ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

June 26, 2020

Coventry University

Deadline: March 31, 2020

Organised by: MeCCSA Local and Community Media Network MeCCSA Policy Network

The landscape for local and community media is undergoing a period of rapid change in the wake of the disruption of traditional business models and the advent of diverse, entrepreneurial reactions to the spaces created. At the same time this disruption has prompted reflection by those within and without the industry as to the impact of these changes, and so to the consideration of the purposes of local media. Recent policy responses have been explored at the level of a Government-initiated review (Cairncross Review, 2019), while the BBC and the News Media Association launched their Local Democracy Reporting Service in 2017 (an initiative now seeking to expand).

This one-day interactive conference aims to capture the range of responses to this challenged environment, how those responses build on and diverge from traditional forms of local media, and to consider the implications of this to the UK context in which they operate.

The format of the day will bring together academic papers with parallel lightening ‘PetchaKucha’ sessions and interactive workshops, designed to highlight both areas of developing practice and areas for future research. Contributions from practitioners and academics are equally invited.

Areas which might be addressed include, but are not limited to, the implications of local and community media practices and policies for:

• Local democratic processes
• Social justice
• Information provision
• Local media ecosystems
• Community development
• Government policy – present and future
• The regulatory environment
• Public subsidy
• Media entrepreneurs and emerging business models
• The local media workforce
• Alternative local and community media
• Interventions, including but not limited to, the Local Democracy Reporting Service
• Facebook-funded Community News Project, and the Future News Pilot Fund (Nesta)

Contributions on academic research and practice-based projects are welcome. Please state if you are proposing:

• A conference paper
• A lightening PetchaKucha provocation
• An interactive workshop (please state facilitators and goals)

The event will be held at Coventry University in the Midlands of the UK on June 26, 2020. A nominal fee of £20 will be charged for attendance. A limited number of UK travel grants will also be available to support presentations by PG/ECR researchers . Please state on your abstract if you would like to be considered for a grant and the amount requested.

Contributions will be peer-reviewed. Please send an abstract of no more than 300 words and a cover sheet with a brief biographical note, your institutional affiliation (where relevant) and your contact details (including your email address). Abstracts should be sent to the MeCCSA Local and Community Media Network network chair, Rachel Matthews, r.matthews@coventry.ac.uk and Policy Network chair, Phil Ramsey, pt.ramsey@ulster.ac.uk

Please address any queries to the same addresses in the first instance. Closing date for proposals, March 31, 2020.

June 11-12, 2020

Centre for Media & Journalism Studies, University of Groningen, Netherlands

Deadline: April 3, 2020

Confirmed speakers include: Marcel Broersma, Martin Conboy, Sophie Knowles, Victor Pickard, Helle Sjøvaag

Organizer: Chrysi Dagoula

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.

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:

• What definitions of market logic(s) are currently being used and developed?
• How can the manifestations of market logic(s) be understood through specific neoliberal policies, austerity measures, and memoranda regulations?
• In what stages or areas of journalistic processes does market logic(s) have the most significant effect?
• What are the opportunities and challenges for political journalism presently?
• To what extent does market logic(s) allow journalists to perform their democratic role, and what is the overall effect of market logic(s) on the relationship between journalism and democracy?

Confirmed speakers include:

• Marcel Broersma, Professor of Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen
• Martin Conboy, Professor of Journalism History, The University of Sheffield
• Sophie Knowles, Senior Lecturer in Journalism, Middlesex University
• Victor Pickard, Associate Professor of Communication, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
• Helle Sjøvaag, Professor, Media and Social Sciences, University of Stavanger

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)

Deadline: Friday, 3rd April 2020

Notification of acceptance: Friday, 10th April 2020

Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania

The Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania invites applications for CARGC Faculty Fellowships. We have a very limited number of these positions, reserved for full-time faculty members from institutions other than the University of Pennsylvania, which typically last one full semester, though other arrangements may be possible. This is ideal for scholars seeking a base during funded sabbaticals and research leaves.

