ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

Special Issue of Revenant

Deadline: October 5, 2020

Guest Editors Dr Bethan Michael-Fox (@bethmichaelfox) and Dr Renske Visser (@Renske_Visser)

www.revenantjournal.com

Revenant is now accepting abstracts for critical articles, creative writing pieces, and book, film, music, or event reviews for a themed issue on Death and the Screen, examining how screens, in the broad sense of the word, have shaped and continue to shape the way we witness, experience and reflect on death and dying.

Numerous and complex relationships between death and the screen have already been charted. The dead come back in film, on television and online. Screens let us not only see the dead but hear them too. As Penfold-Mounce has emphasised, in a technology saturated world of mass media, ‘the dead no longer remain silent as the grave’ (2018, p.36).

Whilst relationships between screens and digital media more broadly have gained attention, so have the dynamics of death and individual screen media.While some argue that television is one way in which death is brought into the home, others have examined the ways in which the representation of dying on television might be problematic or harmful to audiences.

In terms of ‘real’ death, it is possible to witness death, dying and trauma on mobile phones, tablets and laptops simply by scrolling through social media. Autoplay and ‘live’ features in apps have been critiqued for the ways they expose people to these images without warning. When George Floyd’s death at the hands of US police officers was recorded some people sought this video out, while others have shared their experiences of deciding not to watch it.

Many people don’t shy away from death and the gory on screen. To what extent is this a form of escapism and to what extent is it an extension of their everyday life? And how can you ‘escape’ death on the screen when death and dying is at the center of the daily news and a theme in almost any film, television show and now also in advertisements? How do screen deaths relate to ‘real’ deaths in people’s lives and can such a distinction even be made?

As screen media become more ubiquitous, these complex and multifaceted relationships continue to warrant further critical attention. In keeping with/Revenant/’s positioning as an inter-disciplinary journal encouraging discussion about the supernatural, uncanny or the weird, we welcome proposals for submissions that engage with these ideas. However,/Revenant/also emphasises that the ‘natural’ is part of the super-natural and as such academic and/or creative engagement with ‘natural’ death and/on the screen, or which complicates the notion of a ‘natural’ death, is also welcome.

We believe a range of different methodological and theoretical approaches will enrich this special issue and as such urge you not to feel limited. We encourage proposals for academic articles or creative responses, which might be poetry, fiction, fanfiction, art, comics, audio or film that might stand alone or be accompanied by critical reflections, as well as autoethnographic and/or personal responses.

Submissions that blur the boundaries of these categories are also welcomed.

Topics or areas of focus might include: 

• Making sense of death and dying through the screen
• Haunting and/in screen cultures
• Weird screen deaths
• The ethics of screen deaths
• Death and the supernatural on screen
• Documentary engagement with death and dying
• Adaptation of death (from literature or elsewhere) to the screen
• Death and the uncanny in screen cultures
• Death, social media and any of/Revenant’/s themes: the uncanny, the
• supernatural, the weird or haunting
• Personal and/or creative responses to death and the/on the screen
• Crises (climate, pandemic, other crises), death and screens
• Non-human death and/on the screen
• Death in screen gaming

Please submit extended abstracts of 500 words by 5 October 2020 with a short bio either via the Google Form here:https://forms.gle/…R19 Or to:deathandthescreen@gmail.com

For creative or innovative submissions please also feel welcome to get in touch via email ondeathandthescreen@gmail.com to discuss your ideas or propose your work in a different way.

Reviews of books, films, games, events, and art related to the death and the screen will be considered (800-1,000 words in length).

If your abstract is accepted, the full submission will be due in April 2021 with a view to publish in late Winter 2021.

Inquiries are welcome and should be directed todeathandthescreen@gmail.com

Edited by Gabriele Balbi and Andreas Fickers

This book focuses on the history of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), from its origins in the mid-19th century to nowadays. ITU was the first international organization ever and still plays a crucial role in managing global telecommunications today. Putting together some of the most relevant scholars in the field of transnational communications, the book covers the history of ITU from 1865 to digital times in a truly global perspective, taking into account several technologies like the telegraph, the telephone, cables, wireless, radio, television, satellites, mobile phone, the internet and others. The main goal is to identify the long-term strategies of regulation and the techno-diplomatic manoeuvres taken inside ITU, from convincing the majority of the nations to establish the official seat of the Telegraph Union bureau in Switzerland in the 1860s, to contrasting the multi-stakeholder model of Internet governance (supported by US and ICANN).

