ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

January 27 - February 6, 2020

Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

Deadline: January 13, 2020

Digital Media Winter Institute has annually gathered a network of international researchers, with different backgrounds and expertise, interested in doing investigations from the perspective of digital methods. New media researchers, journalists, developers, data designers, digital methods experts, sociologists, data scientists and more are meeting in Lisbon to work and improve their skills, in theory, practice and critique of digital methods.

The program of #DMWI2020 brings the fourth edition of #SMARTDataSprint with an international program: keynotes and practical labs by Tommaso Venturini (médialab of Sciences Po Paris) and Bernhard Rieder (University of Amsterdam). His keynote talk and practical labs are going to explore visual network analysis. Rieder is an associate professor in New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam and a researcher at the Digital Methods Initiative. He will give a keynote on mapping value(s) in artificial intelligence (AI).

In the first week of DMWI, from 27 to 31 January 2020, participants from around the world will come to Lisbon to attend keynote lectures, short talks, parallel sessions of practical labs and join applied research projects. Experts and scholars will invite participants to work collectively on issues involving internet memes and platform censorship, Anti-Feminist and Anti-LGBT Discourses, Method maps and Cross-Platform Digital Networks. Other opportunities for hands-on experimentation with methods are on the schedule with the following practical labs:

• YouTube Research & Ranking Culture
• Charting Collections of Connections in Social Media: Creating Maps and Measures with NodeXL
• Gephi for beginners
• How to work with spreadsheets
• Shaping questions for Trends Studies through Digital Methods
• Raw Graphs for data exploratory analysis
• Data mining and visualisation with R
• Getting to know data extraction + text analysis tools
• Visual Network Analysis
• Building Image-hashtag Networks
• Visual social media analysis
• Studying visual social media through Vision APIs
• Data Beautification
• Natural language processing tools for data analysis and extraction
• When DataViz is ugly

To participate in the SMART Data Sprint 2020 is necessary to submit an application, until January 13, and pay the attendee fee. Also scheduled for the Digital Media Winter Institute 2020, from February 3 to 6, the workshop "Tracking, visualizing and accounting for the networks of (dis-)information with the web crawler Hyphe", taught by Mathieu Jacomy will be promoted. Jacomy is a techno-anthropologist at the University of Aalborg, TANTLab, a former researcher engineer at médialab of Sciences Po Paris and co-founder of Gephi software. The proposal of the workshop is to study and apply the Hyphe webcrawler and understand both information and misinformation issues on the web. Participation in the workshop also requires prior registration by January 20, 2020.

Application #SMARTDataSprint: http://bit.ly/SMARTdatasprint2020

Application deadline: January 13, 2020

Application Workshop Tracking, visualizing and accounting for the networks of (dis-)information with the web crawler Hyphe: http://bit.ly/DMWI-HypheWorkshop

Application deadline: January 20, 2020

Complete info: http://smart.inovamedialab.org

Special Issue of Brazilian Journalism Research

Deadline: January 31, 2020

Guest editors: Tania Cantrell Rosas-Moreno (Loyola University Maryland, US), Rita

Basílio de Simões (Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal), and Salvador de León Vázquez (Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, México)

This Special Issue of Brazilian Journalism Research will look at the relationship between journalism and trafficking. Trafficking is a rather complex phenomenon which comprises arms trafficking, drug trafficking and human trafficking. All three top the world’s criminal enterprises, with drug trafficking taking the number one slot, human trafficking taking third, and small arms following not too far behind. In great expansion, human trafficking umbrellas sex, labor, organ and child trafficking, or the illegal adoption of children. Trafficking is no respecter of persons; it can affect the young/old, rich/poor, educated/illiterate, Global North citizen/Global South citizen, etc.

Media – in particular news coverage – contribute toward shaping public understanding and opinion on societal issues. They also influence (inter)national policies, programs, and legislative action.

This special issue explores the range of ways that media, broadly construed, are connected with all facets of trafficking. How might media be influencing trafficking legislation? How might it be affecting victims? Perpetrators? What effect has journalism coverage of trafficking had on the crime? In what ways might media representations of trafficking be legitimating or challenging different kinds of power imbalances and social hierarchies based on gender, class or race?

Contributors may choose to look at different types of news media, i.e. newspapers, TV, radio, online, etc., and use quantitative and qualitative data. Submissions that are theoretical, empirical, critical, comparative or applied, and which represent a wide range of conceptual and methodological approaches relevant to a focus on media and domestic and/or transnational trafficking are welcome. While a comparative approach to journalism in the context of trafficking is not compulsory for inclusion, it is strongly encouraged.

