European Communication Research and Education Association
Edited by: Paolo Ruffino
The edited collection maps the current trajectories of independent game development, at a time when game makers engage with videogame production in a myriad of different ways, ranging from full-time employment to brief and casual investments of time and resources.
The book focuses on four key thematic areas (cultures, networks, techniques and politics), which open up questions surrounding gender inclusivity, creative freedom, funding and publishing strategies, labour, precarity, and social practices taking place in the new contexts of production of the videogame industry. The collection includes a section of geographically specific case studies, with contributions from Latin America, Finland, Australia, United States and the United Kingdom. A final afterword by Bart Simon from Concordia University makes the point on what ‘indie game studies’ have achieved so far, and points at future challenges.
It has been a great pleasure and honour to be responsible for the curation of this collection. It has given me the opportunity to work with some of the most brilliant authors who have been researching videogame production over the past 10-15 years. I would like to thank the authors for their invaluable contribution, and Routledge for their support throughout the publication.
I hope that the book will be useful for scholars, researchers and students interested in independent videogames and game production studies. Please feel free to get in touch if you have any questions about the publication.
For more information:
https://www.routledge.com/Independent-Videogames-Cultures-Networks-Techniques-And-Politics/Ruffino/p/book/9780367336202
Table of Contents
1. After Independence
Paolo Ruffino (University of Liverpool, UK)
Part I: Cultures
2. Decoding and Recoding Game Jams and Independent Game-making Spaces for Diversity and Inclusion
Aphra Kerr (Maynooth University, Ireland)
3. Queering Indie: How LGBTQ Experiences Challenge Dominant Narratives of Independent Games
Bonnie Ruberg (University of California Irvine, USA)
4. Virtually Indie: On the Characteristics of Independent Game Development for Virtual Reality Headsets
Paweł Grabarczyk (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Part II: Networks
5. Network or Die? What Social Networking Analysis Can Tell Us About Indie Game Development
Pierson Browne and Jennifer Whitson (University of Waterloo, Canada)
6. Strange Bedfellows: Indie Games and Academia
Celia Pearce (Northeastern University, USA)
Part III: Techniques
7. The Conditions of Videogame Production: The Nature and Stakes of Creative Freedom in Stiegler’s Philosophy of Technicity
Patrick Crogan (University of the West of England, UK)
8. Boutique Indie: Annapurna Interactive and Contemporary Independent Game Development
Felan Parker (University of Toronto, Canada)
9. Game Production Studies: Studio Studies Theory, Method and Practice
Casey O’Donnell (Michigan State University, USA)
Part IV: Politics
10. Game Workers Unite: Unionization Among Independent Developers
Jamie Woodcock (The Open University, UK)
11. Playing with Risk: Political-Economy, Independent Games, and the Precarity of Development in Crowded Commercial Markets
Nadav Lipkin (La Roche University, USA)
Part V: Local Indie Game Studies
12. Playful Peripheries: The Consolidation of Independent Game Production in Latin America
Orlando Guevara-Villalobos (University of Costa Rica)
13. The Melbourne Indie Game Scenes: Value Regimes in Localized Game Development
Brendan Keogh (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
14. Modes of Independence in the Finnish Game Development Scene
Olli Sotamaa (Tampere University, Finland)
15. The Rebels Across the Street: IndiE3 and the Strategic Geography of Indie Game Promotion
John Vanderhoef (California State University, Dominguez Hills, USA)
16. Freedom from the Industry Standard: Student Working Imaginaries and Independence in Games Higher Education
Alison Harvey (York University, Canada)
17. Afterword: The Cultural Conditions of Being Indie
Bart Simon (Concordia University, Canada)
Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
The Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania invites applications for a “CARGC Postdoctoral Fellowship.” This is a one-year position renewable for a second year based on successful performance.
Description
The Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) produces and promotes scholarly research on global communication and public life. As an institute for advanced study dedicated to global media studies, we revisit enduring questions and engage pressing matters in geopolitics and communication. Our vision of “inclusive globalization” recognizes plurality and inequality in global media, politics, and culture. Our translocal approach fuses multidisciplinary “area studies” knowledge with theory and methodology in the humanities and social sciences. This synthesis of deep expertise and interdisciplinary inquiry stimulates critical conversations about entrenched and emerging communicative structures, practices, flows, and struggles. We explore new ways of understanding and explaining the world, including public scholarship, algorithmic culture, the arts, multi-modal scholarship, and digital archives. With a core commitment to the development of early career scholars worldwide, CARGC hosts postdoctoral, doctoral, undergraduate, and faculty fellows who collaborate in research groups, author CARGC Press publications, and organize talks, lectures, symposia, conferences, and summer institutes.
