ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

Université Laval

Number: 6877

Job posting period: 10-03-2020 to 15-04-2020

Workplace: Faculty of Letters and Humanities, Department of Information and Communication

General information

The Department of Information and Communication of the Faculty of Letters and Humanities at Laval University invites applications for a tenure-track professorship position which includes directing its Chair in science journalism.

Job Description

1. Teach at BSc, MSc, and PhD levels;
2. Assume leadership of the Chair in science journalism and implement its research and training agenda focusing at the science/media interface;
3. Secure the Chair’s role as catalyst in the re-interpretation of the shared challenges facing scientists and journalists in the ongoing mediascape through identification of the best emerging practices, including through its own research laboratory;
4. Participate in the governance and administration of the Department and of the Faculty of Letters and Humanities.

Priorities of the Chair in Science Journalism of Laval University

The Chairholder will need to focus on and develop one or several of the three following research themes:

• Journalism and communication related to science-driven societal issues:
  •  role of the media in the coverage of societal issues that involve science, particularly conflicting science, and in the curation of public debates relating to the environment and climate, public health, big data, privacy and surveillance, artificial intelligence, automation and robots, transhumanism, etc.);
• Interplay of the respective legitimacy of journalism and science in the public sphere:
  • intellectual authority in the public sphere of journalistic and scientific actors as pertaining to credibility, veracity, and authority in matters of information and knowledge;

• Professional and discursive practices in science issues:

• analysis and evaluation of journalistic and scientific discourse and postures in public debates. Development of innovative editorial strategies and journalistic practices as well as communication strategies appropriate to the ongoing contemporary flow of information. 

Selection criterias

1. PhD or PhD near completion in communication or related domain.
2. Specialization in the public communication of science.
3. Specialization in the study of media and the public sphere.
    

Additional information

Career interruptions

 In accordance with its commitment to diversity and equity, Laval University acknowledges that career interruptions like parental leave, extended sick leave, care of a family member, gender transition as well as a handicap situation or other unplanned circumstances can affect productivity and research undertakings, volunteer work, and social commitments.

Candidates are therefore invited to state, where appropriate, such situations as well as evaluate their impact on their career track since the obtention of their PhD, in order that it be accounted for in the evaluation of their candidacy.

As well, adaptation measures can be offered to persons in handicap situations regarding their special needs in the context of this position offer, in complete confidentiality. If you require such adaptation measures, you are welcome to contact the equity personnel of the Faculty of Letters and Humanities: RH@flsh.ulaval.ca (attention: Mr. Nicolas Diotte).

Teaching language requirement

Courses at Laval University are taught in French. The University offers support to its professors to achieve a functional command of spoken and written French.

Candidature

Application must be written in French and formatted as a PDF document, including:

• a cover letter of introduction;
• an up to date CV referencing three to five significant publications;
• a research program outline (six pages maximum, bibliography excluded), with a vision statement outlining structural effects of the Chair at the scale of the Department and University; and
• three letters of recommendation (sent by the respondents directly to direction@com.ulaval.ca).

More information on the Chair can be found at: https://www.cjs.ulaval.ca/

More information on the Information and Communication Department at: http://www.com.ulaval.ca

Applications should reach the Director of the Information and Communication Department, Dr. Thierry Belleguic (direction@com.ulaval.ca) at the latest on April 15th, 2020, 13:00 (Eastern Standard Time Canada).

Starting date: July 1st, 2020.

Valuing equity, diversity and excellence, Université Laval is strongly committed to provide an inclusive work and living environment for all its employees. For Université Laval, diversity is a source of wealth, and we encourage qualified individuals of all origins, sexes, sexual orientations, gender identities or expressions, as well as persons with disabilities, to apply.

Université Laval also subscribes to an equal access to employment program for women, members of visible or ethnic minorities, Aboriginal persons and persons with disabilities. Adaptation of the selection tools can be offered to persons with disabilities according to their needs and in complete confidentiality. In accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, priority will be given to qualified individuals with Canadian citizenship or permanent residency.

ECREA Visual Cultures Section Pre-Conference

October 2, 2020

Braga, Portugal

Deadline: May 17, 2020

Interest in visual forms of communication is rising, but researchers seldom get insight on how to go about one's research. During the pre-conference 'Visual Work in Progress' we will explicitly focus on ways of working with visual materials, thinking together about the pros and cons of various methodological alternatives.

