ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

October 11, 2019

Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) Munich, Germany

Deadline: June 1, 2019

Organizers

• Prof. Sahana Udupa (Ludwig Maximilian University Munich)
• Dr. Elisabetta Costa (University of Groningen)
• Dr. Philipp Budka (University of Vienna)

By building on the Media Anthropology Network panel at the EASA 2018 conference in Stockholm and the follow-up e-seminar from 16 Oct. - 9 Nov. 2018 (http://www.media-anthropology.net/index.php/e-seminars), this workshop critically explores “the digital turn” in the anthropological study of media, and aims to push further ethnographic knowledge into the role that digital media technologies play in people's everyday life and broader sociopolitical transformations. In so doing, this workshop contributes to the reassessment of media anthropology in digital times, and raises critical questions on how digital media have posed new epistemological challenges, inspired methodological innovations, and offered opportunities for political activism for media anthropologists.

A key question that drives this discussion is whether the digital turn has reconfigured the classic distinction between “home” and “field” through temporally intensified “horizontal” networks on a global scale.

Have these connections – culturally translated across different societies – collapsed the distinction between “home” and “field”? As users and researchers of digital media, how do we rework anthropology’s classic conundrum of home-field, distance-nearness and us-other in radically progressive ways? What does the “digital turn” entail in terms of how we engage research participants, and how do we use these new pathways to critique the multidirectional “colonial matrix of power” (Mignalo & Walsh, 2007) that is riding on the very infrastructure of contemporary digital media?

We invite scholars to engage with these questions through various topic fields they are researching, and consider this reflexive move as an important step towards challenging “the global fact” of racial, gender, ethnic and religion-based exclusions. We also invite scholars to bring cases of innovative use of digital research to overcome prevailing hierarchies in anthropological knowledge production – between researchers and research participants, as well as within the academic community.

Drawing from their own research, and from their engagement with relevant literatures, workshop participants will ask the following questions:

* What is the present state of anthropological study on digital media technologies and their impact on culture and society?

* What are the main questions in need of urgent research (especially in connection to decolonizing media/digital anthropology, gender, visuality, extreme movements and speech)?

* How have digital technologies transformed (media) anthropology and how does the future look for media anthropologists?

* What is the role of digital technology in transforming knowledge production and dissemination in media anthropology?

* How can anthropologists contribute to the interdisciplinary effort of theorizing digital media practices and digital technologies?

* Who will be the main beneficiaries of this research, both in academia and beyond?

We invite ethnographic and/or theoretical papers that focus on the above questions.

Participants who need travel support to attend the workshop are invited to mention the same (limited financial support is available for travel and accommodation).

In a single word document, please send your abstracts of 1000 words and a short bio (100 words) stating your current affiliation, mentioning whether you are an EASA member.

Please use the filename format: authorlastname_digitalturnworkshop2019, and send this no later than 1 June 2019 to digitalturnworkshop@ethnologie.lmu.de

Selected participants will be notified by 30 June 2019. EASA members will get the first preference in travel bursaries.

Proposal Submission Deadline: March 30, 2019

A book edited by Serpil Karlidag (Baskent University) and Selda Bulut (Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University)

Introduction

The political economy approach deals with communication and media as commodities produced by capitalist industries. Media operates as an industry that produces and distributes commodities. As Golding & Murdock (1997:49) identified, the media outputs produced by these industries (newspapers, advertisements, TV programs, movies, music, the gaming industry, etc.) play a vital role in organizing images and discourses that people make the world meaningful. In a sense, media do not only transmit information but also have the function of producing and spreading the symbols that can be called symbolic production. The cultural production produced by the media has a very complex structure. Although the cultural production process has its own characteristics, it is still part of the production of commodification area.

While analyzing the cultural products produced by the media, it should be taken into consideration the relation of this symbolic production with the ideological processes on the basis of material production of society. It is considered that the area of cultural production is not pointless, on the contrary, it is a part of the social control mechanism.

Objective of the Book

The purpose of this book is to provide new approaches besides current trends in the political economy of communication researches in the process of globalization. Specific examples from the above-mentioned subjects including different countries particular in Turkey will contribute to the field and extend the border of the political economy of communication studies into the relatively undiscovered areas. Since the political economy is a holistic field, it can focus on the whole system with more complex and richer analysis. This tradition is also instrumental in attracting the target audience.

Target Audience

The target audience of this book will be composed of academics, postgraduate students, teachers, researchers, professionals.

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

1) What is Political Economy approach?: Historical development, features, methods, and importance.

2) Media property/ownership relations: the ownership of media products and copyright policies

3) Propaganda model: Factors affecting the news production process

4) What Media Produces? Properties of media products, Ideology

5) Audience commodification: commodification, the commodification of audience, the commodification of user in new media

6) The political economy of culture: production, distribution and consumption processes of cultural products, Culture Industry.

7) Labor process: conceptualizations on labor and working in media.