CARGC postdoctoral fellows work on their own research, typically a book manuscript, and collaborate with staff and postdoctoral, doctoral and undergraduate fellows. They may design and teach one undergraduate course during their second year. They present a CARGC Colloquium and publish one CARGC Paper with CARGC Press. Fellows are provided a stipend of $55,000, a research fund of $3000, health insurance, a workspace, computer and library access.
CARGC Fellows integrate primary sources and regional expertise in theoretically inflected, historically informed, comparative, translocal and transnational analyses of media, technology, geopolitics and culture. Candidates challenging normative paradigms and incorporating non-Western theories, sources and contexts, are especially welcome. Ongoing research groups focus on theory and history in global media studies, geopolitics and the popular, digital sovereignty, and radical media and culture. We recommend that applicants read our 5 year-report to familiarize themselves with our mission and priorities.
This is a residential fellowship. CARGC strives to be an inclusive community of scholars driven by intellectual curiosity and exchange, and rooted in the life of the Annenberg School, the University of Pennsylvania, and the city of Philadelphia. To foster mentoring and collaboration at all levels, we expect fellows to be fully engaged in the life of the center. Typically, postdocs are therefore expected to work at our beautiful sixth floor premises—CARGC’s “World Headquarters”—on the Penn campus at least four days a week. However, the final determination of the residency requirement for the 2021-2022 academic year will be made in the coming months based on university policy related to COVID-19.
Eligibility
We welcome applications from scholars with PhDs awarded by an institution other than the University of Pennsylvania between May 1, 2019 and May 1, 2021. The appointment typically starts on August 15.
Submitting Your Application
A complete application consists of:
Timeline
All materials except reference letters must be sent as a single PDF document to cargc@asc.upenn.edu by February 1, 2021. Because of the volume of applications, we are unable to read drafts of submissions. Incomplete or late applications will not be considered. Applicants should arrange for their letters of recommendation to be sent to the same address by the same date. We expect to contact finalists for phone interviews by mid-March and make final decisions shortly thereafter.
Additional Information
If you have additional questions, please email us at cargc@asc.upenn.edu. Do not contact CARGC staff individually.
The University of Pennsylvania is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, creed, national or ethnic origin, citizenship status, age, disability , veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For more information, go to http://www.upenn.edu/affirm-action/eoaa.html.
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Edited by: Daniel Jackson, Danielle Sarver Coombs, Filippo Trevisan, Darren Lilleker and Einar Thorsen
Featuring 91 contributions from over 115 leading US and international academics, this publication captures the immediate thoughts, reflections and early research insights on the 2020 U.S. presidential election from the cutting edge of media and politics research.
Published within eleven days of the election, these contributions are short and accessible. Authors provide authoritative analysis – including research findings and new theoretical insights – to bring readers original ways of understanding the campaign. Contributions also bring a rich range of disciplinary influences, from political science to cultural studies, journalism studies to geography.
As always, these reports are free to access.
The report can be found on https://www.electionanalysis.ws/us/ alongside our previous reports on UK and U.S. elections.
Direct pdf download is available at: http://j.mp/USElectionAnalysis2020_Jackson-et_al_v1 (please note, large file size!)
The table of contents is below.
