ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

Rare Book School, University of Virginia, USA

Deadline: November 2019

Rare Book School’s Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB) invites applications for its 2020–21 cohort of junior fellows. The deadline is 1 November 2019.

Continuing the work of the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Critical Bibliography (2012–17), this scholarly society works to advance the study of texts, images, and artifacts as material objects through capacious, interdisciplinary scholarship—and to enrich humanistic inquiry and education by identifying, mentoring, and training promising early-career scholars. Junior Fellows will be encouraged and supported in integrating the methods of critical bibliography into their teaching and research, fostering collegial conversations about historical and emerging media across disciplines and institutions, and sharing their knowledge with broader publics.

The fellowship includes tuition waivers for two Rare Book School courses, as well as funding for Junior Fellows to participate in the Society’s annual meeting and orientation. Additional funds are available for fellows to organize symposia at their home institutions, and fellows will have the option of attending a bibliographical field school to visit libraries, archives, and collections in a major metropolitan area. After completing two years in good standing as Junior Fellows, program participants will have the option to become Senior Fellows in the Society.

The Society is committed to supporting diversity and to advancing the scholarship of outstanding persons of every race, gender, sexual orientation, creed, and socioeconomic background, and to enhancing the diversity of the professions and academic disciplines it represents, including those of the professoriate, museums, libraries, archives, public humanities, and digital humanities. We warmly encourage prospective applicants from a wide range of disciplines, institutions, and areas of expertise.

For more information and to apply, please visit: http://rarebookschool.org/admissions-awards/fellowships/sofcb/

For more information about diversity and the SoFCB, please visit the Diversity & Outreach Committee’s Welcome Letter: https://rarebookschool.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/SoFCB_Welcome_Letter_2019.pdf

Inquiries about the Junior Fellows Program can be directed to Sonia Hazard, SoFCB Selection Committee Chair, at shazard@fsu.edu, or Donna Sy, SoFCB Administrative Director, at rbs-mellon@virginia.edu.​

2020 Nordic Working Life Conference

June 10-12, 2020

Faculty of Social Sciences, Aaalborg University, Denmark

Deadline: October 1, 2019

The journalistic profession and journalists' labour have undergone significant changes in the past three decades. These are linked to technological developments as well as broader socio-political and economic changes. Apart from the most widely studied influences – the impact of new technologies and economic pressures – the past thirty years also involved the transformation of the journalistic profession and labour as a result of the fall of communism in East Central Europe, the re-unification of Germany or the break-up of Yugoslavia. Studies on the working lives of journalists continue to be scarce. We reviewed all the volumes of three key academic journals devoted to the study of journalism, namely Journalism Studies, Digital Journalism and Journalism Practice and found a limited number of studies that deal with journalists' working lives and these tend to focus on the impact of technological change and economic pressures. The studies also tend to focus on the US and UK, with occasional research on Nordic countries.

In order to address the lack in research, we solicit abstracts for papers as part of a thematic session that will address three key areas:

1. What insights and developments has research on journalists' labour, working lives and conditions of work uncovered in the past three decades?

2. What gaps can we identify in such research?

3. What new avenues – including theoretical and methodological approaches – are required for future research?

Deadline for abstract submission: 1 October 2019

Abstract submission via the conference site: https://www.en.cgs.aau.dk/research/conferences/nwlc-20/submit-your-abstract/

For further information please contact:

Monika Metykova (University of Sussex, UK) at m.metykova@sussex.ac.uk, http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/37714

Lenka Waschková Císařová (Masaryk University, Czech Republic) at cisarova@fss.muni.cz, https://www.muni.cz/en/people/52932-lenka-waschkova-cisarova

Special Issue of the Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research

Deadline: October 15, 2019

The Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research (JAMMR) is an international academic refereed journal published by Intellect in the UK and specializes in the study of Arab and Middle Eastern media and society.

Principal Editor: Noureddine Miladi

http://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-arab-muslim-media-research

The speedy developments in online media, satellite TV and social media platforms have brought up significant ethical challenges around the world. The unprecedented widespread use of social networks as tools for communication and reporting news have also raised serious issues relating to the boundaries between free speech and social responsibility. Media coverage of crises, war and conflicts is a case in point.

This special issue of JAMMR aims at enriching the debate on media ethics especially in relation the digital environment. It also aims to address media ethics from a global perspective and discuss how we can understand journalism practice in its cultural contexts. Are there ways to develop a common understanding of global ethics and how they should be perceived and implemented?