Description

The Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) produces and promotes scholarly research on global communication and public life. As an institute for advanced study dedicated to global media studies, we revisit enduring questions and engage pressing matters in geopolitics and communication. Our vision of “inclusive globalization” recognizes plurality and inequality in global media, politics, and culture. Our translocal approach fuses multidisciplinary “area studies” knowledge with theory and methodology in the humanities and social sciences. This synthesis of deep expertise and interdisciplinary inquiry stimulates critical conversations about entrenched and emerging communicative structures, practices, flows, and struggles. We explore new ways of understanding and explaining the world, including public scholarship, algorithmic culture, the arts, multi-modal scholarship, and digital archives. With a core commitment to the development of early career scholars worldwide, CARGC hosts postdoctoral, doctoral, undergraduate, and faculty fellows who collaborate in research groups, author CARGC Press publications, and organize talks, lectures, symposia, conferences, and summer institutes.

CARGC Fellows work on their own research, and collaborate with staff and postdoctoral, doctoral and undergraduate fellows. They present a CARGC Colloquium and publish one CARGC Paper with CARGC Press. Fellows are provided a workspace, computer and library access.

CARGC Fellows integrate primary sources and regional expertise in theoretically inflected, historically informed, comparative, translocal and transnational analyses of media, technology, geopolitics and culture. Candidates challenging normative paradigms and incorporating non-Western theories, sources and contexts, are especially welcome. Ongoing research groups focus on theory and history in global media studies, geopolitics and the popular, digital sovereignty, and radical media and culture. We recommend that applicants review our website to familiarize themselves with our mission and priorities: https://cargc.asc.upenn.edu/.

This is a residential fellowship. CARGC strives to be an inclusive community of scholars driven by intellectual curiosity and exchange, and rooted in the life of the Annenberg School, the University of Pennsylvania, and the city of Philadelphia . To foster mentoring and collaboration at all levels, we expect fellows to be fully engaged in the life of the center. Fellows are therefore expected to work at our beautiful sixth floor premises—CARGC’s “World Headquarters”—on the Penn campus at least four days a week during their stay.

Eligibility

Candidates should have least two years of post-PhD degree academic experience and have an affiliation with a university or research institute during the period of the fellowship.

Submitting Your Application

A complete application consists of:

1. Cover Page – include your name and contact information, current affiliation, the names and affiliations of two references, and a 100-word abstract of your project. Please specify whether you are applying for Fall 2020 or Spring 2021.
2. Research Proposal (not to exceed 1000 words) – include title of research project, research questions, topic significance, theoretical framework, methodological design, clear description of primary sources and necessary language skills, and work plan with projected date of manuscript completion and publication.
3. Statement of institutional fit (not to exceed 250 words) – explain how your project aligns with CARGC’s mission, fits with one or more CARGC research themes listed above, and contributes to the field of global media and communication studies. Please refer to our 5-year report for more information https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/news/cargc5-center-advanced-research-global-communication-celebrates-five-year.
4. CV (not to exceed two single-spaced pages, minimum font size 11) – list degrees, peer-reviewed publications, academic non-peer-reviewed publications, public scholarship, invited talks, conference papers, other relevant qualifications, specific research and language skills.
5. Project bibliography (not to exceed one single-spaced page, minimum font size 11) – include primary and secondary sources.
6. Letters of recommendation – two are required.
7. Two of your publications (articles or books) in support of the application.

Timeline

All materials except reference letters must be sent as a single PDF document to cargc@asc.upenn.edu by March 2, 2020. Incomplete or late applications will not be considered. Applicants should arrange for their letters of recommendation to be sent to the same address by the same date. We expect to contact finalists by late March and make final decisions shortly thereafter.

Additional Information

If you have additional questions, please email us at cargc@asc.upenn.edu.

View call online: http://bit.ly/2Uql1rE.

6th Annual Conference of ECREA ‘Journalism and Communication Education’ Temporary Working Group

May 14-15, 2020

University Autonoma of Barcelona, Barcelona- Spain

Deadline: February 28, 2020

The educational environment has undergone deep transformations in the last decades: specifically offering undergraduate and graduate courses in the communication area are facing new and quickly evolving challenges.

