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  • 25.04.2019 14:32 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Deadline: July 19, 2019

    Despite the wide variety of events studied or addressed by event scholars and event managers, very few consider death from a perspective of event studies or event management. Yet, it is the one event that none of us can evade. How death is articulated through the events around it, how the end of life is marked (whether that be the life of an individual, a group, or a community) through evental structures in diverse cultural, ideological, societal frameworks, is a vastly under-explored domain. From the practicalities around a highly stage-managed event of commemoration or memorialisation, in the details of state funeral or day of remembrance, to the sudden outpourings of grief and unstructured informal societal responses to some events of death around well-known figures, the loss of someone personally close to us or our responses shed light on culturally normative modes of expression, hegemonic power, or an ideological context within which the death occurs and the living act and interact.

    Following on from a positive discussion with one of the editorial board of the Emerald Studies in Death and Culture book series we are looking for chapters that would contribute to a proposed book on death, remembrance, memorialisation and the evental. We seek contributors from any discipline and field who are interested in reflecting on death from the perspective of event, event studies, and events management. The work can be conceptual, empirical, practical or provocative. Whether you are a practitioner or your area of expertise is anthropology, critical event studies, cultural studies, philosophy, psychology, sociology, theology or otherwise, so long as your interest is in the manifestation, mediation and articulation of death from an events perspective, we would love to hear from you. There are no restrictions around conceptual framework, or on the research philosophy/research approach, your work adopts.

    Chapters may cover, but not be limited to:

    • Celebrating, commemorating and memorialising death through events
    • Funerals and memorial services
    • Funeral directors as event manager and co-creators of funeral events
    • National or international commemorations of death
    • Deaths of celebrities, royalty, religious or political leaders or iconic figures
    • Formal state responses to death
    • Media influences on death
    • Commercialization of death
    • Cultural significance of death memorials
    • Vigils and responses to terror attacks
    • Faith and non-faith perspectives
    • Informal spontaneous evental responses to death
    • Cultural appropriation of death events
    • Teaching about events of death
    • Conspicuous consumption and death
    • Sustainability and woodland burials
    • Visual media, social media and memorabilia, live streaming of death events
    • (Auto)Ethnographic stories of death events
    • Memorialisation as activist event
    • Theological perspectives on death events
    • A contemporary conceptualization of the funeral as event
    • Rituals of death events
    • Death events as liminal spaces

    In the first instance please send us an abstract of 300 words (excluding any references), together with your full name, any affiliation, and lead author contact information until 19th July 2019. Our objective is to submit a formal book proposal by the end of July 2019.

    Dr Ian R Lamond: i.lamond@leedsbeckett.ac.uk

    Rev. Ruth Dowson: r.dowson@leedsbeckett.ac.uk

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  • 25.04.2019 14:29 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    October 18-19, 2019

    Ghent (Belgium)

    Deadline: May 12, 2019

    Keynote speakers:

    Catherine Grant (Birkbeck, University of London)

    Barbara Flueckiger (Zurich University)

    The academic study of film has involved looking at generic conventions, authorial features, and the use and function of different aspects of film language, including mise-en-scène, narrative, editing and sound. Film Studies has also examined the relationship between film and society, by contemplating issues such as race and gender, the on- and off-screen construction of stardom, the association between cinema, ideology and propaganda, and the way in which films mirror and shape national and transnational identities. The industrial features of film, film policy and legislation, as well as matters of film reception, distribution and exhibition, venues and audiences (cf. the New Cinema History Movement) have also been extensively considered by scholars, within and beyond the discipline.

    Research questions and methodologies from the humanities and social sciences have often been used in conjunction in the analysis of this multitude of topics. The history of Film Studies is thus one of transdisciplinarity. As the discipline moves forward, and its future is called into question – both in relation to debates about the post-cinematic era (Denson and Leyda 2016) and the changing academic context (Fairfax 2017) – methodological considerations have been given greater attention in academic discussions. This is at least partly connected to the rise of the Digital Humanities, which has afforded the study of film with a variety of new digital sources, tools and methods, as well as a growing interest in quantitative data, which allows for new forms of analysis of film texts, industries, audiences and cultures. At the same time, more traditional methods, such as the multiple approaches to textual analysis, the use of interviews and surveys, as well as archival research, retain their important place within Film Studies. The wide variety of methodologies adopted by researchers of film across the globe have meant the discipline is now faced with a series of challenges and opportunities.