Contributors are invited to focus on the following issues:

Journalism and:

• Trafficking legislation
• Trafficking victim recovery
• Trafficking prevention
• Trafficking prosecution
• Trafficking victim protection
• Trafficking representations
• Trafficking and social power imbalances

To be considered, articles must be submitted by January 31 2020.The length of texts must be between 40 000 and 55 000 characters with spaces.

As the Brazilian Journalism Research publishes two versions of each article (Portuguese/Spanish and English), the authors of accepted papers submitted in Portuguese or Spanish must provide a translation into English. Likewise, the articles submitted and accepted in English must provide a translation into Portuguese or Spanish. A selected number of accepted papers from non-Portuguese or Spanish speaking contexts will be eligible for translation services provided by the journal.

Articles should be sent exclusively through the electronic system SEER / OJS, available from the journal website: http://bjr.sbpjor.org.br

If you have any questions, send an e-mail to bjr@gmail.com

Guidelines for authors: http://bjr.sbpjor.org.br/bjr/aboutsubmissions#authorGuidelines

Deadlines:

• Submission of papers: until January 31th 2020
• Notification of acceptance: April 30th 2020
• Delivery of final versions in English and Portuguese or Spanish and with revision and additional information suggested by the editors: June 30th 2020
• Publication: August 2020

March 12-13, 2020

Leipzig, Germany

Deadline: January 8, 2020

International Workshop 

The Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA) in cooperation with the Institute of Oriental Studies, University of Leipzig is pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the international and interdisciplinary Workshop ‘Media Representations of Law and Justice: Middle Eastern Perspectives’ in Germany at the Institute of Oriental Studies, University of Leipzig, 12−13 March 2020.

Law and/in popular culture has been an emerging field of research (at least) since the 1980s. Its initial prominence was primarily limited to North America – the main hub of popular legal culture which, through various kinds of movies and television shows, impinged on what people generally believe about law and legal institutions. By now, the interrelation of law and popular culture has made its way into European legal academia. In addition, transnational comparative studies on how law and justice are portrayed in movies and fictional television dramas have been conducted, providing additional insight for both scholars of law and media studies.

At the same time, the law and/in popular culture discourse has been largely restricted to Europe and North America. Research usually centers on ‘Western’ legal culture and its cinematic/televised representations. Oftentimes, non-‘Western’ legal traditions and systems are only portrayed as supposed counter-examples to the liberal state under the rule of law that is promoted in dominant popular culture.

The AGYA workshop on ‘Media Representations of Law and Justice: Middle Eastern Perspectives’ moves away from this established regional focus by including Middle Eastern legal regimes and their respective local media depictions. We particularly invite contributions on Arabic-language cinematic and television formats (including those on more recent streaming services and social media sites) screening legal system in either contemporary or historical perspective. We also welcome papers on legal dramas from neighboring countries in the ‘Greater Middle East’, as well as comparative studies to allow for broader transnational perspectives. By enabling a conversation not only between different regional sites of media production, but also among various disciplines, a range of analytical methods will be tested and employed to analyze the means and ends to which a legal system is portrayed in popular formats.

Topics, themes, and issues to be explored include, but are not confined to the following:

• Cultural representations of domestic legal systems and legal traditions in contemporary courtroom dramas;
• The political framework in which legal dramas are produced and its impact on both content and format;
• Audiences, viewers, and their changing perceptions of the law;
• The impact of satellite TV and online streaming services on legal dramas, their production, and content;
• Plots, characters, and sociopolitical critique in legal dramas.

The workshop is organized by AGYA member Lena-Maria Möller (Institute of Oriental Studies, University of Leipzig/Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg) and AGYA alumna Hanan Badr (Institute for Media and Communication Studies, Freie Universität Berlin). Travel costs and accommodation for confirmed speakers will be covered by AGYA. Funding is still subject to approval.

Those interested in presenting papers are invited to send a tentative title, an abstract of around 300-500 words, and a short biography to:

Lena-Maria Möller (moeller@mpipriv.de) by 8 January 2020.

Notifications of acceptance will be announced by 15 January 2020 and draft papers will be due by 15 February 2020. The workshop language will be English. The organizers aim to publish the papers either as an edited volume or as a special issue of an academic journal.

About AGYA

The Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA) is based at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) and at the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT) in Egypt. It was established in 2013 and is the first bilateral young academy worldwide. AGYA promotes research cooperation among outstanding early-career researchers from all disciplines who are affiliated with a research institution in Germany or in any Arab country. The academy supports the innovative projects of its members in various fields of research as well as in science policy and education. Currently, 50 members – in equal number Arab and German scholars – realize joint projects and initiatives. AGYA is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and various Arab cooperation partners.