8) The political economy of digital media: new communication technologies, the structure of digital media production.

9) Structures determining consumer preferences and discussions on audience freedom within these structures.

10) Media and state relations.

Submission Procedure

Contributors are invited to submit on or before March 30, a chapter proposal of 400 to 500 words clearly identifying the topic of the chapter. Proposals should be submitted through the IGI-Global submission system. Authors will be notified of the status of their proposal no later April 29, 2019. Once accepted, all submitted chapters must be original, of high quality 7,000- 10,000 words in length at the publication stage. All submissions will be refereed through a double-blind review process. Author(s) of the accepted proposal are required to submit their full chapter no later than September 30, 2019 to facilitate the review process. Submitted chapters should not have been previously published nor be currently under review for publication at other venues. Submissions should follow the manuscript format guidelines from IGI Global. All authors are encouraged to visit the IGI Global resource site below before beginning the writing process:

http://www.igi-global.com/publish/contributor-resources/#books-authors

Note:

There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted to this book publication, Current Theories and Practice in the Political Economy of Communications and Media. All manuscripts are accepted based on a double blind peer review editorial process.

Publisher

This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), an international academic publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference," "Business Science Reference," and "Engineering Science Reference" imprints. IGI Global specializes in publishing reference books, scholarly journals, and electronic databases featuring academic research on a variety of innovative topic areas including, but not limited to, education, social science, medicine and healthcare, business and management, information science and technology, engineering, public administration, library and information science, media and communication studies, and environmental science. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2020.

Important Dates

• March 30, 2019: Proposal Submission Deadline
• April 29, 2019: Notification of Acceptance
• September 30, 2019: Full Chapter Submission
• November 30, 2019: Review Results Returned
• December 30, 2019: Final Acceptance Notification
• january 30, 2019: Final Chapter Submission

Editorial Advisory Board Members:

• Serpil Karlidag, Baskent University, Ankara/Turkey
• Selda Bulut, Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University, Ankara/Turkey
• Inquiries can be forwarded to
• Serpil Karlidag, Baskent University
• Selda Bulut, Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University

Editor's Contact Information

serpilkarli@yahoo.com

seldabulut@gmail.com

 October 17-18, 2019

University of Amsterdam

Deadline: May 15, 2019

Around the world, racist discourses, attitudes, and practices have moved from the fringes into the mainstream, putting core democratic values under pressure. Familiar racial orders have resurfaced and reinforced racist borders, both metaphorical and material. The sixth annual conference of the Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies (ACGS) invites papers that examine how forms, discourses and practices of racism have materialized in various institutional contexts.

Keynote speakers:

• Gargi Bhattacharyya (University of East London, UK)

Gargi Bhattacharyya is a Professor of Sociology at the UEL’s Centre for Migration, Refugees and Belonging and the author, most recently, of Rethinking Racial Capitalism: Questions of Reproduction and Survival (2018).

• Barnor Hesse (Northwestern University, Evanston, USA)

Barnor Hesse is an Associate Professor of African American Studies, Political Science and Sociology and the co-editor, most recently, of After #Ferguson, After #Baltimore: The Challenge of Black Death and Black Life for Black Political Thought (2017, with Juliet Hooker).

• David Lloyd (University of California, Riverside, USA)

David Lloyd is Distinguished Professor of English and the author, most recently, of Under Representation: The Racial Regime of Aesthetics (2018).

Description:

Around the world, racist discourses, attitudes, and practices have moved from the fringes into the mainstream, putting core democratic values under pressure. Familiar racial orders have resurfaced and reinforced racist borders, both metaphorical and material. The sixth annual conference of the Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies (ACGS) invites papers that examine how forms, discourses and practices of racism have materialized in various institutional contexts. Organized in cooperation with the collaborative research centre Dynamics of Security at the Universities of Giessen and Marburg, Germany, the conference’s main conceptual focus is on the institutional dimensions of racism. How and by whom has racism been ‘mainstreamed’ in different countries and regions around the globe? What kinds of discourses, techniques, strategies and tactics have been mobilized to mainstream racism? And how does this take shape in diverse institutional settings, including politics, education, international institutions, the media, cultural foundations, the police, and the legal system? In the wake of unrestrained, state-led xenophobia and populist nationalism, the function of race as a building block of culture, education, finance, nationalism and democracy can no longer be dissolved into ethnicity, nationalism and religion. Thus, the function of race cannot be hidden behind modernity, the Enlightenment, multiculturalism or civilization, deferred to the histories of ‘other’ places and ‘other’ peoples, or relegated to a past that was ostensibly erased with the end of the Holocaust and the birth of modern institutions such as the European Union and the United Nations. We need to employ the full range of research tools and approaches to take stock of how race and racism have continued to underscore state histories and institutions, as well as everyday practices, habits, gestures, affects, languages, aesthetics and representations alike.

