ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

University of Vienna

Department of Communication at the University of Vienna is looking for applicants for a Tenure Track professor position in media and communication history. I would be very grateful if you could share this information with the members of your division.

Deadline for applications is January 10, 2025.

HERE is the link to the job ad.

Dear ECREA members,

As approved by General Assembly in June 2024, the membership fees will change from the beginning of the 2025. See the new structure of the fees here (and see the list of "Low income" and "Middle income" countries here).

ECREA Governing Body (Executive Board) decided to offer to current members and to the new members a possibility of pre-payment of the 2025 membership with the current fees:

• All members can pre-pay the 2025 membership fee with the current (old) fee amount until 15 December 2024 (via the website or by contacting info@ecrea.eu).
  
• Members can also choose to pre-pay the 2025 or both 2025 and 2026 with the new fees anytime, availing of the two-year renewal option (by contacting info@ecrea.eu). *Please note the two-year renewal option is only possible with the new fee amount.*
  
• After 15 December 2024 (from 16 December 2024 on) members will be allowed to pre-pay/renew with the new fees only. They can also wait until they will be reminded by ECREA to renew in January / February 2025, and pay the new fees then.
  

If you have any questions or comments, please, get in touch with ECREA Admin at info@ecrea.eu.

All the best,

ECREA Team

Call for Chapters

Deadline: January 20, 2025

This edited volume seeks contributions from scholars whose subject matter, methods, or researcher identities resonate with what might be considered peripheral in communication studies. We aim to explore how diverse perspectives—often shaped by specific contexts, marginalized identities or cases, or alternative approaches—can challenge, expand or be an alternative to traditional paradigms, perspectives and cases in the field. The concept of the periphery is not defined here as a rigid geographic or socio-political category, nor is it a simple counterpoint to the North or Western paradigms. Instead, we understand the periphery as a space where various ‘ways of being’ and ‘ways of doing’ emerge, offering insights into communication processes and practices. We define the periphery in three interconnected ways. First, it can reflect geographic and contextual realities rooted in specific locations and their challenges. Second, it may describe the researcher's identity, which, while often tied to context, can stand apart from geographic definitions. Third, it relates to the subject matter and theoretical gaze, especially when these are understudied, overlooked, challenge dominant paradigms, or offer alternative epistemologies. The full call text is available here.

We welcome submissions that address, but are not limited to, the following themes:

Researcher Situatedness and Methodology

- Reflections on how researchers’ contexts, identities, or positionalities influence their approaches, perspectives, and contributions to media and communication studies.

- Explorations of methodologies that embrace situatedness, such as autoethnography or reflective practices, as a means to deepen our understanding of communication phenomena.

Diverse or Transgressive Communication Spaces and Practices

- Analyses of how communicative practices—particularly in less conventional or transgressive spaces like digital sex work, hacktivism, or grassroots art movements—shape identity, expression, and community.

- Studies highlighting understudied or alternative communication practices, including those rooted in indigenous knowledge systems, oral traditions, and embodied performances, to enrich the field.

Expanding Theoretical Boundaries in Communication Studies

- Contributions that challenge, extend, or reimagine dominant theories in media and communication studies, informed by peripheral perspectives.

- Theoretical insights from underrepresented regions or traditions, such as Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Oceania, or Latin America, that shed new light on established debates.

- Understudied areas of communication, including theories or methods from other disciplines—such as ethics, political science, or performative arts—that bring fresh insight into the field.

​​Non-Human Subjectivity and Communication

- Investigations into the role of non-human subjectivities (e.g., animals, plants, or artificial intelligence) in communication processes and how these subjectivities challenge traditional human-centered paradigms, especially in non-Western contexts.

- Analyses and case studies of embodied, non-verbal, or other-than-human communicative practices that engage with human-animal, human-environment relationships, or offer theoretical and practical implications of decentering the human gaze.

Beyond the Digital Turn

- Explorations of non-digital communication spaces and practices—such as those in architecture, urban spaces, theater, or other embodied forms—and their contributions to the discipline.

- Research that revisits non-digital media to expand the understanding of communication in a digital-first world.

