European Communication Research and Education Association
The symposium has now been rescheduled for 28-29 September, 2020.
Centre for Media & Journalism Studies, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Deadline: POSTPONED
Check: https://www.rug.nl/research/icog/news/2020-02-24-cfp-political-journalism-and-impact-of-the-market
Confirmed speakers include: Marcel Broersma, Martin Conboy, Sophie Knowles , Victor Pickard, Helle Sjøvaag
Organizer: Chrysi Dagoula
Aims of the symposium
This symposium aims to examine the effects of the market on political journalism in democratic societies in Europe, covering various national contexts with different political and financial circumstances. The measures of austerity that have been imposed either directly or indirectly on various economies in Europe and subsequently on political journalism are at the very core of what the symposium seeks to explore, as it aims to examine the effect of these policies on key areas, such as media business models, working conditions, new regulations, and perceptions of journalistic identity.
The symposium poses the question of whether the current challenges are a result of the digitization and the inclusion of a variety of platforms in the media ecology, that directly affected the economic media models across Europe, or whether these challenges reflect established market mechanisms.
Due to financial, political and technological reasons, journalism is undergoing a continuous process of redefining itself. At the same time, journalism continues to be regarded as an integral part of modern democratic societies, but also as a major historical force that contributes to important ways to so-called “epistemological politics”, according to which the politics of what we know and how we act as citizens is linked to the politics of how we know.
Main themes
Drawing on this perception of journalism and by taking into account factors both external (such as political instability) and internal to the media, as well as the fact that current media environments are characterized by a multiplicity of networks and arenas where a plethora of actors constantly act, react and interact, the symposium will focus on:
Confirmed speakers
Confirmed speakers include:
Contact
The symposium welcomes theoretical discussions as well as methodological contributions that enhance the understanding of the effect of financial policies on political journalism, as well as the variations of this effect in a cross-national setting. For informal inquiries or for further information, please contact the organiser, Dr Chrysi Dagoula at c.dagoula@rug.nl
Send your abstracts (300 words max) at c.dagoula@rug.nl (Chrysi Dagoula)
VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture
Deadline: June 1, 2020
VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture is currently open for proposals for its next special issue on Race and Europe’s TV Histories, set to be published in fall 2021.
Co-edited by Aniko Imre and Sudeep Dasgupta, this special issue will begin the work of documenting and understanding the many ways in which television has both perpetuated and critically interrogated racialized regimes in Europe and in European countries’ ongoing relationships to their postcolonial geopolitical spheres. With this framework in mind, we welcome proposals that explore how postwar television in Europe has naturalized, confirmed and challenged racial categories and racialized relations in the course of the medium’s history, including its extended, postcolonial dimensions.
Those contributors engaging with issues of nation, region, ethnicity and culture are encouraged to situate/emphasize/explore the relation with race in their proposals.
Possible directions include:
Contributions are encouraged from authors with different kinds of expertise and interests in media studies, television and media history.
You can submit your article proposal (max. 500 words) by June 1st, 2020 and should be sent to the managing editor through e-mail: journal@euscreen.eu All articles will be peer-reviewed.
Visit our website for more information https://viewjournal.eu/announcement/
VIEW is an open-access e-journal dedicated to sharing research on European Television History and Culture. VIEW is supported by the EUscreen Network and published by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision in collaboration with Utrecht University, Royal Holloway University of London, and the University of Luxembourg.
Montse Morcate y Rebeca Pardo (Ed.)
ISBN:978-84-120097-4-3
THE UNVEILED IMAGE. Photographic practices in illness, death and grief is a book published in Spanish with international collaborations by experts as Tony Walter, Stanley B. Burns, Elizabeth A. Burns, Jason L. Burns, Susana de Noronha, Pelin Aytemiz, Jorge Moreno Andrés, Carmen Ortiz García, Montse Morcate and Rebeca Pardo.
Illness, death and grief have been very present in photography since the birth of the medium. Nevertheless, these images have generated different responses over time, ranging between acceptance and rejection, depending on the historical and cultural context. The appearance of the digital image and the Internet, as well as new ways of understanding the processes of mourning/grief, dying and the illness narratives, have led to a resurgence of these images, their social uses and their meaning.
This book provides insights into one of the most exciting and unknown areas of photography through an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural analysis of these practices that are often reviled and hidden.
Montse Morcate is a Lecturer in Photography in the Department of Visual Arts, Arts Faculty, University of Barcelona, Spain. Her research focuses on photography, grief and death.
