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  • 09.09.2020 23:05 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Recerca. Revista de pensament i Anàlisi

    Submission deadline: February 15, 2021

    Publication: April 2022

    Editors: Emma Gómez Nicolau (Universitat Jaume I) and Arantxa Grau Muñoz (Universitat de València)

    Perceptions and uses of the body correspond to both cultural parameters and historical contingencies. However, many of these endeavours to socially contextualise the body are premised on the understanding of the body as a natural fact. The body-organism is presented from the legitimating position of biological facts––anatomical, endocrinological, immunological, and so on––until it becomes a self-evident entity. Our interpretations and perceptions of the body, but also our image of its composition, are mediated by the biomedical sciences as legitimate devices for producing scientific knowledge about the body.

    The feminist perspective on biomedical sciences has helped to uncover how this technological device invades the social construction of the body by denoting “sex” as the fundamental criterion to explain corporeal differentiation. “Sex” is described as an attribute of the body- organism that corresponds to biological and chemical principles, any variations in which are regarded as an anomaly and/or a pathology. Sex has become a technological device designed to explain and justify corporeal differentiation by highlighting differences (organs, hormones, etc.) and ignoring similarities. This process serves as a normative matrix in the decodification of these bodies. Male and female bodies must necessarily match the bimorphism determined by the biomedical sciences, anatomy loses its descriptive purpose to become a prescriptive science, and it reaches beyond the field of biomedical intervention to invade the sphere of social identity.

    This edition of Recerca. Revista de Pensament i Análisi provides a space to explore approaches from sociology, philosophy, ethics and other related disciplines that analyse experiences and processes of this western hegemonic definition of the gendered body and how it affects social experiences and identities. We are especially interested in analysis of the processes of the diverse corporeal itineraries that resist, subvert and destabilise the hegemonic biomedical paradigm, and of the processes of corporeal decodification that contravene the hegemonic definitions of the gendered body.

    We propose the following topics:

    • Biomedical definitions of the body and biomedical practices in producing gender.
    • Identity and biomedical interventions on the body: hormone treatment, surgery and other body modification techniques.
    • The “hormonal factor”: hypervisibility, risks and attributions of hormones in configuring health and identities.
    • The gendered body in health/illness processes.
    • Bodies and fluids: gender signs and foundations for sexual bimorphism.

    No payment from authors is expected. Further information regarding Recerca and the instructions for submitting original manuscripts can be consulted at https://www.e-revistes.uji.es/…dex

    Please, write enicolau@uji.es if you require any additional explanation.

  • 09.09.2020 22:59 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    University of London

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Permanent with funding for 24 months

    Project: ProDem - Protests and Democracy: How Movement Parties, Social Movements, and Active Citizens are Reshaping Europe

    Department: Sociology, City, University of London

    Closing Date: 20 September 2020 

    The Department of Sociology at City, University of London seeks to recruit a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to work alongside Dr Dan Mercea, Co-Principal Investigator on the project “ProDem - Protests and Democracy: How Movement Parties, Social Movements, and Active Citizens are Reshaping Europe”. The project aims to comparatively assess the medium and long-term effects of the triple interaction between citizens, social movements, and movement parties in 6 European countries. The position, available for two years, is funded through an award by the Volkswagen Stiftung.

    Responsibilities

    The key responsibilities of the role will involve assisting the principal investigator in designing a cross-national survey to be commissioned to an external pollster.

    The appointed candidate will be involved in writing up the research findings together with the principal investigator and other project members, and reporting them in conference proceedings and presentations and in high-ranked academic journals.

    Person Specification

    The successful candidate will have, or be about to be awarded, a PhD in political science, sociology, communication studies or a related social science discipline, have a good command of advanced statistical analysis and survey design as well as an interest in civic or political participation, social movements, political parties, digital or broadcasting media, and a developing publication record.

    They will be able to demonstrate knowledge of advanced statistical analysis and survey design skills, as well as a developing publication record and the ability to conduct literature reviews and relevant background research.

    Full details of the responsibilities of the role and person specification can be found in the attached job description.

    Additional Information: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/…ths

  • 09.09.2020 22:55 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Deadline: October 1, 2020

    Submissions for the new issue of the Interações Journal published by Instituto Superior Miguel are now open. The journal welcomes original articles that present research results and/or theoretical reflection in the different fields of Social and Human Sciences, namely Communication and Media Studies.

    From an interdisciplinary editorial perspective, Interações' primary objective is to foster the reflection and diffusion of knowledge in the areas of Social and Human Sciences. The journal accepts articles of scientific investigation, reviews and critical essays, in Portuguese, English and Spanish.