The pre-conference will focus on our “visual work in progress”, mainly the conceptualization of and methodological approach to visual data in ongoing research projects. **We encourage participants to share some part of their research visual material, so that we can discuss together our 'visual work in progress'.

The workshop will be organised as ‘data sprint’. Data Sprints are inspired by hackathons organised by the open source community, and are workshops in which participants from diverse backgrounds meet physically and collaborate intensively on a pre-determined subject and dataset. The pre-conference will take place on October 2nd, and end right in time for the opening ceremony of the ECREA conference.

Submission process

Please briefly describe (max 3000 characters)

• your project/topic/research question
• the visual data that you wish to discuss (you are welcome to include examples),
• where and how you obtained it (ethics/ consent?)
• your methods or methodological approach,
• questions and challenges you are currently dealing with and you would like to discuss at the preconference

Please submit your contribution to visualwork_braga@sbg.ac.at

until 17 May 2020

Timeline

• Submission until 17 May
• Registration open in May
• Program live June

With approximately one-fifth of the world’s population currently in ockdown, the novel coronavirus (COVID–19) pandemic has drastically changed many of our lives. According to official statistics, the virus has now infected over one million individuals across 209 countries and territories, and such draconian measures are likely to have saved countless lives. But, the effects of the virus reach far beyond its biological capacity to cause illness. Originating in Wuhan, China, its rapid spread across national boundaries has drawn attention to the porous and interconnected world that we live in. The resulting economic consequences of the lockdown measures highlight the volatility of the global economy and the precarity of those whose labour sustains it. At the same time, it has transformed the way we interact with one another and understand ourselves, as new forms of creativity and solidarity emerge. In the time of coronavirus, both critical cultural analysis and sustained personal reflection are needed more than ever to put these emerging new realities into perspective.

Several leading intellectuals have already published their views on the coronavirus pandemic. Judith Butler, for one, has considered how the pandemic lays bare the radical inequalities inherent to global capitalism, drawing particular attention to the fraught politics of healthcare in the United States. Elsewhere, David Harvey has examined the broader repercussions for the dynamics of global capital accumulation; modes of consumerism that have long underpinned Western economies are now crashing before our very eyes, he says, and with potentially devastating consequences. On the other hand, philosopher Giorgio Agamben has come under criticism for his dismissal of the pandemic as a manufactured “state of exception,” aimed at facilitating a project of total control by governments and corporations, while denying the harsh reality of contagion altogether.

For the duration of the coronavirus pandemic, students at The Lisbon Consortium encourage scholars, artists and other cultural practitioners to reflect further on the multifarious impacts of this bewildering new reality. To facilitate this, we are launching a new website, Culture in Quarantine , through which we hope to publish critical writing, visual essays and other creative responses to the pandemic over the coming weeks. Later, the website will remain online to serve as an archive of our collective thoughts and experiences.

We welcome contributions of any length in the following formats:

• Essays

Personal reflections, cultural critique and analysis, adaptations or excerpts of larger research projects. Please write for a general audience and avoid too much academic jargon.

• Fiction

Creative responses to the coronavirus pandemic, including prose and poetry of all genres.

• Visual essays

All combinations of photography (or other visual material) and text are welcomed. Please indicate any specific layout requirements and we will try to accommodate.

Please also include a short biography of no more than 100 words.

Send your contributions to cultureinquarantine@gmail.com

. Submissions will be accepted and published at www.cultureinquarantine.co on an ongoing basis.

Dublin City University

The School of Communications at Dublin City University is now inviting applications from qualified candidates for up to five PhD Scholarships.

The School of Communications at DCU is home to almost 1,000 students at undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD levels. With a tradition stretching back almost 40 years, the School is defined by excellence in both teaching and research in journalism, multimedia and communications studies. In the QS global subject rankings in 2020 DCU was in the top 200 of almost 4,500 universities worldwide in the area of communications. DCU is ranked number 1 nationally in Communications & Media Studies.

The School’s academics undertake research that contributes to national and international debates and to public policy formation. They have also led research projects supported by national and international funders.

