ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

December 3-5, 2019

Perth/Fremantle, Australia

Deadline: May 24, 2019

Contact:

http://www.ozchi.org

https://www.facebook.com/ozchi2019/

https://twitter.com/OzchiWA

E. ozchi2019@gmail.com

IMPORTANT DATES

• 24 May 2019 Long Papers
• 24 May 2019 Workshop Proposals
• 24 June 2019 Doctoral Consortium
• 10 August 2019 Short Papers
• 24 August 2019 Student Design Challenge Team Applications
• 6 September 2019 Demos, Posters, Industry Papers, and Work-in-Progress

We listen to YOUR voice and want to make OzCHI’19 even better – submit your conference ideas!

The best ideas are awarded during the conference closing session. ozCHI ‘Idea Box’: https://goo.gl/forms/0XceZlmoP0XSV5RO2

OzCHI is the annual non-profit conference for the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG) of the Human Factors and Ergonomic Society of Australia and Australia's leading forum for the latest in HCI research and practice. OzCHI attracts a broad international community of researchers, industry practitioners, academics and students. Participants come from a range of backgrounds, including interface designers, user experience (UX) practitioners, information architects, software engineers, human factors experts, information systems analysts and social scientists.

After 18 years, OzCHI finally come back to Western Australia. Time has passed and things have changed a lot since OzCHI 2001.

More HCI and UX works have been done in Western Australia as well as its neighbouring countries. Having the privilege to convene the 2nd OzCHI conference in Western Australia, one of our objectives is to be inclusive towards attendees across overall Asia-Pacific.

The conference theme is Experience Design in Asia Pacific, which highlights the challenges we all face in the endeavour to tame the environment without destroying it to ensure our continuing existence. Our vision is to make OzCHI 2019 as an inclusive event for academic, industry, research, start-ups, maker communities to learn and exchange knowledge in the recent and emerging HCI and UX areas - practical, technical, empirical and theoretical aspects regardless their level of maturity in the fields.

We invite contributions on all topics related to Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, Architecture, Engineering, Planning, Social Science, Creative Industries, and other related disciplines. Creating * Designing * Experiencing * Innovating * Intelligence * Community * Reaching out to Asia-Pacific

Join us in Perth/Fremantle, Western Australia in December 2019 to explore and understand the design and role of contemporary interactive technologies.

SUBMISSIONS

Submissions will be accepted in various categories as described below. All submissions must be written in English and follow formatting guidelines in the paper template. Both long and short papers will undergo a double-blind review by an international panel and evaluated on the basis of their significance, originality, and clarity of writing. This review will be based on the full text of the submitted paper. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series available from the ACM Digital Library. Award will be given to the highest quality

We are looking for submissions under the theme of Experience Design across Asia Pacific in the following areas but not limited to:

TOPICS

HCI: Methods, Tools and Techniques

• Usability Methods and Practices
• Human-centered Design
• Participatory Design
• User Studies and Ethnographic Approaches
• Design Methods
• Tools for Design, Modelling and Evaluation
• HCI and Software Engineering
• Usability Metrics and Measurement
• Ethical issues in HCI
• HCI Education and Design Education
• HCI4D

UX Applications and Business Domains

• Digital Transformation
• Mobile User Experience
• Organizational context and technology design
• Games and Entertainment
• Healthcare, E-health and Telemedicine
• Interactive Design for Online Education
• Computer-supported cooperative work and collaboration
• E-commerce Interface Design and Evaluation
• Electronic, Mobile and Ubiquitous Commerce
• Service Design (Micro-finance, Micro-loan, Instant Courier, Agile Transport)
• Social Computing (Social Media, Social Networking)
• Online Gaming, Crowdsourcing, Collective Intelligence, Online Dating
• Cryptocurrency and Financial Technology
• UX and eLearning
• Blockchain
• Crowdsourcing

User Research and Usability

• Lean User Experience
• Agile User Experience
• Usability Testing
• User Research
• Internationalization and Localization
• Accessibility and inclusion
• Design System
• Multimedia and Multimodal Interfaces
• Natural User Interfaces
• Tactile and Haptic Interaction
• Novel Interaction Techniques
• Mobile User Interfaces
• Responsive Design
• Graphic User Interface
• Information Visualisation

Emerging Technologies

• Virtual Reality
• Augmented Reality
• Mobile Computing and User Mobility
• Affective Computing
• Context-Aware and Ubiquitous Computing
• Internet of Things
• Big Data
• Human Robot Interaction
• Artificial Intelligence
• Smart Cities
• Autonomous Vehicles
• Wearable Technology
• Brain Computer Interface
• Novel Interface

Graphics, Art and Media Technology

• Engaging users with multimedia
• Methods and techniques of creative practices
• Visualizing and interacting with data
• Quality of Experience (QoE)
• Digital storytelling
• Interactive art
• Media technology and interactivity
• Designing for multi-user interaction
• Tangible, mixed reality interfaces and multi-modal interfaces

SUBMISSION TYPES

1. Long papers report on innovative, original, and completed research, which is relevant, significant, and interesting to the HCI community.

2. Short papers present ideas that are emerging and would benefit from discussion with members of the HCI community. This type of submission may include work-in-progress, experiences of reflective practitioners, and first drafts of novel concepts and approaches.

3. Workshops are half-day and full-day sessions on topics that contribute to community building around a specific HCI topic. Topics may include methods, practices, and other areas of interest and that support active participation beyond presentation.