Economic Class and Communication

- Inquiries into how economic class shapes communication practices, representation, and access in varied contexts.

- Perspectives that place economic inequality at the forefront of communication studies, offering alternative ways of thinking about class and media.

Knowledge Production in Communication Studies

- Discussions on the structural biases in academic publishing and scholarship that influence which voices and perspectives are elevated or marginalized. Implications of working in authoritarian contexts.

- Critical engagements with global and local knowledge hierarchies, offering alternatives to reductive binaries and promoting diverse epistemologies.

Perspectives and Challenges of Early-career Scholars

- Considerations of the experiences of early-career researchers in regard to academic and professional challenges, particularly in peripheral or undervalued contexts.

- Innovations in methodology or theory that arise from the unique perspectives of early-career scholars.

Submission Guidelines and Contributions Sought

We aim to hold an online (closed) workshop on March 22, 2025 (subject to change) in order to facilitate discussion among the potential authors. The workshop will be a medium for the authors to debate their argument with each other as well as making themselves familiar with other contributions through informal paper presentations. The target publisher (e.g. Springer, Brill Books, Routledge, Lexington Books) will also be decided during the workshop. After the workshop, the authors will have 4 months to finalize the contributions. Full chapters will be around 6,000 words including the bibliography.

You can send the abstracts around 500-600 words (including the references) and a 100-word author bio to cansu.koc04@bilgiedu.net by January 20, 2025. The abstract should clearly outline the theoretical framework, specific context(s), and the broader implications of the proposed chapter for communication studies. The authors will be notified about the selection results by February 20, 2025.

Editors: Cansu Koç (Istanbul Bilgi University), Ezgi Altınöz (Istanbul Bilgi University), Yusuf Yüksekdağ (Istanbul Bilgi University)

This project is stemming from the Interdisciplinary PhD Communication Conference series at Istanbul Bilgi University. The previous edited collection, Collaboration in Media Studies, was published by Routledge in 2024.

April 24-26, 2025

University of Vienna, Austria

Deadline: January 15, 2025

The Seventh International and Interdisciplinary COMPTEXT Conference on the Quantitative and Computational Analysis of Text, Image and Video as Data will be held at the University of Vienna, Austria, on 24-26 April 2025.

COMPTEXT is an international community of scholars working on the Quantitative and Computational Analysis of Text, Image, and Video as Data. COMPTEXT conferences offer opportunities to obtain useful feedback on ongoing research, present new data and methods, network with scholars working on similar themes, and participate in workshops. 

The increasing use of large language models (LLMs) in computational text analysis presents opportunities and challenges for the social sciences. At COMPTEXT 2025, two critical issues will be explored in depth: first, the evolving infrastructures needed to support LLMs and their impact on open science; second, strategies to mitigate bias and improve the representation of marginalized voices in computational text analysis. With that in mind, we are pleased to announce two engaging roundtable discussions at COMPTEXT 2025 in Vienna:

1. Collaborative Futures: Infrastructures and Open Science in the Age of LLMs
   
2. Beyond the Margins: Addressing Bias and Amplifying Marginalized Voices in Computational Text Analysis
   

While these round tables will focus on specific themes, paper, panel, and data presentation submissions can, but are not required to, adhere to these topics.

PAPERS. For COMPTEXT 2025 in Vienna, we are seeking paper submissions that

• Rely on image, video, text, or other digital trace data to study social and political phenomena broadly construed
  
• Propose, present, or evaluate new computational methods, tools, or datasets
  
• Offer methodological comparisons, reflections, or critiques of existing computational approaches
  
• Apply computational methods to make contributions at the intersection of social science and computer science
  

We accept both substantive and methodological papers for presentation. Substantive papers may be on any studies in the social sciences or humanities that utilize computational methods, while methodological papers may describe new computational methods, tools, datasets, and approaches.

PANELS. We also accept full panel presentations of three or four papers engaging with overlapping themes from a substantive or methodological perspective.

DATA PRESENTATIONS. We invite data presentations on publicly available resources to be featured in one of the conference’s plenary sessions.

WORKSHOPS. In keeping with our tradition, the first day of the conference (April 24) is dedicated to a series of methods training workshops for registered participants. Courses will be offered for both beginner and advanced-level participants.