For more information about AGYA and the Institute of Oriental Studies, University of Leipzig please visit:

www.agya.info

www.orient.uni-leipzig.de

March 19, 2020

Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway

Deadline: January 15, 2020

“There is a growing global consensus that the secrecy-havens—jurisdictions which undermine global standards for corporate and financial transparency—pose a global problem: they facilitate both money laundering and tax avoidance and evasion, contributing to crime and unacceptably high levels of global wealth inequality.” (Joseph E. Stiglitz and Mark Pieth)

Secrecy mechanisms and facilitators of illicit financial flows hamper public understanding of financial markets. As a result, cross border investigative journalism has become vital in order to build public understanding of the consequences of secrecy in financial markets. However, investigative journalists researching illicit financial flows face a number of challenges. We wish to explore what can be done to facilitate investigative journalism of illicit financial flows.

This is the fourth research conference in the series “Making Transparency Possible - Interdisciplinary dialogues”. The conference invites research papers for a special session on investigative journalism and hindrances and threats investigative journalists face when researching and revealing illicit financial flows.

Confirmed speakers:

Nicholas Lord is a Professor of Criminology. He joined the University of Manchester in September 2013 and teaches in the areas of white-collar and corporate crimes, financial and economic crimes, serious and organized crimes, and criminological research. Nicholas has primary research interests in white-collar and corporate crimes of a financial and economic nature, such as fraud, corruption and bribery, as well as the organization of serious crimes for financial gain, such as 'organized crime' and food fraud.

Tina Søreide is Professor of Law and Economics, NHH. Her research is focused on corruption, governance, markets and development, currently with an emphasis on law enforcement. At NHH, she teaches courses in business ethics, corruption and governance, coordinates a student mobility program in anti-corruption with schools in Ukraine and Georgia, and organizes a research program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement.

Kalle Moene is a Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Oslo. He is the head of ESOP (a center for the study of Equality, Social Organization, and Performance). His research interest is the study of inequality in income and wealth in rich and poor countries. A core interest is the role of economic development, institutions, unions and welfare states. He was a lead author in the International Panel of Social Progress. He has published widely in international journals and received the Fridtjof Nansen Prize for excellent research in 2016.

Bradley Birkenfeld is a whistle-blower and former international banker and wealth manager who worked with the Swiss investment bank UBS. UBS enabled wealthy Americans to hide wealth due to Switzerland’s banking secrecy laws and to avoid paying tax in the US. In 2007, Birkenfeld became a whistle-blower. He later obtained the largest whistle-blower reward ever given to an individual whistle-blower for reporting IRS Tax Fraud.

Simon Bendtsen is a Danish journalist with the newspaper Berlingske Tidende. Bendtsen helped expose the Danske Bank money laundering scandal. The bank is currently under investigation for channeling 234 billion dollars through an affiliate in Estonia.

Linda Larsson Kakuli and Axel Humlesjö investigated and helped revealed the so-called Sewdbank money laundering scandal for Uppdrag Granskning (Swedish SVT). The bank is currently under criminal investigation for channeling around 40 billion Swedish kroner through affiliates in Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia.

Ingi Freyr Vilhjálmsson is a journalist at Stundin, a media platform for investigative journalism financed through crowdfunding, subscriptions and public support. In 2019, Vilhjálmsson revealed how “an Icelandic fishing company bribed officials in Namibia and used Norway's largest bank to transfer 70 million dollars to a tax haven”.

Roar Østby, head of compliance in the Norwegian bank DnB.

Lars Erik Bolstad is a data scientist and expert on artificial intelligence in the Norwegian bank DnB.

Gunnar Holm Ringen is responsible for fraud prevention services and legal services in PwC Forensics Oslo and works extensively with accounting investigations. He has worked as a senior public prosecutor in the National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime (ØKOKRIM) and as a police inspector on the police force, and has extensive experience in the investigation, prosecution and litigation of serious cases related to most forms of financial irregularities. He has also been a district court judge.

The organizers seek paper presentations based on on-going research. We particularly welcome original, high-quality papers that can deepen our understanding of the following questions:

• What information hindrances do investigative journalists investigating illicit financial flows face?
• What type of threats/pressures/dangers/risks do investigative journalists face when investigating illicit financial flows?
• What do journalists and journalist organisations do to protect investigative journalists facing threats/pressures/dangers/risks when investigating illicit financial flows?

Other relevant topics are also welcome.

We have a limited number of scholarships available to cover direct costs for travel/hotel. Priority will be given to researchers from Latin America, Africa, The Middle East and Asia.