On the one hand, the training of future professionals in the field of communication and journalism has been directly impacted by the technological changes introduced by cyberspace and the successive developments of the Network: web 2.0 or social web, web 3.0 or semantic web and web 4.0 or the internet of things.

On the other, Twentieth-century teaching methods and 21st-century technology represent a generation gap like no other. Gen Zers are “digital natives”: our students grew up not only with computers and internet access, but also with smartphones, social media, and mobile devices, and thus are not interested in traditional passive learning.

The role of communication and journalism education, therefore, is not only to provide future journalist or communicators with new technological skills (Ekdale, et. al. 2015), but mainly to prepare them to adapt to a fastmoving world where things can change almost month by month as the interface between humans and the digital world becomes ever closer (Frost 2018). Communication, in other words, can be considered a “new knowledge profession” (Donsbach 2014).

Already thirty years ago, Dennis (1988) called the debate between profession and education ‘‘a dialogue of the deaf’’: nowadays, the rise of the audience as producer of news, i.e. the emergence of citizen (Campbell 2015) and participatory journalism, challenges professional journalists and communicators to rethink their professional identities and understandings of their function in society (Lewis 2012; Robinson 2010; Wahl-Jorgensen 2015). In 2017, the Nieman Lab and the Reuters Institute Prediction Report highlighted that, among the main challenges that journalism and communication face, mobile technologies, augmented reality, artificial intelligence and Big Data, are the most important (Nieman Lab 2017; Reuters 2017).

In Barcelona, at the sixth annual conference of the ECREA ‘Journalism & Communication Education TWG’, we want to take a closer look at the multi-faceted relationships between education, technology and digital native future media professionals. We invite you to submit academic research and project based experiences and various approaches (theoretical, methodological or empirical in nature) that can touch upon, but are by no means restricted o, the following thematic areas:

• The evolution of new emerging professional profiles: multimedia journalism, Data journalist, community manager, SEO, branded content, etc.
• The application of AI in journalism
• Educational multiplatform innovation: change in theory and practice
• Ethical and deontological education for journalism in the post-truth era
• Digital communication and advertising
• New business models
• Fake news: fact checking models

Call for Abstracts

Please note that we invite contributions in various formats, e.g. workshops, panels and conference presentations.

• Conference presentations involve research results and/or theoretical work relevant to the conference theme. Please submit an abstract (max. 500 words, not including references), outlining the state of the study or research project, as well as the research question(s) or hypotheses, findings and conclusion(s). We also encourage submitting work in progress, e.g. new theoretical or methodological ideas you want to discuss with peers at the conference.
• Panels consist of various presentations addressing a common topic from different perspectives. Panels are scheduled for one hour, including discussions. Panel proposals should include a description of the topic and an overall panel goal, addressing the relevance of the topic to the conference theme (400 words). The proposal should also suggest a chair to serve as a moderator and should include a short abstract of each of the presentations (max. 200 words each).
• Workshops sessions are practice-oriented. Proposals should include a workshop description (max. 500 words) with a clearly defined workshop topic and goal, and several questions or assignments for discussion as well as an indication of the length of the session.

The conference will take place Thursday 14th May and Friday 15th May, 2020

Deadline for submissions: Friday, 28th February, 2020

Official Website: https://trialanderror2020.blogspot.com/

Submit abstracts as anonymized word- or pdf-documents to

michael.harnischmacher@uni-passau.de

Registration fee: 100 eur

Please include your author information (name, institution, contact) in the accompanying e-mail. Accepted presenters will be informed by 16 March 2020.

The conference is organized by the local organizing committee at the Department of Journalism and Communication Sciences of UAB and the ECREA Journalism & Communication Education TWG.