“History of the International Telecommunication Union” is a trans-disciplinary text and can be interesting for scholars and students in the fields of telecommunications, media, international organizations, transnational communication, diplomacy, political economy of communication, STS, and others. It has the ambition to become a reference point in the history of ITU and, at the same time, just the first comprehensive step towards a longer, inter-technological, political and cultural history of transnational communications to be written in the future.

With contributions by: Christiane Berth, Simone Fari, Andrea Giuntini, Roxane Gray, Christian Henrich-Franke, Richard R. John, Léonard Laborie, Gianluigi Negro, Lisa Ruth Rand, Maria Rikitianskaia, Marie Sandoz, Valérie Schafer, Marsha Siefert, Adrian Stecher, Heidi Tworek, Anne-Katrin Weber, Dwayne Winseck, Nina Wormbs.

For more information: https://www.degruyter.com/view/title/567062.

University of Cambridge - Department of Sociology

Location: Cambridge

Salary: £41,526 - £52,559

Hours: Full Time

Contract Type: Fixed-Term/Contract

Placed On: 17th June 2020

Closes: 20th July 2020

Job Ref: JM23273

Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 21 months in the first instance, with the possibility of extension.

Applications are invited for a fixed-Term University Lectureship in the Sociology of Gender and Reproduction from 1 September 2020, or as soon possible thereafter. The postholder will contribute to teaching and research in the Department of Sociology and will become a member of the Reproductive Sociology Research Group (ReproSoc) directed by Professor Sarah Franklin. The main areas of contribution required of the postholder are to assist in the organisation and delivery of the undergraduate Sociology of Gender paper and the MPhil pathway in the Sociology of Reproduction, and to contribute to the research activities of ReproSoc. The successful candidate will join a vibrant and thriving academic community in the Department of Sociology, where world-leading research and teaching on gender and reproduction is complemented by strengths in the areas of race and decolonising, science and technology, media and culture, health and biomedicine, class and political economy, social theory, social movements and environmental studies.

Candidates for this post must have a doctorate and a proven record of teaching, research and publications in sociology or a related discipline. They must demonstrate an ability and willingness to teach and to conduct research in the sociology of gender and reproduction, and have excellent organisational as well as communication skills. The postholder will be involved in all aspects of undergraduate and postgraduate provision including course organisation and administration, lecturing, conversion to online delivery, supervision, assessment, admissions and outreach.

Candidates will need to show evidence of the following qualifications, skills, and experience:

• Good first degree and a doctorate (or clear evidence that completion of such a doctorate is imminent) in sociology or a related discipline;
• Evidence of ability to engage in internationally significant original research in their field;
• Publications and participation in scholarly activity commensurate with stage of career;
• Ability to deliver teaching in the sociology of gender and the MPhil on the sociology of reproduction;
• Ability to play an effective role in the life and work of the department and faculty as a whole;
• Ability to work co-operatively with colleagues;
• Excellent communication and organisational skills.

Click the 'Apply' button below to register an account with our recruitment system (if you have not already) and apply online.

Please ensure that you upload your Curriculum Vitae (CV), a full list of all publications, and the names and contact details of three referees. Application letters should include a statement of research interests and future research plans, and a summary of teaching experience and interests. Interviews for short-listed candidates will be conducted remotely on-line.

Informal enquiries about the post may be made to Professor Sarah Franklin (sbf25@cam.ac.uk). Enquiries about the application process should be made to hspshr@hermes.cam.ac.uk

We particularly welcome applications from women and candidates from a BME background for this vacancy as they are currently under-represented at this level in our University.

The closing date for applications is 20 July 2020.

Interviews will be held as soon as possible after the closing date.

The position is based in the Department of Sociology in central Cambridge, England.

Further information about the Department of Sociology may be found on our website at https://www.sociology.cam.ac.uk

Please quote JM23273 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.

Special issue of Mediterranean Journal of Communication (January 2021)

Deadline: September 1, 2020

Submission: http://goo.gl/99Xtg1

Coordinated by Dr. Miguel Vicente-Mariño (University of Valladolid, Spain) and Dr. Ilija Tomanič Trivundža (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Europe is one of the two key cultural actors and geopolitical areas to understand the historical evolution and current status of scientific knowledge in the Social Sciences. Communication Research is a scientific field and/or discipline experiencing an undeniable expansion since the 1990s, grounding part of its growth on works arising from the Old Continent, where big changes –ranging from the collapse of the geopolitical East-West division to the long-standing institutional efforts to build up a strong European Union- stand behind the rapid growth and consolidation of a European community of Communication Research scholars.