This cutting-edge research is across a range of (inter)disciplinary fields including (new) media studies, media history, journalism studies, science communication, political communication, social media studies, film and television studies, music industry studies, advertising, and cultural studies. In the past five years, the School has supported approximately 40 doctoral students to achieve PhD awards through this scheme.

The School now has an opening for up to six funded PhD scholarships (across a four-year duration). As well as a tax-free stipend of €16,000 plus fees, we also support our students with funding for conference travel and offer PhD students opportunities to gain teaching experience.

In this call, we invite applications in the following areas / themes:

Photography and new forms of picturing:

Fellowship(s) in this area will ideally focus on the politics of photographic representation. These might include: photographic portraiture through a feminist lens, power relationships, how identity is constructed, undermined or challenged through photography, new approaches to picturing and representing specific communities, psychology around empathy and the portrait. For further information, contact Dr. Dragana Jurišić – dragana.jurisic@dcu.ie

Combatting coordinated online violence against women journalists:

Fellowship(s) in this area will investigate the nature and scale of coordinated violence (bot attacks and other forms of organised online harassment) targeted at women journalists in different countries and culturally appropriate automated responses. Proposals are welcome from applicants with a solid knowledge of digital communications platforms analysis, or experience in tracking mis- and dis-information online. For further information, contact Prof. Colleen Murrell - colleen.murrell@dcu.ie

Music, cultural production and the digital age:

Fellowship(s) in this area will ideally focus on culture, media, and digital technologies. Possible research topics include (but are not limited to), (i) music in the digital age, (ii) the platformisation of cultural production, circulation, and consumption, and (iii) cultural labour in the digital age. Practice-based projects are eligible and a working knowledge of cultural production and related industries is desirable. For further information, contact Dr. Andreas Rauh - andreas.rauh@dcu.ie.

Novel communication of environmental issues:

Fellowship(s) in this area will focus on structural approaches to environmental crisis, focusing on the role of mediated communication in communicating environmental issues within socio-economic and socio-ecological structures. They may also investigate the role of novel and creative approaches to communicating environmental issues. Traditional or practice-based applications are welcome. For further information, contact Dr. Trish Morgan – trish.morgan@dcu.ie

Sport and Media:

Fellowship(s) in this area will ideally focus on the interrelationship of sport and media. Relevant topics include: sports fandom; sports journalism; sport and nation branding; representations of gender, race, and nation in sport; the geopolitics of sport. We also welcome applications from those interested in researching popular culture and new forms of promotion. For further information, contact Dr. Neil O’Boyle – neil.oboyle@dcu.ie

NB. Applications should consist of a 2,000 word research proposal as well as a brief CV detailing academic qualifications and professional experience to date.

NB. Applicants must contact the relevant supervisor prior to submitting an application.

NB. All applications should be submitted to Ms. Eileen Myers, Secretary, School of Communications (eileen.myers@dcu.ie), clearly indicating the theme under which they are applying.

All scholarships are due to commence on 01st October 2020.

Closing date for applications: Friday 08th May 2020

Scientific Journal "Études de communication"

Deadline (postponed): May 2, 2020

https://journals.openedition.org/edc/9101

Thematic issue coordinated by Céline Pascual-Espuny (IMSIC, Aix-Marseille University), Andrea Catellani (LASCO, RECOM, Université catholique de Louvain), Béatrice Jalenques Vigouroux (LERASS, INSA Toulouse).

In recent years, participatory research has expanded considerably in the context of renewed interest in forging links between science and society. While first centered on issues of research methodology, participatory science has evolved towards a comprehensive institutional approach. Today, participatory science programs, open science and crowdsourcing initiatives, action research, post-normal science and citizen science research projects are increasingly widespread. The work of John Dewey (1927), Kurt Lewin and Talcott Parsons (1965) and Paolo Freire -- through his contribution to the development of community-based participatory research -- laid the foundations of participatory science as a research paradigm characterized by significant researcher engagement, diversity of knowledge sources and a participatory framework which itself becomes a source of action.

Over the past twenty years, such research methodologies have posited the principle of knowledge symmetry and have sought to foster dialogue between so-called "scholarly," scientific or academic knowledge, so-called "expert" or analogical knowledge and "experiential" knowledge (Gardien, 2017, Amaré, Valran, 2017). This movement, which originated in late 19th-century environmental science research (botany, zoology, geography) for which citizen-collected data proved to be highly valuable, has now become a global phenomenon.