Avenues of inquiry may include, but are not limited to:

• Histories of institutional racism
• Racism and populist governance
• Intersectional perspectives on race and racism
• Intersections between different practices of racism
• Whiteness
• Racism and #metoo
• Racism and social media
• Race, immigration and refugee flows
• Race (and) wars
• Borders and bodies
• Race, racism and the digital
• Race and technology
• Legalizing race and racism
• Teaching race and racism
• Race, policing and profiling
• Globalization and neoliberalism
• Nationalism and the nation-state
• Race and popular media
• Fake news and the crisis of journalism
• Multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism
• Colonial legacies, decolonization and neoimperalism
• Aesthetics of race and racism
• Race and cultural institutions
• The politics of color-blindness

Contributions from across the social and political sciences and the humanities are welcome. Please submit an abstract (max. 250-300 words) and a short bio (max. 100 words) by 15 May 2019 to acgs-fgw@uva.nl. Submissions for pre-constituted panels with a maximum of four papers are also welcome.

Notice of acceptance will be sent by 15 June 2019. Draft papers should be submitted before 15 September 2019 and made available for internal circulation among conference participants.

Conference fee: 50 Euros (25 Euros for PhD students).

Conference dinner: 25 Euros.

Organisers: Jeroen de Kloet, Amade M’charek, Thomas Poell (University of Amsterdam), Regina Kreide, Huub van Baar (Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Germany), Anikó Imre (University of Southern California, USA), Dušan Bjelić (University of Southern Maine, USA).

Edited by: Josef Trappel

Inequalities are the unwanted companions of media and communication. Tradi­tional analogue mass media were criticized for creating inequal

ities by being biased, serving hegemonic interests, and accumulating far too much power in the hands of mighty industrial conglomerates. Under the digital regime, most inequalities survived, and new ones occurred. Knowledge gaps transformed into digital divides, news journalism is challenged by social networking sites, and global corporate monopolies outperform national media companies. Algorithmic selection, surveillance, Big Data and the Internet of Things are creating new inequalities which follow traditional patterns of class, gender, wealth and education. This book revisits old and new media and co

mmunication inequalities in times of digital transition. It has been written in a collective effort by the members of the Euromedia Research Group.

Purchase here.

Content

• Preface
• Inequality, (new) media and communications (Josef Trappel)
• Equality – an ambiguous value (Denis McQuail)
• Inequality, social trust and the media. Towards citizens’ communication and information rights (Hannu Nieminen)
• Scale economies and international communications inequality, 1820-2020 (Jeremy Tunstall)
• Political communication, digital inequality and populism (Stylianos Papathanassopoulos, Ralph Negrine)
• Economic inequality, appraisal of the EU and news media (Barbara Thomass)
• Inequality in the media and the “Maslow pyramid” of journalistic needs in Central and Eastern Europe (Péter Bajomi-Lázár)
• The illusion of pluralism. Regulatory aspects of equality in the new media (Judit Bayer)
• The missing link. Blind spots in Europe’s local and regional news provision (Leen d’HaenensWillem Joris, Quint Kik)
• Transforming the news media. Overcoming old and new gender inequalities (Claudia Padovani, Karin Raeymaeckers, Sara De Vuyst)
• Invisible children. Inequalities in the provision of screen content for children (Jeanette Steemers)
• New forms of the digital divide (Elena Vartanova, Anna Gladkova)
• Information and news inequalities (Tristan Mattelart,Stylianos Papathanassopoulos, Josef Trappel)
• Why free news matters for social inequality. Comparing willingness to pay for news in the Nordic region (Hallvard Moe)
• Representation, participation and societal well-being. Addressing inequality in agency in Europe (Aukse Balcytiene, Kristina Juraite)
• Towards a policy for digital capitalism? (Werner A. Meier)
• Contributors 

Deadline: August 1, 2019

South Korea’s ethnoscape has undergone dynamic change. It is peculiar as it has both a postcolonial history with Japan and a neocolonial relationship with the United States. These histories shape complex views of who belongs and who is valued vis-a-vis racial, ethnic, and national others. One major site of the construction of difference is popular culture. Popular and online media in South Korea construct difference through the celebration of the desirable otherness of Whites and biracial White-Koreans (Ahn, 2015), the joining of Southeast Asian women and their multi-ethnic children in the paternal nation-state through the loss of their difference (Oh & Oh, 2016), and marginalized, outcast others, who are rendered irredeemably different. With this in mind, the purpose of the book is to animate postcolonial impulses by drawing together local theories developed in the South Korean context that focuses on the construction of ethnicized, racialized, and nationalized difference in the local cultural terrain.

Previous literature on ethnoracial differences in Korea explains that differences are due to (1) Korea’s myth of ethnic homogeneity (2) Confucian preferences for “civilized” societies, (3) internalization of the racial logics of the US, and (4) a lack of distinction between race, ethnicity, and nation. While each is informative and useful, they are partial explanations and do not adequately explain the ways difference is mediated and discursively constructed, e.g., Western racial hierarchies are not merely mapped onto Korean cultural logics of difference nor are there simple binaries of Koreans versus others.

