ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

June 27-29, 2020

LCC International University, Klaipeda, Lithuania

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

Host: Communication Association of Eurasian Researchers (CAER)

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”. This will have a plentitude of positive potentialities naturally percolate, producing new global connections, creativity, and commonalities in a world beset with division, delimitation, and difference.

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.

Potential ideas for building bridges between communication scholars from the East and West could revolve around the following subjects (though this list is not limiting or exhaustive, but rather generative):

• Growing misunderstandings between governments
• Growing misunderstandings between governments and publics
• Misinformation, disinformation, and other manipulation through communication
• Declining trust in traditional authorities
• Polarization and radicalization
• Threats to peace and security
• Threats to human rights and dignity
• Future of democracy and democratization
• Lack of social justice
• Unsustainable practices
• Depletion of natural environment

We will engage the contemporary issues by discussing research contributions from international scholars with the ambition to:

• Establish a bridge to connect scholars from different paradigmatic, cultural, and geographical locations.
• Envision future bridges to engage communication scholars with broader communities to analyze, understand, and perhaps even mitigate some of the current issues.

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.

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

• Katharina Lobinger
• Gabriele Balbi and
• Lorenzo Cantoni

Studies in Communication Sciences (SComS) is a peer-reviewed journal of communication and media research with platinum open access: https://www.hope.uzh.ch/scoms/

Issue 19.2 has just been published. It is mainly devoted to the 7th conference of the ECREA held in Lugano in 2018, but also includes a paper in the general section that examines the state of science communication research in the German-speaking countries.

 https://www.hope.uzh.ch/scoms/issue/view/186

Edited by Leena Mikkola & Maarit Valo

Workplace Communication provides insights into communication practices that enable efficient work, successful collaboration, and a functional work environment. Maintaining a productive and healthy workplace is predicated on interpersonal communication between people. In organizations, efficient communication is the foundation of all actions.

Contributors to this book cover communication issues in relationships, teams, meetings, leadership, competence, diversity, organizational entry, social support, and digital environments in the workplace. The book illustrates all these issues in detail by presenting both relevant research findings and their practical implications in working life.

Workplace Communication is ideal for current and future employees, directors, supervisors and managers, instructors, and consultants in knowledge-based expertise work. The book is appropriate for courses in organizational and leadership communication or interpersonal communication in a workplace setting.

Leena Mikkola is a Senior Lecturer in Communication in the Department of Language and Communication Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Her research focuses on leadership communication and interprofessional interaction in knowledge work.

Maarit Valo is Professor Emerita in the Department of Language and Communication Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Her research focuses on team communication, technology-mediated communication, and communication competence as elements of professional expertise.

More information: https://www.routledge.com/Workplace-Communication-1st-Edition/Mikkola-Valo/p/book/9780367185718

University of Westminster - School of Media and Communication, in the College of Design, Creative and Digital Industries

• Location: Harrow, London
• Salary: £69,365 Per annum
• Hours: Full Time
• Contract Type: Permanent
• Placed On: 29th January 2020
• Closes: 19th February 2020
• Job Ref: 50052068

This post is full time and permanent, working 35 hours per week

We are looking for an Assistant Head for the School of Media and Communication, to help deliver our new strategy.

The School of Media and Communication at the University of Westminster is looking for a strategic academic leader to join our successful School. This vacancy has been created by an internal promotion. It offers you the opportunity to maintain your research profile while developing your academic management experience.

The successful applicant will play a key role in the School’s leadership team, working closely with the Head of School to shape and implement School strategy, ensure our portfolio is innovative and stimulating, support and manage course teams, and help to maintain our high quality standards. You must be able to demonstrate your ability to manage teams and ensure an outstanding student experience. You will also have the opportunity to maintain your own teaching and research, including course leadership. This is an ideal post for an experienced academic who wants to develop their strategic role to the next level.

We deliver teaching that is research-informed, practice-led and based on action learning. Several of our courses were the first of their kind and we continue to innovate, developing new programmes that reflect the changing media and communication workplace. We teach a diverse, multicultural student population. We currently offer eight undergraduate and 13 postgraduate courses: you would be responsible for MAs including Media and Development, Diversity and the Media; Social Media Culture and Society; Media Management; PR; Media, Campaigning and Social Change and Global Media Business, as well as part of our undergraduate media portfolio.