The constitution of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), as a merging initiative between the European Consortium of Communication Research (ECCR) and the European Communication Association (ECA) in 2005 appears as an enriching initiative opening a forum for discussion and mutual recognition between and within a growing community of researchers facing similar challenges, topics of study, theoretical anchorages and methodological resources.

This special issue of Revista Mediterránea de Communication/Mediterranean Journal of Communication aims to reflect on the origins, the processes and the outcomes of Communication Research on and from Europe. Therefore, Europe is considered here both as topic of study (Communication Research on Europe) and as a territory generating scientific evidence (Communication Research from Europe). Departing from a comparative perspective, these contents aspire to turn into a useful discussion platform about how European researchers have developed Communication Research during the last century, identifying the main findings achieved and posing open questions towards a near future.

Research projects and scientific networks proving to be able to transcend borders and dealing with the challenges of identifying common or divergent patterns across Europe are also invited to present here their main arrival points, as this special issue expects to elaborate and deepen in the roots and horizons of Media Studies and Communication Research in Europe.

An initial list of topics, open to any other suggestion coming from the readership, could be as follows:

• History of European Communication Research;
• European Media Audiences;
• Media industries in Europe;
• Journalism Studies on Europe;
• Comparative Media Studies at a European scale;
• European Social Movements and Activism;
• European Public Opinion and the emergence of a common continental public sphere;
• Academic Labour Conditions in European institutions devoted to Communication Research;
• The role played by ECREA, and other scientific associations with a European scope, in shaping a research community at the continental level;
• The role played by the European Communication Conference (ECC) as a meeting point for European Communication researchers;
• The role played by European and national institutions active in the field of Social Sciences.

Consequently, all ECREA sections, working groups and networks are especially addressed by this call, as the experience accumulated during the last fifteen years is a valuable resource to elaborate on the role played by Communication Research and Education in shaping up a common and updated notion of Europe. But this call is not limited to these actors, but open to any research project including the European territory and culture as a priority.

This special issue will be co-edited Miguel Vicente-Mariño, University of Valladolid and Ilija Tomanič Trivundža, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Anyone willing to receive additional information about this call or to address any question about potential participation, can directly contact the invited editors at miguel.vicente@uva.es.

ECREA Journalism studies Section Conference

February 25-26, 2021

Utrecht, the Netherlands

Deadline: September 4, 2020

https://www.journalismlab.nl/ecrea-journalism-studies-conference-2021/

Hosted by Research Centre Quality Journalism in Digital Transition at the University of Applied Sciences Utrecht

Deadline for abstracts and submissions: September 4, 2020.

The 2021 Section Conference of the Journalism Studies Section of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) will take place in Utrecht, the Netherlands, on February 25-26, 2021.

We welcome submissions focusing on journalism in digital transition.

We especially welcome proposals for co-creative sessions – co-creation understood as collaboration between researchers and practitioners.

We also want to make the regular sessions more collaborative by introducing active respondents. They will contact the participants before the session.

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The process of digitalization has challenged professional journalism in every way, not only in its organization but also in the way its products are made, sold, and consumed.

For instance, while the newsroom is still often the core space of journalism, the place where the news-beat is felt, the transition to freelance practices and the collaboration with other professions in the creative industry have challenged both organizations and the identity of the journalistic profession. Also, moving away from traditional forms of consuming journalistic production, the public is offered information and entertainment via a multitude of, mostly online, channels. Technological innovation gives journalists and media organizations a range of opportunities. Algorithmic tools are increasingly used to uncover data and gather information. At the same time, artificial intelligence can provide a more personalized and tailor-made news experience. Technologies provide opportunities for storytelling in which the role of the user is more prominent – for example in interactive stories, immersive productions and podcasts.

At the same time concerns have been voiced about the negative aspects of these changes. It might promote fragmentation, polarization of deliberative spaces and the spread of disinformation, to name just a few of these concerns.

What is particularly fascinating in the process of digitalization is the question of how to study it. While the field of journalism studies is booming, the debate on methodological thinking is still surprisingly limited. Therefore, we also encourage submissions focusing on methods.

The scholarly field of journalism studies has developed into a sophisticated field of research. The question often remains how much of this scholarly knowledge is translated into journalism practice. This conference therefore especially invites journalism scholars who work together with practitioners or can show how their research impacts the field. Therefore co-creative sessions will be organized in which we will invite prominent journalists to join the scholarly discussion.

