ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

April 12, 2019

Cardiff University

A one-day conference at Cardiff University addressing photography, language and postwar reconstruction, c.1944-49

This symposium addresses the transnational spaces of encounter for the establishment of post-war Europe and the disestablishment of Empire and, crucially, their refraction via photographic images. Looking at post-conflict situations across a range of nations, we consider the contact zones where soldiers and civilians encountered one another as simultaneously physical spaces, language spaces and media spaces. The event addresses the following questions: How were photographs used to translate certain stories across languages or promote certain images about the war and the post-war moment? What questions of interference, mediation and cultural translation do the spaces of exhibition halls or the printed page throw up for the study of post-war reconstruction and its many languages? What are the tools of analysis that we can mobilize for interpreting visual materials and their multilingual contexts?

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King's College London

Deadline: March 21, 2019

Abstract requirement: 250 Words ( individual abstracts, panels, posters and multimedia)

Date of Conference: May 17, 2019

Venue: Bush House ( North East) ground floor, King's College London, Strand

Website for more information: http://newperspectivesdh.com/

Social media platforms and the internet have become a battleground for ideas and political discussion. As the importance of these digital intermediaries has grown, many questions about how to navigate the world of digital politics in a meaningful and effective way have emerged. With the controversies surrounding the 2016 United States Presidential election, Brexit, the #MeToo movement, and other democratic conflicts across the globe, it is becoming increasingly evident that these media have come to play an essential role in structuring political discourse, social movements, and collective identity.

When the internet emerged as a global commodity, it came with promises of nascent forms of political engagement. Digital platforms gave people new methods of voicing common grievances, starting social movements, and creating an impetus towards a more just society. However, in recent years there is evidence of increased polarisation and even hostility in online networks. With curated news feed, echo chambers, and fake news, users can shape their own isolated online politics.

This conference will investigate how social media platforms and the digital are changing the nature of political discourse, online debate, and collective action. These platforms have shaped and altered many traditional forms of political involvement, such as campaign funding, candidate representation, and pertinent debates remain as to what extent digital media is enhancing or limiting democratic processes.

Digital technologies have impacted politics and social engagement in a myriad of ways, so we invite submissions that breach this theme from multifarious critical and

methodological approaches and from diverse contexts. The academic implications for this broad topic are numerous, as we begin to understand more deeply how digital technologies are adapting to and transforming the political world.

Topics for discussion and presentation may include (but are not limited to):

• The role of digital media in elections across the globe
• Collective action and social movements online
• Online campaigns
• Alt-Right and populist politics
• Free speech and liberty online
• Regulation and data misuse of online political spaces
• Gender and online politics
• Big data and politics

Abstracts are to be submitted to digitalpeople.digitalpolitics@gmail.com by March 21st 2019. We are open to:

• Individual papers (250 word abstract with a short academic bio, plus any specific requirements authors may have).
• Panel proposals (250 word abstract with a short academic bio for each person, additional 250 word abstract for the panel as a whole, plus any specific requirements authors may have).
• Workshops (1.5 hours – 250 word abstract with the aims and a description of the proposed workshop, short academic bios of workshop organisers plus any specific requirements organisers may have)
• Posters/ multimedia presentations/ art (250 word abstract with a short academic bio, any relevant URLS, plus any specific requirements).

All applicants will be notified as to whether or not they have been invited to present by 15th April, 2019.

For updated information on the conference, please see the website

Prague Media Point Conference

November 21-23, 2019

Prague, Czech Republic

Deadline:  May 15, 2019

Scholars from all disciplines and interdisciplinary fields are kindly invited to submit their abstracts.

Volumes have been written and numerous events have been held over the past decade lamenting the plight of the media in the modern world. Much less attention has been paid to what’s actually working. That is why the 2019 edition of the Prague Media Point will highlight inspiring examples that have managed to overcome the challenges the media are facing these days.

