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University of Hamburg, Germany

The Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences invites applications for two Research Associate positions in the subject area Journalism and Mass Communication (Salary level 13 TV-L, 75%)

Responsibilities:

Research associates will be expected primarily to teach and conduct research. The research associates will also have the opportunity to pursue further academic qualifications, in particular a doctoral dissertation. At least one-third of set working hours will be made available for the research associate’s own academic work.

Specific Duties:

- Research and teaching duties in the area of communication and journalism in a digital context

- Development of a PhD thesis in the area of digital journalism, particularly concerning new roles and professions in news organizations OR news recommender systems

- Participation in publications, presentations, and conferences

- Support preparing project proposals for third-party funding

- Designing and conducting research in a team

- Planning and teaching of courses (three teaching hours per week)

- Supporting the organization of the research team and participation in the University's self-administration

Please find more details about both positions here:

https://www.uni-hamburg.de/en/uhh/stellenangebote/wissenschaftliches-personal/30-09-20-358-en.pdf

https://www.uni-hamburg.de/en/uhh/stellenangebote/wissenschaftliches-personal/30-09-20-357-en.pdf

Closing date: 30 Sept 2020

Start date: 1 Dec 2020 or soon thereafter

For enquiries, please feel free to contact me.

Review of Communication Research

Deadline: May 10, 2021

Review of Communication Research invites the submission of literature reviews and meta-analyses that relate social media and self-concept.

Here there a list of topics that we find of interest. However, this call is not limited to the listed topics:

- Communication of the self in social media (e.g., Instagram, Facebook.)

- Influence of social media on self-concept.

- The interactions of self-concept, collective identity, and shared identity.

- Social comparison.

- Sexual identity and social media.

- Imagined audience.

- Online self-presentation.

- Reputation in social media of individuals and organizations.

Deadline: May 10, 2021 (we will reply in a few days to the authors to inform if RCR is interested in working on the manuscript, or not).

Authors should submit their manuscripts through the RCR editorial management system: www.rcommunicationr.org.

Paper proposals, questions, and comments should be addressed to Giorgio De Marchis (Universidad Complutense de Madrid): editor@rcommunicationr.org.

About the Journal:

Review of Communication Research (www.rcommunicationr.org) is an internationally respected open-access journal that specializes in publishing high-quality literature reviews and meta-analyses for the field of Communication. The comprehensive critical reviews that we publish summarize the latest advances in the field, but also root out errors and provoke intellectual discussions among scholars.

RCR ranks Q1 in Scopus CiteScore. It ranks in the top 2% in Social Science (#159/8,000, according to Scopus SNIP indicator) and top 10% in Communication (#41/434, according to the SJR indicator.)

We are looking forward to receiving your manuscripts or proposals.

Download a PDF of the Call for Papers: https://www.rcommunicationr.org/public/journals/1/call%20for%20papers%20or%20proposals%20RCR%20-%20SOCIAL%20MEDIA%20AND%20THE%20SELF-CONCEPT.pdf

Special issue of Convergence

Deadline: September 10, 2020

Over the past years, digital disconnection has emerged as a research topic attracting interest across media and communication studies. In an age of ubiquitous media, the idea of “digital disconnection” represents a cultural, political and personal response inspiring interest and investigation. Along with related concepts such as abstention, resistance, avoidance and detox, digital disconnection is discussed and explored in a growing number of research endeavors emerging in various subfields. This special issue invites papers on digital disconnection as a concept and a topic for empirical research, to advance digital disconnection studies as a research area.

READ MORE: https://journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cfp_Advancing%20Digital%20Disconnection%20Research%20June%202020.pdf

Special issue in Digital journalism

Deadline: November 1, 2020

In 2004, the landmark study by Hallinand Mancini, ‘Comparing Media Systems’, has opened doors for hundreds of comparative studies in journalism, media, and communication that featured nearly every aspect of media life. However, an important mediated realm that has been under-studied in relation to comparative and cross-cultural analysis is digital journalism – whether seen as a theoretical concept, a professional domain, a creative industry, or a possible macro-indicator of the national media system development. Since 2004, media and communication world has changed beyond recognition. Digital journalism and social media are becoming the leading source of information for citizens all over the world, demanding more than a humble place within models of journalism of the previous era. Transborder mediated communication and proliferation of global audiences have put under question whether nation states need to remain major units of analysis for comparative media and journalism studies.