4. Doctoral consortium is a full-day intensive session for research students. A panel of experienced HCI researchers provides advice and guidance.

5. Student Design Challenge is an annual international competition in which students work rapidly researching, brainstorming and sketching a solution for a real HCI problem. This year the competition took place the 7th of April and now the submissions are under review, finalists will present their work at the OzCHI 2019 conference.

6. Industry papers provide the opportunity for practitioners and industries for their initiatives or new developments that could benefit from discussion with members of the HCI community.

7. Work-in-Progress papers are a subset of the long papers track (subject to the same format and deadlines). Rather than reporting on mature research, they describe work-in-progress, late-breaking and new ideas, questions, or challenges, and are intended to provoke discussion in the OzCHI community. The accepted submission will be required to present a poster

8. Demo/Posters is a venue for industry, research, startups, maker communities, the arts, and design to present their hands-on demonstration, share novel interactive technologies, and stage interactive experiences. This venue promotes and provokes discussion on novel technologies.

OzCHI 2019 GENERAL CHAIRS

General Chairs

• Artur Lugmayr, Curtin Univ., AUSTRALIA
• Eunice Sari, UXINDO & Charles Darwin Univ., AUSTRALIA/INDONESIA

Long Paper Chairs

• Ryan, Kelly, Univ. Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
• Mark Reynolds, Univ. of Western Australia, AUSTRALIA
• Virpi Roto, Aalto Univ. FINLAND
• Ingrid Richardson, Murdoch University, AUSTRALIA

Short Paper Chairs

• Haifeng Shen, Australian Catholic Univ. AUSTRALIA
• Callum Parker, Univ. of Sydney, AUSTRALIA
• Naseem Ahmadpour, Univ. of Sydney, AUSTRALIA
• Jo Li Tay, Curtin Univ., AUSTRALIA

Publication Chairs

• Hollie White, Curtin Univ., AUSTRALIA
• Jared Donovan, QUT, AUSTRALIA
• Simon Perrault, Singapore Univ. of Technology & Design, SINGAPORE

Workshop Chairs

• Greg Wadley, Univ. of Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
• Sarah Webber, Univ. of Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
• Jo Jung, Edith Cowan Univ., AUSTRALIA
• Demos, Work in Progress, Posters
• Mark Billinghurst, Univ. of Auckland, NEW ZEALAND
• Soojeong Yoo, Univ. of Sydney, AUSTRALIA
• Martin Masek, Edith Cowan Univ., AUSTRALIA

Doctoral Consortium Chairs

• Dana McKay, Univ. Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
• Margot Brereton, QUT, AUSTRALIA
• Wally Smith, Univ. Melbourne, AUSTRALIA

Panel Chairs

• Marcus Foth, QUT, AUSTRALIA
• Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, RMIT, AUSTRALIA

Student Design Challenge

• David Cook, Edith Cowan Univ., AUSTRALIA
• Trevor Hunter, Univ. of Queensland, AUSTRALIA
• Peter Worthy, Univ. of Queensland, AUSTRALIA
• Industry Engagement and Sponsorship Chairs
• Jess Tsimeris, Google, USA
• Jonathan Steingeisser, Isobar, Perth, AUSTRALIA
• Greg Stewart, SMS Management and Technology, Perth, AUSTRALIA
• Christopher Kueh, ECU, Perth, AUSTRALIA
• Ulrich Engelke, Data61, CSIRO, AUSTRALIA
• Sean Gardiner, BHP, AUSTRALIA
• Adi Tedjasaputra, UX Indonesia, AUSTRALIA/INDONESIA

Local Liaisons & Publicity Chairs

• Susannah Soon, Curtin Univ., AUSTRALIA

Website

• Yanginbo Zhang, Curtin Univ., AUSTRALIA

Student Volunteers Chairs

• Casey Xin Wei Lim, Curtin Univ., AUSTRALIA
• Jamie Dougall, Curtin Univ., AUSTRALIA

Asian Liaisons and Publicity

• Ethel Ong, De La Salle University, PHILIPINES
• Masitah Ghazali, University of Teknologi, MALAYSIA
• Thippaya Chintakovid, Chulangkorn University, THAILAND
• Nova Ahmed, North South University, Dhaka, BANGLADESH
• Adi Tedjasasaputra, UX Indonesia, INDONESIA/AUSTRIA

CHISIG Liasons

• Duncan Stevenson, Australian National University, AUSTRALIA
• George Buchanan, University of Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
• Local Conference Steering Board
• Artur Lugmayr, Curtin University, AUSTRALIA
• Andrew Woods, HIVE, Curtin University, AUSTRALIA
• Andrew Rohl, Curtin University, AUSTRALIA
• Christopher Kueh, Edith Cowan University, AUSTRALIA
• Clive Barstow, Edith Cowan University, AUSTRALIA
• David Cook, Edith Cowan University, AUSTRALIA
• Eunice Sari, Charles Darwin University and UX Indonesia, AUSTRALIA
• Jo Jung, Edith Cowan University, AUSTRALIA
• Michelle Ellis, Edith Cowan University, AUSTRALIA
• Philip Ely, Curtin University, AUSTRALIA
• Martin Masek, Edith Cowan University, AUSTRALIA
• Mark McMahon, Edith Cowan University, AUSTRALIA
• Mark Reynolds, University of Western Australia, AUSTRALIA
• Tele Tan, Curtin University, AUSTRALIA
• Honorary Local Conference Steering Board Members
• Vasillis Kostakos, Univ. Melbourne, AUSTRALIA

