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Bournemouth University

The Faculty of Media and Communication at Bournemouth University is seeking to recruit a skilled and enthusiastic postdoctoral researcher to undertake a significant researching and coordinating role in the delivery of a new UKRI/AHRC-funded Covid-19 response project.

The project, “COJO for Covid-19 Recovery”, aims to investigate the way in which constructive journalism, especially solutions-focused journalism, can help the UK’s local/regional communities to transition to the “new normal” in the months ahead. It is an action research initiative led by Bournemouth University, in collaboration with Newsquest Media Company, the Solutions Journalism Network and the Association of British Science Writers.

For further information on the project, click here: https://cojouk.org.

The postholder will work with other members of the team to collect and analyse data as well as publish research reports and journal papers from there. The postholder will also act as the coordinator across the four institutional partners.

The ideal candidate should demonstrate knowledge of and skills in conducting in-depth interviews, survey and content analysis as well as in coordinating research activities across institutions. You will hold a PhD or equivalent in journalism, communication or a related area.

Expertise in quantitative data analysis will be desirable.

This post is available on a fixed term basis until 22 June 2022.

Find the full job advert with person specification here: https://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/postdoctoral-researcher-fixed-term-0?fbclid=IwAR0ojeMII93_meyJ9U41-eKuNsUf1TguTFfhLyYLcywC3PWMgKZOnBFaUnY

For further information and discussion, please contact An Nguyen by email on anguyen@bournemouth.ac.uk .

Audencia Business School

As part of its new strategic plan, Audencia Business School is looking to expand its team. The School wishes to recruit an assistant or associate professor with an interest in research at the crossroads of information practices and CSR. The profile of the position can be adapted to the candidate, depending on his/her excellence in research, pedagogy, or in the development of programs or partnerships.

Prerequisites

The candidate will need to:

- Hold a doctoral degree (PhD).

In addition, the candidate will be able to:

- Propose research projects combining *information practices and organizational communication*, more specifically in a perspective of CSR. The candidate will show how these research proposals are in line with his or her own work, conducted for example in the fields of the media ecosystem, or journalistic practices, or media education, etc. ; Have an excellent academic research profile and a significant number of publications in reference journals or books in information and communication sciences or in management sciences.

- Demonstrate an excellent teaching performance. The courses taught will be part of the Communication and Media program (Audencia SciencesCom, a 5-year degree program approved by the MESRI). They can also be taught in other programs (Majors or MSc of the Grande Ecole program, etc.), but also in the framework of teachers' training or executive education. These courses include any subject related to the candidate's field of specialization. Other courses may also be requested, particularly in connection with research methodology and communication studies methodology.

- Demonstrate an ability to develop new courses/programs/projects, engage students, and invest in peripheral activities related to media and communication ; Contribute to the broad dissemination of its activities to the professional world. Thus, the ability to establish partnerships/activities with media actors is also required.

The contract is open-ended (CDI), the course load is adjusted according to the publication objectives. Salary is negotiable depending on experience and qualifications. The position comes with many benefits ranging from research bonuses (publication bonuses, research contract bonuses, etc.) and other managerial activities, social security coverage and company health insurance, etc. A good professional level in French is strongly required, but can be acquired and supported if needed.

General presentation

Our school, based in Nantes, is triple accredited with AACSB EQUIS and AMBA and is one of the best European schools. We offer a wide variety of programs such as BBA, MSC, MBA, Doctorate and Executive Education Programs, and have more than 120 permanent faculty members of 25 different nationalities.

The successful candidate will join the Communication & Culture department on the Mediacampus located on the island of Nantes, in the heart of the creative district (Stéréolux, Trempolino, Galerie des Machines, Creative Factory, Halles numériques, Schools of Design, Fine Arts, Architecture, Cinema, etc.).

Our campus is located in Nantes, a medium-sized city in western France served by an international airport and only 2 hours by train from Paris. With its many social and cultural events, the Atlantic coast 1 hour away by car and its castles and vineyards to the east, Nantes is a great place to live. With more than 1,330 companies based here, Nantes also boasts a rich industrial and economic identity.

How to apply

Candidates are invited to send their application by email until Friday, June 11, 2021 midnight: a cover letter, a resume (including a complete list of publications), 2 publications of their choice, details of their teaching level, and the names of 2 references to Thibaut Bardon, Academic and Research Director of Audencia, faculty-recruitment@audencia.com. Please indicate the reference of the announcement *C&C2021_Information_Responsible_EN *in the subject.