The School incorporates the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) which performed exceptionally well in the REF 2014, and we have more than 100 academic colleagues, researchers and technicians in our team. As part of the College of Design, Creative and Digital Industries, we work closely with colleagues from arts, architecture and computing, which brings a vibrant cross-disciplinary element to our teaching and research.

The University of Westminster is committed to supporting diversity and equal opportunities in our dealings with job applicants, students, staff and the public. We are fully committed to creating a stimulating and supportive learning and working environment based on mutual respect and trust. We value diversity and welcome applications from all members of the community regardless of gender, sexuality, disability or ethnic background.

For an informal discussion about this role please contact: Michaela O’Brien, Head of School, on M.Obrien@westminster.ac.uk

For further information and to apply for this post, please click apply and you will be redirected to our website.

Closing date: midnight on 19 February 2020

Interviews shortly after the closing date, date to be confirmed

Administrative contact (for queries only): Recruitment@westminster.ac.uk

Please note: We are unable to accept applications by email. All applications must be made online. CVs in isolation or incomplete application forms will not be accepted.

Embracing diversity and promoting equality.

Institute of Media and Journalism (IMeG), USI Università della Svizzera italiana

Applications received before 20 March 2020 will be given priority

Starting Date: October 2020 the latest

Research Project

The research project “The origins and spread of the World Wide Web. Rediscovering the early years of the Web inside and outside the CERN archive (1989-1995)” is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and for the first time will explore the WWW archives at CERN. This project will investigate how the Web was conceptualized, described and promoted within and outside CERN during its early stage, from the first proposal for information management written by Tim Berners-Lee in March 1989 to the consolidation of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at MIT in 1995. To retrace the internal and external communication flows related to the early Web, this project adopts a twofold perspective: it looks at how the Web was spread and developed at CERN by its founding fathers Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau and by other relevant actors; it also investigates how selected newspapers and magazines discussed and framed the WWW in the same period.

Candidates’ profile

Two PhD candidates – We are looking for candidates with a MA degree in communication sciences, media studies or another relevant area, preferably with a specialization in one of the following fields: digital technologies, social studies of technology, media history, the political economy of the media, cultural studies and similar. Ideally, candidates are interested in digital media history and the history of the web and have an international outlook. The candidates will have considerable experience in quantitative and/or qualitative research methods (e.g. content analysis and ethnography).

One PostDoc position – We are looking for a PostDoc candidate with relevant experience in the field of media history, digital media and internet studies. Ideally, the candidate holds a PhD in digital media history, internet studies, or related fields and demonstrates an excellent track record of publications in relevant journals.

Requirements for all the positions - Fluency in English is required. The candidates are expected to present papers at scientific conferences and produce publications in high-ranking journals. They will collaborate to the development of the institute research agenda. On the teaching side, the candidates will work as teaching assistant in courses at either bachelor or master level, helping in the preparation of teaching materials and tutoring students.

Contract terms

The two PhD positions are for four years. In addition to a tuition fee waiver for the duration of the four‐year scholarship, a fully-funded PhD at USI includes an annual salary (Salary ranges, guidelines for employees in SNSF-funded projects). PhD scholarships are subject to annual review and successful completion of a progress report. The 50% PostDoc position is funded for one year with a grant of CHF 42.500.- gross. The workplace is USI Università della Svizzera italiana, located in Lugano, Switzerland. Research activities will be carried out predominantly in Lugano, Switzerland, where the appointees should take residence. Several visits at the CERN archive in Geneva and other international travels are expected. Therefore, availability to travel to other parts of Switzerland and abroad (for purposes of collaboration and research) is required.

The starting date is October 2020 at the latest.

The Application

Application should contain

1) a letter in which the applicants describe their research interests and the motivation to apply;

2) a complete CV;

3) the names and contact information of three references,

4) university grade transcripts and certificates, and for PhD students only

5) a 1-page PhD research project in the field of web/Internet history (i.e. meanings and metaphors of the web, web in long term perspective, web ideology and imaginaries, web and the other media, etc.).

Please send your application in electronic form as a single PDF or request for further information to prof. Gabriele Balbi, gabriele.balbi@usi.ch.