The journalism industry has always been dependent on technology. However, as scholars, we need to heighten our focus on the socio-cultural consequences of this dependence, more so because digital technology exponentially increases new theoretical, methodological, and ethical questions.

In sum, we encourage submissions in three main areas:

• Research on how the digital transition challenges the field of journalism in the way it is produced, sold and consumed.
• Methodological discussions, challenging current scholarly methods or proposing innovative methods in journalism studies.
• Best practices, especially on how scholarly research is embedded into journalistic practice.

The conference will feature traditional paper presentations and co-creative sessions between academics and media professionals.

Traditional paper presentations: Traditional paper presentations will take place in panels consisting of four to five papers. Each panel will be moderated by an active respondent.

Co-creative sessions: A limited number of slots will be available for co-creative sessions in which one topic is addressed in four short presentations, followed by an organized debate between academics and invited media-professionals. We stimulate submissions for these sessions. We will also search for coherent papers to organize such sessions. Presenters will be informed beforehand.

SUBMIT: Submissions can be sent to ecreajournalism2021@hu.nl no later than 4 September 2020.

Please include in the email (1) the title of your paper, (2) an abstract of no more than 750 words, (3) names and affiliations of the authors.

Submission will undergo scholarly peer-review. Only one proposal per first author can be accepted. Notifications of acceptance will be issued early October 20.

November 19-20, 2020

Online (hosted by Malmö University, Sweden)

Deadline for abstracts: 15 August 2020

Notification of acceptance: 1 September 2020

Conference website: mau.se/artcre-2020

The Artificial Creativity conference aims to stir a discussion about the cultural, societal and ethical aspects of artworks featuring A.I. or robots engaged in creative production.

We encourage submissions regarding ongoing research about creative embodied robots (i.e. robotic systems that use physical brushes, pencils, etc. to make their artefacts), but do welcome any inquiries concerning the use of A.I. and deep learning in the production of novel artefacts. The notion of a "robotic system" above may include different types of embodied agents such as an appropriated industrial arm, swarm, drone, etc.

We also welcome submissions that critically challenge contested terms, such as "creativity", "artificial intelligence" and our playful conference title "artificial creativity".

Possible topics include but are not limited to:

• Creative robotics and/or A.I.
• Ethical questions regarding authorship in computational art
• The analysis of media discourses about creative A.I.
• Human-robot collaboration in the process of cultural production
• Robots and performative arts
• Cultural imaginaries about creative artificial agents
• Design approaches to creative robotics

The keynote speakers are: Professor Joanna Zylinska (Goldsmiths University, UK), Professor Andreas Broeckmann (Academy of Fine Arts, Leipzig, Germany), and Professor Mark Amerika (University of Colorado, US).

The online conference will feature a virtual exhibition supported by Mozilla’s Hubs. Amongst other content, the exhibition will feature the latest works of the artist Justine Emard (France).

The call for abstracts invites researchers from different areas of expertise, including but not limited to: creative arts research, humanities, human-robot interaction (HRI), art history, media and communication studies, ethics of technology, design anthropology, social sciences, gender studies, posthumanism, voice interface design, and science and technology studies (STS).

The discussion around the Artificial Creativity theme will continue in a special issue in an open access peer-reviewed journal in 2021. Please follow our website for updates.

Please submit a 500-word abstract (excluding references) to Dr. Bojana Romic: bojana.romic@mau.se before 15 August 2020.

Please include:

• The name(s) of the author(s)
• The affiliation(s) and address(es) of the author(s)
• The e-mail address, and telephone number(s) of the corresponding author
• Your time zone

If using any pictures in your abstract, please do not include more than three. If you are experimenting with creative A.I. or robots and want to include some recordings to our virtual exhibition, please indicate that in the abstract. This, however, will not be a criterion for acceptance.

The notification of acceptance is 1 September 2020.

The Artificial Creativity conference is free of charge for all participants and is hosted by the research lab Medea and the School of Arts and Communication, Malmö University, Sweden. The conference has received generous support from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, Sweden.