Abstracts and applications for scholarships have to be submitted before January 15th 2020. Please submit a one-page paper abstract together with a short CV of no more than two pages. Please send to conference@pwyp.no

The conference is organized by the research project Making Transparency Possible at Oslo Metropolitan University and financed by The Research Council of Norway.

May 1, 2020

University of Nottingham, UK

Deadline: February 14, 2020

https://digitalcultureconference.wordpress.com/

A one-day conference hosted by the Digital Culture Research Network, and supported by the Midlands4Cities DTP (M4C) Cohort Development Fund

The Digital Culture Research Network is pleased to open the call for papers for our third annual conference: ‘Digital⇌Culture 2020’.

This year’s theme of ‘Boundaries’ encompasses the varied means by which digital technologies challenge, perpetuate or instantiate margins and limits. Despite the potential to transform notions of accessibility, the embodied realities of digital culture are subject to geopolitical, cultural, or ethical limitations. Digital platforms create new avenues for self-representation, and the boundary between our digital selves and our embodied selves ‘IRL’ are becoming increasingly porous (if they were ever really separate at all). The public/private binary is blurred: these identities can be censored by the platform or the state, and have their data privacy violated. In the era of the “long tail,” concepts of cultural fringes or margins are becoming problematized and objects of academic study shun any designation as “high” or “low” culture. The field of digital cultures also presents new challenges to researchers’ ethical boundaries.

Submission

For this one-day conference, we invite researchers from a diverse range of disciplines, particularly those early in their careers, to present theoretical and empirical research related, but not limited, to the following topics:

• Geopolitical contexts of digital technologies
• Methodological and ethical challenges posed by digital culture research
• Data privacy and digital surveillance
• Creative practice and/in digital technologies
• Moderation, censorship and regulation of the Internet
• Identity and its digital mediations
• Embodiment and the Digital
• Digital trash, junk and rubbish
• Changing digital research practice

In order to encourage proposals from doctoral researchers, up to 12 joint-travel/accommodation grants are available to be awarded to successful proposals. Further details below.

Submissions should follow the format below and be submitted to digitalcultureconference@gmail.com by 23:00 GMT on Friday 14th February 2020.

• Paper Title
• Speaker Name
• Speaker Contact Email
• Abstract (up to 250 words outlining the paper's main arguments, methods, and relevance to the conference theme)
• Speaker Biography (up to 100 words)
• Keywords (3 terms relevant to the paper)

Funding

This year, we are pleased to offer the following grant opportunities:

A. 10 grants of one night’s accommodation and £50 towards travel

This grant is open to all doctoral applicants, but at least five of the grants are reserved for non-M4C-funded applicants based at one of the DTP’s eight institutions:

• University of Nottingham
• Nottingham Trent University
• Birmingham City University
• University of Birmingham
• De Montfort University
• University of Leicester
• University of Warwick
• Coventry University

Those currently funded by M4C are not eligible to apply for this grant.

B. 2 grants of one night’s accommodation and £100 towards travel

These two grants are specifically reserved for international researchers in order to facilitate them with the higher cost of coming from abroad to present a paper at the conference.

Both grants will only be offered to doctoral students whose papers have been accepted for the conference.

If you wish to apply for a grant, please complete a Grant Application Form (available at http://bit.ly/digitalculturegrant) and submit it with your abstract. Grants will be awarded on the basis of the conference organising committee’s collective consideration of submitted applications.

 May, 12, 2020

Palais du Pharo, Marseille, France

Submission Deadline: January 20, 2019

Website: https://www.clarin.eu/ParlaCLARIN-II

Submission page: will be communicated by December 20, 2019

Workshop Description

Parliamentary data is a major source of socially relevant content. It is available in ever larger quantities, is multilingual, accompanied by rich metadata, and has the distinguishing characteristic that it is spoken language produced in controlled circumstances which has traditionally been transcribed but is now increasingly released also in audio and video formats. All these factors require solutions related to structuring, synchronization, visualization, querying and analysis of parliamentary corpora. Furthermore, approaches to the exploitation of parliamentary corpora to their full extent also have to take into account the needs of researchers from vastly different Humanities and Social Sciences fields, such as political sciences, sociology, history, and psychology.

A successful first edition of the ParlaCLARIN scientific workshop held at LREC 2018 (https://www.clarin.eu/ParlaCLARIN) and a follow-up developmental ParlaFormat workshop held by CLARIN ERIC in 2019 (https://www.clarin.eu/event/2019/parlaformat-workshop) resulted in a good overview of the multitude of the existing parliamentary resources worldwide as well as tangible first steps towards better harmonization, interoperability and comparability of the resources and tools relevant for the study of parliamentary discussions and decisions.