UNDER FIRE (short articles)

The post-millennium world has seen a rapid escalation of violent conflicts in the Middle East, West, Central and some areas of Southern Africa, and ongoing civil wars, refugee migrations on unprecedented scales and human rights abuses in a variety of other regions across the world. As a means to engage these developments, Critical Arts instituted a new Section, “Under Fire” in 2002. This is in keeping with its interpretation of cultural studies as a form of praxis, of experience, and of strategic intervention, in which individuals find themselves caught up in broader process over which they may have little or no control. The aim of this section is to invite short (anything up to 2000 words) theorised autobiographies, authoethnographies, and dramatic narratives of what it is like living under fire, of the relevance of cultural studies in such circumstances, and how it could be deployed to challenge such conditions. The original Call emanated from a number of unsolicited submissions we had been receiving from colleagues in Palestine and Zimbabwe, letters from friends in Israel, and marginalised groups in South Africa, and from academics whose research and work is pilloried by hostile authorities. The exigencies of being under fire make it hard to find the discursive space in which participants can catch enough breath to speak the truths of their own participation:

• When does a culture of resistance lose focus, becoming a culture of violence as an end in itself?
• At what point can one recognize when legitimate defence against violence has suddenly become indistinguishable from the Warsaw Ghetto?
• How can we turn war-talk into justice-talk, without provoking war-mongers to renewed efforts?
• In a world with a global view of even the most local eruption of violence, how can those under fire on opposite sides of the street, the valley, the river, the sand dune find enough space to escape the solidarities of occupation, of resistance, and develop a language of restitution, restoration, Reformation, in the face of corporate and state reaction?
• Closer to our own sites of research, when does academic managerialism and bureaucratisation of research become offensive, anti-humanist and self-destructive? The academic enterprise is under fire itself, as are many employed within it.

“Under Fire” offers such a space, and we do not expect to define what will make submissions acceptable or not. The object is for those who have had enough, to speak in the ways they believe those across the camp or the corridor might attend to them. The “Under Fire” submissions should reflect not just the pressures of a personal involvement within a context of oppression, occupation, or resistance; it should carry a clear indication of just how this involvement tests the cultural studies tradition. In this “test” the writers’ experience can draw not only on the cultural studies method of examining texts in relation to contexts, but should also use the writer’s own context as the critical touchstone for pushing the cultural studies envelope.

For more see:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02560240285310041

Some Recent Under Fire Postings:

Njabulo Ndebele, They are Burning Memory https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02560046.2017.1318158

Chris Merrett, Marx, Labour and the Academy https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02560046.2013.784389

Brenden Gray, Neoliberalising Higher Education https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02560046.2016.1269237

And the essay that started the section in 2002:

Lena Jayyusi, Letters from the Palestinian Ghetto, 8-13 March 2002 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02560240285310051

Submission Guidelines:

Submissions should be made online via ScholarOne Manuscripts at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rcrc (in cases where internet connectivity is not conducive to a ScholarOne submission, we will still accept manuscripts submitted via email to the Critical Arts office. Send to David Nothling at criticalarts@ukzn.ac.za and/or editor-in-chief, Keyan Tomaselli, at tomasell@ukzn.ac.za). Submissions should be original works not simultaneously submitted elsewhere, if up to 2000 words in length including any references. Referencing should be done according to the Chicago manual of style (see attachment).

Critical Arts URLs:

Author Services: http://journalauthors.tandf.co.uk/

Critical Arts Home Page: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rcrc20

eJournals Archive (1980-1992) Open Access: http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/africanjournals/html/browse.cfm?colid=263

IAMCR pre-conference

July 5, 2019

Madrid, Spain

Deadline: June 3, 2019

Description: 

It is an undeniable fact that the world is changing, also politically speaking. All over the world new political parties of far-right and far-left political tendencies have come to stay in many societies historically known for their socialist governments in the past. Even in some core countries of the European Union, such as France or Italy, far-right political parties either are already in power or have grown in size and number of voters – thus becoming more important in the political scene. The reasons for this growth may vary in each country, but they are often associated with an increase of both legal and illegal immigration while, simultaneously, welfare systems in these countries tend to decrease and provide less benefits for the citizens. In many cases these developments affect public trust in established political actors and institutions negatively. The rapidly changing political landscape potentially influences existing media-politics relations and, more generally, fundamental conditions for open societies. Media policies are no longer only related to left-right wing positions, but also related to traditional elites versus populist perspectives. What are the media policies and strategies expressed by recently-elected far-right populist parties? To what extent have they been influential and how can these new tendencies be measured?

In this conference we will analyze contemporary media policy developments in different contexts and countries in order to arrive to relevant findings that allow us to ‘measure’ the different influences of far-right and far-left populist parties’ strategies and effects. Also, we will try to define the democratic consequences that populist media policies entail, if any.

This pre-conference is organized with the support of the Official Research Group "Nordic Model and Culture of the Information Society" (Research Group Nº 962068) of Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

We invite academic colleagues, researchers, journalists and political experts to submit abstracts to this IAMCR 2019 International Communication Section pre-conference.

Location: Conference Room, New Building at the Faculty of Information Sciences, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Date and time: Friday 5 July 2019, 9:30 to 18:00.

Participation and registration: Participation in this pre-conference is free of charge. Registration is required.