Submission formats:

Paper Proposals. Abstracts of max. 250 words and three substantive and/or methods-related keywords.

Panel Proposals: Title, abstract of max. 250 words summarizing the panel’s topic and three substantive and/or methods-related keywords. Further, abstracts of max. 250 words for three or four papers included in the panel.

Data Presentation Proposals:  Abstracts of max. 250 words and three substantive and/or methods-related keywords.

Please submit your proposals at https://www.conftool.org/comptext2025/

Timeline:

• Submission deadline: 15 January 2025
  
• Notifications of acceptance will be sent by 15 February 2025.
  
• The conference programme will be published, and registration will open by 15 March 2025.
  
• Full paper upload by April 8. 2025.
  

Please be advised that a conference fee will be charged for participants with accepted papers and for workshop participants. Reduced rates will be available for early career researchers (up to 4 years since Ph.D).

The Program Committee of COMPTEXT 2025 consists of:

• Fabienne Lind (University of Vienna, Vienna)
  
• Miklós Sebők (HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest)
  
• Petro Tolochko (University of Vienna, Vienna)
  

The COMPEXT 2025 Conference is organized by the University of Vienna with the Local Organizing Committee: Fabienne Lind and Hajo G. Boomgaarden together with Jana Bernhard-Harrer, Dominika Betakova, Hannah Greber, Veronika Ebner, Sarah Epp-Kampl, Jean Kalunseviko, Azade Kakavand, Claudia Koska, Aytalina Kulichkina, Noelle Lebernegg, Jula Lühring, Meike Müller, Anna Maria Planitzer, Moritz Sedlatschek, Sebastian Sherrah, Apeksha Shetty, Marvin Stecker, Petro Tolochko, Annie Waldherr, Daniel Wiesner (Department of Communication, University of Vienna)

Equality, Diversion, and Inclusion: COMPTEXT is committed to creating an inclusive conference where diversity is celebrated, and everyone is afforded equal opportunity. We welcome applications from everyone, including those who identify with any of the protected characteristics that are set out in University of Vienna 2025 Development Plan, p. 58 https://www.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/startseite/Dokumente/Entwicklungsplan2025_EN.pdf. We especially encourage scholars from traditionally underrepresented groups, female scholars, and early-career researchers to apply.

Green Meeting: The aim is to organize the event in accordance with the criteria of the Austrian Ecolabel for Green Meetings. We hope that you welcome these efforts and support us in the implementation of this green event. If you have any questions, please contact the Green Meeting officer Alexandra Wassipaul (alexandra[dot]wassipaul[at]univie[dot]ac[dot]at).

Questions related to COMPTEXT Vienna 2025 should be directed to comptext25[at]comptextconference[dot]org

Best regards,

The Organizers

Revista Comunicando (thematic Section)

Deadline: March 21, 2025

Thematic editors: Miguel Midões (Polytechnic Institute of Viseu/ Communication and Society Research Centre, University of Minho, Portugal) and Giovanni Ramos (Polytechnic University of Coimbra, Portugal) 

“There is no journalism without proximity, whether it's proximity to the sources, proximity to the subjects, or proximity to local, regional, national or international communities, and this proximity takes many forms: geographical, emotional, cultural, affinity, among many others. Everything outside of this that we commonly call journalism is something that may still be undefined, but it is not journalism” (Midões & Martins, 2024). 

Coverage of local and community issues, proximity in journalism that allows a close relationship with sources and the discussion of local issues has long been seen as a way of promoting democracy. Proximity in journalism strengthens active citizenship by providing direct information on issues that impact citizens' lives, stimulating civic involvement and providing a space for the expression of diverse voices and perspectives. Focussed on the needs and concerns of communities, local media have a responsibility to promote transparency in public policies and local authorities, making them essential for building a more participatory and inclusive society. 

In a scenario marked by financial constraints and a shortage of resources, the future of local media is increasingly uncertain. A sector strongly marked by cutbacks, the closure of publications, local and regional broadcasters, the centralisation of content production and a lack of specialised human resources, local media have been facing the challenge of finding new ways to react to a context marked by profound transformations. 