We encourage submissions of abstracts that focus on examples in the media that appear to be working and generating impact in the following subjects and topics, though this list is not exhaustive:

• Technology in editorial work and content delivery
• Engagement through social media
• Examples of solutions or constructive journalism
• Trust-building techniques
• Different forms of storytelling
• Youth-driven news delivery
• Innovative business and ownership models
• Diversity in the newsroom
• Minority media

Submission deadline: May 15, 2019

• Learn about the cutting-edge examples of innovations
• Network with leading professionals and experts in an informal setting
• Stay for the stunning scenery of Prague

For more information on submission, deadlines, and fees go to http://www.praguemediapoint.com

October 30-31, 2019

Brussels, Belgium

Deadline (EXTENDED): March 15, 2019

The two-day conference “Digital Fortress Europe” intends to be a forum to reflect on the relations between media, migration, and technology. These relations demand our fullest attention because they touch on the essence of what migration means in societies that are undergoing democratic challenges. Research shows that media and technologies play a vital role for people who migrate, but that the same media and technologies serve to spread xenophobia, increase societal polarization and enable elaborate surveillance possibilities. With its intensifying anti-migration populist discourses, humanitarian border crises and efforts to secure borders through technological solutions, the European context provides a pulsating scene to examine such deepening relations. Taking place in the heart of Europe’s political capital, this conference aims to critically reflect on what the much-debated notion of “Fortress Europe” means in the digital age and how it can guide our future thinking on media and migration. As such, scholars of media, communication, migration and technology will be stimulated to contribute to critical discussions on border politics and migration debates.

The thematic focus of this conference is on media, migration and technology and all their possible linkages and intersections. While significant attention goes to digital technologies and social media, the organizers do aim for a broad focus that also includes traditional media, and aspects of media production, organization, consumption, representation and policy.

The three confirmed keynote speakers will be:

• Dr Payal Arora(Erasmus University Rotterdam)
• Professor Huub Dijstelbloem (University of Amsterdam)
• Professor Myria Georgiou (London School of Economics)

Besides the keynotes and parallel paper presentations the programme will also include a public event, a PhD masterclass and a book launch (details to be confirmed in the final programme).

The conference takes place at the Palace of the Academies in the centre of Brussels (Hertogstraat 1, 1000 Brussel).

The conference is organized by the European Communication Research & Education Association’s (ECREA) Diaspora, Migration & the Media (DMM) section in collaboration with the ECREA’s International & Intercultural Communication (IIC) section, the Young Scholars Network of ECREA (YECREA), the Netherlands-Flemish Communication Association (NeFCA), and has received support from the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (KVAB).

The organizers welcome submissions for paper presentations on the following three broad themes:

• Borders and media technologies, particularly focusing on critical research on biometrics, algorithms, drones and cartography.
• Producing and circulating meanings and media on migration, including work on discourse and representation, journalism, popular culture and policy.
• Media uses and technologies by and for migrants and diasporas, including research on activism, identity, emotion/affect, education, well-being, language and mediated social relations.

Especially welcome are submissions rooted in critical cultural studies, critical data studies, postcolonial studies, feminist research and from scholars who build bridges between academia, policy, activism, arts and public debate.

Instructions

Please submit a 500-word abstract in an anonymized MS Word file only (other formats or non-anonymized documents will not be considered) per e-mail to ecreadmm@gmail.com. Please mention “Submission Brussels Conference” in your e-mail subject.

A separate call for the related PhD masterclass will soon be circulated.

After the evaluation of abstracts, accepted authors will be invited to submit full papers in order to be considered for the Best Paper Award (junior award and senior award) and for a possible publication in a Special Issue and/or a book. We refer to previous collaborations in the form of a special issue of the European Journal of Cultural Studies (Sage), Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture (Intellect), Communications: The European Journal for Communication Research (Mouton De Gruyter).