Call for proposals: Abstracts (300-500 words) should be submitted for blind review before Monday, 3 June to iamcr2019.popmediapreconf@gmail.com. Authors will be notified on Monday, 10 June.

The language of this pre-conference is English, only.

Organisers

Prof. Dr. Karen Arriaza Ibarra, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, is Chair of the International Communication Section of IAMCR. She participates actively in international conferences and seminars and is the author of articles and books on international communication, political communication, media structure, and cultural industries. 

Email: arriazaibarra@ccinf.ucm.es

Prof. Dr. Lars Nord, Mid-Sweden University, is the Head of the Department of Political Communication at Mid-Sweden University, Sundsvall Campus, and also the Director of the DEMICOM Institute. His profile can be seen in this link.

email: iamcr2019.popmediapreconf@gmail.com

An IAMCR 2019 post-conference

July 12, 2019

Segovia (Spain)

Deadline: May 12, 2019

The post-conference event will be held in Segovia, Spain, sponsored by IAMCR's Media Education Research Section and with the participation of Universidad de Valladolid (Campus María Zambrano, Segovia). The aim of this post-conference is to take stock of media literacy education in 2019, over 35 years after the Grunwald Declaration, and at a time of cultural and political shifts in an era of populism and “post-truth.”

Date and time: 12 July 2019, 09:00 to 20:00

Location: Universidad de Valladolid, Plaza de la Universidad, 1. 40005 Segovia, Spain.

Participation and registration: A fee of 50 € (Euros) will cover registration and will include lunch and beverages for the day. The fee will be reduced to 30 € for IAMCR and UVA members, as well as for graduate students and colleagues from low-income countries.

Please send abstracts (in English or Spanish) of 300 to 500 words by 12 May 2019 to contacto@educacionmediatica.es and meriamcr2019@gmail.com

Convenors

IAMCR Media Education Research Section

Grupo de Investigación Reconocido “Educación y TIC” de la UVA (Alfonso Gutiérrez Martín)

Organisers

Alfonso Gutiérrez Martín, University of Valladolid

Michael Hoechsmann, Lakehead University, Faculty of Education

Stuart Poyntz, Simon Fraser University, School of Communication

Email: contacto@educacionmediatica.es

Tel: +34 664578336

October 23-25, 2019

School of Media, Faculty of Media, Communication and Design, National Research University HSE, Moscow

Deadline: May 31, 2019

Keynote Speakers

• Vincent Mosco, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Queen's University (Canada)
• Joe Karaganis, vice-president American Assembly, Columbia University, editor of the report “Media Piracy in Emerging Economies” (US)
• Patrick Burkart, professor, Texas A&M University (US)
• Tristan Mattelart, professor, French Institute of Press, University of Paris II Pantheon-Assas (France)
• Göran Bolin, professor Södertorn University (Sweden)
• Aleksandra Elbakyan, creator of Sci-Hub (platform of free scholar publications)

Call for Papers

This conference explores piracy as a figure navigating the conventions, norms and boundaries of legality in digital cultures and beyond. Offline and online piracies thrive on technological affordances yet they do so in opposition to corporate efforts -in music, film, publishing and academia- to label them as threatening for the economy and society. In turn, pirate activities frequently become themselves subject to economic exploitation, co-optation and spectacurilzation by market forces. During the last decades, while the copyrights industry lobbies for tighter IP laws on a global scale, social media corporations find productive ways to capture counter-hegemonic networks through the exploitation of free or leisure time and users’ data. Caught in the highly flexible and contingent context of digital networks, piracy allows for the probing of norms and boundaries, questioning the logics that define intellectual property laws, broadening the uses and perceptions of authored production and enabling new forms of technology usage surpassing corporate control. Moving beyond approaches that represent piracy in terms of illegality or supply and demand, we propose to explore pirate networked sociabilities working within and outside the fringes of market economy through the lens of institutional and discursive power and attempts to escape corporate control.

The discourse on piracy can be seen as part of a broader set of discourses and practices shaping the figure of the threat in media and culture, that is to say the construction of borderline and contested practices, identities and phenomena that rest on the threshold of the legitimate and illegitimate, the legal and the illegal. We understand these boundaries to be highly contingent, historical and politically defined and subject to discursive contestation. To bring few examples beyond digital piracy, the figures of the ‘parasite’ in biology, the ‘virus’ in digital worlds or the ‘benefit scrounger’ in public discourse become likewise threats that have to be managed and confronted for the presumed progress of the community. We look for abstracts that explore the threat as a broader phenomenon related to issues of political economy, otherness, marginality, resistance, community, assimilation, camouflaging, gender, class, recognition and representation. We seek to address the power relations in designations of the threat (who, why, when and by whom is someone categorized as a threat) as well as explore the conditions under which authorities and legal entities decide who has the right to exist and how.

We welcome contributions in the following topics:

• Legality, Illegality and Sharing Economies
• Political Economy of Othering
• Disruption and the New Economy
• Academic Publishing and Piracy
• Art, Music and Piracy
• Discourses on Disruption
• Ecosystem and Disruption
• Gender, Class, Sexual Others
• Viruses and Parasites in Media
• Human and Non-Human Worlds

Submissions should include the name(s) and institutional affiliations of the applicant(s), email address and abstracts no longer than 500 words (including references) in English or in Russian.