Documentary Film Cultures

Deadline: June 30, 2020

Edited by Dafydd Sills-Jones and Pietari Kaapa

Documentary Film Cultures (Peter Lang) (https://www.peterlang.com/view/serial/DFC )

The cultural practices that sustain the documentary form in all its varieties have been in a rapid state of evolution during the era of digital production. During that era, documentary filmmakers have dealt with the difficulties of negotiating a shrinking list of marketplace ‘gatekeepers’, and coped with the precarity of their working lives. In this period public service TV has retreated from its decades-long role as the main sponsor of documentary, and documentary has made strides into cinematic and online distribution, and immersive technology. To some extent funders and audiences have followed this evolution, but at the beginning of 2020 the documentary community faced urgent questions regarding the monetisation of their work, and the future of their form.

Since then the COVID-19 pandemic has potentially radically transformed the media, and social, landscape, and presents a moment of significant social change, one whose implications are potentially far-reaching for the very sustainability of large-scale industrial media production. The pandemic has necessitated fundamental changes to media production practice, exhibition contexts, distribution arrangements as well as screen content. As the sector scrambles to innovate new distribution models and socially-distanced production arrangements, questions about the economic sustainability of media labour and the resilience of social support networks unbalance the creative work of media professionals.

Media producers have been forced to both interrogate their chosen professions and innovate with limited resources. Already, we are seeing new distribution and production methods emerge to highlight the importance of media-makers as essential workers as they are uniquely equipped with the ability to represent the various dialogues undertaken to respond to the cultural, social, economic, and political challenges the pandemic has foisted on global society.

In this context, how can documentary react to the severe and sudden challenge posed by COVID-19 to the community of practitioners who produce it? How will viewing documentary change? How will funding documentary change? In what Strate (2012) might call a moment of ‘punctuated equilibrium’, what strains within the documentary ecology will evolve, or become extinct? In which way will documentary as a form and practice mutate? And how might documentary production strategies premised on comparatively limited resources and a commitment to critical societal commentary provide models for a new media industry world order?

This collection is intended as a rapid-fire response book to the unusual and disturbing challenges of the pandemic. As such, the volume aims to both survey the immediate effects of the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in documentary film cultures, as well as to provide a space in which the recent past and future of documentary may be unpacked in the context of the pandemic’s possible effects. It is published as part of Peter Lang’s Documentary Film Cultures series and reflects the value of documentary as an enduring and influential channel of media discourse, and community of practice.

Topics to be considered include following areas

• Recent pasts: where were we when COVID-19 arrived?
• Documentary futures: how could COVID-19 change documentary?
• Production arrangements and social distancing
• Representing a socially distanced society
• (New) technologies and (new) documentary forms
• The ethics of representation
• The documentarian as essential worker
• Amateur documentaries
• The documentary as ‘fake news’
• Social media as documentary
• Citizen journalism and the pandemic
• Policy and practice shifts in particular national/regional film environments

We welcome a range of written formats:

Full Research Chapter: 7000-8000 words. These are traditionally formatted book chapters, with the depth and rigour expected of a chapter in a traditional edited collection.

Provocation, Think Piece or Interview: 2000-5000 words. A shorter format for the positing of a set of questions or critical problems raised by effects of COVID-19 on documentary film. These pieces could also outline a particular perspective on the ‘here and now’ circumstances of coping with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Interviews should be with leading practitioners in the field of documentary making who have a specific and significant outlook on this issue.

Please send proposals of 200 words to Dafydd Sills-Jones (dafydd.sills-jones@aut.ac.nz) and Pietari Kaapa (P.Kaapa@warwick.ac.uk ) by 30th June 2020 with full article submissions by December 2020. We expect publication to take place in September 2021.

IJOC: International Journal of Communication

Deadline: July 30, 2020

Editors: Amanda Alencar and Yijing Wang, Erasmus University Rotterdam

The ongoing refugee crisis in Europe and beyond, not only represents an immense humanitarian and logistical challenge, but also poses a challenge to established governance structures. The governance issue refers to the difficulty of planning and preparation at the state and organizational level, due to high uncertainty about the speed and size of the migration flows. The complex and rapidly changing circumstances of forced migration (i.e., migration as a global and regional phenomena) have contributed to enhancing the role and importance of different social actors at the local level of cities in addressing the challenge of refugee integration within host societies. Specifically, local government and non-government actors are at the forefront of providing essential services and responding to these developments. In the meantime, an overall deterioration of state and humanitarian support and services for refugees at various levels of their experiences (e.g., displacement and settlement) is occurring (Skran & Easton-Calabria, 2020). The 'reform and re-treat of the welfare system' has led to decentralization of refugee governance, and the growing importance of a multi-stakeholder approach with public-private partnerships being formed to tackle the challenge of refugee migration and integration in various societies (Wang & Chaudhri, 2019). Also, technological innovations and the so-called digital economy have played a great role in this decentralization (Easton-Calabria, 2019; Udwan, Leurs, & Alencar, 2020). For instance, there was the proliferation of hackathons, coding schools, crowdsourcing initiatives (refugee entrepreneurship), as well as the large numbers of apps developed to assist refugees’ reception and settlement (Kothari & Tsakarestou, 2019).