The second ParlaCLARIN workshop therefore aims to bring together developers, curators and researchers of regional, national and international parliamentary debates that are suitable for research in disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences. We invite unpublished original work focusing on the compilation, annotation, visualisation and utilisation of parliamentary records as well as linking or comparing parliamentary records with other datasets of political discourse such as party manifestos, political speeches, political campaign debates, social media posts, etc. Apart from dissemination of the results, the workshop also aims to address the identified obstacles, discuss open issues and coordinate future efforts in this increasingly trans-national and cross-disciplinary community.

Objective

Due to the Freedom of Information Acts that are supported by the United Nations and set in place in over 100 countries worldwide, parliamentary debates are being increasingly easy to obtain, and have always been of interest to researchers from a wide range fields in Humanities and Social Sciences both for the potential influence of their content, and the specificities of the formalized, often persuasive and emotional language use in this context. As a consequence, there are many initiatives, on the national and international levels, that aim at compiling and analysing parliamentary data. The recent CLARIN-PLUS survey on parliamentary data has identified over 20 corpora of parliamentary records, with over half of them being available within the CLARIN infrastructure (https://www.clarin.eu/resource-families/parliamentary-corpora).

Given the maturity, variety, and potential of this type of language data as well as the rich metadata it is complemented with, it is urgent to gather researchers both from the side of those producing parliamentary corpora and making them available, those making use of them for linguistic, historical, political, sociological etc. research as well as those linking or comparing them with other datasets of political discourse such as party manifestos, political speeches, political campaign debates, social media posts, etc. in order to share methods and approaches of compiling, annotating and exploring parliamentary and other political language data in order to achieve harmonization of the compiled resources, and to ensure current and future comparability of research on national datasets as well as promote transnational analyses.

Topics of interest

Topics include but are not limited to:

• Creation and annotation of parliamentary data in textual, spoken and video format
• Annotation standards and best practices for parliamentary corpora
• Accessibility, querying and visualisation of parliamentary data
• Text analytics, semantic processing and linking of parliamentary and other datasets of political language data
• Parliamentary corpora and multilinguality
• Studies based on parliamentary corpora
• Studies comparing parliamentary corpora with other types of political discourse

Submission & Publication

We accept submission of long papers (up to 8 pages), short papers (up to 4 pages) and demo papers (up to 4 pages) to be presented as a long or short oral presentation at the workshop. The papers of the workshop will be published in online proceedings.

When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones). For contact data, stylesheets, up-to-date details on submission and the workshop itself, please consult the workshop website.

Submission page: will be communicated by 20 December 2019

Important Dates

• - Paper submission deadline: 14 February 2020
• - Notification of acceptance: 13 March 2020
• - Camera-ready paper: 2 April 2020
• - Workshop date: 12 May 2020

Organizing Committee

• Darja Fišer, University of Ljubljana and Jožef Stefan Institute
• Franciska de Jong, CLARIN ERIC
• Maria Eskevich, CLARIN ERIC

The workshop is supported by the CLARIN research infrastructure.

To contact the organizers, please mail clarin@clarin.eu (Subject: [ParlaCLARIN@LREC2020]).

Programme Committee (in alphabetical order)

• Bente Maegaard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Francesca Frontini, Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier, France
• Henk van den Heuvel, Radboud University, The Netherlands
• Jan Odijk, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
• Kaspar Beelen, The Alan Turing Institute, UK
• Klaus Illmayer, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
• Laura Morales, Sciences Po, France
• Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
• Maria Gavriilidou, ILSP/Athena RC, Greece
• Maria Pontiki, ILSP/Athena RC, Greece
• Monica Monachini, National Research Council of Italy, Italy
• Petya Osenova, IICT-BAS and Sofia University "St. Kl. Ohridski", Bulgaria
• Sara Tonelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
• Simone Paolo Ponzetto, University of Mannheim, Germany
• Stelios Piperidis, ILSP/Athena RC, Greece
• Tamás Váradi, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
• Tanja Wissik, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
• Tomaž Erjavec, Jožef Stefan Institute

Identify, Describe and Share your LRs!

Describing your LRs in the LRE Map is now standard practice in the submission procedure of LREC (introduced in 2010 and adopted by other conferences). To continue the efforts initiated at LREC 2014 about “Sharing LRs” (data, tools, web-services, etc.), authors will have the possibility, when submitting a paper, to upload LRs in a special LREC repository. This effort of sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their description, may become a new “regular” feature for conferences in our field, thus contributing to creating a common repository where everyone can deposit and share data.