Abstracts must be submitted before May, 31, 2019 at: piracyandbeyond@gmail.com

Participants will be notified about acceptance by June 30, 2019

For any further information, please contact us at: piracyandbeyond@gmail.com

WEBSITE: https://cmd.hse.ru/mediapiracy/

Organizers

• Ilya Kirya, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
• Yiannis Mylonas, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
• Panos Kompatsiaris, Higher School of Economics, Moscow

University of Tübingen

Deadline: June 16, 2019

The Chair for Empirical Media Research at the Institute of Media Studies (Prof. Zurstiege), University of Tübingen, has the following position available as of October 01/2019: Academic Employee (m/f/d) (full-time, German public sector pay scheme E 13 TV-L).

The duties of the position holder include academic teaching in the field of media science (4 hours per week during the semester) as well as cooperation in the context of the ongoing projects at the department.

The following is expected: a doctorate in media or communication science as well as profound knowledge of quantitative and / or qualitative research methods. The position provides the opportunity for further qualification (habilitation) and is initially limited to three years.

The University of Tuebingen seeks to raise the number of women in research and therefore invites qualified female scientists to apply. Disabled persons will be preferred in case of equal qualification. Recruitment is carried out by the central administration.

Applications with the usual documents, including a copy of the dissertation and a presentation of the habilitation project, preferably in electronic form, should be submitted by June 16/2019 to: Prof. Dr. Guido Zurstiege (guido.zurstiege@uni-tuebingen.de), University of Tuebingen, Institute of Media Studies, Wilhelmstr. 50, 72074 Tuebingen, Germany 

Institut für Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, Klagenfurt University

Application deadline: May 21, 2019

Die Universität Klagenfurt will mehr qualifizierte Frauen für Professuren gewinnen.

Am Institut für Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft der Fakultät für Kulturwissenschaften an der Universität Klagenfurt ist gem. § 98 UG voraussichtlich ab 1. Jänner 2020 eine unbefristete Universitätsprofessur für Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften im vollen Beschäftigungsausmaß zu besetzen.

Mit rund 12.000 Studierenden ist die Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt eine junge, lebendige und innovative Universität, die am Schnittpunkt zwischen alpiner und mediterraner Kultur – einer Region mit höchster Lebensqualität – liegt. Als staatliche Universität gemäß § 6 UG ist sie aus Bundesmitteln finanziert. Ihr Leitbild steht unter der Devise „Grenzen überwinden!“. Das QS Top 50 Under 50 Ranking 2019 zählt sie zu den 150 besten jungen Universitäten der Welt.

Gemäß ihrem zentralen Strategiedokument, dem Entwicklungsplan, gehören der wissenschaftliche Exzellenzanspruch bei Berufungen, vorteilhafte Forschungsbedingungen, gute Betreuungsrelationen und die Förderung des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses zu den vorrangig leitenden Grundsätzen und Zielen der Universität.

Area of responsibility

Der Aufgabenbereich der Professur umfasst:

• die Vertretung des Faches in Forschung und Lehre insbesondere in den Bereichen Mediatisierung sowie Medienbildung im Kontext der Digitalisierung
• die organisatorisch-koordinierende Mitbetreuung des Fachs und die Mitwirkung an der curricularen Entwicklungs- und Evaluationsarbeit
• die Mitwirkung in den Bachelor- und Masterstudien des Institutes
• die Mitwirkung im Doktoratsstudium sowie an der Entwicklung und Implementierung von Doktoratsprogrammen
• die Beratung und Betreuung von Studierenden im Fach, insbesondere die Betreuung von Bachelorarbeiten, Masterarbeiten und Dissertationen
• die Mitwirkung an der Profilbildung des Instituts
• die Beratung und Förderung des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses
• die Mitwirkung im Universitätsmanagement

Requirements

• Habilitation in Medien- und/oder Kommunikationswissenschaft oder gleichzuhaltende Qualifikation
• hervorragende Forschung und Lehre im Bereich Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft im Schwerpunktbereich Mediatisierung, Medienbildung im Kontext der Digitalisierung
• nachgewiesene universitäre Lehrerfahrung und hochschuldidaktische Kompetenz
• Führungskompetenz und Teamfähigkeit

Desired skills

• Bereitschaft zur Weiterentwicklung des Fachs
• Erfahrungen in der internationalen Forschungskooperation und Einbettung in die internationale Forschungslandschaft
• Internationale Forschungs- und Publikationsleistungen
• Fähigkeit und Bereitschaft zur Leitung einer Organisationseinheit
• Bereitschaft und Fähigkeit zu interdisziplinärer Kooperation
• Innovative Ansätze in der Entwicklung und Vermittlung von Theorien und Methoden
• Thematische Bezüge zum 2019 gegründeten Digital Age Research Center (D!ARC) der Universität (interdisziplinärer Potenzialbereich „Humans in the Digital Age“, HDA)
• Erfahrung in der Konzeption und Durchführung von Drittmittelprojekten
• Kompetenz im Bereich Gender Mainstreaming und Diversity Management

Additional information

Der Aufgabenbereich der Professur bedingt, dass die zukünftige Professorin / der zukünftige Professor den Arbeitsmittelpunkt nach Klagenfurt verlegt.

Die Universität strebt eine Erhöhung des Frauenanteils beim wissenschaftlichen Personal ­— insbesondere in Leitungsfunktionen ­— an und fordert daher qualifizierte Frauen ausdrücklich zur Bewerbung auf. Frauen werden bei gleicher Qualifikation vorrangig aufgenommen.