On one hand, globalization of media production and social networking plaforms evokes expectations that digital journalism practices may standardize across nations. On the other hand, there is growing evidence that local/regional social, political, and cultural factors critically affect how digital journalism is made and perceived. Together with that, the challenges of audience segmentation, populism and political polarization, digital and social inequalities, blurring borders of media trust, and spread of misinformation create a need for new criteria in comparative journalism studies.

The special issue aims at bringing together comparative studies of digital journalism in various contexts and across them, elaborating comparative criteria, and discussing the methodological and institutional challenges in comparative digital journalism research. The issue seeks to examine whether digital journalism differs depending on social or cultural contexts, geographic proximity of countries, political or economic factors, accessibility of ICTs, and specifics of media landscapes, among other factors.

The guest editors welcome comparative studies that involve at least two countries, as well as theoretical contributions. In particular, we invite submissions that engage with (but are not limited to) one or more of the topics below:

• Digital journalisms? Contextual dependence of the development trajectories of the digital journalism practices around the world

• The place of digital journalism in the existing approaches to modeling media systems

• Digital journalism compared cross-culturally and cross-regionally: variables and metrics

• Comparing media policies in response to growth of digital journalism
• Cross-country comparisons of the recent digitalization effects and digital practices of journalism

• Democratic and wider societal roles of digital journalism in both democratic and non-democratic contexts

• Digital and non-digital journalism: competition and strategies for claiming niches

• Digital journalism and politics in comparative perspective
• Technological and social challenges for digital journalism in various parts of the world

• Digital divide and economic divide: implications for digital journalism

The special issue is open for regular submissions; decisions about inclusion will be quality-based, reliant on thorough peer-reviewing.

Abstract submissions (500-750 words excluding references, indicating central questions, theoretical framework, and methodology) are to be sent to Svetlana Bodrunova s.bodrunova@spbu.ru and Anna Gladkova gladkova_a@list.ru. Full papers are expected to be between 7,000 and 9,000 words long, including references, tables, figures, and supplementary materials. All the queries on the special issue should also be addressed to the guest editors.

Timeline:

Abstract submission to emails of the guest editors: November 1, 2020

Authors notified of the results of abstract selection: November 20, 2020

Deadline for full paper submission to ScholarOne: March 20, 2021

The full call for papers may be found here: http://bit.ly/comparingDJSI

University in Melbourne

The graduate program in Literary and Cultural Studies at Monash University in Melbourne has opened applications for its Cecile Parrish Memorial Scholarship, a fully-funded 3-year+ full-time research opportunity:

http://careers.pageuppeople.com/…nce

Planned research projects need to be in the general field of 'critical study of English literature', broadly defined as literature in the English language.

• Cecile Parrish Memorial Scholarship for Research Excellence
• Job No.: 610636
• Faculty/Portfolio: Faculty of Arts, School of Languages, Literatures,
• Cultures and Linguistics
• Location: Clayton campus
• Duration: 3-year and 3-month fixed-term appointment
• Remuneration: The successful applicant will receive a Cecile Parrish

Memorial Scholarship for Research Excellence, currently valued at $35,000 per annum 2020 full-time rate, (tax-free stipend), non-indexed.

The conditions of this scholarship mirror the RTP stipend scholarship conditions at https://www.monash.edu/…res.

For an international awardee, the Faculty will also provide a tuition fee scholarship and Single Overseas Health Cover (OSHC).

The Opportunity

This Scholarship is endowed by the Cecile Parrish Memorial Fund, established by the trustees of the late Renee Parrish of Singapore in commemoration of her daughter Cecile, a onetime member of the staff of the Department of English, Monash University. The Fund is administered by Monash University and provides scholarships specifically for the critical study of English Literature.

Monash University is the largest university in Australia and regularly ranks in the top 100 universities worldwide. Monash has six globally networked campuses and international alliances in Europe and Asia. The applicant(s) will be based at the Clayton campus in Melbourne.

We are seeking an enthusiastic and committed graduate research student to undertake research in English Literature, broadly defined as literature in the English language, in the Literary and Cultural Studies Graduate Research Program, Faculty of Arts, Monash University.

Candidate Requirements

The successful candidate will have a background in the discipline of English literary studies and be of outstanding merit. The scholarship will enable a PhD scholar to pursue a full-time program of research.

Applicants will be considered, provided that they fulfil the criteria for PhD admission at Monash University which includes English language

proficiency. Details of eligibility requirements to undertake a PhD in the Faculty of Arts are available at https://arts.monash.edu/…ss/.