This special issue of JAMMR seeks to critically address this ever-growing area of enquiry and revisit the field from various theoretical and empirical multi-disciplinary dimensions. It welcomes contributions based on empirical studies or original theoretical approaches regarding (and not necessarily limited to) the following themes:

• Philosophical origins of ethics
• Media ethics between theory and practice
• Serious journalism VS sensational reporting
• Free speech VS social responsibility
• Cross-regional comparative approaches to media ethics
• Ethics and sports journalism
• Social responsibility mission of the media
• Ethics and fake news in journalism
• Ethics in reporting wars and crises
• Privacy and protection in the Big Data environment
• Contested narratives: comparing global media’s case studies
• Can the aim justify the means? Investigative journalism and the public interest
• Online media and the ethical challenge to journalism values
• Clash of values: study in the cartoon controversy
• Challenges to media ethics in transitional democracies

Submissions:

Full manuscripts (of about 7500 and 8500 words including bibliography) should be submitted through the journal’s web-submission system: http://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-arab-muslim-media-research

You may need to register if you don’t have an account.

A copy of the paper should also be emailed to the editor (Noureddine Miladi) on: noureddinemiladi@amcn.online

Deadlines for submissions:

• Abstracts of no more than 300 words along with the author’s bio (100 words) and author’s full contact details: by 15th October 2019
• Full papers: by 30th March 2020
• Referees’ feedback: by 30th May 2020
• Expected publication of the special issue: November 2020 (Volume 13, Issue 2)

University of Oregon

Application Deadline: October 15, 2019; position open until filled​

Apply here.

The University of Oregon’s Cinema Studies Department invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Cinemas of the Global South, including Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and/or their diasporas, to begin in fall 2020. We seek scholars and scholar-practitioners whose work examines the theories, histories, and cultures of Global South cinemas—including film, video, TV, and emerging media—and attends to the aesthetic and industrial practices of cinema in local and transnational contexts.

Competitive applicants will clearly focus on cinemas of the Global South and further the department’s pursuit of curricular and research excellence in geopolitically diverse cinemas. We especially welcome candidates whose work and teaching address cinema as a global formation and highlight globalization as it operates within and across localities.

​Department or Program Summary

The Department of Cinema Studies at the University of Oregon is a community of scholars, practitioners, and staff dedicated to providing students with a well-rounded study of cinema, a term that we use to encompass film, television, and/or emerging forms of media. Cinema Studies at UO is a growing department in the Humanities that is committed to interdisciplinarity and diversity that spans both global communities and marginalized U.S. social identities. Our scholarship, pedagogy, and practice explore a range of media objects and their contexts, including history, artistry, industry, identity, geopolitics, and systems of power. Our department’s shared mission is to use our critical and creative tools to amplify underrepresented voices, interrogate power, and drive change by blending filmmaking practice and its academic study.

We particularly welcome candidates from populations historically underrepresented in or excluded from media industries or academia and are especially interested in candidates who can support our work in mentoring, research, teaching, and outreach with women, first-generation students, communities of color, immigrants, international students, and other underrepresented groups. All applicants are required to include information about how they will contribute to this work as part of their teaching statement.

Minimum Requirements

• Expertise and an active research and/or creative agenda in cinemas—including film, video, TV, and emerging media—of the Global South
• PhD in Cinema or relevant field, in hand by September 1, 2020

Preferred Qualifications

• Evidence of an active research agenda
• Teaching experience at the college level
• Demonstrated attention to the barriers that can prevent full participation of underrepresented groups in higher education

Required Application Materials, to be submitted online: http://careers.uoregon.edu/cw/en-us/job/524150/assistant-professor-of-cinema-studies

• an application letter
• a curriculum vitae (scholar-practitioners should include a link to an online portfolio of their creative work on their CV)
• a writing sample (maximum 30 pages)
• two (2) sample syllabi that illustrate the kinds of courses you are prepared to teach in this position
• a one (1) page teaching statement that addresses inclusive teaching practices and your potential contributions to departmental goals (see "Addressing Inclusivity" below)
• three (3) letters of recommendation.

Application materials may be combined into PDFs as needed. The committee will begin reviewing materials as early as October 15; please submit by this deadline to ensure consideration.