Applications received before 20 March 2020, will be given priority. However, applications will be received until the position is filled.

For more information see: https://content.usi.ch/sites/default/files/storage/attachments/press/press-call-imeg-2-phd-1-postdoc.pdf?_ga=2.27095934.2118040066.1580981234-1339804500.1569942574

May 12, 2020

Venue: Palais du Pharo, Marseille, France

Submission deadline (extended): February 21, 2020

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

Submission page: https://www.softconf.com/lrec2020/ParlaCLARIN2

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 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. CLARIN-PLUS survey on parliament 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.

Keynote

The keynote talk entitled Different arenas, different texts, one message? What we can learn from a combined analysis of manifestos and parliamentary debates will be presented by Pola Lehmann & Bernhard Weßels, and will be devoted to the Manifesto Project.

Topics of interest

Topics include but are not limited to:

• Creation and annotation of parliamentary data in textual and/or spoken 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

Submissions & 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 new 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: https://www.softconf.com/lrec2020/ParlaCLARIN2

Important Dates

• Paper submission deadline (extended): 21 February 2020
• Notification of acceptance: 13 March 2020
• Camera-ready paper: 2 April 2020
• Workshop date: Tuesday 12 May 2020

Organizing Committee

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

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:

• - Kaspar Beelen, The Alan Turing Institute, UK
• - Andreas Blätte, The University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
• - Francesca Frontini, Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier, France
• - Maria Gavriilidou, ILSP/Athena RC, Greece
• - Henk van den Heuvel, Radboud University, The Netherlands
• - Klaus Illmayer, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
• - Bente Maegaard, CLARIN ERIC, The Netherlands
• - Monica Monachini, National Research Council of Italy, Italy
• - Laura Morales, Sciences Po, France
• - Jan Odijk, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
• - Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
• - Petya Osenova, IICT-BAS and Sofia University "St. Kl. Ohridski", Bulgaria
• - Maria Pontiki, ILSP/Athena RC, Greece
• - 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, Slovenia

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.

Department of Communication of Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona, Spain)

Details about the position are available on the Euraxess website: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/472386

The benefits are:

• Five-year contract with opportunities for permanent stabilization.
• The gross annual salary is €38,000.
• Initial provision of €20,000 for research work.

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 positive, the candidate may apply for a permanent position.

Application Deadline: 17/02/2020 13:00 — Europe/Brussels

October 1-2, 2020

Main campus of the University of Minho (Braga, Portugal)

Deadline: March 30, 2020

ECREA preconference on the relevance and persistence of traditional media co-organized by three ECREA Thematic Sections: Communication History, Radio Research, Television Studies.

Media and communication studies today especially focus on questions surrounding how digital media and digitization have changed and revolutionized previous media ecologies. Funding opportunities, PhD dissertations, journals and books on digitization and the relevance of digital media are overwhelming. This joint ECREA preconference, organized by the Communication History, Radio Research, and Television Studies Sections, invites colleagues to focus on and discuss claims that studying old media is imperative and still fully relevant to understand our contemporary media landscapes. In several media sectors, traditional media, such as television and radio, printing, analog photography and music, are still the most profitable businesses. The integration of old and new media seems to be more effective than disruptive models, and the so-called “old media” are still used and appreciated by media audiences worldwide. This preconference invites empirical and theoretical contributions from different angles. Potential topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Old media persistence in terms of content, political mentality, business, law, regulation, audience and usage;
• Remediation and persistence of old media forms into new media, processes of digitization of old media and persistence of old media business models;
• The significance of traditional media (e.g. broadcasting, printing, analog photography and music, etc.) in contemporary digital culture;
• Production studies of old media industries;
• The persistence of propaganda and fake news from old to new media;
• Old media and how they contribute to the process of datafication;
• The persistence of old media in the everyday life of minoritarian or marginalised audiences;
• New media histories for old media;
• The persistence of old media activism;
• The continuation and renewal of old controversies and debates (on governance, neutrality, etc.);
• Nostalgia and use of old media archives as current practices both in the production of new media contents and in the audience consumptions.
• Analog photography, vinyl, tapes and Super8 movies (among others): the return of nostalgic media

Please send your 500 word abstract and a short bio of 100 words to info@oldnewspersistence.com.