1. Introduction: Daniel Jackson, Danielle Sarver Coombs, Filippo Trevisan, Darren Lilleker and Einar Thorsen
Policy and Political Context
2. The far-too-normal election
Dave Karpf
3. One pandemic, two Americas and a week-long election day
Ioana Coman
4. Political emotion and the global pandemic: factors at odds with a Trump presidency
Erik P. Bucy
5. The pandemic did not produce the predominant headwinds that changed the course of the country
Amanda Weinstein
6. Confessions of a vampire
Kirk Combe
7. COVID-19 and the 2020 election
Timothy Coombs
8. President Trump promised a vaccine by Election Day: that politicized vaccination intentions
Matthew Motta
9. The enduring impact of the Black Lives Matter movement on the 2020 elections
Gabriel B. Tait
10. Where do we go from here? The 2020 U.S. presidential election, immigration, and crisis
Jamie Winders
11. A nation divided on abortion?
Zoe Brigley Thompson
12. Ending the policy of erasure: transgender issues in 2020
Anne C. Osborne
13. U.S. presidential politics and planetary crisis in 2020
Reed Kurtz
14. Joe Biden and America’s role in the world
Jason Edwards
15. President Biden’s foreign policy: engagement, multilateralism, and cautious globalization
Klaus W. Larres
16. Presidential primary outcomes as evidence of levels of party unity
Judd Thornton
17. A movable force: the armed forces voting bloc
18. Guns and the 2020 elections
Robert Spitzer
19. Can Biden's win stop the decline of the West and restore the role of the United States in the world?
Roman Gerodimos
Voters
20. A divided America guarantees the longevity of Trumpism
Panos Koliastasis and Darren Lilleker
21. Cartographic perspectives of the 2020 U.S. election
Ben Hennig
22. Vote Switching From 2016 to 2020
Diana Mutz and Sam Wolken
23. It’s the democracy, stupid
Petros Ioannidis and Elias Tsaousakis
24. Election in a time of distrust
John Rennie Short
25. Polarization before and after the 2020 election
Barry Richards
26. The political psychology of Trumpism
Richard Perloff
27. White evangelicals and white born again Christians in 2020
Ryan Claassen
28. Angry voters are (often) misinformed voters
Brian Weeks
29. A Black, Latinx, and Independent alliance: 2020
Omar Ali
30. Believing Black women
Lindsey Meeks
31. The sleeping giant awakens: Latinos in the 2020 election
Lisa Sanchez
32. Trump won the senior vote because they thought he was best on the economy – not immigration
Peter McLeod
33. Did German Americans again support Donald Trump?
Per Urlaub & David Huenlich
Candidates and the Campaign
34. The emotional politics of 2020: fear and loathing in the United States
Karin Wahl-Jorgensen
35. Character and image in the U.S. presidential election: a psychological perspective
Geoffrey Beattie
36. Branding and its limits
Ken Cosgrove
37. Celtic connections: reading the roots of Biden and Trump
Michael Higgins and Russ Eshleman
38. Kamala Harris, Bobby Jindal, and the construction of Indian American identity
Madhavi Reddi
39. Stratagems of hate: decoding Donald Trump’s denigrating rhetoric in the 2020 campaign
Rita Kirk and Stephanie Martin
40. Campaign finance and the 2020 U.S. election
Cayce Myers
41. The Emperor had no clothes, after all
Marc Hooghe
42. Trump’s tribal appeal: us vs. them
Stephen D. Reese
News and Journalism
43. When journalism’s relevance is also on the ballot
Seth C. Lewis, Matt Carlson and Sue Robinson
44. Beyond the horse race: voting process coverage in 2020
Kathleen Searles
45. YouTube as a space for news
Stephanie Edgerly
46. 2020 shows the need for institutional news media to make racial justice a core value of journalism