Rebeca Pardo is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Audiovisual Communication, Communication Faculty, International University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain. She is the Principal Investigator of the research project (2019-2021) Visibilizing pain: illness visual narratives and storytelling transmedia. Her research focuses on visual representation of illness, death and anticipatory grief.
Purchase here: https://www.sanssoleil.es/tienda/la-imagen-desvelada-practicas-fotograficas-en-la-enfermedad-la-muerte-y-el-duelo-montse-morcate-y-rebeca-pardo-ed/
Social Movement Studies
Deadline: May 30, 2020
Guest editors:
Datafication is changing the conditions under which contemporary social movements operate, opening up new terrains of contention. As a result, grassroots initiatives in the realm of data activism, data justice, algorithmic accountability and/or resistance to mass surveillance mushrooms in liberal and authoritarian regimes alike. These initiatives vary by scale, organizational forms, tactics, political visions and technological imaginaries. They may take data “as repertoires”, whereby data and data-based tactics are mobilized as constituents of innovative tactics, or “as stakes”, that is to say issues or objects of political struggle in their own right. However, they share an emphasis on the contentious politics of data.
While many instances of the contentious politics of data have come under the spotlight of specialists of digital politics and culture, social movement scholars are only starting to investigate the consequences of datafication on organized collective action. Yet datafication represents a paradigm change able to radically transform “social movement society”, urging social movements scholars to reflect on how it intersects with known social movement dynamics.
This Special Issue invites scholars of social movements and critical data studies to engage with i) case studies and ii) theoretical reflections illustrating the evolution of collective action vis-à-vis datafication. We are particularly interested in (interdisciplinary) theory development: fostering a dialogue across disciplinary boundaries, the Special Issue wants to bring the question of datafication -broadly defined -to bear on social movement scholarship, with the ambition of addressing what has been to date a “blind spot” in social movement literature, and cross-fertilizing disciplinary fields that have long remained disconnected.
Consequently, we welcome papers (max 8,000 words) engaging with the following:
Unfamiliar empirical cases of: social movements’ critical engagement with the datafication agenda (e.g., Hong Kong activists dismantling lamp posts with surveillance cameras); creative incorporation of data-based practices and tactics in social movements’ repertoires (e.g., citizen-led collection of pollution data); social movements engaging in struggles around data issues (e.g., algorithmic accountability); examples of conflation between data as constituents of action repertoires and data as a contentious issue in its own right.
Theoretical perspectives on, for instance, data activism, data justice, artificial intelligence, the relation between protest and social structures in the age of datafication, etc. as they intersect social movements and collective action processes, concepts, and research questions.
Theoretical contributions on, e.g., the relation between data and the means-ends continuum in social movements, oriented to theory development in the field of social movement studies.
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The submissions deadline is 1st November 2020. All submissions will be subject to double-blind peer-review. Articles of up to 10,000 words (inclusive of footnotes) will be considered.
Deadline for final submission of papers is 3rd January 2021.
Brock University
Apply here: https://brocku.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/brocku_careers/job/St-Catharines-Main-Campus/Assistant-Professor--Business---Media-Communication_JR-1005212
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April 6, 2020
About the position
The Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film at Brock University invites applications for a full time tenure track position in Media and Communication Studies at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin July 1, 2020. This position is subject to final budgetary approval.
The Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film offers four interdisciplinary undergraduate programs. Two of these programs — Business Communication and Media & Communication — are home to 650 majors. The BA in Business Communication is offered in collaboration with the Goodman School of Business.
Qualifications
The successful candidate must have a PhD in communication, media studies, business, or a related discipline and a strong record of research and teaching that addresses digital technologies and practices at the intersection of business communication and media industries. Expertise in the areas of digital platforms and media analytics is of particular interest. Experience with online, blended, and applied/experiential pedagogy would be an asset.
Notes
Review of applications will begin March 31, 2020. Applications should be submitted electronically and include a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and teaching dossier (relevant course outlines, evaluations, and a statement of teaching philosophy).
Two confidential letters of reference should be sent via email to:
Dr. Dale Bradley, Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film, Brock University
dbradley@brocku.ca
About Brock University
The Brock University experience is second to none in Canada. Located in historic Niagara region, Brock offers all the benefits of a young and modern university in a safe, community-minded city, with beautiful natural surroundings. With over 18,000 students and more than 100 undergraduate and graduate programs in seven diverse Faculties, Brock excels at providing exceptional experiential learning opportunities and highly rated student and campus life experiences.