    Interações is ruled by the double-blind review standard, ensuring the anonymity of reviewers and authors throughout the review process. No payment from authors will be expected.

    • Deadline for submission of articles: October 1
    • Notification of acceptance: November 17
    • Publication: December 2019

    Any questions should be addressed through the email: interacoes@ismt.pt

    The articles must be submitted through the website: https://www.interacoes-ismt.com/

    Guidelines and other instructions for authors can be found on the journal's website: http://www.interacoes-ismt.com/…sta

  • 09.09.2020 22:40 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    June 10-13, 2021

    University of Hong Kong

    Deadline: December 15, 2020

    We are now calling for submissions for Art Machines 2: International Symposium on Machine Learning and Art 2021, which will take place between 10th –13th June 2021 at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. "Art Machines 2," will bring together Academics, Artists, and Professionals in the field of Computational Media Art in a four-day symposium on the topic of Machine Learning and Art.

    After the success of "Art Machines" in 2019, this much-anticipated follow-up symposium will provide the opportunity for in depth assessment of the impact of artificial intelligence on the making of computational art and media, and an exploration of the conditions of existence, range and futures of computationally based art and media. Media art does not exist in a vacuum and critical concern of the conference will be both to understand and practice ways in which media art can intervene, both critically and constructively, in the ongoing construction of social reality by machine learning algorithms. The conference will comprise academic key notes, plenary panel presentations and discussions, scholarly and art practice paper presentations, an art exhibition and student-led workshops.

    Open Call Topics

    * Sound Art

    * Immersive Media

    * Digital Cinema

    * Bio Art

    * Software Art

    * Digital Animation

    * Digital Photography

    * Robotics

    * Gaming

    * Digital Poetics

    * Digital Humanities

    * Creative Coding

    * Digital Fabrication

    * Physical Computing

    * Digital Preservation

    * Curatorial Practice

    * Brain-Computer Interface

    * Pedagogy

    * Aesthetics

    * Ethics

    * Politics

    * Philosophy

    * Other Topics Pertaining to AI, Machine Learning and Art

    Open Call Formats

    1. Research Papers

    2. Scholarly Abstracts

    3. Artistic Project Abstracts

    4. Art Projects for Exhibition

    Submission deadline: 15th December 2020 (23:59 HK local time)

    To learn more about the Symposium, please visit our website: https://www.cityu.edu.hk/…s2/

    For details on the submission requirements, please click https://www.cityu.edu.hk/…pes

    For enquiries, please contact us via email at smpapers@cityu.edu.hk

    You are also welcome to follow us on these channels:

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/…es2

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/…es2

  • 09.09.2020 22:35 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Uppsala University

    Uppsala University is a comprehensive research-intensive university with a strong international standing. Our mission is to pursue top-quality research and education and to interact constructively with society. Our most important assets are all the individuals whose curiosity and dedication make Uppsala University one of Sweden’s most exciting workplaces. Uppsala University has 46.000 students, 7.300 employees and a turnover of SEK 7.3 billion

    The Department of Linguistics and Philology is involved in research and education in a number of languages and language-related subjects and provides an international work environment. The department´s activities cover many of the classical and modern languages and cultures in large areas of Europe, Asia and Africa, as well as computational and general linguistics. Education is offered at the Bachelor, Master and PhD levels.

    Duties/Project description: The present position is part of the research programme “Retracing Connections: Byzantine Storyworlds in Greek, Arabic, Georgian, and Old Slavonic (c. 950 – c. 1100)”, investigating various aspects of translinguistic and transcultural narration in medieval texts. We are seeking a programmer to process hagiographical data from printed secondary sources into a structured, web-accessible format. There are three primary tasks: database design (an appropriate XML data representation format for the data), data acquisition (OCR scan and post-process source materials) and interface development (an online front-end to the database for use by project members and other researchers). The resulting website should present the structured data alongside the relevant pages of the source material (for verification), and allow for some basic search functions.

    Requirements: The employment requires a Master’s degree in computer science or a related discipline as well as documented competence to carry out at least two of the tasks described above (database design, data acquisition and interface development.

    Additional qualifications: Reading knowledge of German and basic familiarity with Greek are qualifying. So is experience in communicating with colleagues across disciplinary boundaries.

    Salary: Individual salary.

    Starting date: 01-01-2021 or as otherwise agreed.

    Type of employment: Temporary position (1 year) according to central collective agreement.

    Scope of employment: 100 %

    For further information about the position please contact:* Professor Ingela Nilsson, (ingela.nilsson@lingfil.uu.se, +46 18-471 1424) or Professor

    Michael Dunn (michael.dunn@lingfil.uu.se, +46 18-471 1341).