    Aiming to explore a wide range of approaches, this conference invites contributions that engage with current methodological challenges and opportunities in Film Studies. We welcome theoretical contributions on methodological issues in Film Studies, papers or workshop sessions on specific methods, as well as research papers paying considerable attention to the methodological framework at stake.

    Abstracts are invited on topics related to research methods in Film Studies, including but not limited to:

    • Statistical methods for textual analysis
    • Film Studies and big data
    • Text mining in Film Studies
    • CAQDAS and Film Studies
    • Cinema and social network analysis
    • Audience research
    • Methods in New Cinema History
    • Production analysis and film policy research
    • Film and video as methodological tools
    • Narrative analysis
    • Archival research
    • Methodological issues in specific schools of film analysis (e.g. feminism, phenomenology, neoformalism, auteurism, post-structuralism, critical theory, cultural studies, political economy …)
    • Neurocinematics and neuroscience of film

    The conference will also host a special panel organized by the ECREA Television Studies section. The section invites paper proposals devoted to new methodologies in the research of television fiction and non-fiction content. The section welcomes submissions that explore comparisons, international approaches and examples of concrete and innovative case studies, in order to shed light on the future of TV Studies in the new digital context.

    Please submit your abstract (max 300 words) along with key references, institutional affiliation and a short bio (max 150 words) or a panel proposal, including a panel presentation (max 300 words) along with minimum 3, maximum 4 individual abstracts.

    Submission deadline: 12 May 2019.

    Proposal acceptance notification: 21 June 2019.

    Please send your abstract/panel proposals to the conference email address: filmstudiesecrea@gmail.com

    ECREA membership is not required to participate in the conference. The conference fee will not exceed 70 EUR and will include coffee breaks, lunches and receptions.

    The conference takes place in Ghent and is hosted by Ghent University and the University of Antwerp. The conference is organised by the ECREA Film Studies Section in co-operation with DICIS (Digital Cinema Studies network), the Research Center for Visual Poetics at the University of Antwerp, the Centre for Cinema and Media Studies at Ghent University, the Visual and Digital Cultures Research Center at the University of Antwerp, and the Popular Communication division of NeFCA.

    Conference organisers: Gertjan Willems (University of Antwerp/Ghent University), Sergio Villanueva Baselga (Universitat de Barcelona), Mariana Liz (University of Lisbon)

    Conference website: https://ecreafilmstudies2019.wordpress.com/

  • 25.04.2019 14:24 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia

    Deadline: May 10, 2019

    Required: PhD in Communication with a preferred focus on aging, intergenerational communication, and/or ater life. ABD’s OK but hired at Lecturer rank and limited to undergraduate teaching.

    For PhD’s to teach communication courses pertaining to aging in the Graduate Program in Lifespan and Digital Communication (LSDC) and dependent on expertise, relational communication, group communication, or organizational communication in the undergraduate program in Communication.

    Areas of special interest include: health communication in later life; communication and aging well strategic communication in later life; communication and lifespan resilience.

    Ability to teach quantitative and qualitative communication research methods courses at the graduate and undergraduate level, and willingness to participate in a new Lifespan Communication Research Center are welcome additions.

    Email a letter of application, CV, names of three references to: Thomas Socha, tsocha@odu.edu, Department of Communication & Theatre Arts, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, 23529, 757-683-3833.

    Deadline: EOD, Friday, 5/10/19. A formal search for a permanent, tenure-track, assistant professor position to focus on Communication and Aging will begin this fall (2019).

  • 25.04.2019 14:20 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    University of Milan

    Deadline: May 17, 2019, 12:00 PM

    The SOMET (Sociology and Methodology of Social Research) PhD, jointly run by the University of Milan and the University of Turin, is now accepting applications for the 35th cycle of studies, starting in September 2019.

    Applicants will be admitted ONLY with a scholarship. There are 6 scholarships available for the upcoming cycle. SOMET is one of the leading sociological PhD Programmes in Italy.

    Entirely held in English, its courses, seminars and research activites are organised jointly by the University of Milan and the University of Turin. Its Faculty also includes sociologists from other Italian and international universities.