Democratic utopia? innovation? social imperative? Participatory research raises questions about the value accorded to different forms of knowledge as well as the value ascribed to knowledge co-constructed through participatory exchange. Participatory science postulates that knowledge arising from the convergence of different cognitive worlds transcends division and allows access to a more complete understanding of societal phenomena (Le Crosnier et al., 2013, Amaré et al., 2017). Some scholars have also pointed out the social usefulness of participatory science and its profoundly political and action-oriented nature (Billaud et al., 2017).

Beyond these considerations, participatory research practices raise questions and issues surrounding scientific methodology, the usefulness of science in society, the place of researchers and the role given to laymen in the process of knowledge construction (Ravon, 2015, Callon, 1989, Bacqué, Biewerner 2015). Conversely, participatory research brings to the fore the issue of scientific research as anchored in social reality and as a response to social demands. Finally, the key notions of empowerment and participation, which are directly linked to participatory practices, have provided perspectives for research based upon citizen engagement.

Such participatory approaches have had a significant impact on information and communication sciences. Some scholars have explored the processes of popularizing or translating scientific discourse (Yves Jeanneret, Joëlle le Marec, Igor Babou). Martin’s research (2007) focusses on issues of public participation in environmental decision-making involving native communities. By specifically addressing questions of transparency, dialogue and spaces for discussion, Martin’s work has shed light on the communicative processes used for reaching compromise through participatory exchange. Hamilton (2008) has worked on issues of convergence and divergence with regard to nuclear weapons and their environmental impact. Walker (2004) has studied environmental collaboration and conflict resolution. Philippe Roqueplo (1988), using the example of acid rain, has addressed the issues of stakeholder involvement, controversy and conflict. Nicole d'Almeida and François Allard Huver (2014) have developed a reflection on the dramaturgy of risk, while Bolin's work deals with the history of meteorology and climate change as linked to public opinion (Bolin, 2007). Other studies have focused on how communication processes create conditions for changing perceptions of climate change (Bostrom and Laschof, 2007; Brisse, Oreske and O'Reilly, 2013).

More specifically, with regard to information and communication sciences, we seek to address the following issues:

• To what extent does research carried out with lay people rather than only with peers call into question principles of scientific rigor, veracity or validity?
• How does co-constructed research articulate social needs as expressed by public institutions or local authorities with the principles of scientific independence?
• To what extent is this type of research a reflection of researchers’ commitment, whether it be political or social? Is such commitment explicit, or should it be? How do researchers "recruit" non-scientific participants? What conditions do researchers impose upon participants to ensure that research is carried out successfully?
• What discourses and communication devices are mobilized? What semantic and ideological constructs and what justifications can be observed? What "ethos" of the citizen (or amateur) researcher is created?
• With regard to implemented methodologies, do the issues of transparency and communication become more necessary or more important?
• What approaches have been developed to accompany action research?

Scientific committee (to be completed)

• François Allard-Huver (CREM, Université de Lorraine)
• Françoise Bernard (IMSIC, Aix-Marseille Université)
• Nicole D’Almeida (GRIPIC, Université Paris Sorbonne)
• Thierry De Smedt (GREMS-RECOM, UCLouvain, Belgium)
• Amaia Errecart (LabSIC, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord)
• Daniel Raichvarg (CIMEOS, Université de Bourgogne)
• Philippe Verhaegen (GREMS-RECOM, UCLouvain, Belgium)

Review process

All submissions will go through a two-part review process:

• submission of a 1500-2000 word abstract which should include a presentation of objectives and principle arguments, explain the originality of the paper and provide key bibliographical references;
• for selected abstracts, a second evaluation will be carried on completed articles.
• Instructions to authors are available on the journal's website: https://journals.openedition.org/edc/668

Proposals will be peer-reviewed according a double-blind reviewing process. Abstracts should be sent by 15 April 2020 in Word (.docx) or OpenDocument (.odt) format to the following addresses:

• celine.pascual@univ-amu.fr
• andrea.catellani@uclouvain.be
• beatrice.jalenques-vigouroux@insa-toulouse.fr

Paper proposals and final papers (35,000 characters including spaces, footnotes and bibliography) may be submitted in English or in French. No commitment to publication can be made until the full text has been read.