Management team:

• Dr. Santiago Tejedor (Santiago.Tejedor@uab.cat); Dra. Cristina Pulido (Cristina.Pulido@uab.cat); Ricardo Carniel (ricardo.carniel@uab.cat) (Head of committee) / University Autonoma of Barcelona (UAB) / Spain
• Dr. Michael Harnischmacher (Chair TWG) / University of Passau / Passau, Germany / (michael.harnischmacher@uni-passau.de)
• Dr. Harmen Groenhart (Vice chair TWG) / Fontys University of Applied Sciences / Tilburg, The Netherlands (h.groenhart@fontys.nl)
• Dra. Pilar Sánchez-García (Vice chair TWG) / University of Valladolid / Valladolid, Spain (pilar.sanchez@uva.es)

European Journal of Health Communication

Deadline: March 31, 2020

Guest Editors: Sarah Geber, Tobias Frey, and Thomas Friemel

Health and health-related behaviours are embedded in social contexts in various ways, which comprise both risks and opportunities for individual’s health (Sallis & Owen, 2015). Communicable (i.e., infectious) diseases, such as HIV or influenza, are spread through social contacts between persons (e.g., Rothenberg et al., 1998), and unfavorable health behaviours might be reinforced in one's social network (Valente, 2010). On the other hand, social support can ease the coping with diseases in everyday life (e.g., depression; Peirce, Frone, Russell, Cooper, & Mudar, 2000), and social norms may promote favorable health behaviours (e.g., eating healthily; Mollen, Rimal, Ruiter, & Kok, 2013). In the course of the digitalisation, new platforms have emerged that intensify known social processes or enable new ones. On social networking sites, people can directly observe health-related behaviours and thus norms of relevant others (e.g., Beullens & Vandenbosch, 2016); apps allow users to track their health behaviours and share their obtained health goals (e.g., Kristensen & Ruckenstein, 2018); and various online forums provide platforms for exchanging experiences and support regarding specific health issues (e.g., Barak, Boniel-Nissim, & Suler, 2008). Since these social processes unfold their effects through communication, they deserve special attention by health communication scholars to maintain and improve individual and public health.

The special issue aims to address the complexity of individuals’ social contexts and the full breadth of communication — ranging from interpersonal communication to mass media, online to offline, intended to unintended etc. It therefore calls for papers analyzing the interrelations between social aspects, different forms of health-related communication, and health at the individual, interpersonal, and societal level. Submissions can address but are not limited to the following questions and concepts.

Individual level:

• Which health behaviours are especially susceptible to social influence (e.g., private vs. public health behaviour) and what role do different means of communication play in these contexts?
• How are individual social-related characteristics, such as traits (e.g., need to belong), cognitions (e.g., perceived norms), and motives (e.g., need for social integration) associated with health behaviour and health-related communication?
• How are media messages elaborated that address social aspects of health behaviour (e.g., social frames)?

Interpersonal level:

• Which relevance do different settings have for health communication (e.g., family, colleagues, self-help groups)?
• Which role do different actors (e.g., doctors, patients, bystanders) and social roles (e.g., opinion leaders, influencers, followers) play in the context of health communication?
• How does health-related interpersonal communication differ depending on the channel and platform (e.g. face-to-face vs. mediated)?

Societal level:

• Which sociocultural aspects (e.g., collectivistic vs. individualistic societies) and characteristics of the media system are relevant regarding health and health communication?
• What kind of divides related to health communication exist in societies and what are their consequences (e.g., digital divides)?
• How can societal inequalities and health-related stigmatization be addressed by health communication and what guidelines are helpful for journalists to ease these issues?

The special issue calls for basic research describing and explaining these aspects but also refers to applied research seeking to solve practical health communication issues. It is interested in theories, methods, and study designs that allow studying social aspects of health communication at different levels as well as the integration of various levels within a single approach.

Submission format

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

Manuscript should be prepared in accordance with the EJHC author guidelines (www.ejhc.org/about/submissions) and be submitted via the journal website (www.ejhc.org).

Deadline for submission is 31 March 2020.

Review process

All articles will undergo a rigorous peer review process. Once the paper has been assessed as appropriate by the editorial management team (with regard to form, content, and quality), it will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers in a double-blind review process, meaning that reviewers are not disclosed to authors, and authors are not disclosed to reviewers. To ensure short publication processes, EJHC releases articles online on a rolling basis, expected to start in December 2020.