Menschen mit Behinderungen oder chronischen Erkrankungen, die die geforderten Qualifikationen erfüllen, werden ausdrücklich zur Bewerbung aufgefordert.

Die Bezüge sind Verhandlungsgegenstand. Das Mindestentgelt für diese Verwendung (A1 gem. Universitäten-Kollektivvertrag) beträgt derzeit € 71.900,-- brutto jährlich.

Neuerdings kann bei Berufungen nach Österreich für die ersten fünf Tätigkeitsjahre ein attraktiver Zuzugsfreibetrag gemäß Einkommensteuergesetz gewährt werden. Die Voraussetzungen sind im Einzelfall zu prüfen.

Ihre Bewerbung besteht bitte aus einem maximal fünfseitigen Pflichtteil, einem vollständigen Verzeichnis der Publikationen und Vorträge und der in den letzten fünf Studienjahren abgehaltenen Lehrveranstaltungen sowie allfälligen ergänzenden Unterlagen (z.B. Lehrveranstaltungs­evaluierungen). Die Übermittlung des o.g. Pflichtteils ist eine notwendige Bedingung für Ihre gültige Bewerbung. Bitte übermitteln Sie Ihre Unterlagen bis spätestens 21. Mai 2019 per E-Mail an die Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Büro des Senats, z. Hd. Frau Sabine Tomicich (application_professorship@aau.at).

Für die Berufungsvorträge ist der 1.Oktober 2019 in Aussicht genommen. Für inhaltliche Fragen beachten Sie bitte die allgemeinen Informationen für BewerberInnen (www.aau.at/jobs/information) oder wenden sich an den Vorsitzenden der Berufungskommission, Herrn Prof. DDr. Matthias Karmasin (Matthias.Karmasin@aau.at).

Es besteht kein Anspruch auf Abgeltung von Reise- und Aufenthaltskosten, die aus Anlass des Aufnahmeverfahrens entstehen.

Abstract submission: October 1, 2019

Article deadline: January 10, 2020

To an increasing extent we are using media to make sense of, communicate about or track our health, physical as well as mental. With this issue of Conjunctions we wish to explore this expanding and interdisciplinary field of media and health and emerging forms of participation in health through media. The issue aims for a deeper understanding of how and with what consequences digital and social media are becoming an integral part of how medical practitioners as well as private persons practice, communicate about and understand health and illness. The topic of media and health invite scholars to consider how perceptions of health, health practices and the life of patients are changing with the interweaving of digital media participation.

This special issue addresses the multiple ways in which the uses of digital media contribute to the reconfiguring of traditional doctor- and patient roles – and practices as well as culturally constructed perceptions of health and illness. How do the participatory affordances of digital technologies change perceptions of what it means to be healthy and how we cope with illness? What is at stake as patients become more engaged in their health, illness, visits to the GP through the use of tracking devices, social media and information searching?

Scholars are invited to focus on the role of digital media of all kinds in new health practices. We encourage an interdisciplinary approach coupling media studies on health with sociological, cultural or healthcare perspectives. Empirical analyses as well as methodological and theoretical discussions are welcomed. As health practices and perceptions differ greatly across the world, we invite contributions from a broad range of social and cultural contexts.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Mixed methods approaches to gathering and analysing data on media and health
• Empirical analyses of public health campaigns and news media coverage of health-related issues
• The digitisation of the healthcare system in doctor and/or patient perspective
• Empirical analyses of health-related practices on social media or through self-tracking technologies or other forms of participatory patient practices
• Theoretical and methodological discussions about challenges and opportunities on the topic of health studies within digital humanities
• Discussions and use of core concepts within media- and health studies such as affordances, domestication, power, place and time as well as patient empowerment-, participation- and education.

Timeline:

• October 1, 2019: Submission of article abstracts
• October 10, 2019: Editor decision on selection of abstracts for the special issue
• January 10, 2020: Submission of articles
• February, 2020: Review phase
• May 1, 2020: Final submission of revised articles
• Medio 2020: Publication of special issue

Stedelijk Studies 10: (Spring 2020)

Deadline: June 14, 2019

The web of digitized collections and archives in the field of arts and culture is expanding rapidly. As with any technological burst, the digital imperative evokes promises for an improved functionality, but also brings about new challenges and perils. Many museums, like other memory institutions, embrace the digitalization of their archives and collections as means to attract new audiences, for instance, and further their participation and engagement in their collections, their program of activities, and their research. At the same time, these digital transformations challenge existing modes of knowledge production and dissemination, requiring new competencies and new forms of collaboration.

This issue of Stedelijk Studies investigates how we imagine those transformations, and how they affect cultural and academic practices. We invite manuscripts that critically investigate how practices of digitization of collections and archives transform knowledge production and knowledge exchange across academia, museums, and archives. This question ties in with recent scholarship in the fields of digital heritage, digital art history, and digital humanities, but is also addressed in other fields, such as science and technology studies (STS), artistic practices, and design theory.