Important Dates

• April 15, 2020: abstract submission deadline
• May 15, 2020: notification of acceptance or refusal
• September 15, 2020: deadline for submission of the complete version of articles
• December 15, 2020: deadline for receipt of final version
• June 2021: publication of articles in Études de Communication thematic issue n° 56

The University Autònoma de Barcelona and the Institute of the Spanish Public Television (RTVE) are carrying out a study analyzing the perception and emotion of citizens on the images used to illustrate the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which causes COVID-19, in the media. The goal is to draw conclusions to improve the rigor of information, the quality of scientific dissemination and give tools to media professionals to take care of the emotional effect that this pandemic (and other future crises of a similar nature) may have on society. People can participate by answering this survey that will last 15-20 minutes.

SURVEY LINK: https://bit.ly/2UvdNke

Special issue of Trípodos

Deadline for submissions: April 30, 2020

Publication: June 2020

Editors: Emiliana De Blasio (LUISS University, Italy), Patricia Coll (Ramon Llull University, Spain)

The COVID-19 pandemic poses a communication challenge for mass media and organisations on a global scale. For several months, crisis communication has become a crucial issue in our society, a society which is witnessing the acceleration of the process of digital transformation in all communication disciplines, including journalism, audiovisual communication, advertising and public relations. Trípodos announces a call for papers for a special issue on Communication in COVID-19 Crisis.

The objectives of the special issue are summarised in the following areas:

• Crisis communication.
• Communication of emergency services.
• Political communication during the COVID-19 crisis.
• Institutional relations by videoconference: digital protocol.
• Advertising: advertising creativity, branding at the service of health emergency, and digitalisation of marketing investment.
• Information vs infodemic.
• Journalistic routines: teleworking in mass media, TV set vs confinement, information vs entertainment.
• Scientific communication, experts and data journalism to interpret reality.
• Archive and reruns as an alternative to content production.
• Intensification of the newspaper crisis, paywalls and digital subscription models.
• Digitalisation of the audiovisual industry.
• Apps as means of communication, and big data in a health emergency situation.
• Internal communication and remote working.
• Digital platforms as a leisure area.
• Social networks: information, opinion, new privacy, influencers, newsjacking, memes, fake news.
• Digital transformation of public relations, digital events, and corporate social responsibility.
• Slow journalism vs immediacy.
• Public communication and policies.
• Emotions and loneliness through social media.
• Populist approaches to crisis (also in comparative perspective).
• Digital solidarity.

Call for papers: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nyYhp3JhV2QmwJ-qXkohSjo_1FhA4Q17/view

Papers should be sent by April 30, 2020. 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.

I certify that the information provided on this application is accurate. I understand that withholding of information or giving false information will result in a refusal to be eligible for funding.

YECREA and ECREA do not sell or otherwise disclose your Personal Data we collect about you.

You can withdraw your consent at any time by sending e-mail to: yecreanetwork@gmail.com.

Your personal data will be stored for a maximum of one year. After that period, we will delete it.

Cardiff University and Imperial War Museums

Diversifying and decolonising conflict photography: an exploration of how accompanying textual information can influence the reading and understanding of photographs

Applications are invited for an AHRC-funded PhD at Cardiff University. This is offered under the AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership programme. The partner institutions are Cardiff University and IWM. The studentship will be supervised by Dr Tom Allbeson (School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University) and Helen Mavin (IWM) and co-supervised by Professor Claire Gorrara (School of Modern Languages, Cardiff University). The studentship begins on 1 October 2020 and is funded at standard AHRC rates for 45 months full time (or part-time equivalent) with the potential to be extended for a further 3 months for professional development opportunities. Candidates from EU countries are eligible for full awards if they have been resident in the UK, for education or other purposes, for at least three years prior to the start of their programme. Candidates from EU countries who have not resided in the UK for three years prior to the start of their programme will normally be eligible for a fees-only award.

Closing date for applications: 15 May 2020

Anticipated start date: 1 October 2020

Full details: https://www.iwm.org.uk/sites/default/files/files/2020-04/IWM%20Cardiff%20CDP%20Advert%20final.pdf