding as an artistic medium and often uses 3D graphics to create immersive interactive experiences. For several years, Anthony has worked with Leila Sujir on Elastic 3D Spaces as codirector, in a suc­cessful international partnership. Anthony’s current research is exploring wearable devices as inputs for immersive experiences, drawing in 3D space, and the potential for mixed- reality headsets.

Leila Sujir is an artist, Associate Professor in Intermedia and Chair of the Studio Arts Department at Concordia University in Montreal. Over the last thirty years, she has been building a body of video/video installation artworks exploring immigration, migration, nation and culture. Sujir is a founding member of Hexagram. Her works have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and the Tate Gallery in England.

Mo White aka Dr. Mary C. White is an artist and writer. Mo works in moving image (film and video) and photographic media and has exhibited widely, including exhibitions in New York, Dublin, Athens, Berlin, Oslo, Belfast, and Birmingham. Her research concerns gender, diasporic and queer identities, and their effects on contem­porary artists and art practices, and she has published on these topics. Mo is a Lecturer in Fine Art at Loughborough University in Leicestershire.

Su-Anne Yeo is a sessional instructor at Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver, Canada. She is also a faculty associate of the Hong Kong Studies Initiative at the University of British Columbia.

Session 2

Yiyun Kang is an artist who generates immersive experiences with moving image. She is currently working as a Visiting Lecturer at Royal College of Art. Kang’s works have been exhibited in V&A, Venice Architecture Biennale, Shenzhen Biennale, Taipei MOCA, Seoul Museum of Art and CONNECT, BTS.

Cornelia Lund is an art, film and media theorist and curator living in Berlin. Since 2004, she has been co-director of fluctuating images (fluctuating-images.de), a platform for media art and design. Her research interests include documentary practices, audiovisual artistic practices, design theory, as well as de- and postcolonial theories.

Adeena Mey is a researcher and curator. He is managing editor of Afterall Journal and a lecturer at Lausanne University of Art and Design (ECAL), Switzerland.

Andreia Machado Oliveira is a Multimedia artist with expertise in the fields of art and technology, contemporary subjectivity, and interactive systems. Associate Professor in the Graduate Program in Visual Arts and in the Undergraduate Program in Fine Arts at Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), Brazil.

Adrian Palka is assistant professor in the School of Media and Performing Arts at Coventry University and associate member of CDare(Centre for Dance Research). His research and practice centre on sound performance, image projection and the mediation of post memory. His contribution to this volume is based on following in the footsteps narrated in an inherited diary to Siberia where is father and grandfather had been exiled in WW2. More information in www.palkadiaries.co.uk

Felix Rebolledo Palazuelos holds a doctorate in social and institutional Psychology from UFRGS Porto Alegre and an MA (SIP) from Concordia University (2013), Montreal. He is a Lecturer in Screenwriting and Documentary Theory at Centro Universitário Franciscano in Santa Maria, Brazil. He is researcher at InterArtec/ Cnpq and LabInter / Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brazil, and member of the SenseLab (Montreal).

June, 28 – July 1, 2021

School of Communication Universidad de Navarra (Pamplona, Spain)

Deadline: January 30, 2021

https://www.isem.es/phd-program/factum-fashion-communication-conference/?lang=en

Conference Chairs

• Teresa Sádaba, ISEM Fashion Business School (Madrid, Spain)
• Marta Torregrosa, ISEM Fashion Business School (Madrid, Spain)
• Lorenzo Cantoni, USI – Università della Svizzera italiana (Lugano, Switzerland)
• Francesca Cominelli, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris, France)
• Nadzeya Kalbaska, USI – Università della Svizzera italiana (Lugano, Switzerland)

The Conference

Hosted by the University of Navarra, the Conference “Fashion communication: between tradition and future digital developments” is a major academic event, which aims to promote theoretical and empirical interdisciplinary work on how various communication practices impact upon fashion industry and on societal fashionrelated practices and values. In particular, the relation between tradition and innovation, as well as the impact of new technologies, digital communication and the internet will be under scrutiny.

Main goals of the Conference:

• to consolidate Fashion Communication as an academic field
• to establish and consolidate an international and interdisciplinary network of scholars in the field of Fashion Communication
• to share methodological approaches
• to expand the dialogue between communications studies, heritage studies and Fashion-related disciplines
• to support junior researchers

Topics of interest

The major topics of interest focus on communication aspects in the Fashion domain and also reflect key research topic emerged in the previous Factum 2019. They include but are not limited to:

• Communication of sustainability and ethical issues in Fashion
• Corporate communication in the fashion domain Digital Fashion Communication (e.g. digital media channels, blogging, User Generated Contents, online reputation)
• Fashion brands and communication with consumers
• Fashion communication in the retail environment
• Fashion shows as a communication object
• Intangible Cultural Heritage dimension of Fashion
• Intercultural Communication in Fashion
• Media in Fashion
• Visual communication in Fashion

Paper formats

Full Papers, presenting a major original contribution, up to 12 pages in length.