For more information, please contact

Research: Julien Pierre julienpierre@audencia.com

Pedagogy: Martha Abad-Grebert, mabadgrebert@audencia.com

Canterbury Christ Church University

The School of Creative Arts and Industries at Canterbury Christ Church University welcomes applications for full-time PhD scholarship (a stipend of £13,000 p.a., tuition fee waiver for three years and an expense allowance of £500 p. a.) in one of the following research areas: creative arts, performing arts, music, media and cultural studies.

We would like to encourage proposals with a focus on connecting with cultural or creative industries organisations in the Kent region, either through drawing on their resources (e.g. archives, broadly conceived) or engaging in collaborative and project work (e.g. collaborating on projects based around the development of creative artefacts, such as film, dance, or music) or exploring new areas for development and innovation (e.g. new ways to connect with audiences, new digital tools or applications, or new revenue or business models).

For further information please see here: https://www.canterbury.ac.uk/…ies

Membrana vol. 6, no. 1 & Fotografija no. 95/96 (2021)

Deadline: May 31, 2021

From the social and political struggles of the 19th century Paris Commune, to the anticolonial and anti-imperialist liberation movements of 20th century, through liberation struggles such as women liberation movements and workers’ rights movements, to the contemporary independence and emancipation movements (such as Kurdish and Palestinian), photography has been used for advocacy or mobilization of support for and promotion of the movements or their causes as well as for the historization of the events and struggles. Photography has documented and framed the pivotal historical moments, as well as seemingly unimportant trivia, to communicate the drama and complexity of collective action. The photographs of these movements be it that of social class, ethnicity, gender, or others, have always belonged to the idea of subaltern groups struggling against (and through) the currents of the dominant socio-political powers. Throughout the years and circulated across different social and cultural spheres these images have accumulated new meanings and, being constantly in a state of flux, they have been reconceptualised for the construction of an “ever new” reimagined present. From acting as a “silent witness” of the events (past or present), to operating as a vocal advocates for a particular socio-political agenda, or for a particular (re)interpretation of reality.

If photography functions as a visual performance of imagined social reality and is transfixed and signifiable only in view of a particular act it needs to perform, then how it establishes new threads of civic relationships, and the ways it enforces, or undermines the geopolitical power equilibrium, the dominant social stratification and the distribution of socio-political power are indicators of a photographic agency that is decidedly political. It is precisely the operational nexus of liberation photographs at the time of liberation or independence that is of essential importance. Do we view photographs of those movements as liberating “per se”? Or should these photographs only be evaluated on their impact and on whether and to what extent they have been able to affect change? Citizen emancipation and civic responsibility are certainly prevailing notions in such photography, emphasizing its transformative potential. However, in this age of national populism, post-truth, and actual fake news, when such imagery can be so easily used and misused as a backdrop for any given agenda no matter how corrupt or ill-intentioned, the social power of the photographic medium is put under question. Is the image powerless? Or does photography always in and of itself fight back? How can photography in contemporary social and communication milieu redeem its claim to emancipatory relevance?

These questions acquire additional urgency and complexity in the larger media environment as it is being transformed by digital technologies and social media practices. The utopian, liberatory promises of these media have already been broken—for example with the global rise of illiberal populisms—and yet the artistic affordances, pervasive democratization of production and circulation, and relationships between communities and networks offer both challenges and resources for liberatory public art.

Membrana vol. 6, no. 1 (Liberation) invites proposals of manuscripts and visual projects that address photography through the ideas of liberation and independence of various social formations. We are interested in engaging with submissions that consider the oppression of the dominant powers and/or in precarious relation to them through (but not limited to) the following perspectives:

• Politics and aesthetics of power – photography in narratives and counter-narratives, publics and counterpublics, propaganda and vernacular expression
• Liberation, emancipation struggles, and photography
• Acts of liberation, emancipation, insurgency, guerrilla warfare, and terrorism – and photography
• Authority of photography – liberation and the evocative power of photography
• The formation of historical memory – icons, symbols, ruins, and traces –
• Propaganda, agitation, civic responsibility – oppressive, liberating, and redemptive visions of photography
• Re-appropriation of images – images as plastic resources for communicative action, reconceptualising past and present, building coalitions, contesting hegemony,
• Historizatin of photography – museums, galleries, and actualization of political optics and networks through photography archives
• National, ethnic, class, and other identitarian liberation movements through photography
• Anti-imperialism, anti-colonialism – liberation movements and their contemporary resonance and actuality
• Photography for community, local history, civic responsibility – education for emancipation and solidarity
• Artistic practices – reinterpretation of photography as a documentary and artistic medium in the context of liberatory struggle
• Civic memorials, vernacular displays, and liberation movements
• Social media image propagation, liberatory and reactionary practices, and contemporary movements
• Visual tropes of liberation, independence, and emancipation
• Fragments and trivia: photography’s connections between everyday life and historical movements
• Contested images and contested history – actuality, censorship, and control
• Violence and violence of photography – liberation, justification, and redemption
• Working movement struggles and social liberation
• Deep-fakes, propaganda, and social struggle imaginaries – reality, fact, and fiction
• Photography in new media arts and advocacy: changes in representation, circulation, and response
• Photographic exhibitions and movement advocacy