As scientific work requires accurate citations of referenced work so as to allow the community to understand the whole context and also replicate the experiments conducted by other researchers, LREC 2020 endorses the need to uniquely Identify LRs through the use of the International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN, www.islrn.org), a Persistent Unique Identifier to be assigned to each Language Resource. The assignment of ISLRNs to LRs cited in LREC papers will be offered at submission time.

University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

Deadline: February 17, 2020

Website: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/472386

RESEARCH FIELD

• Communication sciences › Audiovisual communication
• Communication sciences › Media studies
• Communication sciences › Other
• Communication sciences › Science communication

RESEARCHER PROFILE

• Recognised Researcher (R2)
• Established Researcher (R3)

TYPE OF CONTRACT: Temporary

JOB STATUS: Full-time

HOURS PER WEEK: 37,5

OFFER STARTING DATE: 01/09/2020

The Department of Communication at Pompeu Fabra University has begun a selection process to cover a temporary contract of 5 years of full-time teaching for a professional with a teaching and research profile in Interactive Communication. Upon submitting the application, applicants must present proof of their PhD qualification as well as excellent research potential, with internationally disseminated publications, and the ability to teach and coordinate university teaching.

Financial conditions include a gross annual salary of approximately €38,000, plus initial funding of approximately €20,000 for research work.

Applicants must have a doctoral degree, preferably in one of the following areas of knowledge: audiovisual communication, information sciences, journalism, advertising and public relations or graphic design. If this qualification was obtained at UPF, candidates must demonstrate academic dissociation of 24 months from the date of obtaining the degree. Furthermore, additional postgraduate training in the field of ICT, Social Sciences and Humanities will be highly valued.

The candidate must have at least 3 years of experience in research related to Interactive Communication. Also, all of the experience of the candidates in teaching and output will be evaluated. Such research and output will be especially valued if it is related to:

• Experience in devising and creating interactive products, with particular emphasis on Interactive Communication products associated with documentary, journalistic, cultural, or educational narrative.
• Experience in devising and creating experimental Interactive Communication products.
• Experience in devising and creating innovative interactive narratives.
• Experience in prototyping and developing information products or services.
• Experience in multimedia projects with special emphasis on aspects related to data visualization and interface design.
• Experience in design processes based on user experience (UX).
• Participation in international projects, dealing with research and/or production, in the areas mentioned.
• Leadership and team management skills.

The candidate must have a thorough command of the English language. In addition, knowledge of Spanish, Catalan or other languages will be positively valued.

Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) has adopted the tenure-track system to attract and retain talent. The tenure-track contract has a fixed term of five years. A year before the contract expires, the candidate will be evaluated by the Communication Department Teaching Staff Committee. If the evaluation is negative, the candidate will not be eligible to continue at the Department of Communication at UPF once their fifth year of the tenure-track contract has elapsed. However, if the evaluation is positive, the candidate may apply for a permanent position. Therefore, before the end of their tenure-track contract, the applicant must obtain accreditation from the Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency (AQU) to enable them to participate in the competition for a permanent position. Candidates can obtain further information on this procedure on the AQU website.

The evaluation criteria that will be applied to assess the candidate’s activity until their fourth year of the contract are:

• Research quality and productivity
• Research leadership
• International outreach
• Quality of the teaching given

Involvement in the running and management of the Department and/or the Dean’s office (participation on committees, etc.)

University of Bergen

The Department of Information Science and Media Studies has a vacant permanent position as Associate Professor in Journalism, oriented towards Information Technology. The position is a part of the Department’s commitment to Media City Bergen (MCB).

The Department of Information Science and Media Studies is an interdisciplinary, research-intensive academic environment consisting of research groups and study programmes within Media and Communication, Information Science, Interaction Design, TV Production and Journalism. The Department currently has 35 permanent academic positions and 25 PhD Candidates and Postdoctoral Fellows. There are approximately 1000 students enrolled in the Department’s BA and MA programmes.

MCB is an internationally leading knowledge cluster in the fields of Media Production and Media Technology. The Department is co-located with news media companies such as TV 2, NRK, Bergens Tidende and Bergensavisen, along with a wide range of leading media technology companies. Media City Bergen offers an international environment for innovation and knowledge development within media which excels on interaction between research, education and industry. The Department offers six study programmes within Media Production and Media Technology at MCB and leads several research and innovation projects. The Department manages modern facilities for TV and Media Production, including studios, mobile equipment and labs for post-production and sound. The Department hosts Centre for Investigative Journalism (SUJO).

Through the position in question, the Department seeks to strengthen competences within Journalism and Information Technology, often referred to as Computational Journalism within the discipline. Computational Journalism involves development and usage of Information Technology in collection, analysis, storytelling and dissemination of large amounts of data for journalistic purposes, besides analysis of such technologies in a journalistic context.