Timeline

• 7 December 2018: launch call for papers
• 15 March 2019: deadline abstract submission
•  15 April 2019: notification of acceptance
• 10 May 2019: opening of registrations
•  1 July 2019: publication of final programme
• 15 September 2019: closing of registrations
•  30-31 October 2019: conference

Organizing team

• Kevin Smets, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, ECREA DMM vice-chair (local organizing committee)
• Yazan Badran, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (local organizing committee)
• Paola Condemayta Soto, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (local organizing committee)
• Koen Leurs, Utrecht University, ECREA DMM chair
• Irati Agirreazkuenaga, University of the Basque Country, ECREA DMM vice-chair
• Melis Mevsimler, Utrecht University, ECREA DMM young scholars representative
• Leen d’Haenens, KU Leuven
• Alexander Dhoest, University of Antwerp
• Stijn Joye, Ghent University

Tifts University

The Film and Media Studies Program at Tufts University seeks a full-time lecturer or one or more part-time lecturers for the 2019-2020 academic year to teach courses at the undergraduate level in Television History, Media Theory, and Contemporary Television. This limited appointment is to cover the teaching, advising, and service duties of a full-time faculty member who will be on a year-long sabbatical. We anticipate needing coverage for at least four courses and perhaps more.

QUALIFICATIONS

A Ph.D. in Film and Television or a humanities-based field with atelevision emphasis is preferred; ABDs in these fields are also invited to apply. Teaching experience at the undergraduate level in Television Studies or a related field is required.

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS

Apply with cover letter, CV, sample syllabi, a writing sample of relevant research, and three confidential letters of reference submitted directly by their authors. All application materials must be submitted via Interfolio here

Review of applications begins March 22 and continues until the position is filled.

Questions about the position may be directed to the Film and Media Studies Program, Tufts University: fms@tufts.edu . Tufts University, founded in 1852, prioritizes quality teaching, highly competitive basic and applied research, and a commitment to active citizenship locally, regionally, and globally. Tufts University also prides itself on creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive community.

Current and prospective employees of the university are expected to have and continuously develop skill in, and disposition for, positively engaging with a diverse population of faculty, staff, and students.

Tufts University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We are committed to increasing the diversity of our faculty and staff and fostering their success when hired. Members of underrepresented groups are welcome and strongly encouraged to apply. If you are an applicant with a disability who is unable to use our online tools to search and apply for jobs, please contact us by calling Johny Laine in the Office of Equal Opportunity (OEO) at 617-627-3298 or at johny.laine@tufts.edu

Applicants can learn more about requesting reasonable accommodations here

Deadline for submitting full texts:  March 10, 2019

Please submit your manuscripts via e-mail address medialnistudia@fsv.cuni.cz

Paper types

Studies are based on original research, solving the issue raised empirically, theoretically or methodologically. The recommended length of the studies is 6000-8000 words, including footnotes and references with an abstract of up to 150 words, up to 10 keywords, and brief information about the author up to 100 words.

Essays explore upcoming or current media trends or events and discuss their relevance. Or, they ruminate upon different conceptual or methodological approaches. The recommended length of the essays is 3000-4000 words, including footnotes and references with an abstract of up to 150 words, up to 10 keywords, and brief information about the author up to 150 words.

Polemics brings discussions on actual theoretical, or methodological, or empirical studies previously published. The recommended length of the polemics is 3000-4000 words, including footnotes and references. Interviews introduce inspiring personalities within the media and communication field, both from academia and practical operation. The recommended length of the interview is 3000-4000 words including footnotes and references. The interviews include brief information about the interviewee.

Book reviews introduce and critically evaluate new books emerging within the field of study. The recommended length of studies is 2000-4000 words, including footnotes and references.

Reports inform about interesting events connected with media life (conferences, workshops, festivals, summer schools etc.). The recommended length of studies is 1000-2000 words, including footnotes and references.

For a more detailed description of papers types and other information, please follow the guidelines for authors (see https://www.medialnistudia.fsv.cuni.cz/en/autor-s-manual).