Scholarship holders must be enrolled full-time and on campus. Please note: applicants who already hold a PhD will not be considered.

The successful applicant will be expected to enrol by 1 March 2021.

However, there may be some flexibility as to the date of commencement.

Enquiries

Professor Jarrod Hayes: jarrod.hayes@monash.edu

Submit an Expression of Interest (EOI)

To apply, an EOI must be sent, in the form of a single pdf attachment to an email to Kinda Say, Senior Graduate Research Administrator, Faculty of Arts, at the following e-mail address arts-agr-apply@monash.edu.

State “EOI [your name] - Cecile Parrish Memorial Scholarship for Research Excellence” in the subject heading of the email.

It is important that you contact the Project Lead, Professor Jarrod

Hayes prior to submission of the EOI to discuss the project.

EOIs shall comprise:

• A cover letter that includes a brief statement of the applicant’s suitability
• A brief research proposal not exceeding 750 words in length that
• fits within the broad project aims and objectives, and demonstrates some understanding of the area of research
• A curriculum vitae, including a list of any published works, conference presentations and relevant work experience
• A full statement of academic record, supported by electronic copies of relevant certified documentation
• Contact details of two academic referees

Please note that the Cecile Parrish Scholarship for Research Excellence is administered outside of Monash University’s central graduate research scholarship rounds. If you would like to be considered for other Monash graduate research scholarships in addition to the Cecile Parrish Memorial Scholarship for Research Excellence, please indicate this in your EOI submission.

Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed by video call. The interviews will be conducted in English.

Closing Date: Friday 25 September 2020, 11:55 pm AEST

Deadline: September 30, 2020

We have been approached by Bloomsbury Publishing to put together a proposal for a handbook on the intersection of (video) games with sexual content and sexuality. Traditionally, handbooks are envisioned as comprehensive surveys of the discipline aimed at the library market.

Volumes typically consist of about 25-35 contributions written by experts in their respective areas of the field. There is a great deal of interest and exceptional work being done on this topic with numerous publications written and published in the last five years. This publication would attempt to gather as many threads of work being done by both the established academics in the field of game studies as well as promising young scholars.

The concept behind a handbook is to compile a comprehensive assembly of essays in an attempt to map a discipline. As such we are primarily, but not necessarily exclusively, looking for synthesis/review essays that bring together existing research. We are not opposed to efforts which map out new directions in the field as long as they consider where we are as a basis for where we might/will be going. What makes this topic intriguing is that both the borders of sex and sexuality and the nature of video games resist easy categorization. Game Studies as an “academic field” is inherently interdisciplinary, creating both challenge and opportunity for how to conceptualize this (these) topic(s). As the range of platforms, formats, and game types continue to increase so do the ways to present, perform, and play sex and sexuality.

If you would like to propose a submission for this project, please send a short author(s) bio as well as a 500 word abstract along with title to Matthew Wysocki (mwysocki@flagler.edu) AND Steffi Shook (Steffi.Shook@mville.edu). The deadline for receipt of all proposals is September 30, 2020. We will attempt to notify all correspondents by November 15 regarding the status of their submission. Completed draft manuscripts will be due by February 28, 2021.

Potential Topics:

• Early erotic games (Atari 2600 and PC sex games)
• Playable sex scenes in games
• The evolution and explicitness of sexual cutscenes
• LGBTQ characters/stories/relationships
• Erotic interactive fiction games
• Hypersexual character design
• Sex/Nudity mods
• Depictions of sex work/sex workers in video games
• Regional/national differences in sexual content in games
• Sex across game series (Mass Effects, The Sims, The Witcher, etc.)
• Queergaming/ Queer Play

Deadline: September 15, 2020

Purpose

Gaming is taughtacross multiple content areas (e.g., media studies, education, computer science, design, etc.) and multiple contexts (k-12, undergrad, grad, vocational ed, professional development). However, we don't always share syllabi, teaching strategies, or best practices in the teaching of games. Arguably you can do a Google search to find some syllabi; however, sometimes those syllabi are outdated. They are skeletal structures missing content, or they fail to include deep and rich instructor perspectives. The goal of this edited book is to bring together faculty that teach gaming to share such content.

Each chapter would include multiple parts. For instance:

• Teaching objectives - what are the main goals of the course
• Teaching pedagogy - how do you approach teaching and learning
• Teaching best practices - what have you learned works best; what has failed
• Teaching tools - what tools do you use and why
• Teaching syllabi - each chapter ends with a syllabusthat is enhanced(moves beyond bare bonesto include greater detail)
• Book organization would be by content area (e.g., game programming, topical focilike music or art, education, etc.).

