ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

Edited by: Stefania Milan, Emiliano Treré and Silvia Masiero

Published in the Theory on Demand Series of the Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam

The book features 75 authors writing in 5 languages in 282 pages that amplify the silenced voices of the first pandemic of the datafied society. It is a multilingual conversation that celebrates linguistic and cultural diversity but also de-centers dominant ways of being and knowing while contributing a decolonial approach to the narration of the COVID-19 crisis. It brings researchers, activists, practitioners, and communities on the ground into dialogue to offer critical reflections in near-real time and in an accessible language, from indigenous groups in New Zealand to impoverished families in Spain, from data activists in South Africa to gig workers in India, from feminicidios in Mexico to North/South stereotypes in Europe, from astronomers in Brazil to questions of infrastructure in Russia—and counting! The result is a heterogeneous, polycentric and pluriversal narration, which invites the reader to enact and experience the “Big data from the South(s)” approach as an interpretive lens to read the pandemic.

The book is proudly open access and available here in .pdf and .epub versions: https://tinyurl.com/1l28349d - While supplies last, we are also distributing printed copies for free. Enjoy and spread!

May 27-28, 2021

Online conference

Deadline: February 1, 2021

27th International Congress of the SEP

Spanish Society of Journalists (SEP), Faculty of Communication of the University of Seville (Spain) 

Under the title “Digital transformation. Challenges and expectations for journalism”, this edition establishes the necessary connection between the academic, business and professional worlds around the general theme of the activity and between the agents involved. It aims to advance the importance of the digital transformation as a strategy of the media and journalism companies, therefore, the term digital is assumes not as an end in itself, but as a central characteristic of the journalism industries.

The event will be attended by international professionals such as Charo Henríquez, Head of Newsroom Development and Support at The New York Times, and Alfred Hermida, professor at the University of British Columbia and a founding member of BBCNews.com website.

Participation has also been confirmed by renowned Spanish professionals such as Pepe Cerezo, professor at Carlos III University of Madrid and director of Evoca Media; Noemí Ramírez, Chief Product and Customer Officer at PRISA Noticias; Javier Martínez, Chief Digital Officer at La Vanguardia, and José Ignacio Álvarez Ortiz, director of the applicatons business area at Oracle Ibérica.

The abstracts, with the communication proposals, may be sent until 15 February 2021, through the form available on the Congress website: www.sepsevilla2021.com. All accepted abstracts will be included in the digital abstract book published by the Editorial of the University of Seville. The papers defended at the Congress, after peer review, may choose to be published in these reviews: Textual & Visual Media, Ámbitos. Revista internacional de Comunicación, IROCAMM or Anàlisi. Quaderns de comunicaciò i cultura, or as a chapter in a digital book edited by Gedisa and the SEP.

Abstracts with proposals for papers can be sent through the form available on the Congress website: www.sepsevilla2021.com. These are the 5 main thematic areas:

1. Evolution and adaptation of the journalistic profession to the new challenges.

2. Innovation of new business models and entrepreneurial niches.

3. Active audiences and distribution strategies.

4. Recent trends in content production and new narratives.

5. Teaching and research in journalism post Covid-19.

Accepted abstracts will form part of the digital book of abstracts with the seal of the Editorial of the University of Seville. Papers defended at the conference, after peer review, will be eligible for one of the following publication options:

- Textual & Visual Media Journal.

- Ámbitos. International Journal of Communication.

- IROCAMM Journal.

- Anàlisi Journal. Quaderns de comunicació i cultura. (Q2)

- Digital book chapter published by Gedisa (Ranking SPI-Comunicación- 2nd place) and SEP.

- Digital book chapter published under the seal of the Editorial de la Universidad de Sevilla.

REGISTRATION

Registration for the Congress closes on 3 May 2021. Those who register before or including 15 March 2021 can benefit from a reduced rate. Further information is available on the Congress website.

KEY DATES

• 3 December 2020: Call for papers and opening of registration.
• 15 February 2021: Deadline for submission of abstracts.
• 2 to 8 March 2021: Notification of acceptance of proposals.
• 15 March 2021: Deadline for reduced registration.
• 12 April 2021: Deadline for sending the video presentation of accepted papers.
• 24 May 2021: Publication of the Book of Abstracts on the conference website.
• 3 May 2021: Deadline for registration.
• 27 and 28 May 2021: Presentation of papers and holding of the Congress.
• 21 June 2021: Deadline for submission of articles to the following journals: IROCAMM, Anàlisi. Quaderns de comunicació i cultura (Q2) and for the book published by Gedisa and SEP (2022), according to the selected publication option.
• 1 to 15 September: Notification of evaluation and acceptance of chapters for the book edited by Gedisa and SEP.