About the Journal

Mediální studia / Media Studies is a peer-reviewed journal based in disciplines of media and communication studies. Nonetheless, it also is open to contributions from close research fields such as cultural studies, sociology, social and cultural anthropology, gender studies, or linguistics. We publish original research papers investigating media texts or mechanisms of their production or ways of their reception.

We especially welcome papers focused upon media in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe which do not separate the region from its wider social or political ties. We endeavour to emphasise the dynamics of local-global knowledge on media and its mutual connections. Also for these reasons, we prefer texts written in English. In exceptional cases, however, we publish also manuscripts in Czech or Slovak.

August 7-10, 2019 

Toronto, Canada 

Deadline: April 1, 2019

The Media Management, Economics, and Entrepreneurship Division (MMEE)  invites original research paper submissions to be considered for  presentation at the 2019 AEJMC conference in Toronto, Canada. August  7-10, 2019. Researchers interested in any aspect of media management,  media economics, or entrepreneurship are encouraged to submit papers. 

The division welcomes the use of diverse theoretical and methodological  approaches to relevant topics. Papers presented at the AEJMC Midwinter  Conference and then revised are also welcome for submission.  The division gives awards to recognize the top three submissions from  faculty, and the top three submissions from graduate students (faculty  members cannot be included on student competition papers). Top graduate  papers also receive monetary awards to help offset the cost of attending  the conference, and there are no division membership fees for graduate  students. 

Paper Topics: As a division, we are proud to encourage submissions from  a diverse array of topic areas. Some examples of relevant topic areas  include, but are not limited to: analysis of economic or managerial  questions affecting media firms and media industries; strategic  management aspects and business models of media firms, crowdfunding and  other innovative funding methods for media products and industries;  strategic leadership challenges faced by media companies; media  ownership; management and economic issues from the public-interest  perspective (e.g., effects on reporting or content); historical  discussions of relevant developments in the field; policy issues from a  legal, regulatory, or economic perspective; technology and its effects  on management or economics; political economy; international and  cross-cultural studies; the sociology and culture of media  organizations; media audience analysis; teaching media management and  economics; and other related topics. 

In 2014 the division changed its name to expand its focus on  entrepreneurship. Accordingly, we also encourage and welcome submissions  within the following topic areas: opportunities and challenges for media  startups; intrapreneurship and innovation within legacy media companies;  the role of higher education in the context of media entrepreneurship;  and other media entrepreneurship related topics. 

Guidelines for all Submissions: All papers must be submitted  electronically at the AEJMC website, by accessing the All-Academic  submission portal. A link to All-Academic is available via the AEJMC  website. Papers must be uploaded to the All-Academic server no later  than 11:59 P.M. (Central Daylight Time) Monday, April 1, 2019. All  submissions must follow the guidelines from the AEJMC uniform call for  all paper competitions. 

Paper Formatting: All papers should use 12-point Times New Roman, Times  or Arial font and have 1-inch margins. Authors should use the style  appropriate for the discipline, including APA, Chicago, MLA, Harvard,  and other styles. Format should be Word, WordPerfect, or a PDF. PDF  format is strongly encouraged. 

Author Identification: Please remove all potentially identifying author  information from submissions. Failure to do so will automatically  disqualify the paper from consideration. Examples of information to be  removed include citations of the author’s previous work, individually or  with co-authors; related reference list information; and file  properties. Take every precaution to ensure that your self-citations DO NOT in any way reveal your identity. Instructions for how to remove  identifying information from files can be found on the AEJMC website. 

For questions about submissions, contact the Media Management,  Economics, and Entrepreneurship (MMEE) Division Research Chair, Jiyoung  Cha, San Francisco State University, jycha@sfsu.edu . 