    The Ph.D. programme in Sociology has a longstanding tradition of excellence in Italy. It was one of the first to be established after the 1980 university reform and has provided a large number of outstanding academic sociologists who have gone on to make significant contributions to teaching and research in Italy and abroad.

    The aim of the programme is to provide structured and advanced training in theoretically-guided empirical research across a wide range of sociological fields and to introduce students to current international issues in both qualitative and quantitative social research.

    The course consists of a three-year programme made of 60 credits per year. The first year is devoted to basic training, in conjunction with the activities of the Faculty's interdisciplinary Graduate School in Social and Political Sciences. The second year is partly spent in a relevant university department abroad and is devoted to the initial drafting of the thesis. The third year is entirely spent completing the thesis.

    Graduates will be able to compete successfully for positions as researchers (in public and private universities and research centers), skilled professionals and consultants in sociology to public agencies and international organizations and institutions in Italy and elsewhere in Europe. Several of our recent graduates have obtained positions in important international universities (University of Amsterdam, King's College London, University of Essex, EmLyon Business schoool, Middlesex University).

    Since 2014-2015, the PhD programme in Sociology and Methodology of Social Research (SOMET) has being offering PhD positions for joint degrees with two LERU partner universities – *University of Amsterdam* and *Lund University*. From 2019-2020 a new partnership will be activated with *Vrije Universiteit Brussel*. Several joint-degrees are currently active also with several French Universities, among which the *Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales* (EHESS) in Paris.

    The research areas covered by the PhD Programme in Sociology and Methodology of Social Research (Universities of Milan and Turin) comprise:

    *Culture and consumption

    **Digital society and the media

    **Gender and sexuality

    **Migration studies, multicultural societies and citizenship

    **Science, technology, environment and urban studies

    **Social inequalities and socio-economic stratification

    **Social movements, collective action and civil society

    **Sociology of family

    **Sociology of health

    **Sociology of politics, public opinion and voting

    **Work and organizations*

    The Call for Applications is available here: https://www.nasp.eu/training/phd-programmes/somet/call-for-application.html

  • 25.04.2019 14:12 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Glasgow School for Bussiness and Society

    Applications are invited for a full-time, competition-funded PhD research studentship at Glasgow Caledonian University within the Glasgow School for Business and Society, division of Media and Journalism.

    Project description:

    This PhD project arises out of discussions concerning the limited range of representations of serious illness in film and TV narratives. For example, stroke, despite being a leading cause of disability in the Western world, has almost no presence in contemporary screen narratives.

    The situation is even worse with media depictions of obstetric and gynaecological issues; mainly because of the socio-cultural resistance to showing the female body as being less than ‘perfect’.

    The aim of this project is to map existing narrative representations of illnesses on screen such as stroke, cancer, diabetes, HIV/AIDS and gynaecological/urogynecological conditions as well as to develop a series of recommendations, via research involving consultation with health professionals, for improving future narrative representations of serious illness on screen. Representative texts to be analysed may include the following: films Philadelphia (1993) and the recent Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) for depictions of AIDS; BBC TV series Bodies (wr.: Jed Mercurio, 2004-6) for gynaecological issues; works of screenwriter Dennis Potter for psychological explorations of serious illness (psoriatic arthropathy: The Singing Detective, BBC TV 1986; cancer: Karaoke and Cold Lazarus, BBC TV and Channel 4, 1996); the single TV drama Care (BBC TV, 2018) for stroke. Frederike Van Wijck, Professor of Neurological Rehabilitation within the School of Health and Life Sciences at GCU, will act as a consultant on the project.

    The project directly relates to the following aspects of GCU’s research strategy: (i) Inclusive Societies and (ii) Healthy Lives and in particular to the theme of ‘Social Justice, Equalities and Communities’ focusing on inclusiveness, identity and cultural citizenship with reference to socio-cultural analysis of media practice and the enhancement of the evidence base for future initiatives and interventions in this field; as well as to public health, in terms of the management of long-term conditions.

    Supervisor Research Profiles

    Director of Studies: Dr. Helena Bassil-Morozow

    GCU Research Online URL: http://researchonline.gcu.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/helena-bassilmorozow(7249df3f-d70f-4aa6-bbaf-13630d622086).html

    2nd Supervisor: Prof. John Cook

    GCU Research Online URL: http://researchonline.gcu.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/john-cook(837514aa-9398-410e-9770-75c9de052f0a).html

    This project is available as a 3 years full-time PhD study programme with expected start date of 1 October 2019

    Candidates are encouraged to contact the research supervisors for the project before applying.