*Those papers that are accepted after peer review and that are not selected in the previous options, will be published as book chapters with the seal of the Editorial of the University of Seville.

31 December 2021: Deadline for submission to Ámbitos. International Journal of Communication.

Open date: for submission of papers to the journal: Textual & Visual Media.

If you have any questions, please visit the Congress website: www.sepsevilla2021.com or contact sep2021@us.es (academic questions) and secretariaSEP2021@sepsevilla2021.com (other questions).

Edited By: Avery Plaw, David Ramírez Plascencia, Barbara Carvalho Gurgel

Routledge 2021

https://www.routledge.com/The-Politics-of-Technology-in-Latin-America-Volume-1-Data-Protection/Plaw-Gurgel-Plascencia/p/book/9780367359416

https://www.routledge.com/The-Politics-of-Technology-in-Latin-America-Volume-2-Digital-Media-Daily/Plascencia-Gurgel-Plaw/p/book/9780367360115

The Politics of Technology in Latin America Volume 1.

This book analyses the arrival of emerging and traditional information and technology for public and economic use in Latin America. It focuses on the governmental, economic and security issues and the study of the complex relationship between citizens and government.

The book is divided into three parts:

• ‘Digital data and privacy, prospects and barriers’ centers on the debates among the right of privacy and the loss of intimacy in the Internet,
• ‘Homeland security and human rights’ focuses on how novel technologies such as drones and autonomous weapons systems reconfigure the strategies of police authorities and organized crime,
• ‘Labor Markets, digital media and emerging technologies’ emphasize the legal, economic and social perils and challenges caused by the increased presence of social media, blockchain-based applications, artificial intelligence and automation technologies in the Latin American economy.

This first volume in a two-volume set will be important reading for scholars and students of governance in Latin American, the protection of human rights and the use of technology to combat crime and the new advances of digital economy in the region.

Table of contents

Chapter 1. Introduction.

Avery Plaw, Barbara Carvalho Gurgel and David Ramírez Plascencia

Part I. Digital data and privacy, prospects and barriers.

Chapter 2. The reception of sexual messages among young Chileans and Uruguayans: Predictive factors and perception of harm.

Amaranta Alfaro, Matías Dodel and Patricio Cabello

Chapter 3. Small Data, Big Data and the Ethical Challenges for a fragmented developing world: Peru’s need for diversity-aware public policies on information technologies and practices.

Hugo Claros

Chapter 4. Open Government, Dilemmas, and Innovation at the Local Level: Comparing the Cases of Austin, Buenos Aires and Madrid.

Edgar A. Ruvalcaba-Gomez, Soledad Gattoni and Raymond W. Weyandt

Part II. Homeland security and human rights, a questioned balance?

Chapter 5. Ethical controversies about Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems: views of small South American States.

Raúl Salgado Espinoza

Chapter 6. From Sensationalist Media to the Narcocorrido: Drones, Sovereignty, and Exception along the U.S.-Mexican Border.

David S. Dalton

Chapter 7. The process of technologization of the drug war in Mexico.

Avery Plaw, David Ramírez Plascencia and Barbara Carvalho Gurgel

Part. III. Labor Markets, digital media and emerging technologies: potentials and risks.

Chapter 8. Algorithmic Law – A legal framework for Artificial Intelligence in Latin America.

Maximiliano Marzetti

Chapter 9. Automation and Robotization of production in Latin America: problems and challenges for trade unions in the cases of Argentina, Mexico and Chile.

Victoria Basualdo, Graciela Bensusán and Dasten Julián-Vejar

Chapter 10. Using functional and social robots to help during the Covid19 pandemic: Looking into the incipient case of Chile and its future artificial intelligence policy.

Carmina Rodríguez-Hidalgo

Chapter 11. Intellectual property and social media policies for user-generated content: some lessons from Mexico.

Rosa María Alonzo González

Chapter 12. Mining as an Art of Survival in Venezuela: Eluding Scarcity and improving Living Conditions with Bitcoins.

David Ramírez Plascencia

Chapter 13. Conclusions.