In this thematic section we would like to receive works that show the reality of proximity media and proximity in the media, as well as those that analyse the relationship between the media and communities and the impact that technological advances, new publishing platforms and current production and distribution models have on this relationship. 

Topics of interest for this section include, but are not limited to: 

• Local media and technological advances 
  
• New publishing platforms 
  
• Old and new forms of funding and/or business models 
  
• Local and community media, democracy and strengthening communities 
  
• Public sphere: traditional journalism versus new social media dynamics 
  
• Media and the hinterland: production, distribution and use of local news 
  
• Local media: independence, political and financial control 
  
• Co-operation strategies in local and regional media 
  
• Local media, disinformation and fake news 
  
• Alternative media and collaborative journalism 

The works in the thematic section will be published between July and December 2025, in a continuous edition. 

All papers are subject to a double-blind peer review process. There are no associated publication fees (article processing fees or APCs). 

Full text submission period: from 2 January to 21 March 2025 

Languages: Portuguese, English or Spanish 

Sections: articles, interviews, reviews and experience reports 

Submission guidelines: https://revistacomunicando.sopcom.pt/index.php/comunicando/about/submissions 

For more information, please contact: revistacomunicando[at]gmail.com 

Comunicazioni Sociali: Journal of Media, Performing Arts and Cultural Studies (special issue)

Deadline: December 10, 2024

Edited by Alice Cati, Anna Chiara Sabatino, Max Schleser, and Shuai Li

Since the advent of small-gauge film devices, alternative audiovisual forms have adopted original and creative approaches to documenting personal experiences. Among these, amateur audiovisual films have often been characterized by self-referential and subjective expressions, whether shaped as “home movies” or individualistic autobiographical or self-portrayal declinations. From this perspective, the question is no longer how self-representational practices such as mobile and first-person filmmaking are used to express personal unique perspectives and styles, but rather what forms of self-narrative representation emerge within the exploration of novel methods and alternative renderings of the Self in audiovisual and digital media.

Within a mediascape where social media platforms have catalyzed an unprecedented development of self-narrative forms through digital creative practices, nearly anyone can produce and share self-representations, acting as captures and stories of mobile lives.

Since the first mobile films emerged roughly two decades ago, audiovisual storytelling has seen remarkable growth in multiple configurations, from videodiaries and travelogues to first-person formats, ranging from cinema to social media platforms like Instagram and TikTok, as well as news broadcasting and citizen digital journalism. Such medial expansion has led to new formats and narrative structures, establishing smartphone filmmaking and digital storytelling as a distinct creative ecology that includes both professional and amateur domains. As these platforms continue to evolve, they offer new opportunities for both creators and audiences to engage with content in innovative ways. One key aspect of this evolution is the shift towards brevity and immediacy in storytelling. The rise of short-form video formats has further transformed personal storytelling by encouraging creators to condense their narratives into more concise and immediate forms. Additionally, the role of algorithms in addressing and promoting content has a relevant impact on the visibility of self-narrative productions, determining which stories reach broader audiences and go viral. Thus, mobile storytelling occupies a liminal space, one that has given rise to new classifications and identities for content creators, including the “prosumer”, “pro-am”, and “pro-d-user” categories.

In parallel, the concept of the amateur—deriving from the Latin term for “lover,” meaning one who creates out of passion rather than financial necessity—has evolved as well in the digital era, where the always online and highly interconnected environment offers new avenues for individuals and communities to communicate and present themselves to virtual audiences anywhere at any time. In this perspective, digital storytelling and mobile filmmaking as creative practices become both autonomous expressive tools for self-narratives and vehicles for collective engagement, as well as catalysts for activism, addressing issues like inequality and environmental and social crises. In the current digital landscape, creators can construct an authentic self-image that resonates closely with their intended audience. Nevertheless, far from being exclusively online, such narrative modes also encompass alternative applications, including therapeutic uses of mobile devices within participatory research designs and peculiar audiovisual fields.