Work tasks/research and teaching areas:

The candidate will strengthen the Department’s research within the area of Journalism and Information Technology, predominantly undertake teaching duties at the BA programme in Journalism and MA programme in Investigative Journalism and facilitate cooperation with other study programmes at the Department. The academic environment in Journalism extensively cooperates with news media, and the candidate is expected to contribute to further develop this cooperation.

Qualifications and personal qualities:

• PhD in Journalism, Media Studies or other relevant discipline, with documented research interest in Information Technology; or
• PhD in Information Science, Informatics or other relevant discipline, with documented research interest in Journalism
• Documented ability to publish research relevant to the position on an international level
• News media experience is advantageous
• Teaching experience within relevant disciplines
• Ability to work independently and structurally, work in interdisciplinary teams and run seminars and workshops
• Proficiency in English, both written and verbal

The successful applicant must be willing and able to teach compulsory courses at both graduate and undergraduate level at the department. The teaching language will normally be Norwegian. The successful applicant must be able to teach in Norwegian or one of the other Scandinavian languages within two years of his/her appointment.

Pedagogical competence

Basic teaching training and experience in the supervision of students at university level is a requirement for the position as associate professor. This implies completed formal pedagogical training, as well as basic skills in planning, implementation, evaluation and development of teaching and supervision. Relevant courses in combination with actual teaching experience could replace a university pedagogy program. Should the successful applicant not have such competence at the time of appointment, he/she will be required to document such training within two years of the date of appointment.

Pedagogical training must be documented in a pedagogical portfolio which should include a documented overview of pratical experience and competence as well as a brief reflection statement. The statement should primarily describe the applicant’s own teaching philosophy and an evaluation of own teaching in relation to his/her knowledge of students’ learning at a higher education level.

We can offer:

• A good and professionally challenging working environment.
• Salary at pay grade 68 - 75 (code 1011/ Pay range 24) in the state salary scale. This currently amounts to an annual salary of NOK 615 900 - 704 900 before taxes. Further increase in salary will depend on seniority. A higher salary may be considered for a particularly well qualified applicant.
• Enrolment in the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund
• Good welfare benefits
• The city of Bergen - a welcoming and well-connected European city with a unique mix of vibrant life and extraordinary nature

Your application must include:

• A cover-letter indicating motivation for applying as well as a summary of planned research activities and initiatives
• CV
• Five publications to be considered in the assessment, with information about where this work was published. The evaluation of the applicant’s scientific work will focus primarily on research published the last five years
• Complete list of publications
• Declarations of co-authorships
• Pedagogical portfolio
• Certified copies of diplomas and certificates
• The contact details of two references
• The application and appendices with certified translations into English or a Scandinavian language must be uploaded at Jobbnorge.no.

General information:

Detailed information about the position can be obtained by contacting: Head of department Leif Ove Larsen, email leif.larsen@uib.no phone +47 55 58 41 16

Practical questions about the application process should be directed to Adviser HR, Bodil Hægland, email bodil.hagland@uib.no

The state labour force shall reflect the diversity of Norwegian society to the greatest extent possible. People with immigrant backgrounds and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply

We encourage women to apply. If multiple applicants have approximately equivalent qualifications, the rules pertaining to moderate gender quotas shall apply

The University of Bergen applies the principle of public access to information when recruiting staff for academic positions.

Information about applicants may be made public even if the applicant has asked not to be named on the list of persons who have applied. The applicant must be notified if the request to be omitted is not met.

For further information about the recruitment process, click here.

About The University of Bergen

The University of Bergen is a renowned educational and research institution, organised into seven faculties and approximately 54 institutes and academic centres. Campus is located in the centre of Bergen with university areas at Nygårdshøyden, Haukeland, Marineholmen, Møllendalsveien and Årstad.

July 22-24, 2020

Jagiellonian University, Poland

Deadline: February 29, 2019

Individual paper and panel contributions are welcomed for the ninth annual international conference of the European Popular Culture Association (EPCA), to be held at Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland, July 22nd – 24th, 2020.

EUPOP 2020 will explore European popular culture in all its various forms. This includes, but is by no means limited to, the following topics: Climate Change in Popular Culture, European Film (past and present), Television, Music, Costume and Performance, Celebrity, The Body, Fashion, New Media, Popular Literature and Graphic Novels, Queer Studies, Sport, Curation, and Digital Culture. We also welcome abstracts which reflect the various ways of how the idea of relationship between Europe and popular culture could be formed and how the current turmoil in European identity (e.g. the legacy of totalitarianism and fascism), union, its borders and divisions are portrayed in popular cultural themes and contents.