This global phenomenon is argued as an instantiation of the sharing economy – an economic system built on autonomy which shares concern, help and hope (Kornberger et al., 2018). Some scholars argue that this phenomenon marked the emergence of an ad hoc governance structure, including joint efforts from the public sector, NGOs, private firms, civil society and migrant organizations (Börzel & Risse, 2016). Along with this idea, organizations and private firms voluntarily contribute to refugee management and care (e.g., integrating refugees at the workplace or providing medical support), taking over what are traditionally tasks of the state. Such an ad hoc governance structure built upon challenging organizational legitimacy and inventing new co-creation tools, may contribute to resolving the problem of refugee integration and management. On the other hand, the complexity of multi-level governance systems and collaborations can also generate greater uncertainty about refugee settlement futures.

Further, it is important to emphasize that digital media technologies, data systems and networks are increasingly being employed by these multiple stakeholders (private and public) to help maintain the delivery of inclusive services and promote refugees’ economic participation and well-being in many cities within Europe and elsewhere. However, very little is currently known about the efficacy of these digitally mediated practices for addressing refugees’ integration challenges in their new society. At the same time, there is a lack of work that surveys a diversity of governance actors regarding the development and application of digital technologies, and how this affects refugees’ social participation. A recent study by Myria Georgiou (2019) with refugees in London, Berlin and Athens found that innovative collaborative/co-creative projects within the digital economy framework have brought both challenges and opportunities for refugees and receiving societies. As Georgiou notes, while technology use for refugee governance can enhance economic and sociocultural participation prospects for newcomers, it may also contribute to creating new forms of divide and segmentation among refugees, as well as digital monitoring of their performance in various aspects of integration in the new place. Against this backdrop and given the impact that the current COVID-19 crisis situation has reached at a global level, there is an even more pressing need to shed light on the potentialities and vulnerabilities of digital responses and initiatives put in place by local organizations, migrants and volunteers to fill the gaps in states’ asylum and integration systems during this pandemic.

We are seeking papers that contribute knowledge to how collective action is enabled in a sharing economy in support of refugee integration in a diversity of contexts and situations. It includes, but is not limited to voluntary contribution to refugee management and care at all different levels, from the public sector organizations to private firms, to civil society and refugee-led initiatives and networks. Potential interdisciplinary questions which can be answered are:

1. How does enabling collective action in a sharing economy contribute to resolving the challenge of refugee integration?

2. In areas of limited statehood, which mechanisms help ensure effective governance of displaced populations in a refugee crisis?

3. What forms of organizational communication and action in terms of refugee integration stimulate the emergence of an ad hoc governance structure in the sharing economy?

4. How does media representation of collective action affect the planning and preparation at the state- and organizational-level in refugees’ receiving countries?

5. To what extent are digital technologies being developed and mobilized by different actors involved in an ad hoc governance of refugee populations?

6. How can the public, private and NGO sector work together to effectively boost economic opportunities to both refugees and host communities as well as social cohesion?

Timeline for the special section:

● Please submit abstract proposals (500 - 800 words) and a short bio in one Word document by July 30, 2020 to Amanda Alencar (pazalencar@eshcc.eur.nl) and Yijing Wang (y.wang@eshcc.eur.nl).

● We will inform authors about the acceptance of their abstracts by August 20, 2020.

● First drafts (6000 - 8900 words, all inclusive) are due January 2021. The submitted paper needs to follow the author guidelines of the International Journal of Communication: https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/about/submissions#authorGuidelines

● Each paper will be submitted for peer review by February 2021 (which will be peer reviewed by [at least] two or three external reviewers; editorial decision will not be made based on the collection as a whole, but rather on the merits of each paper).

● Taking into account the reviewing process and time for revisions, we expect the full special section to be published in IJoC by the first or second quarter of 2022.