From private memoirs to always-active social media profiles, from domestic memory capturing to the dialogic and participatory dispositives of smartphone filmmaking, how can audiovisual languages, tools and practices be declined today in their personal and collective performances? How traditional self-representative configurations such as autobiography and self-portrait evolve within their audiovisual upgrades? What are the varied facets that the self-narratives take on in the age of Big Data? What models of self-reflexive discourse and self-representation are defined as marginal or dominant in the contemporary mediascape? How do amateurism and professionalism interact with self-storytelling, which frequently occurs at the crossroads between private and public, between personal and corporate logic (e. g., influencer marketing)?

This issue of Comunicazioni Sociali invites scholars to propose reflections on the disciplinary, theoretical, and historical intersections of amateur, personal, mobile storytelling and smartphone filmmaking. In particular, the issue aims to solicit contributions that seek to explore how digital storytelling, mobile and smartphone filmmaking can be understood today in both personal and collective forms. We particularly encourage proposals that emphasize self-representation, mobile autobiographies, first-person filmmaking, amateur digital configurations and transformative dimensions within these practices.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• The historical development and creative practices of digital storytelling, mobile filmmaking and smartphone filmmaking;
  
• Audiovisual forms and genres of self-mediatization (e.g. self-portrait, video diaries, travelogues, Instagram stories, TikTok videos);
  
• Therapeutic use of digital devices and mobile self-representational practice within medical and clinical contexts;
  
• Digital identity construction and online presence configurations;
  
• Alternative story forms, formats and counter-cultural expressions;
  
• Amateur creative contributions and expressions, both personal and collective;
  
• The impact of short-form video formats on how individuals construct and share personal narratives;
  
• The role of algorithms in shaping the visibility, reach, and influence of audiovisual self-representations. 

Submission details

Please send your abstract and a short biographical note by December 10, 2024, filling out the following form: https://www.vpjournals.it/index.php/comunicazionisociali/about/submissions   

Abstracts should be 300 to 400 words long (in English). All submissions should include 5 keywords, the name of the author(s), the institution's affiliation, contact details, and a short bio for each author.

Authors will be notified of proposal acceptance by December 20, 2024.

If the proposal is accepted, the author(s) will be asked to submit the full article in English by May 15, 2024

Submission of a paper will be taken to imply that it is unpublished and is not being considered for publication elsewhere.

The articles must not exceed 5,000/6,000 words in English (including references)

For editorial guidelines, please refer to the section “Guide for the authors” on the Comunicazioni Sociali website: http://comunicazionisociali.vitaepensiero.com

Contributions will be submitted through a double-blind peer review process.

Issue 2/2025 of Comunicazioni Sociali will be published in September 2025 and available in open access on the journal's website.

November 27, 2024, 6.30pm to 8.00pm

Sheikh Zayed Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building (CKK, see LSE campus map) (In-person and online public event)

Speaker: Prof Sonia Livingstone

Chair: Prof Ellen Helsper

Registration

This public event is free and open to all.

In-person attendance: no ticket or pre-registration is required

Online attendance: register here.

Hosted by the Digital Futures for Children centre (DFC), Department of Media and Communications and 5Rights Foundation

Public anxiety about children’s digital lives and wellbeing is reaching a fever pitch, marking a notable turnaround from the decades-long efforts to ensure children are fully digitally included, literate and empowered. While arguments rage over what’s wrong with ‘screen time,’ ‘online harms,’ and data-driven forms of exploitation, this lecture hosted by the Digital Futures for Children centre will make the case for a rights-based approach that puts children’s needs at the forefront of the design and deployment of digital services.

April 23–24, 2025

Liwa College in collaboration with Abu Dhabi University (English sessions held in a hybrid format at Abu Dhabi University)

Deadline: December 18, 2024

Languages: English, Arabic, and French

Conference Themes:

• Artificial Intelligence and Media Content Industry
  
• Big Data Analysis to Improve Media Strategies
  
• Artificial Intelligence Media Tools and Techniques
  
• Content Customization and User Experience Improvement
  
• Artificial Intelligence and the Podcast Industry
  
• Automated and Robotic Media and the Humanization of Content
  
• Professional Ethics and Challenges in Artificial Intelligence in Media
  
• Bridging the Labor Market and Academic Skills
  
• The Future of Media Professions in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
  

Important Dates:

• Abstract Submission Deadline: December 18, 2024
  
• Full Paper Submission Deadline: March 1, 2025
  

Submission Guidelines:

Abstracts (max. 300 words) must align with one of the conference themes.