Avery Plaw, Barbara Carvalho Gurgel and David Ramírez Plascencia

The Politics of Technology in Latin America Volume 2.

This volume focuses on the hyper-mediatization of Latin America from the citizen’s perspective, considering the social impact and how people embrace information technologies to improve their living conditions, engage in political issues and the role of digital journalism in promoting democratic values in Latin America.

The book is divided into three parts:

• ‘Digital Media and Daily Life in Latin America’ explores cases related to the integration of digital media such as mobile devices, social platforms and, even, drones to diverse commercial, private and social activities.
• ‘Information technologies and civic engagement’ gives special attention to the new political practices triggered by the irruption of smartphones and platforms, especially inside organizations and social movements in Latin America.
• ‘Journalism and Media Integrity in the Age of Post-truth’ centers on the study of digital journalism and the new media landscape, and related issues like precarization of labor conditions and the crisis of reliability in media.

This second volume in a two-volume set will be important reading for scholars and students of social use of digital media in Latin America, civic engagement, and the connections between politics, journalism and technology.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction.

David Ramírez Plascencia, Barbara Carvalho Gurgel and Avery Plaw

Part. I. Digital Media and Daily Life in Latin America.

Chapter 2. Drone Ethics and Legal Regulation, Comparative Drone Law in Latin American countries.

Jorge Andrés Cruz Silva and David Andrés Mayorga Naranjo

Chapter 3. Net-narcoculture. Discursive trends on femicide violence and youth culture in the consumption of the narcorap aesthetics versus feminist rap resistances.

Dra. Virginia Villaplana Ruiz and Dra. Alejandra León Olvera

Chapter 4. COVID-19 Confinement-related Mental Disorders: Morbidity and the Remedial Use of ICT in Hispanic Societies.

Sergio Yagüe-Pasamón

Chapter 5. Speaking for Communities and Against Oppression: Digital Media Responses to COVID-19 within Marginalized Communities of Brazil and Mexico

Stuart Davis and Melissa Santillana

Part. II. Information technologies and civil engagement.

Chapter 6. Social media as an instrument of activism for feminist university students in Mexico: the cases of MOFFyL and Uni Unida.

Yunuen Ysela Mandujano-Salazar and Luis Antonio Becerra-Soria

Chapter 7. Latin American Indigenous Media Productions: Digital Artefacts of Contestation.

Milton Fernando Gonzalez-Rodriguez

Chapter 8. Digital media in citizen participation and collective action for spatial justice.

Laura Pinzón Cardona

Chapter 9. Social Media and Political Polarization in Latin America: analyzing online discussions during the 2018 presidential campaign in Colombia

Jean-Marie Chenou, Daniel Cabarcas Velandia and Maria Nicoll Sepulveda Marin

Part III. Journalism and Media Integrity in the Age of Post-truth.

Chapter 10. Digital Native Media in Central America: Reshaping the Online News Sphere.

Ramón Salaverría and Silvia-María Corzo

Chapter 11. Disinformation and news consumption in a polarized society: An analysis of the case of Venezuela.

Javier Serrano-Puche, Carmen Beatriz Fernández and Jordi Rodríguez Virgili

Chapter 12. Social Media in a Post-truth Age: Discursive Roles of Fake News About Marielle Franco.

Priscila Muniz de Medeiros and Natália Martins Flores

Chapter 13. Collaborative Journalism vs. Disinformation: An Approach to Fact-Checking Projects in Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, and Spain.

Amaya Noain-Sánchez

Chapter 14. Conclusion.

David Ramírez Plascencia, Barbara Carvalho Gurgel and Avery Plaw

University of Zurich

The Department of Communication and Media Research at the University of Zurich (IKMZ) has a vacancy for a postdoctoral researcher in the division of Prof. Dr. Thomas Friemel. The IKMZ is one of the largest communication research institutes in Europe with about 80 employees and provides an excellent infrastructure for research and teaching, an inspiring academic environment as well as excellent employment conditions. The University of Zurich also offers numerous opportunities for continuing education as well as a wide range of interdisciplinary cooperation possibilities.

The Division of Media Use and Effects (www.mediennutzung.ch) focuses its research and teaching on the social context of media use and effects from a social science perspective. This includes classical mass media as well as new media and various forms of interpersonal communication. In addition to communication science, references to social psychology, sociology, and social network analysis are therefore particularly important for our work. The position is part of the research project "Covid-Norms", which is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) as part of the National Research Program "Covid-19" (NRP78). The project examines social norms as well as the public discourse on key measures to mitigate the Covid-19 pandemic (www.covid-norms.ch/en). This job posting is related to the subproject that focuses on surveying social norms and media use in the general population. Accordingly, in-depth knowledge of standardized survey and analysis methods is an important requirement for this position.