Our Geography
Brock University’s main campus is situated atop the Niagara Escarpment, within a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve, overlooking the city of St. Catharines, in the heart of Niagara wine country. The Niagara region is dotted with landmarks that recognize our nation’s history and features breathtaking natural beauty and world-famous attractions. St. Catharines is home to vibrant arts and entertainment venues, and is a short drive from Toronto, Niagara Falls, and Buffalo, New York. With one of the warmest climates in Canada, clean, safe communities, and surprisingly affordable real estate, Niagara is an exceptional location to call home.
What we Offer
Brock University offers competitive salary and benefits and ample support for research and sabbaticals. Research resources include; conference support, start-up funding, subscriptions to major databases and access to various research funding vehicles. For candidates considering relocation, moving expenses will be administered according to the Faculty Association Collective Agreement.
Brock University is actively committed to diversity and the principles of employment equity and invites applications from all qualified candidates. Women, Aboriginal peoples, members of visible minorities, people with disabilities and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) persons are encouraged to apply and to voluntarily self-identify as a member of a designated group as part of their application. Candidates who wish to be considered as a member of one or more designated groups can fill out the Self-Identification questions included in the questionnaire at the time of application.
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Learn more about Brock University by visiting www.brocku.ca
Laval University
Chair in Science Journalism
Deadline: April 15, 2020
Number: 6877
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
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:
Selection criterias
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:
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.
Deadline: April 1, 2020
Edited Collection by Stephanie Patrick and Mythili Rajiva
Publisher: TBD
Since the explosion of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements in late 2017, gendered and sexual violence have never been more visible, discussed, and debated in Western culture. While a survey of recent television and film texts might demonstrate a related shift in how some stories of sexual violence are told, these texts do not necessarily represent a shift in the power structures of media production, the demographics of those telling such stories, or even a more nuanced understanding of rape and rape culture (Byrne & Toddeo, 2019; Jermyn, 2017; Pinedo, 2019).
As Sarah Projansky so powerfully argued in her classic text /Watching Rape /(2001), the media is a site in which ideas about sexual violence are not only reflected but, also, socially and culturally constructed. The recent growth in feminist scholarship on sexual and gendered violence in the media (Boyle, 2019; Clarke, 2014; Horeck, 2018; Joy, 2019; Magestro, 2015; Oliver, 2016; Phillips, 2016) points to a growing understanding of the relationship between rape culture and culture more broadly. However, such an understanding seems to have little effect on the amount of dead or raped girls showing up on our screens. In fact, the trope of the victimized young woman is more popular than ever, mobilized in a range of contemporary, “post-television” texts spanning a variety of genres, including shows such as /Game of Thrones/,/Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt/, /You/, /The Fall/, /Thirteen Reasons Why/, /Unbelievable/,/Outlander/, and /The Handmaid’s Tale/.
Furthermore, while these shows may represent a more diverse view of gendered violence in Western popular culture, they are still centered on the victimization of white, middle class, able-bodied, heteronormative women. Feminist media scholarship has, thus far, reflected this preoccupation, demonstrating few extended engagements with representations of gendered and sexual violence against women who are at the margins of Western society (notable exceptions include Moorti, 2001, Abdurraqib, 2017, Millward, Dodd, and Fubara-Manuel, 2017).
The following edited collection seeks to fill this gap by examining representations of violence against girls or women that are currently missing from the conversation. This collection will work the margins for those subjects whose victimization is forgotten or erased in mainstream representations of and/or scholarship about sexual and gendered violence.
Topics for chapters can include (but are not limited to):
Instructions for Submission:
Please submit an abstract (maximum 300 words) along with a title, author bio(s), and keywords (up to five) via email to Stephanie Patrick at spatr045@uottawa.ca by April 1 , 2020.
Authors will be notified of their selection by May 1^st , 2020 and, once chapters have been selected, a press will be solicited.
University Leipzig
Within an internationally renowned team, we are looking to hire a Postdoc to harness the possibilities afforded by AI to help local journalism. While applying, you may choose to be based at LMU Munich (with Neil Thurman), the University of Amsterdam (with Natali Helberger), the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (with Wouter van Atteveldt), or Leipzig University (with Mario Haim).
Journalism is going through challenging times, with the decline of trust in institutional journalism, the competitive pressure of free online news, and the emergence of decentralized gate-keeping through social media and news aggregators. Journalism has adapted to the digital ecosystem, where algorithms and AI direct audience traffic and help determine revenue, with differing degrees of success. Large, national news companies, such as The Guardian and The New York Times, have been able to adapt, and leverage technology to reach a global audience. For local (and regional) news providers it has been much more difficult to remain innovative and sustainable because of the inherently limited local market and a lack of resources. Moreover, many of the innovations powering the modern news ecosystem, such as automatic curation and news algorithms for personalized news delivery, are fuelling concerns about filter bubbles and polarization.