Contact guest editors

• Sarah Geber, University of Zurich, s.geber@ikmz.uzh.ch
• Tobias Frey, University of Zurich, t.frey@ikmz.uzh.ch
• Thomas N. Friemel, University of Zurich, th.friemel@ikmz.uzh.ch

References

Barak, A., Boniel-Nissim, M., & Suler, J. (2008). Fostering empowerment in online support groups. Computers in Human Behavior, 24, 1867–1883. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2008.02.004

Beullens, K., & Vandenbosch, L. (2016). A conditional process analysis on the relationship between the use of social networking sites, attitudes, peer norms, and adolescents' intentions to consume alcohol. Media Psychology, 19, 310–333. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2015.1049275

Kristensen, D. B., & Ruckenstein, M. (2018). Co-evolving with self-tracking technologies. New Media & Society, 20, 3624–3640. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444818755650

Mollen, S., Rimal, R. N., Ruiter, R. A. C., & Kok, G. (2013). Healthy and unhealthy social norms and food selection. Findings from a field-experiment. Appetite, 65, 83–89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2013.01.020

Peirce, R. S., Frone, M. R., Russell, M., Cooper, M. L., & Mudar, P. (2000). A longitudinal model of social contact, social support, depression, and alcohol use. Health Psychology, 19, 28–38. https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-6133.19.1.28

Rothenberg, R. B., Potterat, J. J., Woodhouse, D. E., Muth, S. Q., Darrow, W. W., & Klovdahl, A. S. (1998). Social network dynamics and HIV transmission. AIDS, 12, 1529–1536. https://doi.org/10.1097/00002030-199812000-00016

Sallis, J. F., & Owen, N. (2015). Ecological models of health behavior. In K. Glanz, B. K. Rimer, & K. Viswanath (Eds.), Health behavior: Theory, research, and practice (5th ed., pp. 43–64). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Valente, T. W. (2010). Social Networks and Health: Models, Methods, and Applications. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press.

YECREA Pre-Conference (ECREA 2020)

October 1, 2020

Braga, Portugal

Deadline: April 5, 2020

The Young Scholars Network of ECREA (YECREA) is happy to invite students and early-career scholars to a full day of workshops right before the 8th European Communication Conference (ECC) in Braga, Portugal.

Number of participants: 8-10 for each workshop.

The pre-conference consists of three workshops, covering different theoretical, methodological and practical tasks and challenges for young researchers. Applicants can apply to all three panels or just a single panel, if they wish to.

The aim is to provide a forum of knowledge exchange between young researchers where they can present their work, network and receive insights and advice from senior scholars. Senior facilitators will be announced later.

1) Workshop on methods to study digital culture

The workshop aims at sharing methods for researching digital culture, with a specific focus on audience research and sentiment analysis. The event will be opened with a seminar held by one of our proposed speakers, upon which participants will build for an open discussion about best practice, ethics and social responsibility, together with any other topics relevant to the main theme.

Participants will be encouraged to bring their own work in progress, experience and open issues with them to contribute to the discussion and brainstorm solutions.

2) Workshop on Academic Writing & Publishing Academic Research

This workshop will provide early career scholars with advice and ideas for writing and publishing their work as central qualifications in academia. You will have the chance to exchange experiences on the writing process with peers and receive advice from senior scholars on publications processes and strategies. For example, touching upon questions such as what, how much, in which formats and journals can I publish?

3) Workshop on Labour & Health in Communication Research

This workshop is designed for young scholars to develop practical coping mechanisms for various expectations placed on them, such as, publishing pressures (while writing their PhD), getting grants and funding, teaching, getting recognition for their work in competitive environments, dealing with imposter syndrome, searching for stable employment, and many others. We envision having a roundtable discussion, with all participants sharing their experiences with these challenges, the different ways they have dealt with them in the past, as well as input from senior scholar(s).