Research Notes, presenting an in-progress research (e.g.: by a PhD candidate), up to 5 pages in length.

All papers should be formatted according to the provided template, available online, at Springer Guidelines.

Accepted papers will be published in a Proceedings volume by Springer.

Submissions: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=factum2021#

All papers will be double-blind peer-reviewed by experienced researchers who are members of the scientific review committee. To ensure blind-review process, please, keep your submission anonymous. Final acceptance will depend on whether the author(s) can adequately address review comments to the satisfaction of the reviewers.

Key dates

• Full papers are required no later than 30 January 2021
• Notification of acceptance will be provided by 28 February 2021
• Final papers should be submitted by 26 March 2021

Location and venue

The Conference will take place in University of Navarra, Pamplona (Spain), hosted by ISEM Fashion Business School and the School of Communication.

For further inquiries, please, contact: María del Rocío Elizaga Puig, Editor’s assistant FACTUM21, factum21@unav.es

Christine Trueltzsch-Wijnen

This book explores the socially and individually determined nature of media literacy, addressing the central question of how individuals’ media activity can be explained and evaluated. It examines people's media activity through the relationship between their competence to act and actual actions. Further, the book discusses the social factors that foster self-determined media activity, including people's abilities and skills and the associated knowledge that facilitates such skills, from the perspectives of various social science disciplines. Lastly, it applies these theoretical reflections to two empirical studies. Overall, this book provides a fundamental introduction to theories of media socialization, media literacy and media competence, and to the relation between media and socialization. It analyses international discourses on children, media, media literacy, and digital literacy. This book is of interest to scholars and researchers in the field of media studies, including media sociology and media education, communication, and cultural studies.

https://www.springer.com/de/book/9783030563592?gclid=CjwKCAiA-_L9BRBQEiwA-bm5fnmtLgN4E_Z87iucB6ApV50nymF-Pn5kIjZr0WrkjI86pWryKZPLyxoC-gUQAvD_BwE

Deadline for Submission for Live Presentations: 15 January, 2021

Because it was not realistic to plan & host a live conference in 2021 for the Crisis Communication Section, we are offering two different avenues for presentation of research in 2021:

• Live Panel Sessions (two-hours each) on the first Friday of each month from 5 February – 2 July

• Live/pre-Recorded Presentations (up to 20 minutes each) posted on our website

Theme for Crisis2021: Risk & Crisis Communication & the ‘New Normal’

As the world responds to 2020 and all of the new challenges it has posed, risk and crisis communication researchers, students, and practitioners have the opportunity to explore issues of work environments, politics, social justice, disasters, ‘ordinary’ crises, learning and teaching, wellbeing, social responsibility, and technology to name just a few areas connected to the tumultuous year we have all experienced. We are calling for abstracts that look forward from Covid-19 to the future across industries and even for reflective discussions about the role of risk and crisis communication.

You can submit an individual abstract or a panel proposal.

Panel Proposals

These will only be considered for the live sessions.

For panel proposals:

• There should be either 3 or 4 speakers representing at least two different institutions

• Preference will be given to multi-national panels

• Panels should have a clear theme, brief (paragraph) justification for the theme, and list the speakers and brief summaries of their proposed presentations

Individual Abstracts

Individual submissions will be considered for the live panels (if submitted before 15 January) unless otherwise noted in the submission, to include:

• Author(s) name(s), institutions, and email(s)

• Preference for live panel or pre-recorded
• Detailed abstract (no more than 700 words) for the presentation

We aim to accept as many abstracts as possible both for the live sessions and pre-recorded presentations. Don’t worry – the pre-recorded presentations CAN but don’t HAVE to include you on camera – they can simply be PowerPoint presentations with voice overs.

More details and submission available at: https://ecreacrisis.com/call-for-participation-crisis2021/

University of Bergen

There is a vacancy for a postdoctoral research fellow position within media studies. The position is part of the department's commitment to strategic communication and the postdoctoral fellow will be linked to two of the department's research groups: the rhetoric group and the media use group. The position is for a period of four years with 25% of the total appointment time is a duty to be performed at the department.

The research theme for the post-doctoral fellow is trust, credibility (ethos), and strategic communication. In unison with the research groups for rhetoric and audience studies the fellow will develop a project examining how citizens view and engage with strategic communication and communication from experts. A core question is how utterances from experts are interpreted, negotiated, and used in a society characterized by media platforms run by algorithms, decreasing trust in experts and a high degree of competing claims from different sources.

The applicant should focus the project on the fields of rhetoric and audience studies and is encouraged to tie the project to one or more themes of global challenges, such as climate, migration, or health.