By bringing together media scholars of Korean popular culture located in and outside Korea, the project aims to map the ways in which ethnic/racial/national difference vis-a-vis Koreanness is represented and constructed at the intersection of race, gender, sexuality, class, ethnicity, and nation. Thus, I seek contributions that analyze the discourse of multiculturalism and ethno/racial/national/regional difference.

As an interdisciplinary project, I am interested in contributions, which include fields such as Communication Studies, Media Studies, Korean Studies, Asian Studies, Sociology, Literature, Performance Studies, and Ethnic Studies. Though it is interdisciplinary, I limit the methods to critical qualitative inquiry in order to maintain a focused epistemological vantage point. Finally, I accept original, unpublished submissions that are written in English. Areas of interest might include but are not limited to:

• Mediated constructions of desirable otherness

• Mediated constructions of assimilated otherness

• Mediated constructions of marginalized otherness

• Mediated constructions of multiple assimilations

• Mediated constructions of ambivalent otherness

• Self-mediated constructions of belonging in the imagined nation

• Self-mediated rejection of the imagined nation

If interested in contributing, please submit a 250-400 word extended abstract and CV to David C. Oh (doh@ramapo.edu) and a 100-word bio by August 1, 2019. Please include (1) your purpose, (2) justification, (3) proposed method, (4), if available, tentative findings, and (5) references. Final manuscripts should be 7,000-8,000 words, which includes all elements of the paper – title page, body essay, references, and, if necessary, tables and figures. Final book chapters will be due June 1, 2020.

September 5-6, 2019

Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Deadline: May 15, 2019

An interdisciplinary conference hosted by ‘Mediatized diaspora (MEDIASP): Contentious Politics among Arab Media Users in Europe’

Keynote speakers:

• Professor Naomi Sakr: Westminster School of Media and Communication, UK.
• Professor Myria Georgiou: Dept of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.
• Associate professor Tourya Guaaybess: Humanities and Social Sciences-Nancy, University of Lorraine. France
• Professor Carola Richter: Institute for Media and Communication Studies. The Free University of Berlin, Germany.

The research project ‘Mediatized diaspora (MEDIASP): Contentious Politics among Arab Media Users in Europe’ at the University of Copenhagen is pleased to announce the call for papers for a two-day conference on regime-critical media – produced in or outside the Middle East and North Africa – and their users in diaspora.

After the Arab Spring, political developments in the Arab countries have varied from sustained civil war in Syria and Yemen to fragile political democracy in Tunisia; from successive regime changes in Egypt to regime maintenance in Bahrain; and from ongoing uprisings in Sudan to “successful” pressure against the regime to resign in Algeria. These developments have a direct impact on the conditions for regime-critical and politically mobilized media and for Arab diasporas living outside the Arab world. Regime-critical media have faced new restrictions and challenges in the Middle Eastern and North African countries post-Arab Spring, letting several media to move to other countries. Likewise, the situation of political activists either still living in the Middle East or in diaspora has greatly changed and their contributions have taken on a new significance.

Hence, the overall questions are: how do regime-critical media produced for the Middle Eastern or North-African audiences meet new challenges and opportunities? How do Middle Eastern and North-African diaspora groups mobilize politically and engage in transnational political activities? How does the audiences’ use of regime-critical media influences political action formation in diaspora?

We invite conference papers that examine the regime-critical media produced both in and outside the Middle East, and/or how media practices of Middle Eastern and North-African political activists in diaspora contribute to political transformation. The conference aims at exploring and discussing the potentially wide variations in regime-critical media and the Arab diasporas’ practices of using them. Both theoretical and empirical contributions are welcome.

The conference welcomes papers on any of the following – or allied – topics or themes:

Regime-critical media in the Middle East and North African countries:

• The history (and developments) of Arab critical media
• Politicization of critical media after the 2011 Arab Spring
• Social media in light of political repression
• Critical media coverage of social movements
• Critical media censorship and ownership
• The performing of conflict by critical media
• Violence and affective media events
• Audio-visual modalities of critical media
• Art, creativity, alternative features of critical media
• Virtual mobility and glocality of critical media
• The legal framework of Arab media
• The future of Arab critical media
• Political activism and media users of regime-critical media:
• Media practices in the diaspora
• Media and migrationhood
• Practices of citizen journalism
• Political activism in digital media
• Cyber activism post-Arab Spring
• Transnational media practice
• Mediatized negotiations and contestations of current developments
• Connective and collective action formations
• Electronic armies (committees) on social media

Abstract Submission

The deadline for submitting proposals for individual papers is May 15. Please submit a title and abstract of about 250 words, in addition to your name, institutional affiliation and contact information.