    Link to the project: https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/screen-narrative-representations-of-serious-illness/?p108778

  • 25.04.2019 14:08 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    City, University of London

    Deadline: May 19, 2019

    Reference Number: 60024542

    Location: Northampton Square

    School / Service: School of Arts & Social Sciences

    Department: Department of Journalism

    Contract Duration: Permanent

    Hours: Part-time

    Salary Range: (£) 37345 to 53174

    Background

    City, University of London is a global university committed to academic excellence with a focus on business and the professions and an enviable central London location.

    City attracts around 20,000 students (35% postgraduate level) from more than 150 countries and staff from over 75 countries.

    In the last REF, City doubled the proportion of its total academic staff producing world-leading or internationally excellent research.

    Led by President, Professor Sir Paul Curran, City has made significant investments in its academic staff, its estate and its infrastructure and continues to work towards realising its vision of being a leading global university: it has recently agreed a new Vision & Strategy 2026. Founded in 1894, City is celebrating its 125th anniversary this year.

    The School of Arts & Social Sciences is an internationally excellent centre of research and learning on the human condition in all its dimensions. It is a large and vibrant School with around 3,000 students (one third postgraduate) and over 250 staff in seven Departments: Economics, English, International Politics, Journalism, Music, Sociology and Psychology. The School aims to attract outstanding members of academic staff who will produce world-leading research of benefit to society; provide innovative and exciting programmes of study; and enrich the lives and enhance the career prospects of its students.

    Responsibilities

    The Department of journalism is a leader in its field, with an unrivalled record of securing attractive employment for its graduates in both traditional and emerging journalism roles. Ranked first in London and seventh in the UK in the Guardian University Guide 2017, the Department provides an academic environment for the study and practice of journalism in one of the world’s media capitals.

    The Department is seeking to appoint an outstanding candidate to a part-time Education Lectureship in Journalism.

    Person Specification

    The successful candidate will be a graduate with an excellent record of accomplishment as a journalist and experience of teaching journalism in a university environment. A doctorate or studying towards a doctorate and a record of academic research would be an advantage.

    The appointed lecturer will be able to deliver excellent education at undergraduate and postgraduate levels including student supervision; and will contribute fully to the life and work of the Department, School and University. A personal commitment to ensuring that students develop both academic learning and professional skill is essential.

    Candidates must be available to start by September 2019 or before.

    Additional Information

    City offers a sector-leading salary, pension scheme and benefits including a comprehensive package of staff training and development.

    Closing date for applications: 11:59pm 19th May 2019

    Interviews will be held week commencing 17th June 2019

    Actively working to promote equal opportunity and diversity

    Academic excellence for business and the professions

    Please use the link here to view further details for this job.

  • 25.04.2019 14:03 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    City, University of London

    Deadline: May 5, 2019

    Reference Number: 60015092

    Location: Northampton Square

    School / Service: School of Arts & Social Sciences

    Department: Department of Journalism

    Contract Duration: Permanent

    Hours: Part-time

    Salary Range: (£)54765 to 61618

    Background

    City, University of London is a global university committed to academic excellence with a focus on business and the professions and an enviable central London location.

    City attracts around 20,000 students (35% postgraduate level) from more than 150 countries and staff from over 75 countries.

    In the last REF, City doubled the proportion of its total academic staff producing world-leading or internationally excellent research.

    Led by President, Professor Sir Paul Curran, City has made significant investments in its academic staff, its estate and its infrastructure and continues to work towards realising its vision of being a leading global university: it has recently agreed a new Vision & Strategy 2026. Founded in 1894, City is celebrating its 125th anniversary this year.

    The School of Arts & Social Sciences is an internationally excellent centre of research and learning on the human condition in all its dimensions. It is a large and vibrant School with around 3,000 students (one third postgraduate) and over 250 staff in seven Departments: Economics, English, International Politics, Journalism, Music, Sociology and Psychology. The School aims to attract outstanding members of academic staff who will produce world-leading or internationally excellent research of benefit to society; provide innovative and exciting programmes of study; and enrich the lives and enhance the career prospects of its students.