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The deadline for contribution proposals (150-word abstracts and/or visuals) is May 31, 2021. The deadline for the finished contributions from accepted proposals is August 9, 2021. Please send proposals via the online form at: https://www.membrana.org/proposal/ or contact us directly at editors@membrana.org.

Call for Chapters

Abstracts expected by: June 10, 2021

Editors: Jan Servaes and Muhammad Jameel Yusha’u

The 2030 agenda for development or what is known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is perhaps the most ambitious agenda collectively agreed by 193 countries in human history. In 2015, the UN Member States adopted the 17 SDGs as a framework that would help address the challenges being faced by humanity. From eradicating poverty, ending hunger, providing universal access to healthcare and education, addressing climate change; to the partnering of individuals, philanthropists and nation states to achieve the global goals.

Yet, the framers of the 2030 agenda for development comprising key stakeholders from all sectors of life forgot to dedicate one goal on the role of communication in achieving the SDGs. Such an oversight has attracted the attention of media and communication scholars alike, journalists and policy makers who understand that it is nearly impossible to achieve the SDGs without the articulation and embrace of the role of communication in development.

The COVID-19 pandemic which struck in 2019 has shown why communication is essential to human survival. The Pandemic which started as a health crisis and later metamorphosed into a full-blown economic crisis is now having a direct and indirect impact on the possibility of achieving each of the SDGs. The Financing for Sustainable Development Report 2021 says the global economy has experienced the worst recession in 90 years, with the most vulnerable segments of societies disproportionately affected. An estimated 114 million jobs have been lost, and about 120 million people have been plunged back into extreme poverty (https://developmentfinance.un.org/).

A major lesson that came out of the COVID-19 pandemic was the role of communication in providing support for the survival of the global economy and society as a whole. The global community became more attached to the traditional and social media in order to understand the nature of the virus, how it spreads and measures needed to curtail the spread of the infection.

Social, economic and educational life moved from physical to a now universally accepted virtual life style. Key global industries resorted to working from home. Virtual meetings by heads of states are now normal and remote education from primary to tertiary levels are gaining ground by the day.

Following the global lockdown, the resilience needed to survive the pandemic largely rested on the shoulders of the available communication infrastructure. Zoom, which had an average of 19 million daily users in December 2019 now averages 300 million users per day. Teams, developed as a tool for remote work has 145 million daily users as announced by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in April 2021.

A study by the World Health Organization shows rapid increase in remote consultation in the healthcare industry especially in UK, France, Malta, Germany, Poland, Luxemburg and Austria. Between March and April 2020, 5.5 million people received consultation from 36,000-56,000 physicians in France (Richardson et al 2020). The pandemic also exposed major development challenges such as digital inequality. According to the UN, COVID-19 has forced the closure of schools in 191 countries affecting 1.5 billion students and 63 million primary and secondary school teachers (UN News 2020).

Essentially development has become a communication issue and communication is a development issue. How could such a vital pillar of life be missing in the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals?

Therefore, we invite high-quality submissions from authors that would explore the notion of SDG18 (Communication for All).

Building on the works of Lee and Vargas (2020) and Yusha’u and Servaes (2021), we see SDG18 (Communication for all) as inevitable in achieving the 2030 Agenda for Development. We welcome critical submissions and high-quality research that explore this topic in relation to, but not limited to the following:

• SDG18-Communication for all, targets and indicators.
• Role of SDG-18 in the realization of each of the 17 SDGs earlier agreed by the UN.
• Why the SDGs should be revisited to include SDG18-Communication for all.
• Why SDG-18 is essential in post-COVID-19 economic recovery.
• SDG18 and remote working (Work from Home).
• SDG18 and Communication for Development and Social Change.
• SDG18 and the new normal in post-COVID-19 World.
• SDG18 and the World in 2030.
• SDG18 and Fake News.
• SDG18 and the role of mass media in development.
• Role of SDG18 in containing future pandemics.
• SDG18, innovation, technology and entrepreneurship.
• SDG18 and the digital divide.
• SDG18, journalism and news reporting during COVID-19
• SDG18, virtual diplomacy and international relations in post COVID-19 world.
• SDG18 and vaccine hesitancy.
• SDG18, sports and development.
• SDG18 and the politics of COVID-19 vaccine development and distribution.
• SDG18 and the role of faith in development.
• SDG18 and ‘building back better.’