Full papers should be 15-25 pages in length and formatted according to APA style.

Accepted papers will be considered for publication in Crossroads of Social Inquiry, Abu Dhabi University’s academic journal.

Contact Information for Submissions:

Email: lc.media@lc.ac.ae (for general inquiries)

English sessions inquiries: viola.gjylbegaj@adu.ac.ae

Conference Link:

For more information, please visit the conference website.

This conference provides an excellent platform to explore cutting-edge intersections of digital media, artificial intelligence, and data analysis, aligned with the UAE’s National Strategy for Digital Transformation and Artificial Intelligence.

CAMRI

The University of Westminster’s Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) is pleased to announce this year’s Quintin Hogg Trust (QHT) PhD Studentships for UK and International applicants to commence in the 2025/26 academic year. 

Full information about the studentships, entry requirements and the application procedure can be found here: https://www.westminster.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/research-degrees/studentships/quintin-hogg-trust-phd-studentship

HOW TO APPLY

To apply, select the School of Media and Communication and choose the 'MPhil/PhD Media Studies' programme. Be sure to include the title of the studentship, The Quintin Hogg Trust Studentship, in your application. 

Applications must be submitted by 5pm on Friday 7 February 2025.

Interviews will take place in the week beginning 10 March 2025. 

ABOUT CAMRI

The Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) in the School of Media and Communication is a world-leading centre in the study of media and communication, renowned for its critical and international research, which has consistently been ranked highly according to the Research Excellence Framework (REF) and the QS World University Rankings. In REF 2021 83% of CAMRI's overall research was judged to be ‘world-leading’ and ‘internationally excellent’.

CAMRI welcomes applications which explore the political, economic, social and cultural significance of the media across the globe. CAMRI research is focused on four key themes: Communication, Technology and Society; Cultural Identities and Social Change; Global Media; and Policy and Political Economy. 

CONTACTS

To seek guidance and be connected with prospective supervisors, please contact Dr Ed Bracho-Polanco, Coordinator of the CAMRI Doctoral Researcher Development Programme. 

Email: E.Brachopolanco@westminster.ac.uk

Alternatively, you may directly approach a prospective supervisor. For more information, visit the CAMI website to explore our core research themes and the expertise of our academic staff.

Link: https://www.camri.ac.uk

Edited by: Daniel Jackson, Andrea Carson, Danielle Carver Coombs, Stephanie Edgerly, Einar Thorsen, Filippo Trevisan and Scott Wright

We are pleased to announce the publication of U.S. Election Analysis 2024: Media, Voters and the Campaign

Free report featuring 88 articles from leading scholars with snap analysis and research insights on the 2024 U.S. presidential election campaign. 

