ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

October 12, 2023

I am pleased to invite you to the next in the series of IPRA Thought Leadership webinars. The webinar Diversity: have we got it right in PR? will be presented by Christine Moore on Thursday 12 October 2023 at 12.00 GMT/UCT (unadjusted).

What is the webinar content?

The webinar leverages Claudine’s long-standing passion for diversity with a focus on how it applies to public relations. She explores a little history and geography and focuses on where we stand today.

How to join

Register here at Airmeet. (The time shown should adjust to your device’s time zone.)

A reminder will be sent 1 hour before the event. 

Background to IPRA

IPRA, the International Public Relations Association, was established in 1955, and is the leading global network for PR professionals in their personal capacity. IPRA aims to advance trusted communication and the ethical practice of public relations. We do this through networking, our code of conduct and intellectual leadership of the profession. IPRA is the organiser of public relations' annual global competition, the Golden World Awards for Excellence (GWA). IPRA's services enable PR professionals to collaborate and be recognised. Members create content via our Thought Leadership essays, social media and our consultative status with the United Nations. GWA winners demonstrate PR excellence. IPRA welcomes all those who share our aims and who wish to be part of the IPRA worldwide fellowship. For more see www.ipra.org 

Background to Christine Moore

British born and raised, Claudine lives in New York and owns an impressive PR and communications career. In July 2022 her boutique global agency C. Moore Media, International Public Relations was acquired by Allison+Partners (A+P) a top 15 global agency and one of the fastest-growing and most innovative agencies in the world. The acquisition expands A+P presence in Africa with Claudine at the helm as Managing Director, Africa. 

Contact

International Public Relations Association Secretariat

United Kingdom

secgen@ipra.org

Telephone +44 1634 818308

Edited volume (full chapters), Helsinki University Press (HUP)

Deadline December 17, 2023 

David Ramírez Plascencia (University of Guadalajara) and David Dalton (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) invite full chapters for the edited collection “The pandemic of the Forgotten: strategies of endurance among deprived groups in Ibero-America during the COVID-19 emergency, which will be submitted to Helsinki University Press (HUP).” We are about to complete the volume, but we still need to cover some topics related with ethnic minorities, those marginalized due to their gender or sexuality, refugees, sex workers, disabled people, essential workers (drivers, farm workers), elderly citizens living in nursing homes, the mentally ill, homeless, etc. 

This edited book looks for contributions on relevant cases from Ibero-America (Latin America, Spain, and Portugal) that discuss the negative impact of the pandemic on forgotten members of society from marginalized groups. Possible topics include but are not limited to public repression, negligent attitudes, xenophobic attacks, negative media framing, human rights violations, labor exploitation, etc. Other topics include the strategies that marginalized individuals and communities employed to overcome the economic, social and health challenges of the pandemic. Comparative studies related to past pandemics and historical studies focused on marginalized groups under the context of a pandemic are very welcomed as well. 

We are particularly interested in those chapters that focus on describing the resilience mechanisms developed by these groups. These may include examples of street and digital mobilizations, the use of social media to create solidarity, local and international solidarity networks, the role of social organizations and community initiatives, etc. We are open to include works from multidisciplinary, comparative, and historical approaches. You are warmly invited to send your chapter along with a brief bio (no more than 250 words with titles, affiliations, and contacts) and a 300-word abstract. The chapter’s length is between 6000-7500 words (US English, Chicago Manual of Style 17th edition). Bear in mind that the acceptance of your proposal does not imply the final approval of your chapter. Please, if you have issues writing in English, we strongly recommend you contact a professional proofreader. Deadline: December 17, 2023. Please feel free to contact us with any questions.

David Ramírez Plascencia (University of Guadalajara)

davidram@udgvirtual.udg.mx  

davidrapla@gmail.com

David Dalton (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)

dalton@uncc.edu

University of Copenhagen

Dear ECREA fellows,

We have a job opening as postdoctoral researcher at The Center for Tracking & Society at University of Copenhagen, Denmark, in the Datafied Living project. The position is full-time for a duration of up to 2 years to be filled by 1 January 2024 or as soon as possible thereafter.

The position targets researchers in the area of Datafied Work and is part of the Datafied Living research project which runs 2021-2025 and is funded by the ERC (datafiedliving.ku.dk). The candidate’s research activities will advance the aims of the Datafied Living project regarding empirical studies of how digital tracking and datafication affects work practices and decision-making in key welfare institutions (such as education and healthcare) and private sector organisations; and how datafied societies should respond to such developments.

As postdoc in Datafied Living you will be expected to, independently and in collaboration with other researchers in the team, contribute to advancing empirical datafication research along one or more of the following lines:

• Developing organizational studies of datafication that can inform current and future policy making around data, work, and algorithmic management.
  
• Developing empirical studies of how digital tracking and data-driven decision-making transform professional work and workplaces.
  
• Linking empirical developments in datafied work and algorithmic management to current regulatory efforts at the national and EU levels.
  

You will have your daily working space in the Center for Tracking and Society (CTS). CTS is an interdisciplinary research hub that develops and consolidates emerging interdisciplinary and empirical research on the interplay between digital tracking, existing social structures and the various actors that form future society. The interdisciplinary work at CTS spans media and communication, computer science, surveillance, political economy and critical data studies.