    Please submit your application by 18 September 2020, UFV-PA 2020/2399.*

    Are you considering moving to Sweden to work at Uppsala University? If so, you will find a lot of information about working and living in Sweden at www.uu.se/…nus . You are also welcome to contact International Faculty and Staff Services at ifss@uadm.uu.se .

    Please do not send offers of recruitment or advertising services.

    Submit your application through Uppsala University's recruitment system.

    Placement: Department of Linguistics and Philology

    Type of employment: Full time , Temporary position longer than 6 months

    Number of positions: 1

    Working hours: 100%

    Town: Uppsala

    County: Uppsala län

    Country: Sweden

    Union representative: Seko Universitetsklubben seko@uadm.uu.se

    ST/TCO tco@fackorg.uu.se

    Saco-rådet saco@uadm.uu.se

    Number of reference: UFV-PA 2020/2399

    Last application date: 2020-09-18

    https://www.uu.se/…494

  • 09.09.2020 18:11 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Call for book chapters

    Deadline: October 16, 2020

    Editors: Darcy White, Julia Peck, Chris Goldie

    We seek abstracts for chapters (6,000-8,000 words) to be considered for inclusion in an edited collection, for publication in Summer 2022. The proposed book is the third of a series published by Transcript Verlag, following /Northern Light: Landscape, Photography and Evocations of the North,/ Chris Goldie / Darcy White (eds.), (2018), and /Proximity and Distance in Northern Landscape Photography: Contemporary Criticism, Curation, and Practice/, Darcy White/ Chris Goldie (eds.) (2020).

    This book will consider a range of approaches examining the critical role of visual culture in shaping and interrogating conceptions of ecological crisis in relation to the northern landscape. The book will address the geopolitics of visual culture within debates concerned with the politics of climate change and ecological crisis. Its aim is to engage critically with recent debates about the Anthropocene: arguments concerned with identifying the socioeconomic and political causes of environmental crisis, and the problem in regarding the latter as the consequence of undifferentiated human activity.

    At its most challenging and critical the visual culture of place is able to represent a complexity and heterogeneity frequently absent or displaced within dominant discourses of environmental catastrophe. Conversely, many images of landscape and place within fine art practice, commercial and popular forms play a role in supporting a more conventional interpretation of environmental crisis. It is our argument that images of northern places and landscapes have a pivotal function within the geopolitics of visual representation, whether through their exclusion and displacement of other locations and the everyday consequences of ecological crisis for heterogeneous populations; through familiar images of pristine wilderness; through melancholic representations of man-altered landscapes and environmental damage; or through an alternative sublime of eco-catastrophe in which scenes of ecological violence are invested with an awe-inspiring, perverse beauty.

    We suggest that the visual culture of northern places has not remained static in the era of ecological crisis but has played a dynamic role within the latter’s broad discursive field: northern landscape photography can still give visual form to historically settled conceptions of a natural world, but these images are frequently placed within a context of human mastery and thus sanction the latter’s purported achievements; and ubiquitous representations of environmental disaster can also reinforce the notion of its techno-utopian resolution.

    While the medium of photography / photographic practice will be foregrounded in this anthology the discussions may also range into related practices within the wider terrain of visual culture, where examples may be identified that facilitate useful critiques of the conventional or enhanced understanding of new developments in this field of enquiry. Contributions to the book will explore this visual field, presenting wide-ranging critical appraisals of landscape photography and its related practices, as traditionally conceived, as well as more recent developments in art and visual culture in relation to the representation of place. Authors may question the validity of images where they function as vehicles for the consolidation of the global world order around enhanced networks of power, but also consider where visual culture is part of an emancipatory project in the era of global warming.

    Chapters can address original work or themes, or the work of particular photographers, genres, collections. Both historical and contemporary approaches will be considered. We welcome proposals from anyone working within this broad field, including theorists, practitioners, curators and archivists.

    Please submit a 500 word abstract and a short bio by Friday 16th October, 2020. Please send your submission *TO ALL* of the following:

    • Darcy White-d.white@shu.ac.uk
    • Julia Peck -jpeck@glos.ac.uk
    • Chris Goldie -c.t.goldie@shu.ac.uk

    We look forward to receiving your proposals.

  • 09.09.2020 18:03 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    UCLouvain

    The research project focuses on the analysis of images and videos on climate change circulating in digital social networks.

    Questions about this offer can be directed to Andrea Catellani (andrea.catellani@uclouvain.be).