    Responsibilities

    The Department of journalism is a leader in its field, with an unrivalled record of securing attractive employment for its graduates in both traditional and emerging journalism roles. Ranked first in London and seventh in the UK in the Guardian University Guide 2017, the Department provides an academic environment for the study and practice of journalism in one of the world’s media capitals.

    The Department is seeking to appoint an outstanding candidate to a part-time Education Lectureship in Journalism.

    Person Specification

    As well as demonstrable professional achievement as an investigative journalist, the successful candidate will have a track record of working in higher education, with the ability and personal commitment to deliver a high quality educational experience, ensuring that students develop both academic learning and practical skills. A good knowledge of media law is desirable. A record of publishing research is required; a record of publishing research of world-leading or internationally excellent quality is desirable.

    The successful candidate will be the appointed Programme Director of the successful MA in Investigative Journalism.

    Additional Information

    City offers a sector-leading salary, pension scheme and benefits including a comprehensive package of staff training and development.

    Closing date for applications: 11:59pm 5th May 2019

    Interviews will be held week commencing 4th June 2019

    For further information please contact Dr Paul Lashmar, Deputy Head of Department by email paul.lashmar@city.ac.uk.

    Actively working to promote equal opportunity and diversity

    Academic excellence for business and the professions

    Please use the link here to view further details for this job.

  • 25.04.2019 13:54 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    November 7-8, 2019

    Brussels

    Deadline: April 26, 2019

    EuroPCom, the European Public Communication Conference, is the largest annual meeting point for experts in the field of public communication and jointly organised by the EU institutions in Brussels.

    The tenth edition of the conference will gather over 1000 communication experts from local, regional, national and European authorities, as well as private communication agencies, NGOs and academia on 7 and 8 November 2019. In additional to traditional workshops, there will be a variety of open formats, providing a platform for the exchange of creative ideas and co-learning.

    EuroPCom 2019 will take place just after the European Parliament elections and the establishment of the European Commission. This gives us the opportunity to discuss how to communicate the priorities of the new mandate, how to engage with citizens and how to move on in a European Union of 27.

    The preliminary list of topics includes:

    • Citizen participation and engagement of specific audiences (e.g. young people, women, etc.)
    • Evaluation of campaigns for the EP elections 2019
    • Different communication channels from traditional to online/social media
    • New trends/evolutions in the area of EU/public communication

    Ideas Labs

    The Ideas Labs are a format for open discussion and co-creation, geared towards proposals for concrete action on better communicating Europe. Would you like to set up a participatory and interactive session during EuroPCom? Submit your proposal for an Ideas Lab here!

    The topic should be in line with the topics suggested above. Four Labs will run during the conference and successful applicants will need to be strongly involved as lab leaders in the preparatory work and during the session. We will provide you with a lab facilitator to guide you in this exciting exercise.

    EuroPCom Market Place and Talks

    You would like to share your innovative communication project with the other participants of the conference? Want to give a short inspirational speech on recent developments or findings in the field of EU communication?

    The EuroPCom Market Place is an interactive opportunity to showcase your project and ideas and exchange best practices and experience. The EuroPCom Talks provide a platform to pitch your project or findings. Submit your proposal through this template!

    Share your ideas!

    How can EU communication be relaunched for the new EU mandate? How can we get citizens interested and inform them about the priorities of the EU institutions? How can we reach out to citizens and engage with them more effectively? Which new digital tools and trends should be promoted? What EuroPCom Mini Trainings would you find useful?

    We are looking forward to hearing your tips on recent communication projects relating to the proposed themes, other ideas for topics or themes as well as your suggestions for inspiring speakers!

    Please send your proposals or comments via email or social media by 26 April!

  • 25.04.2019 13:28 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    September 5-6, 2019

    University of Copenhagen

    Deadline: May 15, 2019

    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 (5 - 6 September 2019) on Regime-Critical Media and Arab Diaspora: Challenges and Opportunities post-Arab Spring.

    Keynote speakers:

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

    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

    Registration is required, but there is no registration fee. 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.