Deadline: May 15, 2019

Sharing (intimate) photos has become an integral part of close relationships in the age of social media. Particularly young people use social media as a way to establish and maintain strong social ties rather than a way of connecting to public life. This use pattern includes the sharing of photos and videos with intimate and sexual content such as nudes, intimate situations and other types of self-disclosure. As most public and academic interests has been related to situations where the process has gone wrong and people have been hurt, they are often associated with risk, worries and, indeed, moral disdain. Yet these cases are part of a much broader social practice, which is for the most part unproblematic and mundane. The sharing of intimate photos can be seen as part of a more general act of (mutual) self-disclosure in order to establish trust, and it can be seen as an exploration of sexuality and social identities. In both cases the sharing of intimate photos becomes part of more general processes of intimacy and close relationships that we should be careful not to reject or problematize as a whole.

Accordingly, in this themed issue we would like to move beyond the ‘stories of problem youth’ and toward a more empirically grounded and systematic analysis of the complex ways in which the sharing of intimate photos becomes part of everyday life practices including friendships, courtships, trust and intimacy – across all life phases. This may include studies of the roles intimate photos may have in the maintenance of friendships and romantic partnerships, the ways in which people negotiate trust and responsibilities in relation to this, and the specific place of risk in these interactions. It may also include more historical studies foregrounding differences and similarities to earlier practices of intimacy, friendships and sexual partnerships, and the ways gender and life phase condition and is conditioned by such practices.

It may include case studies zooming in on specific turning points where unproblematic practices turns into contested or even criminal offences. Further, articles could also focus on situations where people restrict or prevent others from using photos in an undisclosed matter. Finally it may include more political-economic analyses of the way specific social platforms condition such practices and capitalize on them, and the wider implications this may have for citizens’ rights and security in the digital network society.

Please submit an extended abstract of 1000 words by May 15 on MedieKultur’s website: http://www.tidsskrift.dk/mediekultur

Authors will be notified by May 30^th, and the deadline for final submissions is August 31st .

Articles that are accepted for further process by the editors will go into peer-review in September. Expect to have decisions on manuscripts and potential further revisions end of September. Publication is planned for the end of 2019. 

Closing Date: March 15, 2019

Faculty:Humanities and Social Sciences

School:School of Arts

Stipend:Fees paid, plus £15,072 living allowance

Tenure:Up to 3 years

Hours of Work: Full time

The School of the Arts is offering up to six fully funded PhD  studentships, to cover fees and living allowance, to commence on 1st  October 2019.

Successful candidates will have a good BA and MA degree  in a relevant area. Candidates should submit a full C.V. and a research  proposal detailing their intended research topic (maximum 1,500 words),  and should nominate two suitable supervisors from the staff in the  School of the Arts.

The School is home to five academic departments:  Architecture, Communication and Media, English, Music, Philosophy.

Full details of the studentship is available here.

Research in Department of Communication and Media is conducted within four research clusters

• Screen & Film Studies.
• Culture, Space and Memory
• Discourse & Society
• Media, Politics and Society

Areas of staff expertise include: 

• Film; Television; Media industries; Adaptation; Celebrity and stardom; 
• Visual, promotional and material cultures; Media identity and community; 
• Space and place; Memory; Social Media; Immersive media; Digital and 
• cultural policy; Audiences; Media, politics, governance and news; Media, 
• ethnicity, race and Human Rights; Journalism; Anthropology and 
• Ethnography; Strategic Communication; Discourse Analysis. 

https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/communication-and-media/staff/

Special edition of Journalism Practice

Deadline: June 18, 2019

Guest editors: Andrea Baker (Monash University), Usha M. Rodrigues, (Deakin University)

Theme rationale and scope:

Beginning in 2006, the #MeToo hashtag was created by African American civil rights advocate Tarana Burke to deal with sexual violence (sexism, misogyny, sexual harassment, assault and rape) amongst the black community in the US. In October 2017 allegation by Hollywood actor, Alyssa Milano, against prolific film director Harvey Weinstein, co-owner of US Entertainment Company (Miramax Films), led to the revitalisation of #MeToo. #MeToo sparked a movement across the US, UK, Canada, Israel, India and Australia, with more than 85 million people sharing the hashtag (Kunst, Bailey, Prendergas & Gundersen, 2018). Since then other hashtags, such as #MeNoMore; #TrustWomen; #BelieveWomen; #BeenRapedNeverReported; #YesAllWomen; #HimToo, #BlackLivesMatter, #TimesUpand #NowAustralia have emerged, each reflecting an intersectionality between sexual violence, identity politics, race, ethnicity, religion, disability, language, poverty and human rights in our daily lives (Rodino-Colocino, 2018; Menzies, Ringrose & Keller, 2018).

Research in the post #MeToo era has been tied to film studies, feminist media studies, (Rodino-Colocino, 2018; Marghitu, 2018), criminology (Mack & McCann, 2018), psychology (Jokic, 2018) or studies examining digital hashtags (Menzies et al., 2018). Post #MeToo, minimal academic research has explored how the journalism industry has reported on the sexual violence and the impact of such reportage on journalism practice and society as a whole (Mack & McCann, 2018). Historically, reports of sexual violence made the news when it was related to a known personality (for example, Weinstein) or was so extreme in nature that it was categorised as having ‘unusual’ news value (Gilchrist 2010; Rodrigues 2013; Rodino-Colocino, 2018). As Ursula Macfarlane's hard-hitting documentary /Untouchable/, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival in January 2019 notes, Weinstein often said to his victims and the press investigating the allegations: “Don’t you know who I am!?” (Cited in Debruge, 2019). However, as film critic, Peter Debruge (2019, p.1) from Variety magazine adds, “separate from the issue of Weinstein’s influence was the fact that news outlets have a legal and journalistic responsibility to get victims to go on the record before running such an incendiary story”. Reportage by US journalists, Ronan Farrow from The New Yorker, and Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey from The New York Times about abusers, have been painful, but important pieces of journalism (Cobb & Horeck, 2018). As the #MeToo hashtag went viral, the Weinstein scandal became a trial by media with the public “blaming and shaming” of more than 200 powerful men “from a range of sectors, including the film, music, literary, media, sports, fashion and the food industries...for their predatory, abusive behaviour” (Cobb & Horeck, 2018, p.1). The post Weinstein #MeToo erahasalso resulted in increased level of reporting of sexual violence cases by the mainstreamand social media. However, scholars have raised concerns that some of the media coverage for being misogynistic, sensational and insensitive. Questions remain whether journalism can help mitigate threats of sexual and physical violence trolled against women who speak up about #MeToo (Cole, 2018).

The guest editors of Journalism Practice invite rigorous empirical scholarly work related to the theme of journalism practice, sexual violence, pre or post the #MeToo era. Papers need to delineate their use of the concept of sexual violence and examine how it is reported on, or distributed by legacy or social media. Research should be based around either quantitative, qualitative, computational and/or mixed research methods. Papers are also encouraged to assess the implications or impact of such reportage, and where appropriate offer recommendations to improve journalism practice vis-à-vis reporting of sexual violence.

Possible areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Journalism, sexual violence, race and ethnicity;
• Journalism, sexual violence and the gendered culture;
• Journalism, sexual violence and human rights;
• Journalism, sexual violence and ethics/legal considerations and guidelines;
• Journalism news values, news language, news traditions and sexual violence;
• Solution Journalism and sexual violence reporting; and
• Reporting sexual violence and journalism training/education.

INFORMATION ABOUT SUBMISSION: 

We invite research papers between 7000 to 8000s words, (including references, notes, tables, figures) relating to this themed issue, and an abbreviated author(s) bio.

Deadline for full papers to Journalism Practice’s Scholar One by 18 June, 2019

Following the peer review process, accepted papers will be notified by mid-August, 2019 for final revisions.

Revised articles need to be ready by December 1, 2019, to be published in the Journalism Practice, 2020, Vol 14, No 1.