European Communication Research and Education Association
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:
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:
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
Preferred Qualifications
Required Application Materials, to be submitted online: http://careers.uoregon.edu/cw/en-us/job/524150/assistant-professor-of-cinema-studies
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)
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
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:
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:
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
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:
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
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:
You’ll receive:
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.
Special Issue of Communication & Sport
Communication & Sport is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for a Special Issue on “Sport Communication and Social Justice.” Now in its seventh year, Communication and Sport (C&S) is a cutting-edge, peer-reviewed bimonthly journal that publishes research to foster international scholarly understanding of the nexus of communication and sport. C&S publishes research and critical analysis from diverse disciplinary and theoretical perspectives to advance understanding of communication phenomena in the varied contexts through which sport touches individuals, society, and culture. In 2018, Communication & Sport was the winner of the prestigious PROSE Award as the Best New Journal in the Social Sciences. Communication & Sport has a current Clarivate Analytics two-year impact factor of 2.395 and is ranked 14/83 (Q1) in the Communication and 17/50 in Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism categories, ranking above many longstanding legacy journals in both Communication/Media and Sport Studies. Detailed information about Communication & Sport may be found at: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/com.
About the Special Issue
Sport has long been a conduit for societal debates on important and often contentious topics. In particular, media sport is a highly celebrated and influential constituent of popular culture that intersects with shifting political, economic, technological and cultural conditions (Whannel, 1992). This context creates tensions where mainstream media representations are framed around normative ‘accepted’ production practices by dominant organisations, which fosters an (in)visibility and marginalisation of non-normative groups around gendered, raced, disability and sexuality dynamics. These tensions are inexorably embedded in power, politics and issues of social justice.
At the same time – as Bell Hooks (1990) reminds us – marginality is not simply “a site of deprivation” but instead, it can also be “the site of radical possibility”. Here, leading athletes from traditionally marginalized groups have been able to seize on their visibility to highlight issues of inequality and discrimination through innovative, mediated and highly symbolic forms of protest, from Tommie Smith and John Carlos’s Black Power Salute at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics to Colin Kaepernick’s kneeling protest in 2016. Through social media, these iconic moments have started to transcend individual athletes’ activism and communities have coalesced around hashtags such as #takingaknee and the U.S. women soccer team’s high profile “Equal Play. Equal Pay” campaign.
While mainstream media organizations continue to play an important role in how these debates are framed, the emergence of new sport/digital media has the potential to disrupt dominant relations of power, offering renewed forms of ‘democratization’ and the prospect of meaningful change (Hutchins & Rowe, 2012, 2013; Wenner, 2015). Within a contemporary moment dominated by a highly commodified and corporatized media sport landscape, marginality can itself be re-fashioned as a commodity, centered on “celebritized” marginal subjects that can be exploited by media organisations and global sporting corporations for marketing and public relations purposes. For instance, consider the rainbow flag be-decked advertising campaigns from U.S. corporations Visa and Coca Cola that surrounded the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics following a repressive approach against LGBT rights activists by the Kremlin and Russian lawmakers.
Despite these memorable examples, discussions of activism, civic agency and social change have largely been the domain of the political sciences, sociology and political communication. Only relatively recently has the field of sport communication began to contribute to such debates, stimulated in part by the rapid expansion of digital and social media which has led to new ways of communicating in sporting cultures, a new visibility of cultural (counter / resistant) narratives, and mediated forms of democratic renewal. Importantly, following Dart (2012), this shifting sport media landscape has led to articulations of seemingly ‘old issues’ and cultural debates in new relatively distinct ways, bringing to the surface original critical questions in new emerging contexts. These are questions that focus on the nature of power, the way in which sport media serves to uphold, challenge, contest and negotiate dominant narratives within socio-political structures and the role and function of representation in effecting progressive social change.
In this special issue of Communication & Sport, we welcome theoretical and empirical inquiries that address the theme of “Sport Communication and Social Justice” by examining the following areas and other relevant topics:
Manuscript Submissions
Manuscripts for the special issue should be submitted beginning June 3rd 2019 and before October 1st 2019 at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/commsport to facilitate full consideration. In the submission process, authors should highlight in their cover letter that the submission is for the “Sport Communication and Social Justice” special issue of Communication & Sport and choose “Sport Communication and Social Justice Special Issue” as the “Manuscript Type.”
Manuscripts should follow the Manuscript Submission Guidelines at https://journals.sagepub.com/home/com. All manuscripts will be subject to peer review under the supervision of the Special Issue Editors and Editor-in-Chief.
Expressions of interest, abstracts for consideration, and questions may be directed to the Special Issue Editors: Dan Jackson (jacksond@bournemouth.ac.uk), Emma Pullen (E.L.Pullen@lboro.ac.uk), Michael Silk (msilk@bournemouth.ac.uk) or Filippo Trevisan (trevisan@american.edu).
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