  • 25.04.2019 13:26 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    International Off-year Conference for ECREA-CYM-TWG-2019

    September 19-20, 2019

    Salamanca, Spain

    Deadline for abstract submission: May 15, 2019

    Children and adolescents increasingly turn to mobile media devices and SmartScreen’s, the Smartphone in particular - at home, at school or on the move-, to stay connected with family and friends, for schooling activities and to access a variety of digital media contents and services including social media, music, videos, and games. The everytime-and-everywhere-access to mobile media has changed children’s and adolescents’ everyday life with potential implications on their -from a broad perspective- socialization, consumer patterns, schooling orientated behaviour among others. This conference wants to address these issues both from a theoretical and methodological perspective. We welcome Case Studies and research in the conference topics.

    Acceptance of abstracts will be announced on the 15th of June 2019.

    Abstracts to be sent via THIS LINK 500 to 600 words max for double blind peer review.

    More specifically we welcome research from (though not exclusively) the following topics:

    • Role of mobile media in children´s and adolescents‘ at school, and in everyday life.
    • Methodological challenges of research on mobile media and Smartscreens
    • Teacher&Parental mediation and monitoring of mobile media use.
    • Impact of mobile media on children’s and adolescents’ social development and consumer behaviour.
    • Mobile media and children’s and adolescents’ risks, threats and opportunities.
    • Mobile media contents and activities, cultural and educational consumption: Games, Video, Music consumption, Education, Democracy, Social Interaction, Marketing-Publicity, new phenomena or old habits in new screens.
    • Uses and consumption of mobile media at "school" at "home" or "on the move", filling the gap between children use of Smartphones and Tablets at School, in itineris or Home, is there one?.
    • Regulation and protection of Children in mobile media devices, apps, social networks, and gaming activities, marketing,… and others.
    • Children´s approaches to opportunities, risks, safety, literacy, entertainment in Smartscreens and other devices.
    • Any other topics related to “Children, Youth and Media”, from a scientific perspective including, education, communication, arts and culture, psychological interaction, neuroscience, marketing and children,…

    There will be two parallel sessions and expect a maximum of 80 individual presentations.

    Key note Speakers:

    • Prof. Dr. Sonia Livingstone (LSE, London School of Economics, UK) 19th of September from 9:30 to 10:15 .
    • Prof. Dr. Antonio García-Jiménez (URJC, University Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain), 20th of September from 9:30 to 10:15 .

    Registration:

    • Early Bird (before the 16th of June 2019) Regular Registration (After the 16th of June 2019)
    • ECREA-Members 59€ (Early Bird) 70€ (Regular Registration)
    • Students-Phd Students & “Low Income Countries” 49€ (Early Bird) 55€ (Regular Registration)
    • Non-ECREA-Members 70€ (Early Bird) 80€ (Regular Registration)

    Participants will be responsible for their own travel, accommodation and dinner expenses. Two lunch tickets will be provided for each registration, for Thursday and Friday Lunch.

    There will be a Bank Account for payment issues and information will be provided in may 2019.

    Host/Location: Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Salamanca, Campus Unamuno, 37071, Salamanca, Spain.

    University of Salamanca, City of Salamanca at 200km from Madrid in direction Portugal.

    See here.

    Think also in participating in the Associated Monograph to this event  here.

    Organizers:

    The event will take place at the University of Salamanca, Faculty of Social Sciences, Salamanca (near Madrid), Spain.

    Local organizer Prof. Dr. Félix Ortega, fortega@usal.es from the Department of Sociology and Communication, Faculty of Social Sciences, Salamanca University and

    Prof. Dr. Patricia Núñez-Gómez , pnunezgo@ccinf.ucm.es from the Faculty of Information Sciences, University Complutense Madrid.

    Organizing Committee: Laura Rodríguez-Contreras, Javier Amores, Beatriz González-Ispierto, Diego Ramos, Sofía Trullenque.

    Scientific Committee: Dr. Elisabeth Staaksrud (University of Oslo), Dr. Bieke Zaman, (UKLeuven), Dr. Juan José Igartua Perosanz, (USAL), Dr. Maria Marcos (USAL), Dr. Carlos Arcila Calderón (USAL), Dr. Antonia Picornell-Lucas (USAL), Dr. Sara Serrate (USAL), Dr. María José Rodríguez-Conde (USAL), Dr. Antonio García-Jiménez (URJC), Dr. Félix Ortega (USAL), Dr. Patricia Nuñez-Gómez (UCM), Dr. Victoria Tur-Viñes (Universidad de Alicante).

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