The book is expected to be published as part of the Palgrave Macmillan’s SDGs series. Authors should submit 300 words abstract to the editors: Jan Servaes (9freenet9@gmail.com) and Muhammad Jameel Yusha’u (mjyushau@gmail.com) by 10 June 2021. Authors whose abstract meet the high-quality criteria would be contacted by 10 July 2021. Full chapters are expected by 1st November 2021. All chapters will go through a peer review process. Submitted abstracts must contain the following information:

• Name of author(s).
• Affiliation.
• Email address.
• 150 words profile.
• Contact number.
• Corresponding author should be specified where there is more than one author.

References

Lee, P., Vargas, L. (2020). Expanding Shrinking Communication Spaces. Centre for Communication Rights. Penang, Malaysia. Southbound.

Richardson, E., et al (2020). Keeping What Works: Remote Consultations During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Eurohealth. 26 (2) 1-4.

UN News (2020). Startling Disparities in Digital Learning Emerge As COVID-19 spreads: UN Education Agency. Retrieved from https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/04/1062232 01/05/2021

United Nations, Inter-agency Task Force on Financing for Development, Financing for Sustainable Development Report 2021. (New York: United Nations, 2021), available from: https://development nance.un.org/fsdr2021.

Yusha’u, M.J., Servaes, J. (2021). The Palgrave Handbook of International Communication and Sustainable Development. Palgrave Macmillan. Cham.

European Journal of Health Communication (EJHC), special issue

Deadline: October 31, 2021

https://ejhc.org/calls

Guest Editors: Sabrina H. Kessler (University of Zurich) & Philipp Schmid (University of Erfurt)

Millions of lives have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic (World Health Organization [WHO], 2021). However, scientific knowledge on how to effectively respond to COVID-19 outbreaks has also increased considerably in a very short time (Weiner at al., 2020). For example, several research teams have developed promising COVID-19 vaccines, and, as of April 2021, about 732 million vaccination doses have been administered worldwide (WHO, 2021). Further success in reducing the COVID-19 burden relies on the public’s awareness and acceptance of scientific knowledge. Health communication plays an essential role in the complex relationship between scientific knowledge and individuals’ beliefs and behaviours. However, attempts by health communicators to inform and educate individuals about the characteristics of the disease and effective prevention measures compete with persuasive mis- and disinformation, especially online (Lewandowsky et al., 2021). Studies reveal that misinformation about COVID-19 undermines trust in institutions (Pummerer et al., 2020), decreases willingness to undertake effective prevention measures such as vaccination (Loomba et al., 2021) and adds to the overabundance of (mis-)information that makes it difficult for individuals to find trustworthy sources – an overabundance known as an infodemic (WHO, 2020). That is, mis- and disinformation pose major challenges for health communication around the globe.

To master these challenges and prepare for future public health crises, it is vital to understand mis- and disinformation surrounding COVID-19. What kinds of mis- and disinformation do individuals encounter off- and online? What impact do these have on cognition, emotions, attitudes and behaviours? Which groups are specifically susceptible to mis- and disinformation, and how can theory-based interventions be designed to combat mis- and disinformation surrounding COVID-19?

The special issue therefore calls for papers analysing a) the presentation and dissemination of off- and online mis- and disinformation about COVID-19 in interpersonal communication or mass media channels, b) the effects of mis- and disinformation on individual decision makers with respect to their cultural, political and economic context, as well as the cognitive and social drivers of belief in mis- and disinformation and c) the effectiveness of potential interventions to combat mis- and disinformation in interpersonal communication or mass media channels. Thus, submissions can address, but are not limited to, the following questions and concepts:

Presentation and Dissemination of Mis- and Disinformation about COVID-19

• Which actors, communicator groups and networks, communication strategies and target audiences can be identified in the dissemination of disinformation about COVID-19? How prevalent are they in public discourse, and which people contribute to this reach?
• How do mis- and disinformation about COVID-19 spread on the internet and especially on social media? How do the affordances of online platforms influence this?
• What kinds of taxonomies can be used to categorise mis- and disinformation about COVID-19?