Nikki Usher
47. Newspaper endorsements, presidential fitness and democracy
Kenneth Campbell
48. Alternative to what?A faltering alternative-as-independent media
Scott A. Eldridge II
49. Collaboration, connections, and continuity in media innovation
Valerie Belair-Gagnon
50. Learning from the news in a time of highly polarized media
Marion Just and Ann Crigler
51. Partisan media ecosystems and polarization in the 2020 U.S. election
Michael Beam
52. What do news audiences think about ‘cutting away’ from news that could contain misinformation?
Richard Fletcher
53. The day the music died: turning off the cameras on President Trump
Sarah Oates
54. When worlds collide: contentious politics in a fragmented media regime
Michael X. Delli Carpini
55. Forecasting the future of election forecasting
Benjamin Toff
56. A new horse race begins: the scramble for a post-election narrative
Victor Pickard
Social media
57. Media and social media platforms finally begin to embrace their roles as democratic gatekeepers
Daniel Kreiss
58. Did social media make us more or less politically unequal in 2020?
Dan Lane and Nancy Molina-Rogers
59. Platform transparency in the fight against disinformation
Valerie Belair-Gagnon, Bente Kalsnas, Lucas Graves and Oscar Westlund
60. Why Trump's determination to sow doubt about data undermines democracy
Alfred Hermida
61. A banner year for advertising and a look at differences across platforms
Markus Neumann, Jielu Yao, Spencer Dean and Erika Franklin Fowler
62. How Joe Biden conveyed empathy
Dorian Davis
63. The debates and the election conversation on Twitter
G.R. Boynton and Glenn W. Richardson
64. Did the economy, COVID-19, or Black Lives Matter to the Senate candidates in 2020?
Heather K. Evans and Rian F. Moore
65. Leadership through showmanship: Trump's ability to coin nicknames for opponents on Twitter
Marco Morini
66. Election countdown: Instagram's role in visualizing the 2020 campaign
Terri L. Towner and Caroline L. Munoz
67. Candidates did lackluster youth targeting on Instagram
John Parmelee
68. College students, political engagement and Snapchat in the 2020 general election
Laurie L. Rice and Kenneth W. Moffett
69. Advertising on Facebook: transparency, but not transparent enough
Jennifer Stromer-Galley, Patricia Rossini, Brian McKernan and Jeff Hemsley
70. Detecting emotions in Facebook political ads with computer vision
Michael Bossetta and Rasmus Schmøkel
Popular culture and public critique
71. On campaigns and political trash talk
Michael Butterworth
72. It's all about my "team": what we can learn about politics from sport
Natalie Brown-Devlin and Michael Devlin
73. Kelly Loeffler uses battle with the WNBA as springboard into Georgia Senate runoff
Guy Harrison
74. Made for the fight, WNBA players used their platform for anti-racism activism in 2020
Molly Yanity
75. Do National Basketball Association (NBA) teams really support Black Lives Matter?
Kwame Agyemang
76. The presidential debates: the media frames it all wrong
Mehnaaz Momen
77. Live... from California, it's Kamala Harris
Mark Turner
78. Who needs anger management? Dismissing young engagement
Joanna Doona
79. Meme war is merely the continuation of politics by other means
Rodney Taveira
80. Satire failed to pack a punch in the 2020 election
Allaina Kilby
81. Election memes 2020, or, how to be funny when nothing is fun
Ryan M. Milner and Whitney Phillips
Democracy in crisis
82. Social media moderation of political talk
Shannon McGregor
83. The speed of technology vs. the speed of democracy
Ben Epstein
84. The future of election administration: how will states respond?
Jennifer L. Selin
85. How the movement to change voting procedures was derailed by the 2020 election results
Martin P. Wattenberg
86. From "clown" to "community": the democratic potential of civility and incivility
Emily Sydnor
87. Searching for misinformation
David Silva
88. Relational listening as political listening in a polarized country
Kathryn Coduto
89. QAnon, the election and an evolving American conservativism
Harrison Lejeune
90. President Trump, disinformation, and the threat of extremist violence
Kurt Braddock
91. The disinformed election
Saif Shahin
92. Election 2020 and the further degradation of local journalism
Philip Napoli
Special issue of New Media & Society, Volume 24, 2022
Deadline: December 30, 2020
Guest editors (ordered alphabetically by last name)
Overview In recent decades mobile communication has become central to how people navigate and experience everyday social life. As mobile phones diffused globally in the 1990s, scholars began investigating changes in how people relate to distant and proximal others, as well as the physical surroundings. Among the first was Rich Ling, a sociologist with one foot in industry and the other in academia. Throughout his career as a researcher with Norway’s Telenor Group and a faculty member at universities around the world, Rich Ling has contributed to the foundation of the emerging field of Mobile Media and Communication.
In light of Ling’s approaching retirement as an endowed professor at Nanyang Technological University, this special issue pays tribute to his scholarly contributions as we look to the future of mobile communication research. It is no stretch to suggest that Rich Ling is one of the most prolific and influential scholars of mobile communication. He wrote the first single-authored book on the social consequences of mobile communication, The Mobile Connection (2004, Morgan Kaufmann), which remains one of the most heavily cited volumes on the subject. His second book, New Tech, New Ties (2008, MIT Press) reveals how the ritualistic use of mobile media facilitates cohesion in the intimate sphere of friends and family. He extended this analysis in his subsequent book, Taken for Grantedness (2012, MIT Press), which offers a broader theoretical framework explaining how mobile communication has become embedded in the social structure. Along with these and other books, Ling has also published hundreds of journal articles, book chapters, and industry/policy reports on the uses and consequences of mobile media and communication.