Addressing Inclusivity

As part of their teaching statement, candidates are asked to provide their unique perspectives on ways that they have, will, or plan to contribute to equity, inclusion, and diversity as members of the UO Cinema Studies community. We welcome candidates to share how their experiences—inside or outside of academia—illustrate this commitment.

About the University

The University of Oregon is one of only two Pacific Northwest members of the Association of American Universities and holds a distinguished ranking in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. The UO enrolls more than 20,000 undergraduate and 3,600 graduate students representing all 50 states and nearly 100 countries. In recent years, the university has increased the diversity of its student body while raising average GPAs and test scores for incoming students. The UO’s 295-acre campus features state-of-the art facilities in an arboretum-like setting within the traditional homelands of the Kalapuya people. The UO is located in Eugene, a vibrant city of 157,000 with a wide range of cultural and culinary offerings, a pleasant climate, and a community engaged in environmental and social concerns. The campus is within easy driving distance of the Pacific Coast, the Cascade Mountains, and Portland.

Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM)

Deadline: October 15, 2019 

Currently we are recruiting three postdoctoral researchers for the NWO  funded research project /Data inspired creativity: Using big data in  cross-media creative innovation processes/ (NWO Flagships Creative  Industry). The project is a close collaboration with media company Talpa  Network, which will provide access to their organization and (big) data  about consumers and content characteristics. 

All three postdoctoral researchers will be collaborating in an  inter-disciplinary consortium of 9 senior researchers from 5  universities: University of Amsterdam, Erasmus University Rotterdam,  University of Groningen, Tilburg University, and VU University. The  consortium covers expertise in communication science, data science,  innovation management, marketing, and media studies. 

Please click on the links below to read more about the three positions,  the deadline for application is 15 October 2019. 

1. Postdoctoral researcher in innovation processes in digital media  companies: https://www.academictransfer.com/nl/285455/postdoctoral-researcher-in-innovation-processes-in-digital-media-companies/

2. Postdoctoral researcher in data-inspired creativity: https://www.academictransfer.com/nl/285541/postdoctoral-researcher-in-data-inspired-creativity/

3. Postdoctoral researcher: Analysis of consumer preferences and  behaviours for media content: https://www.academictransfer.com/nl/285653/postdoctoral-researcher-analysis-of-consumer-preferences-and-behaviours-for-media-content/

College of the University of Arts London

Deadline: October 2, 2019

London College of Communication, a College of the University of Arts London, is a pioneering world leader in creative communications education. We work at the cutting edge of new thinking and developments across the Communications and Media sectors to prepare our students for successful careers in the creative industries of the future.

We are driving forward an ambitious research agenda and a major step towards this will be the appointment of a Professor in each of the College's Schools. We are now inviting applications from outstanding candidates for appointment to the new position of Professor of Communications and Media within our Media School. The School has a comprehensive portfolio that spans the disciplines of publishing, advertising, public relations, media communications, photography, and journalism.

As our new Professor, you will play a key strategic role in the development of knowledge exchange and research work through developing funding bids, global networks and external collaborations and projects in the field of media and communications. In developing your research and/or knowledge exchange activity within the strategic aims and remit of the institution, you will be a high-profile appointment for the School and will be present and active across our community. Professorial candidates will be expected to have a substantive record of excellence and innovation in academic achievement and/or strategic academic leadership as demonstrated by your scholarly activity and success in bid writing. Above all, the role requires someone with a deep commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration across the School and beyond.

https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BUZ848/professor-in-communications-and-media

For full information on this appointment, please visit http://andersonquigley.com/lcc

The closing date for applications is noon on Wednesday, October 2, 2019.

May 27 - 29, 2020

IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Deadline: October 1, 2019

The Death Online Research Network is an international research network for researchers within media and communication studies, cultural studies, sociology, psychology, law and other related fields. Researchers share an interest in the study of death, mourning practices and legacy online and in digital life.

This 5th annual symposium will consolidate the links between existing and new members of the network and provide opportunities for the discussion of ongoing and new orientations in the academic and interdisciplinary field of death online. The meeting will explore methods, challenges and interdisciplinary convergences in Death Online research and practice. We warmly welcome new members to the network as well as old friends.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

• Professor Jayne Wallace, Northumbria University, UK.
• Associate Professor Carsten Stage, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Themes and perspectives:

We invite abstracts for oral presentations of new, recently completed, or ongoing research, and/or new ideas relating to methods, challenges and interdisciplinary convergences on death related online practices. We welcome presentations that explore how qualitative, quantitative and practice-based research expands our understanding of the current and future trends in death online from a variety of disciplines and perspectives. The abstracts can expand on the symposium theme in relation to any of the following areas:

• Digitally mediated dying and narrative
• Digitally mediated grieving and memorialising
• Digital afterlife, post-mortem identity and digital legacy
• Technological developments in the death care industry
• Digital immortality
• Sensitive research data challenges
• Theorising online life and death
• Ethical challenges for studying death online.