Scrutinizing existing digitization practices allows us to identify and challenge the forceful imaginaries that often kick-start and drive large-scale and costly digitization projects. Socio-technological imaginaries are part of new technological developments, but as social theorists (c.f. Castoriadis 1997; Marcus 1995; Flichy 1999; Jasanoff and Kim 2015) have argued, such imaginaries are not innocent; they shape our perceptions and elicit our actions, even if we may not realize they do. With this issue we therefore aim to explore how interdisciplinary scholarship on the effects and challenges of digitalization may enhance a deeper understanding of past and current projects concerned with the digitization and new usages of archives and collections in the field of arts and culture, such as Stedelijk Text Mining Project, Time Machine, and Accurator. To start the discussion, we identify three dominant promises associated with such digitization projects. Contributions addressing other possible promises are equally welcome.

Promise 1: Towards increasing inclusivity

Projects involving digital archives and collections are often presented as challenging traditional forms of knowledge production and consumption, and by extension, as questioning our cultural canons (Ciasullo, Troisi & Cosimato 2018). Through co-creation and participatory designs, such projects promise a less hierarchical form of knowledge production in which practitioners, academics, and, increasingly, citizens or niche experts are considered equal contributors to knowledge production (Ridge 2016). The development of more inclusive and diverse digital “pipelines” that include crowdsourcing and folksonomies, however, also warrants practical, moral and epistemological concerns over biases, authority and accuracy, and issues of multiple interpretations and narratives.

Promise 2: Towards complete connectivity

Many heritage and cultural institutions are adopting linked open data as a way to organize and disseminate their collections, archives, and research data (Jones & Seikel 2016; Van Hooland & Verborgh 2014). The advent of linked open data would allow unlimited aggregation of materials from disparate geographical locations. It promises a transition from specialized and siloed information in archives and museums to a web of cultural data. Yet the operationalization of linked open data comes with many questions and concerns, ranging from web standards and domain-specific ontologies, loss of contextual information, presentation of provenance, and user interfaces, to legal and ethical considerations related to copyright and privacy.

Promise 3: Towards unlimited and easy access

Online resources provide access to tens of millions of items from thousands of cultural institutions. In an ideal world, these increasingly democratic and connected institutions will offer unlimited and easy access to data that are personalized and meaningful, but also reusable for academic research. In reality, the myriad interfaces and smart digital techniques notwithstanding, many users and producers still experience difficulties in accessing, interpreting, and presenting online archival and collection data (Kabassi 2017). This may in part be the result of lagging digital literacy skills, and evokes concerns about, for instance, the aptness of the methodologies researchers employ in analyzing this data. It also raises questions about how diverging interests of developers, cultural organizations, and audiences affect the affordances of human-centered designs in graphical and conversational user interfaces.

This issue of Stedelijk Studies aims to reflect on these kinds of promises, encouraging practitioners and academic researchers to revisit past and current digitization efforts. We particularly invite discussions of good practices as well as failed projects in order to assess indicators of success and failure against the backdrop of such promises. Contributions can be submitted in the form of text with images, but with this issue we also seek to explore innovative digital publication formats. We welcome theoretical, methodological, and practice- or case-based contributions focusing on questions such as:

• What kinds of imaginaries can be identified in the digitization of archives and collections? How are future imaginaries about the digital enacted in archiving practices?
• How do diverging expectations of developers, content producers, volunteers, niche experts, and computer scientists affect digital projects involving collections and archives?
• How can we assess the processes and outcomes of digitization projects of memory institutions in light of presumed promises? What are examples of good practices, and what can we learn from failed attempts?
• Which new imaginaries may emerge from scrutinizing past and current projects in the realm of digital archives and collections?

The thematic issue Imagining the Future of Digital Archives and Collections will be edited by Dr. Vivian van Saaze (Maastricht University), Dr. Claartje Rasterhoff (University of Amsterdam), and Karen Archey (Stedelijk Museum).

ABOUT STEDELIJK STUDIES

Stedelijk Studies is a high-quality, peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. The journal comprises research related to the Stedelijk collection, exploring institutional history, museum studies (e.g., education and conservation practice), and current topics in the field of visual arts and design.

SUBMISSION

Deadline for the abstract (max. 300 words) and CV is June 14, 2019.

Deadline for the article (4,000–5,000 words) is October 15, 2019.

Publication of the issue will be in May 2020.

Please send abstracts and other editorial correspondence to:

Esmee Schoutens, Managing Editor, Stedelijk Studies stedelijkstudies@stedelijk.nl

Edited by Jessica Retis and Roza Tsagarousinanou

Co-published by IAMCR and Wiley Blackwell Willey Webpage.

Description:

Over the past three decades, the term ‘diaspora’ has been featured in many research studies and in wider theoretical debates in areas such as communications, the humanities, social sciences, politics, and international relations. The Handbook of Diasporas, Media, and Culture explores new dimensions of human mobility and connectivity—presenting state-of-the-art research and key debates on the intersection of media, cultural, and diasporic studies

The Handbook presents contributions from internationally-recognized scholars and researchers to strengthen understanding of diasporas and diasporic cultures, diasporic media and cultural resources, and the various forms of diasporic organization, expression, production, distribution, and consumption.

The Handbook of Diasporas, Media, and Culture is ideal for undergraduate and graduate students, teachers, lecturers, and researchers in areas that focus on the relationship of media and society, ethnic identity, race, class and gender, globalization and immigration, and other relevant fields.