Effects of Mis- and Disinformation about COVID-19

• What are the effects of mis- and disinformation about COVID-19 on cognition, emotions, attitudes and intended future and/or actual behaviour, such as vaccination?
• What different psychological, social, cultural and contextual variables can be identified that influence an individual’s susceptibility to misinformation?
• What functions do the content (e.g. conspiracy theories, logical fallacies and fake news), the media or the communication type (e.g. memes, comments or flyers) have regarding the effectiveness of mis- and disinformation?

Debunking and Prebunking of Mis- and Disinformation about COVID-19

• What different debunking strategies can be distinguished in their effectiveness with respect to different target groups?
• What are the influence variables (personal, content or context variables) to consider for successful prebunking and debunking?
• What can be learned from research about unintended effects when combating mis- and disinformation about COVID-19?

The special issue calls for basic research describing and explaining these aspects but also welcomes applied research seeking to solve practical health communication issues. It is interested in theories, methods and empirical work in the study of mis- and disinformation about COVID-19.

Submission Format

We welcome submissions that fit any of the EJHC formats: original research papers, theoretical papers, methodological papers, review articles, brief research reports. For further information on the article types, please see http://www.ejhc.org/about/submissions

There are no submission and publication charges.

Review Process

All articles will undergo a rigorous peer review process. Once the paper has been assessed as appropriate by the editorial management team (with regard to form, content, and quality), it will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers in a double-blind review process. To ensure short publication processes, EJHC releases articles online on a rolling basis, expected to start in May 2022.

European Journal of Health Communication

The European Journal of Health Communication (EJHC) is a peer-reviewed open access journal for high-quality health communication research with relevance to Europe or specific European countries.

Contact Guest Editors and Links

Sabrina H. Kessler, University of Zurich (Switzerland) s.kessler(at)ikmz.uzh.ch

Philipp Schmid, University of Erfurt (Germany) philipp.schmid(at)uni-erfurt.de

Journal website: www.ejhc.org

Journal e-mail address: contact(at)ejhc.org

UCFB Wembley Campus

Salary: £36,000 - £40,000 per annum, depending upon qualifications and experience (plus a 10% London Weighting allowance if applicable)

Contract Type: Permanent

Closes: 10/05/2021

Reference: 22/ACA19

Interviews: Week commencing 24/05/2021

Do you want to be part of a truly unique approach to higher education, one that puts students at the heart of everything we do enabling them to have the best possible chance of a successful career in the football and sports industry?

About Us:

University Campus of Football Business & Global Institute of Sport

University Campus of Football Business (UCFB) is a world first in sports education. Delivering university degrees in the football and sports industry, our inspirational campuses in London and Manchester have the iconic Wembley Stadium and the Etihad Stadium at their heart. Proudly the fastest-growing higher education institution in the UK since launching in 2011, we continue to lead the field in producing the next generation of graduates to work in the global football and sports sector.

UCFB also counts a number of elite organisations among its partners, including The Football Association, Kick It Out, the League Managers Association, the National League and the Rugby Football League.

This role will be based at our UCFB Wembley campus, which is situated inside and around the immediate vicinity of the iconic Wembley Stadium, London including teaching facilities that overlook the famous turf, providing not only students but also our staff with a truly unique inspiring and iconic working environment.

The Opportunity

To teach on a programme of study and to maintain teaching and learning standards to deliver an excellent student experience.

About You

The successful candidate will have an undergraduate degree and Master’s degree educated in a disciplines related to Multimedia Sports Journalism and have some teaching experience in a Higher Education Institution.

Key Tasks:

• To teach on designated modules and programme of study as the Head/ Assistant Head of Academics may specify
• Maintain academic standards and adhere to the programme and module specifications
• Design and deliver teaching materials at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including contributing to the curriculum review and enhancement, in a manner that supports and focuses on student learning outcomes.
• • Preparation and delivery of modules-lectures and seminar materials at various levels.
  • Challenge thinking and foster debate to develop the ability for students to engage in critical discourse and rational thinking, stimulating excellence.
  • Identify learning needs of students and define appropriate learning objectives
  • Supervise the work of students - including student project, field trips, and where appropriate, placement - and provide advice on study skills.
• Undertake student assessments and examination activities including the provision of appropriate feedback to students.
• • Marking, assessing and internal verification of students work
• Engage in continuous professional development
• • Develop familiarity with a variety of strategies to promote and assess learning
  • Have in-depth understanding of own specialism to enable the development of new knowledge and understanding within the field
  • Balance the pressures of teaching, personal research and administrative demands and competing deadlines.
• To participate in the department seminars aimed at knowledge sharing and building interdisciplinary collaboration within and outside the department.
• • Act as a responsible team member and develop productive working relationships with other members of staff.
  • Participate in and develop external networks that promote UCFB and contribute to and build relationships for future activities.
  • Collaborate with colleagues on the development and implementation of assessment procedures.
• Be responsible for the pastoral care of students within a specified area
• • Act as personal tutor, providing first line support
  • Refer students to appropriate services providing future help (student services).
• Achieve key academic performance indicators, attendance, retention and achievement
• Report to the programme leader on programme performance and progress
• Maintain high levels of student satisfaction rates
• Complete module review and evaluation
• To undertake appropriate staff development and professional training in line with the business objectives of UCFB
• Participate in research and personal professional development
• To work within the policies of Health and Safety and Equal Opportunities
• To work flexibly and responsibly and undertake any other duties relevant to the level of the post.