Requirements profile

• Very good doctoral degree in communication and media research or a related research field that is of direct relevance to the outlined research project
• Prior knowledge of or high interest in media use and media effects research
• Very good knowledge of communication science theories
• Very good knowledge of quantitative research methods
• Very good knowledge of German or English (passive knowledge of German or another national language of Switzerland are an advantage)
• Strong organizational and communication skills, commitment and ability to work in a team

Working focus

• Development of survey instruments
• Analysis of collected data
• Internal coordination tasks to manage the subprojects
• Communication with the Federal Office of Public Health and other cooperation partners
• Conference participation and publications 
• Collaboration in other work within the division (research, teaching, administration)

Conditions of employment

The employment will be on an 80% basis. A reduction or increase is possible after consultation and in dependence of the available resources and duties (e.g., teaching assignments). The position will initially run until 31.8.2022. Further employment as a postdoctoral researcher or Senior Teaching and Research Associate at UZH is possible but subject to the availability of appropriate resources (maximum of six years).

Application documents

Please submit the following documents to Valeria Rieser via the application button on the UZH job portal (www.uzh.ch/jobs):

• Letter of motivation (1-2 pages)
• Curriculum vitae in tabular form incl. copies of certificates
• Doctoral thesis
• A selected publication (e.g., journal article)

Application and selection process

Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, and the call will remain open until a suitable candidate has been found. For questions regarding this job offer, please contact Dr. Sarah Geber, s.geber@ikmz.uzh.ch.

Nantes, France

Description

Position overview:

The position is located within the Communication and Culture Department at Audencia’s Mediacampus, on the Ile de Nantes, at the heart of the Creative Arts District. The Mediacampus’ ecosystem is a breeding ground and a place for learning, sharing and manufacturing development as well as content delivery, training, research, and testing.

Audencia Business School is triple accredited (AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA), and one of the leading European and French Business Schools. The school offers a wide range of programs including MSc, MBA, Executive MBA, European Master in Management, Doctorate and Executive Education Programmes, with more than 120 core faculty members from 25 countries.

The school is located in the city of Nantes, just 2 hours away from Paris by train, serviced by an international airport. With a vibrant city life full of cultural and other events, the sandy Atlantic coast to the west of the city and rolling vineyards and royal castles to the east, it is it an ideal city to live in. Perhaps these are the reasons for which Time Magazine selected Nantes as 'the most liveable city in Europe'. In addition to its pleasant environment, the city also boasts a rich economic and industrial identity, housing more than 1330 companies within the city.

Requirements

Position requirements:

The preferred candidates for the position will:

• hold a PhD (preferably in Communication);
• has publishing experience or a well-developed research program to publish in top-tier international journals (SCIMAGO Q1, ICA Journals, etc…);
• has previous international experience and/or has developed international research networks and projects;
• have an ongoing program of academic research in Strategic Communication, Communication & Organization, or Communication & Management, that can contribute to one of the four axes of research structuring the Communication & Culture Department (website):
• • Media: Rhetoric and Practices of Engagement. Engagement has become a central issue in contemporary societies. Research in this area focuses on political communication and civic engagement, responsible brand messaging and the perception of same by consumers, environmental rhetoric and interfaces with consumers, on digital consumption and usage, and on the figures (from the illustrious to the infamous), values and actions they promote.
  • Creativity, Innovation, Design. In this area, researchers look into the different approaches and phases of the design process in communication and culture management (including education). The purpose is to analyse, deconstruct, redesign and test new methods and discourses about design, creativity and innovation.
  • Art and Organizations: The aesthetic issues involved in the organization and mobilization of "ordinary" creativity constitute a sector in the development of research. At the crossroads of the arts, culture, digital technologies and organizational theories, Art and Organization explores objects of cross-functional research, focusing on the study of artistic organizations, and/or the aesthetic facets of conventional organizations.
  • Design and Drafting of Public Policies: Researchers in this area are interested in the process with which public policies are developed, from their writing to their circulation. Work in this area focuses on the production of public policies in the specific fields of culture, security and poverty through the mechanisms that these policies use, the figures they involve, the market players taking part in the interactions, and the media output they generate.
• has recent experience and demonstrate evidences of excellence in higher level teaching and student mentoring. Courses to be provided in English in the Master’s Degree in Communication and Media (Audencia SciencesCom), or in Programme Grande Ecole including core courses (Criticism and Ethics in Communication; Strategic Management of Communication; elective course in Public Communication), and courses commensurate with the candidate’s expertise;
• be expected to provide leadership in the areas of teaching, curriculum development, student engagement and extra-curricular activities in Communication and Culture (in French and in English);
• be expected to contribute to outreach activities to the broader practitioner community and across the school.