Table of Contents:

1. Diasporas, Media, and Culture: Exploring Dimensions of Human Mobility and Connectivity in the Era of Global Interdependency. Roza Tsagarousianou and Jessica Retis
2. Diasporas: Changing Meanings and Limits of the Concept. Robin Cohen
3. Digital Diasporas: Beyond the Buzzword: Toward a Relational Understanding of Mobility and Connectivity. Laura Candidatu, Koen Leurs, and Sandra Ponzanesi
4. The Tragedy of the Cultural Commons: Cultural Crossroads and the Paradoxes of Identity. Thomas Hylland Eriksen
5. Diaspora and the Plurality of Its Cosmopolitan Imaginaries. Myria Georgiou
6. Beyond the Concept of Diaspora?: Reevaluating our Theoretical Toolkit Through the Study of Muslim Transnationalism. Roza Tsagarousianou
7. Doing Diasporic Media Research: Methodological Challenges and Innovations. Kevin Smets
8. Homogenizing Heterogeneity in Transnational Contexts: Latin American Diasporas and the Media in the Global North. Jessica Retis
9. Unraveling Diaspora and Hybridity: Brazil and the Centrality of Geopolitical Context in Analyzing Culture in Global Postcolonial Space. Niall Brennan
10. Media, Racism, and Haitian Immigration in Brazil. Denise Cogo and Terezinha Silva
11. China’s Vessel on the Voyage of Globalization: The Soft Power Agenda and Diasporic Media Responses. Wanning Sun
12. Digital Diaspora: Social Alliances Beyond the Ethnonational Bond. Saskia Witteborn
13. Transnational Mediated Commemoration of Migrant Deaths at the Borders of Europe. Karina Horsti
14. The Politics of Diasporic Integration: The Case of Iranians in Britain. Annabelle Sreberny and Reza Gholami
15. Scripting Indianness: Remediating Narratives of Diasporic Affiliation and Authenticity. Radha S. Hegde
16. Media Representations of Diasporic Cultures and the Impact on Audiences: Polarization, Power, and the Limits of Interculturality. Miquel Rodrigo‐Alsina, Antonio Pineda, and Leonarda Garcia‐Jimenez
17. Toward a Democratization of the Public Space?: Challenges for the Twenty‐First Century. Alicia Ferrandez Ferrer
18. Decolonizing National Public Spheres: Indigenous Migrants as Transnational Counterpublics. Antonieta Mercado
19. The Power of Communication Networks for the Political Formation of a New Social Actor in Chile: The Case of Migrant Action Movement. Ximena Poo
20. Making National Cultures: Sindhis in Indonesia’s Media Industries. Thomas Barker
21. Reporting Violence and Naming Migrants in Assam: The Coverage of Anti‐“Bengali Muslim” Violence in Assam by The Assam Tribune Newspaper. Musab Iqbal
22. Media and Nationalism Beyond Borders. Janroj Yilmaz Keles
23.  Online Diasporas: Beyond Long‐Distance Nationalisms. Angeliki Monnier
24. Somali Development Agents as Development Communicators: Visions and “Religious” Challenges. Michele Gonnelli
25. The Mediation of Migration and States of Exception. Miyase Christensen and Christian Christensen
26. Intersections and (Dis)Connections: LGBTQ Uses of Digital Media in the Diaspora. Alexander Dhoest
27. Sri Lankan Migrant Women Watching Teledramas in Melbourne: A Social Act of Identity. Shashini Ruwanthi Gamage
28. Digital Diasporas: Accounting for the Role of Family Talk in Transnational Social Spaces. Gabriel Moreno‐Esparza
29. Italian Post‐war Migration to Britain: Cinema and the Second Generation. Margherita Sprio
30. Between Access and Exclusion: Iranian Diasporic Broadcasting in Open TV Channels in Germany. Christine Horz
31. Low Frequencies in the Diaspora: The Black Subaltern Intellectual and Hip‐Hop Cultures. Bryce Henson
32. Facebook for Community, Direct Action, and Archive: Diaspora Responses to the 2014 Floods in the Balkans. Deborah James
33. The Romanian Scientific E‐Diaspora: Online Mobilization, Transnational Agency, and Globalization of Domestic Policies. Mihaela Nedelcu
34. Refugees, Information Precarity, and Social Inclusion: The Precarious Communication Practices of Syrians Fleeing War. Melissa Wall, Madeline Otis Campbell, and Dana Janbek
35. Racial and Class Distinctions Online: The Case of the Mexican European Diaspora on Social Networking Sites. Lorena Nessi and Olga Bailey
36. Physical and Virtual Spaces Among the Palestinian Diaspora in Malmo. Fanny Christou and Spyros Sofos
37. Developing and Defending Mixed Identity: Lessons from the Caribbean Diaspora. Charisse L’Pree Corsbie‐Massay and Raven S. Maragh-Lloyd
38. Latino and Asian as Pan‐Ethnic Layers of Identity and Media Use Among Second‐Generation Immigrants. Joseph Straubhaar, Laura Dixon, Jeremiah Spence, and Viviana Rojas
39. Migration, Transnational Families, and New Communication Technologies. Mirca Madianou

About the Editors

Roza Tsagarousianou is Reader in Media and Communication, CAMRI, University of Westminster, UK. She is author of Islam in Europe: Public Spaces and Civic Networks and of Diasporic Cultures and Globalization, and co-author of Cyberdemocracy: Technology, Cities & Civic Networks.

Jessica Retis is Associate Professor of Journalism, California State University Northridge, USA. She is author of Immigrant Media Spaces in Madrid: Genesis and Evolution, and co-author of BBC & TVE Daily Newscasts: Professionals and Audiences' Discourses. She has edited several works including Immigration and Media: Proposals for Journalists.