The symposium will host a special workshop for participating Post Graduate students and early career researchers. We particularly welcome submissions from these groups. All submissions will be peer-reviewed, and we envisage publication of selected full papers in a special issue of an academic journal as well as a collection of writing from the symposium in an open-access online platform.

Important information:

Submission format: 300 word abstract

• Submission deadline: October 1st, 2019
• Submission feedback: November 1st, 2019
• Registration open: December 1st, 2019

Registration fee: DDK 1500 / EURO 200 / GBP 180

Registration fee, PhDs and Post Graduates: DDK 1200 / EURO 160 / GBP 150

All submissions and enquiries should be submitted to Dr Stine Gotved: gotved@itu.dk marked "DORS#5 Submission" in the subject field. Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words. Please include a separate page with full contact info (author name, institutional affiliation and position, email address) in the submission. Submissions will be anonymised by the organisers before review.

Further information about the symposium can be found at: https://blogit.itu.dk/dors2020/

The 26th Nordic Intercultural Communication (NIC) Conference

November 28 - 30, 2019

Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences, Valmiera, Latvia

Deadline: October 7, 2019

https://va.lv/en [1]

Along with the extension of submission deadline till October 7, the NIC 2019 Organizing team has an honour to announce the conference's first key-note speaker Prof. Dr. Dominic Busch -- a Professor of Intercultural Communication and Conflict Research at Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany. The title of his keynote at the NIC 2019 will be "Intercultural Sustainability: In Search for Ethical Foundations in Intercultural Communication Research."

In his studies, Dominic Busch explores how ethical orientations of society are reflected in the academic research of intercultural communication. Following a discourse approach, notions of intercultural communication in research and practice is seen as discursive constructions. Building on these insights, Dominic Busch argues for a stronger reflection of differing ethical orientations, which influence intercultural research. More information about his work can be obtained from https://go.unibw.de/dominicbusch [2].

The 26th Nordic Intercultural Communication conference will be held in Valmiera - a more than 700 years old Hanseatic town located about 100km North-East of the capital Rīga. The conference language is English. This time the overarching theme of the conference is centred on exploring cultural diversity and intercultural sustainability. The conference predominantly but not exclusively addresses the intercultural communication challenges and opportunities as illuminated, for instance, by international migration and diversity. Unfortunate by-products of these processes often are anger, fear, and societal division. The conference seeks to foreground the understanding of ways in which communities could be both diverse and integrated. The specific emphasis is on the notion of joint living in instead of merely with diversity in a variety of realms, including the practices of everyday interaction, education, policymaking, language and communication training, media, and so forth. Contributions from seasoned scholars as well as from students and practitioners interested in the various aspects of culture and communication are encouraged.

The potential forms of participation include individual presentations of either fully developed papers or work in progress, as well as panels and workshops. The participants are encouraged to submit their conference papers to the Journal of Intercultural Communication. This peer-reviewed publication is an outgrowth of the activities of the NIC: https://www.immi.se/intercultural/ [3].

This call for papers is addressed to scholars and practitioners focusing on but not limited to the following themes:

• Culture, communication and civic participation
• Building trust in societies
• Methods and practices of communicating, cultivating, and negotiating cultural diversity
• Cultural diversity in relation to education and pedagogy, training and management
• Intercultural aspects of migration and diasporic life
• Language training and cultural diversity
• Personal relationships across culturally diverse contexts
• Media, cultural diversity, and sustainable communities
• Social policy responses to the turbulence of the modern world - values, action, and communication

During the conference, the 3rd ESPAnet Baltics annual meeting will take place. More about the organization itself can be found at https://blogg.hioa.no/espanet[4].

Individual paper proposals should follow the abstract format of approximately 500 words (including the title and reference information).

Panel proposals should also be approximately 500 words, including rationale, a list of proposed participants as well as their individual contribution.

The submission system is available at http://va.lv/en/nic-conference [5].