Salary is negotiable and commensurate with experience and qualifications. The contract, to begin at the earliest in September 1st 2021, is for a full-time permanent position and includes a number of benefits, such as research and other performance-based bonuses, full family insurance coverage, generous medical coverage, etc. A good working knowledge of English and French languages is essential. If necessary for international profile, the candidate may be assisted to improve his or her proficiency in French.

Application

Candidates should send an electronic application by May 1st, 2021, including an application letter, a curriculum vitae (including a full list of publications), two selected publications, information regarding teaching performance, and names of two referees by e-mail to Thibaut BARDON, Audencia’s Associate Dean for faculty and research - faculty-recruitment@audencia.com with reference “C&C2021”

For more information, please contact:

Research: Julien PIERRE, julienpierre@audencia.com

Pedagogy: Martha ABAD GREBERT, mabadgrebert@audencia.com

University of Sheffield - Department of Journalism Studies

Location: Sheffield

Salary: £41,526 to £49,553 per annum. Potential to progress to £55,750 per annum through sustained contribution (Grade 8)

Hours: Full Time

Contract Type: Permanent

Placed On: 2nd February 2021

Closes: 1st March 2021

Job Ref: UOS027472

Apply here: https://jobs.shef.ac.uk/sap/bc/webdynpro/sap/hrrcf_a_unreg_job_search?sap-client=400&sap-syscmd=nocookie&sap-wd-configId=ZHRRCF_A_UNREG_JOB_SEARCH&sap-ie=edge&utm_source=university%20website&utm_medium=link&utm_content=jobs&utm_campaign=jobs-link#

The Department of Journalism Studies is one of the major journalism research and teaching establishments in Europe. We are committed to a teaching and research programme that takes an interdisciplinary approach to the fields of factual media, journalism and communications.

Our staff are drawn from both journalism and academia and we have an excellent network of national and international contacts, in journalism, civil society organisations and in the academic world. We have a thriving international community of postgraduate research students, taught postgraduates and undergraduates. Our alumni are working in newsrooms in the UK and abroad as reporters, editors, producers, presenters while others have gone on into the communications sector more broadly as well as in to academic careers.

The department is now seeking to recruit a specialist in broadcast journalism to the role of University Teacher. This role will contribute across our professional practice programmes across Undergraduate and Taught Postgraduate levels.

We particularly welcome applicants who:

• have substantial and recent background in broadcast journalism at a senior and national level.
• can lead, co-ordinate, support and contribute to the teaching team as a team co-ordinator or member.
• cuts across all elements of broadcast, including TV and Radio.

You will have:

• have a good honours degree (or equivalent experience).
• proven ability to engage with and inspire people.

We’re one of the best not-for-profit organisations to work for in the UK. The University’s Total Reward Package includes a competitive salary, a generous Pension Scheme and annual leave entitlement, as well as access to a range of learning and development courses to support your personal and professional development.

We build teams of people from different heritages and lifestyles from across the world, whose talent and contributions complement each other to greatest effect. We believe diversity in all its forms delivers greater impact through research, teaching and student experience.

To find out what makes the University of Sheffield a remarkable place to work, watch this short film: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LblLk18zmo, and follow @sheffielduni and @ShefUniJobs on Twitter for more information.

Apply now by clicking on the Apply button.

Edited By: Turo Uskali, Astrid Gynnild, Sarah Jones, Esa Sirkkunen

Taylor & Francis Group

This book sets out cutting-edge new research and examines future prospects on 360-degree video, virtual reality (VR), and augmented reality (AR) in journalism, analyzing and discussing virtual world experiments from a range of perspectives.