Website: https://www.electionanalysis.ws/us/

PDF: https://bit.ly/USElectionAnalysis2024_Jackson-et_al_v1-COMPRESSED

Table of contents

Section 1: Democracy at stake

1. Trump’s imagined reality is America’s new reality (Prof Sarah Oates)

2. Trump’s threat to American democracy (Prof Pippa Norris)

3. Why does Donald Trump tell so many lies? (Prof Geoff Beattie)

4. Strategic (in)civility in the campaign and beyond (Dr Emily Sydnor)

5. Can America’s democratic institutions hold? (Prof Rita Kirk)

6. How broad is presidential immunity in the United States? (Dr Jennifer L. Selin)

7. Election fraud myths require activation: Evidence from a natural experiment (Dr David E. Silva)

8. What ever happened to baby Q? (Harrison J. LeJeune)

9. We’re all playing Elon Musk’s game now (Dr Adrienne L. Massanari)

10. Peak woke? The end of identity politics? (Prof Timothy J. Lynch)

11. Teaching the 2024 election (Dr Whitney Phillips)

Section 2: Policy and political context

12. The campaigns’ pandemic memory hole (Prof Michael Serazio)

13. America’s kingdom of contempt (Prof Barry Richards)

14. Americanism, not globalism 2.0: Donald Trump and America’s role in the world (Prof Jason A. Edwards)

15. The politics of uncertainty: Mediated campaign narratives about Russia’s war on Ukraine (Dr Tetyana Lokot)

16. The U.S. elections and the future of European security: Continuity or disruption? (Dr Garret Martin)

17. Trump’s victory brings us closer to the new world disorder (Prof Roman Gerodimos)

18. Abortion: Less important to voters than anticipated (Dr Zoë Brigley Thompson)

19. Roe your vote? (Dr Lindsey Meeks)

20. Gender panics, far-right radicalization, and the effectiveness of anti-trans political ads (Dr Thomas J. Billard)

21. U.S. politics and planetary crisis in 2024 (Dr Reed Kurtz)

22. Trump and Musk for all mankind (Prof Einar Thorsen)

23. Guns and the 2024 election (Prof Robert J. Spitzer)

24. Echoes of Trump: Potential shifts in Congress’s communication culture (Dr Annelise Russell)

Section 3: Voters

25. Seeing past the herd: Polls and the 2024 election (Dr Benjamin Toff)

26. On polls and social media (Dr Dorian Hunter Davis)

27. How did gender matter in 2024? (Prof Regina Lawrence)

28. The keys to the White House: Why Allan Lichtman is wrong this time (Tom Fisher)

29. Beyond the rural vote: Economic anxiety and the 2024 presidential election (Dr Amanda Weinstein, Dr Adam Dewbury)

30. Black and independent voters: Which way forward? (Prof Omar Ali)

31. Latino voters in the 2024 election (Dr Arthur D. Soto-Vásquez)

32. Kamala’s key to the polls: The Asian American connection (Nadya Hayasi)

33. The vulnerability of naturalized immigrants and the hero who “will fix” America (Dr Alina E. Dolea)

34. Did Gen Z shape the election? No, because Gen Z doesn’t exist (Dr Michael Bossetta)

35. Cartographic perspectives of the 2024 U.S. election (Prof Benjamin Hennig)

Section 4: Candidates and the campaign

36. The tilted playing field, and a bygone conclusion (Dr David Karpf)

37. Looking forwards and looking back: Competing visions of America in the 2024 presidential campaign (Prof John Rennie Short)

38. Brat went splat: Or the emotional sticky brand won again (Prof Ken Cosgrove)

39. Election 2024: Does money matter anymore? (Prof Cayce Myers)

40. Advertising trends in the 2024 presidential race (Prof Travis N. Ridout, Prof Michael M. Franz, Prof Erika Franklin Fowler)

41. Who won the ground wars? Trump and Harris field office strategies in 2024 (Sean Whyard, Dr Joshua P. Darr)

42. Kamala Harris: Idealisation and persecution (Dr Amy Tatum)

43. Kamala Harris campaign failed to keep Democratic social coalition together (Prof Anup Kumar)

44. Revisiting Indian-American identity in the 2024 U.S. presidential election (Dr Madhavi Reddi)

45. Harris missed an opportunity to sway swing voters by not morally reframing her message (Prof John H. Parmelee)

46. In pursuit of the true populist at the dawn of America’s golden age (Dr Carl Senior)

47. Language and the floor in the 2024 Harris vs Trump televised presidential debate (Dr Sylvia Shaw)

48. Nullifying the noise of a racialized claim: Nonverbal communication and the 2024 Harris-Trump debate (Prof Erik P. Bucy)