Deadline for submissions is 30 March 2020. Authors will receive word of acceptance by 30 April 2020. The conference is schedule on the 1st and 2nd October, 2020 at the main campus of the University of Minho (Braga, Portugal).

For more information, please visit the website https://oldnewspersistence.com/ and contact the management teams of the three sections:

• Communication History (Gabriele Balbi, Valérie Schafer, Christian Schwarzenegger)
• Radio Research (Belén Monclús, Tiziano Bonini, Salvatore Scifo)
• Television Studies (Juan Francisco Gutiérrez Lozano, Susanne Eichner, Berber Hagedoorn)

The University of Helsinki

https://www.helsinki.fi/en/open-positions/three-postdoctoral-researcher-positions-in-urban-studies

The University of Helsinki is the oldest and largest institution of academic education in Finland, an international scientific community of 40,000 students and researchers. In international university rankings, the University of Helsinki typically ranks among the top 100. The University of Helsinki seeks solutions for global challenges and creates new ways of thinking for the best of humanity.

The Faculty of Social Sciences and Helsinki Institute of Urban and Regional Studies are seeking applications for

THREE POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS

in the areas of 1) urban inequality, 2) digitalisation of urban life and 3) urban utopias, citizenship, and alternatives.

The postdoctoral researchers will be offered a contract for a two-year fixed-term period starting on April 1, 2020 (or as agreed).

WORKING AREAS

1) Urban inequality

The first open position is targeted at the study of urban inequality. The postdoctoral researcher is expected to focus in his/her research on problems of emerging and growing inequalities in urban regions. The research can cover topics such as inter-generational poverty, social mobility and mechanisms that generate or regenerate segregation or disadvantages or other related topics. S/he may also study alternative urbanisation or countermeasures against unwanted consequences of urban inequality.

2) Digitalisation of urban life

The second open position is focused on the effects of digitalisation in everyday social life and urban public spaces. In cities, the use of mobile gadgets, intensified surveillance and other ramifications of networked code-based technologies have become ubiquitous. Corporate actors and urban policy-makers tend to acclaim the democratic and equalizing aspects of the digital revolution. Looking beyond the monocausal hype via social and urban theory, the research to be conducted may relate to how digitalisation is reproducing social and urban divisions and influencing people’s behaviour and forms of presence in the public, besides the new forms of civic participation and flexible social organisation enabled by it. Ideally, both the empowering and disempowering aspects of the digitalisation of urban life should be brought under empirical and theoretical scrutiny by the appointed postdoctoral researcher.

3) Urban utopias, citizenship, and alternatives

The third open position is directed to the study of urban utopias and alternatives. Progressive utopias for a better future and popular calls for social rights, including the reactions to them by power-holders, have always constituted an integral part of urban dynamism. Under this broad definition, potential approaches include but are not restricted to emerging forms and weak signals of contemporary urbanism, out-of-the-mainstream development policies and regeneration solutions adopted or experimented by particular cities, alternative paths to the so-called creative city, grassroots politics and demands for the right to the city as a transformative force, and newer or tradition-based manifestations of the commons as an alternative to urban enclosures and social exclusion.

The goal of Helsinki Institute of Urban and Regional Studies is to enhance the understanding of the global urban challenge facing the Nordic Welfare States (https://www.helsinki.fi/en/helsinki-institute-of-urban-and-regional-studies).

The postdoctoral researcher will benefit from a novel research environment that emphasises scientific rigor, collaboration with cities and the pursuit of excellence in science and teaching. The close co-operation between the University of Helsinki, Aalto University and the cities of Helsinki, Espoo and Vantaa will provide a unique working environment in the heart of a changing and developing capital region.

QUALIFICATIONS

An appointee to the position of postdoctoral researcher must hold a doctoral degree in a relevant field, have the ability to conduct independent scientific research and possess the teaching skills required for the position. The candidate should have the proven capability to publish in scientific journals and have excellent analytical and methodological skills. In addition, the candidate is expected to have good communication skills and the ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a multidisciplinary working community. The duties of the postdoctoral researcher include teaching (5% of the annual workload).