For more info on the position, see https://jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabelige-stillinger/?show=160069

Kind regards on behalf of the Datafied Living team,

Stine Lomborg, PI and director of Center for Tracking & Society

Journalism (Special issue)

Deadline: October 20, 2023

Reminder that just over two weeks are left to send in your abstract to be considered for the Journalism special issue on

Key Dates

• Deadline for abstracts: October 20th, 2023.
  
• Deadline for full paper submission: January 8th, 2024.
  
• First round of reviews complete: April 30th, 2024.
  
• Resubmission of papers: June 30th, 2024.
  
• Second round of reviews completed: August 2nd, 2024.
  
• Submission of final manuscripts: October 31st, 2024.

Guest Editors: Dr. Saumava Mitra, Prof. Roy Krøvel and Dr. Yennué Zárate Valderrama

We invite submissions for a special issue of Journalism which aims to bring together recent research on how journalists, newsrooms and journalist organizations, by working across professional, cultural and geographical boundaries can improve safety for journalists. Understanding the roles that self-reliance and solidarity among journalists, individually, collectively and structurally, can play in ensuring safety of journalists is key to identifying the possibilities and potentials of the emergent practice of 'radical sharing' of risk as well as information, among journalists. The full call for papers can be found here.

We are keen to include papers on, but not only limited to, the following topics:

• Investigations on experiences from journalistic cooperation projects creating a consensus that 'killing the journalist will not kill the story'.
  
• Investigations into efficacies and efficiencies of approaching safety measures collectively, internationally and cross-continentally.
  
• Investigations into efforts to promote the safety of journalists in authoritarian "democracies" through cross-border collaborative platforms, organisations and interventions.
  
• Measuring the effects of collaborative campaigns and other collective actions to improve the safety of journalists.
  
• Knowledge about and practice of fostering a future culture of safety through international collaborations in journalism education.
  
• Investigations on economic, professional and political implications of collaborative journalistic work.
  
• Different approaches to theorising the safety for journalists based on crossborder solidarity.
  
• Investigations on local and cross-border journalistic collaborative work in, between, and among countries both in the Global South and North.
  
• Other topics that might be relevant within the broad framework of solidarity and self-reliance for safety among journalists will also be given due consideration by the editors for the forthcoming special issue.
  

Extended abstracts (500-800 words), accompanied by a 100-150-word author bio, should be sent to the guest editors at safetyofjournalists@oslomet.no by October 20, 2023. 

If selected, scholars will be invited to submit full papers. We welcome research articles that are empirical or conceptual. These should not be more than 8,000 words in length, including references. All submissions are subject to full blind peer-review, in accordance with the peer-review procedure of Journalism. Manuscripts will be submitted through the journal's ScholarOne website. Authors must indicate that they wish to have their manuscript considered for this Special Issue.

Wednesdays

Online

The School of Journalism, Media and Communication (University of Sheffield) would like to invite you to our hybrid research seminar series. The series includes a range of talks that will be of interest to members of ECREA. Topics include conflict, disinformation, drag performance, feminism, social media, and visual methods. Guest speakers are from universities across Europe, North America, and South America. The talks are focussed on countries such as Chile, Ukraine, Czechia, Latvia, and the United States.

All talks are hybrid or online only and take place on Wednesdays from 2-3pm (UK time). 

The full programme is available here (including links to sign up for virtual attendance)

If you would like to speak in the series in the spring or have any questions, please contact maria.tomlinson@sheffield.ac.uk

April 13-16, 2023

Las Vegas, USA

Deadline: December 1, 2023

BEA2024 invites media related research papers from academics, students and professionals for presentation in Las Vegas, USA from April 13-16, 2024.

BEA2024, co-located with NAB Show, is a hybrid academic media convention with over 250 virtual and on-site sessions on media pedagogy, collaborative networking events, hands-on technology workshops, research and creative scholarship and the Festival of Media Arts.  BEA2024 will be an in-person convention with limited virtual participation opportunities for presenters and attendees.   

Submit your research to the relevant BEA interest division as a “Debut” or an “Open” paper. “Debut” is open only to those who have never presented a paper at a BEA convention, and “Open” if you have previously presented a paper at BEA.  To help defray costs, 1st and 2nd place “Debut” winners receive $200 and $100 respectively.  Regardless of the number of authors, BEA will award one check to the individual who submitted the paper.  

More details on the 2024 BEA paper competition are available on the BEA website: https://www.beaweb.org/conv/bea2024-call-for-papers/

September 30-October 2, 2024 

Friedrich-Alexander-Universität

Deadline: December 10, 2023

Hosted by the DFG-research training group “Literature and the Public Sphere in Differentiated Contemporary Cultures” at  FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 30.09.2024 - 02.10.2024  

At this moment of our present time, processes of digitalization are leading to a profound transformation of social environments. Digitalization impacts the economic, cultural, and historic conditions of the lives we live and the ways we socially interact, communicate, and self-reflect. The turn towards the digital informs cultural structures and practices, it shapes forms of knowledge production and dissemination, and it alters the very fabric of the public sphere. An increasing pluralization and differentiation of public spaces of communication raises renewed questions over the loss of an imagined consensus as well as new potentialities for processes of cultural production, their changing social, political, and cultural functions, and their ethical implications. 