Please send your abstracts or any enquiries to mediasp@hum.ku.dk.

A selection of accepted papers will be published in a special issue in Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research in April 2020 (Volume 13, Issue 1).

Key dates

• 20 March 2019 – Call for papers is announced
• 15 May 2019 – Deadline for submitting abstracts
• 22 May 2019 – Notification of accepted abstracts
• 4 August 2019 – Deadline for registration
• 1 September 2019 – Deadline for full paper submission, 7500 words
• 5-6 September 2019 – The conference takes place in Copenhagen
• 6 October 2019 – Deadline for paper submission after revisions
• 3 November 2019 – Peer reviewer’s feedback will be send to author
• 1 December 2019 – Deadline for submission of final paper

The conference does not cover travel or accommodation costs for the participants.

Conference host

The host of the conference is the research project ‘Mediatized diaspora (MEDIASP): Contentious Politics among Arab Media Users in Europe’. You can read more about the project here: https://ccrs.ku.dk/research/centres-and-projects/mediatizeddiaspora/

The project has its home at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies (language, religion and society), University of Copenhagen.

For more information about the conference, please contact the organizing committee at mediasp@hum.ku.dk. The organizing committee consists of Dr. Ehab Galal, Dr. Thomas Fibiger, Dr. Mostafa Shehata, and PhD-fellow Zenia Yonus.

Edited volume of Networking Knowledge Journal

Deadline: April 30, 2019

This edited volume of the postgraduate Journal “Networking Knowledge” of UK’s Media and Cultural Studies Association invites scholars from a broad range of disciplines to submit manuscripts on the theme of “Temporalities in Non-Western and Western communication and media studies”.

The topic had its peak with every rise of a new medium, with the work of Innis and McLuhan in the 70s in the rise of television at the forefront. With the emergence of the internet as an ubiquitous phenomenon, the topic of temporalities rises to new levels and emergent phenomena with scholar such as Sharma, Wajcman, Qiu and others at the forefront. This call for submissions therefore hopes to contribute towards this emerging discourse on social time and the digital. Moreover, a lack of temporalities communication and media research in the Global South is attributed to the prevalent Western tradition in communication research. This special section also serves to overcome the dominance of Western approaches in temporalities studies. Following these considerations, scholars are invited to submit their original manuscripts that address the following topics, among others:

• Comparative studies of temporalities in communication and media sciences
• Methodologies investigating journalism, advertisements, PR, political communication, cultural studies, feminist or queer approaches investigating media or communication temporalities;
• Time use research or time budget studies addressing communication and media (e.g. passive leisure (watching tv), multitasking (activities while watching tv), use of information and communication technologies)
• Dynamic methodologies and longitudinal studies;
• Memory or generational studies;
• Theory development or contrasting theory streams explaining temporalities in communication and media studies;
• Cross-cultural temporalities;
• Social time and the digital in educommunication and/or approaching the study of (new) media in the learning environment
• Other topics (please enquire with the editor in advance)

Theoretical as well as qualitative and quantitative approaches investigating such temporalities are welcome. Different disciplinary approaches can be pursued. Submissions must not have been previously published nor be under consideration by another publication. An extended abstract (up to 500 words) or a complete paper at the first stage of the reviewing process will be accepted. All the submissions must be received by April 30, 2019. If the extended abstract is accepted, the complete manuscript must be received by August 31, 2019. Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the guidelines on the website (http://www.ojs.meccsa.org.uk/index.php/netknow/about/submissions) and should have a length of about 4,000 to 6,000 words including tables and references. All manuscripts will be peer reviewed, and the authors will be notified of the final acceptance/rejection decision.

The detailed timeline will be as follows:

• April 30, 2019 - Deadline for receiving abstracts or extended abstracts
• May 10, 2019 - Deadline for informing authors of selection of abstract, and invitations for full papers
• August 30, 2019 - Deadline for receiving full papers
• September 10, 2019 - Deadline for carrying out first round of edits
• September 10, 2019 - November 30, 2019 - Peer review process
• November 30 onwards - Final edits, draft introduction, cover image etc.
• February 1, 2020 - Publication

Please direct questions and submissions to Associate Editor Maria Faust M.A. at maria.faust@uni-leipzig.de, Guest Editor Tiago Rodrigues Ph.D. at tiagoedergarciarodrigues@gmail.com and Guest Editor Jorge Rosales Ph.D. at jorge.rosales@umayor.cl.

University of Colorado Boulder, USA

Deadline: April 10, 2019

The Department of Media Studies (MDST) in the College of Media, Communication and Information at the University of Colorado Boulder seeks a scholar-in-residence in media studies with a particular emphasis in critical environmental studies. The successful candidate will demonstrate excellence in research and a commitment to contributing to our interdisciplinary undergraduate and graduate programs. The position is expected to begin in August 2019.