    Hiring Context

    The Research Centre in Communication (part of the Institute for Language and Communication, UClouvain, Belgium) has an opening for a fully funded three-year PhD fellowship in video and images analysis. This opening is done in the context of a pan-European interdisciplinary research project on climate change communication analysis. You will work within a team of more than 10 researchers and academics from Belgium, France and Norway.

    The fellowship will start between 15 November 2020 and 15 January 2021 for 36 months. The offer is open until 30 September 2020, but candidates that suit all requirements can be interviewed before this date. We specifically encourage women to respond to this call for applications, as we are committed to equality of opportunity. Due to the Covid-19 specific context, face-to-face & teleworking conditions will depend on official conditions at the start of the job.

    Research Context

    Climate change today is undoubtedly a challenge for humanity. The Special IPCC 1,5 °C report highlighted the numerous dramatic consequences of climate change; yet, the response of our societies has been slow, contradictory and elusive. The humanities and social sciences are called on to make a crucial contribution to the understanding of how humans approach and make sense of climate change, in order to reduce the value-action gap, using innovative forms of communication to identify entry-points for climate action.

    This research project has the transformative aim to improve the scientific understanding of why societies remain indifferent to the risks of climate change, and to understand how multimodal devices and recommendations can convert apathy into action. The project will focus on Belgium, France, and Norway. The cooperation between specialists in linguistics, semiotics, law and governance studies, anthropology and psycho-social analysis can significantly improve the state of the art, by combining expertise on texts and images as indications of sensemaking by individuals and cultures, and expertise on social and psychological factors that influence behaviours and attitudes. In Belgium, the research will be undertaken in collaboration with some non-governmental organizations: (1) a cooperative which will receive assistance transforming their communication strategy for calls to action; and (2) a network of organisations, which will contribute to a real-time social-network analysis of a new communication strategy in 2020-2021.

    One of the main tasks of the project is to increase knowledge on the visual aspect of online discourses on climate change and climate change mitigation. The analysis of the most “famous” (most seen, shared and commented on) images and videos on climate change from YouTube, Instagram, Twitter and Reddit and of the interaction between images and verbal texts will also aim at improving our knowledge of the role of visual content in climate change mitigation.

    Job Description

    On each platform, the most famous climate change images and videos will be identified and collected. These images will be analysed with a semiotic approach, which is useful for understanding the implicit potential meaning of images, including interactions with texts. The same approach will be applied to a corpus of comments on this visual content, in order to analyse how real viewers produce meaning in relation to images and videos. Intertextual connections will also be examined. This analysis will allow for a comparison between different countries and different platforms.

    The aims of the research are the identification of patterns and tendencies concerning the most influential images on climate change in the countries of focus. We aim to

    1) identify iconic, narrative and rhetorical multimodal configurations in (dominantly) visual content concerning climate change, and to

    2) analyse the attitudes and discursive forms of commentary concerning this content, whether in favour of or against climate mobilisation. For example, how different forms of opposition to climate change mitigation policies are expressed, in comments on the visual content but also through recycling, use and manipulation of this content? How do climate skepticism is expressed and articulated through disagreement and conflict, in particular in relation to and through visual contents? This analysis will contribute to the understanding of how people interpret and manipulate these images, and of how images participate in creating meaning concerning climate change and climate change mitigation practices. The global approach is inspired by the semiotic tradition of analysis, taking into consideration also the theoretical and methodological contributions of social semiotics and pragmatics.

    On this basis, the PhD aims to offer advice on effective climate change communication. A result of the research will be also a scientific support to the production and test of prototypes of multimodal and innovative communication devices on climate change for the partners, including for example augmented and virtual reality. Devices and prototypes will be produced by the project team with the support of MIIL (Media Innovation & Intelligibility Lab, UCLouvain); they will be tested by the PhD student with techniques that are made available by the Social Media Lab of UCLouvain, in particular, eye-tracking, interviews, and user experience tests.

    The PhD candidate will work mainly in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, under the supervision of Andrea Catellani (IL&C, UCLouvain) and Louise-Amélie Cougnon (MiiL, UCLouvain). S/he will be affiliated with the Institute for Language and Communication. Applicants from outside the EU are responsible for obtaining the necessary visa or permits.

    The candidate’s activities will include the following:

    - taking part in the doctoral training programme;

    - working actively on a PhD thesis, with the aim of defending it by the end of the three-year position;

    - contributing actively to the global research project;

    - reporting on the results of the PhD project in scientific articles and at conferences, with the support of the supervisors.