Papers and complete panels for all strands will be subject to peer review. Proposals for individual presentations must not exceed 20 minutes in length, and those for panels limited to 90 minutes. In the latter case, please provide a short description of the panel along with individual abstracts. Poster presentations and video projections are also warmly welcomed.

There will be opportunities for networking and publishing within the EPCA. Presenters at EUPOP 2020 will be encouraged to develop their papers for publication in a number of Intellect journals, including the EPCA’s Journal of European Popular Culture. A full list of Intellect journals is available at: https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/index/

Proposals comprising a 300-word abstract, your full name, affiliation, and contact details (as a Word-file attachment, not a PDF) should be submitted to Kari Kallioniemi (kakallio@utu.fi) by 29.02.2020. Receipt of proposals will be acknowledged via e-mail, and the decision of acceptance will be notified within two weeks of submission.

The conference draft program will be announced in May 2020, along with the conference registration and accommodation details. The likely conference fee will be 150 euros (student), and 200 euros (other). The fee includes coffees, lunches, evening reception & dinner, and EPCA Membership (includes subscription to the European Journal of Popular Culture, Intellect Press).

The keynote speakers:

• Dr Tomasz Z. Majkowski (Jagiellonian University)
• Professor Mari Pajala (University of Turku)
• Professor Małgorzata Sugiera (Jagiellonian University)
• The European Popular Culture Association

The European Popular Culture Association (EPCA) promotes the study of popular culture from, in, and about Europe. Popular culture involves a wide range of activities, material forms and audiences. EPCA aims to examine and discuss these different aspects as they relate both to Europe and to Europeans across the globe, whether contemporary or historical.

EUPOP 2020 is organised by:

European Popular Culture Association (EPCA): http://epcablog.wordpress.com/

International Institute for Popular Culture (IIPC): http://iipc.utu.fi/

Kind Regards,

• EPCA President, Kari Kallioniemi, kakallio@utu.fi
• EPCA Vice-President, Pamela Church Gibson, pamelachurchgibson@gmail.com
• EPCA Secretary, Kimi Kärki, kierka@utu.fi
• EPCA Membership Secretary, Graham Roberts, grahamroberts83@gmail.com

Local Organiser Contact:

• Anna Svetlova, annaswietlowa@gmail.com
• and Olga Grzelak, olgagrzelak@gmail.com

Bournemouth University

Deadline: January 2, 2020

Salary: Starting salary from £34,804 – £40,322 per annum (pro rata) with further progression opportunities to £44,045

Closing date: Thursday, January 2, 2020 – midnight (UK time)

Please quote reference: FMC198

Bournemouth University’s vision is worldwide recognition as a leading university for inspiring learning, advancing knowledge and enriching society through the fusion of education, research and practice. Our highly skilled and creative workforce is comprised of individuals drawn from a broad cross section of the globe, who reflect a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives and experiences that help to build our global learning community.

The Faculty of Media and Communication at Bournemouth University is one of the largest of its kind in the world and has a global reputation for combining research and teaching practice. The Faculty has an enviable reputation, having developed a popular and successful suite of media production/journalism programmes at both undergraduate and post graduate levels.

As a Lecturer in Documentary, you will be able to offer a rich and insightful understanding of the contemporary media landscape and demonstrate in-depth knowledge and professional experience in Producing and Directing Documentary.

Enthusiastic about active and student-centred pedagogy, you will contribute to education delivery, including programme management as required, across a range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, as well as offer an industry realistic understanding of the skills needed by the next generation of content makers.

You will also make a significant contribution to employability and help to further enhance the department’s professional networks.

Applications are especially welcome from, but not limited to, those with professional experience that spans documentary across Journalism, Factual and Authored.

You will be qualified to Doctorate level or be able to demonstrate the ability to create and disseminate knowledge at an equivalent level and the capability to convert this knowledge into a doctorate in a maximum of 3-5 years from the date of appointment. You will be research active and committed to a culture of academic excellence and continuous improvement.

For further information and discussion or the opportunity for an informal visit, please contact Dr Ashley Woodfall, Acting Head of Department – Media Production by email at awoodfall@bournemouth.ac.uk

BU values and is committed to an inclusive working environment. We seek a diverse community through attracting, developing and retaining staff from different backgrounds to contribute to inspirational learning, advancing knowledge and enriching society. To support and enable our staff to achieve a balance between work and their personal lives, we will also consider proposals for flexible working or job share arrangements.

Job Description & Person Specification at: https://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/sites/default/files/asset/document/JDPS%20FMC198_0.pdf