What we offer in return

In return not only will you have the opportunity to make life-transforming, career making education, but we offer a whole range of financial and non-financial benefits too:

Financial rewards:

• Enhanced occupational sick pay
• Life assurance
• Pension
• Free eye tests and VDU glasses
• Flexible benefits package with Perkbox (some of which includes health cash plan, Dencover, half price cinema tickets, discounted private health insurance, discounted gym membership, hundreds of high street discounts and much more)

Family friendly benefits:

• Enhanced occupational maternity/paternity pay
• Compassionate leave/time off for dependants

Wellbeing benefits:

• Competitive holiday entitlement
• Christmas closure
• Day off for your birthday
• 24/7 employee support hub (via Perkbox)
• Flexible working
• Continuing professional development
• Ride to Work Scheme

Social benefits:

• Annual family barbeque
• Staff led events committee
• End of year review day and awards dinner
• Back to work conference

Additional Information

Working hours: Working hours normally 8.30am - 5pm but may involve additional and unsocial working hours depending on the nature of the event and occasional travel between campus.

Please note that if you do not have permission to work in the UK, UCFB will not be able to obtain a Certificate of Sponsorship for you to take up this position. All non EU/EAA candidates must have valid immigration status and/or a UK visa valid for the duration of the contract in order to be considered for this role.

Click here for a full detailed job description and person specification.

To apply for this role, please complete an application form which can be downloaded on the following link:

Application Form

All applications should be made to jobs@ucfb.com addressed to HR setting out your suitability for the role and motivation for joining our pioneering institution.

Due to our commitment to equality and diversity we operate a blind recruitment process and therefore will not accept CV’s.

Queen’s University Belfast 

Queen’s University Belfast is one of the leading universities in the UK and Ireland with over 24,000 students, 4,200 staff and an annual turnover of some £300m. We offer generous terms and conditions of employment underpinned by excellent benefits including attractive well-being, family friendly and other lifestyle benefits.

Our five core values - Integrity, Connected, Ambition, Respect, Excellence - are shared by our staff and students, representing the expectations we have for ourselves and each other, guiding our day-to-day decisions and the way we behave as individuals in an international organisation.

The successful candidate will work as part of the team teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level and will contribute to School administration and outreach activity.

The post is full-time and will be for 18 months.

The successful candidate must have:

• Relevant postgraduate degree in Film/Media/Visual Arts;
• Teaching experience to degree level in Screenwriting; and
• Teaching experience in concepts and practices of film editing.

Closing date: Monday 10 May 2021

For full job details and criteria please see the Candidate Information link on our website by clicking ‘apply’. You must clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria when you submit your application. For further information please contact Resourcing Team, Queen's University Belfast, BT7 1NN. Telephone (028) 9097 3044 or email resourcing@qub.ac.uk .

The University is committed to equality of opportunity and to selection on merit. We welcome applications from all sections of society and particularly from people with a disability.

Fixed term contract posts are available for the stated period in the first instance but, in particular circumstances, may be renewed or made permanent, subject to availability of funding.

Candidate Information

About the School

Information for International Applicants

University of St Andrews

The University of St Andrews is seeking to enhance its research strength in Film Studies by appointing a new (full) Professor in Film Studies. We would welcome applications from candidates whose research could link with and add to existing strengths in the department (global screen cultures, new film and media histories & historiographies, audio-visual environments, non-fiction media). Our primary objective is to appoint an outstanding candidate who has experience of leading large research projects alongside a commitment to attaching students at all levels, strengthening research collaborations inside and outside the department, and developing public engagement projects. We are particularly interested in applications from those working in the Global South.