In addition to his own scholarship, Rich Ling’s influence in the field is evident through his leadership, serving as editor of many volumes, editor of Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, and founding co-editor of the journal Mobile Media and Communication. Ling is also recognized for being a generous mentor, providing opportunities for new generations of scholars to become active in the field. As such, Rich Ling’s contributions not only shape the past but also strongly influence the future of mobile communication scholarship.
This special issue seeks papers that envision the future of mobile communication scholarship in the light of Ling’s contributions to research and theory. While articles should primarily raise and address questions about future scholarship in the field, they should also be, at least to some extent, grounded in some aspect of Ling’s work. Submissions can focus on different types of topics and approaches.
Articles may centrally address future directions in research questions pursued, theory, methods, or other aspects of mobile communication scholarship. We are also open to different types of manuscripts, ranging from theoretical essays, empirical investigations, critical/cultural analysis, and other forms of scholarship.
Submission Proposals of no more than 1,000 words should include a brief abstract and a clear explanation of the main argument and how the full submission would contribute to the aims of this special issue.
Please email your proposal to Future.of.Mobile.NMS@gmail.com no later than December 30, 2020. Authors can expect feedback on their proposal by February 1, 2021 and invited paper submissions will be due May 1, 2021.
Invited submissions will undergo peer review following the usual procedures of New Media & Society. Approximately 10-12 papers will be sent out for full review. Therefore, the invitation to submit a full article does not guarantee acceptance into the special issue. Full articles will need to follow the New Media & Society submission guidelines. The special issue is scheduled for publication in Volume 24 of 2022.
References
Ling, R. (2004). The mobile connection: The cell phone’s impact on society. San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufman Publishers.
Ling, R. (2008). New tech, new ties: How mobile communication is reshaping social cohesion. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Ling, R. (2012). Taken for grantedness: The embedding of mobile communication into society. Cambridge, MA; MIT Press.
Edited volume
Editors:
This edited volume aims to contribute to the studies of complex, fluid and dynamic media-conflict relationship through the lens of China. Studies of mediatized conflict in the digital age is still very much a Eurocentric research area, which requires to be de-Westernized. As McQuail (2006) claims, ‘Western “communication science” does not offer any clear framework for collecting and interpreting observations and information about contemporary war situations’ and has ‘largely neglected were the colonial wars of post-Second World War and the many bitter conflicts that did not directly impinge on western interests or responsibilities’. In a sense, McQuail’s statement still stands today. The existing researches in media and conflict are mostly confined to the Western democracies and interests.
With China showing growing and controversial power and influence on the world’s stage, on the one hand, the East Asian power faces its own security issues due to crises in the Asia-Pacific region that have escalated and intensified such as Sino-Indian border crisis, South China Sea disputes, North Korea nuclear crisis and the Senkaku/Diaoyu-islands disputes.On the other hand, China as one of the five permanent members in the UN Security Council has more and more involvement and interests in the seemingly isolated international conflicts such as Afghanistan war, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Libyan and Syrian crisis.
The media and conflict studies are multi-leveled and multi-faceted. Thus, we invite scholars to explore and study media-conflict relationship either from the view of China or conduct comparative analysis between China and other nation-states.Here media can be mass media (TV, films, newspapers, magazines, posters, etc.), digital and/or social media at local, national, regional or global levels.
International conflicts include but not limited to Sino-Indian border crisis, South China Sea disputes, North Korea nuclear crisis, the Senkaku-Diaoyu islands disputes, Afghanistan war, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Libyan and Syrian crisis.
The proposed chapters can be either theoretical, empirical or comparative work. Authors are welcome to explore and address the following questions and go beyond.
1. What roles do media (both traditional and new media) play in the conflicts that directly or indirectly involve China?
2. What is the media-conflict relationship in China and in the Asia-Pacific region more broadly?
3. How is China represented in the media and what is the image and the role of China in the international conflicts?
4. What are the changes and continuity of media representation of China in the international conflicts?
5. Do Chinese media practice peace or war journalism? How?
6. How are international conflicts mediated in China within its particular historical and cultural contexts?
7. How do the local, national and global audience receive and perceive China’s role in international conflicts?
8. What are the impacts of information and communication technology (ICT) on the media-conflict relationship in China?
Please send your abstracts (max. 300 words) by 1 February 2020 to Shixin Zhang (Shixin.zhang (at) nottingham.edu.cn) and Altman Peng (altman.peng (at) ncl.ac.uk).