This postdoc position is part of a project to harness the possibilities afforded by AI to help local journalism cope with these challenges, while taking the journalistic norms and values that are central to its role in democratic societies as a central design principle. The project is an interdisciplinary, international cooperation between Professor Neil Thurman (LMU Munich), a renowned expert on the adoption and implications of computational journalism; Professor Helle Sjovaag (U of Stavanger), an expert on journalism and the media industry; Professor Natali Helberger (U of Amsterdam) an expert on media law and value sensitive design; Junior Professor Mario Haim (U of Leipzig), an expert in communication science and computational journalism; Dr Antske Fokkens (VU Amsterdam) an associate professor of computational linguistics; and Dr Wouter van Atteveldt, (VU Amsterdam) an associate professor of communication science and computational communication science.
Together with this team of PIs, the tasks of the postdoc will be to:
The successful candidate will have:
Note: the position may involve travelling.
Full-time, fixed term (12 months) position based at LMU Munich, the University of Amsterdam, the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam or Leipzig University. Starting October 2020. If based at LMU Munich or Leipzig University salary scale E 13 TV-L (€3837 - €5622 per month depending on experience). If based at the University of Amsterdam or Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam salary scale 10-11 (€2709 - €4911 depending on experience). Schwerbehinderte Personen werden bei ansonsten im Wesentlichen gleicher Eignung bevorzugt.
Your application (in English only) should include:
Please also include a link to sole or first authored publication/s and your Master’s or PhD thesis. Complete applications should be submitted as a single PDF document to: ai-in-local-journalism@haim.it by 15 May 2020.
In case of questions, please contact Jun.-Prof. Dr. Mario Haim.
June 3-5, 2021
Paris 3 - Sorbonne nouvelle
Deadline: September 30, 2020
This is the first conference ever organized on the theme of Artificial Intelligence in fiction (literature, series, films, comics, video games): the focus will be on representations of AI and their meanings, as well as the creative uses of AI to produce and understand fiction.
A road trip entirely written by an artificial intelligence embedded in a car, Ross Goodwin's /1 the road/ has joined at the start of the 2019 literary season a whole series of texts whose common point was to stage and act out a dream of automation and artificialization of literary language, whose genealogy goes back at least to the first automatic writings of Oulipo: artificial intelligence is no longer just a fiction but a tool for producing fiction. Hito Steyerl revisits the narrative power of documentary film using deep learning algorithms to better question its ability to shape reality; /Second Earth /by Gregory Chatonsky takes us into a new world whose automatically generated images already tell the story, while by associating two images to a logical connector he shows the power of an algorithm to create a small story (/If... then/, 2009).
Embodied in figures, familiar, AI now offers incarnations that cannot be resolved on the apocalyptic horizon of robots waiting for the hour of singularity to triumph over the human species. AI is no longer just the object of a fantasy but is gradually becoming an everyday tool through facial recognition or personal assistants, while the first tools of predictive writing and cultural recommendation are emerging and it is announced that a story produced by an artificial intelligence would have been a finalist for a literary prize in Japan. We already knew the very rich mythology of AI in cinema, from 2001's /Odyssey of Space to Spielberg's /A.I. Artificial Intelligence/, via /Terminator /or /Her/: each time, the political, ethical and social stakes of AI open up avenues for deep critical reflection and question the most essential
philosophical categories by which we think about mankind and our place
in the world. But AI is now taking on a concrete presence.
/Databiographie /by Charly Delwart proposes to retrace a destiny based on digital data and their visualisations; /Le_zéro_et_le_un.txt /by Josselin Bordat tries to stage an artificial intelligence in the process of awakening to the world, /Kétamine /by Zoé Sagan sets a scene of a "predictive" journalist centred on data: never have we been so close to artificial agents that are integrated into our lives.
Moving from fantasy to computer tools, the fictional representations of AI are thus added to the fictional representations of the emerging uses of narrative AI by opening up a field of opportunity and fear for culture: on the one hand, creation by AI or assisted by AI can offer a major experimental field of interest to both conceptual writers and storytelling practitioners.
On the other hand, the way in which culture is "dated" and the way in which these dates are analyzed can profoundly affect the fiction industry and its attention control, further multiplying our perplexity about the emergence of artificial narrative intelligence.
Contributors are invited to consider one or other of these topics:
The conference will take place at the Maison de la recherche of the University of Paris 3 - Sorbonne nouvelle, Maison de la recherche, 3 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris, from 3 to 5 June 2021.