This role involves producing excellent research-led teaching and convening a range of modules at the undergraduate and master’s levels, supervising both undergraduate and postgraduate students, and contributing to the administration of teaching, research, and public engagement in the department.

For informal enquiries, we encourage those considering applying to contact the Head of Department, Dr Leshu Torchin (lt40@st-andrews.ac.uk ) or the Head of the School of Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies, Professor Mark Harris (mh25@st-andrews.ac.uk ).

Closing Date for Applications: 7th June

Interview Date: 6th July

Start Date: 5 January 2022 or as soon as possible thereafter

Details and further particulars can be found:

At Jobs.ac.uk :

https://www.jobs.ac.uk/…0sb

Or at University Vacancies Site:

https://www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/…0sb

Interfaces Numériques

Deadline for proposals (English or French): May 15, 2021

Issue edited by Eleni Mitropoulou and Carsten Wilhelm

Issue to be released in January 2022

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This issue of the journal Interfaces Numériques centers on the contemporary relationship between Technics and Culture against the backdrop of an (im)possible technicist culture (Ellul, 1988: 165-182) as well as the consequences of the technical as independent of (human) intentions (Jonas, 1979). This field of reflection is well established in the Information and Communication Sciences at an international level, including discussions of “mediatization/datafication,” “responsibility,” and “sustainability” in the face of the dynamics of highly technicized communication cultures (Couldry and Hepp, 2016; Waisbord, 2019). These dynamics are yet to be understood and analyzed more deeply. In the midst of the rise of digital technologies and in light of the seminal classic works on technics by Benjamin, Leroi-Gourhan, Simondon or De Certeau and works devoted to the relationship between technology and culture (Humbert, 1991; De Noblet, 1981), a multidisciplinary approach in the humanities and social sciences is needed on these questions. They are as urgent in the media industries, which are now resolutely digital, as in the creative industries (or those claiming to be such), defined by UNESCO (2009) and according to information and communication scholars’ works (Bouquillon, Miège & Moeglin, 2013).

The communication industries are mediated, creative, and by essence, cultural. They are industrial notably by “the repeated implementation of techniques to obtain a certain number of results” (Humbert, 1991, p. 54-55) or by the place that quantification and data occupy in its professional practices (Martin, 2020). The usual relations or ruptures between culture and technics will be summoned here to be exceeded in favor of a mutual recognition of their role in society: culture feeds on technics and technics has meaning essentially in its cultural context. This interaction produces pragmatic as much as symbolic results: tools, language, uses, relations, know-how, soft skills, materiality, representation: “[Humans] and technics form a complex, they are inseparable, [humans] invent themselves in Technics and Technics invent themselves in [humans]. This couple is a process where life negotiates with the non-living by organizing it, but in such a way that this organization makes system and has its own laws” (Stiegler, 1998: 190, our translation).

With the current issue, our aim is to question what configures culture and technology as a milieu. How do they hold together as they interfere (Ricœur, 1990)? The root of the word culture itself contains the idea of cultivation and at the same time of the transformation of matter (Williams, 1985). Is it technology that transforms the culture of communication at the risk of standardizing it or is it culture or rather cultural hegemonies that lead to technical transformations (Pignier & Robert, 2015) and their more or less diversified appropriations? And beyond that, how does technology relate to the transformations of objects and practices of culture (Doueihi, 2011)? The notion of transformation emerges as operational in this regard, especially if we approach the relationship between culture and technology through the example of communication between beings. A certain level of change is needed for a technical element to produce a cultural paradigm equivalent to the changes induced by the emergence of writing (Souchier, Jeanneret and Le Marec, 2003), industrialization or computational reason (Bachimont, 2010).

Technical culture.s thus expresses the situation produced by a technical irruption or the irruption of a technology when it takes root in a society at a socially and historically given moment, when it transforms the state of things and the states of mind proper to the devices and practices of communication by being included in those processes while at the same time finding in part its own sources in these same contextualized practices. It is the perception by society at this given moment of a discontinuity, and potentially of a disruption, that manifests the evaluation of a technology by its culture; this evaluation might, for example, be “innovative”. The situated character of the latter – manufactured, for example, by accompanying discourse (discours d’escorte) or encouraged by the doxa – will – in the scope of our special issue – imply a critical reflection, an openness to comparative perspectives on the social, cultural, local, historical or international level.

Producers just as much as users of technology are agents in the making of technical culture, of a culture of operations and projects, of promises and of feats of technology, planned or experienced, and of the dismissal and non-lieux of technology. It is depending on hopes, successes and failures that the cultures of the technical are at the same time something factual (because they manifest the production of technology in society) and something transcendent (because they invest the technical rationality with creativity and design).