McQuail D (2006) On the mediatization of war. /The International Communication Gazette/ 68(2): 107–118.
November 19-20, 2020
Online
Ola Ogunyemi is inviting you, on behalf of the Steering Commitee, to register for this international symposium. The international symposium is jointly organised by the Lincoln School of English and Journalism and the Lincoln Institute for Advanced Studies in partnership with the Association for Journalism Education and the Manchester; Salford Branch of the National Union of Journalists, UK and Journalism/PR subject group at Sheffield Hallam University.
Keynote speakers include: Gavin Rees and Stephen Jukes (DART Centre Europe); Jo Healey (Journalist, trainer and author of Trauma Reporting, A Journalist’s Guide to Covering Sensitive Stories); and Hannah Storm (CEO of the Ethical Journalism Network).
International symposium on 'Trauma Resilience Building in Journalism Curricula: Facing Research Challenges, Ethical Considerations and Implementation of Evidence-Based Practice'.
Pls register via this link and you will get invite to join us on 'Teams' for the event https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/…939
Pls find a link to the press release and programme via https://staffnews.lincoln.ac.uk/…-2/
Due to Covid 19 restrictions across the world, the event will run virtually from Thursday 19th to Friday 20th November 2020.
Tallinn University of Technology
The Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance within Tallinn University of Technology is opening two academic positions (one PhD and one Postdoc) both scheduled to begin in *February 2021*. Feel free to circulate this call with anyone who might be interested. Thank you.
The PhD is on "Urban Analytics and Data Technologies", under the supervision of Prof. Anu Masso. This position is for 4 years.
Deadline for application: December 16, 2020. The selection process will begin soon after.
All information can be founded at: https://taltech.glowbase.com/…165
Applicants are invited to submit their ideas for topic specific research projects, which will be in line with the main research axes of the FinEst Twins project, from which the position is funded. The projects should focus on theoretical and empirical research that contributes to establishing smart, resilient, and sustainable cities worldwide and fostering the design and use of data technologies that consider social diversities.
The Postdoc position is on "Critical Understadning of Predictive Policing", under the supervision of Prof. Anu Masso. The position is initially for 1 year, with the possibility of renewing it for 2 more years.
Deadline for applications: *December 7, 2020*. The selection process will begin soon after.
All information can be founded at: https://www.researchgate.net/…ing
Postdoctoral researchers are invited to submit their ideas for topic specific research projects, which will be in line with the main research axes of the NordForsk project, from which the position is funded. Notably, the project should focus on theoretical and empirical research that contributes to establishing transparency and set an epistemological standard for the critical investigation of innovative data-driven policing. The Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance (RND) is an interdisciplinary, international research center within Tallinn
University of Technology hosting world-renowned award-winning scholars and focusing on socially relevant research and teaching. Notably:
* digital transformation of societies: social datafication, algorithmic governance, data justice, state-citizen relations in the digital era, smart cities and cross-border data relations;
* models and practices of (e)-governance and public administration globally;
* P2P technologies, its' governance and potential new production models;
* fiscal governance and fiscal bureaucracies;
* science and innovation policies and its' management.
* philosophy and ethics of science and technology.
The Ragnar Nurkse Department recently initiated a major, €32 million international R&D project on Smart Cities (FinestTwins) and coordinated the H2020 funded large-scale innovation pilot on implementing the Once-Only Principle (TOOP), which laid the foundation for the data exchange layer foreseen in the European Single Digital Gateway Regulation (SDGR).
For any further information about the two positions, please contact Prof Anu Masso (anu.masso@taltech.ee ) or visit http://ttu.ee/…kse . To get more information about the research team, please visit https://taltech.ee/…lab
George Mason University
If you are interested in Cultural Studies, please consider applying for our PhD program at George Mason University. Our program is the oldest of its kind in the U.S.: a stand-alone, post-MA doctoral program providing interdisciplinary training in the traditions of cultural studies.
We have fully funded graduate assistantships available for qualified applicants in Fall 2021, and call specific attention to our Graduate Inclusion & Access Scholarship.
Topicality is our watchword. We offer course work in gender, sexuality, race, biopolitics, globalization, science and technology, and political economy, as well as mass, visual, textual, and digital culture.