Proposals in English or French (1 page + 1 short bio-bibliography) should be sent to ia.fiction.2021@gmail.com before 30 September 2020
Conference organized by Alexandre Gefen ((CNRS/Paris 3) with Marida di Crosta (Marge, Université de Lyon III), Ksenia Ermoshina (CNRS, Centre Internet et Société), Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel (University of Geneva), Léa-Saint-Raymond (ENS).
Abstract submission deadline: April 15, 2020
Full chapters due: October 15, 2020
Editors: Ehab Galal, Mostafa Shehata and Claus Valling Pedersen
The pace of immigration from the Middle East has accelerated over the past decade, and for many reasons. The most notable of these is the political instability triggered by the failure of the 2011 Arab uprisings. The region has also seen significant political transformations in addition to these pivotal uprisings, such as the 2009 Iranian Green revolution, the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt, and the continuing Kurdish and Palestinian struggles for independence.
2019 presents the rebirth of Arab uprisings in some other countries (Sudan, Algeria, Lebanon and Iraq), and the acceleration of political and economic oppression in others. There are many Iranian towns which are experiencing new waves of demonstrations, and, in Turkey, new laws have been passed to stabilise the regime after the coup d'état attempt. The possibility of yet another rise in immigration to Western countries and elsewhere has therefore increased, adding to the importance of diasporic communities. Based on this premise, we invite researchers to examine the role and influence of Middle Eastern diasporic communities on the political developments in their countries of heritage and of residence.
These diasporic communities, in light of post-uprising authoritarianism, have acted as opposition groups which seek to support a democratic transition in their countries of heritage. The role of digital media has consequently been with their countries of heritage and of residence. The political role of digital media in the Middle Eastern diaspora, however, has become increasingly ambivalent. Contesting the authoritarian rule of Middle East countries, on the one hand, and the rise of fake news, misinformation, and digital authoritarianism on the other, has had an impact on the oppositional role of digital media.
The impending new decade presents the need for an empirical-based theorisation of how political communication works in diaspora, and its influence on transnational mobilisation has become more urgent. The importance of this work increases in light of four significant considerations:
(i) The change of digital media’s political role within the last few years, compared to its intense role in the early 2010s.
(ii) The rise of new voices calling for democracy in the Middle East in the so-called second wave of the Arab uprisings.
(iii) The lack of holistic works that theorise political communication in diaspora, and its transnational influence. The diaspora has mainly been investigated from an inter-cultural communication perspective, focusing on globalisation, hybridity, integration, belonging, and so on. An embodied political communication perspective has, however, been disregarded. This perspective would be unique if followed, to handle the diaspora’s transnational political participation, contentious politics, political campaigns, voting behaviour, and so on.
(iv) The transformations of global immigration policies that have led to a conflict between pro-and-anti-immigration positions.
We invite authors to suggest chapters for two kinds of contributions:
Research questions
This book asks fundamental and critical questions about media (both traditional and new) and politics in the diaspora, such as:
Topics
Contributions include but are not limited to the following topics:
Format
This edited book will be a combination of invited contributions and chapters from this open call.
The book will be published, subject to peer reviews with no author fees.
TIMETABLE
MORE INFORMATION & CONTACT DETAILS
Please send your abstract of approx. 500 words to this email: mediasp@hum.ku.dk by 15 April 2020.
Book editors
1. Dr. Ehab Galal
Ehab is an Associate Professor at the department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, Copenhagen University. He has approached research questions from a cross-disciplinary perspective inspired by media as well as ethnographic, cultural, and religious studies. He has been leading a research team working on a project (Mediatised Diaspora) since 2018. This research investigates transnational media and contentious politics among the Arab diaspora in Europe. For more information about Ehab, please follow this link: https://ccrs.ku.dk/staff/?pure=en/persons/164164
2. Dr. Mostafa Shehata
Mostafa is an Associate Researcher with the University of Copenhagen, and an Assistant Professor at Menoufia University. He holds both a Master’s and Ph.D. degree in mass communication. His research addresses a broad spectrum of issues in political communication and diaspora, such as contentious politics, collective action and mediatisation. His current research within the project of Mediatised Diaspora focuses on the transnational media and contentious politics among Tunisians in Europe. For more information about Mostafa, please follow this link: https://ccrs.ku.dk/staff/?pure=en/persons/644713
3. Dr. Claus Valling Pedersen
Claus is an Associate Professor in Persian Studies at the department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, Copenhagen University. He specialises in Persian language and literature. Claus is currently conducting research on literature written by the Iranian diaspora in Europe and the U.S. The literature is written in both Persian and the language of the country of residence. For more information about Claus, please follow this link: https://ccrs.ku.dk/staff/?pure=en/persons/165592
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