We will consider applicants with various research interests in critical media studies, although preference will be given to the following areas:

• The material and ethical implications of media practice/technology/consumption for environmental sustainability.
• The role of digital culture, emergent media forms, art and design in shaping current debates about the ecological crisis and disaster relief.
• Relationship between intersectionality (race, gender, class, sexuality, etc.) and ecomedia research.

A PhD in Media Studies is required; a terminal degree (JD or MFA) in another discipline will also be considered. Qualified candidates will have an active research agenda, a proven record of teaching excellence, and a strong commitment to interdisciplinary collaborations. The selected candidate will teach two courses each semester in a variety of media-related topics with a possibility to develop a course in the candidate’s own area of research expertise.

The Department of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder offers a dynamic program of study that emphasizes the creative and analytical skills needed to operate in a complex media environment and to gain a deep understanding of the history and development of various means and forms of communication. We teach courses in media history; media activism; globalization and culture; Postcolonialism and decoloniality; media and religion; disruptive media entrepreneurship; media and human rights; popular culture, gender, race, class, and sexuality; media and food politics; audience studies, among many others. We offer an exciting Master’s degree in Media and Public Engagement and a well-ranked PhD program in media studies which celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2019.

The College of Media Communication and Information, established in 2015, is the first new college on the CU-Boulder campus in 53 years. CMCI prides itself on offering students an interdisciplinary education with a focus on innovation and creativity. The College prepares students to be leaders in our ever-changing information society. Our students and faculty think across boundaries, innovate around emerging problems and create culture that transcends convention. CMCI strives to be a community whose excellence is premised on diversity, equity, and inclusion. We seek candidates who share this commitment and demonstrate understanding of the experiences of those historically underrepresented in higher education. We welcome applications from racial and ethnic minorities, ciswomen, non-normative genders and sexualities, persons with disabilities, and others who have encountered legacies of marginalization.

The University of Colorado is an Equal Opportunity employer committed to building a diverse workforce. Benefits include domestic partners and health insurance coverage for hormone replacement therapy (for more, see http://www.colorado.edu/ glbtqrc/resources/cu-and-state-policies). Alternative formats of this ad can be provided upon request for individuals with disabilities by contacting the ADA Coordinator at hr-ADA@colorado.edu.

Special Instructions to Applicants:

Candidates must submit the following:

1. Cover letter outlining interest in the position and research and teaching interests

2. Curriculum Vitae

3. Statement of Teaching Philosophy

4. An example of scholarly and/or creative work.

5. Three letters of reference

Screening of candidates will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. To ensure full consideration, applicants should submit all materials by April 10, 2019.

Application page: https://jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail/?jobId=16540

Special issue of Journal of Communication

Deadline: July 15, 2019

Guest Editors: Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) & Chul-joo “CJ” Lee (Seoul National University)

With the rapid growth and development of the field of Communication, it has also become increasingly fragmented, while its subfields – as represented by ICA’s various divisions and interest groups – have become increasingly self-contained. Researchers within the different subfields speak to each other in numerous forums and publications and in ever-growing levels of precision and sophistication, but are often oblivious to related developments in other subfields. Similarly, conceptual, analytical and empirical contributions are discussed in relation to the state-of-the-art within a specific subfield, but often fail to be developed into broader theoretical frameworks. The result is a multiplicity of theoretical, conceptual and empirical fragments, whose interrelationships and relevance for a range of communication processes remain to be established.

In this special issue, we look for rigorous, original and creative contributions that speak across multiple subfields of communication. All theoretical approaches as well as methods of scholarly inquiry are welcome, and we are open to various formats and foci: The papers can be based on an empirical study, integrate a series of empirical pieces, thereby proposing a new theory or model, or be primarily theoretical. Their focus can be a specific theory, a specific concept or a set of related concepts, a communication phenomenon that can be better accounted for using a cross-disciplinary perspective, or any other focus that fits the purpose of the special issue. In all forms, the papers should make substantial, original contributions to theoretical consolidation and explicitly discuss the relevance and implications of their research to different subfields.

Deadline for full paper submissions is July 15, 2019. The special issue is scheduled for Issue 3, 2020.

Submissions should be made through the JOC submission site (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jcom). Please make sure you click "yes" to the question "is this work being submitted for special issue consideration?" and clearly state in the cover letter that the paper is submitted to the special issue. Manuscripts should strictly adhere to the new JOC submission guidelines. These guidelines will be available on the journal’s website in early January 2019. Before that, they are available upon request from Editor-in-Chief, Lance Holbert, r.lance.holbert@gmail.com.

Questions and comments about the special issue should be addressed to Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt (keren.tw@mail.huji.ac.il) and Chul-joo “CJ” Lee (chales96@snu.ac.kr).

Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Journalism Studies, University of Sheffield

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We are investing in an appointment in the area of digital news cultures to enhance and expand upon the subject areas offered by our strong interdisciplinary research and teaching team. The post holder will make a key contribution to the department’s 2021 REF submission, enhance existing teaching and contribute to the development of new areas of research and teaching and enhance the department’s profile as a centre of excellence for the study of news and journalism in the digital age. The post holder will make a strategic contribution to the development of the department and bring expertise in any of the following or related areas: hyperlocal news, digital news innovations and disruptions, the culture and power dynamics of digital news content, production, participation and consumption. We welcome applications from a range of disciplinary backgrounds.

The successful candidate will have a PhD (or equivalent academic/professional achievement) in a relevant field, a well-established research profile, play a central role in the Department’s Research Strategy through the delivery of high quality internationally peer reviewed research outputs and a track record of research funding bids, have a strong commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration, a proven teaching ability, and will make a key contribution to advancing the Department’s leading position in the field. You will contribute to the Communication, Media and Journalism (CMJ) research group and more widely across the Faculty of Social Sciences and the University.

Specifically, the post holder will

• bring high levels of research expertise, high quality international peer reviewed publications and funding
• contribute to the delivery of our undergraduate and postgraduate MA programmes
• demonstrate an interest in and engage with student newsroom-based activity in innovative ways and work collaboratively with other staff in the department to engage in curriculum development
• be open to explore ways in which your research has impact potential by bringing benefit to non-academic organisations.

Person Specification

You should provide evidence in your application that you meet the following criteria. We will use a range of selection methods to measure your abilities in these areas including reviewing your online application, seeking references, inviting shortlisted candidates to interview and other forms of assessment action relevant to the post.

Criteria

1. A PhD (or equivalent academic/professional achievement) in a relevant subject area.

2. Proven teaching ability 

3. Previous experience of working as a lecturer

4. An established research profile, as evidenced through publications in high impact peer reviewed journals (4* or 3* REF 2014 standard) and/or other measures.

5. Strong commitment to and potential for generating research income.

6. Possess or be willing to undertake a teaching qualification 

7. Proven teaching ability in areas relating to digital news cultures 

9. Knowledge and experience of evaluation, development and innovation in research-led learning and teaching.

10. Knowledge and experience of technologies to support learning and teaching (desirable)

11. Experience of supervising PhD students 

12. Ability to manage resources effectively

13. Experience of applying for externally funded research 

14. Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal including effective use of technology where appropriate.

15. Ability to communicate research findings via a variety of media

16. Experience of adapting own skills to new circumstances

17. Proven ability to work to and meet deadlines 

18. Excellent planning and organisational skills, including the ability to undertake administrative duties efficiently and effectively.

About the Team

The University of Sheffield builds teams of people from different backgrounds and lifestyles from across the world, whose talent and contributions complement each other. We believe diversity in all its forms delivers greater impact through research, teaching and student experience. We are consistently ranked in the top 100 of the world’s universities; however, we offer much more than this.

By joining the University, you will be joining award-winning teams and departments who are all working together to make the University of Sheffield a remarkable place to work.

The Faculty of Social Sciences is a large and diverse grouping of thirteen departments that offer professional education alongside more traditional social science disciplines. This rich and exciting inter-disciplinary mix encompasses both world-leading academic research and education and a strong practitioner focus in particular areas. It uniquely positions the Faculty among Sheffield's peer institutions.

The Department of Journalism Studies is one of the major journalism research and teaching establishments in Europe. We are committed to a teaching and research programme that takes an interdisciplinary approach to the fields of factual media, journalism and communications. The 2014

Research Excellence Framework put the University of Sheffield in the top ten percent of all UK universities. It judged the department’s research environment as of world leading quality and that our research has significant global impact. The Communications, Media and Journalism research group (CMJ) draws together all the research active staff and doctoral students in the department, reflecting its wide variety of research expertise in: public and political communication, media law and policy, international law, conflict and crisis communications, propaganda and strategic communication, the historical study of journalism, contemporary European history, media and international politics, war and media, media freedom and the role of the factual media in post conflict reconstruction. The department is home to our Centre for Freedom of the Media (CFOM) and the Centre for the Study of Journalism History.

Our staff are drawn from both journalism and academia and we have an excellent network of national and international contacts, in journalism, civil society organisations and in the academic world. We have a thriving international community of postgraduate research students, taught postgraduates and undergraduates. Our alumni are working in newsrooms in the UK and abroad as reporters, editors, producers, presenters while others have gone on into the communications sector more broadly as well as in to academic careers.

The department has grown significantly in recent years. Our MA Global Journalism and MA International Public and Political Communication in particular attract students from all over the world and these courses have a strongly international curriculum. Our undergraduate programme is one of the most applied for in the country.

For more details about the department please see www.sheffield.ac.uk/journalism

Job Description

We seek applications from ambitious, highly motivated and talented individuals who will be keen to play an active role in maintaining and enhancing the department’s national and international reputation for research, teaching excellence and innovation. The appointee will have a strong commitment to both research and teaching, and to interdisciplinary collaboration, and will make a key contribution to advancing the School’s competitive position. They will also contribute to our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.