Our faculty can support a broad range of research interests. Recent dissertations include research on: the Radical Faeries; Whole Foods; the business of “mindfulness;” the iconography around President Obama; the birth of the modern organ transplant industry; the current place of literature outside the academy; excessive policing; greeenwashing, and much more…
Our student body is diverse and international. Our alumni have had notable success as researchers and instructors.
For more information, please visit our website or contact our program’s interim director Roger Lancaster .
University College London
This is an exciting opportunity to conduct a funded full-time, four-year long PhD at University College London (UCL) a world leading research university. The funding is available to UK/EU/Third Country Nationals. The successful candidate will benefit from the opportunities presented by a thriving research community as part of the Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Cybersecurity at UCL, which encompasses the Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy (STEaPP), the Department of Security and Crime Science (SCS), and the Department of Computer Science (CS).
The Supervisory Team
The supervisory team for this project will include Dr Leonie Maria Tanczer (UCL STEaPP) and Professor Shane D. Johnson (UCL Crime Sciences).
About the PhD Project
Intimate partner violence such as domestic abuse, sexual assault, and stalking describes a continuum of behaviours, ranging from verbal abuse, threats and intimidation, manipulative behaviour, physical and sexual assault, through to rape and homicide. Increasingly, abuse enabled through smartphones, laptops or even emerging technologies such as “smart”, Internet-connected household devices are being at the centre of attention in research, policy, and practice. So-called “technology-facilitated abuse” or “tech abuse” describes the breadth of harmful actions perpetrators may use to harass and intimidate victims and survivors through digital means.
The proposed PhD project is expected to produce unique insights on a specific issue of tech abuse. Existing literature has focused on topics such as image-based abuse (“revenge porn”), malicious software such as “stalkerware”, as well as harms that derive from “Internet of Things” devices. However, more research needs to be conducted to quantify the scale and nature of tech abuse, to examine legal and industry responses, and to design, develop and assess possible interventions.
The exact remit of the project will be defined by the student in the first year of their PhD and in interaction with their supervisors. However, an aspired vision/topic must be set out at the application stage and showcased in the applicant’s proposal.
This PhD will run in affiliation with the “Gender and IoT” research project at UCL STEaPP, with the candidate having a chance to gain teaching experience through their contribution to module offerings.
Further Information:
About the PhD: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/.../files/phd_studentship_2020.pdf
About the CDT: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/.../centre-doctoral-training...
Relevant Deadlines
Submission Deadline: 29th January 2021
Start Date: 27th of September 2021
KU Leuven
The fulltime professor position (open-rank) will be held within the Leuven School for Mass Communication Research, a research unit within the Department of Communication Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, KU Leuven (Belgium). KU Leuven represents a leading academic institution in Europe that is currently by far the largest university in Belgium in terms of research funding and expenditure. The university’s mission is to provide excellence in academic education and research and to offer a distinguished service to society. Owing to KU Leuven’s cutting-edge research, KU Leuven is a charter member of the League of European Research Universities (LERU) and is consistently ranked among the top 10 universities in Europe.
Within KU Leuven, the Leuven School of Mass Communication Research (SMCR) represents a pioneering institution for media effects research. SMCR strives to contribute to the most advanced methodological techniques and theoretical insights in communication studies, cognitive and social psychology, sociology, and public health. The research focus lies on the use of information- and entertainment media (including social media, ICT, television, games, mobile devices), and on how these uses may harm or enhance various components of individuals’ wellbeing. We have a strong expertise in explaining the processes through which various forms of media use affect physical, psychological and social wellbeing in the long run, and the conditions under which these processes occur. Therefore, a series of advanced methods are applied, including longitudinal survey studies, daily diary studies and content analysis. Issues studied in recent years include alcohol and drug use, sexuality and sexism, aggression, risk taking, depression, self-harm, (positive) body image, sleep, mental wellbeing, health information seeking, self-esteem, parental mediation, and nutrition.
The School adheres to the highest academic standards and strives towards publishing its research in top academic journals (e.g., Journal of Communication, Human Communication Research, New Media & Society). For this research, prestigious grants from multiple funding agencies are attributed yearly and SMCR’s excellent research has been awarded on a yearly basis by different international and interdisciplinary organizations. SMCR staff is involved in various national and international multidisciplinary research projects, primarily of fundamental nature but also with societal relevance
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Duties
You will be expected to develop a research program, aim at excellent scientific output of international level, and support and promote national and international research collaborations in the broad field of health communication and in the context of the School for Mass Communication Research. Your research focuses on the development of innovative theory and advanced research techniques in this field. You have a strong background in predominantly quantitative research methods and have demonstrated research excellence in various ways (e.g., top ranked ISI publications, awards, societal impact etc.).