49. A pseudo-scientific revolution? The puzzling relationship between science deference and denial (Dr Matt Motta)

50. Amidst recent lows for women congressional candidates, women at the state level thrive (Dr Jordan Butcher)

Section 5: News and journalism

51. The powers that aren’t: News organizations and the 2024 election (Dr Nik Usher)

52. Newspaper presidential endorsements: Silence during consequential moment in history (Dr Kenneth Campbell)

53. Trump after news: a moral voice in an empty room? (Prof Matt Carlson, Prof Sue Robinson, Prof Seth C. Lewis)

54. Under media oligarchy: profit and power trumped democracy once again (Prof Victor Pickard)

55. The challenge of pro-democracy journalism (Prof Stephen D. Reese)

56. Grievance and animosity: Fracturing the digital news ecosystem (Dr Scott A. Eldridge II)

57. Considering the risk of attacks on journalists during the U.S. election (Dr Valerie Belair-Gagnon)

58. What can sentiment in cable news coverage tell us about the 2024 campaign? (Dr Gavin Ploger, Dr Stuart Soroka)

59. The case for happy election news: Why it matters and what stands in the way (Dr Ruth Palmer, Prof Stephanie Edgerly, Prof Emily K. Vraga)

60. Broadcast television use and the 2024 U.S. presidential election (Jessica Maki, Prof Michael W. Wagner)

61. Kamala Harris’ representation in mainstream and Black media (Dr Miya Williams Fayne, Prof Danielle K. Brown)

62. Team Trump and the altercation at the Arlington military cemetery (Dr Natalie Jester)

63. Pulling their punches: On the limits of sports metaphor in political media (Prof Michael L. Butterworth)

Section 6: Digital campaign

64. Reversion to the meme: A return to grassroots content (Dr Jessica Baldwin-Philippi)

65. From platform politics to partisan platforms (Prof Philip M. Napoli, Talia Goodman)

66. The fragmented social media landscape in the 2024 U.S. election (Dr Michael A. Beam, Dr Myiah J. Hutchens, Dr Jay D. Hmielowski)

67. Outside organization advertising on Meta platforms: Coordination and duplicity (Prof Jennifer Stromer-Galley)

68. Prejudice and priming in the online political sphere (Prof Richard Perloff)

69. Perceptions of social media in the 2024 presidential election (Dr Daniel Lane, Dr Prateekshit “Kanu” Pandey)

70. Modeling public Facebook comments on the attempted assassination of President Trump (Dr Justin Phillips, Prof Andrea Carson)

71. The memes of production: Grassroots-made digital content and the presidential campaign (Dr Rosalynd Southern, Dr Caroline Leicht)

72. The gendered dynamics of presidential campaign tweets in 2024 (Prof Heather K. Evans, Dr Jennifer Hayes Clark)

73. Threads and TikTok adoption among 2024 congressional candidates in battleground states (Prof Terri L. Towner, Prof Caroline Muñoz)

74. Who would extraterrestrials side with if they were watching us on social media? (Taewoo Kang, Prof Kjerstin Thorson)

75. AI and voter suppression in the 2024 election (Prof Diana Owen)

76. News from AI: ChatGPT and political information (Dr Caroline Leicht, Dr Peter Finn, Dr Lauren C. Bell, Dr Amy Tatum)

77. Analyzing the perceived humanness of AI-generated social media content around the presidential debate (Dr Tiago Ventura, Rebecca Ansell, Dr Sejin Paik, Autumn Toney, Prof Leticia Bode, Prof Lisa Singh)

Section 7: Popular culture

78. Momentum is a meme (Prof Ryan M. Milner)

79. Partisan memes and how they were perceived in the 2024 U.S. presidential election (Dr Prateekshit “Kanu” Pandey, Dr Daniel Lane)

80. The intersection of misogyny, race, and political memes… America has a long way to go, baby! (Dr Gabriel B. Tait)

81. Needs Musk: Trump turns to the manosphere (Dr Michael Higgins, Prof Angela Smith)

82. “Wooing the manosphere: He’s just a bro.” Donald Trump’s digital transactions with “dude” influencers (Prof Mark Wheeler)

83. Star supporters (Prof John Street)

84. Pet sounds: Celebrity, meme culture and political messaging in the music of election 2024 (Dr Adam Behr)

85. The stars came out for the 2024 election. Did it make a difference? (Mark Turner)

86. Podcasting as presidential campaign outreach (Ava Kalinauskas, Dr Rodney Taveira)

87. Value of TV debates reduced during Trump era (Prof Richard Thomas, Dr Matthew Wall)

88. America’s “fun aunt”: How gendered stereotypes can shape perceptions of women candidates (Dr Caroline Leicht)