References

Allen, W., Anderson, B., Van Hear, N., Sumption, M., Düvell, F., Hough, J., ... & Walker, S. (2018). Who counts in crises? The new geopolitics of international migration and refugee governance. Geopolitics, 23(1), 217-243.

Börzel, T. A., & Risse, T. (2016). Dysfunctional state institutions, trust, and governance in areas of limited statehood. Regulation & Governance, 10(2), 149-160.

Easton-Calabria, E. (2019). The Migrant Union. Digital livelihoods for people on the move. United Nations Development Programme. Retrieved from https://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/librarypage/poverty-reduction/the-migrant-union-.html

Georgiou, M. (2019). City of refuge or digital order? Refugee recognition and the digital governmentality of migration in the city. Television & New Media, 20(6), 600-616.

Kornberger, M., Leixnering, S., Meyer, R. E., & Höllerer, M. A. (2018). Rethinking the sharing economy: The nature and organization of sharing in the 2015 refugee crisis. Academy of Management Discoveries, 4(3), 314-335.

Kothari, A., & Tsakarestou, B. (2019). ‘Hack the Camp’: An entrepreneurial public diplomacy and social intervention initiative to address the refugee crisis in Greece. International Communication Gazette. Advanced online publication.

Skran, C., & Easton-Calabria, E. (2020). Old Concepts Making New History: Refugee Self-reliance, Livelihoods and the ‘Refugee Entrepreneur’. Journal of Refugee Studies, 33(1), 1-21.

Udwan, G., Leurs, K., & Alencar, A. (2020). Digital resilience tactics of Syrian refugees in the Netherlands: Social media for social support, health, and identity. Social Media + Society, in press.

Wang, Y., & Chaudhri, V. (2019). Business support for refugee integration in Europe: Conceptualizing the link with organizational identification. Media and Communication, 7(2), 289-299.

Kristiana University College, Oslo (Norway)

Kristiania University College (founded 1914) is an educational foundation with campuses in Oslo and Bergen, and online. We are an accredited college with 10,000 students, 600 employees, and currently four academic schools offering more than 100 programmes with studies in leadership, organisation, technology, marketing, communication, health and creative arts. We have had a formidable growth in recent years, and we will continue to expand. Our ambition is to become Norway’s first private independent university.

About the School of Communications, Leadership and Marketing (SCLM)

The SCLM consists of the Department of Marketing, the Department of Communications and the Department of Leadership and Organisation. It comprises an active academic environment for education, research and communications, while also leading the academic work for the development of an interdisciplinary ph.d. in Communication and Leadership at Kristiania University College. A master’s in strategic communication will start during the fall.

SCLM offers an attractive workplace with a generous working environment that strives to support and enhance our staff’s performance. We offer study programmes that are closely linked to work-life practice, providing our students with valuable insight into the professional labour market that they will enter upon completion of their studies. Today, the Department of Communication has a staff of about 20 employees.

About the position

A full-time (100 %) position as Professor is available at The Department of Communication at Kristiania University College. The position will be connected to the ph.d. program in Communication and Leadership which is under development. The starting date for the position is October 15th 2020, at the latest.

Functions

• Conduct innovative research on areas relevant to the position
• Plan and teach courses at master and PhD level in a Norwegian and International context
• Apply for external research funding
• Student guidance and grading
• Maintain a dialogue and networks within the academic community

Lecturing at Kristiania University College requires the candidate to speak a Scandinavian language and to be able to lecture in English. An exception can be made if the candidate is motivated to develop the skills to conduct lectures in a Scandinavian language within three years.

The candidate must be prepared for organisational and work-related changes.

Requirements for applicants for the position of professor

• Academic qualifications on a national or international standard for position as Professor
• Experience with participation in research projects and participation in national and international research networks
• Experience with obtaining external research funding
• Experience in student guidance, lecturing and/or study programme leadership at a university-college or university level

In addition to qualifications needed for a professor, the applicant must document:

• Development in quality of teaching and supervision over time
• Broad experience of supervision on master and ph.d. level
• Participation in development of teaching among peers

The applicant should further have competence within at least two of the following research areas:

• Strategic communication
• Organizational communication
• Crisis communication
• Ethics in relation to media and communication
• Media production

Emphasis is placed on personal suitability for the position.