Submission deadline is extended till October 7, 2019. We look forward to seeing you in Valmiera!

The 26th NIC conference is organized by the Faculty of Society and Science at the Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences in cooperation with Valmiera City Municipality and the Latvian Platform for Development Cooperation (LAPAS). For further inquiry, you are welcome to contact the chair of the organizing committee Liene Ločmele at liene.locmele[at]va.lv.

Links:

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[1] https://va.lv/en

[2] https://go.unibw.de/dominicbusch

[3] https://www.immi.se/intercultural/

[4] https://blogg.hioa.no/espanet

[5] http://va.lv/en/nic-conference

A special issue of Medijske studije / Media Studies Journal to be published in January 2020, MS Vol. 10 (2019) 20

Deadline: October 7, 2019

Edited by Maria José Brites (Lusófona University of Porto), Inês Amaral (University of Coimbra), Antonija Čuvalo (University of Zagreb)

Media generational identities are culturally, socially, economically and historically shaped. A single vision of generational identity is impossible.

This special issue welcomes different approaches to intergenerational and generational perspectives from various geographical landscapes. Moreover, it aims to discuss digital uses and digital competences within intergenerational and generational perspectives. The proposal is to assume as context the current digital media environment, which has shaped media history over the past decades. Non-Western voices covering generations, digital uses and competences are particularly welcome.

Historically, media were mostly considered as reinforcements of the generational gap, mostly in the family context. Though research by Livingstone and Haddon (2009) found that the intergenerational gap is diminishing in time, according to Bolin & Skogerbø (2013), the digital era is contributing to straight the generations. Čuvalo (2017) discerns shared media repertoires among the youngest, so-called digital generation or digital natives and the older generation of digital immigrants (Thomas, 2011). In this sense, there is the need to work closely on life course perspectives as a possible explanation of the diminishing or perpetuating of the generational gap (Amaral & Daniel, 2018). The context of digital literacy reinforced activities by civil society and schools and can bring some light to the discussion of this need (Brites, 2017). Furthermore, a generational perspective in scholar and familiar environments can empower the discussion.

There is a story to tell and gains to conquer from the historical reflection, although the real interconnection between the digital devices and the audiences is a recent issue. Research can benefit from a systematization from the past to the future and also in the current present.

All manuscripts should be submitted through the Open Journal System: https://hrcak.srce.hr/ojs/index.php/medijske-studije/index

Submission guidelines can be found here: https://hrcak.srce.hr/%E2%80%A6/%E2%80%A6/medijske-studije/about/submissions

The deadline for full articles is 7 October 2019.

QUT Digital Media Research Centre, Australia

Deadline: September 30, 2019

This is a unique opportunity for a PhD student to work with a world-leading team on a major Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project, The Platform Governance Project: Rethinking Internet Regulation as Media Policy.

The project is led by researchers in the QUT Digital Media Research Centre, working in collaboration with an international team including University of Sydney, Duke University, and the University of Salzburg. You will be working with internationally renowned researchers such as Professor Terry Flew (current President of the International Communication Association) and Professor Nicolas Suzor (ARC DECRA Fellow).

We are seeking a PhD candidate whose work can situate digital platform companies in the shifting political economy of digital media, with particular reference to the changing nature of media industries and markets, issues around content governance, and the turn towards greater regulation of digital platforms as global tech giants increasingly dominate the internet.

You must have:

• Completion of Masters qualification or equivalent higher qualification in Media & Communications, Law, or other relevant social science discipline (e.g. economics, political science);
• Received first-class honours (H1) in fields as listed above.

You’ll receive:

• a living allowance for 3 ½ years indexed annually ($A27,496 in 2019). This scholarship can be used to support living costs.
• a total of $A3,000 (over a 3 ½ year period) to support other related research costs.
• additional research support for the attendance of conferences, symposia, industry events, and other activities related to the ARC Discovery-Project.

Applicants are advised to follow the required scholarship submission guidelines available at: https://www.qut.edu.au/research/annual-scholarship-round

For more information on the Digital Media Research Centre and the Creative Industries Faculty go to https://research.qut.edu.au/dmrc/%20and%20https://www.qut.edu.au/creative-industries/about

See also ‘DMRC Research Training’ here: https://research.qut.edu.au/dmrc/research-training/

For further information on this exciting opportunity, in the first instance please contact Professor Terry Flew t.flew@qut.edu.au

This scholarship will close on 30th September 2019.