The above questions can be explored within the humanities and social sciences by the following possible approaches:

• Design and industry

Design, today, is the object of vindication by designers themselves, but also of other actors who retain either its material dimension (Berrebi-Hoffmann, Bureau and Lallement, 2018), or the diversity of the methods (Beudon, 2017), the aura of creativity or a desired innovation (Jevnaker, 2010). But if we consider that a discipline is also instituted by the retrospectives that build and perpetuate its representation with a view to further developments, it is notable that design is constructed, mediated, through a staging of its artifacts and techniques. How to question the relation between culture and design? What can we say about its singular relationship to industry when design, a “project” discipline, is summoned, in a given cultural context, as a motif, as a figure within discourses on innovation, management or even organizations and in quite recent media conditions in and with “the digital”?

• Promises and practices of change

Whether culturally situated or cross-cultural practices are involved, technology is deployed through its promise of change, innovation and progress. These notions challenge the expectations and desires of a culture because not all cultures want the same thing (Duchamp, 1999: 183). How does technology fit in with the desire and/or imagination of a culture (Martuccelli, 2013), or even a doxa, i.e. a set of opinions received without discussion, as self-evident, in a given society? How does technology integrate into society or transform it differently according to its doxic or cultural motivation? Should we look for the problems for which technologies represent a solution in a given context and culture or are those contexts universal? Developing a reflection on the culture(s) of the technical allows us not to stray from an essentialist dimension for thinking about the technical: rather than pre-supposing change, innovation or progress, we can think about what makes (Simondon, 2001) change either effective, simulated or imagined at the heart of an ambient techno-enthusiasm, techno-criticism or techno-phobia (Treleani, 2014; Jarrige, 2014).

• Norms, uses and governmentality

Although technical tools have allowed humanity to progressively detach itself, albeit partially, from biological constraints and have thus favored the “fabrication” of culture (Leroi-Gourhan, 1945), the interdependence between technology and the living is strong. If the ecological crisis is the crystallization of this issue, the Corona-crisis brings a very concrete, additional proof, in our lives. One ground on which this relationship is negotiated and organized are the norms that frame and stabilize these developments. Collective negotiations of norms are inseparable from controversies about values and are never free of cultural subtexts. Underneath the apparent simplification and stabilization of processes of production and use, standardization is at the base of a number of communicational, industrial and commercial issues. An analysis of the culture of technology must be interested in both the regimes of governmentality (Rouvroy and Berns, 2013) that are expressed in technical norms and the anthropological norms of use. An expression of “care of the self (souci de soi)” (Foucault, 1984) of users, and their ambitions of “responsibility” (Jonas, 1979), this individual orientation is also accompanied, particularly in the context of global challenges and crises (pandemic, climate, scarce resources) by collective questioning (ethical issues of artificial intelligence, digital sobriety…). How does the culture of digital technology play the card of global challenges and crises (...) to impose itself? In doing so, does it not tend to exclude and obscure other technical cultures that can, and could, confront these challenges and the issues that are linked to them?

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Submission information

The Submission should be made in the form of a proposal delivered as an attached file (file name of the author's name) in rtf, docx or odt format. It consists of two parts:

- A summary of the paper of 4,000 signs maximum, not including spaces;

- A short biography of the author(s), including scientific titles, research field, scientific position (the discipline in which the researcher is located), the section of affiliation.

The file must be returned, by e-mail, by May 15, 2021, to eleni.mitropoulou@uha.fr and carsten.wilhelm@uha.fr. Reception will be acknowledged by e-mail.

Provisional schedule

- May 15, 2021: deadline for the reception of proposals;

- June 15, 2021: notification to the authors of the proposals;

- September 1, 2021: deadline for the submission of articles;

- September 1 to November 1, 2021: double-blind review and exchange with the authors;

- December 1, 2021: submission of final articles;

- End of January 2022: publication of the issue in both online (open access) and paper versions.

Selection process

The editorial committee will meet to select the abstracts and will give its answer in June 2021.

The complete article will have to be formatted according to the style sheet that will accompany the committee’s response (maximum 25,000 characters, including spaces). It should be sent by e-mail before September 1, 2021 in two versions: one completely anonymous and the other nominative.

A second international committee will organize a double-blind reading of the articles and will send its recommendations to the authors by November 1, 2021.

The camera-ready final text must be returned by December 1, 2021.

Please note that articles which do not meet the deadlines and recommendations cannot be considered.

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