We encourage applicants to send their application and necessary documentation regarding their education and practical work experience electronically, along with

• A personal statement that clearly communicates motivation and educational philosophy
• A CV with complete details about education, work experience and other educational activities
• A list of research and/or academic self-development work
• A maximum of 15 academic texts and/or publications
• A plan for the candidate’s own research

Diplomas, certifications, references and testimonials, preferably by a link to the Norwegian diploma registry Vitnemålsportalen (www.vitnemalsportalen.no/english/) or a similar international portal

Qualified applicants must be prepared to deliver a trial lecture within a relevant field of study.

Applicants must, if relevant, send confirmation of any qualification that they have which qualifies then for a senior competency position. We refer to the generalt requriements for senior competency positions in the Regulations concerning appointment and promotion to teaching and research posts (No: Forskrift om ansettelse og opprykk i undervisnings- og forskerstillinger), particulary to § 1-2. Applicants must be familiar with the requirements for the position they are applying for.

Applications selected for consideration may be reviewed by an expert committee.

We offer:

• An exciting job at a rapidly growing university college
• A pleasant and stimulating working environment
• Modern premises in Oslo city centre
• Good opportunities for professional development
• Salary in accordance with agreement

We aim for our staff to reflect diversity in the population, to the greatest extent possible. We encourage all those who are qualified to apply.

Application Deadline: June 26, 2020.

Only applications received through our application portal will be considered

Contact person

Faltin Karlsen

Professor

+47 907 37 088

faltin.karlsen@kristiania.no

Moment - journal of cultural studies

Deadline: October 1, 2020

Communication studies indicate acts of communication produced as part of production relations within a specific historical and social context. It translates as integrity of complex and changing acts. Being a multi-disciplinary field itself, communication studies have a flexible structure composed of various epistemological and methodological approaches.

Communication studies began in the USA in the 1920s. Having an interdisciplinary nature from the beginning, the preliminary studies of the field mostly focused on political science. Examining issues of propaganda and persuasion, these studies made use of psychology and social psychology as well. The interdisciplinary nature of the field was ever more intensified thanks to the Chicago School that addressed urbanization and urban-based interactions, and fields such as sociology, anthropology, and ethnography were also considered within this realm.

What changed the façade of these USA-based preliminary studies, which gradually adopted a behaviorist and empirical approach, was the establishment of the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies. Taking culture as its main concern, this approach was called the Cultural Studies and included semiotics, Marxism, feminism, and literary theories within its fields of interest.

The original approach of the School of Cultural Studies towards the concept of culture has also been the trigger for its clash with Marxism. Although the school is based on a Marxist framework, it is intellectually positioned closer to Gramsci's Marxism interpretation. These two approaches, referred to as critical approaches in contrast to the USA-based mainstream studies, are clustered around two axes that cannot be completely separated from each other: The political economy approach formed on the axis of class production and economy and cultural studies approach formed around meaning, representation and culture. On one hand, while the number of approaches adopting a synthesis of this distinction has been increasing, the conflict between these two approaches continues today. At this point, Pierre Bourdieu stands out with his studies that deepen the scope of the two core problems of the sociology of communication, namely the problems of reproduction and fields. Again, at the intersection of these two approaches and in opposition to foundationalist approaches that define what is true and false, Bruno Latour focuses on the relations such as the assemblage and relational entities building the social structure, and makes contributions to the literature through “actor network theory” and interdisciplinary team work in Science, Technology, and Society Studies (STS). As he studies cultural interactions between humans and other actors in a non-essentialist manner, he produces lasting and timely critiques of the social structure.

Today, the theoretical debate within the critical approach seems to have lost its former intensity, but the dynamism of the historical and social context continues to breed new discussions in the field of communication studies. Class movements, new social movements, and the relation of information technologies to these movements continue the old struggle against changing forms of capitalism and globalization in new ways and force communication studies to adopt new perspectives. Thus, we dedicate the December 2020 issue "New Approaches in Communication Studies" of Moment Journal to studies that focus on new approaches in communication studies through a self-reflexive perspective. We invite you to submit your papers by October 1, 2020; the suggested themes include (but not limited to):

• Theoretical Debates in Communication Studies
• Methodological Debates in Communication Studies
• Communication Studies from an empirical perspective
• Effects of the convergence between public and private spheres on the field of communication
• Case studies in the field of communication
• Contributions of interdisciplinary research to communication literature
• Information technologies, communication studies and art through inter-textuality/hyper-textuality/beyond-textuality
• Media, representation and gender

Theme Editors: Aslı Telli Aydemir (University of Siegen), Ozan Çavdar (Hacettepe University)

http://www.momentjournal.org/index.php/momentdergi/announcement/view/25