The chosen applicant is expected to reside in Finland while employed by the University of Helsinki. The Faculty of Social Sciences provides assistance in relocation. The working language will be English.

The position of postdoctoral researcher is typically held for three to five years after the completion of a doctoral degree. The aim of the position is to encourage the appointee to further their skills and gain more experience to prepare them for an academic career.

WHAT WE OFFER

We are an equal opportunity employer and offer an attractive and diverse workplace in an inspiring environment with a variety of development opportunities and benefits. The annual gross salary range will be approx. 41,000 – 50,000 euros, depending on the appointee’s qualifications and experience. In addition, University of Helsinki offers comprehensive services to its employees, including occupational health care and opportunities for professional development. Further information at https://www.helsinki.fi/en/university/working-at-the-university. The employment contract will include a probationary period of six months.

HOW TO APPLY

Please submit your application as a single pdf file, which includes the following documents in English:

• Curriculum vitae, including teaching merits (max. 3 pages)
• List of publications (max. 2 pages)
• Research Plan or Letter of Research Interests (max. 3 pages), in which the applicant outlines how his/her expertise would contribute to the research area

• Summary (max. 2 pages) of the applicant’s scholarly activities, including original research at an international level, international academic networks, local co-operation, success in obtaining research funding

• Names and contact details of one or two referees

Please submit your application as a single pdf file using the University of Helsinki Recruitment System via the Apply link. Applicants who are employees of the University of Helsinki are requested to submit their application via the SAP HR portal, saphr.it.helsinki.fi. The deadline for applications is February 16, 2020.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Further information on the positions may be obtained from:

Professor Mari Vaattovaara, University of Helsinki, Urbaria (mari.vaattovaara(at)helsinki.fi, +358-504154861)

Coordinator Iiris Koivulehto, University of Helsinki, Urbaria (iiris.koivulehto(at)helsinki.fi, +358-405649886)

Due date: 16.02.2020 23:59 EET

Coventry University

Coventry University is seeking to appoint a Professor of Immersive Media within its dynamic Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Faculty of Arts and Humanities. Appointment to this position offers an opportunity to lead on the Centre’s research on digital media and humanities. It also allows the successful candidate to provide academic leadership in an area of critical importance to the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and cement its growing international reputation and ambitious research agenda.

The Centre for Postdigital Cultures (CPC), established in 2017, builds on the strong and distinctive track-record of scholars at Coventry University encompassing a range of disciplines in the arts and humanities. Led by Professor Gary Hall, the CPC brings together media theorists, practitioners, activists and artists to explore how developments in postdigital cultures can enable 21st century society respond to the challenges it faces in relation to the digital at a global, national and local level.

The CPC is diverse, with its members hailing from more than 14 different countries, and takes an innovative stance in exploring (post)digital phenomena. It is our position that the “digital” can no longer be understood as a separate domain of culture. If we actually examine the digital - rather than taking it for granted we already know what it means - we see that today digital information processing is present in every aspect of our lives. This includes our global communication, entertainment, education, energy, banking, health, transport, manufacturing, food, and water-supply systems. Attention therefore needs to turn from “the digital”, to the various overlapping processes and infrastructures that shape and organise the digital, and that the digital helps to shape and organise in turn. The CPC investigates such enmeshed digital models of culture and society for the 21st century “postdigital” world. Put another way, what we are interestedin is how we are born out of our relation to media, rather than seeing the media simply as an external instrument or tool, the latter being the classical Aristotelian view that has dominated our understanding of media technologies to date.

The successful candidate is expected to have an international reputation with a successful record of accomplishment of high-quality research outputs, income generation and public engagement. Candidates with an expertise in immersive media and a specialism in one or more of the following areas are especially encouraged to apply: decentralised networks; AI and data-driven humanities; experimental humanities/post-humanities; emergent postcapitalist economies.

The closing date for applications: Sunday 16th February 2020 For more information on the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, see https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/postdigital-cultures/.

Informal enquiries about this post should be addressed to Professor Gary Hall (gary.hall@coventry.ac.uk)

To apply please visit: https://staffrecruitment.coventry.ac.uk/tlive_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open?VACANCY_ID%3D990020P1pY&WVID=1861420Izv&LANG=USA