Details

To be considered: please submit a 250-word abstract by September 15 that includes:

• Author Name(s)
• Title of course
• Course keywords (e.g., content area like computer science or design, context like grad vs. undergrad, and medium like online or face-to-face).
• Brief description of course

Full chapters would be due December 1, 2020. Accepted chapters will receive a complete template to support writing. The book will be published open access with Creative Commons licensing.

April 17, 2021

The Queens, Leeds, United Kingdom

Deadline: November 30, 2020

Please note that the conference date is provisional and subject to change due to the epidemiological situation with the COVID-19 pandemic. We will not open a fee payment system until we are sure we can host the event. Please do not book flights and accommodation before the conference date is confirmed by the organizer.

Femspec Journal and The Centre for Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, in partnership with Intellect, are seeking abstracts of 250-300 words for papers or creative works in any medium–poetry, fiction, film, TV, dance, theatre, music, opera, social media, gaming, graphic novels, or genre–surrealism, science fiction, magical realism, gothic, horror, fantasy, myth, folklore, rock, punk, etc, that challenges gender using tools that go beyond realism using the speculative exploration of any kind including supernatural or utopian/dystopian framing, posing the “what if,” making gender-bending solutions to contemporary global social and cultural issues, using imagination and fantasy to pose resolution to these problems showing how the problems grew from lack of alignment of power relations between the sexes in the first place.

We encourage submissions of single papers, of panels of three to four papers, and creative works. Themes and questions to be explored might include (but not limited to):

• sci-fi in popular television
• gender in Black Mirrors, the Outcasts, Misfits, the Sarah Jane Adventures, etc.
• what would happen if women had the power to imagine the world? What new kinds of institutions would emerge and what obstacles? How might we meet and overcome those challenges?
• what can we learn from The Handmaid’s Tale, in any of its forms–novel, film, television series? or The Testaments?
• Historically, women have imagined worlds before. What are the lessons to be learned from how these texts have worn with time: The Furies, The Wanderground, Demeter Flower, Motherlines, Parable of the Sower? Female Man?
• How did the journey of the Enterprise change when its Captain became a woman? Or did it?
• How did the plots change when Dr Who became a woman? Or did they? What propelled that change? How do you account for the reaction of the fan base?
• Are the superheroines in series like SuperGirl every really allowed to save the world? Why, and how? Or why not?

Submissions of abstracts (up to 300 words) with an email contact should be sent to Dr Batya Weinbaum (weinbaumbatya@gmail.com) and Dr Martina Topić (martinahr@gmail.com) by 30 November 2020. Decisions will be sent by 30 December 2020 and registrations are due by 01.03. 2021.

The registration fee is £200 and it includes,

• Conference bag and folder with materials
• Meals and drinks during the conference
• WLAN during the conference
• Certificate of attendance
• An opportunity to publish a paper in conference proceedings

Publications

Two special numbers of a journal will be edited, one issue on arts and literature for Femspec and one for an Intellect journal (depending on submissions to the conference)

For more information about Femspec see here: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/batyawein

For more information about Intellect, journals see here: https://www.intellectbooks.com/journals

Centre for Research in Humanities and Social Sciences is a private organisation originally founded in December 2013 in Croatia (EU). Since July 2016 the Centre is registered in Leeds, UK. Please note that this is a grassroots initiative to overcome bureaucracy of big conferences and to allow an opportunity to participants from the Third World to present their paper due to language help provided by the organizer who proofreads and edits proposals before sending them to review. Thus, the conferences are international and attended by participants from all over the world, however, these conferences are not massive and impersonal as the entire conference organisation is a ‘one-woman show’ (Dr Martina Topić, https://www.martinatopic.com). The conferences provide a good networking opportunity in small groups of like-minded scholars.

Participants are responsible for finding funding to cover transportation and accommodation costs during the whole period of the conference. This applies to both presenting and non-presenting participants. The Centre will not discriminate based on the origin and/or methodological/paradigmatic approach of prospective conference participants.

Visa Information

The Centre will issue a Visa letter to participants with UK entry clearance requirement. The British Home Office has a very straightforward procedure, which is not excessively lengthy and the Centre will also issue early decisions to participants with Visa requirements.