How to apply

Submissions should be sent via this digital form: https://forms.gle/dAqPrmirhbmqkb3W8

All applicants should include a brief description of their motivation for participating (max 200 words) and a brief description of their PhD project (max. 200 words).

Applicants do not have to be members of YECREA or ECREA.

Evaluation process

Applications will be processed by the YECREA pre-conference organisers.

If the number of applicants exceeds the maximum number of participants, selection will be based on motivation as well as ensuring geographical diversity and supporting new scholars in the field.

Key Dates

• Deadline for submissions: 05 April 2020
• Notification of Acceptance: 15 April 2020
• Pre-conference date: 01 October 2020

Registration

A small fee might be confirmed later, but will in any case not exceed 50€ for all three workshops, including lunch. YECREA is working to obtain funding to support the workshop.

If you have any questions, please contact yecreanetwork@gmail.com.

Umeå University, Sweden

The Department of Culture and Media Studies invites applications for the doctoral training program in Media and Communication studies, https://www.umu.se/en/work-with-us/open-positions/phd-student-in-media-and-communication-studies_300008/

The department of Culture and Media Studies is part of the Faculty of Arts at Umeå University, and has a broad educational and research activity within the disciplines ethnology, journalism, art history and visual studies, cultural analysis, literary studies, media and communication studies and museology. The department has about 60 employees and the combination of disciplines makes it a creative milieu for research meetings and collaboration between culture, art, media and literature. For more information, please visit https://www.umu.se/en/department-of-culture-and-media-studies/

May 14-15, 2019

Barcelona, Spain

Deadline: February 28, 2020

Journalism & Communication Education TWG Conference

Education has undergone deep transformations in the last decade: our students grew up with computers, internet access, smartphones, social media, and active communication, and are increasingly less interested in traditional passive learning. The role of communication and journalism education, is not only to provide future journalist or communicators with new technological skills, but mainly to prepare them to adapt to a fast-moving world where things can change almost month by month as the interface between humans and the digital world becomes ever closer.

In Barcelona, we want to take a closer look at the multi-faceted relationships between education, technology and digital native future media professionals. We invite you to submit academic research and project based experiences and various approaches (theoretical, methodological or empirical in nature). We invite contributions in various formats, e.g. workshops, panels and conference presentations.

The conference will take place Thursday 14th May and Friday 15th May, 2020

Deadline for submissions: Friday, 28th February, 2020

Official website and call: https://trialanderror2020.blogspot.com/

June 27-29, 2020

Klaipeda, LT

Submission Deadline: Saturday, February 29 11: 59 p.m. Pacific Time

Host: Communication Association of Eurasian Researchers (CAER)

Host University: LCC International University:

The Communication Association of Eurasian Researchers (CAER) welcomes submissions that focus on various aspects of communication in, with and about Eastern and Central Europe. This conference will serve as an opportunity to truly “internationalize” the field of communication, providing opportunities for transnational “bridge building” with keynote speakers Robert T. Craig and Boguslawa Dobek-Ostrowska. Internationalization, as outlined by the National Communication Association and the American Association of State Universities and Colleges accomplishes the goals of making global citizens of our students, linking international academic communities, enhancing national and international security, and enlivening and expanding faculty research and scholarship. CAER seeks to be a place where through scholarship we transcend many of the divisions of politics or geography, finding common ground through the language and practice of communication research.

IN AN AGE OF POLARIZATION, WE UNITE AND BUILD BRIDGES.

To submit to the conference: Please submit a 250-word abstract of your paper by the deadline listed above. If you are submitting a panel (preference will be given to paper panels), with abstracts for each proposed presentation. Submit your abstract by filling out this form: https://forms.gle/kEw4LYGAMi7DZ4qw9

For a list of potential ideas for building bridges between communication scholars from the East and West please visit the conference website: https://caer.wildapricot.org/CFP-Building-Bridges

The Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (KU)

The Faculty of Languages and Literatures invites applications for the Junior Professorship of Digital Journalism (W1 with tenure track to W2) to be filled by the earliest possible starting date. This tenure track professorship is financed by the federal states and government program for promoting young researchers. The common guiding principle for the acquired professorships is the topic “For a human-centered digital society”. The aim is to approach the transformation of politics, the industry and society, which is caused by ongoing digitalization, within the research and teaching practice.