Deadline: January 8, 2021

Read more about and apply for the position here: https://www.jobbnorge.no/…ies

KU Leuven, Belgium

The School for Mass Communication Research (KU Leuven, Belgium) is offering a academic staff position (open rank) on Media and Health communication. SMCR is looking for a colleague who is an expert in one of the following subdomains of health communication:

(1) effects of media use on various health (e.g., addiction, suicide,…) or societal issues (e.g., hate speech, sustainability,…), and ways of responding to these effects with communication and intervention,

(2) the development and testing of mediated promotion and intervention campaigns aiming to advance public health or societal wellbeing,

(3) health information seeking and effects (e.g., resistance to health

information, public service announcements,…), and/or

(4) technological perspectives on health communication (e.g., effects of VR on health outcomes, potential of mHealth in health promotion, artificial intelligence,…).

Teaching will contain several courses at the Bachelor’s and Master’s level and will include theoretical and methodological courses on communication science in general and digital media in particular.

Interested candidates can apply for this job no later than February 21, 2021 via the online application tool. For more information see https://www.kuleuven.be/…=en

Rhodes University School of Journalism and Media Studies

Two posts available in digital media studies/media studies/cultural studies at Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer/Lecturer levels

The School of Journalism and Media Studies at Rhodes University in Makhanda, South Africa, is consistently ranked among the best in Africa. With two positions opening, this is a time of transformation.

We are looking for two experienced colleagues at Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer/Lecturer level in the areas of digital, media and/or cultural studies.

Candidates from within our field as well as related disciplines are warmly encouraged to apply.

Feel free to peruse our website (www.ru.ac.za/jms ) and contact Prof Anthea Garman (a.garman@ru.ac.za ), Prof Lorenzo Dalvit (l.dalvit@ru.ac.za ) or Dr Priscilla Boshoff (p.a.boshoff@ru.ac.za ) to find out more about us.

Documents about the posts and application forms and instructions are available at https://www.placementpartner.co.za/…417

If you have any questions about the application or are experiencing challenges on the system, please contact Ms Ntosh Gongqa on +27 (0)46 603 8616 or submit your application to jobs-red@ru.ac.za

Application closing date: 30 November 2020

Thematic issue of the scientific journal "Comunicologia" (Catholic University of Brasilia, Brazil)

Deadline: February 1, 2021

The public-health crisis caused by Covid-19 accelerated the process of migration towards online technology and the digital restructuring of social relations – notably concerning work and affective relationships.

Thus, not only the structural deficiencies in accessing technologies of digital information and communication (TDIC) but also a deficiency in technological literacy itself were evidenced in an unprecedented way. This acceleration in the use of TDIC, combined with the growing social and political discredit of scientific research, as well as the economic crisis, require a renewed intellectual effort in the light of theoretical and methodological perspectives that dare to radically re-articulate the relations between media, culture, technology, and education.

In this sense, the thematic number of Comunicologia “New theoretical perspectives on culture, technology, and education” invites the submission of articles with a robust theoretical component which propose to analyze:

– The role of the media in scientific literacy and the dissemination of information about (but not limited to) Covid-19;

– Cultural actions and the alternatives developed for culture as a profession;

– Reconfigurations of the use of TDIC in cultural and educational institutions (such as in museums, libraries, movie theatres, public and private schools, among others);

– The colonization of everyday life by digital information and communication technologies;

– The haphazard migration of education to virtual environments;

– The resignification of work relations in times of working from home. "Comunicologia" welcomes submissions from holders of Master’s or PhD degrees, especially those from Communication and Media Studies and related academic fields.

Submission deadline: February 1st, 2021

Publication: July 2021

The manuscript can be submitted in English, Spanish or Portuguese.

Please, note that no payment from the authors will be required. Guidelines for authors can be found at the journal website: https://portalrevistas.ucb.br/…ons

Further information: bolsista.ppgeucb@gmail.com

Dossier editors:

• Dr Lília Abadia (Associated researcher at the Pos-graduate Program in Education at the Catholic University of Brasilia and the National
• Post-Doctoral Program at CAPES-Brazil)
• Dr Gianlluca Simi (Researcher at Migraidh / Sérgio Vieira de Mello Chair Federal University of Santa Maria).
• Dr Carlos Ângelo de Meneses Sousa (Professor at the Pos-graduate Program in Education at the Catholic University of Brasilia - UCB; and researcher at the UNESCO Chair in Youth, Education and Society - UCB).

December 3, 2020

Virtual Conference

The use of automation in journalism is encroaching more and more on what many would consider to be journalists’ core professional roles, such as the identification of story leads, verification, and decisions about which stories are shown, and with what prominence. Automation has also started to play a role in the creation of news texts, initially by helping to generate natural language—the written word—but now also in the production of news videos.

The proportion of consumers who watch online news videos each week has increased substantially—from 24% in 2016 to 67% in 2020 (Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism / Digital News Report 2020). Over the same period, there has been an increase in the use of automation in news video production.

This online event brings together researchers (including Irene Costera Meijer, Nick Diakopoulos, Michael Koliska, Sally Stares, Kim Schrøder, and Neil Thurman) technology-providers (Wibbitz), and publishers (PA Media, Deutsche Welle, and Conde Nast) to explore what audiences want from online news video, and whether automation can help deliver.

For registration, conference program and the full list of speakers, please visit the event website:

https://sites.ifkw.lmu.de/video-automation/