Featuring contributions from a diverse range of scholars, Immersive Journalism as Storytelling highlights both the opportunities and the challenges presented by this form of storytelling. The book discusses how immersive journalism has the potential to reach new audiences, change the way stories are told, and provide more interactivity within the news industry. Aside from generating deeper emotional reactions and global perspectives, the book demonstrates how it can also diversify and upskill the news industry. Further contributions address the challenges, examining how immersive storytelling calls for reassessing issues of journalism ethics and truthfulness, transparency, privacy, manipulation, and surveillance, and questioning what it means to cover reality when a story is told in virtual reality. Chapters are grounded in empirical data such as content analyses and expert interviews, alongside insightful case studies that discuss Euronews, Nonny de la Peña’s Project Syria, and The New York Times’ NYTVR application.

This book is written for journalism teachers, educators, and students, as well as scholars, politicians, lawmakers, and citizens with an interest in emerging technologies for media practice.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780367713294, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license

February 25, 2021

Online webinar

PaSTIS Research unit is delighted to invite you to the (free) Webinar “Dependent, Distracted, Bored. Affective formations in networked media”. The webinar will be held on 25 February at 3 pm (GMT +1).

We will discuss with Susanna Paasonen (University of Turku) about her last research work regarding a new approach to understanding the culture of ubiquitous connectivity, arguing that our dependence on networked infrastructure does not equal addiction.

Introduction: Cosimo Marco Scarcelli (University of Padova)

Discussants: Manolo Farci (University of Urbino) and Paolo Magaudda (University of Padova)

Here the link to register for the (free) webinar: https://unipd.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dUESW2T5TlqrAKGPmiERUw

Tripodos No. 51 - Special Issue

Deadline: June 30, 2021

Editors: Óscar Mateos-Martín (Ramon Llull University, Spain), Ana Isabel Rodríguez-Iglesias (International University of Catalonia, Spain)

Publication: December 2021

The monographic is looking for contributions that offer epistemological approaches to the fields of conflict, peace, and security studies. The understanding of these phenomena is always mediated by who tells the story and the language used for it. As a result, in every context, there is always a plurality of narratives that are produced by top-down analysis and bottom-up experiences. How these narratives interact, clash, accommodate and influence each other is of utmost importance to make sense of how international interventions and the deployment of security and peace policies are received or confronted at the local level, and in turn, how bottom-up narratives could be integrated and get a central position. This call looks for critical articles –feminist, post-colonial, and/or critical and poststructuralist analysis– that focus on the process of narration and the actors involved in defining the script, as well as on intercultural translations by looking into possibilities of coexistence and tolerance.

Papers should be sent by June 30, 2021. In order to submit original papers, authors must be registered with the journal (www.tripodos.com) as authors. Following this step, authors must enter their user name and password, activated in the process of registering, and begin the submission process. In step 1, they must select the section “Monograph”.

Rules and instructions regarding the submission of originals can be downloaded at www.tripodos.com. For any queries, please contact the editorial team of the journal at tripodos@blanquerna.url.edu.

Call for papers: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nPoBr_Og9BqhPj2UtyTJDj3UA-9Mv1GI/view

May 2021

Online event

Deadline for Submission: February 15, 2021

As part of our online activities throughout the first half of 2021, we would like to invite all young scholars to apply for our YECREA PhD Workshop jointly held by ECREA’s Crisis Communication Section and Young Scholars Network (YECREA). The participation in the workshop is free of charge.

The aim of the workshop is to provide an online forum with individual feedback by senior scholars for doctoral students whose Ph.D. and research interest is related to the wide and interdisciplinary field of Risk and Crisis Communication.

The PhD Workshop will take place in May 2021. The exact date and time depend on the countries of origin/time zones of the individual participants. Further information on the date as well as on the respondents (senior scholars) will be announced later in time.

To apply for the workshop, please prepare and submit the following two documents:

• an extended abstract of up to 500 words outlining your project (literature excluded): Please think of key elements such as your research problem, theoretical foundation, research question(s), methodology and (preliminary) findings
• a short letter of motivation stating why you would like to participate and which questions you want to see addressed; it should also mention your doctoral advisor as well as a rough time schedule for your project.

The documents must be submitted to Janina Klingelhöfer (Janina.Klingelhoefer@ifkw.lmu.de) until February 15, 2021. Please do not hesitate to ask questions beforehand.

A jury will select the applications according to standards of academic quality like theoretical foundation, stringency, and originality. You will receive their decision by mid-March 2021. There is no need to be a member of the Crisis Communication Section to apply, but please note that the capacity of the workshop is limited.