With this vacancy we aim to further strengthen and expand the research at SMCR. We are looking for a candidate with a strong experience in research in communication and the advancement of health and wellbeing in society. Specifically, your research may encompass 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,…).
Your research may focus on the (strategic) uses or effects of different types of media including but not limited to, social media, entertainment media, television, news media, apps, video games, blogs, websites, serious games, virtual reality etc.
In close collaboration with SMCR staff, you contribute to the existing lines of research and set up your own program through the acquisition of research funding.
The Department of Communication Science, consisting of two research groups SMCR and IMS, organizes the Bachelor and Master of Communication Science, the (English) Master in Digital Media and Society, and is involved in the Master’s program of Business Communication and Journalism. Your 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 health communication in particular. You have experience in lecturing large groups and you have a broad employability due to in-depth and detailed knowledge about the social sciences, media sociology and media psychology. You supervise students working on their masterthesis and PhD students.
Your teaching is expected to meet the KU Leuven standards regarding academic program level and orientation and to be in keeping with the educational vision of KU Leuven. Commitment to the quality of education as a whole is naturally understood.
You provide scientific, social and internal services. This is reflected, among other things, in a constructive contribution to education and research, as part of a team's collective projects (e.g. through participation in meetings, teacher days, information sessions, recruitment activities, exchange programs).
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Applicants hold a Ph.D. degree in communication sciences, social sciences, psychology, public health or an equivalent diploma. We seek a scholar with a broad theoretical- and interdisciplinary interest and a strong background in quantitative research methods, whose research relates to and complements the current research lines at SMCR with a strong health communication profile. The successful candidate has an excellent research record as evidenced by more than one dimension, e.g., the quality of his/her PhD research, high-level publications in the important journals of our field (i.e., ICA journals) and related fields, research impact (e.g., citations) and acquired research funding. We value professional behavior and collegiality, and will encourage the candidate to collaborate with SMCR researchers as well as with interdisciplinary research groups and centers within KU Leuven. The candidate has a large international network and is eager to further develop this within the context of SMCR.
Applicants have demonstrated excellent teaching skills which preferably include experience in teaching large groups of students.
The official administrative language used at KU Leuven is Dutch. If you do not speak Dutch (or do not speak it well) at the start of employment, KU Leuven will provide language training to enable you to take part in administrative meetings. A thorough knowledge of English is required.
Offer
We offer a full-time employment in an intellectually challenging and international environment. You will work in Leuven, a historic and lively city located in the heart of Belgium, within 20 minutes from Brussels, and less than two hours from Paris, London and Amsterdam. Depending on your experience and qualification, the position will be filled at one of the levels of the Senior Academic Staff (Tenure Track Professor, Associate Professor, Full Professor). Junior researchers are appointed as assistant professor on the tenure track for a period of five years; after this period and a positive evaluation, they are permanently appointed (or tenured) as an associate professor. The anticipated starting date for this position is September 1, 2021.
To facilitate scientific onboarding and accelerate research in the first phase a starting grant of 100.000 euro is offered to new professors without substantial other funding (e.g., ERC).
KU Leuven welcomes international scholars and their family and provides practical support with regard to immigration and administration, housing, childcare, learning Dutch, partner career coaching,…
Interested?
For more information please contact Prof. dr. Kathleen Beullens, tel.: +32 16 32 32 19, mail: kathleen.beullens@kuleuven.be or Prof. dr. Stef Aupers, tel.: +32 16 37 23 07, mail: stef.aupers@kuleuven.be or dean prof. dr. Steven Eggermont, tel: +32 32 32 38, mail: steven.eggermont@kuleuven.be. For problems with online applying, please contact solliciteren@kuleuven.be.
You can apply for this job no later than February 22, 2021 via the online application tool
KU Leuven seeks to foster an environment where all talents can flourish, regardless of gender, age, cultural background, nationality or impairments. If you have any questions relating to accessibility or support, please contact us at diversiteit.HR@kuleuven.be.
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