We welcome applications from high-quality candidates with research expertise that will complement and strengthen our existing research profile in communications, media and journalism. The successful applicant will make a major contribution to the delivery of our undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes, with the potential to take the lead on programme coordination, and module co-ordination and development. We look for ambitious, highly motivated and talented individuals with a proven track record of research expertise and publication that will complement and/or strengthen our existing research profile, and who will be keen to play an active role in enhancing the department’s national and international reputation for research and teaching excellence and innovation.

Applicants will be keen to contribute to the department’s Communication, Media and Journalism research group and the Faculty of Social Sciences Digital Societies Network, as well as collaborating with colleagues in the department, and more widely across the Faculty of Social Sciences and the University.

Applicants should make clear how their research will contribute to the department’s research environment and how they can contribute to its teaching portfolio.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Conduct personal research and scholarship and generate research funding from external agencies;

• Participate in and establish productive research links and collaborations within the wider University and beyond;

• Manage and/or co-manage external research funding to successful conclusion, and manage and monitor the work of research staff as appropriate;

• Disseminate research outcomes through publications in high-impact journals and other highimpact channels including academic and professional conferences;
• Manage, supervise and support research students and colleagues;
• Work with departmental colleagues to foster a culture of mutual support and collegiality;
• Design and deliver high-quality, research-led learning and teaching for modules on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, including: identifying learning objectives, determining appropriate curricula, selecting teaching methods and resources, preparing teaching material, communicating subject matter, encouraging and supporting student inquiry;

• Conduct assessment of postgraduate student work, including: design of assessment approaches and criteria, provision of formative and summative feedback (oral/written), marking to agreed deadlines;

• Supervise and assess undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations;
• Carry out module and programme evaluation and implement teaching quality assurance and enhancement strategies;

• Carry out a pastoral role for students such as acting as Personal Tutor to postgraduate students, referring students to the appropriate authority for guidance as necessary, and collaborate with colleagues to identify and respond to students’ needs;

• Contribute to teaching-related and other administrative activity within the department as assigned by the Head of Department;

• Participate in Department/Faculty committees and working groups as appropriate;
• Demonstrate external recognition through professional activities such as committees, conference organisation, refereeing of research papers and grant applications, journal editing and external examining;

• Self-generate work through research and scholarship, curriculum development, and innovation in teaching and administration;

• Plan and prioritise own daily work and forward plan up to five years for some tasks. For teaching, plan up to one year ahead, or in the case of significant programme changes or new programmes and modules, up to two or more years ahead of their introduction;

• Deal with reactive requests daily such as those concerning teaching, supervising students and administrative tasks;

• Coordinate and contribute to team teaching, which will include liaison with other academic staff and/or university teaching assistants, to ensure modules complement others taken by students.

• Engage with vocational elements of our provision in innovative ways that draw on your research strengths.

• You will make a full and active contribution to the principles of the ‘Sheffield Academic’. These include the achievement of excellence in applied teaching and research, and scholarly pursuits to make a genuine difference in the subject area and to the University’s achievements as a whole. Further information on the underpinning values of the Sheffield Academic can be found at: Sheffield Academic.

• Any other duties, commensurate with the grade of the post.

Reward Package

Terms and conditions of employment: Will be those for Grade 9 staff.

Salary for this grade: £51,630 - £58,089 per annum Potential to progress to £67,317 per annum through sustained exceptional contribution.

This post is open ended.

This post is full-time:

This role has been identified as a full-time post, but we are committed to exploring flexible working opportunities with our staff which benefit both the individual and the University (See www.sheffield.ac.uk/hr/guidance/flexible/arrangements). Therefore, we would consider flexible delivery of the role subject to meeting the business needs of the post. If you wish to explore flexible working opportunities in relation to this post, we encourage you to call or email the departmental contact listed below.

Selection – Next Steps

Closing date: For details of the closing date please view this post on our web pages at www.sheffield.ac.uk/jobs

Following the closing date, we will contact you by email to let you know whether or not you have been shortlisted to participate in the next stage of the selection process. Please note that due to the large number of applications that we receive, it may take up to two working weeks following the closing date before the recruiting department will be able to contact you.

It is anticipated that interviews and other selection action will be held on the 21 May 2019. Full details will be provided to invited candidates.

For more information on our application and recruitment processes visit

www.sheffield.ac.uk/jobs/info

Informal enquiries

For informal enquiries about this job and the recruiting department, contact: Professor Jackie Harrison on j.harrison@sheffield.ac.uk

For administration queries and details on the application process, contact the lead recruiter: Samantha Bharath on sam.bharath@sheffield.ac.uk.

For all online application system queries and support, visit: www.sheffield.ac.uk/jobs/applying