March 25-27, 2021

Warsaw, Poland

Deadline: November 1, 2020

During the Covid-19 pandemic, most Churches and believers worldwide resorted to the media to build and maintain their communities, identities, and share their beliefs, which has shown how important media has been for religious organizations and individuals. Analyzing the pre-pandemic context, and inspired by the transformations of mediatized religion landscape, we are excited to open the Call for Papers for the conference “Religious Identity and the Media. Methods, concepts, and new research avenues”, organized by the team of the DFG and NCN funded research project “Minorities and the media. The communicative construction of religious identity in times of deep mediatisation” (https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/religionswissenschaft/forschung/forschungsprojekte/minorities-and-the-media).

The conference theme discusses the manifold relationships between creating, negotiating, maintaining and challenging religious and religion-related identities, and various types of media and forms of media use.

It will be hosted by the Institute for Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. The keynote lectures will be held by Mia Lövheim (Uppsala University) and Christoph Günther (Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz).

For the CALL FOR PAPERS visit the conference website: https://media.religion2021.uni-bremen.de/

The deadline for paper proposals is November 1st, 2020.

We are able to financially support two PhD students with the amount of up to 300€ for travel and accommodation costs. For more information on the travel allowance visit: https://media.religion2021.uni-bremen.de/WordPress/travel-allowance/

We will continue to monitor the situation regarding the COVID-19 pandemic and we will comply with any relevant administrative regulations. We also consider hosting a partially or fully online conference if that is the best solution.

Kind Regards from the organizing committee:

• Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, head of project (University of Bremen)
• Dorota Hall, head of project (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences)
• Łukasz Fajfer, research associate (University of Bremen)
• Marta Kolodziejska, research associate (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences)
• Carolin Müller, research assistant

Edited by: Pia Majbritt Jensen and Ushma Chauhan Jacobsen

A new anthology, The Global Audiences of Danish Television Drama, edited by Pia Majbritt Jensen and Ushma Chauhan Jacobsen, sheds light on the global success of Danish television drama and explores the theoretical implications for audience studies.

“When Danish television drama spread across the world it surprised both industry professionals and academics”, write Pia Majbritt Jensen and Ushma Chauhan Jacobsen in the anthology’s first chapter, “It appeared that a public broadcaster from a relatively small nation with a language spoken by only 5.6 million people had succeeded in creating what could indeed be termed ‘a peripheral counter-flow’ of television content.”

This new anthology is the first publication to consider the transnational audiences of Nordic Noir. Intended for students, researchers, and media professionals, it explores the reception of three Danish series – The Bridge, The Killing and Borgen, among global audiences by investigating how they were received in seven different countries: Australia, Brazil, Denmark, Germany, Japan, Turkey, and the UK.

“The scale of the study is truly global”, comments Pia Majbritt Jensen and Ushma Chauhan Jacobsen, and they continue:

We have used a highly innovative approach to transnational audiences insofar as we also consider distributors, buyers, and cultural intermediaries as important audiences. The anthology maps out transnational audiences and non-Anglophone content in all their complexities.

As a whole, the anthology provides insight on global-audience research in an age of multi-platform and multi-directional media flows, as well as on the complex nature of contemporary audiences located in different parts of the world.

The Global Audiences of Danish Television Drama offers a major contribution to research on Danish television drama, the international circulation of audiovisual content produced in non-Anglophone contexts, and the phenomenon of Nordic Noir.

Read it here

The book is available Open Access on Nordicoms’ website.

• Read The Global Audiences of Danish Television Drama

About the editors

Pia Majbritt Jensen is Associate Professor in the Department of Media Studies and Journalism, Aarhus University.

Ushma Chauhan Jacobsen is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Aarhus University.

Table of contents

Ushma Chauhan Jacobsen & Pia Majbritt Jensen, Unfolding the global travel of Danish television drama series

Pia Majbritt Jensen & Marion McCutcheon,“Othering the Self and same-ing the Other”: Australians watching Nordic Noir

Andrea Esser, The appeal of “authenticity”: Danish television series and their British audiences

Ushma Chauhan Jacobsen & Alessandra Meleiro, Brazilian encounters: Buyers and bloggers appropriating content

Ushma Chauhan Jacobsen, A cosmopolitan tribe of viewers: Crime, women, and akogare in Japan

Yeşim Kaptan, Sensing authenticity, seeing aura: Turkish audiences’ reception of Danish drama

Susanne Eichner, Lifeworld relevance and practical sense-making: Audience engagement with Danish television drama series