    Research Profile

    • A master’s degree in Semiotics, Visual Studies, Communication, Information and Communication Studies, Linguistics or any similar degree.
    • Excellent academic record and strong interest in visual and multimodal analysis and on climate change communication analysis.
    • Fluency in French; good level of English (minimum B2); proficiency in Dutch and/or Norwegian will be considered as an add-on.
    • Skills in semiotic analysis or willingness to acquire such skills.
    • Skills and familiarity with the analysis of social media corpora and images or willingness to acquire such skills.
    • An experience in climate change or political discourse and images research are an asset, but not a requirement.
    • Capacity to work both independently and as part of a team.

    Application Procedure and Timetable

    If you are interested in this position, please send to Prof. Andrea Catellani andrea.catellani@uclouvain.be:

    - a detailed CV in English or in French;

    - a copy of Bachelor’s and Master’s diplomas;

    - a transcript of records for Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees;

    - a cover letter, describing, at least, your motivation and how your profile responds to the offer;

    - a sample piece of academic writing in English or French;

    - the names and contact details of two academic referees.

    Deadline for application: 30 September 2020

    Shortlisted candidates will be invited for an interview (in Louvain-la-Neuve or online) in October 2020.

    Questions about this offer can be directed to Andrea Catellani (andrea.catellani@uclouvain.be).

  • 09.09.2020 17:56 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Philippe J. Maarek

    La communication politique des élections européennes de 2019 a été paradoxale. Alors qu'il s'agissait des dernières à inclure la Grande-Bretagne avant son départ de l'Union, le Brexit n'y a pris qu'une part marginale. Alors que pour la première fois en quarante ans la participation a augmenté, ce sont les partis populistes qui en ont bénéficié, remettant en cause la culture de compromis établie de longue date. Alors que l'on pensait les pratiques médiatiques disparates, notamment le Nord et le Sud, les comportements électoraux se sont caractérisés par une grande communauté d'usages synchrones des médias traditionnels et des réseaux sociaux. Cet ouvrage met ainsi en évidence le paradoxe suivant : si l'Europe semble traversée par de puissantes forces centrifuges, un électeur européen prend forme.

    https://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=livre&no=66650

  • 09.09.2020 17:49 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research (SPECIAL ISSUE)

    Deadline for abstracts: October 15, 2020

    Streaming is an increasingly used form of content distribution. This special issue of MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research aims at bringing together articles that contribute to a better understanding of how streaming as a phenomenon affects established media industries such as film, television, gaming, music, radio/podcasts, books and audio books. As communication and media scholars we are interested in streaming media, that is the structures, relations and practices including and surrounding streaming as distribution systems. This encompasses (at least) studies of media industries and production, interfaces, content, and use of streaming media.

    Read more: https://tidsskrift.dk/mediekultur/announcement/view/818

  • 03.09.2020 21:30 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Hebrew University of Jerusalem

    1 FTE (2-3 years)

    The PROFECI Team at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (http://profeci.net/ (is looking to recruit a Postddoctoral Fellow in an ERC-funded project about the social dynamics of projecting possible futures and the role of the media in this process. In collaboration with an international team of researchers, led by Prof. Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt, the postdoctoral fellow will examine how projections regarding the COVID-19 pandemic in media discourse interact with political and behavioral responses in different countries.

    The research will involve collection and analysis of projections regarding the pandemic’s development, outcomes, and longer-term implications in news and social media, and the integration of this data with publicly available statistics on the pandemic. This includes developing a model capable of accounting for the behavioural implications of Covid-19-related projections. The postdoctoral fellow will also participate in the application and validation of algorithmic tools for the automated extraction and analysis of pandemic-related projections in media discourse and the development of survey measurements to examine real-time public responses to such projections.

    The position is fully-funded for two years, with a possibility for a third-year extension. Specific start date will be determined based on pandemic-related constraints and the availability of suitable candidates.

    Suitable candidates should have:

    ·PhD in Communication, Public Health, or related fields (or be close to completion of the PhD). Expertise in health communication is an advantage.

    ·advanced language skills in English, as well as another European language, with a preference for French.

    ·experience in textual analysis. Acquaintance with computational approaches is an advantage, but not a mandatory requirement.

    ·statistical understanding and capabilities.

    ·a record of academic excellence.

    If you are interested in this position, please submit the following

    materials, by email, to bath@savion.huji.ac.il:

    ·a letter stating your motivation and qualification for the job (~1 page).

    ·CV, including a list of publications.

    ·two letters of recommendation (one of them should be from the PhD supervisor).

    ·one relevant publication (published or under review).

    Review of applications will begin on October 15, 2020, and continue until the position is filled.

    For inquiries about this position, you can contact PROFECI Coordinator Bat-Sheva Hass (bath@savion.huji.ac.il_)_, or PI Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt (keren.tw@mail.huji.ac.il ).

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