Employment will be effected on the basis of a temporary public servant or private law employment relationship in pay grade W1. The employment relationship is initially limited to three years. After successful interim evaluation, it will be extended by another three years. In case of a successful tenure evaluation and subject to fulfillment of the employment law requirements, the position of the tenure track professor will be transferred into a public servant employment relationship for a permanent professorship with pay grade W2.

The KU is committed to increasing the percentage of female professors and therefore explicitly encourages female researchers to apply.

Your responsibilities

The holder of the position shall investigate the role of digital journalism and digital public spheres in society. A particular focus will be on questions regarding the quality and ethics of journalism and public spheres especially within digital transformation of the media world. Another key area will be dealing with editorial working methods in researching, selecting, processing and dissemination – by also taking into account the influence of social media platforms, algorithmic mechanisms and interaction with the audience.

The professorship will participate in the teaching practice for Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programs in Journalism. The work includes both training aspects for practical journalism as well as research-oriented teaching on the topic of digitalization and innovation. The successful candidate is expected to contribute to the KU-wide focus on “a human-centered digital society”. Furthermore, active participation in the Artificial Intelligence Network in Ingolstadt is desired.

Your profile

In order to be able to fulfill the outlined range of tasks in a long-term perspective, candidates must have in-depth knowledge in the field of social science research on digital journalism and digital public spheres. Proof of corresponding qualification is generally provided by an outstanding doctoral degree. Another important factor are high-quality teaching skills, as demonstrated by positive teaching evaluations. Basic requirements for these tasks also include in-depth knowledge of the media system and the professional field of journalism in Germany.

Experience in journalistic practice and regarding collaborations with media partners in research and teaching is beneficial. Knowledge of digital research methods (both qualitative and quantitative) is desired.

• If the candidate was employed as research associate or research assistant in the period of time before or after the doctoral degree, the total period of employment plus doctoral phase must not have exceeded six years at the point in time of appointment in accordance with Article 14 sentence 3 et seqq. BayHSchPG (Bavarian Law on Academic Personnel of Higher Education Institutions). This maximum permissible period of time may, amongst others, be extended by periods of maternity leave and parental leave.
• Candidates who have completed their doctoral degree at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt must have changed to another university after their doctoral degree or must have carried out academic work outside the Catholic University of EichstättIngolstadt for at least two years.
• The KU pursues a policy of intensive student mentoring and therefore expects its teaching staff to spend an appropriate amount of time on campus.
• Furthermore, the successful candidate should have a very good command of the German and English language and should be able to teach German and Englishlanguage courses.

Our offer

In accordance with the guiding principles of excellence, international profile and individual development, the KU Tenure Track Model offers attractive framework conditions for strengthening independent research at an early stage, international networking as well as personal development as an academic leader. Further information is available at www.ku.de/forschung/nachwuchsfoerderung/ku-tenure-track/.

Your application

Please send your application with the usual supporting documents by e-mail to the dean’s office of the Faculty of Languages and Literatures, dekanat-slf@ku.de, by March 20, 2020 (please combine all documents in one PDF file). In addition to the usual documents, please also submit a distinctive concept (no longer than two pages) that outlines your contribution to the implementation of the KU tenure track principle “For a human-centered digital society” (www.ku.de/ku-tenure-track-en). All submitted application documents will be destroyed in accordance with data protection regulations after the hiring process has been completed.

In accordance with Article 10 (4) of the Foundation Charter, the KU takes the Catholic character of the University into consideration when appointing professors. It is therefore interested in receiving applications with relevant information in this regard. The Charter of the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt Foundation, which supports the University, is available for download from the website of the KU in German with an English translation at www.ku.de/unsere-ku/traeger-stiftung/.

The KU is committed to promoting equal opportunities for men and women, and aims to ensure that its members are able to balance work and family life. Candidates with severe disabilities who are equally suitable to other applicants will be prioritized.