Literature, in its extended sense of textuality, cultural production, and history of material practices, is deeply entangled in the structural shift towards digitality. As circumstances of production and reception change, a general reinterpretation of literature as such, its role and functionality, its possibilities or potential “death” ensues. At the same time, literature itself engages in reflections on the opportunities, challenges, and potential risks of the profound shift towards digitality, as digital media forge new literary forms, conventions, and aesthetic practices. Engaging with social change on the level of content, form, and models of engagement, literature actively positions itself and intervenes in the collective imagination and the shaping of processes of exchange between public spheres and new, digital frontiers. 

The Research Training Group “Literature and the Public Sphere in Contemporary Differentiated Cultures,” funded by the German Research Foundation, investigates the interconnections between various literatures and various publics in multilayered and heterogenous subnational and cross-national social environments since the mid-20th century. 

The international conference aims at investigating the diverse interrelations of literature, the public, and the digital through concrete case studies and readings that elucidate the medial  constitution, processes of communication, social conditions, and various functions of literary phenomena.  

Papers we solicit could address but need not be limited to the following research fields: 

• ∙strategies for generating attention in the literary marketplace (economies of reaction, 
  
• scandalization, forms of polarization and populism, aspects of cancel culture) 
  
• ∙public conditions of literary production and reception (digital spaces, platforms, and their specific forms of communication) 
  
• ∙mechanisms that regulate access, exclusion and canonization, form community, inform political participation, or lead towards practices of opting out  
  
• ∙literary materialities (algorithms and communication, AI and human creativity; altered technologies of publication, altered practices of reading, digitality and materiality) and their function for the adoption of literary aesthetics, shifting forms and genres, and the self-reflexivity of literature on its own affordances 
  
• ∙literary knowledge production (fiction and non-fiction engaging with the future of the digital, posthumanism, the utopian/ dystopian imaginary) 
  
• ∙literary ethics and politics (negotiations of the public sphere as a place of deliberative politics; as a set of platforms providing air time under specific conditions of inclusion and exclusion) 
  

Please submit abstracts (300 words) and short bios by December 10, 2023. 

Organized bySabine Friedrich, Svenja Hagenhoff, Karin Hoepker 

Contact 

E-mail us at grk2806-conf2024@fau.de 

https://www.literaturundoeffentlichkeit.phil.fau.de/international-conference-digitality-and-the-public-sphere-literature-mediality-practice/ 

November 27, 2023

Online

Deadline: October 14, 2023

Institute of Social Communication and Media Studies Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin and Wroclaw Academic Centre in partnership with Academia Europaea Wroclaw Knowledge Hub are continuing research meetings focused on specific issues of mediatization research chaired by eminent experts (Göran Bolin (2017), Johan Fornäs (2018), Andreas Hepp (2019), Mark Deuze (2020) André Jansson (2021), Andrew Hoskins (2022)), this year the workshop will take place online on the 27 November 2023 and it will be led by Professor Kirsten Frandsen, Aarhus University.

REGISTRATION FORM: https://tinyurl.com/24sz8dnf 

MORE INFO: https://www.umcs.pl/pl/towards-development-of-mediatization-research-vii-mediatization-of-sport-physical-activity-and-recreation,27346.htm

University of Zurich, Switzerland

The Media & Internet Governance Division (Prof. Dr. Natascha Just) of the Department of Communication and Media Research at the University of Zurich invites applications for an open position of Senior Research and Teaching Associate/Postdoc (80%). Start of employment: at the earliest possible / upon agreement.

The Media & Internet Governance Division studies media policy and media economics in the convergent communications sector. Alongside research on traditional mass media, the division focuses on Internet Governance and Platform Studies. The successful applicant will work on dedicated topics that align with the division's research program. 

Further information and application details: https://jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stellen/senior-research-and-teaching-associate-postdoc-position-media-internet-governance-division-ikmz/225d929e-697b-4462-a059-15a86f7e48ab

Review of applications starts immediately, but the position will remain open until a qualified candidate is found.

Please contact Alena Birrer, MA (a.birrer@ikmz.uzh.ch) if you have any further questions.

Burçe Çelik

The history of communications in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey contradicts the widespread belief that communications is a byproduct of modern capitalism and other Western forces. Burçe Çelik uses a decolonial perspective to analyze the historical commodification and militarization of communications and how it affected production and practice for oppressed populations like women, the working class, and ethnic and religious minorities. Moving from the mid-nineteenth century through today, Çelik places networks within the changing geopolitical landscape and the evolution of modern capitalism in relationship to struggles involving a range of social and political actors. Throughout, she challenges Anglo- and Eurocentric assumptions that see the non-West as an ahistorical imitation of, or aberration from, the development of Western communications.

Ambitious and comprehensive, Communications in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire merges political economy with social history to challenge Western-centered assumptions about the origins and development of modern communications.