European Communication Research and Education Association
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
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 ).
ECREA’s Political Communication Section Interim Conference
March 26-27, 2021
Bucharest, Romania
Deadline: September 30, 2020
The Political Communication Section of ECREA invites abstracts of papers for the next Interim Conference to be held in Bucharest, March 26th-27th , 2021. For self-explanatory reasons, the theme of the conference is “Communicating crisis: Political communication in the age of uncertainty”. The organizers call for proposals in all sub-fields of political communication research, but particularly invite conceptual, empirical, and methodological proposals reflecting on the ‘plague year’ we are living in, or comparable crisis events, and the role of media and/or communication therein. The conference will reflect both empirically, and conceptually and methodologically focused work.
This is a timely and rich topic, and not only due to the tragic circumstances around Covid 19. The last 20 years have brought or aggravated several challenges to humanity: rapid population increase, climate change, war and conflict, humanitarian catastrophes, economic crises, growing inequalities, population ageing, and the uncertain future of work among them. These ongoing crises are now the background of a pandemic of proportions unseen in at least a century. In such turbulent times, communication in general and political communication in particular play a significant role in helping the public at large as well as volatile groups in society in particular to understand unfolding events, and in developing constructive attitudes and resilient behaviors regarding the crisis. Perspectives can even be adjusted or corrected, e.g. in reorienting audiences to reliable information outlets and away from possibly “polluted information” from untrustworthy sources.
The digital information ecosystem comes with further challenges to effective communication in times of crisis. Among them, the large variety of sources of information, the partisan bias of media organizations and outlets, the relatively high incidence of “polluted information” (i.e., dis-, mis-, and mal-information), the potential of each message to go viral due to the constant use of social networking sites and instant messaging platforms, the rapid circulation of conspiracy theories, the high potential of exposure to contradictory information, the almost instant access to interpersonal communication which might fuel various rumors, and so on. All these trends contribute to making people more vulnerable to accept and to disseminate various pieces of ideologically-driven, highly polarized information. Against this backdrop, communication is no longer used as a strategy to keep people well informed, but as an engine responsible for generalized skepticism and emotionally-driven attitudes. Addressing (political) communication changes and challenges during crises is of high
relevance not only for scholars, policy-makers, and journalists, but also for citizens, as co-creators of
content within the communication flow.
Keynote speaker
Prof. Darren G. Lilleker, Bournemouth University
Dr Darren G. Lilleker is Professor of Political Communication in The Faculty of Media & Communication, Bournemouth University and Convenor of the Centre for Comparative Politics & Media Research. He has published widely on election campaigning and voter engagement, including Political Communication and Cognition (Palgrave, 2014).
Papers & panels
The conference will feature both presentations of individual research papers, and thematic panels.
Paper submissions will be grouped in sessions of 4-5 papers by the conference program chair. A limited number of slots will be available for coherent panels where one topic is addressed in four to five presentations, followed by responses. Preference will be given to panels with presenters from diverse backgrounds and affiliations.
Submission
Paper submissions: Please send an MS Word (.doc, .docx) file including (a) the title of your paper and an abstract of no more than 400 words, and (b), on a separate page, the names and affiliations of the authors.
Panel submissions: Please send an MS Word (doc., docx) file including (a) a rationale of no more than 300 word; (b) summaries for all the presentations in the panel (no more than 150 words for each summary); and (c) the names and affiliations of the chair, presenters, and respondents.
Please note that all submission will undergo peer-review, and will be accepted or declined accordingly.
Only one proposal per first author can be accepted.
All submissions should be sent via email at: contact[at]comunicare[dot]ro.
Deadlines
Please e-mail your abstract or panel proposal by September 30th 2020.
Notifications of acceptance will be sent to authors by November 15th 2020.
A possible virtual conference
Due to the global pandemic circumstances, the Organizers are preparing two other options for the conference as a precaution:
There will be an option of online participation for those presenters who are unable to travel.
In the worst case scenario, the entirety of the conference will be done online, but the
Organizers would do their best to run the conference at the planned and scheduled dates.
We will be in contact as the situation evolves.
Local host
Nicoleta Corbu (National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania), E-mail: nicoleta.corbu[at]comunicare[dot]ro
Section Management Team
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:
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.
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:
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
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:
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:
To be considered: please submit a 250-word abstract by September 15 that includes:
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.
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